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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
Professional Development on the Web
Virtual office space to meet parents and students, lists for electronic connection with educators at all levels,
and sites which gather innovative practices are part of the resources for self directed professional development.
Overview Chapter: Chapter Twenty-four: Web-based Tools for Teachers by Judi Repman, Randy
Carlson, and Elizabeth Downs in Digital Resources and Librarians: Case Studies in Innovation,
Invention, and Implementation, by Patricia O'Brien Libutti
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/digitalresources/digitalresourcessec3.htm
RU Libraries = Available at the specified Rutgers University Library
RU Libraries-Specific = Available to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.
WWW = World Wide Web resource, available to all. URLs are included for convenience.
Virtual Offices, Innovative Programs, and Tools
- Tapped In!
- Construct your virtual office, attend professional development conferences online,
converse with colleagues from all over the world.
- URL: http://www.tappedin.org/
- Teachers Net: use teacher prepared classroom tools
- URL: http://teachers.net/tools/
- ThinkQuest's Pre-service training program.
- Check it out for some interesting ideas to use in your classroom.
- URL: http://www.preservice.org/
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
This site has links to all the innovative programs now in progress across the Nation. These
programs are awarded funds by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Rutgers University's program at GSE demonstrates
the faculty's approaches in innovative ways: check it out!
[Rutgers program: PT3 @ Rutgers].
Look over all these programs to get a view of skills and methods now being taught and used.
URL: http://www.pt3.org/project_sites/project_completelist.html
Collections of Education Lists and Discussion Forums
- A major connector among teachers, with chat rooms, curricula, job postings, etc.
- URL: http://teachers.net/
- Teacher.Net - Mailrings
- Lists organized by grade level, subject, special interest, and geographic region.
- URL: http://www.teachers.net/mailrings/
- EdWeb - E-Mail Discussion Lists
- Included in Andy Carvin's EdWeb site. Education-related lists with descriptions.
- URL: http://www.edwebproject.org/l
- Keep up with Education news: Net Happenings
- Which provides announcements about the latest Internet resources, particularly education-related resources.
Gleason Sackmann founded this list in 1993.
- URL: http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html
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