RDN's Virtual Training Suite
- Easy and excellent tutorials for senior students wanting to master
internet resources in their chosen professional field or interest
area
TeleMentors - a site linking
students with a particular interest electronically to volunteers working
in the fields
NetDay Compass
- an excellent annotated directory of educational technology links
including categories on classroom support and best practices/real
stories
The Inquiry Page
- a website collection of inquiry based units, following John Dewey's
emphasis on learner curiosity and questions, great idea but some lesson
plans fall back on group approaches
for teachers and administrators
High School Hub
- Great US site providing categorized links to free online resources
relevant to high school students
Quia's Learning Games collection
- use one of the 600,000 existing online learning activities or create
one of your own - using models like concentration, matching pairs,
hangman - now on subscription basis
BECTA's Teachers Online (UK)
- good multi-faceted site for teachers
TutorialFind's learning resource
site for both students and teachers, with initial concentration
on languages, computer software, programming, physics and chemistry.
Coaching
for a change - describes how an IT coach can productively work
with 20-35 teachers a year to achieve positive change in the way they
approach IT in their teaching
NetDay Compass
- an excellent annotated directory of educational technology links
including categories on planning, infrastructure and grants/funding
(mainly North American perspective)
Techs4Schools
- Free online mentoring for school technology coordinators, joins
students, teachers and subject experts together into teams or support
networks
eSchool News Resources
collection - US based with coverage of funding, products, careers
as well as general links - also a news
browser of their past news items
Schools interoperability
framework - An initiative to establish a common data interface
standard for administration and learning software for schools to ensure
interoperability.
British Educational Communications & Technology Agency (BECTA) Research
Portal -
including research that indicates that high ICT standards are associated
with high academic standards in both high and low socio-economic
areas