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ARTSEDNET
- http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/
Send an email to offline@getty.edu and receive a monthly update of
the happenings at the Getty
BIBLIOCAT
WEBPAGE
NEWSLETTER - http://www.bibliocat.org/
Sign up for this wonderful newsletter. You get a weekly
newsletter
from Sheryl, (or the link to it) with great new sites. You will
love
it.
BLUE WEB'N - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
Use the form on above link to subscribe - (yes, it's free!),
or send a blank e-mail to bluewebn-subscribe@topica.com
ED TECH LIST
-
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/
Hosted by H-Net through Michigan State University, Ed Tech is a grand
old man among teacher lists, focused directly on educational technology
and ways to make it work for you in the classroom. Decidedly on the
technical
end of things (rather than the instructional), it is worth subscribing
to if you're looking for tech support. To subscribe go to http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=EDTECH
and complete the fields you'll find there.
EPALS - http://www.epals.com/
"Over 850,000 students and teachers from 11,237 self-registered schools
and classrooms, in 96 countries, speaking 93 languages are now
participating.
Each month, up to 1,000 or more new classrooms register with ePALS and
begin corresponding with others schools"
ETNI - http://www.etni.org.il/
The Israeli English Teacher's Network with current postings of classes
looking for others to correspond with; announcements from Kindergarten
classes through High School. Also click back to the homepage for
other interesting information.
FONTADAY
-http://www.fontaday.com.
Sign up for a font a day to be emailed to you, or just bookmark this
site. There are hundreds of fonts, for PC or MacIntosh.
Most
are freeware, some shareware. Just download, put in your font
suitcase
and restart--you're in business!
FREEBIES
-
http://freebies.about.com/blffnews.htm
A Listserv that lets you know all about free things in a timely
manner.
Click on the link to sign up. Lee Seats will send you your free
mailing
with links to things interesting and free!!!!
GLOBAL
GROCERY LIST
- http://landmark-project.com/ggl/
Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of
data.
This is a long standing project that generates real, peer collected
data
for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the
context
of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines.
HOW TO
SUBSCRIBE,
UNSUBSCRIBE AND SEARCH E-MAIL LISTS -http://www3.niu.edu/newsplace/netlists3.html
Exactly what the title suggests; think you know all the differences
in kinds of listservs? This is a good thorough overview.
INNOVATIVE
TEACHING
- http://surfaquarium.com/NEWSLETTER/index.htm
Subscribe to the listserv by clicking on the box provided. This
site is written by Walter McKenzie, and he will send you lists of sites
by topic several times a month. Many of the sites contained here
were first introduced in this listserv.
INTERNET KEYPALS - http://www.4teachers.org/kidspeak/aberdeen/
Eight girls from New Jersey who had keypals tell about their
experiences.
Has good advice for novice keypal users who need information on
how-to.
INTERPERSONAL EXCHANGE
- http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/Together/structures.html
Can't find Judi Harris, but this is a site with all the stuff Judi
Harris shares and she does a great job of featuring some of the finest
examples
of Keypals, Global Classrooms, Electronic Guest Appearances,
Telementoring,
Question-and-Answer Activities and Online Impersonations/Simulations on
the Internet.
KEYPALS CLUB - http://www.teaching.com/keypals/
Start a project with another class, or just create a new friendship
with someone on the other side of the globe. KeyPals Club is a free
educational service from teaching.com. This site emphasizes safety for
teachers and students while enjoying
a keypals experience; they require parental permission, screen the
email,
and provide complete privacy for all participants in their program -
nice
interface makes the process easy and functional.
KIDLINK
- http://www.kidlink.org/
Kidlink provides student mailing lists that promote interaction and
communication with other students from all over the world through such
popular features as Who Am I? and I Have a Dream! All lists are
moderated
to protect the participating children.
KIDWORLD - http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/keypals4.htm
Kids post their name and interests individually; nice format if you
have only 1-5 kids who you want to get involved with electronic
correspondence
or if you don't have a mail client on your school computers but you
still
want to try keypals. This is by age level.
LISTTOOL.COM
-
http://www.listtool.com/
ListTool.com is a free tool that makes the process of subscribing,
unsubscribing and sending commands to 877 mailing and discussion lists
(in categories such as law, art, music, computers, news, business,
humor
and more) easy. You don't have to remember which commands to send to
some
obscure e-mail address to subscribe or unsubscribe. Just select the
Category
Page you want to be taken to from the drop down menu above and select
"Press
Here". Once you get to the individual category page, pick the
discussion
list and the command (subscribe, unsubscribe, info etc.) and their
software
will do the rest.
MAILING LISTS - http://www-ed.fnal.gov/linc/spring96/comm_lists/comm_list_home.html
Here's a nice and easy collection of links covering everything teachers
need to know to use them effectively. If you're looking for the
complete scoop on Listserv 1.8 e, I'd recommend
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/ownerindex.html for everything you
need to know to set up your own list server.
MAILING
LISTS FOR
TEACHERS - http://www.theteachersguide.com/listservs.html
The Teacher's Guide offers this comprehensive listing of all kinds
of education related mailing lists from A to Z. Each entry has a
succinct
annotation with either an email link to subscribe or a URL address to
the
list's website. This is a quick and easy way to find all kinds of lists
for educators with specific interests!
MIDDLEWEB
LISTSERV
- http://www.middleweb.com/MWlistserve.html
The MiddleWeb listserv is a free service available to middle school
educators and anyone else who's interested in boosting middle grades
teaching and learning and grappling with knotty school and classroom
issues. The list is supported by a grant from the Edna McConnell
Clark Foundation's Program for Student Achievement.
PACBELL'S
WEEKLY UPDATE - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
Free update of the weekly hot site and new additions to the Pacific
Bell Blue Web n' Learning Sites Library
PEN
PALS - http://k-6educators.about.com/cs/penpals/index
Links to pen pals around the world from About.com for kids and
teachers. Click on the link to the side.
TEACHER
MAILRING CENTER
- http://www.teachers.net/mailrings/
Teacher Mailrings are the bloodstream of the Teachers.Net community.
Join a network of over 8,000 educators. No cost to join - simply
complete the form
and select the mailring you'd like to join. Divided
by grade levels, special interests, subjects, project center, etc.
TEACHERSNET
- http://www.teachers.net/This
site
offers forums (called chatboards) and a variety of mailing lists
(called mailrings) for PreK through college. Some ot the specialized
lists available are those for Reading Recovery teachers, student
teachers, beginning teachers, and teachers of 4Blocks. They also offer
live chats. Look in the Resources section on the home page of the site.
TEACHER
TO TEACHER - http://www.teachnet.com/t2t/
Subscribe to the digest otherwise you will be inundated with tons of
mail from teachers in all grade levels. The digest provides the
daily
or hourly writings of teaching peers at all grade levels with a table
of
contents at the top to make scrolling easier.
WNETSCHOOL LIST SERV
- http://www.thirteen.org/teach/index.html
Sometimes busy educators need just the highlights. Each month,
there is a wNetSchool Bulletin at wNetSchool or in your email
box.
The Bulletin features information on exciting wNetSchool
resources
and news of the latest developments in online education. Subscribe on
line
or by email wnetschool@wnetstation.wnet.org
WWWEDU - http://www.edwebproject.org/wwwedu.html
Pronounced "we do," this list by Andy Carvin is one of the most
comprehensive
mailing lists on anything and everything going on in education online.
There are some 1,200 members and messages are posted on a daily basis.
I suggest you subscribe to a daily digest version. To subscribe simply
email the list at wwwedu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
mailto:wwwedu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Last Updated August, 2007
