Education Indexes
ERIC Clearinghouses
WebRings for Educators
Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups
Technology Resources for Teachers
Specialty directories narrow your focus for a more efficient search.
Articles, news, lesson plans, contests, and links designed for K-12 educators and administrators.
A wide variety of science education links.
Links to one of the best directories for education -- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Also includes professional organizations for educators, general resources, environmental education and students resources.
Science, social studies, and history links, including the Learning Studio and the Exploratorium.
Includes the American School Directory, a web site for 106,000 k-12 schools in the U.S. and AskEric: a highly useful and comprehensive educational site containing full text ERIC digests, bibliographies, and ERIC resources.
The Awesome Library organizes 12,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It contains a directory, an index, and a search engine.
Includes links to Pathways to School Improvement, Cyberschool Magazine, Environmental Education Network, Clearinghouse for Teachers, The Teachers Network, Classroom Ideas Forum, K-12 Science Resource, Hyper-index, Resources for Parents, Educators and Publishers, AccessExcellence-- a networking resource for biology teachers, and Educom for Information technology issues.
The Awesome Library organizes 12,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It contains a directory, an index, and a search engine.
A comprehensive annotated collection of education sites including searchable ERIC sites, national associations for education, education statistics, the World Lecture Hall and more.
The proliferation of computers in elementary schools has opened an entirely net toolbox for K-12 teachers.
Compiled as part of the Ocean Planet exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution, offering a searchable database of annotated records and full text materials including lesson plans, lab outlines, and reference articles.
A searchable directory including School Reports, a profile of K-12 schools nationwide. Also search Links for Kids, School Library Resources, Virtual Field Trips, and other Web Directories with a link to the 50 Most Useful Sites.
Annotated lists of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents which are searchable by state and subject area.
A comprehensive index to the best curriculum sources on the Web. This is a "must have" for your bookmarks.
This site compiled by Tracy Marks has links to best educational reference sites, educational resources for teachers K-12, subject catalogs, evaluating and citing electronic sources, and interactive collaborative sites.
Educator's Guide to the Web provides a comprehensive framework for teachers to understand the web and integrate it into their classrooms. This site was created as an online supplement to the book to allow readers easy access to the WWW resources cited in the book.
Illinois Learning Standards Benchmark Grid
A clickable database of Illinois standards by grade level
and subject area. Teachers may see examples of
lessons that support these standards and also submit their own
lessons.
An international school web registry site which can be
searched by state.
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html
The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. Includes high school and college level courses in every subject area.
- What is ERIC?
The ERIC database is the world's largest education database containing almost a million records of educational documents and journal articles, including abstracts of 6,000 published books. Over 900 journals are indexed in the ERIC database. The ERIC database consists of two files:
(1) Resources in Education (RIE) --found in micro form which include research reports, curriculum guides, conference papers, program descriptions, books and other documents, and
(2) Current Index to Journals in Education--index to journal article abstracts.How do I access it?
ERIC documents are government documents and can be accessed by the public at Loyola University's Mallinckrodt Library at 1041 N. Ridge Rd. in Wilmette. When formulating a query, in the electronic ERIC database at New Trier, notice that an ERIC number will appear at the top of the citation and abstract. EJ (+6 digit number) will refer to a journal source. Check with our Interlibrary Loan Specialist
at the circulation desk.Can ERIC be accessed from my home computer?
The ERIC databases also accessible on the Internet at: http://www.aspensys.com/eric/searchdb.htmlAskERIC, an electronic question-answering service and virtual library begun in 1992, all linked through one system wide site. (http://www.aspensys.com/eric)
The ERIC Document Reproduction Service(http://edrs.com) now provides on-demand electronic delivery of many ERIC documents. Approximately 80 percent of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present are available for online ordering and electronic delivery through the EDRS Web site. In the future, all government sponsored documents from 1966 to the present will be available full text electronically.
The ERIC System website has a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) place with more information about the ERIC database.
Publications and Products
The ERIC Clearinghouses analyze and synthesize literature in their
areas of expertise and create research reviews, bibliographies,
state-of-the-art studies, interpretive studies of high interest
topics, digests and other publications. Each year the clearinghouses
produce approximately 250 publications.
Special Projects
Gateway to Educational Materials
(GEM) http://geminfo.org
The GEM project is developing a standard way to describing
educational materials and assemble those descriptions in a single
union catalog, creating easy access regardless of where these
materials are found on the Internet. The goal is to provide access to
thousands of lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational
materials that exist on Web and gopher sites across the
Internet.
Virtual Reference Desk
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology (ERIC/IT)
studies ways to improve how students, educators, and parents receive
answers via the Internet and identifies tools to improve the way
services such as AskERIC
(askeric@ericir.syr.edu), the MAD Scientist Network, and the Internet
Public Library answer user questions.
Electronic
Discussion Groups
Seven clearinghouses and ACCESS ERIC host 26 listservs, which have
a total subscriber base of about 20,000 members.
This WebRing has been setup for to list and link their Individual School's Home Pages. Others are also encouraged to join as long as they are designed to be used as either a learning or teaching tool.
This web ring links together education message boards that are active and well managed.
Music education related web sites of all types. Content, discussions, resources, lesson plans, games, interactive lessons, jokes, theory, instrument specific, ALL kinds!
Includes author webrings, children, literature webrings, writers' webrings, literature webrings and archives.
A web ring for teachers and others that are interested in education.
Teacher Mailrings are the bloodstream of the Teachers.Net Community. Connect to a network of 8,000 of the world's brightest educators, connected through the magic of e-mail.
A WebRing for those interested in integrating technology into curriculum and lesson planning.
Nothing else may be written within the message page. The list server program will than add you to the list. Instructions will be sent to you via e-mail about how to post messages and how to unsubscribe. Print and save those instructions so that you can get off a list. The following are links to mailing lists for educators.
An extensive listing of subject for e-mail discussions indexed by the University of Illinois.
Links to mailing lists for distance education and to online journals, newsletters and magazines available electronically through the web, with links to searchable databases of thousands of publications.
One of the largest searchable directories of listservs related to education.
A nice set of links to mailing lists with some links to online journals and professional and scholarly conferences.
Search to find schools or classrooms in 90 countries! Almost 10,000 classrooms are now participating.
Coollist is a web-based system that allows users to create FREE mailing lists on the Coollist server.
An advertising supported, web-based list system. Anyone can start a free mailing list discussion group.
When you have problems unsubscribing from an email discussion list, try this link.
Created by Bernie Dodge, the WebQuest guru, who has developed the perfect model for integration of technology with education. See training materials and great examples for every grade level and subject area.
For teachers powering learning with technology.
The Thornburg Center is a world-renowned consulting firm that focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on three main areas: education, the corporate and financial world, and school to career. Read articles from cutting edge futurists and pragmatic curriculum designers and staff developers.
Their mission is to "harness the power of the Internet" to provide ongoing opportunities to support learners both in and outside of the school environment. GSN offers a variety of free support services to learners, but more importantly provides the "training wheels" needed to get started! GSN collaborates with individuals, schools, businesses and community organizations to design, develop, and manage hundreds of collaborative learning projects each year.
Internet links to educational technology resources from North Suburban Library System.
"Iceberg" is the ICE website where educators encourage the
development and use of computers and technology in all facets of
the educational process by assisting in the professional growth of
its members through the use of computers and technology to
distribute information statewide about computing and
technology to build a support network among
members.
The web sites collected on this page reflect the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching. They are arranged in no strict order, but tend to proceed from rather general and theoretical resources to some instructive examples of specific applications of technology to teaching and learning.
