Links for Net Students and Educators.
Last additions 10/10/99 [Not updated]
Contributors: Christine Leist, Marge Adams, Nan Chico, Jim Ross
--edited and organized (though not very much!) by Jim Ross

We would very much appreciate your additions of favorite web pages for parents, teachers and kids not listed here. The web is huge and a refereed set of relevant sites shortens the time to find useful data.   Find your favorite, copy the URL (the address of the site--it will look something like http://www.csubak.edu/ssric ) then come back to this location and click here:  Add your favorite web address

Sorry, I haven't checked these links in quite a while so there are links to non existing locations.  There are, however, a lot of neat sites in the list so its worth the effort.

1. Current Favorites
2. A Sample k-6 School Homepage:
3. Links for Kid's:
4. Links Suggested by Franklin Students:
5. Links for Parents and Teachers:
6. Links to Shareware sources:

Current Favorites

• Yahooligans Yahoo's site for kids.
• Lycoszone Lycos parent and teacher web site
• Encyclopedia Britannica Just made available free on the web.  The demand is so high that connections don't always work--keep trying.
• Ask Jeeves A really easy, natural language search engine. Lots of ads, but thats typical anymore.
• California Association for the Gifted    Institutes and conferences for educators and families,  Parenting strategies to nurture giftedness,  Advocacy to assure funds for GATE Programs,  Publications about differentiated curriculum and contemporary issues affecting gifted students.
• GuruNet Then try GuruNet, your new Instant Expert. GuruNet brings you relevant answers fast. It works inside any program, not just browsers. I haven'rt tried it yet but if it delivers as promised WOW!

• http://bizweb.lightspeed.net/~cent/ The Internet Site for Centennial Elementary School.

Links for Kid's:

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/
• http://204.161.33.100/Puzzle/PuzzleList.html
• http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
• http://www.gsn.org/
• http://www.yahooligans.com/
• http://www.dole5aday.com/hp2.html
• http://a2z.lycos.com/Just_For_Kids/
• http://www.cochran.com/theosite/ksites.html
• http://www.colgate.com/Kids-world/index.html
• http://www1.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/kidshome.html
• http://sln.fi.edu/
• http://www.cochran.com/TT.html
• http://www.cyberportal.net/kids.html
• http://pathfinder.com/@@I1F5PAcA5hF8t6P2/pathfinder/kidstuff/underwater/index.html
• http://pathfinder.com/@@QBaNsQcA5hHKZnuS/kids/
• http://forum.swarthmore.edu/rut` A math puzzles page for high school and elementary students. Reviewed and evaluated by Mr. Schultz, Special Ed teacher.
• http://www.fatpipe.com/cgi-bin/worldclock.cgi

Worlds Clock, find out the time at any location in the world
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The National Geographic home page. This is a fun one for older kids to check out on their own!
• Cyberserfer 97/

This is a program for individuals, schools, etc. to participate in. It is a treasure hunt that has prizes, but is not just a game it is educational in that it teaches to look for answers and perform research on the internet. Really looks like a great school activity. Contributed by Charlene M Shreder from GS390 S97
• IMAX Theaters in the USA

This link is to all IMAX Theater Centers in the USA. These can be virtual field trips for students without even leaving the school. Each center posted has teacher resources which help plan programs incorporating the center's subject matter. I have personally been to the one in Little Rock which does the Aeronautical Space exhibits. Contributed by Charlene M Shreder from GS390 S97
• Getty Museum's Kid's Guide to Culture on the Internet

Can't afford a trip to the Getty Museum! This is the site developed by and used at the Getty to introduce kids to a wide variety of art on the internet. It's a fun site for kid's of all ages!

Links Suggested by Franklin Students:

• http://www.disney.com/DisneyBooks/new/StoryBook/StoryBook.html Great Dysney Favorites
• http://www.crayola.com Great Ideas from the Crayola Company
• http://north.audubon.org/ Audubon tracks birds

Links for Parents and Teachers:

An education site created by California County Superintendents Educational Services Association. Breaks down subjects by grade level. I had some difficulty with this so proceed with this in mind

Links On Using The Net for Net Newbies and Techies (How the net works, Virus, etc.)

