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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.