TEACHING MATERIAL - PART 1: MATERIALS DIRECTLY AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE
Teaching material is arranged by skill or content area and is downloadable. Material is in Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf), Hyper Text Mark-Up Language format (html), or text file format (txt), as denoted by the suffixes in parentheses.The skill/content areas are:
TEACHING MATERIAL - PART 2: MATERIALS AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE
(Acknowledgement: Many of the links in this section and the following two sections were featured in MacWorld magazine.)
FunBrain
Offers interactive games for children pre-K through high school, organized
by age and by subject. Helpful hints and links for parents and teachers.
FunSchool.com
Educational games for children in U.S. grade levels pre-K through 6. (Requires
Java and Macromedia Flash.)
School
Discovery
Links to educational games and adventures, history and geography articles,
and lesson plans for teachers and home schooling parents.
School
Discovery Lesson Plans
Lesson plans on a variety of subjects for U.S. grade levels K through 12.
Many lessons are based on video tapes that can be ordered online.
This section contains the following: on-line versions of academic articles authored or co-authored by Max Woollerton and previously published elsewhere; supplementary material for articles published elsewhere; papers that are unpublished elsewhere. The most recent publications are listed first.
This paper was originally written in September/October 2000 and revised for publication in October 2001. The following links are to supplementary files:
[NB. The video clip 'Trevor's Summer' is too big to store on this website. It's available on cd-rom by emailing the author.]
This paper was originally written in March/April 2000 and revised for publication in August 2001. The following links are to supplementary files:
This paper was originally written in Spring 2002 and revised for publication in March 2003. The following links are to supplementary files:
DISTANCE LEARNING
Educating.net
An extensive index of free and commercial distance learning resources for
all ages, including continuing education and professional retraining.
Free-ed.net
A clearinghouse for free courses and tutorials on the Internet, covering
topics from business to the sciences. Mostly for adults, but the site
also includes links for homeschoolers.
Homeschool.com
Everything for the home schooler, including how to get started, message
boards, and online education.
The
Distance Learning Resource Network
Resources for anyone interested in finding out about distance education.
From the U.S. Department of Education Star Schools Program. Includes an
annotated list of distance learning courses for grade levels K through
college.
Yahoo
An extensive directory of distance learning resources, for K through university
and beyond.
Big
Chalk
Educational resources for parents, teachers, and children. HomeworkCentral,
a database of online reference materials, can be searched by subject or
grade level.
Clearinghouse
Online
The California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse catalogs educational
resources with the help of trained evaluators from the California school
system. You can search the index by specific academic standards or by entering
descriptive terms.
CyberSurfari
Teach children how to navigate the Internet with a surfing contest. Participants
compete for prizes by searching the Internet for clues.
Education
Index
An annotated index of thousands of educational Web sites. Browse in (over
50) subject areas or in grade levels, pre-K through college. Links to parenting,
distance learning, and continuing education online resources.
Education
World
Including an extensive database listing 100,000+ educational Web sites,
organized by subject area, with a built-in search engine. Resources for
parents and educators, including links to helpful articles on distance
learning.
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
U.S. government site. Links to hundreds of federally supported educational
resources on the Internet. The site is searchable by subject.
GirlTech
Intended to encourage girls to use technology, on and off the Web. Links
to other sites, a section on girl's sports, and monitored chat areas.
Skewl
Sites
Skewl Sites has links to hundreds of educational Web destinations, with
capsule summaries of each site. The search function hasn't yet been implemented,
but the catalog is logically organized according to subject and grade level.
SurfNet
Kids
Reviews and ratings for hundreds of child-friendly Web sites covering topics
from the arts to science.
The
Gateway
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Gateway to Educational
Materials (GEM). An extensive online database of over 10,000 free and commercial
educational websites. Searchable by subject or grade level, pre-K through
adult, or browsable by subject or keyword).
The
U.S. Department of Education Internet Safety
Shows how to use the Internet safely using free online resources from the
Department of Justice and other agencies. Includes an Interactive guide
that uses concrete examples to show children how to behave on the Net.
WWWRRR
An interactive online tool that lets schools develop their own Web sites.
Also "InternetBasics: Fundamentals for Teachers," an online training
course for teachers, and web-based educational software for children.
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