Helpful Ed Tech Links Collected by Class

Distance Learning:

Global Network Academy
LEARNING ON AND OVER THE INTERNET: Dynamics and Limitations
Millard Fillmore College Distance Learning Team

Methods of Teaching:

Teach With Movies
Classroom 2000
Bernie Poole's EdIndex of Educators' Resources

Academic Services:

SOAR: Student Online Access to Records
UB Libraries
Using Unix Pine as a Newsreader

Student Services:

Career Planning and Placement

News and Events:

The Reporter
Article: UB to market online courses

Student U

Bernie Poole's EDIndex of Educators' Resources

Bernie Poole's EDIndex of Educators' Resources

NON-EDUCATION RELATED SITES

NASA...On the Cutting Edge

An Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms

HTML Tutorial:

NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML

Learning Guides:

Everybook Inc.

Dictionaries:

High-Tech Dictionary
Hypertext Webster Gateway
Collins COBUILD: On-line Dictionary

Encyclopedias:

Journals:

Newspapers:

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Washington Post

Books:

Note: Most web sites do not provide actual data files online. Many reports can be downloaded, but actual data generally needs to be ordered.

a current longitudinal study of children just beginning to enter the educational system
information gathered from post-secondary educational institutions
an ongoing assessment of national educational achievement
survey information derived from samples of parents and households
a quantitative survey measuring conditions and staffing at both public and private schools
a nationwide survey regarding the preparedness and licensing of teachers
international comparisons on math and science (actual data are available for this study)

many more possibilities are available at the National Center for Educational Statistics

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see also the set of links related to qualitative and quantitative data analysis provided by Sue Gerber (Horace's predecessor) for the previous version of this class