Jon Margerum-Leys's Bookmarks
- View as Xspace...
- View as a Web page
- This bookmarks puts the bookmarks.html file from Anna:System Folder: Preferences: Netscape 2.0 up in the browser window. Just a point and click way to get the same functionality as the bookmarks menu.
Won't work except on Jon's computer.
- This is a holding area for works in progress
Bookmarks to be filed
- This is a temporary folder which serves as a staging area for bookmarks which haven't yet been placed in a permanent folder.
- WomensWork Website
- Involving girls and women with technology in a positive way is a challenge. This Web site has some valuable resources, including a database of narratives by women in various careers.
- The Jackson Laboratory
- Community Share Web
- Students can post links to community information pages they create. Designed to foster pride in community.
- UMPERG (Constructivism)
- TheDartmouth.com
- Now Up-to-Date Web Publisher for Macintosh
- Computers: History and Development
- Brown Computer Solutions - Web Words - Finger
Apple Computer
- Sites sponsored by or directly pertaining to Apple Computer Corporation.
- Apple Computer
- Apple: Technical Support Online
- Cyberdog Documentation
- EvangeList
- The EvangeLista Soapbox
- Gathering place for those who believe in Apple and the Mac.
- MacFixIt (Home Page)
- MacInTouch Home Page
- Mac Freak
- The World Of Newton
HotSauce
- These pages contain information about or tools for creating or using mcf, the underlying format used by HotSauce, the Apple fly-through interface for file structures and the Web.
- The HotSauce Home Page
- HotSauce mcf editor
- HotSauce sources of software and information
- This page is sponsored by Apple. It contains links to external sites which have tools and/or information about HotSauce.
- How to Sauce your site
Bookstores
- Commercial bookstores which allow you to order books on line.
- AbyssBooks & Gourmet Cafe
- Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore
- Gotta love a great bookstore. It doesn't have that old paper smell or the funky people working for it (as far as I know, anyway), but it is a great web site.
College Home Pages
- These are the home pages of various colleges. In general, they are the top level pages, rather than inner pages which describe specific programs.
- American Universities Directory
- THE compendium of American Universities. Over 90 K, this page takes a long time to load--go to lunch while it does. Once loaded, it's an excellent resource.
- College & University Faculty Salary Database
- Links to Big Ten universities
General university home pages
- Pages in this folder are general "home" pages for various universities.
- Antioch New England Graduate School
- Apple Higher Education: The Apple Virtual Campus
- Carthage College
- Castleton State College
- Champlain College of Vermont
- Community College of Vermont
- Dartmouth College
- Johnson State College
- Michigan Technological University
- Middlebury College
- Mount Holyoke College Gateway
- Portland State University Home Page
- University of Oregon WWW Server - Oregon Today
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Homepage
Schools of Education
- Curriculum & Instruction Department, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Drake University School of Education
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Home pages for schools of education
- This page includes reviews of the Web pages of various schools of education.
- Joe Abruscato's home page (Vermont)
- Purdue University School of Education (SOE)
- Teachers College WorldWide Web Server
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Viewbook SOE
- University of Maine College of Education
- University of Michigan School of Education
- University of Wisconsin School of Education
Top ten schools of education
- According to U.S. News and World Report, these are the top 10 schools of education in the United States.
- 1997 Graduate School Rankings, Education: USNews
- Columbia Teachers College
- Stanford University
- Cal-Berkeley
- Harvard GSE
- University of California at Los Angeles
- Ohio State University
- The University of Michigan
- Go Blue!
- The University of Minnesota
- Peabody College at Vanderbilt University
Curriculum project
- This folder contains bookmarks for the Novi Meadows technology-infused curriculum unit. The project, developed by Jon Margerum-Leys and Dave Lyons, designed curriculum starting with learning objectives provided by Novi Meadows.
- OpenText Power Search Engine form
- This is a remote custom search form which searches the OpenText database.
Motion In Our World Home Pages
- Grade 5 objectives
- Grade 6 Objectives
- Motion In Our World
- Motion In Our World: Science
- Motion In Our World: Math
- Motion In Our World: Language Arts
- Motion In Our World: Social Studies
- Motion In Our World: Foreign Language
- Motion In Our World: Art
- Motion In Our World: Music
- Motion In Our World: Music
- Motion In Our World: Physical Education
- Motion In Our World: Technology
- Motion In Our World: Health
Directories
- American School Directory
- American Universities Directory
- THE compendium of American Universities. Over 90 K, this page takes a long time to load--go to lunch while it does. Once loaded, it's an excellent resource.
- BigBook Directory Search
- BigYellow
- InfoSpace
- Directory service which includes door to door directions. You enter your starting and finishing addresses and the Web site gives you directions.
- Supporthelp.com
- Directory of support lines for various hardware and software manufacturors.
- Switchboard
- WhoWhere? Email Addresses
Electronic Mail Bookmarks
- Choosing any of these bookmarks brings up a blank e-mail form addressed to the person named in the bookmark.
- Cricket Eccleston
- Cricket works with teachers as part of the MYDL project.
- Dave Lyons
- Dave works in Detroit at Lesenger Middle School. He is an expert on Model-It.
- Jon Margerum-Leys
- Jon Margerum-Leys is the creator of this bookmarks file. He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, specializing in teacher development in the use of technology.
- Margaret Roy
- Margaret works in Detroit for the MYDL project. Her specialty is urban education.
Educational Technology
Tutorials
- Items in this folder are on-line tutorials for various things.
- Creating Net Sites
- Making Animated GIFs (part 1 of 3)
- News Tutorial
- This page uses some fairly complex language, but does a good job explaining how usenet newsgroups work.
