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Selected Sites

3SIXTY

is Voyager's beautiful full-color source catalog for interactive media, where you can find a human perspective on a variety of outstanding CD-ROM titles, by Voyager and other publishers.

American Education Research Association

is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

The Apple Virtual Campus

links people with shared resources, anywhere, anytime. It empowers the student, the professor, and the administrator, while creating new communities for interactive learning and collaboration. The Virtual Campus transcends the barriers of space, time, and form. It integrates the Apple Macintosh computer as the foundation technology in support of every aspect of the academic mission. It offers a comprehensive array of information technologies that speak directly to the goals of higher education.

Armadillo

has been designed with the middle school teacher and student in mind. It presents information about Texas natural and cultural history to support an interdisciplinary course of study around themes of interest to students involved in their surroundings.

Artspace

is an "electronic gallery," a permanent collection of artwork created by students and faculty at University High Laboratory School in the last five years.

AskERIC Virtual Library

is an Internet-based question-answering service for teachers, library media specialists, and administrators

Briarwood Educational Network

is the first and only company dedicated solely to helping educators be more effective through the use of the Internet. Since 1992, they have been developing an educational database which serves teachers in a unique and highly effective way.

Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT)

is an international, professional organization dedicated to the improvement of instruction through the use of media and technology.

CAUSE

provides information and services to more than 1,200 member colleges and universities and nearly 3,300 individual member representatives who are engaged in some aspect of planning for and/or managing their institutions' information resources--information, technology, and services.

C-Span in the Classroom

Classroom resources provided by C-SPAN

CUNY Multimedia Initiative

is an incentive program to encourage CUNY faculty to experiment with the latest in multimedia technology

Center for Talented Youth (CTY)

at the Johns Hopkins University, is dedicated to identifying young people with exceptional intellectual abilities and offering them accelerated academic programs specially suited to their own individual rates of learning. CTY's original mission has grown to reach a broader student base, giving youth the opportunity to explore fully their individual academic abilities.

The Chance Server

offers information and ideas for class projects that invlove the use of "chances" in the study of statistics.

Cisco Systems Incorporated Educational Archive

provides information helping educators and schools connect to the wealth of educational resources available on the World Wide Web, as well as connections to resources worldwide that demonstrate the power of networking in education.

College and Universities on the Web

an alphabetical catolog of institutions with home pages. See also.... list from Arizona State University ~~ Communtiny Colleges Home Page

College E-Mail FAQ

gives guidelines on how to guess e-mail addresses at colleges around the world

Commonwealth of Learning

aims to create and widen access to education and to improve its quality, utilising distance education techniques and associated communications technologies to meet the particular requirements of member countries.

Campus Newspapers on the Internet

listed by the University of Tennesse-Knoxville

CAUSE

is the association for managing and using information resources in higher education

Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

is the national voice for advocating access to the emerging National Information Infrastructure in schools.CoSN will advocate for improving education through use of networking technology.

DeweyWeb

is an experiment in using the World Wide Web for not only providing information, but also facilitating communications between students from all over the world. Several projects exist on the DeweyWeb. They represent an interesting variety of bringing students togther in the name of active learning.

Discovery Learning Community

is a pilot effort to encourage new ways for teachers, learners and their educational partners to use the programs that air on The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel.

Educational Online Services

offers a collection of pointers and helpful files for teachers, students, and administrators.

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

provides complete, up-to-date information to students and institutions about ETS tests and services.

EDUCOM

serves the leaders who manage information technology in higher education. For more than 25 years, Educom has been leading the nation's educational community in integrating information technology into classrooms, curricula and research. See also the online version of EDUCOM Review

EdWeb

a K-12 Resource guide from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It is a "hyperbook" to present the world of educational computing and networking in a single, easy-to-use guide.

Equal Access to Software (EASI)

is devoted to information technology and its access by persons with disabilities

Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership (ECSEL)

is a coalition of seven schools and colleges of engineering engaged in a five-year effort to renew undergraduate engineering education.

The Global Schoolhouse (GHS) Project

funded in part by the National Science Foundation, consists of connecting schools and students nationally and internationally using the Internet and modeling classroom applications of Internet tools and resources.

Goals 2000: Educate America Act

provides resources to states and communities to develop and implement comprehensive education reforms aimed at helping all students reach high academic and occupational skill standards.

The Hub

is an Internetworked resource for mathematics and science education funded by the Eisenhower Regional Consortia and operated by TERC on behalf of the Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education Reform.

Hypermedia and Instructional Software Clearinghouse (HISC)

from the University of Missouri-Columbia was created to establish a set of procedures for collecting, reviewing, and distributing instructional, administrative, and utility programs for educators, trainers and, instructional technologists. Each program meets specific guidelines through an extensive review by at least two evaluators.

IBM Kiosk for Education (IKE)

is a free information service for IBM users in the higher education community. IKE offers IBM product information and news, as well as software to download and a bulletin board for exchanging ideas with colleagues.

