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Social Studies
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Health and Physical Fitness
Languages Other Than English
Career & Technology Education
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General Education

Responsibility - Designed for grades 8-12, this interdisciplinary unit including topics about computers, English, mathematics, social studies, and science.

Busy Teachers' Website - A directory of links to subject resources

Flying Inkpot News - Hundreds of national and international newspapers searchable by region, keyword, or category.

eBlast - Hosted by Encyclopedia Britannica, this site contains 18 categories of education links.

Safe Web Guide for Kids - Created and maintained by librarians, this site provides a searchable database of web sites for kids.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

How to cite Internet Resources:

Citing Internet Resources

APA Style of Electronic Citation

Guide for Citing Electronic Information

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
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Homework Heaven is now Homework Central
 

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Language Arts
The Moonlit Road - Spooky stories accompanied by Real Audio.
 

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Mathematics
 
Mathcad Explorer - Students can share calculations with others with this free software fro MathSoft, Inc. Explorer turns the computer screen into a live worksheet allowing users to solve problems with real math notation, graphs, and text.

Mayan Math - Explore the Mayan number system and how large numbers are represented with a dot, a bar, ad a symbol for zero.

Math Forum - Services, projects, materials for students and teachers.
 

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Science
BodyQuest- An exploration of human anatomy for students from 11-16 years of age.

Human Anatomy Online- Information on eight of the body systems.

Neuroscience for Kids - Designed for students and teachers desiring more information on the nervous system.

Virtual Earthquake - Students are introduced to the basics of earthquake science.
 

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Social Studies
Lesson Plans Galore - Covers everything from Constitution Day to creating a classroom newspaper.

Mapping Activities - NOVA: Treasures of the Sunken Lighthouse provides innovative resources by archaeologists, cartographers, topographers, and divers.

AmiGlobe 98 - From the editors of the CIA World Factbook, this reference tool is a atlas with current information.

Antarctica - Created by the CMDL South Pole Observatory, this site includes weather, greenhouse gases, atmospheric aerosols, solor radiation, stratospheric ozone and chemical changes.

Ancient City of Athens - Visit archaeological monuments in Athens accompanied by historical information.

Library of Congress - The American Memory: Historical Collection for Digital Library

The White House

The Historical Text  - Primary source documents and links to historical sites.

CNN - A combination of video and computer technology designed exclusively for the classroom and educators.
 

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The Technology Applications TEKS
General
The Technology Applications TEKS

Reviewed Book List for Technology Applications Courses

Links Related to Tech App High School Courses

Project START

Keith Mitchell's Technology Applications Page

Copyright Tips and Issues

The Copyright Website

Handouts: Handouts for using Eudora, Scanning, Web, Word Processing
 

CyberStatistics - Technical Writing
Study, analyze, and react to charts/graphs. Students then write a series of essays responding to various data provided by The National Center for Educational Statistics.
Portfolios
Electronic Portfolios
Electronic portfolios
Elect Portfolio
Electronic Portfolios
Electronic Portfolios
Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
Examples of proper citations using MLA style of citation.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
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Desktop Publishing
Flying Inkpot News - Hundreds of national and international newspapers searchable by region, keyword, or category.
 
The Vocal Point: Electronic Student Newspaper
Middle school students are responsible for creating and managing this outstanding online newspaper.
Presenters University

A free onlin resource from Proxima Corp. to help people hone their presentation skills. Courses run from introductory to advanced with a library of free clip art and templates for computer presentations.
 

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Digital Graphics
Photoshop Tips - Photoshop and Corel Tips for Creating Great Web Graphics Easily

Photoshop Techniques - Photoshop Techniques is a publication of Swanson Tech Support. It has been furnished on this server in Adobe Acrobat PDF format with written permission. Each issue is chock full of more tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop, plus scores of examples of how they work. The files are big downloads, but they're worth it!

Digital Media Center- The Digital Media Center develops collections of digital images, sound, and video for use in research and instruction at the University of Virginia.

