Organization
|
Description
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Apple
Computers Inc. |
Apple
Inc. offers online educational resources. K-12
Education provides information on software and hardware
products, and software tips. Curriculum
Connection offers examples of lesson plans. The Apple
Higher Learning
Interchange is an online community website that offers
discussion forums, educational projects, articles on education
topics, a searchable database of online resources and lesson
plans (when visiting the learning exchange, click on the "resource"
button), and more. |
Blackboard
Inc. |
Blackboard
Inc. offers internet-based creating and hosting of online
instruction and classes. Services include Blackboard.com
hosting single-course web sites (with a free single-course
web site per instructor), Blackboard CourseInfo
hosting multiple-course web sites, and Blackboard Campus hosting
entire online campuses. |
The
California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) |
The
California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) is a state-funded
educational technology initiative that provides leadership
and resources to California schools and school districts.
CTAP's websites include a state
website and a Region
IV website (providing services to the seven counties
in the North San Francisco Bay Area: Napa, Marin, Solano,
Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, and San Mateo).
The
California Instructional Technology
Clearinghouse assists California educators to identify
and evaluate electronic learning resources. The California
Instructional Technology Clearinghouse provides a database
of more than 3,700 recommendations about instructional technology
resources. The database can be searched using descriptive
material or content standards.
|
Classroom
Connect |
Classroom
Connect offers resources to K-12 educators to support
the use of technology in classrooms. The Connected
Teacher provides K-12 educators with forums to share their
ideas and contact colleagues. Resources include message boards
and interactive e-mail lists. The Connected Teacher offers
tips on using the internet, including: A glossary
of over 250 internet and computer related terms; a template
for an Acceptable
Use Policy for bringing the internet to your school; a
guide to citing
internet sources including graphics, sounds, and video
clips; and tips
for searching the internet including an overview and search
strategy suggestions. |
The
Global Schoolhouse |
The
Global Schoolhouse
provides resources for using the internet
in classrooms including: a directory
of search engines and searchable databases, an introduction
to searching
the internet, a tutorial
on using the World Wide Web as a tool for student-centered
project-based learning activities, articles about the impact
of network-based
learning, and discussion
lists.
|
ImindEducation
Systems, Inc. |
ImindEducation
Systems, Inc. offers interactive learning, database, and classroom
management tools. |
Knowledge
Adventure |
Knowledge
Adventure offers several free services, including
Educast, a software
program that delivers lesson plans, education news, and internet
resources via the Internet (note: a banner ad is displayed
in the browser window). Knowledge Adventure also supports
a site called letsfindout.com,
which offers a free Encyclopedia, intended for K-12
students. |
Mediaseek |
Mediaseek
offers Explorasource,
a free online searchable database that contains listings of
educational materials such as web sites, audio cassettes,
video tapes, and other media from education publishers and
content providers. Content standards can be applied to the
search criteria, resulting in listings that satisfy current
content standards. |
NASA |
The
NASA GSFC Earth Science Distributed Active Archive
Center offers educational CD-ROMS. (Note: this is a
government organization). |
The
SchoolTone Alliance |
The SchoolTone Alliance
is a partnership of education service providers who offer
web-based portals (providing packages of Internet content,
software applications, and communication tools). |