Teaching with Electronic Technology

Great, I say, because of the excellence of the things themselves, because of their newness, unheard of through the ages, and also because of the instrument with the benefit of which they make themselves manifest to our sight.
Sidereus Nuncius

The World Wide Web sites collected on this page reflect the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching. They are arranged in no strict order, but tend to proceed from rather general and theoretical resources to some instructive examples of specific applications of technology to teaching and learning. Like many other web sites, this one changes and grows as I find time to revise and update these links. I am grateful to those who have made suggestions, corrections, and introduced me to additional resources.

[N.B. Warning to visitors: I am no longer maintaining this site. Many of these links may continue to work for a while, but others are broken and will not likely be repaired. The site will stay up for a while longer before also going the way of all electronic data.] —Michael L. Hall

General Information:

AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

An international, non-profit educational and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology

Access and/or Quality? Redefining Choices in the Third Revolution

By Stephen C. Ehrmann, who directs the Flashlight Program at the nonprofit TLT Group. This article appears in the September/October issue of Educom Review. A different version, "Technology in Higher Learning: A Third Revolution" can be found at the TLT Group web site.

As We May Think

The original 1945 Atlantic Monthly article by Vannevar Bush often credited with getting the whole information revolution underway.

The Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development

The APEID, which is coordinated by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), aims at building the capacity of teachers and other facilitators in integrating ICT as a tool in the teaching-learning process. It also aims at tapping the potential of new ICT for improving educational quality through the professional development of teachers, and for reducing disparities within the region as well as within individual countries in terms of learning achievements. The purpose of this e-forum is to enhance the level of cooperation between teachers, teacher trainers and facilitators through interactive discussion and exchange of ideas and resources on the effective integration of ICT in teaching and learning.

Beyond "Cool" Analog Models for Reviewing Digital Resources

By James Rettig, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

Beyond the Hype

A one-day colloquium organised by the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, held at the Oxford Union Debating Chamber on April 23, 1998. [No longer seems to be available]

Computing for the Humanities

An online course taught by Eric Johnson at Dakota State University. Take a look at Eric Johnson's essay, "The World Wide Web, Computers, and Teaching Literature."

Columbia Guide to Online Style

By Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. In addition to providing rules for citation, Walker and Taylor also give complete guidelines for formatting documents for online publication and for electronically preparing texts for print publication.

Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving: Learning and Teaching Technology in Context

A paper by Michael B. Eisenberg and Doug Johnson, one of a series of publications in the fields of library science and information technology once available from ERIC/IT Digests. [This does not seem to be available at the moment, but may be again at some later date.]

ENG 570: Electronic Texts and Images

A hands-on introduction to the role of electronic texts and images in humanities research and teaching, designed and taught by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. See also Word and Image, "in practice texts often turn out to be as much about images as words. Cultural studies, textual studies, and media studies all demand that the literary scholar learn to engage with images and visual events."

Evaluate Web Pages

Wolfram Memorial Library, Wiedner University. Also check Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate: Original Web Evaluation Materials.

Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks

Maintained on the Learning Resource Server by the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

History in the Raw, a rationale for teaching with primary source documents

Maintained by The National Archives and Records Administration as part of The Digital Classroom project

How to do research on the Internet

An online tutorial created by the Library of Monash University

Interactions

The termly electronic journal of the Educational Technology Service, at the University of Warwick

Internet Access, Usage, and Policies in Colleges and Universities

This paper by Robert A. Fleck, Jr. and Tena McQueen analyzes the responses to a recent survey of campus computer center directors. Published in First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet.

Internet Research Ethics

The papers included in this collection emerge from a panel presentation organized for the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) conference held at Lancaster University, December 14-16, 2001. The panel was originally the inspiration of Helen Nissenbaum.

Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Surveys

An aid for teachers using World Wide Web sites, especially with K-12 classes, part of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Memex and Beyond Web Site

The Memex and Beyond web site is a major research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia. The name honors the 1945 publication of Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think" in which he proposed a hypertext engine called the Memex.

