1- Topic Hotlist
A "Topic Hotlist" is a collection of sites that
you find most useful / interesting / peculiar on your topic. Doing this will
save your learners hours of aimless surfing.
Example:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html
2- Multimedia Scrap Book
Essentially a multimedia hotlist,
the "Multimedia Scrapbook" focuses on providing links to a variety of media and
content types (photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips,
videos, virtual reality tours, etc.).
Example:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html
3- Treasure Hunt
A "Treasure Hunt" is similar to a topic hotlist in
that it contains teacher created questions and websites that define the scope or
parameters of the topic being studies in the classroom. Students are supposed to
find the answers for these questions based on the websites provided by the
teacher.
Example: Hunt for Dinosaurs http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/huntdinosaurpo2.html
Example: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html
4- Subject Sampler
A "Subject Sampler" presents to the learner a smaller
number of intriguing (pros & cons, for and against) Web sites organized around a
main topic. Students are asked about their perspectives on topics, personal
interpretations, comparisons to experiences they have had.
Example:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html
5- Webquest
A "WebQuest" is an inquiry activity that presents student
groups with a challenging task, provides access to an abundance of usually
online resources and scaffolds the learning process to prompt higher order
thinking. The products of WebQuests are usually then put out to the world for
some real feedback.
Example:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bww
Blue Web'n
http://www.bluewebn.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html
A huge collection of lesson plans, hotlists, WebQuests, activities, and online
projects classified by subjects taught at school.
The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu
The official webQuest page of Dr. Bernie Dodge. This site contains all
information needed about WebQuests including examples, how-to, links, and
training resources.
Filamentality
http://www.filamentality.com
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you
through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and
turning Web resources into learning activities like Hotlists, Scrap Books, and
WebQuest.
ED Helper
http://www.edhelper.com
Lesson Plans and WebQuests by subject and by grade
CIESE: Center for Improved Engineering and
Science Education
http://k12science.org
This site sponsors and designs interdisciplinary, realtime, and collaborative
projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum
through compelling use of the Internet.
Teachers@Work - WebQuest Reviews
http://www.teachers.work.co.nz/reviews/webquests.asp
The Lesson Plans Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com
The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans developed by
students and faculty at The University of Missouri.
Learning Network
http://www.learningnetwork.com
A very rich educational gateway for parents, teachers, and students
G.E.M:
The gateway to
educational materials
http://www.thegateway.org
High quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other educational resources
CyberBe
http://www.cyberbee.com
An excellent resource site for teachers containing lesson plans and many
teaching aids (part of G.E.M.)
Encarta-Based Lesson Plans
http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/
Practical Encarta-based lesson Plans
Microsoft Education Site
http://www.microsoft.com/education
Well-designed Microsoft Office tutorials and lesson plans that integrate word
processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, the internet, etc. with most
subjects taught at schools
DiscoverySchool
http://school.discovery.com
A huge collection of science-related lesson plans created by the Discovery
Channel
Homework Central
http://www.homeworkcentral.com
Great resources for teachers, students, librarians, & Parents as well
T.H.E. Journal
http://www.thejournal.com
An education technology publication
ED's Oasis
http://www.classroom.com/edsoasis
The meeting place for teachers! An online teacher's resource center
ERIC
http://askeric.org
Teachers@Work
http://www.teachers.work.co.nz
A rich guide to educational websites, web site evaluation, webquests, and
various teachers tools and resources
Education World
http://www.education-world.com
Lesson Planning, Education in the Classroom, etc.
Teachers First
http://www.teachersfirst.com
Lesson plans and other great resources
Atomica
http://www.atomica.com
A great desktop utility that allow you to look up the meaning and web resources
for any word that appears on your screen in any Windows-based application
MyClass.net
http://www.myclass.net
Free classroom web sites for teachers, students, and parents. Class information
posting, email, discussion boards, file sharing, and curriculum resources. Your
own password protected and secure class site. Easy to use.
http://www.myclass.net
ThinkQuest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/IC_index.html
The library contains
unique educational web sites that have been created by kids through ThinkQuest
competitions and programs.
Britannica
Encarta
Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com
Searchedu
http://www.searchedu.com
Search any of these Educational sites from one place: Over 15 million university
and education pages, SearcheBooks.com, Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus,
Encarta Encyclopedia, Britannica Encyclopedia, InfoPlease Encyclopedia, Almanac,
and Biographies
InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com
Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, & Almanac
Merriam Webster's Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com
Word meanings, thesaurus, and voice-enabled pronunciation
Roget's Dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com
Thesaurus & cross language translation of text and websites
Vocabulary/Word Games
http://www.vocabulary.com
What is?
http://www.whatis.com
Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words
Google
http://www.google.com
The most famous search engine
AltaVista
MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
MetaCrawler is a highly recommended search engine which refers your search to
several of the most popular search engines then compiles and ranks the results
for you
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
HotBot makes it easy to search for multimedia files and to locate websites by
their geographical location
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo is an excellent and very popular hierarchical index that makes searching
the web very simple and fun
Yahooligans!
http://www.yahooligans.com
Yahooligans is another version of Yahoo! That is designed especially for kids.
It searches in filtered web sites only
InfoSeek
http://www.infoseek.com
Another large and popular subject index. One of its powerful features is that it
allows you to search for the title of a certain page if you don't know its URL
by typing: title:"the name of the page" ex: title:"Newsweek"
Excite
http://www.excite.com
Excite is a very important search engine that combines keyword searching and
subject browsing in a robust way
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
Internet Public Library Reference Center
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/
Allows you to search in a University of Michigan based public library
Web Crawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com
If you are looking for articles, this site allows you to search a huge
collection of educational articles, but some articles are accessible only after
paying a minimal fee.
NB: The above chart is retrieved from an article written by Tom March http://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html