- AACE--Assn. for the Advancement. of Computing in Education
- AACE / ED-MEDIA Conference
- Advanced Cognitive Tools for Learning
- Classroom Connect
- connected Inquirium© Information
- CIEP 491 - Spring 1996
- Course syllabus for the department of curriculum, instruction, and educational psychology at Loyola University. "CIEP 491--Microcomputers in the School or Agency"
- Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Comm. Terms
- Searchable dictionary of tech terms.
- Educational Software Institute
- Texas Learning Technology Group
- LOREM IPSUM
- TIC Home Page
- NetDay96
- Imageworks Online
- ILTweb: LiveText: New Page
- "The Home Page for Tech-Savvy Teachers".
- WebGrrls
- This server houses an organization dedicated to helping women who use the Web to network.
- Welcome to Web Crossing
- The World Lecture Hall
Hardware sources and information
- Shopping for a new computer or other hardware? Here are some sources.
- ClubMac Electronic Catalog
- MacWarehouse, Inc.
- MacWarehouse Clearance Sale items
- MicroWarehouse, Inc.
- The MRP RAMWatch
- Macintosh Resource Page's RAMwatch service. Tracks the current price of RAM.
- Power Computing Corporation Home Page
- Shreve Systems
- U.S.Robotics
- USR/Palm Computing - In Hand
K12 School Home Pages
- Just a few assorted schools.
- Community High School
- A Web site put up entirely by students. Interesting stuff, if a bit over-designed and cluttered for my tastes.
- Huron High
- John Glenn High School On The Net
- Pioneer High School
- At the time it was built, Pioneer high school was the most expensive public high school facility in the United States.
- Tappan Middle School
Making Sense of the World Wide Web
- These are Web pages collected for a presentation titled "Making Sense of the Web", which incorporates my ongoing thinking about categorizing Web resources. This version is being prepared for the School Science and Math Association Meeting.
- Making Sense of the World Wide Web
- Here you'll find the main page for the on-line "paper" which accompanied the presentation I made at the School Science and Math Association conference November 14, 1997.
- Feedback Form
- Use this form to send Jon Margerum-Leys feedback about his "Making Sense of the World Wide Web" presentation.
Extend Local Collections
- Links in this section are to sites which have a broad array of content material which is unlikely to be found in school media centers.
- Amazing Web Sites!
- This is a collection of a large number of sites. No summaries, which is annoying.
- The Argus Clearinghouse
- Excellent hierarchical interface to an extensive index of Web resources. Easy to understand rating system, very user-friendly.
- The American School Directory
- Vanderbilt, Apple Computer, and IBM are just a few of the corporate sponsors of this enormous database which lists the vast majority of public and private schools in the United States.
- Collections of the Louvre
- A page from the Louvre (in English) which provides links to on-line versions of their vast art collections. Some beautiful, beautiful things.
- Cyberkids history page
- A collection of links with (very short) summaries: Lists historical links.
- Dingo Farm
- Kathleen Hamel recommended this site. She found it when a student at Stiles Elementary School needed information which was unavailable in their media center.
- Healthfinder
- Government sponsored gateway to a dizzying array of on-line health information.
- HotBot: SuperSearch
- PC Magazine rates HotBot as the most effective single search engine. The SuperSearch engine presents very powerful boolean search tools. An outstanding resource for searching, if you absolutely have to search.
- The Internet Archive
- Under contruction, this site will archive the history of the Internet itself.
- The Internet Public Library
- A project of the University of Michigan School of Information, the Internet Public Library is a Web site which attempts to provide the services of a public library in the on-line environment.
- Library of Congress Home Page
- One of the most popular sites on the Internet. Links to Thomas, the legislative database, and American Memory.
- Mars Images
- Beautiful images from Mars.
- The NASA Homepage
- Government entities are often mandated to disseminate their data to the public. NASA does an excellent job of doing so through their Web site.
- Opening page to the Louvre
- This is the main entrance to the Louvre in Paris.
- OpenText PowerSearch Form
- Jon Margerum-Leys created this form which connects to the OpenText database. Using this form rather than OpenText's assures you that students will always see the same form and cuts your hits on OpenText in half, relieving their server somewhat.
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg makes available a huge variety of public domain literature in full text versions. Wonderful for language arts teachers or anyone who wants to incorporate literature into her teaching.
- Science Is Elementary Home Page
- Kathleen Hamel (totie@si.umich.edu) and Tracy Hammer (thammer@si.umich.edu) developed this virtual collection. It links to some great science resources for elementary school kids.
- Smithsonian Photographic Services
- Pictures! Pictures!
- Windows to the Universe
- Housed right here at the University of Michigan, Windows to the Universe has an excellent collection of space images. Educational activities offered there are somewhat weak, but may provide a starting place.
See Current Information
- Data which exists in print or on permanent media such as CDs is "frozen" at the time it was created. The Web offers the opportunity to use up-to-the-minute information.
- Earthquake of the Day
- Each day, a new earthquake's statistics are posted on this site. Before I saw it, I had no idea that there were earthquakes every single day.
- The President's 1996 State of the Union Address
- An example of an up-to-date, full text document which students can access on line.
- The Weather Channel - Weather News
- Breaking news on weather across the United States and the world. Useful for activities which call for students to make weather predictions and check their accuracy.
- What's New at the White House
- Part of the White House Web site, this page contains frequently updated press releases and transcripts of speeches by the president.
Read Periodicals
- Freedom of the press is for those who can afford a press. Fortunately, the price of Web publishing is within the reach of many people. The periodicals in this section represent a variety of online publications, some for kids and some for adults.
- Atlantic Unbound | The Atlantic Monthly
- On-line version of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. Very nicely organized.
