BV: Computer Studies

Blue Valley Schools:
Computer Science Links

AP Computer Science: A page by Mark Stehlik providing links to his resources (and other support materials) to assist teachers and students in preparing for the AP exam. Prof. Stehlik is Dean of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University.
C++ in AP Computer Science: Owen Astrachan (Duke University) provides a variety of resources including his own "translation" of several previous AP exams from the Pascal era to what they would look like in C++. This can give both a feel for the multiple choice items as well as the open-ended responses.
Classroom Connect Magazine: This is the home page for Classroom Connect magazine. It is of general interest for all disciplines and is a good resource for computer teachers wishing to present interdisciplinary applications of telecommunications.

National Supercomputer Project: The Education Outreach department of the National Supercomputer Project maintains a home page with information about their projects which provide supercomputer access to schools. They also have information of general interest for computer instructors about computer science topics.

Software Publisher's Association: The home page of the Software Publisher's Association is a resource for a conservative view of copyright law. They also have information about seminars, current issues in the courts, and links to publishers and businesses.

Learning on the Web: This is a good starting place for teachers new to the Internet. It is actually a complete syllabus for various instructional topics in the area of computer studies. It is maintained by Canada's Community Access Network.

Women and Computer Science: Here is a definitive site with links to information about women and their role in computer science. The site includes information about gender equity, famous inventors, the future of women in computing, etc.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/: The Association for Computing Machinery is another professional organization of interest to computer teachers.

MacWorld Online Journal: Here is the online version of the popular journal for mac users. Links are provided to old issues and articles. Topical searches may be performed here.


C-Net Central's How To Design Page: C-NET Central is an online magazine about the Internet. Their site provides some basic guidelines and tips for creating web pages. The hints are from a graphics designer with experience in HTML. In addition, there are links to various shareware tools for web page editing/creation.

How to Create a Web Page: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications was the originating site of the WorldWide Web. This is their resource for persons wishing to create web pages.

Maggie's Guide to Web Page Authoring: Here is a good link to a wide range of resources for browsing, authoring tools, and graphics for web page authors. Some particularly useful resources are links to graphics, backgrounds, and color indices for use in your web site.

World Wide Web Consortium's Style Guide for Online Hypertext: The Style Guide provides both tips for creating a page, information about appropriate format, and netiquette for web page design. In addition to providing practical guidelines for web authoring and links to web authoring resources, they solicit other suggestions from site visitors.

Sun on the Net: Style Guide: This site features the style suggestions for web authors from Sun Microsystems. It features detailed information about creation of web pages. They include links to information about security issues, ethics, and other web page issues.

Yale Web Style Manual: The web page for Yale Medical School has a wide variety of resources in addition to med-school-stuff. This is their extensive style manual and creation suggestions for making web pages.

The Bandwidth Conservation Society Homepage: The Bandwidth Conservation Society maintains this home page with suggestions for making web pages that are more efficient. Their goal is to conserve bandwidth as the load on the internet continues to explode.

Colors from Infinet: This site simply provides information about use of background colors with web pages. They are indexed two different ways to easily find a color and to find details about its use (and its hexadecimal code, of course).

North Central Regional Lab Technology Page: The North Central Regional Education Lab maintains this site with information regarding technology in education. The site includes lesson ideas, instructional materials for a variety of "how to" topics on internet use.

The Amazing Picture Machine: This site is a search engine for finding pictures on the Internet. Anyone wishing to author a web page should consider using this resource to find the perfect graphic to enhance the page.

Modern Language Association Standards Guide: This site provides MLA standards for citing electronic sources in research and scholarly documents.
CYBERCRIME: The US Government's official page related to cyber crime includes links to news stories, statutes, and has specially targeted pages for parents and students as well as for educators and the general public.
Northern Light: Special Edition on Cybercrime: This is a resource appropriate for the teacher wishing to research this topic and stay somewhat in touch with what students may be exploring. It includes links to news and information, government pages related to cyber crime, and even links to some of the most notorious pages that hackers frequent.

