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.
Technology in Education Consortia and Educational Laboratories
The federal grants initially supporting these regional institutions have either dried up or been diverted to support initiatives such as No Child Left Behind with the end result that some good ideas and tools have been lost. This is nothing new in American education but, as is often the case, jewels may still be discovered amid the rubble: Teacher technological support tools developed at High Plains and NCRTEC remain usable even if the consortium itself is now defunct and practical, classroom research results at Labs such as Mid-continent remain freely available to the teacher willing to search for them.
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 also 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 something very close to "one-stop shopping" for evolution education although supplements such as the extensive FAQ'S at Talk.origins or additional illustrations of diversity such as those from the Census of Marine Life can add to the overall experience.
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.
FullBooks.com
Thousands of full-text free books. Many rather uninteresting titles to be sure but also many classics and a few rarities. Texts are rather poorly formatted with some advertising inserted but easy for the busy teacher to excerpt or annotate for students.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
One of the best sites for researching modern mythology and hoaxes. Misinformation is so widespread, particularly online, that skepticism is mandatory and the teacher correspondingly obligated to teach it in addition to the tools for resolving questions of fact or analysis. Truth or Fiction is also a useful general fact-checking site. More specialized sites are Hoax-Slayer for email/spam and FactCheck.org for political claims. For tips and further guidance see Detecting Bull and Crap Detection 101.
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, eo ipso, efficacy; e.g., it is rumored that some forms of qualitative research are 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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