Favorite Web Sites for Educators: So Many Sites, So Little Time
May 2, 2006
The April 2006 issue of Edutopia magazine features a readers' survey [1]. I just couldn't choose one favorite Web site for educators. I regularly visit more than forty sites, and I share them with my master's degree students. They find them helpful, and I hope you will as well! Yes, it's a smattering of odds and ends, and some with my personal notes:
- Pencils Down!: How Decontextualized Standardized Testing Can Destroy Education [2] (Information Today)
- The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology [3] (San Diego State University)
- Consider This Archive [4] (PBS TeacherLine)
- Emotional Intelligence: At a Glance [5] (Edutopia)
- Technology Integration: At a Glance [6] (Edutopia) When effectively integrated into the curriculum, high tech tools can enhance and extend the learning process, in often surprising ways.
- The Journal of Technology Education [7]
- MultiMedia & Internet@Schools [8]
- T.H.E. Journal [9]
- Technology & Learning [10] (software reviews)
- Multiple Intelligences [11] (New Horizons for Learning) The Tool Room contains an expertly delineated roster of subject areas such as multiple intelligences.
- Thinking Skills [12] (New Horizons for Learning)
- Multiple Intelligences Resources [13] (Theatre in Motion)
- Multiple Intelligences: H. Gardner [14] (The Theory into Practice Database)
- Assessment Alternatives [15] (New Horizons for Learning)
- RubiStar [16] A tool to help teachers who want to use rubrics but do not have the time to develop them from scratch.
- DiscoverySchool [17] (Discovery Education)
- Discovery Education Streaming [18] (Discovery Education)
- Homework Helper [19] (Discovery Education)
- The Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers -- Assessment and Rubric Information [20] (Discovery Education) This collection of assessment rubrics may be helpful for you as you design your own. Let me know if you have one you would like to share!
- Resources for Rubric Development [21] (Intel Teach to the Future with support from Microsoft) This site will help you use rubrics to evaluate a presentation or activity.
- Knowledge Network Explorer [22] The official Web site of AT&T's education program.
- Simulation and Discovery Learning in an Age of Zapping and Searching [23] (University of Twente, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
- Digital Kaleidoscope: Learning with Multimedia [24] (free registration required)
- A Friend for the Language Arts: How Technology Can Enrich Reading and Writing Instruction [25] (the Electronic School)
- Media Smart [26] (Cable in the Classroom)
- Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education [27] (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
- The New Mexico Media Literacy Project [28]
- I, Cringely [29] (the Public Broadcasting Service)
- Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages [30] (Reading Online)
- Resources: Quick Facts [31] (Just Think)
- Broadcast Media: Enhancing Literacy Through Student Production [32] (Reading Online)
- The Media Literacy Online Project [33] (the University of Oregon)
- The Center for Digital Storytelling [34]
- Listen Up! [35]
- The KQED Youth Media Corps [36]
- The Center for Media Literacy [37]
Links:
[1] http://www.edutopia.org/node/1496
[2] http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/may01/dcon0105.htm
[3] http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet
[4] http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/resources/archive_thornburg.cfm
[5] http://www.edutopia.org/php/keyword.php?id=020
[6] http://www.edutopia.org/php/keyword.php?id=137
[7] http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE
[8] http://www.mmischools.com
[9] http://www.thejournal.com
[10] http://www.techlearning.com
[11] http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/mi/front_mi.htm
[12] http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/thinking/front_thinking.htm
[13] http://www.theatreinmotion.com/resources.htm
[14] http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/gardner.html
[15] http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/assess/front_assess.htm
[16] http://rubistar.4teachers.org
[17] http://school.discovery.com
[18] http://www.unitedstreaming.com
[19] http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck
[20] http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
[21] http://www.arp.sprnet.org/curric/INTEL/rubrics_for_education.htm
[22] http://www.kn.att.com
[23] http://projects.edte.utwente.nl/pi/Papers/DiscLearning.html
[24] http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17000193
[25] http://www.electronic-school.com/0198f4.html
[26] http://www.ciconline.org/home
[27] http://www.cpb.org/stations/reports/tvgoestoschool
[28] http://www.nmmlp.org
[29] http://www.pbs.org/cringely
[30] http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/hobbs/index.html
[31] http://www.justthink.org/resources/
[32] http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/action/clayton/index.html
[33] http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/MLR/home
[34] http://www.storycenter.org
[35] http://www.listenup.org
[36] http://www.kqed.org/topics/education/medialiteracy/youthmedia
[37] http://www.medialit.org