Educational Technology Links These are a collection of links compiled from University of Phoenix students for the Computers in Education course. If one of these links is broken, please e-mail me. Reading/Language Arts BookCrossing http://www.bookcrossing.com/ This is a free book exchange. Language Arts http://www.starfall.com BookAdventure http://www.bookadventure.org A free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. International Reading Association http://www.reading.org Dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. The Partnership for Reading http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/ Offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) http://www.cori.umd.edu/ This collaborative project between the University of Maryland and the Frederick County Public Schools focuses on the challenge of implementing integrated reading instruction in the elementary school curriculum. Reading is Fundamental (RIF) http://www.rif.org All RIF programs combine three essential elements to foster children's literacy: reading motivation, family and community involvement, and the excitement of choosing free books to keep. Reading A-Z http://www.readingatoz.com This is a great site that teachers can get some materials for free.  However, if the subscription is purchased there is a wealth of activity pages to go along with books that the teacher can print in color or black and white.  As a librarian I like this site because I can tailor the books I use with the students to the ability level they are on. Read Across America- Dr. Seuss Day http://www.nea.org/readacross/ Blogger (online journals) http://www.blogger.com/ Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/ The Citation Machine http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php Free e-books located at http://www.bartleby.com/ . Students can find out about story tellers, books, stories and more at http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html . The world's largest online library is at http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp . I think that you will have to be creative on this one- but there are many resources on the net. Read-Write-Think.  They have some cool Student Tools.  One of my favorite poetry related tools is the Line Break Explorer.  You can play with these applet tools at http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp.  The Letter Generator is also awesome by the way. Analyzing Websites and Citing Electronic Resourc Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.com/es in their Reference Shelf at http://edsitement..neh.gov/reference_shelf.asp. Teaching/Education www4Teachers http://www.4teachers.org/ Web for Teachers is a part of HPR*TEC.  It provides links to integrating technology and online tools for teachers.  Some of the most popular tools on this site are RubiStar which allows teachers to find and/or create rubrics for evaluating a variety of student projects, and QuizStar which allows teachers to create and administer customized quizzes online in order to track student progress. The New York Times on the Web Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents.  Teachers can search the extensive database of lessons plans that cover topics in every subject matter.  Each of these lessons is extremely detailed and begins with students reading an online article that was published in the New York Times newspaper, completing discussion questions, and continuing their learning with classroom, home and extension activities. TeacherVision http://www.teachervision.fen.com/ TeacherVision is a web portal that provides an assortment of ideas and tools for teachers to use in the classroom.  As many others, it has a lesson plan database, and highlights those that tie to monthly themes.  I even subscribe to their newsletter by email to see the latest ideas and resources.  They also have some great tools like the QuizLab and MySchoolOnline that help to create a classroom website. AOL@School for Teachers http://www.aolatschool.com/teachers/index.adp AOL@School is a free web portal that has a section for elementary students, middle school students, high school students, teachers and administrators.  Besides lesson plans, the teacher resources include tools for finding field trips, making puzzles, creating quizzes, flashcards, worksheets, websites and even webquests. Knowledge Network Explorer http://www.filamentality.com/ Knowledge Network Explorer was developed by Southern Bell Company as a resource for teachers and librarians.  Information can be found on e-rate, available grants, videoconferencing, webquests and lesson plans.  Teo of the most popular destinations on their site are Blue Web’N which is an online library of Internet sites categorized by subject and grade level, and Filamentality which allows users to create online web activities like hotlists, scavenger hunts and webquests by simply filling in the blanks. http://www.abcteach.com/ This is a pretty well-known site.  I go here mostly to find activities pertaining to special occasions such as holidays and special events.  This site stays updated and you can find some new activities to do with your students when you're bored with the same 'ole thing.   http://teacher.scholastic.com/ Another pretty well-known site, but tried and true.  I like to go here for new lesson ideas.  