Resources, issues, for education

This material is not 'polished'!!

As I surf the net, I come across various things I wish someone had told me about. In theory, one day it will all be available in the polished sections of my website. In the meantime, if you're willing to 'dig' through some disorganised material, you may be rewarded with 'gems'!

In some cases, the text is snipped from other sources. Therefore, among other things, the personal pronoun may not refer to the editor of this page. If, on the other hand something is identified as coming from 'TKB', he IS the pages's editor!

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An offering to the internet from one of the great educational resources of all time: National Geographic's map room.

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Fun learning experiences for families to develop children's intelligence are available in the logic.newsletter. Parents can supplement any education programme...

http://members.aol.com/mwhomespun

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Art Magician is a new, intelligent drawing program that allows children and nonartists to create impressive artwork quickly and easily. The software uses artificial intelligence and mathematical techniques to generate original two- and three-dimensional images automatically and with tremendous variety. We've had users as young as five and as old as fifty try it and enjoy it.

You can view dozens of sample images, and learn more about the software, by visiting our Web site:

http://www.pixette.com
(for newer browsers like Internet Explorer 3)

http://www.pixette.com/pixette
(for old browsers like Netscape 1.1)

The site includes images that range from simple, bold geometric designs to complex abstract forms like "metal snowflakes", artificial flowers, surfaces, ribbons, and numerous other shapes that are hard to describe.

The software includes a customizable screen saver that can use images created with Art Magician as templates for generating new images.

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If you need to find school partners from around the world, then visit this website for hundreds of email addresses of institutions from over 35 countries.

http://www.jokak.demon.co.uk/database.html

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(highly graphical)
I have created a site that lists some good WWW pages for use by Primary Schools. The address is
http://www.aspinall.force9.co.uk

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Colorful, visually oriented character education product called Spotlites. Said to be affordable, easy to incorporate into lesson plans, and fun for the children.
www.spotlites.com

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Recommended program: Depth of Knowledge. (For test generation, I think it was.
http://www.flash.net/~gspirit/

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Links for teachers...
http://www.iloveteaching.com

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This site is alot of fun we ages 5 & 2.. Jake and Justin... but does have a lot of stuff!) made it together with our mom's help and we want lot's of people to come see it!
http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/3949/ This is a fun site for kids with java games,clculator,stickers,virtual pets, game links, homework help, links for girls, sports links,music links and more
http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/3949/

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Said by site's operator to have lots of great programs to help make school fun and easy:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nissenventures/

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Hey, teachers... do you help your kids understand things that are all around them? Good learning material about about atmospheric optics: "Light and Optics" instructional module. Learn how light interacts with atmospheric particles (refraction, scattering, etc.) and the optical effects that can result (halos, rainbows, sunsets, sundogs, etc.)

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/home.rxml

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Visit a new and growing site that contains a comprehensive listing of graded links to great Biology related educational material on the Internet.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/7982/1.html

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[The following site is graphics intensive, frames, etc..., and registration is required for more than 'intro'..., but if you don't mind user-unfriendly sites...]

HomeCampus: It can be found at:

http://www.campus.bt.com/HomeCampus/

It is aimed both at children and at concerned parents who want to persuade their kids to use the family PC for something more than shoot'em-ups and racing games.

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[I didn't like this page's colour choices, but...] I have a web page for teachers and students. Please check it out at http://www.shadetree.com/~rplogman and let me knwo what you think Ron Plogman rplogman@shadetree.com

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Try the Primary IT Forum's page for innovative ideas on how to incorporate IT into lessons. http://www.topolgka.demon.co.uk/pitf/index.htm

Or for maths ideas, Nottingham University: http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/Maths/photomath/

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Graham Dean Web site (for KS 1 & 2 resources)
deano@argonet.co.uk http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/deano

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Educational Resources: http://www.sos.on.ca/~mervotek/edu.html

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Math and Physics Help Home Page: a series of small papers at the high school and college level. Papers include topics like trigonometry and special relativity, specific questions like "what does dx really mean?", and some general introductions to the way that science and math people think.