Mission: Critical

Critical Thinking Web Pages at San Jose State University, a project of the Institute for Teaching and Learning. The goal of Mission: Critical is to create a "virtual lab," capable of familiarizing users with the basic concepts of critical thinking in a self-paced, interactive environment.

The new educational frontier: Spoken word, written word, cyberword - the newest challenge of higher education

A comparative analysis of two major information revolutions: the Gutenberg revolution and the revolution brought about by today's fundamental changes of information and communication technologies. Presented by Francis A. Waldvogel, President, Board of Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zürich/Lausanne, Switzerland, as a key-note lecture at the 19th ICDE World Conference in Vienna, Austria, June 20-24, 1999.

No Frills in the Virtual Classroom

This article by Andrew Feenberg is one of three that discuss issues surrounding campus uses of the new technology appearing in the journal published by the American Association of University Professors, Academe (Volume 85, Number 5), September-October 1999.

Online Teaching: Tools & Projects

A report by the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project at Oxford University

A Case Study: Teaching on the WWW--Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches', a tutorial written by Stuart Lee

The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive, marked up by Paul Groves

RDN Virtual Training Suite

The Resource Discovery Network Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials offer self-directed learning, take around an hour each to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience.

Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature

A peer reviewed article by David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson, published in Journal of Digital Information, volume 2 issue 1 (2001-08-13). Evidence from empirical studies suggests that hypertext may disrupt reading. In a study of readers who read either a simulated literary hypertext or the same text in linear form, the authors found a range of significant differences: these suggest that hypertext discourages the absorbed and reflective mode that characterizes literary reading.

"The Symbiosis Between Content and Technology in the Perseus Digital Library"

An article by Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith, and Clifford E. Wulfman appearing in Cultivate Interactive Issue II.

Teaching with Electronic Technology

Wherein the author of this web site delivers himself of a few modest thoughts on the subject of teaching and technology for Knowledge Quest (May/June 2000), the Journal of the American Association of School Librarians.

Technology and Second Language Teaching

The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) promotes the advancement of second language teaching throughout Canada by creating opportunities for professional development, by encouraging research and by facilitating the sharing of information and the exchange of ideas among second language educators.

The Technology/Content Dilemma

A paper by Shelley Goldman, Karen Cole, and Christina Syer, Institute for Research on Learning, Menlo Park, CA, presented at the Department of Education's Conference on Educational Technology, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology, Washington, DC, July 12-13, 1999.

Technology Tools for Today's Campuses

A CD edited by James L. Morrison presents a wide variety of perspectives on using instructional technologies. Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation's Higher Education Group and Horizon at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

TENET: The Texas Education Network

An exemplary resource for K-12 teachers, students, and parents, TENET is a state initiative begun with funding from the Texas Education Agency.

Using the World Wide Web to Build Learning Communities in K-12

by Douglas N. Gordin, Louis M. Gomez, Roy D. Pea, and Barry J. Fishman, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

WCET: the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications

WCET, founded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in 1989, is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational telecommunications. Members represent the higher education community, nonprofit organizations, schools, and corporations. WCET responds to its members needs by anticipating and directing change. It conceptualizes new institutional frameworks and delivery systems, assesses the potential of new technologies and learning resources, explores the needs of tomorrows learners, and proposes appropriate public policy directions.

Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet)

By Edward L. Ayers and Charles M. Grisham, in EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6 (November/December 2003): 4051.

World Wide Web Usability

A special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Several articles have relevance for teachers using the World Wide Web, but especially "Experience with developing multimedia courseware for the World Wide Web: the need for better tools and clear pedagogy," by David Benyon, Debbie Stone, and Mark Woodroffe.

More Conferences and Teaching Workshops

Institutional Support:

Academic and User Support, University of Maryland, College Park

Classroom Support

Center for Teaching Excellence Newsletter

Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, Vermont

The Center for Educational Technology (CET) serves teachers and learners who are interested in using technology to create effective learning environments.