Scholastic is good about making sure that lessons are aligned with standards and provides resources for parents and students as well. Knowledge Network Explorer http://www.filamentality.com/ Knowledge Network Explorer was developed by Southern Bell Company as a resource for teachers and librarians.  Information can be found on e-rate, available grants, videoconferencing, webquests and lesson plans.  Teo of the most popular destinations on their site are Blue Web’N which is an online library of Internet sites categorized by subject and grade level, and Filamentality which allows users to create online web activities like hotlists, scavenger hunts and webquests by simply filling in the blanks. Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsh.org/ This site serves as an online resource to assist teachers in providing collaborative, online, project-based experiences to students in social studies, particularly in global awareness.  The site offers a "bank" of over 900 collaborative projects that have been done by other teachers.  They are organized by topic and grade level.  It also offers a discussion board, resource link and online expeditions.  It provides a link to schools who would participate in video conferencing from all around the world. and our state-sponsored web portal, www.alex.state.al.us to find out about happenings within my state. Teacher Management Tools http://www.4teachers.org Teacher Communication http://www.schoolnotes.com Sites for Teachers http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html Classroom Connect http://www.classroom.net/home.asp THE Journal http://www.thejournal.com/ Educational Photos http://www.pics4learning.com Virtual Field Trips http://www.virtualblackboard.com Virtual Museums http://www.exploratorium.com Creating WeQuests http://www.filamentality.com Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide Open Source Educational Platform http://www.logicampus.com/index.php/welcome A highly qualified teacher http://www.nea.org/esea/qualification/teacher/hqt22.html Microsoft's Education Site http://www.microsoft.com/education Apple's Education Site http://ali.apple.com/ Intel Education http://www97.intel.com/education/teach/index.htm The Gates Foundation- Education grants http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Education/ProfessionalDevelopment/default.htm Standards Michigan Technology Standards http://alapt3.ed.uab.edu/files/Teacher%20Standards-Web%20Post-Final-July%202003.doc http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Technology_11594_7.htm NEAs take on NCLB http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0203/scoop.html NETS for Teachers http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html Texas Technology Standards http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/ch123.html#s1231 Lesson Plans to national standards http://www.marcopolo-education.org International and State Standards http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/technology-cluster/chapter7/deluxe.html Assessment RubiStar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Build your own rubrics. Lesson Plans LessonPlanZ.com http://lessonplanz.com/ This site just stuck with the lesson plans.  It¹s best feature is the ability to search by keyword and grade level at the same time, although a search for ³Art 9-12² got me a lot of lessons that were either not high school specific or included words like ³Arthur²  and ³Heart.²  If the search results are sketchy, you can always browse by subject orgrade to find something useful. Lesson Plans http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html New York Time's Daily Lesson Plan http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19990304thursday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons Educational Technology Journal of Technology and Teacher Education http://www.aace.org/pubs/jtate/default.htm The International Society for Technology in Education http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2004/ EasyTech http://www.learning.com/ Instructional Technology Research Online http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/links/k12.html WebQuest http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ This is the best place to go if you are interested in learning how to create webquests or if you need to find a webquest that has already been created. Connected University http://cu.classroom.com/logon.asp SMART Technologies http://www.smarttech.com/education/index.asp Create a multimedia rich classroom. TechLearning http://www.techlearning.com/ A resource for education technology leaders Technology and Learning Magazine http://www.techlearning.com/ Highly Interactive Computing In Education http://www.hice.org/ EDTECH Newsgroup- A group for technology directors and coordinators http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/ Distance Learning Resources http://teams.lacoe.edu/ The Transformation of Distance Education to Distributed Learning http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/docs/distlearn/index.html Assistive Technology http://www.closingthegap.com/ Seeking Common Ground: Our Conflicting Viewpoints about Learning and Technology http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/docs/common/ A paper by Steve Alessi Education in Cyber City http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/docs/cyber/index.html Looney Tunes Teach the Internet