Educational Links

• Worldwide Classroom
  http://www.worldwide.edu/
  The Worldwide Classroom contains information about more than 10,000 schools in 109 countries, so you can easily find the school that is right for you. Schools are conveniently listed alphbetically by country.
  
  
• Educational Resources Index
  http://web2010.brevard.cc.fl.us/library/subjects.html
  The Educational Resources Index provides links to a large number of education-related sites on the web. Browse through over 30 categories, from Arts to Women, in this alphabatized directory.
  
  
• Megalinks
  http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/links.htm
  This is a Megalinks resource for students and teachers alike. The site contains high-quality resources to help students get through their assignments, and also to help teachers give out the assignments. They play both sides here.
  
  
• Scout Report
  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community.
  
  
• HelpResource
  http://helpresource.com/education.htm
  The HelpResource page has general education resource links, an alphabetical subject listing, and teaching resources. A nice page of links.
  
  
• School-Resources.com
  http://www.school-resources.co.uk/
  School-Resources.com provides an index of links by subject, topic, and age group so you can find educational websites whether you're a student or a teacher. There’s also an interactive information technology section, a student common room with advice and entertainment, plus a resource library for teachers with downloadable materials.

Distance Learning Links

• Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
  http://www.clemetzoo.com/
  Cleveland Metroparks Zoo invites you to bring your group to the Zoo -- virtually! Go to places in the Zoo that you may never have seen before. Ask questions of Zoo staff and interact with other schools around Ohio and beyond-all without leaving your school! Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's distance learning classroom offers programs for all grade levels throughout the year.
  
  
• The Ohio Historical Society's
  http://www.ohiohistory.org/
  The Ohio Historical Society's distance learning programming transports students through time to historic venues ranging from river boats to Civil War parlors to prehistoric mounds to "safe houses" on the Underground Railroad. Each program has been designed with the Ohio Model Curriculum in mind and includes literacy initiatives.
  
  
• Learning Over the Internet
  http://www.unc.edu/
  Learning Over the Internet to the growing number of colleges, universities, and other educational institutions that are teaching classes or delivering course materials over the internet. This site also has links to directories of online courses, syllabi, course materials, and examples of online classes. Also included are consortia and other organizations devoted to delivering distance education with networked technologies.
  
  
• The Distance Education and Training Council
  http://www.detc.org/
  The Distance Education and Training Council (formerly the National Home Study Council) is a non profit educational association located in Washington, D.C. DETC serves as a clearinghouse of information about the distance study/correspondence field and sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting agency called the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council.
  
  
• Distance-Educator.com
  http://www.distance-educator.com/
  Distance-Educator.com has been on the web since 1995, in anticipation of the growing popularity of distance education. They have been a source of information, and inspiration for countless professionals since the early days of the use of the web for public mass communication.
  
  
• American Distance Education Consortium
  http://www.adec.edu/
  The American Distance Education Consortium, ADEC is an international consortium of state universities and land grant institutions providing high quality and economic distance education programs and services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies.
  
  
• United States Distance Learning Association
  http://www.usdla.org/
  The United States Distance Learning Association is a nonprofit organization formed in 1987. The association's purpose is to promote the development and application of distance learning for education and training. The constituents they serve include Pre-K through grade 12 education, higher education, home school education, continuing education, corporate training, military and government training, and telemedicine.
  
  
• Resources for Distance Education
  http://webster.commnet.edu/
  Resources for Distance Education A list maintained by Professor Charles Darling Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut.
  
  
• Columbus Zoo
  http://www.colszoo.org/education/distance.html
  Visit the Zoo without ever leaving your classroom! The Columbus Zoo broadcasts videoconferencing programs directly from animal exhibits and incorporates a variety of hands-on activities into every class. Each teacher will receive a teacher packet upon scheduling a program. This packet will contain information and materials for each session, as well as ideas for pre- and post-visit activities.
  
  
• Cosi Interactive Distance Learning
  http://www.cositoledo.org/Learn/default.asp?fi=IDL
  Utilizing interactive distance learning in the classroom, your students can explore science concepts, technologies, and events previously limited by geography. With the ability to connect multiple classrooms, distance learning allows students from different schools and environments to work together, teaming up for a highly effective learning encounter. Interactive distance learning transforms students from passive to active participants in the education process into integral pieces in a virtual science experience!
  
  
• Indianapolis Zoo Distance Learning
  http://www.indianapoliszoo.com/resources/schedule.asp
  Take a look at what Distance Learning can bring into your classroom during the 2000 - 2001 school year.
  
  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Distance Learning
  http://www.philamuseum.org/
  The distance learning initiative of the Philadelphia Museum of Art uses ISDN-based videoconferencing to enable virtual tours of the Museum's collections. In this pioneering program, real-time interactions with the Museum's expert staff allow students and teachers to explore the fascinating world of art without ever leaving their classrooms.
  
  
• Ohio Historical Society
  http://www.ohiohistory.org/
  The Ohio Historical Society's distance learning programming transports students through time to historic venues ranging from river boats to Civil War parlors to prehistoric mounds to "safe houses" on the Underground Railroad. Video streaming, remote cameras, blue-screen projections, and theatrical sets and costumes are among the innovative techniques used to make history come to life for students from kindergarten through high school.
  