Programs and Workshops

Tools and Resources

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings's College London

Humanities with Applied Computing

Information for Humanities Postgraduates

Teaching Resources on the Web, Georgetown University

American Studies Crossroads Project

Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literatures

Labyrinth, Resources for Medieval Studies

Old English Pages

Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania

James J. O'Donnell's Teaching Demo

New Tools for Teaching Support Site

Text Analysis with Compare, by Jack Lynch, Graduate student in English

Center for Instructional Technology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

New Chalk, a Bi-Weekly Featuring Instructors' Use of Networked Technologies

CIT Infobits

Center for Instructional Technologies, The University of Texas, Austin

The World Lecture Hall

Computer Writing and Research Lab

Currents in Electronic Literacy

Educational Technology Services, University of California, Berkeley

The Computer-Aided Instruction Program

Maintained by Andrew Jones for the English Department at The University of California, Davis. Listen to "Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour" broadcast on KDVS 90.3fm in Davis an interesting combination of Information Technology and poetry. Also check out IT Times, published by Information and Educational Technology at UC Davis.

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE

MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT. A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

OLI: Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon

Through the OLI project, Carnegie Mellon is working to help the World Wide Web make good on its promise of widely accessible and effective online education. OLI grew out of collaboration among cognitive scientists, experts in human computer interaction and seasoned faculty who have both a deep expertise in their respective fields and a strong commitment to excellence in higher education. The project adds to online education the crucial elements of instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence.

Connexions at Rice University

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone from children to college students to professionals organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

More Instructional Technology Sites

Institutional Projects:

MITH: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

An interdisciplinary institute and electronic center devoted to exploring ways in which new media can be used in humanities research and teaching, MITH is a virtual community and intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of humanities computing, digital studies, and cyberculture.

Arts & Humanities Projects

Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history?to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. CHNM combines cutting edge digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy.

Projects

Tools

Research & Development, The Language Centre, University of Victoria

De Casu Cizaris Dutis Regis Iabin, an episode from John Lydgate's Fall of Princes

Extracts from the Diary of Robert Graves, seven entries with annotations and enclosures

Brown University Scholarly Technology Group

Brown STG Projects

School Data Collection on the Web: An example with discussion

Information Technology Services at the Yale School of Medicine

Center for Women & Information Technology

University of Maryland Baltimore County

CHASS Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto

Internet Resources

Computing in the Humanities Working Papers

Software at CHASS

Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University

CTI Textual Studies

Computers & Texts

EPOCH, a European Research Network on Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage

EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. EPOCH is funded by the European Commission under the Community's Sixth Framework Programme.

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia

IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia. Its goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, IATH provides its Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications development, and networked publishing facilities. It also cultivates partnerships and participates in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and other groups residing at the intersection of computers and cultural heritage.

Current Research Projects

Tools

MATRIX

Based at Michigan State University and devoted to the application of new technologies in humanities and social science teaching and research, Matrix creates and maintains online resources, provides training in computing and new teaching technologies, and creates forums for the exchange of ideas and expertise in new teaching technologies.

H-Net - Humanities and Social Sciences Online houses and supports over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters ("listservs"), edited by scholars in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.

The National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) An ongoing 5 year project creating a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century — the first large-scale repository of its kind.

African Internet Connectivity Project The goal of the project is to facilitate the use of the Internet by African scholars and to build bridges of communication across the globe.

TAPoR, Text Analysis Portal for Research at McMaster University

The TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada. TAPoR will build a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across the country by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research portal. This portal will be a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. The local centers will include text research laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text servers that are coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of electronic texts. Each center will be integrated into its local research culture and, thus, some variation will exist from center to center.

Resources for Teachers:

The Perseus Project

Resources for teaching the classics; preview Roman Perseus and VRoma, a virtual community for teachers of classics

Greek Mythology Link

Resources in Greek Mythology, based on Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, by Carlos Parada

The North American Institute for Living Latin Studies

Created in October 1996 in Los Angeles, California by a group of professors and students of Latin literature concerned about the long-term future of classical studies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the institute's mission is to promote the study of Latin language and literature throughout North America, especially in universities, by propagating an active approach to the language known as Latinitas Viva, Living Latin.

The Encyclopedia Mythica

An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, legends, and more . . .