- Annals of Improbable Research
- Spoofs of traditional research, such as "Feline Reactions to Bearded Men". Can be a fun way to talk about experimental design.
- Cable News Network (CNN) Interactive
- Some teachers leave their Netscape Browsers set to home to this page. It provides continuous news updates, a nice interface design example, and lots of grist for classroom discussions.
- Inside Outside Online
- Sky &Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin
- Lively publication with lots of good graphics and an easy-to-follow interface.
- Slate
- Cross writers from the New Republic with Bill Gates' bottomless budget and the World Wide Web and you get Slate. Excellent on-line magazine, though curiously it's easier to read in print than on the screen.
View Primary Source Material
- Students often only have the opportunity to interact with secondary documents. These pages allow them to see and use primary sources of information.
- Guidelines for analyzing primary source materials.
- Margaret Jerome Stuart has put together an exhaustive guide to analyzing primary source materials. Probably not for younger kids, but high schoolers and their instructors will find it handy.
- 1990 Census Data from ABAG
- California census information in pretty raw form. Great for providing data to plug into formulas.
- American Memory
- Archive of primary source documents from American History.
- Hiroshima Archive
- An archive of photos and documents relating to the decision to bomb Hiroshima, Japan.
- Michigan Documents Center
- Contains every government document which is available on line.
- Online Exhibits and Digitized Historical Collection Material
- The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of primary materials, organized into on-line exhibits.
- U.S. Founding Documents
- Visit this site for the text and scanned original images of some of our most important political documents. Includes: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers.
Forum for Publication
- Publishing their work allows students to become producers of information.
- Bellingham Parent Permission Form
- Before you publish student work, you should get parentel permission. This form is simple and nicely done, and permission to copy it is indicated on the bottom.
- Folk Tales about Africa
- Student produced stories about Africa, which use information gathered from the Web.
- Middlezine Magazine
- Showcases writing by kids in a variety of genres.
- Reviews by students
- This is an example of an easy to set up site which contains student writing.
Interact With Others
- Interactivity when using computers means much more than clicking on a button to start a movie. These links are to sites which allow students and teachers to interact with each other, either by e-mail, chat room, or creating/linking Web pages.
- Cyberteens
- Captivating graphics and an accessible feel mark this site for teens. On-line bulletin board system allows for interaction.
- Freezone EPALS
- Provides E-pals listing service for kids. Careful, though, there are still weirdos in the world. Caution your students not to reveal their full names, phone numbers, or addresses on line.
- IPL Youth Division: Ask the Author
- Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and Daniel Pinkwater are just some of the authors who have answered email from this site in the past. Current authors who will answer questions include Shonto Begay, Timothy Gaffney, Jackie French Kooler and Elizabeth Winthrop.
- Kids as Global Scientists Home Page
- Nancy Songer, here at the University of Michigan, is in charge of this program, in which students gather weather data and share it with other students across the United States and throughout the world.
- Teacher to Teacher Forum
- An interactive set of discussions by and for teachers.
Use Computer and Other Technical Resources
- The Web can be used as an interface to computer services, from machine translation to virtual gardening.
- CAT2 Translation Service - Automatic Translation
- Experimental german translation service: Input text in English, German, or French, choose a target language, and your text is translated and e-mailed to you. Pretty nifty.
- Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator
- Here's a JavaScript form which allows aerodynamics calculations.
- EarthCam
- WebCams are automatic or user-controlled cameras which take pictures and immediately post them to the Web. It's a great way to see exactly what a place looks like.
- National Budget Simulation
- Berkeley has put together a simulation of the process of creating a national budget. Could be useful for science, math, or social studies.
Take Advantage of Unique Opportunities
- Some things are just too expensive or dangerous to do with students. The Web allows us to go places we could not have gone before.
- City.Net Travel
- Geographic information about places the world over.
- KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
- Middle school boy heaven. Zero gravity training the NASA way. Definitely a unique opportunity.
- MayaQuest '97
- One of the best-known virtual field trip programs, this MECC production has a great Web site.
- MYDL Ecology: Ann Arbor Field Trip
- Not exactly a unique opportunity, but a page which shows what can be done with kids, a video camera, and a web page. This page took about two hours to create, including the video capture. Notice that no students are identifiable from the pictures.
Distribute Curriculum and Professional Resources
- The Web can be a powerful distribution channel for curriculum and professional resources. Lesson plans, units, and teachers' guides can all be inexpensively distributed via the 'Net.
- AERA: American Educational Research Association
- At over 11,000 members, AERA is the largest organization dedicated to research on education.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
- ERIC - Celebrating 30 Years
- Internet based classroom activities
- A variety of interesting classroom activities which involve the Internet are listed on this page. Nicely summarized.
- Motion In Our World: Math
- Part of a larger curriculum project developed for Novi Meadows School.
- NetDay-Florida Connecting Kids to their Future
- Information about what the state of Florida did for NetDay.
- The OWL Resource Page
- Information about scholarly reasons for having an On-line Writing Lab (OWL). Nicely done.
- Science Education Associations Home Page
- Handy, well organized page which links to assorted home pages of associations for science education.
- Smokescreen
- An activity designed by Jon Margerum-Leys, this page has links to a variety of anti-smoking and pro-smokers-choice sites. There is also a ClarisWorks evaluation guid which can be downloaded from the page.
Motivate Students/Teachers
- Sometimes it's okay to have fun--it might even increase learning.
- Bonnie Raitt Site
- There was a quote from Bonnie on one of the presentation pages, so I bookmarked this Web site.
- Beanie Babies Home Page
- Okay, okay, okay. I've got two daughters, one eight and one five. What can I say?
