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EDCI 4993 Sec.603, Wednesdays, Spring 2000

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Week of Monday, May 8
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School Notes Teachers - Create Notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free community service.
Web GFX OnLine Graphics Generator
Encyclopedia Louisiana An adventure in history and economic development. Prosperity through cultural literacy.


Week of Monday, April 24
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Comparative Governments and Economic Systems by Deborah Shrable.
InterLibrary ... a safe way to provide creditible Internet resourses to students and Educators -- by Vilka Simms.
Tempory Login: amteacher ; Password: april
LaWeb LaWeb hosts online, educational collaboration and communication. Your K-12 school or civic organization is invited to join us as we share learning experiences on the World Wide Web. -- from Mark Lasserre.
3D plugs for PowerPoint from Mark Lasserre.
PowerPoint Book Reports from Vileka Simms
ThinkQuest The basic belief underlying the ThinkQuest programs is that the Internet and related technologies are powerful new learning tools that can be used by young people everywhere. ThinkQuest is committed to engaging students worldwide in its programs as program participants learn to assimilate, organize, and share their knowledge with others around the world.


Week of Monday, April 10
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ISTE Technology Standards Standards for Basic Endorsement in Educational Computing and Technology Literacy ... This is where Louisiana's Technology Coordinator Program standards come from ... and where the Objectives of this class are derived.
Do It Step-by-Step A Systematic Approach to Designing Multimedia Projects
Sample Q&A Sample Quiz using Java Script ... check it out ... you should be able to change this page for your own use.
CA World Is in New Orleans this week. CA-World is the top IT event with 3,000+ sessions from today's leaders in the computing industry. CA-World will be attended by over 25,000 business professionals and more than 500 journalists from around the world


Week of Monday, April 3
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Internation Socity for Technology in Education National Educational Technology Standards for Students-Connecting Curriculum and Technology. Journal: National Educational Technology Standards for Students-Connecting Curriculum and Technology. Journal of Research on Computing in Education.
Do It Step-by-Step A Systematic Approach to Designing Multimedia Projects.


Week of Monday, March 27
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Electronic Journals & Articles Articles, Journals, Lists of Journals, and other research information.
The Psychological Cyberspace A HyperText Book
Week of Monday, March 20
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GLEF The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) creates media that promote a vision of learning where students are challenged and engaged, have access to interactive technologies, and are supported by inspired teachers and involved parents and communitie
National Edcuation Gaols The National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) is a unique bipartisan and intergovernmental body of federal and state officials created in July 1990 to assess and report state and national progress toward achieving the National Education Goals.
Primary Sources for MultiMedia Research References for Multimedia CAL, Learning Theory and Instructional Design
Awesom Library Awesome Library organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.


Week of Monday, March 14
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Africana.com ... a Digital Bridge
Downloadable Education Software This is a list of sites, from which, educational software may be downloaded. The purpose of this list is to provide educators with opportunies to explore what kinds (and qualties) of edcuational software are available. One part of understanding and using technology is to evaluate it. That is precisely what should be done whenever you download software from the below listed sites, or any other Internet site for that matter. Download the software, play with it , and evaluate its usefulness both for you and your students.
MarcoPolo The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, and classroom activities. Sites include materials to help with daily classroom planning, brief and extended lesson plans, reviewed and expert-approved links to related high-quality sites, and powerful search engines.
Presenters University This site has plenty of free files to download. These files help to enhance presentations and contain a quotation bank, microsoft power point templates, lotus freelance graphics files, 2 media template kits (one is art deco), clip art and sound files. The clip art and templates are not the standard issue - they're eye-catching and promise to help spiff up presentations.
Building Rubrics A rubric is a guideline for making scoring decisions.
webTeacher ... a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips - just a mouse click away!


After Mardi Gras
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Networking Fundamentals This course will introduce you to the underlying concepts of data communications, telecommunications, and networking.
The Gateway!! Teachers, parents, administrators can still search or browse The Gateway and find high quality educational materials.
The Fractal Microscope A Distributed Computing Approach to Mathematics in Education.
Web 66 ... teachers are in full control of their own destiny and can seek out the best educational destinations anywhere on the web.
The Express Page Free homepages for all users of the World Wide Web.
The Internet Public Library This site links to collections of books,magazines, newspapers, etc. It also has teen and youth collections with varied topics of interest. From one of these sites, I linked to an interesting site, http://school.discovery.com/students/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/ (B.J.'s Homework Help) that lists over 500 educational sites organized under various subject areas.


One Week of Mardi Gras Left
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Web Page Essentials The aim of eTechNotes is to provide useful information for higher education instructors.


The Two Weeks of Mardi Gras
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Jason Project After discovering the wreck of the RMS Titanic, world-famous explorer and oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard received thousands of letters from students around the world wanting to go with him on his next expedition. In order to bring the thrill of discovery to millions of students worldwide, Dr. Ballard founded the JASON Project, a year-round scientific expedition designed to excite and engage students in science and technology and to motivate and provide professional development for teachers. The JASON Project has been praised as the leader in distance learning programs, and continues to expand its reach by adding more components to the Project experience.
Learning for a Lifetime PBS Adult Learning Service.
SchoolNotes.com Teachers - Create Notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free community service.
Arachnoid.com Access to much help with Authoring Web sites ... including many links to freely available tools.
PT3 Preparing tomorrow's teachers to use Technology Grants.
DoE United States Department of Education.


Week of February 21, February 28 and March 6, 2000
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Authoring for the Web
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Multimedia Authoring AUTHORING here refers to programming by non-programmers. This site is a resource collection of pointers to Internet sites for those that develop or author multimedia.
A Guide to Web Authoring Recourses Web authoring and online guides to creating your own home pages -- from Northwestern University Library.
Web Authoring FAQs ... maintained by the Web Design Group.
Web Authoring Tools A Review of many of the authoring environments available for the Web
HyperText and Writing Space
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Writing Space The subject of this printed book is the coming of the electronic book.
Another review The Journal of Computing in Higher Education 3 (1992).
Electronic Signs Chapter 6 of Writing Space.
The Electronic Labyrinth Hypertext about Hypertext about Writing Space.
The Writers' Corner Cafe Monthly chat session held on KIDLINK IRC, where a group of kids aged 10-15 meet and discuss writing hypertexts.
A sample chat Teaching Inside An Electronic Writing Space.
Jay David Bolter Dr. Bolter's home page.
Amazon.com Buying Writing Space is little pricy.
Web-based Curriculum Resources
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Cruse Web66 The University of Minnesota Mustang project.
the CurriculumWeb A Education Web Site.
Curriculum Web Sites Links to many more links about using the Web in Curriculum.
Teach with Movies A New Tool for Parents and Teachers -- also in Spanish.
Tunnel to History This site covers all that is History...meaning, all that relates to Humanity. For info on Ancient History, World History, War, U.S. History & Government, the Fine Arts(art, music, film, TV), Education, Study Skills, plus anything else you can think of.
History of the United Kingdom Links to Web Sites with primary documents.


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