TCN Sources for Education

TCN Educator's Resources

Below is an ever-changing list of Internet resources for teachers and students. They include lesson plans, research databases, collaborative activites, professional contacts, and much more. Last update 3/10/96


Search the Web

  • Alta Vista
  • WebCrawler
  • Excite
  • FTPSearch -- Searches FTP sites for software, etc.
  • Harvest
  • InfoSeek
  • Inktomi
  • Lycos
  • McKinley's Magellan
  • MetaCrawler
  • NCSA's "What's New" -- Information about new Internet sites
  • Net-Happenings -- Information about new Internet sites, software, & products
  • Open Text Index
  • Savvy Search
  • Tradewave: Searching the Galaxy


  • Hey Kids!

  • Kid's Web - a great place for kids to start.
  • HOTlists
  • KIDLINK - Topic-oriented global chat for kids.
  • Uncle Bob's Kids Page
  • Zarf's List of Interactive Games
  • Buckman School's Picturecam - Updated every ten minutes
  • Global SchoolNet Foundation


    Regional Resources

  • Northwestern Michigan College
  • Grand Traverse area schools
  • Traverse Community Network (telnet connection - School Center)
  • Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative K-12 Water Quality Testing Page
  • MDEnet Gopher (Michigan Department of Education)
  • Education Central at Central Michigan University (Web Page)
  • Education Central at Central Michigan University (Freenet via telnet)
  • Explorer Home Page - Great Lakes Collaborative /Star Schools Project
  • Great Lakes Information Network
  • Cyberion City A virtual environment built by schoolchildren Login as : guest


    Sites of Interest to Educators

  • SERI - Special Education Resources on the Internet
  • Education-Galaxy (Education.html) EINet Galaxy's collection of resources about education
  • Education-GNN (index.html) Education Center from Global Network Navigator
  • Education-WWW VL (Overview.html) WWW Virtual Library entry for education
  • Education-Yahoo Education section from Yahoo