Technological Horizons in Education, an online journal for educators. Some pretty good information on education issues and teaching ideas.

Technological Horizons in Education, an online journal for educators list of links for educators.

I looked it over and will use some of the tips for parents in my School Link messages and also in parent letters I send! :-)
Suggested by Chris Liest

News Resources - over 2,000 newspapers and other news resources on line.
        Africa                                 95 sites (e.g., Mauritius - 9 listings)

        Asia & Oceania                458 sites (e.g., Philippines - 19 listings)

        Europe                             585 sites (e.g., Czech Republic - 7 listings)

        North America                 755 sites (e.g., Mexico - 38 listings)

        South & Central America 171 sites (e.g., Columbia - 11 listings)

Suggested by John Korey
Cal Poly Pomona Political Science

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro links to newspapers,  I haven't used as extensively as the news source listed above but it's nice to not have all the ads on a page.
Suggested by Jim Ross

"The Spider's Apprentice, Spidap (as it's affectionately known) is not another search engine. It
doesn't crawl the Web looking for new URLs. It can't find stuff for you --
It helps you find it yourself. The folks behind Spidap figure out which
search engines are most effective (even rating them, first in brief and,
separately, more in-depth). It also includes ongoing discussions of new
search engines and their techniques."

To give K12 educators a management model for integrating the World Wide Web into their curriculum.
To help K12 educators design and implement Internet projects for their curriculum and graduation standards.
To provide an on-line staff development program for teachers who wish to integrate the Internet into their classroom.

This one is concerned with "Acceptable Use Policies" -- samples of what other schools have come up with:
Suggested by by Chris Liest

An interface developed by Colorado State University that simultaneously searches all major search engines off of one request.

A source for the plug-in to enable your browser to play streaming sounds

Historical photos and more from the American Memory Web site.

Display of 25,000 photos from the California Heritage Project taken from the University of California's Bancroft Library in Berkley. Photos include archived topics of

Antebellem and Civil War images provided by University of California, Stanford, University of Virginia and Duke University at their American Heritage site.

Cooperative games like the old "New Games"--educators are going back to these as a way to include children who feel excluded by competitive games and to promote peaceful and healthy play.

"Healthy Relationships: A Violence Prevention Curriculum." From Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the Men for Change organization has this mission: "Helping students to analyze the culture of violence that condones abusive behavior is the first step towards empowering them to create the violence-free culture of tomorrow." The site provides curriculum guides, a newsletter, and resource links.

"Beginning this fall, a new online service called "Educast" will provide education news and ideas through so-called "push" technology (Education Week, July 9, 1997). Push technologies allow users to select topics and online publications about which they would like to receive updates. Items of interest are then sent to the user automatically. Educast will offer information from the U.S. Department of Education, from newspapers such as "Education Week" and "USA Today," and from other groups and publications. It will also deliver weekly lesson plans, grouped by grade and subject area, and announcements of conferences and grants. Educast is a free service--because it includes topic- related advertising. To download the trial version of Educast, go to the service's Web site."

A user-friendly "HTML Crash Course for Educators."  You might like to share this with anyone who asks for help learning HTML.

Need help with lesson plans--here is a source
Suggested by by Tommy Holiwell

Discovery Channel School-This site offers the resources of 11 Subject Area Managers(SAMS) who are current or retired educators. They provide detailed information about the free programming offered to educators on Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel, plus links to other web sites offering information on the same topics. It features personal responses to email questions, plus a wealth of information on k-12 subjects and topics.

Carrie's Crazy Sites for Educators-This is a site which is extremely rich in educational links on all
discipline and topics.
 

Pathway to School Improvement-Numerous topics on current issues in education and teaching are featured
here.

U.S. Department of Education- The web site of the Department of Education offers links to many topics,
resources for teachers, plus information about technology and grants.