Digital Images - create digital images for scholarly use and manipulate and organize these digitized images

NASA - JSC Digital Image Collection - Each Shuttle mission produces 2000 to 5000 photographic images. Over 250,000 images have been captured, digitized, and stored.

Digital Imaging - Introduction Photography in Malaysia - Malaysians photographers' online portfolios, Resourceful photographic tips & tricks -

See It and Save It - Scanners link your PC to the real world

Digital Photo Guide - From the July/August 1997 Issue of FamilyPC: FamilyTested Hardware - In Search of the Perfect Picture -

Appendix for Media Classrooms - Info on this site's multimedia setup, with tips for instructors.
 

National Digital Library Program

Includes American Memory Collections such as African-American Pamphlets, Carl Van Vechten Photographs (1920s-1930s), Color Photographs from FarmÉ(1938?1944), and many others.
 

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Multimedia Productions
HyperStudio Plugin

Mount finished HyperStudio stacks on your website with this plugin.
 
Macromedia Shockwave

Mount director files on your Web site. Learn how to do this.

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Web Mastering
Set Up a Mac Internet Server - Set up a Mac (as early as 475s) with free software.
Ever make any of these boo-boos? YIKES! WebDesign & Review
Robin Williams' Non-Designers WEB Book

 
Yale Style Manual
An excellent resource focusing on the design of WWW pages and sites.
Website Handbook
An introduction to starting a web site, this handbook reviews various software, shows how to download it, describes the differences between various browsers, graphics formats, explains how to get pages onto the web.
Homepage Maker 2.0

A fully automated web page generator which supplies a form with text, bullets, images, Java applets, JavaScripts and then automatically generates an HTML file and emails it to you.

Building a Website that Works: The Development Process - 6 Steps to Website Development

Creating an HTML Document

NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Building a Website that Works

Building a Website that Works: Online Resources for Webpage Design

Style Guide for Online Hypertext

Web Design: More Than Meets the Eye

Barebones HTML site - where you can print off the entire HTML language

Web Reference Site

URL-Minder, a website which will tell you when a web page has changed

SCR*TEC Bright Sites - If your school or class homepage is under construction and you are in search of creative Web site ideas, Bright Sites is the place to look. Discover sites featuring cool graphics, great content, teacher resources, student publishing, and more. Once your site is up and running, nominate it so that others can benefit from your bright ideas.

Codes for background colors

How to Use Meta Tags

Recipes to Add Multimedia to Your Web Page - Fred D'Ignazio

Robin Williams' Non-Designers Design Book
 

Java Applets

Java is a computer programming language that allows users to create Java applets (small programs) which add functionality to their Web pages.
Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources

This site provides materials tohelp students evaluate the Web site's content. the material focuses on developing and using criticval thinking skills to evaluate Internet information.

Web Ratings:

Using Content Ratings with Internet Explorer
PICS Standard
RSACi Ratings
Net Shepherd ratings
Filtering Web Sites

An article with reasons a school should avoid filtering web sites.


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Demonstration Software
Inspiration

WebWhacker - Software to capture files or entire sites from Internet

AppleWorks (ClarisWorks) - integrated software package for Macintosh and PC including draw, paint, word processing, spreadsheet, database, communications, and presentations

Hyperstudio Resources
 

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Resources
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Fine Arts

The Louvre - Visit the world famous museum in Paris to view the renown collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and other objets d' art.

Eyeneer Music Archives - See, hear, and read about music created by a variety of unusual international instruments as well as a variety of music.

Visit homepages dedicated to artists:

Georgia O'Keeffe

Claude Monet

Winslow Homer

Edward Hopper

Albert Bierstadt

Cartoon Corner - Discover the secrets of cartooning
 

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Health and Physical Fitness
TeleHealth - Discussion instructions, handouts, PowerPoint slides for health education.

KidsHealth.org - A resource of health issues for children and parents.

The Yukiest Site on the Web - Developed for middle school students to increase the interest and awareness of body-related topics.
 

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Languages Other Than English
 

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Career and Technology Education
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