Web Authoring Tools and Information

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~stark/gutil_sv.html: Thesa are graphics editing tools and resources
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/d/a/dawiz/HTMLCC.html: This site by John Hogue provides links to many web authoring tools and information about how to create those web pages, too.
http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/html/html.html

http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_1.html

http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html#code

Tutorials and Tours
http://www.learnthenet.com/
http://www.medconnect.com/tutorial.htm
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html
http://personal.mia.bellsouth.net/mia/d/a/dawiz/WWWCC.html: Here is John Hogue's tutorial and introduction to the world wide web.
Internet Tutorials n' Surfing Guides: This site is intended to assist with the search process on the Internet.
How do they do that with HTML?: This site helps learn secrets of producing documents using html 2 and later versions.
Site Builder Gallery

More Teacher Resources
Site Evaluation Rubric: This site describes a good rubric for evaluation of web sites and other instructional materials.
The World Wide Web and Internet for Teachers: This page contains links to learning resources on the Internet about the Internet
Webopedia: This is an online dictionary and search tool for information about technology and computer science.

History and Timelines

Internet Timeline: Here is a timeline maintained by the people at PBS.

Notable Women of Computing

Java Resources

http://Java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/TOC.html

http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/course

http://www.ibm.com/java/education/intro/courseoptions.htm

http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/mac/main.html

http://desktoppub.tqn.com/msub13.htm

And More

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

T&L Home Page

Grant Information

Goals 2000 Reporting Page

Computers in the Classroom

DOE Technology Center - National Science Center Augusta Georgia

Microsoft in Higher Education - Vision

Curriculum Projects

Sally Laughon, Ph.D. to be! K-12 Projects connecting people, classes, educators

The Fermilab LInC: Curriculum Project Planning creating a project

Internet in the Classroom Tutorial plan projects and design home pages

Integrating the Internet primary resources, projects, a weekly newsletter, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages.

PostcardsFrom Home Page

Internet Circumnavigation Education Expedition

E-mail Discussion Groups

Hotmail - The World's FREE Web-Based Email

eMail Classroom Exchange - K-12 Education Resource

Misc.stuff

Web page creation and design

Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards

Blue Mountain Arts' Interactive Art

Barry's Clip Art Server

The Free Graphics Store

Tutorials

Learn iT! - Computer Training and Support

Tools Guide useful items from the web

Windows 95 Tips

Windows 95 Training Modules

Exploring Connectivity in the Classroom with Windows 95

ZDTips - Home Page Lots of tips on how to use popular software applications

Internet Stuff:

Internet Statistics

Internet Statistics: Web Growth, Internet Growth

Web Instructional Resources

Introductions to the Web

Web Week -- Ask Dr. Website

Ask Dr. Internet index

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Internet Information

MAIN PAGE: Harnessing the Power of the WebWeb Tutorial

Technology Leadership for Educators another on-line tutorial

Netscape - [\Just the Answers

READY REFERENCE USING THE INTERNET search alphabetically

Walking the Web: A Short Course in Getting Around: Exercise One beginning course on net

Internet Tour Table of Contents

Instructional Methods and Tools

Characteristics of Effective Student Web Projects

Teach 2000 WELCOME The purpose of this World Wide Web site is to provide a guide for educators, including beginning and more experienced users of technology, to effectively integrate the use of the Internet and World Wide Web into the K-12 curriculum.

David Levin's Learning@Web.Sites for High School educators who would like to enhance their curriculum & instruction using the Net.

NetLearning: Using the Net in the Classroom

Using Internet Know-How to Plan How Students Will Know great examples of Internet use in classroom!

Scavenger Hunt practice navigating the net

CyberBee tips

The Fermilab LInC: Graphics Internet Skills

Surfing the Net Without Going Under Overview of Search Tools

The Winsor School Library great resources!

Visit the Travel Agent Teachers on the Net

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources articles on evaluating the net

ITDC Staff Development Internet training for teachers and administrators

ITDC Training Bookmarks training topics plus references