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| Education Portals |
These sites give access to all curriculum areas. Just navigate to your own subject.
- About.com
Huge portal with human guides to 700 subjects. Navigate to the subject/topics you want. Try Education > Primary/Secondary Educators for a wide range of resources, including those for Special Education.
http://home.about.com/education/
- Academic Info: Educational Subject Directory
Locate the resources you need for academic purposes.
http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
- Awesome Library
15,000 reviewed education sites for K-12, including top 5%.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
- Big Chalk
Extensive, highly regarded US site with sections for teachers, librarians, parents; primary, middle and secondary levels. Free newsletters, updated weekly, give tech tips, top 8 sites or links on a selected theme. Access to many key resources.
http://www.proquestk12.com/
- BizEd (University of Bristol)
This is the UK's top site for business education and is packed
with useful information, tips and links. While there are
special sections for students of accounting, economics, mangement,
travel and tourism, the general sections are heloful for
any student (or teacher).
http://www.bized.co.uk
Note:
The address is now ...co.uk instead of ...ac.uk and there
have been some design changes and expansion but it is essentially
the same site--only better still.
- BlueWeb’n
A library of Blue Ribbon web sites for education, all subjects, cross-referenced. Tutorials, activities, projects, lesson plans…Updated weekly and highly regarded. Filamentality’s home.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
- BYTEachers (Association of Teachers' Websites)
The ATW is an association of web sites created by the real experts -- teachers. It recommends only quality sites and offers a variety of downloadable materials..
http://www.byteachers.org.uk
- Cikgu.Net
Malaysian education portal supporting the e-learning environment at pre-school through university levels. Now available both in English and Malay, it aims to be a repository for teaching and learning resources including tools for developing content. There is a TESL forum and a fledgling lesson plan section.
http://cikgu.net
- Discovery School
Large education portal with quality control. Apart from Kathy Schrock’s guide (see below), try Puzzlemaker, Clip Art, Cybersafari, lesson plans…
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
- Education World
‘Where educators go to learn.’ Includes lesson plan libraries. Searchable bank of 500,000 web resources
http://www.education-world.com/
- EmTech
A huge database: 15,000 + resources in 120 categories, alphabetically listed on the index page for easy access. Example: Kids' Sites yields 300 links + 12 search engines for kids. The downside is that few items are annotated so this is a site for those willing to spend time checking out the possibilities to discover the really useful entries among the mediocre.
http://www.emtech.net/
- Intute (Consortium of UK Universities, formerly Research
Discovery Network)
A free online service giving acess to subject-spcific resources
selected for quality and relevance by subject specialists. Presentations,
tutorials, training materials and other resources can be downloaded
for educatonal use.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
- Search ERIC
ERIC offers selected online resources for education: full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletters... They can be downloaded for free and are . Searchable by subject or keyword.
http://ericae.net/
- Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators
Updated daily. Subject directory to web sites, links to online guides, training slide shows. A rich and reliable source, part of Discovery.com.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
- Roadmap to the Web for Educators
Annotated links to sites in all curriculum subjects plus other resources for teachers. Part of T.H.E.Journal (Technological Horizons in Education) , a top educational technology publication.
http://www.thejournal.com/highlights/roadmap/
- Site for Teachers
Annotated links to sites containing teacher's resource and educational material, ranked by popularity
http://www.sitesforteachers.com
- Teach-nology.com
Free access to thousands of lesson plans, printable worksheets, reviewed web sites, articles, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, teacher downloads, web quests, and teacher tools. Free weekly newsletter. Gold and platinum memberships give increased benefit.
http://www.teach-nology.com/
- Yahooligans
The excellent Teacher’s Guide section of ‘The Web guide for kids’. Check out the Student / Teacher Internet Literacy sections, the Analysis forms (= web evaluation), Activities for Students…
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/index.html.
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