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Module 1

Activity 3

Getting Started

Intel® Innovation in Education: Unit and Project Plans Collection

http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans/UP_TOC.htm

Intel® Innovation in Education: An Innovation Odyssey

http://www.intel.com/education/odyssey

Enhancing Education Through Technology Projects and Lessons created by Davidson County Teachers

http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/pbl/eett/eett.htm

Re-Learning by Design's Task & Unit Design Samples and Resources

http://www.relearning.org/resources/PDF/task_sampler.pdf

Activity 4

Developing Unit Plans

Essential Questions: Helping Readers Focus http://wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=128

Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html

Summer Technology Institute: Essential Questions http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/teched/using/mod2less2quest.html

Creating Essential Questions

http://www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.html

Developing Essential Questions

http://www.rainbowtech.org/projects/essquests.html

Essential Questions

http://mathstar.nmsu.edu/exploration1/unit/content_questions.html

Ask me a question: How teachers use inquiry in the classroom http://www.asbj.com/2001/05/0501research.html

Research Papers: Asking Essential Questions and Good Supporting Questions Makes the Effort More Than a Game of Fact Chasing
http://www.marinalibrary.com/askingessentialquestionsm.htm

The question is the answer. Creating Research Programs

for An Age of Information

http://questioning.org/Q6/question.html

Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School: Curriculum Assessment School-Wide Essential Questions

http://www.parker.org/CurriculumAssessment/curriculum.htm

Coalition of Essential Schools Northwest

"Planning Backwards from an Essential Question" http://www.cesnorthwest.org/essential_questions.htm

Take-Home

Activity 1 Copyright Laws

The 20-Questions Fair Use Copyright Quiz
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_quiz.html

Related article: The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html

http://www.ucet.org:16080/conference/2003/Barnett_Copyright_Test.pdf

Answers

http://www.ucet.org:16080/conference/2003/Barnett_Copyright_Test_answers.pdf

Checklist for Fair Use by the Copyright Management Center at Indiana University
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm

Education World: The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml

Module 2

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Using Directories

Informine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

The Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org

Librarians' Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

Look Smart
http://www.looksmart.com/

The Open Directory
http://dmoz.org/

WebBrain

http://www.webbrain.com/

Yahoo!

http://www.yahoo.com

Yahooligans!

http://www.yahooligans.com

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Using Search Engines

Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Purpose
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

FindSpot

http://www.findspot.com

Search Engine Watch

http://www.searchenginewatch.com

All the Web

http://www.alltheweb.com

AltaVista

http://www.altavista.com

Excite

http://www.excite.com

Google

http://www.google.com

Hotbot

http://www.hotbot.com

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Using Meta Search Engines

AskJeeves!

http://www.ask.com/

Dogpile

http://www.dogpile.com

Ithaki

http://www.ithaki.net/

KartOO - Visual Meta Search Engine

http://www.kartoo.com/

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com

Vivísimo Clustering Engine
http://vivisimo.com/

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Using Kid-Friendly Search Engines

Ask Jeeves for Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Ithaki 4 KiDs

http://www.ithaki.net/kids/

Kids Click!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!

Kid's Search Tools
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

LycosZone
http://www.lycoszone.com/

Super-Kids
http://www.super-kids.com/

Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Using Specialty Search Engines

Ameristat

http://www.ameristat.org/

AmeriStat gives you instant summaries — in graphics and text — of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population.

FindArticles

http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

FindLaw LawCrawler

http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/

Search engine that returns information only from sites that have been identified as dealing with legal issues. Also includes browse-able categories. Also see http://www.findlaw.com/ - a directory of legal web sites.

FirstGov

http://www.firstgov.gov/

The U.S. government's official Web portal. Provides searchable access to information from the U.S. government plus U.S. state and local governments. Information can also be browsed by category.

GovSpot
http://www.govspot.com/

GovSpot.com is a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online.

Hoover's Online

http://www.hoovers.com/

Hoover's is best known for its company information, with information on more than 12 million companies across 300 industries.

iCivilEngineer

http://www.icivilengineer.com/

iCivilEngineer.com is a knowledge portal specially designed for civil engineering professionals and students.

Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

A virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards,
listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, etc.

Journalist's Toolbox

http://www.journaliststoolbox.com

Features more than 20,000 Web resources helpful to the media and anyone else doing research. Use the pulldown menu or search engine to locate information from a variety of beats and news industry-related topics.

Language Tools
http://www.itools.com/lang/

Includes dictionaries, thesauri, and language translators. Language translator includes individual word translations for 188 different languages, as well as a Web page translator. Translate a Web page on-the-fly (seven languages supported).

MagPortal

http://www.magportal.com/

Find individual articles from many free magazines by browsing the site's categories or using its search engine.

MedHunt
http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/

Index of medical information. Searches can be narrowed by region.

Research It!
http://www.itools.com/

Specialty search tools to find people, quotations, maps, facts, currency converters, stock quotes, zip codes, etc.

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com/

"Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet." It focuses only on web sites containing scientific content and searches both free and journal sources.