World Civilizations

An online resource for the study of world cultures from antiquity to modernity, designed by Richard Hooker, Washington State University

Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?

A site developed by students at the John F. Kennedy High School in Bronx, New York, in collaboration with students from the Soltorgymnasiet in Borlange, Sweden, as part of a ThinkQuest project.

Newton's Castle

This site was developed for, by and with high school students from John F. Kennedy High School in Bronx, New York. Steve Feld discusses the site here.

The Galileo Project

Resources on Galileo's life and work, Rice University

History 333: Galileo in Context, taught by Albert Van Helden at Rice University

MendelWeb

A math, science, and history resource conceived and constructed by Roger B. Blumberg

Philosophy in Cyberspace

A comprehensive resource maintained by Dey Alexander at Monash University, Australia. Also check out Peter Suber's Guide to Philosophy on the Internet at Earlham College and HIPPIAS: Philosophy Search Engine at the University of Evansville.

Philosophy Links

The site is maintained by Frederik Boven and regularly updated.

Great Books from the Western Tradition

Maintained by Russell McNeil at Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, B.C., Canada

Luminarium

A starting point for students of medieval and early modern English literature, designed by Anniina Jokinen

Julius Caesar

Resources for students and teachers of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, a new addition to The Perseus Project, a digital library for the study of ancient Greece, Rome, and now the English Renaissance [cited above]

Absolute Shakespeare

The essential William Shakespeare resource with Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems. Study Shakespeare with plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, pictures, timeline, trivia, the Globe Theatre and links.

Ivanhoe

IVANHOE is an online playspace that facilitates collaborative interpretation. IVANHOE calls attention to interpretation as active intervention in a textual field and promotes self-conscious reflection by returning various visual and textual transformations to the players. IVANHOE is specially apt for use in small group situations (classroom, small research groups).

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe

Maintained by Richard Hacken, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

The Endeavour Project

An Hypermedia Edition of the Journals of James Cook's First Pacific Voyage (1768-1771), produced by The Centre for Cross Cultural Research, The National Library of Australia, The Canberra School of Art and the Australian National University, The State Library of New South Wales, and H-Net, International On-Line Network for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Social Studies School Service

Resources for school teachers on the American Revolution, Women's History, Black History, Shakespeare, and more . . .

American Memory

Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, maintained by the Library of Congress. Take a look at the excellent Learning Page that accompanies this site.

Documents for the Classroom at the Maryland State Archives

Jamestown Rediscovery

Sponsored by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Virtual Jamestown, Jamestown and the Virginia Experiment

The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

An archive for teachers developed at The Virginia Center for Digital History, based in Alderman Library at The University of Virginia

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

A project drawing on the resources of National Archives of the United States, developed at The University of Maryland

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography

An authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives, published by Greenwood Publishing Group.

American Studies at the University of Virginia

Take a look at the programs and at some of the online student projects.

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology A resource begun by Bruce Fort as part of the American Hypertext Workshop at The University of Virginia in the Summer of 1996

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century

An excellent series of web guides on the decades of the twentieth century prepared by reference librarians at Kingwood College Library, designed and maintained by Peggy Whitley, Library Reference Coordinator

Humanities-Interactive

Resources presented by The Texas Council for the Humanities Resource Center. Take a look at Border Studies, a collection of exhibits presenting the history and culture of the lands and nations bordering Texas and the United States from the 15th Century toy the present day.

Curriculum Units

Curriculum resources developed by Leah Marquis and Margarida Melio, who teach English at Shawsheen Technical High School, in Billerica, Massachusetts. Check out their units on Arthur Miller's The Crucible and on Galileo's Universe.

The California Heritage Digital Image Access Project

The California Heritage collection offers direct access to unique, primary source materials documenting California history.

Oyez: a U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia site

Developed by Jerry Goldman at Northwestern University; also visit U.S. History Out Loud.

Ease History - Historical Events, Campaign Ads, Core Values

EASE History is a rich learning environment that supports the learning of US history. Over 600 videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.

