This is a web page maintined by Christina Cantrill of the Philadelphia Education Fund. The purpose of this site is to share various web-based resources and on-line projects. This site contains links about all sorts of things, and is updated regularly, so it is good not only for useful information, but also to have some fun and explore the web.

  At Education-World, a superb web site funded by American Fidelity Educational Services (a division of AF Assurance Company,) the websearchers grade the sites they find according to content, aesthetics, and organization. Once ass essed, a decision is made whether or not to add the URL (Uniform Resource Locator - the address of the web site) to Education-World's homepage. This ongoing categorization of education web resources is nothing short of a blessing to educators, web users, and, in particular, those teachers for whom the Internet looms as a vast, unchartable sea in which they have been set adrift.

  Education-World's home page itself adroitly and capably passes its own assessment criteria. It has significant, employable content; an aesthetically-pleasing, user-friendly interface; and is organized in a sensible, logical, hel pful manner. Their tagline, "Where educators go to learn," is highly appropriate, offering as they do tutorials in Internet use, and both a search and advanced search engine for their database of over 50,000 sites which they have reviewed and ca tegorized. Lesson plans, a revolving menu of features (July 1997, for example, "Multi-culturalism in the Classroom"), and resources not only for the classroom but also for administrators make this an excellent education metasite, worthy of your bookmark.

  When you first arrive at the Blue Web'n site, it takes a moment for the pun on "blue ribbon" to sink in, but after assessing their education content, one quickly concludes that this site, sponsored by Pacific Bell, is correctly and deservedly named. According to the webmasters, "This webspace is our attempt to share the best of these [education] sites in an organized manner." The sites which they share include lesson plans, activities, projects, resources, re ferences, and tools for students, educators, and librarians, presented according to curriculum areas ranging from Arts, Languages, Science, and Technology, to Health, Mathematics, and Vocational Education. A search engine to explore their registered sites is provided and all of them have been reviewed and categorized so you and I don't have to. Strategies for finding what you need include their search engine, or you can use an Applications Table, or, further, access their Content Categories page where you can quickly list content-specific applications. Of tremendous help is an offer from Blue Web'n to add your e-mail address to their list of users and provide weekly updates of new materials added to their site, thus relieving teachers of the need to find time to return to the site to see what's new. It is the second of the three very best education resource sites which I heartily recommend to you for bookmarking.

  Study Web, operated by American Computer Resources, offers over 15,000 research-quality URLs in 18 categories and is eminently suitable for teachers (and their students) looking for information. Teachers will find lesson plans w hich can include "downloadable or printable images for use as visual aids for reports or products." The search mechanisms on site are easy to use and provide a plethora of useful information.

What is Electronic Learning?

  For more than a decade, Electronic Learning has been the magazine that educational technology leaders and technology-using teachers have turned to for information and inspiration in their quest to make technology work in schools . Now Electronic Learning is much more. In addition to appearing as a print publication six times a year, EL is available online every day on this World Wide Web site. Online and in print, EL is the resource you need to ...
...stay on top of what's new and what works in educational technology
...share ideas with your colleagues everywhere
...get your school what it needs
...get your staff up to speed and put technology to work for every student you serve

http://www.excite.com/careers_and_education/k_12/teaching - Technology links

http://www.etc.bc.ca/tdebhome/cln.html
-Welcome to the Community Learning Network WWW home page. CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. We have over 180 menu pages with more than 3,500 links to educational WWW sites, as well as over 120 WWW re sources of our own -- all organized within an intuitive structure.

*http://school.discovery.com/resourcefinder/index.html
-Discovery Channel School has a lot to offer educators looking for creative and innovative tool for teaching. Using the grid below, you can find a range of lesson ideas from study questions and vocabulary that compliment television programs to onl ine activities.
The resources are categorized by subject and grade level. Enjoy!

http://www.tenet.edu/resources.html
-Provides a variety of resources for teachers trying to integrate technolohy in the classroom, icluding sites such as professional resources, legislative and policy resouces and others.

http://www.classroom.net/resource/
-Welcome to Classroom Connect's home on the Internet! We have designed this site with the hope that it will become "homebase" to thousands of K-12 educators and students around the globe. The resources available here augment Classroom Co nnect's rapidly expanding line of product offerings which include our newsletters , videos , books , training systems, and conferences .

*http://www.teachers.net/curriculum/
-Resoucrces for teachers

*http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/educators.html
-Shows K-12 teachers, step-by-step, how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and how to develop Web-based projects for the classroom.

**http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html
-Now that I have a connection to the Internet, what do I do with it? This is a very valid question that is asked hundreds of times on listservs, at conferences, and in school faculty meetings. Common statements range from I don't have time to do o ne more thing to where do I go for examples? This page is dedicated to examples of how the Web can be used in the classroom.

**http://fromnowon.org/techtopten.html
-The Ten Best Web Sites for Educational Technology
Where can you find the best information to guide school decision-making about educational learning technologies? The sites listed below are the From Now On editor's top choices for sites which offer reliable information and guidance. These sites generall y emphasize the use of new technologies as tools to support problem-solving and decision-making. Sites which focus on instructional technologies rather than learning technologies have not been included.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/teachdemo/teachdemo.html
-New Tools for Teaching
This page leads to others that introduce, describe, and exemplify new Internet-based resources for teaching that are already available and in the main astonishingly easy to use. If you know anything at all about using a WWW program (like the one you must be using to read this page!), then you can work through this successfully. See a highlighted link, click on the link! Find the "back" button (on top of this screen probably) to back out of things when you've seen enough, but you'll find plenty of links to make it easy to get around.

**http://www.wested.org/tales/
-Tales of teachers who have used the web in their classrooms

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/contents.html
-Welcome to SuperKids, an impartial source of information for parents and teachers:
....Children's software reviews based on objective analyses by parents, teachers and kids
....Advice that will improve your child's education and save you money
....The place to come before you buy!

http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/K12resources.html
-This directory of K-12 WWW Educational Resources has been developed for teachers and students of the K-12 community. It is to intended to be a list where teachers can quickly access resource materials for direct use in their lesson plans or as ad ditional resources for students to explore.