Image Processing for Teaching

Images provide an exciting introduction to science, mathematics and technology. All learners can process and manipulate images from the real world to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Educators are using image processing to integrate technology in the classroom in a meaningful way. Learning with image processing gives students new opportunities to explore, discover and create.Since 1990, the Image Processing for Teaching program, developed at the University of Arizona, has been helping teachers bring this exciting and powerful technology into their classrooms.

Instructional Systems Program

at Florida State University offers inforamtion about their academic program as well as links to other related resources.

Instructional Technology

at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Instructional Development

at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a comprehensive service organization that supports faculty efforts to improve instruction. They cover many areas, from grant consultation to teacher training, from producing instructional materials to installation and maintenance of computer and display equipment.

Instructional Technology Program (ITP)

leads the University of California Berkeley campus in developinglong-term plans and alternative models for the utilization and funding of communication and computing technologies in instruction.

Information Technology Training Initiative

has funded twenty nine projects at Universities throughout the United Kingdom

Institute for Academic Technology (IAT)

is a national institute working to place higher education at the forefront of academic technology development and implementation. A partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and IBM Corporation, the IAT strives to facilitate widespread use of effective and affordable technologies in higher education.

Institute on Education and Training (IET)

from RAND, conducts research, analysis, and technical assistance that will help improve policy and practice in education and training in this country.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the improvement of education through computer-based technology.

Janice's K12 Cyberspace Outpost

is a collection of most of all that's NEW within k12 web-space.... and a lot of other things that relate to educational uses of the net.

Joint Education Initiative (JEI)

is a National Science Foundation project at the University of Maryland at College Park under the department of Geology. JEI is the interface between K-12 science educators and the federal, industrial, and academic science communities.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Education Programs

promotes and enhances the teaching of science, mathematics, and technology. Collaborations with community organizations and industry are being developed in surrounding communities and across the nation to promote systemic change in our nation's schools.

Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVIS)

provides students with a "collaboratory" workbench that includes desktop video teleconferencing; shared software environments for remote, real-time collaboration; access to the resources of the Internet; a multimedia scientist's "notebook"; and scientific visualization software.

NCSA Education HomePage

works to bridge the gap between scientific research and education and make the tools for computational science available in the classroom. They also try to show students and teachers how they may access resources on the Internet.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

collects statistics on the condition of education in the United States, analyzes and reports the meaning and significance of these statistics, and assists states and local education agencies in improving their statistical systems.

National Network of Regional Educational Laboratories

are educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

is the largest organization in the world committed to the improvement of science education at all levels -- preschool through college. NSTA's current membership of nearly 50,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education.

New Media Centers

is a non-profit organization committed to helping institutions of higher learning enhance teaching and learning through the use of new media.

Online Educational Resources

listed from NASA's High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC)

On-Line Instructional Technology Publications

ACADEME THIS WEEK / EDUCOM Review / Journal of Technology Education / The Labyrinth/Forum

Plugged In

was created to bring the tremendous technological resources available in the Silicon Valley to low-income youth in nearby communities. They provide technology-based learning activities for youth ages five to 18.

Primary and Secondary School Internet User FAQ

attempts first to define the most frequently asked questions related to the use of the Internet in pre-university education and then to provide not only answers but also pointers to further information.

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

a private nonprofit corporation whose members are the nation's public television stations. PBS provides quality TV programming via satellite, and related services to 346 non-commercial stations servicing every U.S. state, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa. The 346 stations are operated by 196 non-commercial, education licensees.

Research for Better Schools (RBS)

is a private, nonprofit corporation which has served as the Mid-Atlantic regional educational laboratory for 28 years under funding from the U.S. Department of Education. RBS has also offered educational development, evaluation, technical assistance, and training services under client funding within the region, and operates a self-supporting publications division on a national basis.

Science Television

is a video production company specializing in the production of programs for the professional and educational use of the scientific community.

Scholastic, Inc.

is one of the nation's leading publishers and distributors of children's books, classroom and professional magazines, professional books, technology products and other educational materials.

StarChild Project

connects NASA resources to the K12 Classroom.

SyllabusWeb

is a free service from Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus magazine and producers of the annual Syllabus conference, resources for instructional technology in higher education

Technology and Information Educational Services (TIES)

is a non-profit computer consortium comprised of 49 school districts. TIES provides leadership in the application of technology to education by means of quality support services, training, consulting, processing, and research and development, so that member districts can achieve enhanced learning for students and cost-effective management.

Television News Archive

remains unique in systematically recording, abstracting and indexing the most widely viewed national television newscasts so that they are readily available for study. Copies of videotapes from the Archive's collection are loaned to individuals throughout the world for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research. The Archive produces a monthly publication, "Television News Index and Abstracts," that is a guide to the collection.

Texas Education Network (TENET)

enables educators and students to move information across the barriers of time and space and to explore an evolving technology which is breaking down the isolation of the classroom. The success of the network is based largely upon the desires of educators to explore and utilize these new information resources.

Vocal Point

from students of the Boulder Valley School District. By actively participating in the Vocal Point project, students are learning the nuts and bolts of journalism, electronic-style.

Web66

is a project from the Minnesota College of Education that aims to help K12 educators learn how to set up their own WWW Internet servers, link K12 WWW servers and the educators and students at those schools, and help them find and use K12 appropriate resources on the WWW.