- Movies
- This is not a site I recommend for kids. But there are some great QuickTime trailers here and I visit it myself frequently.
- Phil Collins/Genesis
- Sample page from frontrow.com. They have a vast array of information on pop stars.
- Universal Access Blackjack Engine
- Blackjack over the Web, scored in money and everything. Could make an interesting component in a discussion of probability.
- tcejorP gninraeL dna gnihcaeT LDMU
- The page bookmarked here was generated by a cgi script at http://smeg.com/backwards/b3.cgi?url=http://mydl.soe.umich.edu/. If you replace everything after "url=" with the url of a Web page, the script will display the page backwards. Kind of fun.
Michigan
- Bookmarks from the University of Michigan, as well as from Ann Arbor and around the state of Michigan.
Bed and Breakfasts in Ann Arbor
- This folder was created for a visit by Dave and Virginia Margerum. It contains links to bed and breakfasts in Ann Arbor, as of February 1997.
- Ann Arbor Bed and Breakfasts
- Michigan Bed & Breakfasts
- Ann Arbor Home Page
- Home page maintained by the Ann Arbor visitor's bureau.
- The Artful Lodger Bed and Breakfast
Ed 794
- NELS Home Page
- IITF CAT - Education
- AusWeb95 Issues for Teacher Education
- Education Virtual Library - All Sites
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
- American Psychological Association PsychNET (SM)
- AACE--Assn. for the Advancement. of Computing in Education
- Adam Wilkinson's Home Page
- CNN - Hands-on science grabs students' interest - Feb. 13, 1996
- ED 727 Research on Congnition and Technology
- EdWeb Home Page
- MAC B On-Line Calendar
- This calendar lists activities for interns in the Master's and Certification program, B cohort, at the University of Michigan. It's being served from an ordinary desktop Mac, using Now Up-To-Date.
- MichNet Shared Dial-in Numbers
- Contains a list of phone numbers to use for dialing into the University of Michigan and Merit. Also links to a list of numbers in the Detroit metro area.
- MIRLYN on the Web
- The University of Michigan Library system's on-line catalog plus a lot more. Some functions available to non-university affiliated personnel, but others are restricted.
- Nathan Bos' prelim. paper
- Nathan Bos' preliminary paper. Well written, if a bit thick for general audiences.
- Oxford English Dictionary
- U of M interface to the OED. Works only from U of M campus computers. :(
- Pedagogical Language Usage Server
- John Miller's prototype for PLUS, the on-line education dictionary. This project is the brainchild of Fred Goodman at the University of Michigan.
- Portfolio entry on creation of online curricula
- Roget's American English Thesaurus
- U of M interface to the thesaurus. Works only from U of M campus computers. :(
- Route 12 Project Welcome Page
- Scienceware at the University of Michigan
- SI:ILS 526
- U of M Electronic Reference Shelf
- Britannica Online, Physicians' GenRx, Gale Databases, and the Oxford English Dictionary are all linked from this page. Unfortunately, the references cannot be used unless you're at a computer on the University of Michigan campus.
- University of Michigan School of Education Home Page
- University of Michigan World-Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions
- Welcome to Ann Arbor, Michigan!
- Welcome to the DeweyWeb
- Wolverine Access
- Wolverine Access Student Business
- Used internally at the University of Michigan, this page allows students to access information about their own grades, transcripts, and financial aid.
Music and entertainment
- 3:am
- CBS SportsLine - Sports News, Sports Scores, Sports Statistics, Sports Memorabilia and Fantasy Sports
- Current Lottery Results
- Someone once called lotteries "Gambling for people who can't do math." Still, they're kind of fun fantasies. This site posts results for lotteries nationwide.
- The Dive
- The Indy Racing League
- Interactive Magic
- The magic tricks at this site blew me away, especially interactive rabbit. Fantastic!
- M E T A L L I C A
- Movies.Com
- Tulip Time Festival, Inc.
- WayCool Weddings
- Thinly disguised advertising. Still a good read.
Personal
- Pages in this section were collected by Jon Margerum-Leys for various reasons. None of the links are particularly sensitive, but Jon's interests are somewhat varied and arcane; so are these bookmarks. :)
- Jon Margerum-Leys' Home Page
- Jon Margerum-Leys' Guest Register
- You can use this form to send me a note, even if you can't normally send e-mail from within your Web browser.
- MAC B Web Site
- Web log generator
- A great page which allows me to generate a report on who has been looking at my site. I'm not sure if it works from off the University of Michigan campus. Try it and see, then let me know!
Fitness
- Runner's World Training Tips
- THE PATH TO MARATHON SUCCESS
Employment information
- Sites which contain job listings.
- Academic Employment Network Welcome Page: Teacher Jobs, Ad Placements, and Registration
- AERA Job Openings
- The American Educational Research Association lists a few jobs on this page. Not nearly as well organized as the Chronicle of Higher Education list, and most of the jobs listed can be found in the Chronicle as well.
- CareerScape - World Wide Web Sites
- Chabot College Employment
- Computing jobs from chronicle of higher ed
- HeadHunter.NET
- Job Openings in Academe
- Jobs at the University of Vermont
- Updated every Tuesday, these are positions available at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.
- THE MONSTER BOARDÑJob information
- Large collection of job listings. Dorky interface and really confusing use of frames.
- ZD Net Job Database
Education
- Integrating Technology in Teacher Education Programs
- AERA 1997 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals: Session Descriptors
- American School Directory
- College & University Faculty Salary Database
- H. L. Mencken Quotes
- Quotes on Education.
History
- Bookmarks I kept because they relate to some element of my personal history.
- Brian Dube Inc., Juggling Equipment
- Makers of the finest juggling clubs and other props available.
