Information and Curricular Resources
Skillful Educators (Edutopia, George Lucas Education Foundation) includes Mentoring, Ongoing Professional Development, Teacher Preparation, and Technology Professional Development

McREL's Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks is a browsable and searchable database of content standards for K-12 curriculum.

Big6 Matrix: Use the Internet with Big6 Skills to Achieve Standards links the Big6 Skills to information literacy and educational technology standards, and provides both basic and advanced activities to help teachers appreciate their applicability to research on the Internet.

Blue Web'N Applications Library is a searchable database of several thousand outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators categorizes curriculum resources as well as providing critical evaluation tools, assessment rubrics and links to Kathy's presentations and slide shows for teaching about using the Internet effectively.

California Learning Resource Network provides reviews of resources to support California standards in English, Math, Science and Social Science. Resources include video, software, web sites, and CD-ROM. A lesson builder is available to members.

Resources for School Library Media Centers provides links to sites that define contemporary literacy standards and support student learning through the development of research and information problem-solving skills.

Online Learning and Projects
Practitioner's Guide to "Designing Instruction for Web-Based Distance Learning" deals with one of the main issues of distance education: how the impact of teaching a course on the Internet changes the interaction between student and teacher, as well as between student and student.

Electronic Collaboration: a Practical Guide for Educators identifies a variety of collaborative activities and environments, discusses tools to facilitate electronic collaboration.

Challenge 2000 Project-Based Learning with Multimedia Web Site describes an innovative program that harnesses the power of multimedia to engage students in challenging learning activities. Students complete projects that draw on real-world information and research methods and design them as sophisticated multimedia presentations.

Free Projects
Teacher's Guide: Integrating the Web into Your Curriculum features interdisciplinary pathways through MidLink magazine and ongoing projects. There are clear connections between the content of the web page and curriculum standards.

ThinkQuest programs provide a highly motivating opportunity for students and educators to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create web based learning materials and teach others.

Kidlink: Global Networking for Youth is a collection of listservs (mailing lists) dedicated to supporting conversation and projects among youth around the world.

Global SchoolNet's Internet Projects Registry was created for busy teachers who are searching for online projects for classroom integration.

Subscription Based Projects
Web-and-Flow Interactive is a fill-in-the-blanks Web site based on the work of Tom March and Bernie Dodge that guides you through creating your own web-based activities for learners.

IEARN (International Education and Resource Network) Excerpt: Participants may join existing structured on-line projects, or work with others internationally to create and facilitate their own projects to fit their own particular classroom and curriculum needs.

Professional Growth
Professional Development Online sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, offers courses on a variety of current topics pertinent to using technology in the classroom and school improvement.

How to Find Online Courses sponsored by the Distance Learning Resource Network

Resources selected by Ferdi Serim and compiled by Janet Murray for Information Technology for Learning: No School Left Behind (Big6 Associates, 2003) November, 2002. Last updated: June 6, 2003 .