http://www.warnerbros.com/ltti/ Tech Learning http://www.techlearning.com  I also read our state department of education website (in particular the technology initiatives information) Linux, the open source operating system http://www.redhat.com/ Compare Palms and PocketPCs http://www.palmone.com/us/products/compare/palmos-vs-pocketpc.html Computer Software Tutorials http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ The Concord Consortium http://www.concord.org/ The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. We create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies. Our primary goal in all our work is digital equity -- improving learning opportunities for all students. Internet 4 Classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com After being given this website in another class I started to incorporate it into my lessons with the older students.  It is helpful because there are PowerPoint presentations that help students learn how to use different Windows programs such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom http://www.marcopolo-education.com Marco Polo is a consortium of national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.  This web portal provides free, high-quality online lesson plans, web links and interactive student activities all tied to national standards in each of the subject areas. The New York Times on the Web Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents.  Teachers can search the extensive database of lessons plans that cover topics in every subject matter.  Each of these lessons is extremely detailed and begins with students reading an online article that was published in the New York Times newspaper, completing discussion questions, and continuing their learning with classroom, home and extension activities. California Cyber Guide http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html . A high school language arts cyberguide is on http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html . Another link is http://ccsd.net/schools/paradise/grades/specialists/DoyleWebHTML/page7.html . Science Discovery School http://www.discoveryschool.com Sheep Brain Dissection- an in-depth look at brains and memory http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/braindissection/ StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers (K- 4) http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html This Internet site, contains general astronomy and space exploration information for children young children. Activities, most of which are interactive, are included. Our Solar System: The Planets and Their Motion (K-4) http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/planets/index.html Take a further look at the planets by clicking on the pictures. A planet's year is the time it takes to revolve around the Sun. A planet's day is the time it takes to rotate about its own axis... Learning Planet Sizes (K-2) http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/planetsizes.html In this activity, learners use the concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to, in order to classify student height, object size, and planet size. The NASA Space Science Curriculum Standards Quilt (K-12) http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov/ Provides fast access to lesson plans aligned with the National Science Education Standards. NASA Spacelinks http://spacelink.nasa.gov/ Environmental Science and Technology http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/ ColorLab http://colorlab.wickline.org/colorblind/colorlab/ It is hard for someone with normal vision to imagine what it would be like to be colorblind.  In seventh grade we study the eye and how we perceive things.  What I liked about this website is that it shows a color palette how a person with normal vision would see it.  Then by using the dropdown menu you can change the colors according to different types of colorblindness.  This way students have some idea about what colors a person who is colorblind would not be able to see.  I know, as a child I always wondered what colors a person couldn’t see if they were colorblind.  This website helps to put it all into perspective and fun to play with. DiscoverySchool.com http://school.discovery.com/ This site wants to be all things to all teachers.  Link lists for subject specific educational pages, lesson plans, word puzzle makers, book stores, etc. can all be found here.  Sometimes the content can be a little limited and it seems to be maintained by a variety of different people, but there is still a sense of continuity from one section to another. Smithsonian Education http://smithsonianeducation.org/ Naturally this site includes lesson plans, but it also has a plethora of interactive sections.  You can best find what you¹re looking for by ³Browsing by Topic,² and then picking your desired subject area.  I expected to just see a bunch of articles, but someone actually put some effort into this site.  