Sub-Topics Acceptable Use Policies Also Try Copyright Guides Professional Development Software for Internet Text-to-Speech and More Lesson Plans Finding and Reporting on Satellites (Exploratorium) Provides a lesson to help students collaborate in groups and use the Internet to find and report information. 3-01 Integrating Technology (TeachNet) Provides lessons. 10-09 Lists Educational Technology (Gaer) Integrating the Internet (Hixson) Linking Kids Around the World (Global SchoolNet Foundation) Plagiarism Stoppers - A Teacher's Guide (Sharka) Provides sources of information to help prevent or catch online plagiarism. Also includes tips, such as "a way to detect plagiarized text is to locate a phrase containing unique words, then search for it using a search engine like Google." Visitors sometimes misspell as plagarism, plaigarism, plagerism, plaigerism, or pliagarism. 3-02 Projects With Others Online (Exworthy) Provides a list of resources that support interactive projects. Materials -Awesome Library Browser for Children (AwesomeLibrary.org) Awesome Library Browser for Children (ALBC) provides homes, libraries, and schools with a minimalist but effective method of keeping K-6 children from being exposed to hard core adult sites--without the use of censorship lists. Instead of using lists, Awesome Library Browser for Children looks for a designation that virtually all hard core adult Web sites put on their Web pages so they can be found by search engines. It happens to be a designation that other sites do not use. ALBC also offers "green space" to ensure that children can find what they need easily. 04-06 Papers Ask the Cosmologist (PBS - Hawking) Bridging the Digital Divide News (Digital Divide) Provides articles related to attempts to reduce the digital divide between the poor and the affluent in the United States. California Digital High School Program (California School Library Association) Provides an introduction to California's program to help integrate technology into classroom instruction. California school staff have access to individual assistance under the program. 3-01 Cooperative Learning and Telecommuniations (Mining Co. - Walker) Provides 15 annotated articles on application of cooperative learning to telecommunications. Critical Thinking About Web Sources (Michigan State University - Link) Provides criteria for students to use in judging Web sources of information to help them think critically. 2-00 Integrating Internet into the Classroom (Many Articles) Issues - Wiring the Classroom (CNet) Provides issue papers and links related to the effectiveness of the use of computers and similar technology in the classroom. Plagiarism Prevention (Indiana University - Writing Tutorial Services) Provides a tutorial on how to avoid plagairism. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, plagiarizm, plagerism, plagiarised, plagarized, plagerized, plagerised, or plagarised. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00 Research on the Impact of Technology on Education (Technology and Learning Cyberstore) Provides interviews with leading researchers on the impact of technology on education. School Improvement Issues (Achieve Communications - InsideEducation.net) Provides articles for school improvement, with a heavy emphasis on utilizing technology. 10-01 School Progress in Technology (U.S. Department of Education) Describes progress in bringing technology into classrooms as of 1996. 11-01 Tips for Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Microsoft - Dyck and Morgan) Provides numerous tips and guidelines for helping to use technology, including the Internet, as part of the classroom. 9-01 Toolbar Buttons for Newer Browsers (Google) Explains how to place buttons (links) on your browser's toolbar at the tops of pages. Although the instructions are for Google buttons, other buttons, such as the Awesome Library, can also be placed on the toolbar by the same procedure. For example, find a link to Awesome Library's Home and drag it to the "Link" area of the toolbar. 7-00 Utilizing the Internet With the Classroom (FNO) Provides a series of articles by title. Projects America's Promise - Summit Action Youth for Educators (President's Summit) Provides suggestions on ways educators can help students become involved with the America's Promise campaign and the Summit in particular. Astronomy Resources (NASA Quest) Provides classroom resources to encourage students to study science and math through astronomy. 1-01 Collaborative Internet Projects (NickNacks) Provides projects for students and teachers globally to communicate on lessons and share ideas. 2-01 Constructivist Web Page Design (Tweb) Provides suggestions for organizing Web activities to integrate technology into lesson plans. Elementary Web Projects (Walnut Heights Elementary) Provides Web drawings and stories of children K-5. Evaluation of Web Resources (Alexander and Tate) Provides checklists and other resources for students to evaluate Web resources. Using Internet to Teach History Purchase Resources Plagiarism Prevention (Plagiarism.com) Provides an analysis of research papers and essays to determine if the student copied part or all of it from an existing Web resource. Visitors sometimes misspell as plaigerism, plaigarism, plagiarizm, plagerism, plagiarised, plagarized, plagerized, plagerised, or plagarised. Awesome Library does not recommend the services, but provides them as examples. 4-00

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