and Informative Sites· Newbery Medal Home Page
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
· Tammy’s Technology Tips
for Teachers
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html
· Lexington School District One Technology Internet Resource http://www.lexington1.net/technology/techresource/tis/tech4u.htm
· “The Web Portal for
Educators”
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/
· Web version of South
Carolina’s literary map
View a list of authors and their
connections to the geographic regions of South Carolina. This site is a
project of Palmetto Book Alliance.
http://students.libsci.sc.edu/literarymap/first.htm
· American Library Association’s
(ALA) Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) website; co-sponsored by
the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Washington Office for CIPA.
The CIPA went into effect April 20, 2001.
http://www.ala.org/cipa/
· A resource dealing with
copyright for kids
http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
· South Carolina Education
Department’s Teaching Learning Connection where you can search for lesson
plans relevant to your standards or curriculum
http://www.sctlc.com/
· Brainpop; a cool site
that provides educational animated movies in the areas of math, science
and technology
http://www.brainpop.com/
· EmTech or Emerging Technologies;
contains over 1,200 resources organized by topics for teachers, students
and parents
http://www.emtech.net/
· A Middle School Computer
Technologies Journal
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/
· Search Engines I like:
http://www.northernlight.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://hotbot.lycos.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.excite.com/
· Bare Bones 101; a tutorial
for on-line searching
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
· American Association
of School Librarians
http://www.ala.org/aasl/
· American Association
of School Librarians Parent Page
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/index.html
· eSchool News Online
– “Where K-12 Education and Technology Meet”
http://www.eschoolnews.com/
· Teacher helps for web
page design
http://www.electricteacher.com/
· An education site that
reviews sites and serves as a directory for sites that relate to education
http://www.educationworld.com/
· South Carolina’s Information
Highway newsletter – “South Carolina’s Front Door”
http://www.sciway.net/
· “Classroom Flyer” – a daily newsletter from Riverdeep, the Learning Company, featuring articles and lessons correlated to the standards http://www.riverdeep.net/current/classroom_flyer/index.jhtml
· Kathy Schrock’s Guide
for Educators – we all know about and love this resource, offering teacher
resources including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing
the curriculum and professional growth
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/