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Educational Technology

AGS Publishing
Assessments, textbooks, and instructional materials for students with a wide range of special needs.


AOL @ School Statewide
A series of six online learning portals designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, teachers and administrators. Includes internet links, encyclopedias, dictionaries, lesson plans and more.


Ask Jeeves For Kids
Search engine for kids with news resources, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases and other research tools. Also games and puzzles.


Educational Web Design
Cathy Chamberlain, a teacher a technology specialist for the Oswego City Schools District in New York, put together and maintains this site with excellent reading and educational technology resources and links.


EduHound
Directory of more than 20,000 links in over 50 categories.


Edupuppy
Child-safe search engine for elementary and early elementary. Also available in Spanish.


Eduscape Teacher Tap
The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.


Elementary Technology
Tons of articles and resources on elementary technology.


Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
This site contains free resources for teachers, parents and students, including teaching ideas, learning activities, photos, maps, primary source documents and more.


FunBrain
Games and quizzes for kids, a curriculum guide, standards finder, quiz builder, web-based gradebook and newsletter for teachers, and a homework relief center and parent-kid challenge games for parents.


Gateway to Educational Materials
A search engine to look for lesson plans and curriculum units on the Internet.


Learning Disabilities Resource Community
The LDRC is a virtual information community open to anyone affected by learning disabilities either as an individual with a learning disability, a parent, teacher, researcher, or a concerned community member. The LDRC is a place to gain knowledge about learning disabilities, discover new teaching and educational tools, share information and experiences, and contribute to a greater understanding of the "hidden disability". To help users appraise the efficacy and usefulness of information on this website, all information is categorized and authors are identified with their credentials and affiliations.


Literacy and Technology
Technology tools that specialize in literacy development.


Maryland Public Television
A comprehensive site covering news and public affairs, arts and culture, kids and family, prgrams, and education.


MidLink Magazine: The Digital Magazine by Students, for Students - Ages 8 - 18
The mission of MidLink Magazine is to highlight exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe. Any school, teacher, or student is invited to participate. All content must be original, must enhance learning, and must come directly from a classroom. The pages reflect the creative learning process that exists in classrooms where technology is the vehicle or enhancement, but academics are the focus. (NOTE: projects that charge a fee for participation are NOT included) A non-profit organization, supported by SAS inSchool, North Carolina State University, and the University of Central Florida.


MIKIDS.com
This site features teacher resources, especially those pertaining to literature. Written and maintained by a teacher and library/media specialist in Michigan.


MSDE PT3 site
Welcome to the Maryland State Department of Education's home page for the consortium Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3). Since 1999, the PT3 initiative of the U.S. Department of Education has awarded over 400 grants to education consortia to prepare technology-proficient educators for 21st century schools.


MySchoolOnline
MySchoolOnline is home to thousands of education-related sites. Locate your child's class, school, or PTA/PTO website. Features a "Best Site Showcase" for the best class, school, community, and PTA websites.


PowerPoint Tutorial
Addresses PowerPoint basics in addition to such topics as templates, the drawing toolbar, buttons, transitions and animations, and inserting clipart.


Reading Online
Online journal published by the International Reading Association; a good resource on current practices, literacy research, and technology and instruction.


SchwabLearning.org
A parent’s guide to helping kids with learning difficulties. Schwab Learning is an operating program of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, a private, nonprofit foundation that funds programs in learning disabilities and human services.


Super Kids
Educational software review


TeacherVision.com
Resources for teachers, including a lesson planning center, current research and techniques to enhance your classroom atmosphere, collections of materials in different subject areas, and professional development information.


Teaching LD Kids to Use Scoring Rubrics
This article addresses a possible method for giving LD kids a systematic way to assess their work and compare it to that of their peers.


Tiger Aki Online Stories
Free, animated stories featuring Tiger Aki. Children can choose to read the text themselves or follow along with audio. Games are also included that help develop computer skills at an early age. The Tiger Aki Books require the Macromedia Flash Plug-In (version 4 or later)


Virtual Field Trips
A site that makes abstract concepts become more concrete. Useful for children who are visual learners.


Webquest.org
Lessons on the web that students can complete using the Internet. The lessons are very detailed and give step-by-step instructions to the students. All grade levels and subject areas are covered.

 

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