More Educator Web Sites Organized by Curriculum Topics: ETTC Greatest Hits! www.lr.k12.nj.us/ETTC/links.shtml

COPYRIGHT ISSUES FOR EDUCATORS       

Internet Protection Act: http://www.state.nj.us/njded/techno/htcrime/ipa.htm

Safe & Ethical Use of Computer Filters: http://www.state.nj.us/njded/techno/htcrime/filter.htm

Child Internet Protection Act HR 4600: http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/filter/hr4600ih.htm

Library of Congress Copyright Office: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

Copyright Law -Full Text: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/

Off-Air Videotaping Fair Use Guidelines: http://osu.orst.edu/admin/printing/copyright/broadguide.htm Considered "safe harbor" for educators using programs taped off air for classroom use. Not part of Title 17 Copyright Law but were read into the Congressional Record Oct. 14, 1981 Vol. 127 No. 145 as an agreed upon limit for educators to follow.

Copyright Resources at Yale University: http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html

Copyright, the Internet and Libraries: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/sp97/560/web/Copyright/ Loaded with information and links specifically about copyright and libraries.

Ohio University Copyright Information Site: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/imts/copylink.html essential links to basic copyright information.

Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use Site: http://fairuse.stanford.edu Comprehensive, easy to use source.

General Education Sites

Education Index: http://www.yahoo.com/Education/K12

Internet Based Instruction: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html

United Nations Cyber School Bus: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/main.htm

Classroom Connect: http://www.classroom.net/

Cyberbee: http://www.cyberbee.com/

Global Schoolnet Foundation: http://www.gsn.org/

The Learning Kingdom: http://www.learningkingdom.com/

LiveText was developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University to provide guidance and models for curriculum development and technology planning: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext

Biographical info on over 18,000 historical figures: http://www.s9.com/biography

Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett

The on-line books page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Poetry On-line: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/poetry/

Adventure Online-Guide to Adventure Learning: http://www.adventureonline.com/

The Electronic Emissary: Bringing Together Students, Teachers, and Subject Matter Experts: http://www.tapr.org/emissary/

Busy Teachers' Website K-12: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

Integrating the Internet Use this page to find primary resources, projects, a weekly newsletter, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages: http://www.indirect.com/www/dhixson/index5.html

Online Class: http://www.onlineclass.com/

Wiring youth to the world - Mighty Media: http://www.mightymedia.com/

The Educator's Resource Center is a place where educators can quickly and easily find lessons, activities, and programs to facilitate the teaching of environmental issues, human rights, and connect K-12 education with social action for a variety of interest areas: http://www.mightymedia.com/edunet/

Interactive Projects from The Instructional Technology program at Curry, Faculty are involved in the design and implementation of a number of different Web projects including An Interactive Frog Dissection. and Whales: A Thematic Web Unit http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/about/Interactive.html

Topics for K-12 Classroom: http://www.asd.k12.ak.us/Welcome.html

Classroom Connect: http://www.classroom.net/

Safesurf - Educational Resource Files: http://www.safesurf.com/serf.htm

Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators : http://www.discoveryschool.com/Schrockguide/

Internet for hearing impaired: http://www.dpa.org.sg/DF/

Education Week: http://www.edweek.org

Social Studies Teacher Page: http://www.learningspace.org/socialstudies/

Math, Science and Technology Education: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/

Map Quest: http://www.mapquest.com

Educator's Links: http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/site/internet.html

The Web Less Traveled: Interesting location from Lee County Schools contains links to unusual sources of information. Much of it runs down urban myths and helps students separate fact from fiction on the Web. http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/SDC/webless/

Tales of the Wooden Spoon: Another site that debunks cyber fiction including the alleged list of "Life Lessons" wrongly attributed to Bill (Microsoft) Gates. Actually shows sources and attributions. Some librarians love this kind of stuff. Where else can you find the origin of the expression "dead ringer" or "saved by the bell?" Not to mention why the thing at the base of a doorway is called a threshold.
http://www.snopes.com/spoons

Government Sites

US Government "Main" Page - http://www.firstgov.gov
Federal government attempt to make government agencies more accessible via the Internet.

