The Internet Educator's Resources Page

The CHS Video Guide: The CHS Library subscribes to both the regular cable service, and the new digital collection. We are able to record for you, within copyright fair use guidelines, at your request. Here is a set of links to some of the channels available via the digital service.
Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy: New technologies for improving literacy: Explains in this article from Reading Online, with excellent examples, guides and ideas, why it is important to make use of the Web/Internet in teaching. For more information and ideas, see the journal/site: Reading Online.
CUSD Web Mail: Here is the place to access your e-mail using a Web browser.
AskERIC: The pioneering Web site that sets the standard for K-12 educational Internet resources. Has many full-text documents which summarize useful research, plus a collection of lesson plans, and archives of discussion groups (i.e., LM_NET, K12ADMIN, EdNet.)
Search for ERIC Digests: ERIC Digests are short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education, designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information. The full-text ERIC Digest database contains more than 1,713.
ERIC Clearinghouses: Links to the network of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centers), which offer a wide variety of information for educators. Organized according to teaching specializations and interests of educators.
Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education: An easy to use Web document that provides a nice arrangement of links to major areas of the U.S. Department of Education. Useful if you are unable to find what you want through their DOE Home Page (immediately below).
U.S. Dept. of Education: The official Home Page of the U.S. Department of Education. Lots of links to educational documents, program information, research and education information.
California Technology Assistance Project Region 2: California offers technical assistance to its schools through this program (C-TAP). Grants, conferences, and other assistance is available in various regions. This center is for Region II, which includes Chico, Butte County, and the counties up north to the Oregon border.
The Knowledge Network Explorer: Designed for educators and others who would like to know more about issues affecting the schools and libraries in California. Includes information on Pacific Bell's Education First Initiative that helps schools get connected to the Internet, as well as newsletters, curriculum ideas and support, and more.
The Big6 Skills for Information Problem Solving: Now that you have experienced how vast amounts of information are available to you through the Internet and other electronic library resources, you probably feel a need for a system to help students make use of the information overload. Here is the best available: The Big Six Skills, created by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, a librarian-teacher team!
Argus Internet Guides Clearinghouse: The Internet is as much about collaboration and cooperation as anything else. Individuals and organizations make their information resources available, and Guide authors search for, describe, evaluate, repackage, and include them in their guides. The Clearinghouse does much the same thing for the guides--they find, describe, evaluate, and make available these guides via a central location.
What's What on the Web: A site dedicated to helping people find new and useful Internet resources. Lists links to a number of "What's New"-type services which evaluate and/or describe new sites.

`Electronic Mail For Educators`

Introduction to E-mail: Basic concepts of e-mail use, the whats, whys and wherefores. A nice explanation of this powerful new tool at our disposal.
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: A public domain guide to using e-mail, by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood. Includes sections on "Why Is E-mail Different," Page Layout," and much more.

`Assistance for Using E-mail Software`

Eudora Tutorial: Eudora is a very popular and very user-friendly way to read your e-mail. Here you'll find a few basic instructions for starting and using Eudora.
Eudora Light Mail Client: Eudora Light is the freeware version of the excellent e-mail software, Eudora. You can download (for free) both Macintosh and Windows versions from this location, operated by the creators of Eudora, Qualcomm.
Pine Information Center: "Pine (a Program for Internet News & Email) is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well." This page is made available by the folks who created one of the most popular and user friendly e-mail software used on the Internet.
Netscape Messenger: For help with the built-in mail system that comes with Netscape Communicator, simply pull down the Netscape Help menu, and select "Help Contents". Then, when the Help Module pops up, click of the section: " Sending and receiving email" to have the list of helpful instructions displayed. Please note the topic list in the column to the left side.

`The Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups`

There is a specialized language Internet users have created to communicate with each other, interact with automated services, and to describe their activities and resources. This new "language" is constantly evolving, and is not to be feared. It should be embraced as part of the process of gradually getting to use, and later mastering the use of the Internet. Newcomers ("newbies") who learn the language of the Net, will find it to be useful, humorous, and enlightening.
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette: The Internet has its own ways of doing things. Arlene Rinaldi has gathered together some basic information about how to go about things, and how to ne a good Net Citizen in the process! Especially useful are sections on Electronic Communications, Discussion Groups, and of course, the Introduction.
Internet Terminology and Definitions: Find definitions for those strange and exotic new words you see while using or reading about the Internet.
ILC Glossary of Internet Terms: A good source for definitions of words and terms related to the Internet.
ILC Common Internet File Formats: Similar to the resource above. "This list is mainly intended for use on Macintosh computers and PC's running MS-Windows. This is only a partial list of what really is out there but for these common platforms, the majority of the file types encountered on-line can handled with the tools herein."
The Listserv Users' Guide: From the folks who brought us the Listserv software to facilitate Internet discussions via e-mail, here is a helpful guide for users (i.e., members of discussion groups.)

