Professional Educator Sites

Blue Valley Schools:
Professional & General Interest Links

Links to Web Sites of Professional & General Interest in Education

Kansas State Board of Education: Kansas State Board of Education information is available at a website on the Internet. Check it for information about reform initiatives, personnel, etc.

United States Department of Education: The US Department of Education has a website including everything you might want to know about the US Department of Education. In addition, there are links to their picks for the three best new web sites on the Internet.
Education Resources Directory: Also maintained by the US Department of Education, this is an index of resources available on a wide range of topics. The site also includes a search tool to locate sources for educators both from the federal government as well as from other providers.
National Education Association: This is the home page for the National Education Association - it is expanding to include information about educational research, the NEA organization, and links to State affiliates.
Global SchoolNet Foundation: This is a site with information to help K-12 teachers and their students design collaborative projects that foster networking on the Internet. The site includes Quicktime movies, contests, and amonthly calendar of projects sponsored by other online resources. This site is now merged with teh Global Schoolhouse Project.
Teachnet: This is a web site maintained by a non-profit organization and featuring over 500 award-winning project ideas across all durricular areas, links to other education sites, information about grants, and much more.
Internet4Classrooms: Links to tutorials may be found at this web site for a wide range of software and computer applications.
Classroom Connect: Classroom Connect magazine provides information about all sorts of resources for education on the world wide web. By the way, Classroom Web at this site has links to hundreds of schools with world wide web pages.
Teacherline: PBS has created this site designed to help teachers improve the ways in which they use technology to enhance the learning of students. A series of modules provide online professional development opportunities for educators.
From Now On: Jamie Mackenzie's online newsletter and archive is a great source for ideas for teaching and thoughts by a real leader in effective teaching and integrated use of technology.
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Blue Web'n: The Blue Web'n site provides links to web sites categorized as tutorials, web-based activities, web-based projects, as well as the more mundane lesson plans and hotlists. Content is available that is suitable for grades k-12.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: This may be the definitive list of sites for educators. Maintained by a full time staff at the Discovery Channel, they do about a good a job of collecting and classifying education web sites as is possible. This may be a good place to start a search for technology-based resources to support a particular lesson.
Example WebQuests: The strategy created by Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University has generated many quality learning activites. This site is a collection of some of the best learning opportunities on the Internet. Be prepared for materials that are overwhelming in their depth, their use of effective strategies for learning, and their specific application.
Curriculum-Based Educational Telecomputing Projects: This is a collection of web-based activities that fall into several categories of "teleresearch". They serve as excellent lesson ideas, student activities, and seeds to generate more ideas for teaching and learning.
AskA Locator Site: This page is a search tool and index of all the various "Ask an expert in ..." sites
Evaluating Web Sites: A very straightforward page to help students (and teachers) learn to evaluate the content on web pages. Actually, the standards could apply to any source but are especially relevant for web pages since anybody can publish there and someone will believe the content is authoritative.
State Standards.com: This site provides links to recent versions of state standards for various curricular areas for all 50 states. It could serve as a good reference point for someone needing information about various states.
Disney Learning Center: The Disney site includes a special "teachers only" area, a place to build parent-teacher-community relations, resources for parents, as well as stuff for students! Take the "tour" of the site to learn more.
Pink Monkey: This commercial site is designed as a study resource for students and a resource for parents and teachers as well. The site includes links to over 300 summaries of literature, 1800 classic texts, online textbooks, SAT preparation, and more. They encourage students, teachers, home schoolers, etc. to register and take advantage of their free resources.
Economics Education Curriculum
The Lesson Plans Page: These are three archives of lesson plans arranged by curricular areas.
CampusGRID: Here is a site for folks wishing to publish teacher, school, or district web pages free. Help is also provided for the construction process.
eBlast: This site has an exhaustive directory of Internet sites arranged into topic areas. The sites are rated from one to five stars. The site is maintained by the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Smithsonian Institution: One of the best sites on the web is a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Institution. It is located at the address above.
The National Science Foundation World Wide Web Server: This site includes information about research opportunities, projects, grants, and research results from current projects.
Encyclozine: A nice site with instructional materials and online resources across almost every curricular area.
Brain Research and Learning Styles: This subdirectory of the Teaching Resources page includes links to some of the best and most up-to-date information about multiple intelligences and scientific research into how the brain really works.
University of Kansas School of Education: KU begain compiling lesson plans some years ago and posting them on the Internet. See what progress they have made at this address.

Magpie Educational Resource Guide: Magpie is a general interest education site from Great Britain. It includes resources indexed two ways and a search engine for locating educational resources in their index.

Bellingham Public Schools: This is a site with lesson plans for technology integration and which support problem-based learning from Bellingham Washington. It also includes links to other popular educational sites.

Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse: Want to do an ERIC search or use other of their resources? Link to them at this address. The scope of their information may be broader than you ever thought! This page provides links to many subpages of ERIC on specialized topics such as early childhood or adult education. Links to other education sites are also provided.
NCREL - Planning and Implementation Guide for Technology: The NCREL site provides an interactive tool to assist with developing a technology plan from building a knowledge base, setting directions, implementing priorities, evaluating progress, and institutionalizing change.
Free things for Educators: A teacher maintains this site with information about and links to free information, materials, and projects that teachers might find useful.

Big 6: How about information about Eisenberg and Berkowitz’s Big Six?
MECC on the Internet: This is the home page for Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium and contains links to their Antartica project (or its latest revision/counterpart), their MayaQuest project, games kids can play online, links for parents and educators, etc.
Digital Portfolio Assessment: A Richer Picture of Student Perfomance

United States Census Bureau: This site is a web page for the U.S. Census Bureau. It contains useful data about demographics useful in many educational situations.
Instructional Materials in Science Educations: This site has links to many fine resources for students and lesson ideas, lab experiments, etc. as a resource for teachers.
ERIC Research on Filtering & Blocking: This page gives detailed results demonstrating the ineffectiveness of filtering software in allowing appropriate (desirable) content through its filter.
Staff Development Pros: Conferences and workshops around the country are organized and searchable at this site. The site includes a database of potential conference presenters and e-commerce sales of books for educators.
KickStart Initiative
The National Coordinating Committee on Technology in Education and Training
The Basic School Network Highlights

Internet Resources for Teachers
Pitsco's Ask an Expert: Categories
InSITE - Content Areas Menu
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards
Yahoo! - Education:Instructional Technology:Online Teaching and Learning:Projects
Yahoo! - Recreation:Travel:Virtual Field Trips
Core_Curr._Resources
http://barney.issaquah....currpgs/lessonplns.html
NGS - Pen Pals
Curriculum Connections
Loogootee Elementary West Homepage
The Learning Connection
21st Century Schoolhouse / Educational Links on the Internet
Ron MacKinnon's Home Page
FIRN -- K-12 Resources
SCDS Student Projects
The Teacher's Desk
Teacher's Corner
Access Excellence: Virtual Field Trips
Teacher/Pathfinder Educational Village
Pitsco's Launch to Lesson Plans
Connections+
Lesson Plans and Activities
AskERIC Lesson Plans
Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange
Teachers Helping Teachers
The ASCD Web
DOE Technology Center - National Science Center Augusta Georgia
Sandi Goldman's Classroom Corners
CyberSurfari 97: Exciting Web Pages for Teachers
Top Science: web site
Center for the Study of Society and Technology: Education: This site provides links to research studies focusing on the impact of technology on education.
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet: This site provides ideas for collaboration and increased international understanding that can be part of virtually every curricular area (not just foreign language and social studies)

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