Resources for Teachers

The American Distance Education Consortium Online Resources
A list of resources from the American Distance Education Consortium. Includes a page of educational links, links for excellence in online teaching, and many others.

Catalyst
The Catalyst Web site brings you tools, resources, and support to help you teach with new technologies.

Distance Education Clearinghouse
The Distance Education Clearinghouse is a comprehensive and widely recognized Web site bringing together distance education information from Wisconsin, as well as national and international sources. New information and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continual basis. The Clearinghouse is managed and maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, in cooperation with its partners and other University of Wisconsin institutions.

Edutech-Online Resource for Education and Technologies
Edutech is an online resource for education and technologies. This site offers a variety of options including: sites of the month, an alphabetical search for themes, a query search, and an opportunity to submit a theme to Edutech's database.

The Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, nonprofit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is a special project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. Teachers, parents, and administrators can search or browse The Gateway and find thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from over 200 GEM Consortium member sites.

The Global Campus
The Global Campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes. The goal of the project is to share resources through technology by providing a central "campus" where institutions may make their resources available on the World Wide Web. We provide easy access to high quality materials which can be used for instructional development worldwide, while respecting intellectual property rights.

Learning Resources
The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. The Western/Pacific Literacy Network and the CNN San Francisco bureau have partnered to develop an online literacy site that benefits all learners and instructors. This material is intended for adult literacy and educational purposes. Though the intended audience is adults, instructors and learners of all ages are encouraged to use this material to promote better literacy.

Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. Each module is designed for ease of use so the learner can use it independently. The instructor can also incorporate any story into class activities and lesson plans.

Resisting the Myths of the Electronic Frontier: Approaches to Using New Media in Teaching and Learning (by Randy Bass Georgetown University) Offers links to sample sites that include examples of online archives/data and dynamic syllabi. Examples of sites dedicated to teaching, learning and curriculum and sites organizing material for a particular field are also listed.

Science and Technology Special Collection
The aim of this special collection is to provide the resources and opportunities for instructors and learners to be a part of this educational effort and to increase their scientific and technological literacy. The intended audience for this page is the practitioner in adult literacy programs. This special collection will allow instructors to develop and incorporate into their teaching and learning processes a series of inquiry-based activities in the context of science and technology.

Teaching and Learning on the Web
Over 791 examples of how the Web is being used as a medium for learning.

Theory Into Practice Database
Brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

The TLT Group
Our goal is to help educational institutions improve teaching and learning by making more thoughtful use of information technology. We offer tools, information, training, and consulting that accelerate educational improvement while also helping to control the costs and ease the stresses of change. Note: The TLT Group focuses primarily on higher education.
Implementing the Seven Principles: Techology as Lever Since Arthur W. Chickering and Steven Ehrmann published their Seven Principles of Good Practice in 1987, new communication and information technologies have become major resources for teaching and learning in higher education. If the power of the new technologies is to be fully realized, they should be employed in ways consistent with the Seven Principles.

Voice of the Shuttle
Over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that respects the established humanities disciplines professional organizations and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.