MCHS Library

• United Streaming
  Web-based Digital Video Delivery System from Discovery Education.  Over 2,600 full video titles and 26,000 video content clips from Discovery School and other award-winning producers available for streaming and downloading
• Nothing But 'Net
  Claudia's Friday morning focus group links
• Nothing But 'Net (SDCOE presentation)
• Riverdeep
  Good news - The unlimited access to all Riverdeep online products has been restored. This includes Destination Math, Tangible Math, Middle School Science Gateways, High School Science Gateways, High School Explorer, Destination Reading 1 & 2, The Reading Trek, Writier's Resource Library, Write for Your Life Persuasive Essay & Analytical Essay, Editor's Desk and Living Library. This is really a great opportunity for your students to access some quality resources.  user name- pusdstudent1  password - pusdstudent1  Denise Hogan, EdTech Specialist
• Reading Rockets:  Launching Young Readers  - PBS
  Long before they start school, children are ready to learn the skills that will turn them into readers. Watch the PBS series and explore this web site to find out how you can launch a child into a bright future with reading strategies that work...
• Literacy Web at the University of Connecticut
  The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to  assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies. It contains links to literacy resources and is organized by grade; addresses a variety of literacy topics including: assessment, Content Area Literacy, Connecting to Writing, Effective Teaching, Literacy Standards, Multicultural Literacy; and    links to research, online discussions, a newsletter, and more. (added 10/14/02, reviewed 10/14/02) Grade Level: College, Adult/Professional
• Web English Teacher
  This is a very comprehensive Hotlist for English teachers, with links to prose, drama, poetry, and vocabulary sites, as well as Shakespeare, Olympics, Journalism, and Critical thinking.
• San Diego County Office of Education
• Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
  Blue Web'n is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,  resources, references, & tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners.
• Welcome to School Grants!
  "Your one-stop site for K-12 grant opportunities." Here are numerous resources for locating, writing, receiving, and managing grant proposals for the elementary and secondary education community. Extensive links are given to grant-related state and federal agencies as well as private foundations. There are tips for fundraising, school safety, technology, and financial aid.
• Adventures of CyberBee
  This is a great site for teachers looking for more ways to integrate technology into their classroom. Look to the Curriculum Ideas, How Tos, Treasure Hunts, and the fine articles to give you fresh ideas. 
• Decisions, Decisions Online
  Bring contemporary issues alive in your classroom with the new Internet version of the award-winning Decisions, Decisions series. As students role-play legislators faced with a critical situation, Decisions, Decisions Online will stimulate discussions that start inside your classroom and continue outside of it.  Each month, Decisions, Decisions Online introduces students to the clashing viewpoints behind a controversial social issue drawn from today's news headlines.
• Welcome to Classroom Connect
  Welcome to the world of Classroom Connect! We'd like you to consider us your "homebase" on the Internet for education-related resources, products, information and support. Whether you know us through our Newsletter, our Connected Classroom Conferences, our MayaQuest/AfricaQuest interactive adventures, or any of our other products, you know that our mission is to empower teachers to achieve their goals for students by enhancing the classroom learning experience.  With this purpose in mind, we have updated the content of our Web site to offer fresh, relevant, well-researched material that will assist you in bringing excitement and immediacy to the classroom learning experience.
• Annenberg Teachers' Lab
  A place for teachers to explore new ideas in learning.  Experiment with new teaching and learning ideas and identify activities you can use in the classroom. This site features labs based on the professional development series and workshops broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project Channel. Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites. New labs are added each season in June, September, and January.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  Discoveryschool.com is the World Wide Web site from the education department of Discovery Communications, Inc.  Our goal is to provide innovative online materials for teachers and students, using the resources of Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel.
• Home Base:  Harnessing the Power of the Web
  First added to Blue Web’n in 1995, this tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use.
• UWired Catalyst Home Page
  This "integrated collection of resources, training, tools, templates, and support" was created by the University of Washington to help faculty use educational technology. Along with suggestions and advice for integrating technology into curriculum, there are instructor profiles and practical "how to" guides for everything from creating a course Web site to working with digital images. Though many of the tools are specifically for UW staff, there is plenty here for the rest of us.
• David Levin's Learning@Web.Sites
  Learning@Web.Sites is an award-winning guide intended primarily for senior high school educators who would like to enhance their curriculum and instruction using the internet.
• The Gateway
  The Gateway provides the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. Browse subject and keyword lists, or search The Gateway. Retrieved records will link directly to the Internet resources they describe - it's that easy!
• Education with New Technologies:  Networked Learning Community
  Developed by teachers and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this site explores issues of improving teaching with technology integration, integrating new tools with classroom practice and curriculum, and collaboration with colleagues locally and around the world. Become part of this innovative community of educators.
• SCORE Science (SCIENCE TEACHERS)
  This Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Project (SCORE) site offers science lessons and links to Web resources, all searchable and categorized by grade level and subject area. California educators contribute lessons and resources that support science learning and acquisition of information literacy skills. Developed in collaboration with Humboldt State University, SCORE Science is housed at the Humboldt County.
• NASA - CERES Project (SCIENCE TEACHERS)
  With classroom-ready online activities, NASA data search engines, and distance learning courses for K-12 teachers, CERES is a must-see for K-12 science teachers. Learning activities include inquiries and collaborative "spacequests" and are categorized by NASA themes, grade level, and duration.

• SCORE History/Social Science (SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHERS)
  Linking teachers to social studies resources, this site offers   age-appropriate Web links categorized by grade level, California standards and frameworks, and more.

• Phi Delta Kappan
  The Professional Journal for Education.

• Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
  Teachers in the classroom make the decisions closest to the field of instruction and it is teachers that have been the greatest rights---rights that even their districts do not have. This Copyright Chart was designed to inform teachers of what they may do under the law.

• WebQuests (from the San Diego City Schools Triton Project)
  These web quests were developed by teachers for teachers as part of a San Diego City Schools Technology Grant. The Triton and Patterns Projects are a multi-partner educational collaborative that integrate technology with the standards-based education reform efforts of the San Diego City Schools to create new learning opportunities for students and teachers. The results are some great webquests for a range of learners (K-12). The Featured Projects are exemplary units ready for implementation.

  
  
  

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