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• Crosspoint Anti Racism
  Crosspoint Anti RacismAn international, searchable collection of briefly annotated links covering such topics as anti-racism/anti-fascism, migrants, anti-Semitism/Shoah, migrants/diversity, indigenous people, Jewish resources/Shoah, human rights/refugees, disability resources, Roma/Sinti/Travellers, gays & lesbians, and women's rights. Can be browsed by country or by topic.
• National 4-H Web
  National 4-H Web Begun in the early 1900s to provide educational clubs for rural children, 4-H (head, heart, hands, health) has expanded to urban areas and includes non-agricultural activities. On this site, 4-H clubs can be located by state and county.
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
  National Center for Learning DisabilitiesThe NCLD Web site provides facts, news, resources, and links for persons with learning disabilities and their families. Extensive information on issues such as LD evaluation, legislation, outreach and educational programs, public policy, and legal rights for the learning disabled.
• Activeclassroom
  ActiveClassroom is a web-based classroom management and curriculum delivery system that closes the gap between school and home. It provides teachers with the ability to incorporate web-based resources affiliated with adopted textbooks, state testing guidelines or other educational sites directly to their individual classrooms.
• Adaptive Technology for the Internet
  Subtitled Making Electronic Resources Accessible, this is the complete text in HTML of librarian Barbara Mates' 1999 book, put on the Web by ALA Editions, the American Library Association's publishing arm. Here, you can find advice from a librarian who's been there and done that on such technologies as screen readers, Braille screens, voice recognition systems, hearing assistance devices, and HTML coding for accessibility.
• African Music and Dance Ensemble
  The Ensemble broadens access to knowledge about Africa's rich cultural heritage across the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ensemble has taught the skill, artistry and philosophy that inform the African music and dance traditions.
• Amazing Picture Machine
  Search for pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet.Excellent collection and easily searchable, with an annotated list of good photograph and image sites and a list of the types of pictures in the database.Good for educational uses, from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
• American Folklife Center
  The American Folklife Center, which houses correspondence, artifacts, sound recordings, and photographs documenting folk arts, has showcased a number of its collections online.
• Animated Gifs, Backgrounds, Graphics, Icons, Sounds, Movies
  Great collection backgrounds, animated GIFs, icons, and other small graphics for student Web page designers. Additionally there are more than 150 sound files in WAV and MIDI formats and a very few movies in QuickTime and AVI formats.
• Artsedge
  ArtsEdge is an online resource center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Education and administered by the Kennedy Center Education Department. Its mission is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum.
• Ask Dr. Math
  Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
• AskA+ Locator
  AskA+ LocatorThis directory of online question answering services (AskA) is "designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet." Each service listing includes identification information (e.g., publisher, e-mail address, contact name, and links), scope, target audience, and a general description of the service. Searchable and browsable.
• Bridging the Home and School: A Case Study
  In today's society, there are many new technologies that educators have at their disposal to use both inside and outside of theclassroom. One such technology was the focus of the first stage of an on-going project on the "open school" model.
• Building a Digital Workforce
  Taking action to close the IT skills gap in the current and future workforce is a critical challenge for business, labor, education, government, and the nonprofit sector that requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. This report sets out NPA's Digital Economic Opportunity Committee's recommendations for increasing the number of U.S.
• Building Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs
  Building Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs Offers an array of publications on components of comprehensive school improvement, professional development, community engagement, selection of classroom instructional approaches, and resource allocations, among other topics.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  "This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."For teachers, use the Curriculum Areas link for helpful hints in finding books in a variety of subject areas, plus lessons plans and display ideas. The site is focused on preK - 8th grade educator's needs.
• Children's Media Culture in the New Millennium
  : Mapping the Digital Landscape Kathryn C. Montgomery A description of the technological, demographic, and market forces shaping the new digital media culture, and the rich array of Web sites being created for children and teens.
• Chinatown Banquet
  Chinatown Banquet A community-based public art and education project based on the metaphor of a Chinese banquet raising awareness about the history, culture and conditions of Boston Chinatown, the city's most densely populated residential neighborhood.
• Classroom Support
  Classroom SupportThese resources help education professionals assess skill levels for both teachers and students, and set grade-appropriate goals for students. This section also includes links to education information, provides teachers with ideas for technology-based lesson plans, and includes the tools necessary for creating appropriate use policies for these new technologies.
• Computer Literacy Course Tutorial
  Computer Literacy Course TutorialHalifax Regional CAP Association 2001This is a course, on line, and also on a cd that takes teachers through the basics of the Internet.These materials have been developed by the Standardised Materials Training Team of the Halifax Regional CAP Association.
• Discovery School.com
  DiscoverySchool.com is part of the Discovery Communication, Inc. The website provides teaching materials for teachers, resources for students, and advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.
• EduHound.com
  Extensive collection of briefly annotated links for teachers, administrators, and parents, organized into categories, or browse an alphabetical subject/keyword list. Includes specific subjects (animals, science, etc.) as well as specialized educational resources (home schooling, standards&assessment, etc.).
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  Time-tested, librarian-created guide to copyright, intellectual property, fair use, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, bias and resource evaluation. Excellent.
