The 2020 School Links Library

Links to interesting electronic resources that are taking us to education's future

Resources for Teachers and Learners:

EdNA's Learning Objects compilation - the up-to-date list for each key learning area

EdNA's Learning Quests or Webquests compilation - the up-to-date list by key learning area

EdNA on interactive whiteboards - guides, support and research

eSN Resource Center - Provides access to educational technology news and, for US educators, to a huge amount of vetted online educational resources

Using Muliple Intelligence Theory in the Virtual Classroom - useful article

eTeachers - commercial site supports teachers integrating ICT into their teaching

Teaching with the internet - practical site for teachers

UK BECTa's mentor site for teachers new to ICT

Technology-integrated Pedagogical Strategies - UK high school teachers trial and review different strategies so others can learn from their experience

EdNA newsletters/ezines - A selection of email newsletters to keep you up-to-date.

Tools for effective web presentations - A newsletter covers the tools and principles.

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

Epals Classroom Exchange - largest provider of safe student email pals

WorldCom's MarcoPolo site "Internet Content for the Classroom"

UK BECTa's ICT advice site for teachers

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

Electronic lesson plan and resources archive at Copernicus Interactive

FNO's Professional development articles - excellent articles for both those undertaking and planning ICT professional development

TutorialFind's learning resource site for both students and teachers, with initial concentration on languages, computer software, programming, physics and chemistry.

New technologies leads to new learning/teaching paradigm - a tertiary experience

Planning an online course - lessons learnt from a tertiary course conversion

Resources for Professional Development Planners:

Never Mind the Laptops - Educational journalist covers the trends.

Quality in eLearning - European SchoolsNet establishes repository

Ten ways online education matches or surpasses face-to-face learning

Making Better Connections: Models of teacher professional development for the integration of information and communication technology into classroom practice - excellent Australian task force report, considers both preservice and continuing professional development, addresses system-wide issues (2002, 132pp, pdf)

Technology-integrated Pedagogical Strategies - UK high school teachers trial and review different strategies so others can learn from their experience

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

FNO's Professional development articles - excellent articles for both those undertaking and planning ICT professional development

Strategies to reach reluctant or late adopter teachers (1999) - Good commonsense advice.

Resources for School Technology Planners:

JoomlaLMS elearning software - Innovative Joomla-based LMS.

Tomorrow's Online Teachers - Stephen Downes considers yesterday and today's projections for tomorrow's learning.

The Le@rning Federation - Australia's initiative to develop online interactive curriculum content

MASIE's Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide

UK BECTa's ICT advice site for teachers, department heads and school IT planners

Case studies: Integrating the use of web based learning systems into student learning - AJET 2000, 16(3), 258-282 - covers real life integration issues, albeit in higher education context

Council of Educational Facility Planners International - group supporting technology-friendly design of schools, also hosts US paper on designing schools as center of community

Technology Support: Impact on Schools - report on the impact of technology support levels on the effective use of technology in US schools

Learning with Laptops - a educator run site to provide independent honest information about student laptop programs

A District Transformed - coverage of the major steps in transforming the technology use of one US school district

Technology Standards for School Administrators - US guidelines to assist school administrators

NetDay Compass - an excellent annotated directory of educational technology links including categories on planning, infrastructure and grants/funding (mainly North American perspective)

Review of research: Online delivery of education and training R Brennan, M McFadden, E Law (2001) National Centre for Vocational Education Research (73pp pdf)

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.

Creating learning communities - a movement supporting change towards self-learning through technology.

Some other online learning resource websites: www.lguide.com, www.edgate.com, www.click2learn.com, www.worldwidelearn.com.

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

Center for Innovative Learning Technologies - a combined university/corporate thinktank approach, with a knowledge network of interested members

Resources for Parents:

Online Freedom and Safety for Children - a UK based research report on children's internet use and how safety can be enhanced

Virtual School for the Gifted - An Australian online school offering a range of extension type courses

Resources for Content Developers:

EdNA's Metadata site - Entry point for metadata for Australian collaboration on the use of the internet for education and training

Conference Papers, Research etc:

New Radicalism: Making Education a Priority. Report of the Ninth Annual
Conference of the Curriculum Corporation 2002 (48pp, pdf)

EdResearch Online - ACER's searchable index to full-text research articles with Australian focus, 80% available free

Reference Material on Educational Systems etc:

History of Education and Childhood - An omnibus reference site for perspective, does not deal specifically with educational technology.

The Development of Education: National report of Australia - Report on state of Australian Education system prepared for UNESCO's International Bureau of Education Conference 2001

Information and Communications Technology in Schools in England 2001 - provides national statistics on internet connection and computer numbers in schools including student/computer ratios and teacher comfort levels

Last updated:9/1/08

Jump to... Top | The 2020 School Home | Services to Schools | Austega Home