Links for effective Internet use
from El Dorado High School Library
- SchoolNotes.com
- If you are looking for a simple and effective means to communicate
school information to your students and their families, SchoolNotes.com
might be just the site for you. "It complements our school
website by allowing teachers to post school information on the
world-wide-web without worrying about HTML or FTP because there
is no programming required! And best of all, SchoolNotes.com
is a free community service!" (Note to EDHS teachers: if
you are using SchoolNotes, let Counseling and the Library know
and we will add the appropriate links for students to the school
website.)
- Internet 4 Classrooms
- "Well-known site by Bill Byles and Susan Brooks of Memphis City Schools.
Provides a plethora of information for teachers! Links for K-12
teachers, On-Line practice Modules, information about Grant
Opportunities, Links for Education News, Conferences and Presentations.
If you can't find what you want, send them an email and they
will be happy to respond. Susan Brooks is recommended as a professional
development resource. Sam Rhodes notes, "This site has many
training modules complete with hand-on activities that can be
used in a workshop setting or with individuals."
- El Dorado High School Library Wiki
- Find out what a wiki looks like and how you create your own for use as a website or for collaboration with you collegues or between your students.
- Generation Yes
- "The mission of Generation YES is to support student centered programs aimed at improving learning through the inclusion of modern technologies. Generation YES provides services, materials and support for schools throughout the world in support of this mission."
- Applying Big6 Skills™,
Information Literacy Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research
- "Correlate Mike Eisenberg's and Bob Berkowitz' Big6 Skills™ with the national Information Literacy Standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS) to organize an introduction to research on the Internet."
- Information Literacy
- Developed by the Information Literacy Task Force, Region VII California Technology Assistance Project, and are tied into The National Education Goals of 1990 (now known as Goals 2000). Goal 5: "By the year 2000, every adult will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship."
- Learning and Teaching Information Technology
Computer Skills in Context
- A Paper by Michael B. Eisenberg and Doug Johnson on effectively using the Internet for research.
- Information Literacy and the Net
- "This eight hour staff development course emphasizes student
investigations as vehicles to explore the information available
over the Internet. The course engages participants in learning
the Research Cycle, several types of literacy, Gardner's Seven
Intelligences and much more." Designed for the Bellingham schools,
this course is available for local use with permission.
- The Internet as Curriculum
- This article by Jamie McKinsey appeared in his online magazine,
From Now On. The article looks at the nature of curriculum,
and offers strategies for its integration with the resources
of the Internet.
- US EPA Region 2 Library: Internet Training
- Tipsheets for doing library research and using the Internet effectively, including basic and advanced searching techniques.
- Power Searching with Digital Logic
- "No sense sending students and colleagues out to search the Internet or a CD-ROM encyclopedia unless they possess a toolkit of powerful search strategies to speed them past Info-Glut and Info-Garbage to the very information they need."
- Plagiarism
- This is a well-done high school library site which includes why and how students plagiarize, identifies strategies of detection, and provides useful methods of prevention
- Internet Archive
- "...have a URL that no longer works? Try the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive; simply type in the entire URL, and you will receive a list of the times that the site was cached. Click on a date and you can see the site. Sometimes the links and images are not available, but at least you can get to the information you need! The Internet Archive is creating a database of Internet material to allow researchers to access sites that may no longer be active."
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