• Filters and Filtering
  The Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association has pulled together a lot of information on their site that deals with the filtering issue as well as providing links to more information, including a summary and the full text of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), information on the Neighborhood Children___s Internet Protection Act (NCIPA), news articles, and more. This is a site to guide the individual teacher.
• Finding Information on the Internet
  The best introduction to Internet searching on the Web. Be sure to check out the section on how to choose search tools - there is an excellent chart comparing the features of the major Web search engines and directories.
• Getsmarter.org
  Getsmarter.org, an initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, gives students, parents and teachers a free and private way to compare science and math skills to students worldwide. It also provides warm-up practice quizzes in both math and science.
• Google Labs
  This experimental site from the Google search engine "showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time." Play with keyboard shortcuts, telephone searching, a glossary (thesaurus), and more.http://labs.google.com/.
• Isometric Drawing Tool
  Isometric Drawing ToolUse this interactive mathlet to make dynamic drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes.
• LD Online
  LD Online has a special section on how technology can diminish barriersfor children.
• Learning styles assessment
  Learning Styles AssessmentRead the word(s) in the left column and pick the description that best expresses how you usually handle each situation.This site contains a matrix to help the user to assess his or her learning styles.
• Library Spot
  Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, reference desks, and other student help sites.
• Map Machine
  This is an online resource to show maps of many kinds from all over the world, and there are other resources on the site that are printable.
• Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place
  The Mathematics Teacher Education Resource Place is a website dedicated to supporting and improving the preparation of mathematics teachers (preK-16) by providing on-line resources, hot links, and a professional forum for those engaged in the teaching of mathematics content and methods courses, or in the field supervision of beginning teachers.
• Museums Online
  Museums OnlineMuseumStuff.com is the one-stop shop for museum information, where Internetusers can discover and explore thousands of museums and related resourcesaround the country. This search engine, which features a "broad range ofmuseum 'stuff,'" offers links to various museums, virtual exhibitions,museum events, fun and game sites for secondary and post-secondary students,and educational links.The museum links are arranged in three separatecategories -- art, history, and science -- and can be accessed from the mainpage.
• National Archives and Record Administration: Access to Archival
  Online access to a selection of nearly 50 million historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics. that contains close to 50 million historical records, culled from 350 archival sources from 20 different federal agencies.
• National Gallery of Arts for Kids
  National Gallery of Arts for Kids. The website welcomes you with a visual presentation of pictures and has a list of upcoming programs, films and events for kids.
• National Hurricane Center
  Get satellite imagery and radar maps of the latest storms at this informative and potentially life-saving resource.
• National Severe Storm Laboratory's Weather Room
  This page provides general information for kids, parents, and teachers. Elementary school coloring books are available for printing and use for weather education.
• New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap
  New State Fact Sheets on the Technology Gap-Updated data available for all 50 states on how each state is fairing in addressing the Digital Divide.
• New York City: After the Fall
  This site combines audio, text, sound, and motion beautifully. It is a thoughtful presentation about the psychological aftermath of September 11th in New York City.
• No Child Left Behind
  Signed into law on January 8, 2002, the No Child Left Behind Bill will significantly impact the terms and conditions of primary and secondary education in America, especially where it comes to how federal monies earmarked for education are allocated.
• Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans
  TCP___s groundbreaking briefing examines and makes recommendations about Internet content for underserved Americans (e.g., low-income, limited-literacy, non-English-speaking).
• Research It!
  - dictionary, thesaurus, famous quotes, maps, translation .
• The Anacostia Museum and Center for African-American History and Culture
  Focuses on modern African-American history and culture.
• The Braille Bug
  The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about braille, and to encourage literacy among all children. AFB--a national nonprofit founded in 1921 and the organization to which Helen Keller devoted more than 40 years of her life--addresses the critical issues, such as literacy, that are facing America's ten million blind or visually impaired children and adults.
• The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools
  The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban SchoolsResults Obtained from Three-Year New York City Evaluation;Randomized Field Trials ConductedThis is a resource to help teachers, parents and the learning community have a perspective from a research base on the use of vouchers in education.
• The Exploratorium
  This is a very rich web site which is from a learning place that has a variety of resources for teachers, students, and parents. There are the ten cool sites, and there are webcasts, and all kinds of learning involving sports , physics and lots of science and math.
• The LOC.gov Wise Guide
  This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and useful resources available from the nation's library and one of the most popular Web sites of the federal government. The federal government and the Library of Congress, in particular, maintain and develop hundreds of Web sites.
• The Olympic Games Theme Collection
  Olympic Themes The Olympic Games Theme Collection featuring sites about past and present Olympians, Athens, the different competitions, mascots, mascots, collectibles, doping, security, the Olympic Truce, and much more. New content added every week.
• What's that stuff?
  Grades: 4 - 12. Synopsis: Warning: After reading this web site, you might not ever be able to enjoy Cheez Whiz on your broccoli again.
• With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
  Presents more than 80 photos, letters and newspapers manuscripts, maps, music, & films related to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The online exhibit is organized in three parts: previous court cases that laid the ground work for the decision, the argument underpinning the ruling & the public's initial response, & the aftermath. (LOC) .