- CityZine: Guide to Milwaukee
- Ernest Righetti High School Library
- The International Saxophone Home Page
- Juggling Information Service
- NavyOnLine Home Page
- Nicolet Home Page
- One of the top public high schools in the United States. A wonderful place to go to high school.
- The Saxophone Shop, Ltd. -- your complete saxophone and band instrument center!
- Bobby's Black's little shop across the street from Northwestern University. A very nice place to hang out on a rainy day.
- State of Vermont Home Page
- U.S. Army
- Welcome to the Santa Barbara County Education Office
- Wisconsin Department of Tourism
Humor
- Center for the Easily Amused
- Host of the joke of the day e-mail list.
- MPW C Error Messages
- Rejected Microsoft Advertisement
Julie's bookmarks
- Emerson Unitarian Church Canoga Park California
- 1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Ann Arbor
Miscellaneous
- One thing and another.
- Northwest Airlines CyberFares
- Excellent prices on round-trip tickets for weekend travel. Posted to this page every Wednesday.
People I know
- Big Dave's Big World
- Colleen Connor
- Jon Margerum-Leys' Home Page
- Nathan Bos's home page
- Our Beautiful Baby Girl
- Steven Aoki's Home Page
- Wayne Cripps
- I haven't seen Wayne in years, but he and his wife Cyndi were in the birthing class with my wife Julie and me.
- The Yo-Zone - Homepage
Swimming
- The Great Chesapeake Bay Swim '96
- Lion's Den
- The Great Chesapeake Bay Swim '95
- SWIM 2000
- World Masters Swimming
- WebSwim Homepage
Publications
Academic
- Publications relating to academe.
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week
- Job Openings in Academe
Comics
- Links to comic strips on the Web
- The Dilbert Zone
- Doonesbury
- Link to the newsgroup which carries Doonesbury.
- For Better or For Worse
- Link to newsgroup which carries the comic strip For Better or For Worse.
- Recent Arlo & Janis ¨ Strips
Industry
- Webzines which cover the computer industry.
- Anchor Desk
- Ziff Davis Publication. Covers trends in the computer industry. Generally accurate, objective, and well balanced.
- BrowserWatch
- Information about the latest browsers, plug-ins, and ActiveX controls.
- HotWired!
- MacUserWeb
- MacWEEK
- Netly News
- PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites
- PC Magazine Online
- ZD Net AnchorDesk
- Computer industry news and opinions. Host to Jesse Berst, AnchorDesk e-mail list.
Entertainment
- Links to entertainment sites which are not related to television or radio.
- Inside Outside Online
- Joe Bob Biggs
- Link to the newsgroup which carries the Joe Bob Briggs column.
- Miss Manners
- The newsgroup which carries Judith Martin's column.
- Outside Online
- Some of the beautiful photography and interesting adventure stories of Outside magazine can be found at Outside Online.
- SALON
News
- Links to online resources which contain general news.
- AllPolitics - 'Toons
- CNN's on-line political cartoon center. Some interesting uses of animated GIFs. Goes beyond what is possible in print.
- CNN Interactive
- Simply the best on line news service I know of. Lots of good design ideas, too.
- FOX News
- New York Times
- USA Today
- Yahoo! - Business and Economy:Markets and Investments:Stocks:Quotes
Magazines
- This subsection contains a mixture of on-line versions of print magazines and electronic 'zines.
- Atlantic Unbound | The Atlantic Monthly
- On-line version of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
- Slate
- Time Magazine
- On-line version of Time magazine, distributed by Pathfinder.
Television and radio
- Mass media links. Online versions of TV and radio programs. Often contain program listings and archival information about the shows.
- The Capitol Steps
- Enormously funny political satire. Uses RealAudio plug-in.
- Comedy Central Online
- CNN Interactive
- CNN San Francisco
- CNN/Time AllPolitics
- THE LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN
- MTV Online: Main Page
- NPR Online
- A Prairie Home Companion¨
- The Travel Channel Online Network - Home Page
Search engines
- HotBot
- Winner of the PC Week search engine "shootout". Nice interface, good use of summaries.
- InfoSeek Home Page
- Local OpenText Form
- The Open Text Index
- The Open Text Index - Power Search
- WebCrawler Searching
- Yahoo!
- One of the most popular search engines on the Web. Started at Stanford University.
Software Sources and Information
- These pages contain links to free or demo software, as well as reviews and announcements about commercial software.
- Avid Technology Online
- Makers of the finest digital video editing hardware and software.
- Blue World Communications, Inc.
- Makers of Lasso, an interface between FileMaker Pro and Webstar.
- Claris Corporation Main Page
- Connectix
- Makers of RAMDoubler and SpeedDoubler, two excellent pieces of software.
- Download Netscape Navigator Software
- Downloadable Demos (gradebook programs)
- Gradebook and other software programs for use by educators. To download, drag the link off the screen onto the desktop. DON'T click on the link--you'll get garbage.
- Eudora Tips & Tricks
- Internet Software for the Mac
- A number of free and shareware programs for the MAC can be found at this site.
- Gradekeeper
- Shareware gradebook program. Doesn't do everything, but for $20 shareware, it's a good bargain.
- Knowledge Revolution
- Makers of Interactive Physics.
- Macintosh Internet Software
- Lots of Internet-related shareware for the Macintosh.
- Microsoft Corporation
- Now Software: Time Management Network
- Progressive Networks, The Home of RealAudio & RealVideo
- QUALCOMM Homepage
- Makers of Eudora e-mail software and other cool things.
- SoftWareHouse/CCV Software
- Educational software distributor.
- StarNine - Internet Software for MacOS and Windows
- Producers of WebStar, one of the most popular http servers around.