The History/Social Studies Web Site-This web site is created by Dennis Boals, offers tons of topics of
choices, links, resources, lesson plans and other information for k-12
social studies teachers.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications- This is site originally brought out by Ken Zelasko, the Arts and
Humanities SAM. Although it offers an extensive library of internet based
instruction, the best feature is a weekly list of host sites which are
Email to the members. The email reminder helps those of us with good
intentions to actually follow through on some of them. They regularly
updated the list sites related to all disciplines and grade levels

NCIP- The National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education through'
Technology, Media, and Materials. A Special Web site for terrific resources.There is a library
of information related to all areas of special education, plus links to
other locations.

A National Network of Regional Educational Labs-This web site takes you to all ten regional educational labs. Someone who is especially interested in standards and benchmarks for all disciplines may want to go directly to the Mid-Continent Regional Lab. at  http://www.mcrel.org

FIRN (FLORIDA INFORMATION RESOURCE NETWORK.) This web sites offers instructional resources that seem to provide access
to almost everything else related to curriculum and teaching.

Create your own free web connected page.  A teacher could have her class create pages or she/he could create a page of links for their class to use.   This site is especially useful for those who do not have space available on a web server.  There are some neat graphics available at this site.

Martindale's The Reference Desk created by James Martindale, and maintained on a server at the University of California at Irvine's College of Medicine. "Need to do some quick or complex calculations? Looking for a one-stop-shopping site to tell you what's new on the Web sites of countries around the world? Pick a subject -- aircraft, astrophysics, bioscience, gems and jewelry, parasites and pesticides, even world postal maps -- and you can find information about it at Martindale's: The Reference Desk...an extensive index to on-line references, including links to -- just for example -- more than 6,700 on-line calculators and thousands of teaching files, multimedia tutorials, and data bases."

Check out this source from CSUB's Geology department to make a map of a recent earthquake in southern California or one of the recent large earthquakes from around the world.

Some sources for k-12 as well as college classes.  One college reviewer said "Don't be put off by the apparent "non collegiate" orientation. In a few clicks I found someone who has put the Federalist Papers on-line. Very useful to me and my students."

Still using an Apple II or have access to some for free and want to use them in a class.  If the answer is "yes", try this site for information and sources

The California School Library Association (CSLA) and  Computer-Using Educators (CUE) sponsored contest for k-12 multimedia projects. Enter your students multimedia projects (hypercard, Hyperstudio, Web Sites). "There is no entry fee. The Festival has awarded over $70,000 over the last three years to California schools. Overall winners will earn $1,000 prizes for their school.

Advertising to kid's is a much discussed current issue. These sites examines how advertisers are trying to influence kids as well as adults.  Much of this attempt is happening in school.  Check these links for some information on this issue.

Linked but not discribed--will do ASAP*******
http://www.pacificrim.net/~mckenzie/

http://www.teleport.com/UC/

http://www.ed.gov/index.html

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/LearnPtnrs/

http://www.aimsedu.org/AIMS.html

http://www.classroom.net/classroom/default.html

http://www.crayola.com/storybookmaker/story/start.html

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/index.html

http://www.primenet.com/~hodges/susplace.html#susies_place

http://chiba.netxn.com/%7Ekclib/

http://www.usps.gov/welcome.htm

http://www.sil.org/general/reference.html

http://www.kern.org/playground

Links organized for parents and teachers along with suggestions for "Keeping Children Safe on The Net". This is a link on the parents page.

Contributed by: Jim, on Monday October 11, 1999 9:02:27 am

A page for kids with suggestions for teachers and parents. Click the "Parents Guide" link for suggestions on filtering and other solutions for safe web use by children.

Contributed by: Jim, on Monday October 11, 1999 9:07:06 am

This web site is recommended for grades K-8 by the Discovery Channel School. It includes the early American history including Paul Revere, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the early relations between the U.S. government and the American Indians as well as cowboys and the railroad system.

Contributed by: Kerry Gregory CSUB GS390S2000, on Sunday May 14, 2000 4:27:43 pm

BadAds.org teaches consumers about intrusive advertising and how they can fight it. Types of advertising addressed incluse spam, junk faxes, telemarketing, commercials before movies, and ads in schools. The site has a free newsletter, free graphics, free stickers (offer valid until we can't afford it anymore), and a special educational page for teachers, parents, and kids.