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/home.html

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Someone looking for good math websites for k-8 was referred to the 'Educational Links' page of...:
http://home.earthlink.net/~fallpeople/

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A computer mouse learning shareware program for MS Windows. It teachs the mouse skills via games and excercises.

Available from
http://pages.prodigy.com/VDJW65A

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KidzSoft WebZone site on the web: Contains hints and tips on choosing software for children as well as in-depth reviews of over 55 children's programs from publisher such as Dorling Kindersley, Davidson, Iona, and Microsoft.

Although the emphasis is on children's software there are also some reviews of other multimedia and utility programs that will be of interest to the home or small office user. Click here

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Education safety website.... much about UK regulations, not so much of practical interest. However, there are various links to UK and US safety information sources. Click here

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Web sites for kids, teens, parents, teachers (64 of them!) are at Natl Childrens Coalition's new web domain. Click here

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Kid City Virtual Village, High School Central, Kids Mail Box Teen Classifieds, Kids Speak Out, Kid Surf and 30 local City Kids city guides for kids and teens, plus national resources about kids. You can also vote for Teen of the Year and Kid of the Year. For more info, or to write, or volunteer, contact Don at Click here

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I saw the following in a newsgroup...

"I am a member of Teen Programmers Unite. We are a world wide programming group conisisting of teen programmers who are intelligent and wish to learn as much as they can about computers. If you are a teen then please goto"

"There are NO requirements or costs. TPU is run by members for members. PLEASE check us out if you are interested. Thanks !! :) " Click here

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Ideas for using computers in the K-12 classroom Click here

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I saw the following in a newsgroup. I'm not sure I'd want to listen to this person speak for long, but the website may be of interest. Be warned... the site makes heavy use of graphics. If your internet connection is slow, you may want to skip it.

"Learning need not be a location-dependent phenomena that stops at the doors of a school, and a school need not be limited to the building that bears its name; both of these, and the community, can be brought together as one virtual event during the period of time a student accesses a public school web site from home.

"Sooner or later, my colleague and I are hopeful that someone in a position to endorse our work will realize the foresight of our web pages in actualizing that virtual event alluded to above.

"Last week a student, as their parent looked on, logged on to Southern, surfed to Latin, opened up my Jason and the Argonaut's page, downloaded my interlinear translation program to their hard drive, and opened the program up and did their homework for the night with it's assistance. The above verbose description took all of 30 seconds to accomplish.

"The parent said, "Now that's neat."

"In addition to the numerous programs I authored and offer for free, I am the first to incorporate Latin text, English translation, an extensive word glossary, and footnotes, all from separate sources, onto a single page using simple frames. This is a pertinent example of how an educator should operate to bring together disparate, disjointed information from numerous sites on the net into a tangible, useful instructional resource for students. Once a body of able professionals convene for the purpose of such curriculum alignment of available net resources, we will have entered true twenty-first century instruction. Until then, come to the Southern web site and get it now from the real groundbreakers in web-driven public school education, Nabeel Kandah and myself." Click here

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From a newsgroup post. The software costs $39, but the specs looked good....

"You can administer tests yourself. One that I am aware of is the Childrens IQ and Achievement Test. This is computer software, and will test from grades K-9. I have never used it, but the ads say they are American Schools Certified. The website for this software is at Click here

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Educational Shareware Coop Click here

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(British) National Association for Co-ordinators and Teachers of IT Click here

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You may want to visit the Teachers@Work site on the Internet. This site has over 1000 reviewed links to Education Internet sites around the world.

The links are broken into groups by subject.

Each of the sites is reviewed and has a content rating out of five and a presentation rating out of five, (5 being the highest). Sites do not get on the database unless they score a total of eight or more points from their combined content and presentation ratings. Click here

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Lots of good stuff at this non-commercial site with Web links, reviewed books, free software, and comments to help you teach your children. You can make a difference in your children's education. Click here

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A non-commercial site with Web links, reviewed books, free software, and comments to help you teach your children.

