Educational Resources

for CECS 4800

Texas Dinosaurs is a Technology Integrated Unit which includes a rubric, TA-TEKS standards, and other components of a quailty unit.
(http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/formats/webquests/summer99/northside/txdino/)
 
 

Armadillo List of AUPs (http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/acceptable.html)
 
 

Evalution Tools/Rubrics for Assessment

Rubrics from WebQuest Projects (http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/rubrics/)

Develop Evaluation Tool/Rubric (http://www.essdack.org/building/evaluation.html)

Rubrics for Web Lessons (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/july/rubrics/Rubrics_for_Web_Lessons.html)

Project Based Learning (PBL) Checklists (http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml)

PBL Multimedia Checklist (http://4teachers.org/projectbased/24mlt.shtml)

Sample Assessment Rubric for Lesson Plan (http://129.7.160.115/COURSE/INST_5931A/Rubric.html#Lesson)

Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Guide (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html)

Teaching Students to Evaluate Internet Sites (http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/teaching.html)
Includes activity page for evaluation practice

Criteria for Evaluating Websites (http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/criteri9.htm)

Evaluating Websites: Criteria and Tool (http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/nyla/webeval.html)

Links to Web Evaluation Materials (http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/cklstlnk.htm)

Evaluating Internet Research Sources (http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm)

Northwest ISD Rubrics (http://www.northside.isd.tenet.edu/cmptecww/DeptWebSite/AdvCompTech/index.htm)

Tammy's Tools for Learning (http://www.essdack.org/building/evaluation.html)

Technology Standards

Texas Technology Standards for Students
Technology Applications (TA) Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) (http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/ta/)

National Techology Standards for Students
ISTE National Standards for Students (http://cnets.iste.org/sfors.htm)

Standards for Teachers
International Society for Technology in Education Standards Project (http://www.iste.org/Standards/NCATE/index.html)
 

Internet Searching

Tutorial: Guide to Effective Searching of the Web (http://www.thewebtools.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm)

Lycos search engine for Pictures & Sounds  (http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/)

AltaVista Photo and Media Finder (http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi)

Arriba Vista image searcher (http://www.arribavista.com/)

Searching the Internet  (http://nwoet.bgsu.edu/lourdes/OLL.web.final/search.html)

Listservs/Newsgroups

Liszt , the Mailing List Directory(http://www.liszt.com/)
Offers over 90,000 mailing lists. You can search the directory, or you can browse through categories and finetune it from there.

The Newsletter Library  (http://pub.savvy.com/)
This site offers over 11,000 free newsletters, and you may choose whichever categories are of interest.

International Educator Listservs (http://www.educ.uva.nl/cgi-bin/esp.pl)

Tips for New Teachers
 

You Can Handle Them All (http://www.disciplinehelp.com/)
This site shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school. An overview examines the causes of misbehavior, the core needs that motivate humans, and a four-step discipline model. A behavior index applies the model to over 100 specific misbehaviors.

The New Teacher Page (http://www.new-teacher.com)
This site offers advice, ideas, and links for education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those
who think maybe, just maybe, they'd like to be an educator someday.

I Love Teaching.com (http://www.iloveteaching.com)
Designed to encourage new teachers and those studying to be teachers, I Love Teaching.com offers the experiences and wisdom of a veteran teacher.

The New Teacher Page (http://www.geocities.com/~newteach/)
It offers useful and practical articles added monthly, information about becoming a teacher, and interactive pages where you can communicate with other teachers.

What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/)
The U.S. Dept. of Education offers this FREE online book (in PDF format): a compilation of award-winning first-year teachers' experiences, challenges, and successes. It includes tips on how to have a successful first year, advice from veteran teachers, and a discussion about the things for which no training could have prepared new teachers.

Great Expectations: Helpful Hints for Beginning Teachers   (http://www.positiveparenting.com/jane4.html)
"Positive Parenting On-line offers helpful hints for beginning teachers.

Adapted from: Laura Kelly (lkelly@ascd.org) project assistant for ASCD's Newsletters and Special Publications unit and co-editor of *Classroom Leadership Online.*

Tammy's Tidbits (http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html)
This page was designed for teachers, students, and parents as a shortcut to finding some of the best educational sites on the internet.

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans

Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects (HELP!) (http://www-ed.fnal.gov/help/cover.html)

Integrated Lesson Plans (http://nwoet.bgsu.edu/lourdes/OLL.web.final/teares.html)

A Collection of Technology-Integrated Lesson Plans  Links (http://courseweb.tac.unt.edu/rhondac/lp.htm)

Louisiana Challenge Grant Lesson Plans and Activities (http://etrc33.usl.edu/k12act/lp/index.html)

Web Issues

Issues Related to the World Wide Web (http://nwoet.bgsu.edu/lourdes/OLL.web.final/web.html)

Technology Integration Projects

Getting Started on the Internet: Simple Projects! (http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr032.shtml)

Designing Resource-based Projects that Use the Internet (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEviolet/RSEviolet.html)

Email Project Ideas (http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Technology/4/4.html)

Web Project Ideas (http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Technology/9/9.html)

Classroom Implementation Techniques (http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Technology/10/10.html)

Creating Web-based Lessons: Webquests and Other Internet Projects (http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/)

List of Scavenger Hunts for the Web (http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/training/scavengerhunt.html)

Internet Scavenger Hunt (http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~mcssb/scavengerhunt.html)

Texas Heritage Cut & Paste Scavenger Hunt (http://wtvi.com/teks/hunt.html)

Web Page Design: From Planning to Posting  (http://www.essdack.org/webdesign/)

Project Center: Creating Online Projects (http://www.eduplace.com/hmco/school/projects/index.html)

Example Online Project: Class Pets (http://www.eduplace.com/projects/classpets.html)

Ask An Expert (http://www.askanexpert.com/)

The Project Approach (http://www.ualberta.ca/~schard/projects.htm)

Constructing Webpages
 

Internet Pocket Guide for Teachers (http://www.genium.com/ipgt/)
 

The Free Site (http://www.thefreesite.com/freewebpages.htm)
There are literally hundreds of sites that allow you to have free home pages. For a list of them, see The Free Site.

Fun Clip Art

Hoxie.org (http://www.hoxie.org/clipart.htm)
A collection of over 1,000 free clip art (clipart) images for downloading.

Free Educational Clip Art (http://www.thermix.com/naje/clip_art.htm)

Web Clip Art (http://webclipart.miningco.com/internet/design/webclipart/)

Cameo's Hut (http://www.cameohut.com/)