- CU-SeeMe Home Page
- Shareware.com
- Lots and lots of shareware programs for Macintosh and Windows computers.
- Storyspace
- The Ultimate CU-See Me Reflector List
- Version Tracker
- Keeps track of and has links to the latest versions of various kinds of Macintosh software.
- VSL: Front Desk at the OAK Repository (oak.oakland.edu)
Subject area pages
- Items in this section are of interest to classroom teachers and are sorted by domain.
Foreign Language
- Louvre Site in French
- This page is in French, but it has links to the same material in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Le coin des francophones et autres grenouilles
- Page d'accueil SŽnat
- Tourisme en France
- THE CONSTITUTION OF JAPAN
- City-Net information
- Clickable map of the world, linking you to information about far-flung places.
Health/Growth and Development
- KidsHealth - Children's Health & Parenting Information
- Lots of tips and activities for parents and kids. Very attractively laid out site.
Language Arts
- A Story as You Like It
- Interactive or automatically created branching short story. An interesting example of how Web pages can be used for creative hypertext writing.
- Advice to new authors
- Very informative page about how to go about writing books for money.
- Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
- Children's Literature Home Page
- Complete works of Shakespeare
- The complete works of Shakespeare, very nicely cataloged.
- CyberKids Home
- KIDDIN' AROUND
- Inkspot
- Designed as a forum for professional writers, Inkspot can also be an interesting place for students to visit.
- IPL The Internet Public Library
- The Internet Public Library is a project of the University of Michigan School of Information. It seeks to "serve the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating quality information resources."
- IPL Youth Division: Ask the Author
- Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and Daniel Pinkwater are just some of the authors who answer email from this site.
- Middlezine Magazine
- Showcases writing by kids in a variety of genres.
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- The largest (and best) organization for English teachers. Their 1997 president, Sheridan Blau, can be reached at blau@edstar.gse.ucsb.edu. He's a wonderful guy and usually responds to e-mail.
- Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1996 Winners
- The Page at Pooh Corner
- Project Gutenberg Home Page
- Project Gutenberg puts public domain literature on the Web. Here you'll find the complete works of Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.
- Purdue University On-line Writing Lab
- School Stuff
- Well. . .Lots of worksheets. If you are looking for lots of worksheets, you can certainly find them right here. Did I mention that they have worksheets? Underline the preposition in the previous sentence. . .
Mathematics
- Algorithms and Ice Cream for All
- Ask Dr. Math
- Brain Teasers
- Houghton Mifflin provides weekly "brain teasers" (math word problems, really) at a variety of grade levels. Some creative stuff, as far as word problems go.
- CCER National Budget Simulation
- Berkeley has put together a simulation of the process of creating a national budget. Could be useful for science education or social studies.
- The Math Forum Home Page
- Angus Mairs recommends this site.
- Math Problems of the Week!
- MathDEN: Mathematics Resource for the Home and Classroom
- One of the sections of the Digital Education Network. (http://www.actden.com/). Requires a logon and password, but these are free.
- Mathematics Lessons Database
- From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign comes this database of lesson plans, created by math educators. Lessons cover all grade levels, with material on algebra, geometry, gen. math, trig, calc., stats, analytical geometry, and probability.
- MathMagic!
- A cooperative project in which pairs of classrooms share ideas on how to solve a math "challenge". When both groups agree, they post their solution to a LISTSERV as a way to publish. This is a sub-part of the math forum at Swarthmore listed above.
- National Council of Teachers of Math
- Producers of the NCTM standards, this is the most widely recognized body of math teachers in the United States.
Physical Education
- ESPNET SportsZone
- FitLife
- National Association for Sport and Physical Education Home Page
- Official 1996 Olympic Web Site - Home Page
- Sports Illustrated For Kids
- STRETCHING AND FLEXIBILITY - Table of Contents
- This is fairly technical and entirely text-based, but it's interesting, thorough and well-written.
Science
- Ask Dr. Science
- Yes, this is humor. A very funny parody of "ask-the-expert" shows.
- Bill Nye the Science Guy's NYE LABS ONLINE
- One of the great science ed sites available on the Web. To use this site fully, you'll need to have the ShockWave plug-in and a QuickTime movie player.
- Digital Libraries in the Science Classroom
- EXXON Environment, Health and Safety Progress Report
- Exxon Corporation
- Earth Image Archive
- Earthquake Information
- Excellent up-to-the minute record of seismic activity. Somewhat technical: Kids will need some help to make sense of the information contained here.
- Earthquake of the Day
- Very attractively laid out record of an earthquake. Updated daily to showcase information about an earthquake which happened that day.
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
- KC-135 "Vomit Comet"
- Kids as Global Scientists Home Page
- Mercury in fish. Cause for concern?
- This page was bookmarked in the process of gathering examples for my AERA paper.
- Miami Museum of Science
- Much of what is here are hot lists to other sites, but there are some good exhibits, too.
- Mike's Herpetocultural Home Page
- The NASA Homepage
- NASA has a tremendous amount of information on line. Lots of great pictures and descriptions of the work they do.
- National Geographic Magazine
- Highlights from National Geographic Magazine in an attractive on-line format.
- National Science Teachers Association
- National Geographic Society Main Page
- Nature - International weekly journal of science
- New Scientist:Planet Science
- The on-line version of the magazine. Requires an on-line registration process, which is free and instant and not too terribly nosy. Interesting articles. Somewhat chatty, but would probably be enjoyed by teachers. Nice design and layout.
- Pollution in the Great Lakes Region
- Science Education Associations Home Page
- Handy, well organized page which links to assorted home pages of associations for science education.