Project Diana

Online human rights archive at Yale Law School

ICONS: Internationl Communication and Negotiation Simulations

ICONS offers educational simulations of international relations at both the university an high school level. Students at a participating institution represent the decision makers of an assigned country and negotiate solutions to global problems via the Internet with peers around the world.

iMarcopolo Global Business Intelligence

This website provides advanced business information to government ministers, economic development officers, international business executives and university academics.

Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Hypergrammar at the University of Ottawa

Common Errors in English

Maintained by Paul Brians, Washington State University

Public Library of Science

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

The Science Room

Developed by Jim Askew at Frontier High School, Red Rock, Oklahoma; Jim is now the science facilitator for Howe Public Schools in LeFlore County, Oklahoma.

Birds on the Net

A student research project by Jessica Morton's First & Second Grade Class at Mendocino Grammar School, Mendocino, California. Take a look at her book: Kids on the 'Net: Conducting Research in K-12 Classrooms.

Ethan's Improved Solar Oven

An interesting science experiment designed by Ethan Clancy, age 11 at the time of this project, in which he tests various design improvements for solar ovens.

The Space Educators' Handbook

Developed by Jerry Woodfill and maintained on a server at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Also check Quest, NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative.

Views of the Solar System

Developed and maintained by Calvin J. Hamilton

Maths is Fun

The idea behind this site is to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible. MathsIsFun.com is developed and maintained by Rod Pierce, who loves mathematics and fun.

MegaMath

Math Resources for Schools, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Using the Web to Teach Mathematics

A service function in the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado at Denver, aimed at helping to use the World Wide Web to support teaching

Jefferson Math Project

The Jefferson Math Project is a nonprofit initiative offering New York math teachers resources that simplify the integration of Math A and Math B Regents exam questions into their curriculum.

The Math Forum at Drexel University

The Geometry Center

Interactive Geometry

The Whole Frog Project at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

NetFrog at the University of Virginia

The Tree of Life

Begun by David R. Maddison and Wayne P. Maddison at the University of Arizona, The Tree of Life is a collaborative web project, produced by biologists from around the world. On more than 2000 World Wide Web pages, the Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics.

Fast and Friendly French for Fun

A ThinkQuest project by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Centreville High School, and Carroll High School

Compumedia

A Multimedia Approach to Music Education

Additional Sites and Courses on my Supplementary List

Miscellany:

Academic Search Engines

Search Engine Colossus has collected most (if not all) of the existing academic search engines on the web!

Access Excellence

A place in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning

Apple Learning Interchange

The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is an online resource for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration. This is the place for educators interested in professional development, creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community of people committed to finding even better ways to teach with technology.

The Argus Clearinghouse

This selection of topical guides to the Internet is no longer being actively maintained. Staff are working to migrate appropriate listings into the main Internet Public Library.

Best of History Websites

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online. Links to over 700 history-related web sites have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Check out the Summer Workshop for 2003.

The Busy Teacher's Website K-12

Maintained by Carolyn Cole at the Georgia Institute of Technology, provides source materials and a helpful introduction to using the Internet

Campus Technology

Launched in October, 2004, Campus Technology replaced the highly respected Syllabus magazine, a recognized leader in the coverage of technology on campus since 1988. Campus Technology will continue to uphold Syllabus' mission of serving as a complete resource for academic and administrative IT leaders in higher education, and will provide in-depth coverage of specific technologies, their uses and implementations on campus.

CLASS.COM Web-based High School

Part of an accredited online high school operated by the Division of Continuing Studies Independent Study High School at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, CLASS.COM offers complete online high school courses, course services, and curricular materials for purchase.

classroom.tripod.com

Part of Lycos, Tripod's online environment exclusively for teachers and students provides free access to resources and homepage building tools

Coimbra

The Coimbra software system is a multimedia document database optimized to create teaching and learning material — an open system based on internet standards enabling the user to provide all kinds of materials either on CDROM, within an Intranet, or via the Web. See, for example, Teach/Me, a networked tool for data analysis developed by Hans Lohninger and a group of enthusiastic colleagues.

Computers & Text

Published by the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies

Convert Plus

Units conversion / metric conversion online: Here you can convert just about anything to anything else. You can easily perform online conversions (e.g. metric conversions) for many measurement systems both commonly used like metric and U.S. Avoirdupois and quite exotic like Ancient Greek and Roman.