    Other Collections and Sites

  • Ask Eric Gopher
  • AskERIC Web Educational Resources Information Center, Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, federally-funded collection of education-related resources
  • Best for ed a selection of the best of the Internet for educators
  • BBN NSN BBN's National School Network Testbed
  • CALICO: Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium: mail CALICO@Dukemvs.ac.duke.edu
  • CAUSE association for managing and using information technology in higher education
  • CEFPI (cefpi) an internationally recognized information agency that supports its members' professional efforts in creating world class educational facilities; site features current Issue Traks on a wide variety of Educational Facility Planning information including the latest technology/Internet issues
  • Center/Excellence Center for Excellence in Education, to help our best students and teachers keep the United States competitive in science and technology, and to nurture international understanding among potential leaders of many countries
  • Chronicle web ACADEME THIS WEEK, offers guide to contents of The Chronicle of Higher Education and all Positions Available ads, calendar of events, deadlines for grants, papers, fellowships, put out every Tuesday a t noon EST
  • Cisco (edu-arch.html) education archive, lists a variey of resources about school connectivity to the Internet as well as resources on the WWW
  • COL Commonwealth of Learning, distance education techniques and associated communications technologies
  • CoVis Learning Through Collaborative Visualization, Northwestern University
  • Cyberion City virtual environment built by schoolchildren Login as : guest
  • CTC (index.html) Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway, resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12
  • DeweyWeb facilitating communication between students from all over the world
  • Distance Ed (disted:ellsworth)
  • Distance Learning (distance.htm) directory of information about Distance Learning
  • NDLC National (USA) Distance Learning Center Login as : ndlc
  • Distance Ed DB: A database from the International Centre for Distance Learning at the UK Open University: mail n.ismail@open.ac.uk
  • Distance Ed DB contains full text of _Mindweave_, edited by Mason and Kaye Login as : icdl
  • Diversity U Diversity University, an experiment in interactive learning through internet
  • EdWeb-CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an on-line tutorial on education, technology, school reform and the Information Highway
  • Education Gopher Florida Tech's collection of educational resources
  • EOS web Educational Online Sources, pointers for education
  • Educational Technology (info-edu-comp.html) The World-Wide Web Virtual Library--Educational Technology
  • Education Technology Initiatives Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland now support three major initiatives in the UK which are aimed at improving universities' awareness and use of technological innovations in teaching and learning
  • Educator's Email (educatrs.lst) An Educator's Guide to E-Mail Lists
  • Educator's USENET (edusenet.gde) Ednet Guide to Usenet Newsgroups
  • Empire Schoolhouse Empire Internet Schoolhouse, a selection of K-12 resources, projects and discussion groups
  • ENC Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, instructional materials for K-12 math and science
  • EnviroWeb a project of the EnviroLink Network, sponsors many on-line environmental education initiatives
  • ETB/NLM Educational Technology Branch (ETB), part of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  • Exploratorium a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art, and human perception
  • GENII (GENII-Home-Page.html) Group Exploring the National Information Infrastructure
  • Global SchoolNet Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to the instructional applications of telecommunication
  • GNA (index.html) Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with Usenet University; goal is to create an fully accredited online university
  • High school/Internet a case study of an east central Florida high school, by Michael Anthony Gallos to the internet
  • HUB mathematics and science education
  • IAT archive Institute for Academic technology ftp site
  • iCDL (ICDL-Facts.html) International Centre for Distance Learning, in the United Kingdom on the campus of the Open University, disseminating distance education information worldwide
  • IKE IBM Kiosk for Education
  • IKE Web (ike.html) IBM Kiosk for Education
  • ILT Institute for Learning Technologies as part of the Columbia University Virtual Information Initiative
  • ILC-Southampton (welcome.html) Interactive Learning Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Internet and Ed by Noel Estabrook
  • IRD/Educators Internet Resource Directory for Educators
  • IT/SFSU (edtech.html) Instructional Technology Resources from San Francisco State University
  • JASON Project web (JASON.html) A journey to the rain forest, caverns, Mayan ruins and coral reef of Belize
  • Jones Ed Nets Jones Education Networks (Mind Extension University, Jones Computer Network)
  • Kenyon workbook Workbook for Kenyon's Summer Institute on Academic Information Resources, emphasis on faculty and student exploration of information resources, communication, and collaboration, f rom Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
  • KidLink gopher aimed at 10-15 year olds
  • K-12 List (k12.html) list of K-12 Internet School Sites, by Gleason Sackman
  • K-12 Registry (others.html) WWW Schools Registry, from Web66/Hillside Elementary School
  • K-12/Armadillo (K12resources.html) annotated directory of K-12 resources from Rice University
  • K-12 Gopher CICnet's K-12 Internet gopher
  • K-12 Info/CNIDR includes global schoolhouse project and Janice's K12 Cyberspace Outpost
  • K-12 Briarwood collection of K-12 resources of the Internet, including a Curriculum Database
  • K-12 NASA/Langley (hpcck12home.html) NASA Langley Research Center's HPCC K-12 Program
  • K-12 NASA/NAS (edures.html) pointers to online Educational Resources, by Chris Beaumont
  • K-12 Web 66 resources and information to facilitate the introduction of Web technology into K12 schools
  • Latitude 28 (Welcome.html) Latitude28 Schoolhouse, a privately sponsored project, designed to make educational materials accessible to students of all ages
  • LRDC Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh--thinking, knowing, and understanding in and beyond school
  • NCSA education (EduHome.html) National Center for Supercomputing Applications Education Program Home Page
  • Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona
  • MEU BBS Mind Extension University Bulletin Board System
  • Networking: Networking on the Network, an essay by Phil Agre: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send Profess Network"
  • Networking (network.html) Networking on the Network, an essay by Phil Agre
  • NCET National Council for Educational Technology Information Service (UK)
  • OISE Gopher Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • OET (oet95.html) Online Education and Training, resources for people interested in using computers for interactive education. This is the base page for the Onlearn-l discussion list
  • Online LC Mount Allison University's Online Learning Centre--tele-education
  • Peterson's Educational Center for education and lifelong learning
  • Plugged In a non-profit group dedicated to bringing the educational opportunities created by new technologies to children and families from low-income communities, located in East Palo Alto, California
  • Primary/Sec (fyi_22.txt) Answers to Commonly Asked Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions
  • Singapore-Ed Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore
  • Syllabus resources for educators on how technology can be incorporated into instruction. It contains news, case studies, product reviews and announcements, and feature articles on technology written by educators and experts in educational technology
  • Teacher Education Society for Technology and Teacher Education (STATE), the University of Virginia, and the University of Houston have collaborated to establish a Teacher Education Server on the Inter net
  • TECFA (tecfa.html) an academic team active in the field of educational technology at the School of Education and Psychology of the University of Geneva
  • US Dept of Ed gopher United States Department of Education
  • US Dept of Ed Web United States Department of Education
  • USENET University (FAQ) an online a society of people interested in learning, teaching or tutoring
  • VOU Virtual Online University, an online liberal arts university online, using a virtual environment called a VEE, Virtual Education Environment
  • WICHE Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an agency for resource sharing among 15 US western states
  • WWW teaching (index.html) WWW for instructional use, a collection of course materials, from the University of Texas at Austin
    ----- Documents and Reports
  • Pedagogical CMC Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-mediate Wildlife/Ecology Software from UIUC This site continues to develop as a clearinghouse for wildlife ecology related software.