Search Engine Watch: Specialty Search Engines
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156351

Activity 1 Using Directories and Web Search Engines

Refining Your Search

RDN Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

Activity 2 Creating Works Cited Pages

The Importance of Citing References
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/citing/print.htm

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism:
Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm

The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery

in an Electronic Age
http://www.fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: Documentation Guidelines
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

MLA
http://www.mla.org/

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on
Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

APA Style
http://www.apastyle.org/

Using Principles of APA Style to Cite and Document Sources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html

NoodleBib MLA Starter
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/starter.php

NoteStar

http://notestar.4teachers.org/

Landmarks for School: Citation Machine
http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php

Microsoft Template Gallery: Publications and Education
http://search.officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery/ct145.asp

Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html

Activity 3 Locating Internet Resources

Refdesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com

Teachers.Net – Teacher Resources
http://www.teachers.net

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Blue Web’n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

MarcoPolo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Intel® Innovation in Education Web Site
http://www.intel.com/education

Intel® Teach to the Future: Exemplary Unit Portfolios
http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans

Take-Home Activity Evaluating Resources on the Internet

Critical Evaluation of Internet Information
http://lone-eagles.com/search6.htm

Evaluating Web Resources

http://www.widener.edu/Tools_Resources/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659 m

Backflip
http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml

Blink
http://www.blink.com/

IKeepBookmarks.com

http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/

MURL
http://murl.com/

Yahoo Bookmarks

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/

Module 3

Pedagogical Practices Providing Students Access to the Internet

Strategies for Addressing Access Inequities
http://www.netc.org/equity/strat_access.html

Activity 1 Creating Student Multimedia Presentations

Internet Investigations: Unsolved Mysteries
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/mystery/Lessonplan.htm

Technology-Supported Lesson Plans
http://edtech.boisestate.edu/bridges/tslessons.htm

From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal
Scoring Power Points
http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html

Take-Home Activity Creating Multimedia Evaluation Tools

Creating Rubrics: Inspire your students and foster critical thinking
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/4521.html

Student Web Page/Multimedia Project Rubric
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/rub.mm.st.htm

Multimedia Book Report Rubric (Fiction)
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/bk.rep.fic.htm

Power Point Presentation Evaluation Criteria
http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/spring2002/bv/pg.24 rubrics-ppt..html

PowerPoint Presentation Evaluation Sheet Unsolved Mystery
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/mystery/evalform.htm

Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Rubric to Assess a PBL [Project-Based Learning] and Rubric
http://www.idecorp.com/assessrubric.pdf

Module 4

Activity 1 Creating Student Publications: Newsletters

Colonial Newspaper Project
http://teachers.eusd.k12.ca.us/mguerena/Coursework/ColonialAmerica/
newspaper/Default.htm

Special Edition Newspaper on the Trial of Julius Caesar

http://www.laep.org/humanitas/digitalhs/juliuscaesar.html

The Civil War Gazette WebQuest
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/civilwar.html

Lesson Plans: Creating Historical Newspapers

http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/GreeksMultimediaProject/Greeknewspaper/Greek_Newspaper.html

Newsworthy Journey
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=journey

The Write Site: Extra, Extra!
http://www.writesite.org/html/xtraxtra.html

Activity 1 Creating Student Publications: Brochures

Insect Travel Brochure
http://iitc.tamu.edu/1998and2000/lessons/lesson18.html

The Cay Student Activity: Hurricane Informational Brochure
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cay/caySG5.html

A Tour through the Circulatory System
http://www.questlearningskills.org/weblessons/weblesson18.htm

Travel Brochure of the Body Systems
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0285-FayeCascio/index.html

Great Barrier Reef: Ecotour Guide Brochure
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/gaw/oceans/oceans_912_student.html

Creating a brochure about John Steinbeck
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/mice/micesg1.html

People and the Forests
http://wfpa.org/ee/wfpaee/ESS/ESS_home/Peninsula_curriculum_units/Peninsula_4_units.htm

Take-Home Activity Creating Publication Evaluation Tools

Creating Rubrics: Inspire your students and foster critical thinking
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/4521.html

Industrial Revolution Newspaper Rubric

http://www.grossmont.k12.ca.us/mcdowell/wq/ir/Rubric.html

Brochure Rubric: What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? http://www.manning.k12.ia.us/Elementary/teachers/Kester/Your%20Rubric

Travel Brochure of the Body Systems
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0285-FayeCascio/index.html

Teacher Rubric for Brochure Evaluation
http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/student/mural/rubric.html

Brochure Advertising Carlsbad Caverns National Park
http://www.nps.gov/cave/teacherguide/brochure.pdf

Brochure: Task Force Recommendation
http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/spring2002/bv/pg.25 rubrics-brochure.html

People and the Forests (rubric at bottom of page)
http://wfpa.org/ee/wfpaee/ESS/ESS_home/Peninsula_curriculum_units/Peninsula_4_units.htm

Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Rubric to Assess a PBL [Project-Based Learning] and Rubric
http://www.idecorp.com/assessrubric.pdf

Module 5

Activity 1 Creating Unit Support Materials

Microsoft Template Gallery
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/

Take-Home Activity Planning Student Web Sites

ThinkQuest Libraries
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

Module 6

Pedagogical Practices Ensuring Student Safety When Using the Internet

Child Safety on the Information Highway
http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm

Family Contract for Online Safety
http://www.safekids.com/contract.htm

Teen Safety on the Information Highway
http://www.safekids.com/safeteens/safeteens.htm

AASA Technology Planning and Policies

http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/technology/planning.htm

GetNetWise

http://www.getnetwise.org/

Activity 1 Creating Student Web Sites

Freeservers.com (tested site)
http://www.freeservers.com

Tripod (tested site)
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

Yahoo! GeoCities
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/

FreeWebspace.net
http://www.freewebspace.net/

The largest searchable guide to free web space providers.

