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CREATE A WEBSITE:

NEW Create Free Web sites with Think.com. This service is provided by Oracle Corp. and designed for ages 7-14.
http://www.think.com

This site provides an extremely EASY way of creating a teacher, classroom, or administrator Website. There is now a charge.
http://myschoolonline.com

This site allows teachers to create their own Websites in minutes. There is a minimal charge, $2.50 per month or $25.00 for the year.
http://www.teacherweb.com/

Schoolnotes.com - Create notes for homework and class information and post them on the Web in seconds with this free service. You can also add links and flashcards.
http://www.schoolnotes.com/

Creating Easy Web Pages for Classes - This site gives a listing of Websites that allow you to create your own Web pages.
http://www.expage.com/trevorconference

Web Worksheet Wizard - provided by the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium allows you to create teacher web pages. Also, has a linked titled "project poster" where your students can create web pages.
http://wizard.4teachers.org/


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FINDING OTHER CLASSROOMS TO COLLABORATE WITH
Internet Projects Registry was created to help busy teachers who are searching for online projects for classroom integration. You can search by age, project starting and ending dates, curriculum area, technologies used, and project level (e.g., basic or advanced).
http://gsh.lightspan.com/pr/index.cfm

This is a GREAT site if your looking for links for collaborative projects. Also, includes a link to an excellent article appearing in Learning and Leading Magazine on project based learning.
http://lone-eagles.com/collab.htm

Ask an Expert - Includes everything form astronomers to dentists.
http://www.askanexpert.com/

Authors & Illustrators of Children's Books living in Ohio
http://school.uaschools.org/greensview/ohioauthors/index.htm

Virtual Field Trips - this website enables virtual field trips with two clasess of students who can locate in any part of the world. One class becomes the local host for the field trip, while the other class is the eyes, ears of the trip, gathering data and reporting their findings to the other remote class through email.
http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/virtual-field-trips/index.html


Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration - This website enables participation in a variety of projects related to migration of wildlife. Students become young scientists in these projects by collecting data about wildlife and sharing that data on the website.
http://www.learner.org/jnorth


NEW Ask USGS of the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Science Information Center - allows students to gain information about a concept
http://www.usgs.gov/contact


EPALs - a place to connect with other classrooms.
http://www.epals.com


The oz-TeacherNet site
http://www.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet


Create your own online class environment
Nicenet  - create a free online class environment.
http://www.nicenet.org


Create your own listserv
NetPals - offers free electronic mailing list solutions to the international school community.
http://netpals.lsoft.com


Coollist.com - a web-based system for anyone to easily create FREE mailing lists.
http://www.coollist.com/tour/tour.cgi


One-to-one guidance - program where students are paired with a professional mentor, Hewlett-Packard
http://www.telementor.org/

 


NETIQUETTE
Netiquette Home Page - Includes "The Core Rules of Netiquette", the complete online edition of Netiquette, an online quiz and more.
http://www.albion.com/netiquette

 



WIRES, HUBS, ROUTERS, ETC.

"An Educator's Guide to School Networks" gives a clear explanation of what a network is, as well as the pros and cons for school networks.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/network/

EMAIL ETIQUETTE
Email etizuette for the 90s
http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/email.htm

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TROUBLESHOOTING
NEW Troubleshooting Resource Guide for Windows 95/98/Millennium/XP
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