I might just have to use it in my next web quest. Input Data like Scientists http://www.globe.gov/globe_flash..html Chemistry4Kids http://www.chem4kids.com/ This site is a little more serious than the other 2, but is has lots of graphics and comics to help keep the kids attention. We have also created worksheets to go along with this site for the students to search the site for the answers. How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Exploratorium http://www.exploritorium.com/ Atoms Family http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/ This site is a lot of fun. It uses the Atoms Family (get it: Addams Family) to teach different aspects of chemistry. We have created worksheets for this site and the students find the answers and get to play too. Math Math http://investsmart.coe.uga.edu/C001759/ Social Studies Center for Technology and Teacher Education: Content Areas: Social Studies http://teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/ Oregon Trail http://www.42explore.com/oregon.htm This site has many resources to offer on Westward Expansion and Pioneers.  In addition to a brief background about the Oregon trail, it also provides links to other sites created by teachers and students regarding the Oregon Trail.  This site also provides lesson ideas that link specific websites for students to visit than gives and assignment that requires students to construct a project using the information that is gleaned from the site.  There are several WebQuest links that are offered as well. Social studies, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/cfapps/free/displaysubject.cfm?sid=9&subid=93 The History Channel http://www.historychanel.com Iraqi War Blog http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/ GoKnow- Share and explore Concept Maps http://www.goknow.com/Products/PiCoMap/ Software New Century Education Corporation http://www.ncecorp.com/ Provides instructional software to help students of all ages and ability levels achieve proficiency in core curriculum subjects. FTP upload software Windows: WS_FTP - http://download.com.com/3000-2160-10252208.html?tag=lst-0-7 (there are many others at http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=ftp&tg=dl-20&search=+Go%2521+ if you don't like this one) Mac: Fetch - http://download.com.com/3000-2151-10182446.html?tag=lst-0-5 This program is free to educators. It is by far the best program out there. Download freeware and shareware http://www.download.com 30 Day free trial for Inspiration http://www.inspiration.com/freetrial/index.cfm Kidspiration- the kids version of Inspiration http://www.kidspiration.com/ Tiger Direct http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=31 Order PC kits. Mac Shareware http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/HyperArchive.html There are many Science and Math programs located on that site at: http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/sci/HyperArchive.html http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ http://www.macupdate.com/ http://www.macorchard.com/ Palm Software: http://www.freewarepalm.com/ Any Software: http://zdnet.com.com/2001-2001-0.html?legacy=zddl 1st Page http://www.evrsoft.com/ A free HTML editor alot like FrontPage and DreamWeaver, but with out the GUI interface.  It has a great tutorial within the program as well. APA Software (Windows) http://download.com.com/3000-2056-8111489.html Download.com's Education section http://download.com.com/2001-2041-0.html?tag=dir Download other education software http://www.tucows.com http://download.cnet.com The Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/ To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Evaluation of software http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/search/index.asp FuturePaint, free art software for the Mac http://www.stazsoftware.com/futurepaint/ Web Tools Links to help you create web pages     * Net Mechanic- http://www.netmechanic.com/     * HTML 4.01- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ (for the advanced designers)     * Free Online Web Tools- http://www.webpage-tools.com/ Free Web Hosting Sites http://www.teachertrac.com/free_web_hosting_sites.htm http://www.edheads.org/ This site is very interactive. It also creates a test that can be printed out to use as a grade for the lesson. There are four different lessons on simple machines. Store your bookmarks online http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com There are several sites that illustrate the power of javascript. I have simply copied the code from these and pasted them in some of the web sites I have designed. Here are a few resources: http://mavweb.net/javascript.asp http://javascript.internet.com/ http://www.javascript.com/ http://www.javascriptkit.com/cutpastejava.shtml http://freewarejava.com/ Porting Mac to Windows http://www.opendarwin.org/ Porting Windows to Mac http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwine/ WebMonkey This is good for reference.  The other is http://www.htmlgoodies.com/.  It's more of a tutorial site than a reference site like WebMonkey, but it has some really good info on it too.  My students also discovered sites like http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/ and http://www.flashbuttons.com/ and http://www.freebuttons.com/ which basically give you dynamic coding that you can copy and paste into your website to add things like animated menus, mouse trails and buttons.  