Education 4945 Web Resources Page

Education 4945

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Michael Coady
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Memorial University
of Newfoundland
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WEB RESOURCES

Below is a list of resources that are compiled as references for you. Some of these resources may be singled out specifically for discussion in class. Others are there as references/guides to help you with your course work. Hopefully, this list will be completely annotated as the semester goes on.

This page last updated on June 21, 2001

Select the desired resource section from the menu below:

Introduction to Computer Technology

Computer Basics - basics information on the computer and its components and functions by Webopedia

PC Computer Hardware Tutorial - designed to help novice PC users learn about and be able to have a general knowledge of hardware components of PC computers, what functions they perform, and how they work.

Basic Hardware / Software Tutorial - an online tutorial on basic computer hardware and software which includes a quiz.

Introduction to Computer System Tutorials:

Components of a Computer - Hardware

Microprocessor & Random Access Memory

(These are PDF files which require the Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Computers: The Past, Present, and Future - Site dedicated to the history of computers. Also includes a tutorial on computer hardware, quizzes and ideas on the future of computing.

Computers: History and Development - by Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia

Webopedia - "The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology".

whatis.com - whatis® is a knowledge exploration tool about information technology, especially about the Internet and computers. It contains over 2,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of quick-reference pages. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information.

Issues and Trends in Technology Education

Technology in K-12 Education - analyzes the 1999 state-of-the-art regarding learning technology and the contributions of technology to increased academic performance (June 1999)

The Status of Technology in the Education System: A Literature Review (1996) - Report by Elizabeth Wellburn, Technology and Distance Education Branch, Ministry of Education, Skills and Training, British Columbia, Canada, May, 1996

The Condition of Education, 2000 - an indicator report, summarizing the health of education, monitoring important developments, and showing trends in major aspects of education. Published by the American National Center for Education Statistics

The Digital Divide Network (DDN) - tackles the growing gap between those who have access to technology and information skills and those who do not through a powerful knowledge network. The purpose of the DDN is to enable and facilitate the sharing of ideas, information and creative solutions among industry partners, private foundations, nonprofit organizations and governments.

Learning Theory

A Brief Survey of the Changing Views of Learning - An overview of learning and learning theories as they relate to the use of IT in education. The presentation primarily concentrates on the main differences between the theoretical positions, but they are very general.

Learning Theories - summarizes the major learning theories impacting education today and gives implications for instruction are discussed for each theoretical orientation.

Learning Theories - an Interactive Multimedia Sampler of Learning Theories, providing a reference for students studying models of learning theory. You will need to download the Neuron plugin for Toolbook to view this.
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The TIP Database - a database containing brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
Learning Theories of Instructional Design - introduction and subsequent "sorting out" of the various learning theories and associated instructional design strategies
Behaviorism As A Learning Theory - an overview of the theory, its major theorists, main ideas and impact on instruction and instructional technology
Cognitivism - a brief overview of the theory
Cognitive Psychology and its Application to Education - by Isidro Grau, IV reviews the developments in cognitive psychology in the last two decades.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM & LEV VYGOTSKY - a brief overview of this theory based on the idea that learning is a social process, shaped by the immediate learning environment.
In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms (revised edition) - an excerpt from the book by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin G. Brooks, Copyright © 1993, 1999
Constructivism: From philosophy to practice - highlighting some of these attempts at integrating constructivist characteristics into the practice of teaching and learning by Elizabeth Murphy
Elements of Constructivism - compilation of information and resources about constructivist thought in Educational Technology
Bloom's Mastery Learning - Notes from Benjamin Bloom lecture [ACSA, April, 1987]
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - This is a revised version of Benjamin Bloom's work with the addition of the Psychomotor Domain as developed by Anita Harrow [1972]. Dr. Bloom's intent was to develop a classification framework for writing educational objectives. The questions and examples were added by Tom Allen to make the Taxonomy more useful for beginning teachers as a tool to facilitate appropriate questioning.

Communication Theory

Views on Communication - a site on the the theories and models of communication
The Strategic Communication Model - Thinking Strategically about Academic Communication and Student Academic Communication Genres
The Communication Process and Leadership - The basic concern of this publication is the relationship between communication and leadership, but it focuses on the process of communication to give you an idea how the communication act takes place as well as examines different communication models and patterns.

Hypermedia

Hypertext - a compilation of links by the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education
Hypertext, Hypermedia and Learning Links by Elizabeth Murphy
Hypermedia Structures and Systems - a course by Prof. dr. P.M.E. De Bra at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Hypermedia Structures and Systems: authoring hypertext

Hypermedia Structures and Systems: navigation

Hypermedia Structures and Systems: Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications

WebQuests

"What is a WebQuest?" - By Dr. Alice Christie

"Some Thoughts About WebQuests" by Bernie Dodge (the guy who started it all)

"WebQuests: A Strategy for Scaffolding Higher Level Learning" - by Bernie Dodge

A WebQuest about WebQuests - by Bernie Dodge

Building Blocks of a WebQuest

The Student WebQuest - By Maureen Brown Yoder

Assessing WebQuests - A rubric to assess your own or another's WebQuest

WebQuests for Learning - by Tom March

A guide to designing WebQuests - by Tom March

A template for WebQuest creation

Some Sample WebQuests - created at the College of Education, Louisiana State University

Integrating Technology for Inquiry

iNtegrating Technology for inQuiry Web Page - This web site provides preservice teachers and K-12 teachers, with resources related to the Morrison, Lowther & Demeulle text, entitled Integrating Computer Technology into the Classroom and to the NTeQ model.

