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- Connexions
- An environment for collaboratively developing,
freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the
Web.
- Digital Storytelling - A
list of resources.
- EdCITE - A database of research
and case studies on the effective use of technology in education.
- Educational Technology:
A Critique of Pure Reason - Greg Kearsley.
- Effective Practices and Solutions
- Educause, the national organization information technology in higher education,
has developed a site where campuses may submit effective practices and solutions.
The submitted information is then searchable. UMD Tech Camp for Faculty
is among the listings.
- ERIC - Find
a wealth of information through your own search of the ERIC database.
This database is the world's largest source of education information, contains
more than 800,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education
research and practice. The database is updated monthly, ensuring that the
information you receive is timely and accurate.
- Faculty Connection - This
website is designed to assist faculty of post-secondary institutions to
become familiar with issues, examples and discussion topics associated with
using emerging technologies in teaching and learning.
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
- H-Net is an international network of scholars
in the humanities and social sciences that creates and coordinates electronic
networks, using a variety of media, and with a common objective of advancing
humanities and social science teaching and research.
- Internet Connections for Educational
Research - This site has links to resources teachers can use in the
classroom, as well as reports, articles, and directories that will help
improve learning for all. It is found on the Mid-continent Regional Educational
Laboratory (McREL) site.
- Internet Scout Project - shows
"you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose
what's best for you. 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."
- Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators - This site has a categorized list of sites on the Internet
found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide
Web sites.
- MERLOT
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching is a
FREE and OPEN resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher
education. "With a continually growing collection of online learning materials,
assignments and reviews, MERLOT
helps faculty enhance instruction. MERLOT is also a community of people
who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences. "
- MIT World -
video events at MIT, free to view
- Teacher's College Record -
Offers a variety of information including an index of resources
for educational writers and researchers.
- Teaching With Technology
Today - TTT was conceived by the University of
Wisconsin Learning Technology Development Council. Since its inception in
1997, TTT has grown to include articles and/or
abstracts on projects in over twenty disciplines. Many good articles in
the archives.
- Technology and
Educational Revolution: Ending the Cycle of Failure - Stephen C. Ehrmann.
This article argues how, "for thirty years, rapid improvements in computer
power have been fooling educators into making self-defeating mistakes in
both distance learning and on-campus applications. By learning from these
mistakes and taking a different path, this essay argues, we can escape the
cycle of failure and finally begin to make the long-promised improvements
in access to learning and quality of outcomes."
- The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
- Bob Hoffman, General Editor.
- U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Educational Technology - "The OET develops national educational
technology policy and implements this policy through Department-wide educational
technology programs. Working closely with the offices of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE), Educational
Research and Improvement (OERI), Postsecondary
Education (OPE), Vocational and Adult Education
(OVAE), and Special Education
and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS),
OET helps to ensure that ED's programs are also coordinated with efforts
across the Federal Government."
- UMD Library -
- FIND ARTICLES, papers, reports, etc.
- FIND BOOKS, videos, periodical titles
- FIND WEB SITES.
- UWired - Catalyst -
This site, developed by the University of Washington, brings tools, resources,
and support to help you teach with new technologies.
- Web History:
- Information Management:
A Proposal - Tim Berners-Lee, widely known as the father of the
World Wide Web. Tim originally created the WWW
and is now the director of the W3C Organization, which coordinates
WWW development. This is his proposal written
in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date
added in May 1990.
- A Little History of the World
Wide Web.