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Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
A searchable database of learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. It is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education.
"OPEN's mission is to enable all of Oregon's K-12 schools to participate in a coordinated information network and to establish ongoing web-based curriculum development and professional development resources for teaching and learning through the OPEN Web site." A great source for information regarding Oregon school reform.
A news column, an email newsletter, conferences schedules, reports issued by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, an index of recommended sites, and much more make up this informative site for P.E. teachers.
An e-zine: CLAS "identifies, evaluates, and promotes early intervention practices that are effective, appropriate, and sensitive to children and families who diverge culturally or linguistically from the majority population"
From the Columbia Education Center (CEC), a Portland-based educational service organization. The lesson plans were created by teachers and are divided up by subject (language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, miscellaneous) and by grade level (K-5, 6-8, 9-12).
"A forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas." Teachers submit lesson plans and provide comments on those they use. Organized by grade level and subject area.
From the San Diego County Office of Education. "CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards." Arranged by grade level.
"Learning Guides to various films which describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and helpful background. Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and links to the internet are also provided. "Includes "cultural heritage index" and "character development index." Search by title or keyword.
The 1997 Oregon Information Literacy Guidelines were developed by an Ad hoc Committee of the Oregon Educational Media Association. This committee began with the media related goals from Oregon's Common Curriculum Goals adopted by the state board of education in the fall of 1996.
A "searchable database of Oregon's content standards that lets you retrieve just the subject areas and benchmarks you want. Plus you can link to CIM/CAM/PASS resources from ODE and OUS, scored student writing samples,
forms for monitoring student progress towards the CIM, and support materials for state writing and math assessments."
At this site you can select a grade level and topic area and receive a collection of resources related to that topic. Once the list of resources is created, you can choose from over 130 Standards documents from around the country representing over 35 states (including Oregon and Washington) and the site will pull up the standards that apply to the resource you've chosen. You may also search for resources by standard.
This site, from the North Central Regional Educational Labratory, was designed to assist school improvement teams. For a variety of topics such as assessment, instruction, at-risk students, and more, it provides background on critical issues, supporting materials, and related resources.
Information on technology in education and the issues surrounding it such as information literacy, Internet policies, school website design and much more.
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