This document provides a summary of various online resources for education including encyclopedias like Wikipedia, digital libraries from the Library of Congress and Internet Archive, tutorials on using tools like Google Apps, Netvibes and Google Earth/Maps in the classroom, online exhibits from museums, educational video collections, and lesson planning resources. It includes brief descriptions and screenshots of each resource alongside the relevant URL.

1. Amanda L. Hill
IDT 7064 M51
October 31, 2011

2. No more outdated encyclopedias!
http://www.loc.gov/library/ http://www.wolframal
www.wikipedia.org
libarch-digital.html pha.com/

3. Forget “Well, the dog ate my homework.”
http://www.chumpysclipart.com/illustration/1962/picture_of_a_running_do
g_with_a_laptop_computer_in_his_mouth
Dr. Helen Barrett on creating K-12 e-portfolios for with Google Apps @
https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/model-k-12

4. News comes to you.
http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/rss.h
tml
Netvibes is a personal
dashboard that lets you
aggregate your news feeds.
Here’s a tutorial to help you get
started.
http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/
netvibes-2710.html

5. More than just movies!
A Vision of K-12 Students Today

6. Go anywhere on a field trip, you don’t need gas
or a permission slip!
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visit
e_virtuelle.jsp
Picturing the 1930s at Smithsonian http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/in
American Art Museum dex.html

7. If two heads are better than one. . .
The Center for Innovation in
Engineering and Science Education
in New Jersey has been exploring
Internet use in K-12 science
education since 1993. See some of
the ongoing collaborative projects
hosted by the CIESE here .
Jan Spurney
http://www.kolabora.com/

8. You can see your house from space! Space!!!
Google Maps & Google Earth in the Classroom
http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/google
-earth--753.html

9. Your classroom just got a lot bigger!

10. Better games than Solitaire!
John Burk uses Angry Birds in his physics class.

11. Crunched for time? See what others have done.
http://www.readwritethink.org/
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/index.html

12. Barrett, H. C. (2009). Creating K-12 e-portfolios using Google Apps. Retrieved
October 30, 2011from
https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/model-k-12
Burk, J. (2011, Feburary 17). Why you should wait to teach projectile motion part 2:
introducing projectile motion using Angry Birds [Blog post]
https://quantumprogress.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/why-you-should-wait-
to-teach-projectile-motion-part-2-introducing-projectile-motion-using-angry-
birds/
Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/commons
Google earth for educators. http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-
educators/
Google maps for educators. http://www.google.com/educators/p_maps.html
Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/index.php
Library of Congress. (2011). American memory.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The Louvre museum official website.
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en

13. Nesbitt, B. J. (2007). A vision of k-12 students today [Video]. Retrieved October 31, 2011
from http://www.youtube.com/user/bjnesbitt#p/a/u/0/_A-ZVCjfWf8
Netvibes. http://www.netvibes.com/
Read Write Think. http://www.readwritethink.org/
Shrock, K. (2011). Kathy Shrock’s guide for educators.
Smithsonian American Art Museum. (2011). Picturing the 1930s.
http://americanart.si.edu/education/picturing_the_1930s/
Teacher Librarian Ning: A community for teacher-librarians and other educators.
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/
Teacher Tube. http://www.teachertube.com/
Wikipedia. http://www.wikipedia.org/