Occupational Outlook Handbook- http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

New Jersey Department of Education - http://www.state.nj.us/education/

New Jersey Legislature - http://www.njleg.state.nj.us

White House for Kids - http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html

NASA - http://www.nasa.gov

Shuttle Information - http://www.shuttle.nasa.gov

NASA Planet Tour - http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Libraries, Museums & Information Data Bases

Burlington County Library - http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us

Burlington County School Directory - http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/schools/schooldirectory.html

Chicago Museum of Science & Technology - http://www.msichicago.org

Exploratorium - http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Library of Congress - http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Educational Research and Information Center - ERIC - http://ericir.syr.edu/ ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

Web Site - http://www.clearinghouse.net/ Internet research library. Selective link guides and directories to topics and issues.

Shakespeare - http://www.shakespeare.com

Smithsonian - http://www.si.edu

Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the Man-http://www.fi.edu/franklin/

Straight Dope with Cecil Adams- http://www.straightdope.com - OK, so it's not a library, but it is one of the best places on the Web to find answers to really obscure and sometimes really dumb questions.

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                Discovery Channel, A&E, And More!

Discovery Channel School Online-http://www.school.discovery.com 

A&E Biography-http://www.biography.com/

National Geographic (there are really neat educational interactive games here , Try Pirates!) - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html

PBS Online-http://www.pbs.org/

WHYY Channel 12-http://whyy.org/

National Public Radio-http://www.npr.org/

World of Escher-http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/ Artist, M. C. Escher

World Wide Arts Resources-http://wwar.com/

Science & Math

Wright Brothers first flight sites 2003:  www.firstflightcentennial.org

Educational site from the Federal Aviation Administration: www.faa.gov/education/wright/wright.htm

National Air and Space Museum: http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal100/wright1903.html 

Band Width Speed Test Site- http://computingcentral.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest50.asp 

The Guide to Math & Science Reform- http://www.learner.org/theguide/theguide.html

Algebra Online- http://www.algebra-online.com/

The Geometry Center- http://www.geom.umn.edu/

This is Mega Mathematics- http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education- http://www.enc.org/

The award winning daily science radio series Earth & Sky- http://www.earthsky.com/

Antarctica -http://www.antdiv.gov.au/stations/mawson/video.html

Comet Home Page - http://www.astro.washington.edu/

Franklin Institute - http://sln.fi.edu

Frog Dissection -http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog/

Hubble Telescope - http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/livefrom/hst.html

                                                News & Weather

Weather - http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/: Enter Zip Code 08060 into local weather and bookmark it.

Weather Channel - http://www.weather.com:  Enter your local zip code for local weather and radar.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: www.noaa.gov Government weather service. 

Imagery from the University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/meteosat.html/

CNN - http://www.cnn.com: See CNN for live streaming video events into your classroom.

USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/

Morningstar - www.morningstar.com financial news

Channel 10 News Philadelphia: www.nbc10.com

KYW News Radio - www.kyw1060.com School closing numbers on line !

Gopher Sites Computing History

Does anybody still use Gopher Sites? Guess not. This is a techno historical area now. Before the Internet went graphical in about 1993 most directories of topics and links were in Gopher Sites. These text only sites were early attempts to organize Internet information by site topics and directories within sites. Searches were named after Archie comic characters (I couldn't make this up, really). Searches were called Veronica and Archie searches and determined how and what kind of topics were being searched. The need for Gophers was eliminated in the '90s as graphical browsers and various underlying elements like Spiders and Bots made cataloging the Internet easier. But even in the early '00s it is estimated that only about 16% of Internet resources are searchable by the general public with conventional search engines. Much more is still available on Gopher Sites.

History of Communications from Romans to Fiber Optics: http://www.anderbergfamily.net/ant/history/

Time Line of Computing History: http://www.computer.org/computer/timeline/

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