  
• Cleveland Museum of Art Distance Learning
  http://www.clemusart.com/
  Distance Learning at The Cleveland Museum of Art allows students to connect with the CMA through interactive videoconferencing, and discover works of art from the collection without having to leave their school. Using television monitors, cameras and wiring for transmission of signals, students can participate in conversations that are live and fully interactive in real time with museum educators.
  
  
• Health Museum
  http://www.healthmuseum.org
  This new program uses technology to stregthen and enhance school based curricula in health, life science and applied math concepts. As an informal health science education provider, The Health Museum of Cleveland fosters engaged learning environments for both students and teachers.
  

K-12 Links

• The American School Directory
  http://www.asd.com/
  The American School Directory is the Internet guide to all 108,000 K-12 schools, providing information, communication and payment tools for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move.
  
  
• Education World
  http://www.education-world.com/
  Education World is the Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the internet. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 95% of the nation's public schools expected to be online by the year 2000, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident.
  
  
• School Website Registry
  http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html
  This is a huge registry that tries to encompass every school on the planet. It's doin a pretty good job thus far.
  
  
• Awesome Library
  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
  The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
  
  
• BigChalk.com
  http://www.bigchalk.com/
  BigChalk.com uses the internet to put everyone closer to the information they need. Teachers use bigchalk.com to shape their passion and skill into a learning environment that breaks the barriers of classroom walls, fixed hours, and limited school resources. BigChalk.com opens a world of information to teachers, students, and parents — enhancing learning, helping with homework, and offering limitless paths of exploration.

Teaching Links

• Teacher Talk
  http://education.indiana.edu/
  Teacher Talk is published by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. It is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of internet documents. Anyone is welcome to use these quality resources.
  
  
• The Chalkboard
  http://thechalkboard.com/
  The Chalkboard provides educators with lesson plans, related links for science, language, k–12, math, special education, school–to–work, and more. Classroom resources, including curriculum units for students, are offered free from corporations, as well as educational–related news, grants and other opportunities.
  
  
• New-teacher.com
  http://www.new-teacher.com/
  New-teacher.com is a resource site for education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those who think maybe they'd like to be an educator someday. It is the goal of this site to help new and future teachers find information, inspiration, and tools to become fulfilled, effective, growing professionals for kids.
  
  
• SchoolNotes
  http://www.schoolnotes.com/
  At SchoolNotes, educators have a simple and effective means to communicate school information to their education community, and parents have an easy way to keep in touch with teachers. SchoolNotes.com complements school websites by allowing teachers to post school information on the internet, without worrying about HTML or FTP. There is no programming required. Always available, SchoolNotes.com allows parents, teachers, and students to access school information from home, work, school, or anywhere the internet is available.

Special Education Links

• Marc Sheehan's Special Education Page
  http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/sped.html
  This page contains the best special education-related links that Marc could find. Great source.
  
  
• Children's Institute
  http://www.amazingkids.org/
  The Children's Institute is dedicated to promoting the well-being of children, young people and their families and to providing services that meet their special needs. Simply stated, their goal is to enable children and young adults with special needs to realize their fullest potential. They provide them with every opportunity to achieve their own personal miracle. Time and time again, we have seen our patients accomplish amazing things.
  
  
• Special Education Resources on the internet (SERI)
  http://www.hood.edu/seri/serihome.htm
  Special Education Resources on the internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location.
  
  
• Special Olympics
  http://www.specialolympics.org/
  Special Olympics is an international program of year-round sports training and athletic competition for more than one million children and adults with mental retardation. Their goal is for all persons with mental retardation to have the chance to become useful and productive citizens who are accepted and respected in their communities.
  
  
• ISER
  http://www.iser.com/
  ISER is a nationwide directory of professionals who serve the learning disabilities and special education communities. They help parents and caregivers find local special education professionals to help with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder assessment, therapy, advocacy, and other special needs. Offers special education resources search by state.
  
  
• Special Education Network
  http://www.specialednet.com/
  The Special Education Network is a website dedicated to providing information and resources on the Education of Children with Special Needs. Their goal is the become the source for parents, teachers, and Special Ed administrators to learn , communicate, and be proactive in the needs of our children's education. Great source for Inclusive Education, Parent Information and Support, Advocacy Organizations, Disability Information and Referral.
  
  
• Our-Kids
  http://www.our-kids.org/
  The Our-Kids Web site supports the Our-Kids Email list. Our-Kids is a "Family" of parents, caregivers and others who are working with children with physical and/or mental disabilities and delays. They call the list "Our-Kids". While it isn't exactingly descriptive, it avoids the pitfalls of labeling our kids anything but what they most certainly are: The wonderful little people in our lives. The "Primary Mission" of the Our-Kids List is to provide information and support for Our-Kids. The "Secondary Mission" is to provide information and support to the caregivers of Our-Kids. Great source for Parents.
  
  
• Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS
  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/
  The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) supports programs that assist in educating children with special needs, provides for the rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities, and supports research to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.