Welcome! Below you'll find links to use with your Global Connections Training.

Search:

Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial - University of South Carolina Library

Lesson Plans:

• AOL@SCHOOL - A complete online educational resource that brings the best of the Internet into the classroom.
• Homework Central - 14,000 lesson plans and pre-screened, grade-appropriate information
• McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning): links to sites with lesson plans and activities in all areas
• Classroom Connect - Activities, conferences, and lesson plans for teachers
• Hot 5 Web Sites of the Week - each week 5 sites related to a topic are listed - you can go back over the past years and check out the sites

Teacher Resources:

• Children's Literature Web Guide - Authors, books, stories, awards, etc.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
• Library of Congress - More resources than you'll know what to do with!
• Learning Space Online Teacher Network - Washington State's web site for teachers and students
• Internet Public Library - A great wealth of information online for students
• Maine School and Library Network - Resources
• Maine School and Library Network - Links for Teachers
• Mighty Media KeyPals - Connects classroom to classroom via e-mail
• SCORE - Schools of California Online Resources for Educators

Contests:

• Global School Network - Internet Projects Registry, Communication Tools, and Professional Development Activities
• Maine Center for Education - SEED -  Click here to review the 50 packets available for Adaptors - Maine teachers may apply for up to $400.00 Adaptors Awards - deadline - Nov. 15, 2000.
• ThinkQuest Jr. 2000 Web Site Winners - Winning web sites created by and for students in grades 4-6

Web Page Links:

• Barry's Clip Art - Free clip art for your web pages
• Microsoft Clip Art Gallery
• Free Clip Art - Animations, background
• The Web Diner's Tutorial on adding audio to your web site
• SoundApp - music converter for Mac

Global Connections Training Related Links

• Global Connections site associated with today's training
• Global Connections Internet Innovator Awards - This is where you apply for the $30,000.00 award!!
• Online version lesson of the Global Connections course, developed by People's Computer Company, Berkeley, California
• Global Connections Sample Lesson Plans
• Examples of teacher created webquests and sites during Wiscasset's Global Connections Training Session with Janet Harmon - Spring 99

Virtual Expeditions: Examples of students using e-mail to communicate with both peers and subject matter experts to construct new knowledge. How do these sites incorporate students' learning experiences?

• Antarctica - E-mail archives
• Volcano World - Ask a Volcanologist

Scavenger Hunt

Habitats - This scavenger hunt was created by Emily Thompson and her students after she attended one of National Seminconductor's training courses.

Listserv:

EdResource - An educational and technology listserv dedicated to exploring resources and condensing and presenting the wealth of educational information available on the Internet in order to benefit Web learners, educators, teachers and school administrators. EdResource is also an active forum for discussing issues related to Internet learning and education from K-12 through university levels and beyond.

You can browse the message archive at http://www.egroups.com/group/edresource/
To subscribe, send email to tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de

ERIC Education Listserv Archives

Other:

CIT Infobits Article search - 1993- present. CIT Infobits is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic & Technology Networks' Center for Instructional Technology.

ERIC Digests - Research articles about education

Blue Web'n Learning Sites - Blue ribbon learning sites on the web, organized by content, subject, and/or grade

WEB 66 - Links to schools around the world

Discovery Channel educational links and lesson plans for students, parents, and community

Intro to Claris Home Page

Wiscasset Primary School - A great Award winning K-5 web site created by students for students!

Deb's Suggested Links for Administrators and Teachers and Deb's Handouts from her classes

JoinMe - a place to upload your web pages for free

I hope you enjoyed the links on this page.

Created by Deborah Barrows - 2/24/00 edited 8/11/00