The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap by Seymour Papert

EDSITEment!

A collection of humanities resources for K-12 teachers

EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE, combined from the former CAUSE and EDUCOM, is an international, nonprofit association devoted to the study and development of information technology and higher education. EDUCAUSE publishes Educom Review, a journal devoted to Learning, Communications and Information Technology.

eHistory.com

With a long-term goal of organizing and distributing historical content in a variety of media on the Internet, eHistory has been concentrating on consolidating their Civil War content. Other areas of interest are World War II and World History.

ePals Classroom Exchange

Since 1996, ePALS has offered teachers a great way to integrate the use of technology into the classroom and help educate students on world history, culture and the emerging global community.

Envisioning the Future: Interactive Teaching Resources

An index to online courses and syllabi at U.S. universities and colleges, maintained by H-NET: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Eurodl: European Journal of Open and Distance Learning

Published in three languages (English, French, and German) Eurodl presents a forum for discussion of Open and Distance Learning issues at all educational levels and creates a place where European concerns and experience of the learning potential in new educational media can be articulated.

Eyebeam Atelier

A not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing digital art in cinema, fine arts, humanities, and on the Internet, supports a large educational component as well

FATHOM.COM

A for-profit consortium that hopes to find a way to actually sell "authenticated" knowledge over the Internet. So far six cultural institutions from the U.S. and U.K. have signed on as "founding partners": Columbia University, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Cambridge University Press, The British Library, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and The New York Public Library.

First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet

First Monday publishes original articles about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure.

From Now On, The Educational Technology Journal

Hamlet on the Holodeck Resource Page

This lively and expanding online resource accompanies and extends Janet H. Murray's book on hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, and many other related matters. Check out the HotWired debate between Murray and Sven Birkerts: "Is Digital Storytelling Art?" (originally published July 9, 1997). Or for a more positive but still provocative reaction, see the review by John McLaughlin in KAIROS:4.1.

The History Channel

A rich sourch of information with excellent links to other history sites on the web. Be sure to visit their classroom page; it's filled with ideas and resources. with

The History of Education Site

All kinds of Web resources in this field, simple and complex ones, from all over the world

ICMaps Project

Developed by Joe Karnicky and Eric Bloom, the ICMaps project provides a framework for the user to construct a report of some historical era, and present this report on a computer display. The computer display allows interactive manipulation of maps and text describing the relevant history and geography.

Instructional Technology Top Links

A comprehensive directory of links to educational technology sites and organizations

Intel in Education

Good resources, especially for math, science, and technology

Internet Distance Education

Primarily computer training, with online support provided by Knowlton & Associates

Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. IPL provides library services to Internet users: finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources.

Internet School Library Media Center

Sites of interest to librarians and teachers, maintained by Inez Ramsey, Library Science Program, James Madison University

ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education

The largest teacher-based, nonprofit organization in the field of educational technology. Its mission is to help K-12 classroom teachers and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies.

KAIROS: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments

Sponsored by The Alliance for Computers and Writing

Knowledge Quest: on the Web

Knowledge Quest, published bimonthly September through June by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, is devoted to offering substantive information to assist with the development of school library media programs and services.

Literacy and Technology

A useful directory of links for students, teachers, and others, created by Joyce Hinkson. Check out the Virtual Field Trips.

MakingThings

MakingThings specializes in the rapid prototyping and development of "physically interactive" projects. In other words, Makingthings is particularly adept at building, and helping others to build, interactive displays, exhibits and installations that integrate and read data from external sensors (i.e. light sensors, motion-detection sensors, etc.) and that can drive external hardware (i.e. motors, servos, LEDs, LCDs, etc.).

Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality

The MVCR series of online faculty development courses is designed to help faculty members acquire skills and knowledge needed to teach online.