John Adams jqa@whidbey.net

http://ww2.whidbey.net/webplay/teach.html

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http://www.winsite.com/... quote from there:'WinSite, The Planet's Largest Software Archive for Windows shareware and trialware on the Internet. WinSite Group (formerly the CICA Windows FTP archives) went on the air Friday, October 13th, 1995. Despite the superstitious date, we emerged from the temporary accomodations generously provided by CICA, to a full T1 Internet connection (which we easily saturated), with three times the processing power and twice the disk space. Since October, we have expanded and grown and saturating three (3) T-1 data circuits. (CICNet provides WinSite with Internet connectivity.)' http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/.. quote from there:'Wuarchive now has over 112 Gigabytes of RAID 5 storage. We're looking for new things to mirror that are relevant to the academic and computing community'

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A post praised a children's educational game called Amy's Fun23. The program can be found at http://www.devasoft.com

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A site for kids; from the survey input, most of the visitors are 11-16 but there are some people who are much younger and a few older ones too. The site is, "The Official Carlson Septuplets Page" featuring stories, pictures, interviews, even multi-lingual pages plus much more all about the seven fictional Carlson sisters. It's at http://www.id.net/~kmannist/septs.htm I hope you enjoy it if you visit! Thank you, ~Jessie Comment from TKB: I'm not quite sure what the appeal is, but the site is put together nicely. Have a visit; judge for yourself.

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ECathers wrote: Click here to read about Jake and see some really cool links for 5 year olds. Click here to read about Justin and see some really cool links for 2 year olds. This site is alot of fun we made it together with our mom's help and we want lot's of people to come see it!
http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/3949/

This is a fun site for kids with java games,clculator,stickers,virtual pets,game links,homework help,links for girls,sports links,music links and more

http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/3949/

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A new educational Web site is now available for use by students, teachers and parents worldwide. The Kids Food CyberClub (www.kidsfood.org) is a fun and educational World Wide Web site for 3rd to 5th grade children with activities which teach kids about food, nutrition, and hunger. The Kids Food CyberClub was developed by the Connecticut Association for Human Services with funding from Kaiser Permanente. The goal of the site is to improve health outcomes by promoting good nutrition among children. Children can explore 14 sections of the web site and learn about nutrition and health through interactive quizzes, "shop" for food online and receive feedback about the nutritional value of their choices, investigate and build the food guide pyramid, contribute recipes to a Club Cookbook, use Internet search engines in an online "scavenger hunt", and contribute book reviews on food-related children's books.

A Teacher's Guide, which is available for free download from the site, includes detailed lesson plans on use of the site and suggestions for classroom activities to supplement online activities. These accompanying in-class, hands-on, activities complement the material learned on the site. While focused on nutrition, the site can be used by teachers for building skills in a number of subject areas, including biology, math, language arts, art, computer science, earth science, and social studies. The web site also has links to other web sites for parents, teachers and kids related to nutrition, health, and using technology with children. A parent's section of the site offers a variety of suggested parent-child activities to teach children about nutrition and improve eating habits.

The Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS), which developed the site, is an independent, nonpartisan, research, education, and advocacy organization which seeks innovative solutions to make our health and human services system work more productively for low-income people. CAHS also coordinates the Connecticut Anti-Hunger Coalition, which is committed to decreasing hunger and malnutrition in the state.

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Monica Belyea
webmaster@kidsfood.org
http://www.kidsfood.org
TKB: Failed to get into this site, but looked particularly useful.
Maybe YOU will get in....?

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Folks, I've spent a lot of time concentrating on Educational Software for girls at my Educational Software web site: http://edsoftware.miningco.com and the series concludes this week with some final discussion and a few new links.

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There are several tutorial services on the internet. As to whether they are profitable, that I don't know.

Clonlara Home Based Education:
http://www.clonlara.org/ (Also have big list of links to educational sites)


Escondido Tutorial Service:
http://www.gbt.org/

:)

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http://oak.oakland.edu/ archive of useful software for education, and links to other resources.

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Have you seen September's World Quiz? Test your knowledge of world places and events!

-- http://www.emulateme.com

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We invite you to visit our "Ican Spell" web site

Our Kit is a specially designed set of diagnostic spelling tests and follow up exercises using a new, effective spelling strategy. The tests specifically look for problems in the phonetic area, and the misspelling of basic sight words. This has been produced by an experienced classroom teacher and really works.

http://www.vision.net.au/~hirstjh/IcanSpell/

Norwood Tutors Australia

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A homeschooler's page...
http://www.angelfire.com/or/Homeschool/index.html

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I have created a site that lists some good WWW pages for use by Primary Schools. The address is www.aspinall.force9.co.uk (Heavy graphics use.)

