Use of Telecommunications in Education

These lists are not exhaustive, but they should serve as good starting points for research on planning educational telecommuncations projects.

Table of Contents

• Lists of K-12 Schools on the Web
• Developing Educational Telecommunications Projects
• Current Educational Telecommunications Projects
• Project Ideas from Previous Projects

Lists of K-12 Schools on the Web

• Web66: WWW School Registry
• K-12 Schools with Web Severs (By State)

Developing Educational Telecommunications Projects

• Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks
• Mining the Internet columns from The Computing Teacher (Judi Harris)
• ILTweb: LiveText: Curricula page
  (See "Constructivist Project Design Guide", "Projects", "Readings", and "Online K12 Project Design".)
• ILTweb: Livetext: Keys to Success
• ILTweb: Livetext: Organizing Network-Based Instruction
• Summary of How Teachers Find Projects (Beverly Hunter)
• Internet Projects That Work (Walker, 1/95)
• Online Educator Samples (See Tips For Virtual Field Trips.)
• Locating, Using, and Integrating Internet-Based Mathematics Materials (NCREL)
• Locating, Using, and Integrating Internet-Based Science Materials (NCREL)
• Joe Cave's page on Projec Based Learning and the Internet
• Meaningful, Engaged Learning (NCREL)
• New Times Demand New Ways of Learning(NCREL)
• How to help someone use a computer
• NASA K-12 Internet Initiative: Student Essay Contest Results

Current Educational Telecommunications Projects

• Global Schoolhouse Projects
  (See "Projects Registry" with open projects by month they start, also browse around the site for many examples of successful projects.)
• Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
  (for the latest project requests, select "Browse IECC" or "Browse IECC-Projects" [under mailing list archive] and scroll to the bottom)
• Dewey Web (UMich)
  (For a 95-96 project list, see WebICS.)
• Newsgroup k12.sys.projects
• K-12 Projects and Resources (CNIDR Mailing Lists)
• KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15
• NASA K-12 Internet Initiative: Online Interactive Projects
• Education Center Home Page (GNN)
  (Look under the "Departments" heading for projects.)
• The Internet Hunt

Project Ideas from Previous Projects

• Shelly Peretz's Collection of Interactive Projects on the Web
• Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection
• Mathematics, Science and Technology Projects and Online Data
• Internet Classroom Projects
• Ideas for Infusion into the Curriculum
• Academy One Project List (93-94)
• Curriculum Resource and Project Links (ENC)
• TEAMSnet Projects and Collected Projects List (FWREL)
• Global Lab (93-94) Annual report (TERC)
  (See "Curriculum" for project ideas.)
• Classes You Can Teach Using the Internet
• FARNET 50+ Stories of Educational Telecommunications Use
• Classroom Projects (ISTE)
• Students Collaborative Projects (Singapore)
• Best of K-12 GOPHER Internet Resources (TIES)
• Online Projects