`Using E-mail to Contact Other Educators`

AskERIC Discussion Group Archives: A collection of the latest postings to popular education discussion groups such as K12ADMIN, LM_NET, KIDSPHERE, and Ednet.
Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences: Also known as "The Kovacs List", contains descriptions of electronic conferences on topics of interest to scholars and professionals. Includes informative listings and descriptions of the groups. Searchable. (Note: Try browsing the Subject/Category and Alphabetical listings.)
T I L E . N E T: This WWW site is a reference to many discussion groups on the Internet.
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists: Another helpful place to find Internet discussion groups. Organized alphabetically, by both Names of the groups, and the Subjects they discuss.
Liszt: Search for Discussion Groups: Yet another helpful place to find Internet discussion groups. Searchable. Organized alphabetically, by both Names of the groups, and the Subjects they discuss.

`Lesson Plans On The Internet`

Tales from the Electronic Frontier: Online version of the book: Tales from the Electronic Frontier. "Ten teachers recount actual experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics education. The stories illustrate how this technology can be used in different contexts and for different purposes, stimulating analysis and reflection about how the Internet can--and cannot--support teaching and learning."
The AskERIC Lesson Plans Page: AskERIC, at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, maintains a collection of lesson plans and curriculum units from a wide variety of sources, covering a range of subjects and grade levels.
OnlineEducator: A very nice collection of lesson plans using the Internet in a variety of settings and subject areas.
Teacher's Edition Online: An online magazine for teachers, including nice sections with lesson plans, tips and ideas.
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is designed to help educators improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics education. Check out the Resource Finder to find instructional materials for K-12 math and science, or follow hundreds of links to Internet sites for math and science education.

`School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet`

Global SchoolNet Foundation: Since 1985 Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) has been a leader in the instructional applications of telecommunications, a major contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN has had an incredible impact on networking in the K12 community.
KIDLINK Global Grassroots Dialog: This is a grassroots, email-based project aiming at getting as many children in the age group 10 -15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. KIDLINK organizes a series of 24-hour-a-day discussions between children, between adult coordinators, teachers, parents, and other interested persons. The topics are many. Think of it as a series of 24-hour-per-day conferences based on email.
IECC-Classroom Connections: This is a set of e-mail discussion groups with specific related purposes. The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.

`Problems and Policies Providing Internet Access At School`

Acceptable Use Policies: Rice University: A collection of links to Acceptable Use Policies and articles on the subject, selected from a wide range of resources (i.e., magazine and journal articles, school and district policies.) Note actual policies are in the first section: "Acceptable and Unacceptable Use of Net Resources from Armadillo"
The Internet Advocate: This is a very well-organized resource for school librarians and educators wanting to provide high quality access to the Internet for their students. Visit this helpful page to see some excellent ideas and plans!

`Some Writing Prompts Using the Internet`

Today In History and the Today In History Archives: From the U.S. Library of Congress, each day the Library of Congress offers interesting information, images, sounds-- a presentation of historic facts highlighted by items from the American Memory: Historical Collections of the National Digital Library, full-text collections of primary resources (books, pamphlets,photographs, music, films, and more!).
Today In History: Every day a huge list of birth and death dates, events, and milestones in history are posted to this site. Check it out for an interesting source of trivia quiz or energizer activities for your students.
On This Day....: Gives names of famous people (mostly movies-related) who were born and died on the day of your choice. Allows you to also lank to and search their Movie Database for inforamtion about movies, actors, directors, etc. This service is managed by the Internet Movie Database folks.
The Sacramento Bee: The online version of a newspaper from Sacramento, the major metropolitan area just south of Chico. Check the top daily stories for discussion topics!
San Francisco Examiner: The Electronic Examiner also has daily top news stories and features from the San Francisco Examiner, like the Bee above! Search its full-text archives of past issues as well.
The Quotations Page: Lots of quotations are available here, including the Quote of the Day. Each day a quotation is selected and made available by the click of your mouse. If you want more quotes, try the Random Quotations Page, which chooses new quotes every time you load it.
A Word A Day: Each day a new word and its definition are made available online at this site. The definition itself contains links to its wording, so if you can't understand a word in the definition, just click on it to see its definition.
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The Internet Educator's Resources Page From the Chico High School Library

Electronic Mail For Educators

Assistance for Using E-mail Software

The Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups

Using E-mail to Contact Other Educators

Lesson Plans On The Internet

School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet

Problems and Policies Providing Internet Access At School

Some Writing Prompts Using the Internet

`The Internet Educator's Resources Page From the Chico High School Library`

`Electronic Mail For Educators`

`Assistance for Using E-mail Software`

`The Language of the Internet and Discussion Groups`

`Using E-mail to Contact Other Educators`

`Lesson Plans On The Internet`

`School and Classroom Projects Using the Internet`

`Problems and Policies Providing Internet Access At School`

`Some Writing Prompts Using the Internet`