Take-Home Activity Creating Web Site Evaluation Tools

Creating Rubrics: Inspire your students and foster critical thinking
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/4521.html

A Rubric for Evaluating Social Studies World Wide Web Pages
http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/jabraun/braun/professional/wwwrubric.html

Whom Do You Invite To Your Town?
Student Project Rubric
http://education.ca.sandia.gov/more/past/super/tw_rich/studentrubric.html

Student Web Page/Multimedia Project Rubric
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/rub.mm.st.htm

Teaching with the Internet: Module 4 Evaluation Web Design
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/teachnet/four/eval_g4.html

Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Rubric to Assess a PBL [Project-Based Learning] and Rubric
http://www.idecorp.com/assessrubric.pdf

Module 7

Pedagogical Practices Discussing Communication Projects

Virtual Architecture
http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/index.html

International Telementor Program
http://www.telementor.org/

Ask an Expert
http://www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html

ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com/

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections
http://www.iecc.org/

The Monster Exchange
http://www.monsterexchange.org/

"A Young Writers' Round Table, via the Web," New York Times http://www.strom.clemson.edu/teams/literacy/breadloaf/writing.html

Activity 1 Creating Teacher Support Materials

K-12 Education Web Rings

All Children Can Learn Web Ring (Special Education)
http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=childishkaren&list

Ring of K-12 School Homepages
http://o.webring.com/hub?ring=k12hp

Teachers.net Webring
http://w.webring.com/hub?ring=teachersnet&list

Grade School Web Rings

The Elementary Teacher’s Web Ring
http://i.webring.com/hub?ring=teachkids&list

1st Grade Web Ring
http://m.webring.com/hub?ring=grade1&list

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Webring
http://o.webring.com/hub?ring=1st2ndand3rdgrad

Second Grade Classes Web Ring
http://f.webring.com/hub?ring=secondgradeclass

Fabulous Fifth-Graders
http://e.webring.com/hub?ring=fabulousfifthgra

Middle School Web Ring
http://v.webring.com/hub?ring=cps_ms&list

Subject-Specific Web Rings

The Art Teacher’s Web Ring
http://h.webring.com/hub?ring=artteacherswebri

The History Teacher’s Web Ring
http://h.webring.com/hub?ring=teachhistory

Music Education Web Ring
http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=mels&list

OJK World of Math Webring
http://d.webring.com/hub?ring=fhsmath&list

Secondary English Teachers Web Ring
http://k.webring.com/hub?ring=secondaryenglish

Module 8

Pedagogical Practices Supporting the Diverse Needs of Learners

Technology and Multiple Intelligences
http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm

Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age
http://www.aauw.org/research/girls_education/techsavvy.cfm

Gender Gaps Executive Summary

http://www.aauw.org/research/GGES.pdf

National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education through Technology, Media, and Materials
http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/library/toc.htm

ESL Modification Tips and Techniques
http://www.migrant.org/esl/survival_packet/ESL_Tips_and_Techniques.htm

Take-Home Activity Locating Internet Resources for Educators: Professional Development Resources

Education World - Teachers: Career Development
http://www.education-world.com/pro_dev/development.shtml

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Professional Resources (Math & Science)
http://www.enc.org/weblinks/pd/

Education Conference Calendar
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/ca/cc/

McRel – Technology and Teacher Education

http://www.mcrel.org/products/tech/technology/prodev.asp#tools

RDN Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

U.S. Department of Education - Grants and Contracts Information
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/gcsindex.html

Take-Home Activity

Locating Internet Resources for Educators: Grants, Discount Rates, Freeware for Educators

Diskovery (academic discount software )
http://www.diskovery.com/

Educational Resources (academic discount software, hardware ,
professional development)
http://www.edresources.com/

McRel - Funding for Technology
http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/funding.asp

http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/techined.asp

Academic Superstore
http://www.micromasteronline.com/

Pitsco - Grants & Funding (compilation)
http://www.pitsco.com/Resources/grants.html

TUCOWS (shareware, freeware, and evaluation software)
http://www.tucows.com/

CNET Downloads (shareware, freeware, and evaluation software)
http://download.com.com/

ZDNet Downloads (shareware, freeware, and evaluation software)
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/

Software Selection (help with the software selection process)

http://www.netc.org/software/software_selection.html

Module 10

Use your Master Teacher's UserID and Class ID number to log in to the Intel Teach to the Future Evaluation site at:

http://www.intel.com/education/teachfuture/eval