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Little Bits has just completed our program of the week. This one is a math skills builder that works with addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

The program uses multimedia to help keep things interesting. We are especially proud of the multiplication tables which progressively provide more hints as they are needed.

This program is free and is available, along with our other programs at our downloads section:

http://www.dlcwest.com/~little_bits

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Reports of visits to UK schools are supposed to be available at the OFSTED reports database web site - www.open.gov.uk/ofsted/ofsted.htm - [I have had problems with the site.. access, unlisted reports, no links for many listed schools, big 'index' pages.. bah!]

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Looked good, $20 shareware, but long dwnload needed..
Modern Math trainer to earn (for 1,000 PCs total):

English: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/abatec

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I found a web-site that might be of help. http://www.doe.state.in.us/science/proficiencies.html This is the Indiana Department of Educations draft for the Indiana Science Proficiency Guide (new for '97 I think). They have K-12 links listed, so you might want to browse a bit, and use ideas as you need them.

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Anyone learning to play the Recorder (or doing the teaching!) can use this simulation program, which is fully multimedia (speech, clear pictures, animation). It runs on a PC with windows 3+ or 95, or a PowerMac with Softwindows.

Ideal for schools (it stores the results of graded tests for any number of children) and for use at home. Children can hear what a recorder sounds like in the hands of a true professional and pick up some tips.

And they can write tunes of their own and have the computer show them how to play them, note by note.

This is a major tutorial, produced by a group of professionals. Download a free copy, fully working, from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_child/

A new version 9.2 now available.

- John Child -

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Dyann Schmidel is compiling a list of excellent web pages created by K-12 teachers (http://schmidel.com/7-12-Net/teachers.htm).

If you have created such a page or have come across such pages in your Internet travels, please email their URLs to teachers@schmidel.com. Thank you!

Best Regards, Dyann K. Schmidel, Ph.D.



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Here is a math site that I have found to be very informative with terrific links.

Http://forum.swarthmore.edu:80/index.html

Tkuc@AOL

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I would like to invite everyone to visit my web site, I created it as part of my Ferris State University CISM580adv Internet class. I would like to know what you think of it and invite you to revisit it in the future.

If you like it now, just wait, I plan on reorganizing it and having resource links for most if not all educational areas.

My site address is http://cca.munet.edu/~mxc09961

Thanks, Martin Crowley

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The Thunderbeam site has articles on educational software for preschoolers and older kids, how to use computers for learning, reviews and how to sort through different titles so you can choose what is appropriate for your children etc. It's not a home school site, but I think the information there is beneficial for home schooling. Here's the url for the article area.

http://www.thunderbeam.com/w/f/kidsrefs.html

Cathe

[It won't accept enquiries unless you accept cookies.. boo, hiss]

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I'm looking for web sites for kids' software review that allows searching by various criteria, including age. I've found the following two:

http://www.creativekids.com

Are there others?

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The following site has some excellent, well-organized projects all set up that would be a good starting place for teachers. http://www.wvtinc.com/rm [I couldn't access this site, but looked good enough to flag for trying again later.]

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http://www.edsanders.com...'This site is designed to run fast for your convenience. Spartan on the graphics, fluff and glitz, loaded with fast access content . Please link to this site and tell others about it if you like it!'

Free phonics stuff, history stories, etc.

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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nissenventures/

Features Education Software for preschool ESL and ELT Students (English, Spanish and French).. Casino Games ( Card and Slot ).. Action Games and our Cookbook with 17,000+ recipes from around the world.

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Get NEW Kid's games, puzzles, sounds, and much more Shareware As It's Written!

The latest and greatest Kid's games, puzzles, sounds, and much more shareware and freeware as soon as it's created! We download new programs DAILY (10 a.m. EST) from more than 300 sites all over the world.

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Get the latest at:

http://www.jumbo.com/pages/kids/ [This site was slow to respond, and used the you-can't-avoid-them graphics]

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