MarcoPolo

A gateway to content in core disciplines. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines and professionally developed lesson plans and classroom activities.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

New Distance Learning Technology

Sponsored by the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University

The New York Times Learning Network

Focusing on grades 6-12, this site provides a rich variety of resources for teachers, students, and parents, much of it keyed to the to the newspaper's own materials. Teachers can access a daily lesson plan developed in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education in New York City.

the NODE: learning technologies network

The NODE Learning Technologies Network is a not-for-profit electronic network facilitating information and resource-sharing, collaboration and research in the field of learning technologies for postsecondary education and training. Check out Networking, a biweekly newsletter dedicated to disseminating news and information about activities and developments in distance education and learning technologies at Canadian colleges, universities, and organizations.

The Office of Learning Technologies

Maintained by Tatiana Fechtchenko for Human Resources Development Canada

Online Education.net

Online Education.net offers information on each US state and internationally in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

Prometheus

PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society. A partnership for a common approach to the production and delivery of learning technologies, content and services

Questia

Questia is a company that promises to deliver on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to the wealth of human knowledge. Questia is building the first online service to provide unlimited access to the full text of hundreds of thousands of books, journals and periodicals, as well as tools to easily use this information. For millions of college students, the Questia(SM) service will enable them to research and compose their papers at any time, from every connected corner of the world. [That latter part will bear watching!]

Shenandoah Shakespeare Express

By following the basic principles of theatrical production of Shakespeare's time, the SSE attempts to give its audiences some of the pleasures that an Elizabethan playgoer would have enjoyed.

SearchEdu.com

Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity. This powerful search engine developed by MaxBot.com also searches .gov and .mil sites, and searches the entire Internet for texts of books!

SoftSchools.com

Provides free math worksheets, free math games and free phonics worksheets and games; all worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.

SMARTer Kids Foundation

The Foundation helps equip classrooms with technology products and generates practical research on the impact and effectiveness of technology in the classroom. The SMARTer Kids Foundation also offers both competitive and noncompetitive grant programs to help educational institutions in North America acquire technology.

SuperKids Educational Software Review

The Parent's and Teacher's Guide to Software

TeacherFocus.com

An online community forum where educators can easily communicate with each other through threaded online discussions. This site gives teachers a place to put their ideas and questions to be discussed and answered by other educators just like them through an extensive software suite that allows nearly real-time communication between educators through a user-friendly web interface.

Teacher's Closet

Teacher's Closet is a website created by teachers and for teachers, with resources, lesson plans, chat rooms, and a web store.

Teacher's Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index

A unique resource with the largest collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web

Teachers.Net

Perhaps not quite "the ultimate teacher's resource" that it claims to be, but still an excellent site.

TeacherServe

Interactive Curriculum Service for High School Teachers, developed by the National Humanities Center

TeacherViews

Results of a contest for K-8 teachers sponsored by Houghton, Mifflin's Education Place.

Teaching Electronics Technology

Computer aided instruction for electricity and electronics.

TeAch-nology.com

TeAch-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to lesson plans, printable worksheets, over 150,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, educational games, teaching / technology tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, teacher finance help, web quests, and teacher resources for creating just about anything a teacher could need.

The Technology Source

Edited by James L. Morrison, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030), a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical, publishes articles that assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations. [published from 1997-2003, now archived at this site]

ThinkQuest

A program of contests that challenge students and teachers to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive learning tool. ThinkQuest programs are sponsored by Advanced Network & Services, Inc.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology

Links to a variety of programs, resources, and related technology information for schools and teachers

Virtual University Gazette

A free monthly electronic newsletter for distance learning professionals, published by Vicky Phillips, CEO of Lifelong Learning, a distance learning consulting firm located in Waterbury, Vermont

World Wide Learn

The world's directory of online courses, online learning, and online education.

W3Education.org, Education, School Directory, Career Information

W3Education.org is one of the largest education-related resources on the world wide web. They opperate a school directory as well as a program directory where students can find thousands of school campuses and over 100.000 degree programs. The site also includes a Career Guide and other Student Resources and Information.

yourHomework.com

A site that allows teachers to post and students and parents to access homework assignments days, weeks, even months in advance. Registration required for teachers, but otherwise a free site.

Directories of Other Technology and Education Sites