- Science Web Sites for Biologists
- Sky & Telescope: The Essential Magazine of Astronomy
- The UMDL/MYDL Teachers' Corner
- The Teachers' Corner contains information for teachers who are using the University of Michigan Digital Library on-line curriculum units.
- UMDL Teaching and Learning Project
- This is the front "overview" page for the University of Michigan Digital Library Teaching and Learning project. At this site, you'll find on-line units on geology, water conservation and ecology, weather, and astronomy.
- Va Tech Physics Lecture Demo F60
- The Virtual Flylab
- Genetics--gotta love it. Design your own fly, right on the World Wide Web, then mate it with another fly. The language is (maybe) accessible to high school students, but the activity is straightforward with lots of graphics.
- VolcanoWorld
- Volcano World is the premiere spot for volcano information on the Internet. It's hosted by the University of North Dakota. Why volcanoes in North Dakota? Good question.
- Windows to the Universe
- This is the opening page to Windows to the Universe, a project hosted here at the University of Michigan. Beautiful images. Drawback: The educational activities suggested look pretty lame.
Social Studies
- The British Monarchy
- Official page of the highest profile royals in the world. Very heavily trafficed and often busy.
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Southern Michigan Community Profiles
- A local realtor has put community profiles of local communities on the Web. He features MEAP scores prominently in these descriptions.
- U.S. Gazetteer
Discovery of America Pages
- These pages were assembled for a Master's project on who discovered America.
- Native American Histories
- 1492 -- Christopher Columbus
- 1492 -- What Came To Be Called America
- 1492 -- Inventing America
- The Discovery of America.
- Leif Ericson Vikingship
Smoking
- These are bookmarks to pages on the issue of smoking. Some are "pro-choice"; others are anti-smoking; a few walk the fence. Inclusion on this bookmarks list does not imply endorsement by the Web authors or Novi Meadows School.
- Smokescreen
- An activity designed by Jon Margerum-Leys, this page has links to a variety of anti-smoking and pro-smokers-choice sites. There is also a ClarisWorks evaluation guid which can be downloaded from the page.
- FORCES-THE PRO-CHOICE ON SMOKING ORG. PRO-SMOKING LINKS
- Smoke Peace Europe - Home Page
- Smoking Causes Web-Links
- Welcome to the RJ Reynolds Home Page
- The National Smokers Alliance
- Smoker's Rights and Tobacco Issues Page
- Tobacco Control
- The Great American SmokeScream - Home Page
- SmokeScreen: The Tobacco Control Activist Network
- Welcome to The QuitNet
- Welcome to Washington DOC
- 1995 World No-Tobacco Day
- A List of Tobacco-Related Internet Sites
- The Master Anti-Smoking Page
- momma.html
Technology
- CyberKids Home
Visual Art
- CyberKids Home
- Louvre Site in English
- The Collections of the Louvre
- This page contains links to the departments within the Louvre. From those departments are link to the artworks themselves.
- MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art
- This is the official site for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
- MoMA | the collection
- This link takes you directly to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art.
- ArtScape: Online Art Resources
- ArtScape
- Artscape has a listing of artists who work in various media. May be interesting for kids to see how artists in the field promote themselves.
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
- Wonderful images available here.
- Vatican Exhibit Main Hall
- Global Art Project
- Seeks to increase kids' understanding of other cultures through art exchanges.
Miscellaneous
- These are assorted bookmarks of interest to K12 students or their teachers, but which didn't seem to fit in any subject area category.
- Pathways to School Improvement
- Smokey Says
Teacher resource pages
- A lot of pages of interest to teachers are scattered throughout these bookmarks, but these are a few which seemed to fit particularly well in this category.
- The American Federation of Teachers
- One of the two largest teachers' unions in the United States.
- BDD: Teacher's Resource Center
- Bantam Doubleday Dell maintains this Web site for language arts teachers. They include some really nice activities for teaching award-winning books.
- The Digital Education Network: A resource for teachers and students
- Variety of activities and resources for students and teachers.
- Gradekeeper
- Shareware gradebook program. Doesn't do everything, but for $20 shareware, it's a good bargain.
- InterActive Teacher Online
- Mustang: A Web Cruising Vehicle for Teachers
- National Education Association
- One of the two largest teachers' unions in the United States.
- SSMA Home Page
- The School Science and Math Association publishes several journals and hosts an annual meeting. The 1997 meeting, at which I will be presenting, is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Teacher to Teacher Forum
- An interactive set of discussions by and for teachers.
UMDL
Ecology
- MYDL Ecology Unit: Home Page
- MYDL Ecology: What to do?
- MYDL Ecology: Search
- MYDL Ecology: Start Categories
- MYDL Ecology: What to Write in your Journal?
- MYDL Need Help?
www.umich.edu/~aaps/ pages
- MYDL Scavenger Hunt: Home Page
- MYDL Astronomy Unit: Home Page
- MYDL Geology: Home Page
- MYDL Weather: Home Page
- MYDL Ecology Unit: Home Page
hi-c.eecs.umich.edu pages
- MYDL Scavenger Hunt: Home Page
- MYDL Astronomy Unit: Home Page
- MYDL Geology: Home Page
- MYDL Weather: Home Page
- MYDL Ecology Unit: Home Page
mydl.soe.umich.edu pages
- MYDL Scavenger Hunt: Home Page
- MYDL Astronomy Unit: Home Page
- MYDL Geology: Home Page
- MYDL Weather: Home Page
- MYDL Ecology Unit: Home Page
mydl.soe.umich.edu pages
- These are the pages from the Web server which was new as of mid-October, 1996.