Skill and drill research http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/coaching_tools/promprac_reresearch.html http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as7what.htm http://www.wfu.edu/~cunningh/fourblocks/research.htm http://www.collegenews.org/x2836.xml Creating Web Pages http://www.w3schools.com/ http://www.bravenet.com/resources/html/index.php http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/ Using java, you can make your own calculators ( http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut152.shtml ), illustrate the number of people living on earth ( http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/worldpop.shtml ), calculating what a Euro is worth ( http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/europecal.shtml ), and converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and Kelvin or visa versa ( http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/tempconvert.shtml ). You can use these in your classroom to create interactive lessons. You can put these on a web page that is located on your computer. Students could visit them and use the resources for education. It doesn't take a computer genius to use them because all you have to do is cut and paste the code. Here is a funny web site that shows you the capabilities of javascript. http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/Telecollaboration/problemsolving.html This one was introduced to me when I took an earlier class, CMP 520.  What I really liked about this site is that it explains the different kinds of telecollaboration activities and then provides links to those activities.  I have already used one activity that was great for my fairy tale unit!  All of these sites are project based and truly require students to construct their learning in a collaborative, student centered model.     * How to Learn More About a Site http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity4.html     * Web Site Comparisons http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity1.html     * Compare Information to Non-Internet Source http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity2.html Virtual Ink- presentation products including interactive whiteboards. http://www.mimio.com/ Eduhound's Hotlist, a place for teachers to have a free home page. http://www.eduhound.com/hotlist/ Animated Graphics http://www.brainpop.com Make movies with your Computer iMovie intro and tutorials: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/ and http://www.uvm.edu/cit/tutorials/video/imovie/?Page=default.html Physical Education PE Central located at http://www.pecentral.com. This website is my favorite. It gives teachers a lot of new ideas, activities, units, games, and concepts to make PE more fun yet educational. It also has a forum for teachers to talk and relate ideas on a regular basis. Sports Media located at http://www.sports-media.org/. This website provides a place where athletes, coaches, teachers, students and instructors are able to exchange their ideas about PE and sports. They provide lesson plans, and coaching tips, and a database of articles and information to help any professional or non-professional person. Physical Education Lesson Page located at http://members.tripod.com/~pazz/lesson.html.. This page provides a variety of lessons, games, and activities for every possible unit. The lesson plans are new and interesting games that help keep students motivated. AAHPERD website located at http://www.aahperd.org. This is the official website of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The website provides up-to-date information of standards, national and state acts and provisions, and grant opportunities. It is a great site for professionals to use to find current information. Art The Incredible Art Department http://www.incredibleart.org Aaron Smith's Art Lessons http://www.geocities.com/smith_art/lessons.html Artists with special needs http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/peeves/petpeeves.html Educational Games Educational Games http://www.funbrain.com Alternative for Graphic Organizers http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic73.htm State Web Sites Alabama Learning Exchange http://alex.state.al.us ALEX, a project of the Alabama Department of Education, is designed to compile many types of educational materials and information into a time-saving one-stop resource for teachers and administrators in Alabama.  It includes all the state courses of study, lesson plans tied to the state standards, web resources, listservs, forums, as well as technology tutorials, reserach and templates. Los Angeles County Office of Education, TEAMS http://teams.lacoe.edu/ Texas Education Network Classroom Resources http://www.tenet.edu/academia/main.html Focus on ADHD- Children's rights http://www.focusonadhd.com/ Donate a computer http://www.nsc.org/ehc/epr2/DONATE.HTM   In Kind International http://www.giftsinkind.org/donate/ Your school can also register to be on their donation list. Children's Search- Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com Aaron's Blog http://homepage.mac.com/blakeemrys/essay/ http://www.ask.com This is one of the ways to get to Ask Jeeves.  I love this site for students as a research tool.  It has filters built into it that help assure appropriate content will be all that the students are exposed to.  Also, this site gives other possibilities on the right hand side that help broaden the search criteria.  One of my favorites is http://www.kathyschrock.com/  this site provides a wealth of resources for teachers at all grade levels to effectively integrate technology into their curriculum. National Staff Development Council standards http://www.nsdc.org/standards/index.cfm http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2003/03/update.html.  