An annotated list of all internet resources I use would be excessively lengthy and cumbersome so the 'short list' of links below either point to sites I have found highly useful as broad resources or to sites that focus on specific pedagogical interests in science and technology literacies.
Featured Technology Educator
Martin Ryder for his extensive Instructional Technology Connections site, a well annotated and cross referenced resource of considerable depth. And another nod to Ray Schroeder for continuing to take the weblog (blog) concept to a higher level; e.g., Online Learning Update and Techno-News.
Regional Technology in Education Consortia
An excellent resource for integrating technology into K-12 education. I recommend High Plains to many of my students for it's excellent array of online tools but the other RTECs provide superior service also; e.g., NCRTEC's Scoring Guide tools.
Regional Educational Laboratories
An important resource for best practices in PreK-16 education. While in Kentucky I accessed AEL (now Edvantia) most frequently but the other labs are also worth attention; e.g., Mid-continent.
AECT Project
Offers an extensive and searchable array of educational technology strategies, some of which I helped develop for the project as an Expert Panelist.
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
'The Gateway' is essentially a metadata cooperative sponsored by the Department of Education that, along with various member benefits and organizational tools, provides searchable access to online collections of lesson plans, instructional units, and other educational materials. FREE is another federally supported site that offers access to a wide range of subject-area resources and AT&T's Blue Web'N continues to serve as one of the better libraries for web-based learning resources.
Understanding Evolution
Developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, this site provides "one-stop shopping" for evolution education. A growing catalog of museum online offerings can be browsed at the Museum of Online Museums but adults should screen linked sites for timeliness and/or age appropriate content because museum shows change and some museum displays are not intended for a young audience.
Computing Technology for Math Excellence
Resources for teaching and learning mathematics and the standards movement in education: Software reviews, technology integration, project based learning, multimedia, national math initiatives and professional development. Additional tools for learning and strengthening core mathematical concepts are available at The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics; highly recommended.
Distance Education Clearinghouse
A quality service offered by the University of Wisconsin Extension, a portal of sorts with good background information on distance education and extensive links to relevant regional, national and international resources.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
One of the best sites for researching modern mythology and hoaxes. Misinformation on the internet is ubiquitous and it is prudent to assume falsity, using resources such as this to confirm putative facts before compounding the error by repeating them. Truth or Fiction is also a useful general fact-checking site and, for political gaffes, it's hard to beat the non-partisan FactCheck.org. Here's a list of biases that helps explain (or at least label) the tendency to believe things that just aren't so.
Education Resources Information Center
A primary site for conducting searches into the vast compendium of published educational research. Timely access to free, full text materials is much improved but a rather unproductive turn in the research method 'paradigm wars' may limit search breadth and, io ipso, efficacy; e.g., qualitative research is apparently no longer considered sufficiently 'scientific' for inclusion in the ERIC® database.*
*A major reorganization of ERIC ordered by the federal Department of Education (DoE) ended support of ERIC clearinghouses and associated services as of December, 2003. Access to abstracts of all research through 2003 is currently still possible using searcheric.org but pre-1993 documents must be ordered from the original publisher because the DoE terminated Educational Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) in September, 2004.
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