Contributed by: W. Eric Martin, on Sunday November 5, 2000 11:48:19 am

Gives creative ideas and has a lot more links to visit that well help beginning teachers.

Contributed by: Rochelle Wren CSUB lbst490, on Wednesday, April 09, 2003 05:02 pm

Not one style works for everyone, but they do have some good ideas and some funny stories for new teachers

Contributed by: Rochelle Wren CSUB LBST490, on Friday, April 11, 2003 02:25 pm

Save up to 75% off the cost of retail software with special academic pricing. Since 1984 Software Express has been the #1 choice for educational software. Visit our on-line catalog with over 10,000 items with special low prices for educators and students. www.swexpress.com, 800-527-7638, nicepeople@swexpress.com.

Contributed by: April Fishback, on Monday, June 28, 2004 02:02 pm

Save up to 75% off the cost of retail software with special academic pricing. Since 1984 Software Express has been the #1 choice for educational software. Visit our on-line catalog with over 10,000 items with special low prices for educators and students. www.swexpress.com, 800-527-7638, nicepeople@swexpress.com.

Contributed by: April Fishback, on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 09:55 am

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Contributed by: Karl King, on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 03:18 am

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Contributed by: jane, on Saturday, August 13, 2005 05:09 am

Links to Freeware, Shareware sources:

Ziff-Davis the publisher of the most popular computer magazines, PC Magazine, MacUser, etc. maintains this site containing files evaluated for quality and scanned for viruses. There currently are about 12,000 files of high quality. To be included a program must contain new are different features, install easily, have adequate documentation. Available are Excel and Word functions, the latest games within a well organized structure and on-line help.

C/NET, the computer networks site. A quality on-line source for freeware and shareware.. The software is evaluated for quality starting with their highest evaluated programs from a menu on the first page, choose Selections at the at the opening menu to obtain a list of the highest rated software. Categories include education, games, programming, etc. These are links to the software sources, they are not archived by C/NET.

Over 90,000 organized, listed items. Other then top selections listed lacks no ratings are descriptions. These are links to the software sources, they are not archived so beware of viruses

Over 75,000,000 files with claimed links to all public access files on the web. Poor in organization, searching is left to you. A user should know what the name of what they are looking for are a lot of time can be wasted

Claims 1.2 million files organized by operating system, windows and Mac. These are searchable. Program descriptions are meager and there is no evaluation of usefulness are quality.

Quality is the goal of this site claiming only the top 20 applications in six areas graphics, internet applications, multimedia, games, utilities and etc. (Check out Paint Shop Pro for the PC one of the best shareware paint programs). Files are scanned for viruses

Grace Sylvanas site for parents looking for appropriate for kids. Here you'll find shareware and freeware for the Mac and PC, commercial demos, reviews of children's software, and other fun activities for kids The shareware is organized by age and interest groups. There are some software recommendations for parents and teachers.

Shareware and freeware for the game aficionado. Includes Demos (600 PC demos and reviews), Downloads (5000 games files for PC, Amiga and Mac), GD Review (800 game titles reviewed), Cheats (500 games FAQs, 400 Walk-throughs), PC Patches (Over 1000 favorite titles), Kid's (information for ages 0-12), Freebies, Coding (for programmers), etc.

A through site for gamers. Ratings and brief descriptions for the top 100 shareware programs and demos. Reviews of the latest commercial software.

The shareware form of Microsoft Net offered to all internet users for $3.5 0 a month. Offers 27,000 files organized and searchable lists of the the best shareware programs according to Microsoft . All programs have been scanned for viruses. I haven't accessed this site--don't want to pay the monthly $3.50.

A new site provided by The Association of Shareware Professionals. Offers useful links for those seeking shareware.

This is the favorite download site of some users I know. You will endure lots of advertisements and lots of other stuff, news, links to other sites. Click the download button at the top of the page to go to the download section.

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