St. Patrick's Day is coming and here is a site that generates work sheets for math. The site has a St. Patrick's Day theme and it allows you to use technology to themed math worksheets. You can find the site at: http://www.kidzone.ws/math/patrick/index.htm http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on standards. Look up http://www.nysatl.nysed.gov/mathstand.html . This has only one technology standard: Standard 5:   Technology Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs. They go into more detail on the standard on http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa5.pdf . Happy reading! Project Adventure, experiential curriculum http://www.pa.org/   MovieMaker intro and tutorials: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/HowToMovieMaker.aspx and http://www.saskschools.ca/resources/techref/moviemaker/movie.html Add-ons for PowerPoint http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/default.mspx Bridget's Favorite Sites I love the sites www.rhlschool.com, www.nebo.edu, www.enchantedlearning.com, http://presentations.animfactory.com/ http://www.esc20.k12.tx.us/etprojects/formats/k_2.html, http://sunsite.berkeley..edu/KidsClick!/ Florida Information Resource Network Instructional Resources http://www.firn.edu/instruct/k12/ Gensortium- Access a computer remotely from a Windows Computer http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html LINK #1    http://www.irsc.org/ Title: Internet Resources for Special Children This site’s home page begins by listing a directory of items to be searched. It lists categories such as adaptive equipment, autistic disorders, visually impaired, diseases, laws, and the list goes on.  This site is an information only site that seems best suited for parents of children with disabilities or teachers that have special education students in their classes. Many times teachers are told that one of their students has a particular disorder. This site is great for searching on information about the disorder and the best ways to handle that student. Of particular interest for parents is the directory on recreation and sports. This directory gives listings for camps, paralympics, Special Olympics, and other activities. The strength of this site is the amount of information available; the drawback is the fact that you have to keep clicking from one link to another to finally get to the information you wanted to find.   Link #2    http://www.mindplay.com/resource.html Title:  MINDPLAY Taken from the MindPlay Website: MINDPLAY® is an independent, educational software development company founded by CEO Judith Bliss in 1986.  Both Judith and her son have struggled with learning disabilities and understand what kinds of teaching methods work with special needs learners. Of the two sites I have chosen to write about, this one is the best as far as how to teach to the special needs learners. This site contains a free online reading assessment, some free demo software, and free mini games. This site is not just about selling software, it also contains definitions of learning disabilities and links to other websites to help the teacher and parent. Some of the software includes lessons on science, reading, math, language arts, social studies, bi-lingual software, and educational games. This site is more useful than the one above and no drawbacks were noticed.     * Create and Manipulate Information http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity3.html     * Compare Two Sources http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity5.html     * Professional vs. Amateur Coverage http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activity6.html http://teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/ Center for Technology and Teacher Education - This site is dedicated to providing instructional and web resources to teachers in each of the various subject areas.  The lessons were organized either alphabetically, by social studies methods or by content standards.  I surfed through several of the lessons and found several of them to be very easy to follow and encouraged the use of the Internet and primary source documents on the web.  Unfortunately, I also found several lessons had bad ,inks and missing information.  There was a pretty cool collection no primary source documents organized for students to be able to surf and gather information that was interesting as well.  I thought it might be useful for teachers who were stuck and couldn't get ideas started about how to integrate the Internet into their teaching.   Closing the Gap http://www.closingthegap.com/ This site provides featured products, a newsletter each month to which you can subscribe and forums in which you can ask questions about how others are meeting the needs of special needs students. National Endowment for the Humanities http://edsitement.neh.gov/ Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections website http://iecc.org Class Size Research http://www.osba.org/hotopics/classize/states.htm MacAddict http://www.macaddict.com/ Syllabus Web http://www.syllabus.com/ Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students http://www.fromnowon.org/text/grazing.html The Staff Development and Adult Learning Site http://staffdevelop.org/