- UMDL Teaching and Learning Project
- MYDL Scavenger Hunt: Home Page
- The UMDL/MYDL Teachers' Corner
United States Government
- Many divisions of the United States government have a mandate to publish their work to the public at large. These pages are part of that effort. Some of them also serve a particular political agenda.
- Welcome To The White House
- The United States Senate
- U.S. House Of Representatives - Home Page
- FedWorld Information Network Home Page
- Betsy Ross Homepage
- Very complete, interesting site with information on the creation of early American flags.
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web) Home Page
- Senator Spencer Abraham's Home Page
- Office of Senator Carl Levin - Michigan
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- Tiger Map Server Browser
- This link lets you specify which community (incorporated in the 1990 census) you would like a map of.
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Memory consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. Most of these are from the Library's special collections.
Web information
- Lots of pages on the Web give you information about pages on the Web. Tutorials on creating Web pages, lists of top sites, clip art, software; that's what you'll see listed in this section. Most of these links are for people who design Web pages.
- Aristotle
- Aristotle offers two services of interest:
First, registered voters can get a free e-mail account to receive government related spam.
Second, registered Aristotle users can sign up for a spam blocking service.
- Backgrounds
- Good source of background images for your Web pages. Use sparingly.
- Bells'n'Whistles
- Various graphics, animated gifs, backgrounds, etc.
- BSD Calendar: View Event
- The Clip Art Connection
- The CGI Resource Index
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts are a fairly complex way to customize your Website, keep track of users, and log information. This site has hundreds of sample scripts available.
- COLOR CHART
- Cygnus-X1 Background Archive
- Danny Goodman FAQ
- Emblaze home page
- Interesting product. Allows animation on the Web without a plug-in.
- Examples of website navigation
- This page, designed for Web site designers, shows four different methods for allowing users to navigate a site. Image bars, shockwaved image bars, javascript popup, and text bars are shown.
- Gamelan: Earthweb's Java Directory
- General Motors
- GifSlider
- Help for HTMaiL v1.4
- HTML Elements
- Internet Config Information
- Java: Programming for the Internet
- JavaScript
- This Website is the handout portion of a talk by Tom True at Princeton. Contains some valuable definitions and other information about JavaScript, Netscape's scripting language for Web pages.
- KCounter v.1.0
- An AppleScripted page counter. Very clear directions, fairly easy to implement.
- Little Wing
- Kind of an odd little space. Some nice clip art available, in addition to some odd Web site implementations.
- MMC schedule
- Netscape Frames
- QuickTime VR
- RealAudio Homepage
- School Web Pages Science Content Research Paper
- Tom Keating, Bud Talbot, and a group from the University of Indiana, Bloomington put this research project together. It rates the science content of school Web pages sampled from Web 66.
- SoftWorld's Design Shop - Clip Art!
- Search Engine Watch
- Search Engine News, Search Engine Tips and more about search engines.
- Ten Commandments of HTML
- Universal Access Blackjack Engine
- Blackjack over the Web, scored in money and everything. Could make an interesting component in a discussion of probability.
- University of Michigan World-Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions
- Web Interface to Whois
- Typing the domain into the search engine box yields the IP address and vice versa. Useful for tracking down spammers and people spoofing email.
- Web-Counter Home Page
- If you need a counter for your pages and your site doesn't already have a cgi script to take care of it, this company will place a counter on your pages.
- The Webmasters' Guild
- Professional organization for Webmasters.
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
- The definitive guide to style on the Web.
Web pages for teacher educators
- These pages were assembled for use by Ron Marx in a journal article.
- Computers and Curriculum Integration in Teacher Education., Fox, Lynn; And Others
- Council for PreService Technology
- US Department of Education Technology Initiatives
- Among other things, this site lists grants available for classroom technology projects. Also listed are professional development opportunities in educational technology.
- Shoreline Teacher Development Center's Bookmarks
- Web Sites for Teacher Educators
- This page was created as background information for an article for teaching and teacher ed by Ron Marx.
Professional Development
- The pages in this section contain information about professional development for teachers.
- The Critical Thinking Community
- Sonoma State is the provider of the Critical Thinking Community. Contains resources for encouraging critical thinking in K12 and university classes. Separate section for higher ed with some interesting stuff available.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education
- ERIC is in the process of making its resources available on line in full text format. Definitely beats microfiche. This site describes the work on the clearinghouse on teaching and teacher education. It contains some full text papers as well.
- Teachers' Edition On-Line
- Primarily a resource for teachers. However, it might be useful for preservice teachers to look at some of the things available on this site. Of special interest is the teacher to teacher forum, which can be accessed as a Web forum.
- Undergraduate Teacher Development Center
- The University of Missouri is embarking on what looks like an interesting project. They're collaborating with their version of LSA to re-work teacher eduction. This page is a one-page overview of what they're up to.
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Education
- Tenth Floor: Technology in Education
- Education Resources
- University of Wisconsin School of Education
- Research and Reflection: An On-Line Journal
- Research and Reflection is published twice annually by Gonzaga University in Seattle Washington. Jan Severs (editor@gonzaga.edu) is the editor.
- Learning Through Collaborative Visualization
- Stanford University Center for Teaching & Learning
Younger Kids
- Items in this section are designed for younger kids, though they may appeal to adolescents and adults, as well.
- Beanie Baby accessories
- Bonus.com
- Kid safe Web site. Reported by CNN.
- The Cyber Zoomobile
- Lots of photos of animals, and a few of the author's children.
- Everything about Panda
- Electronic Zoo
- Free Zone
- Kid safe Web site. Reported by CNN.
- The Great Teddy Bear Hug
- GUND's homepages
- Index of stuffed animals at Puffins in Madison
- San Diego Wild Animal Park!
- Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Zoo