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Internet Notebook
Name of Researcher: Erica Hartman
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Focus #1: Are your students
working with you to set learning goals and assessment? |
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1. Name of Site: NCREL's
Indicators of Engaged Learning |
URL:
http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profeng.htm |
Intended Audience: K-12
Teachers |
Description of Site: What kinds of activities do you use to help students
learn? The North |
Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers a profile
tool to measure your visions of learning. Click the "Graph My Responses" button to create a graph representing your answers. |
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2. Name of Site: Indicators of Engaged Learning |
URL: http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/engaged.htm |
Intended Audience: K-12
Teachers |
Description of Site: What are the optimal criteria for student
and teacher roles in the |
learning process? |
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3. Name of Site: Engaged Learning Home Page |
URL: http://www-ed.fnal.gov/lincon/el_homepage.shtml |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: The Leadership Institute Integrating Internet,
Instruction, and |
Curriculum presents a learning sequence that first asks you to
examine and identify effective aspects of a project. Next, you'll review examples of past projects that use engaged learning
standards. Then you'll create a project proposal as well as develop a student task and assessment. |
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4. Name of Site: Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Engaged
Learning for At-Risk Students |
URL: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/atrisk/at400.htm |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers and Guidance Counselors |
Description of Site: "Schools that capitalize on the relationship
between technology and education reform will help students to develop higher order skills and to function effectively in the
world beyond the classroom." |
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5. Name of Site: Engaging the Learner |
URL: http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set16/overview.html |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: Complete a module on engaged learning strategies
that use interactive whiteboards. |
Focus #2: Helpful Teacher Resources |
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6. Name of Site: Education World |
URL: http://www.educationworld.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: This site has it all from worksheets to lesson plans! The
best resource is the Everyday Edit where you can print and download proofreading and editing worksheets in Adobe, print them
out, and you have a great Terra Nova Review. |
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7. Name of Site: 4Teachers.org
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URL: http://www.4teachers.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into
your classroom by offering free online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons,
quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development
resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students. |
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8. Name of Site: Scholastic |
URL: http://www.scholastic.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers, Parents, Students, Librarians, and Administrators |
Description of Site: This site is for everyone. There are themed lesson plans,
shopping, games, teacher tools, book chat ideas, etc. You can also design a free class homepage for a limited time. |
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9. Name of Site: The Gateway to Educational Materials |
URL: http://www.thegateway.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: The Gateway to Educational Materials provides
educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit,
and commercial Internet sites. |
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10. Name of Site: The Educator’s Reference
Desk |
URL: http://www.eduref.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and Guidance Counselors |
Description of Site: This site offers 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information,
and 200+ question archive responses. |
Focus #3: Ways to Enhance Learning in the Classroom |
11. Name of Site: National Geographic Education |
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: Lesson Plans, professional development and current events.
Also offered are: homework help, bookmark factory design and on online encyclopedia. |
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12. Name of Site: United Streaming |
URL: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: United Streaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education.
The largest and most
current K-12 video/video clip library available today. The only standards-based video-on-demand application shown to increase
student achievement. Practical
teacher and student learning resources Access to a wide variety of producers including: the Discovery Channel School, United
Learning, Standard Deviants, Weston Woods, and many more. They offer unparalleled options for customization and local control. |
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13. Name of Site: Kids Pub |
URL: http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers and students |
Description of Site: The largest collection of stories by children
on the internet. Students can publish their work for free. |
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14. Name of Site: The Visual Thesaurus |
URL: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers and students |
Description of Site: The Visual
Thesaurus takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Discover and learn
from nearly 140,000 words, meanings and relationships. Through its emphasis on exploration and vocabulary building, the Visual
Thesaurus can improve reading, writing and communication skills. |
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15. Name of Site: Innovative Designs for Education |
URL: http://www.idecorp.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: Offers Problem based learning units, downloadable
“How to” sheets, web quests, alternative assessments, etc. |
Focus #4: Educational Technology |
16. Name of Site: Catalyst |
URL: http://catalyst.washington.edu/home.html |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: The University of Washington Web site is designed to teach
educators about the use of various tech tools. A great site for the beginner and the pro! They guide you step by step in creating
a PowerPoint presentation, uploading a web page, transferring files, and much more! |
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17. Name of Site: EDTechNot |
URL: http://www.edtechnot.com/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: This is a Web site devoted to the pros and cons of educational
technology. It gives a straightforward approach while answering many questions educators have about technology in the classroom. |
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18. Name of Site: Net Day Compass |
URL: http://www.netdaycompass.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: This site features links under the topics of: planning,
infrastructure, grants and funding, classroom support and best practices. It also features spotlight stories and news clippings. |
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19. Name of Site: International Society for Technology
in Education |
URL: http://www.iste.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: ISTE is dedicated to promoting appropriate uses of information
technology to support and improve learning, teaching, and administration in K-12 education and teacher education. |
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20. Name of Site: George Lucas Educational Foundation |
URL: http://glef.org/ |
Intended Audience: K-12 Teachers |
Description of Site: The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit
operating foundation that gathers and disseminates the most innovative models of K-12 teaching and learning in the Digital
Age. |
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