Technology Curriculum Outcomes

ISTE Standards Projects - International Society for Technology in Education has consistently taken a leadership role in establishing standards for the effective use of information technology in education.

General K-12 Curriculum Outcomes for Computer Integration - These outcomes are developed jointly by School District 3 and the Newfoundland Department of Education's Division of Program Development. The outcomes structure created by the project will become provincial curriculum outcomes.

Computer-based Instruction (CBI)

Web Based Learning resources library - This page is an educators' resource for delivery and management of education via the Internet.

Teaching & Learning with Internet Tools - aims to encourage discussion between WWW providers of educational material and researchers in the field of educational technology

Distance Education

Distance Education at a Glance

Productivity Software

Powerpoint in the Classroom - This comprehensive and engaging tutorial on Poweropint is produced by actDEN. This tutorial is also available, free of charge, for reprint purposes to nonprofit educational organizations. actDEN currrently offers seven software tutorials, produced in conjunction with Microsoft K-12 Education, and seven DEN courses. Each tutorial and online course offers up-to-date information and interactive features that encourage students to learn, think, and participate in the online community.

PowerPoint Tutorial

PowerPoint 97 Tutorial

Basic PowerPoint Topics Tutorial (Office 95)

Converting PowerPoint Presentations for the World Wide Web

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Tutorial - from the "Microsoft in Education" website

CorelDraw Basic Tutorial

CorelDRAW 8 Basics Level 1 Training

CorelDRAW Tutorials - The Basics - various tutorials on the basic functions of CorelDraw

CorelDraw 7 Tutorial - The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to the basic drawing techniques and simple manipulations. Corel Draw 7 is a highly versatile and complex program that requires experience to be an expert, but this application allows a beginner to be creative with just the basics.

Online Lessons for Productivity Software - free printable tutorials on a variety of software including Wordprocessing, Presentation Graphics, Spreadsheet and Database from Land-Grant Training Alliance

Introduction to the Internet Resources

What is the Internet, the WWW, and Netscape? An Introduction - Library Resources at University of California, Berkeley
Internet 101: An Official Starting Point - A friendly tutorial designed for complete beginners.
Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms
webTeacher: Your Source for Web Knowledge - a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - About the Net, HTML, and Graphics
Life on the Internet: Net History Timeline by PBS Online
The History of the Internet Timeline - By Dave Kristula, March 1997

All About The Internet: Links to Various Histories of the Internet by Internet Society (ISOC)
E-mail / Listserv

Everything E-Mail by Mary Houten-Kemp

PBS' Internet Guide to E-mail - resources on the latest email software, email guides, etc.

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email - focuses on the content of an email message: how to say what you need to say, more efficiently, clearly, and effectively.
E-Mail Glossary - Common e-mail terminology

Email Discussion Groups and Lists: Resources - a one-stop information resource about email discussion groups or "lists," as they are sometimes called.

Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists - the Internet's premier Mailing List Directory

E-MAIL TUTORIAL: Using the PINE e-mail program - a short how-to developed for this course (Education 4945)
Telnet

Telnet Overview

Telnet Tutorial

What is Hytelnet?
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Beginner's Guide to FTP from FTPplanet.com

How to Download and Use WS-FTP

Download WS_FTP from FTPplanet.com

WS_FTP LE TUTORIAL - Launching WS_FTP LE

WS_FTP PRO TUTORIAL - Launching WS_FTP Pro

WS_FTP™ LE Support from Ipswitch

Featured FTP Sites

BBS Networks FTP Site has thousands of great files to download for free, but it's also extremely easy to navigate and full of helpful index files. When you first login to the site, go to the '/all_files' directory -- you'll find Internet tools, games, Windows desktop utilities and much, much more.

Swedish University Network (SUNET) FTP site with a a healthy mix of everything: games, music, pictures, science, news and just about anything else you can think of
Newsgroups

Newsgroups Tutorial - Newsgroups set-up & configuration

PBS' Internet Guide to Newsgroups (Usenet) - resources on the latest usenet software, guides to usenet, etc.
WWW and Browsers

Welcome to the Web Tutorial - the most basic of basic tutorials for the Web "Newbie" (very effective site by Simon Fraser University)

World Wide Web Workbook - a "newbie's" guide to the web by the Franklin Institute Online

Glossary of WWW, Web Searching, and Netscape Jargon - Library Resources at University of California, Berkeley

Introduction to Netscape Communicator - Netscape's Guide to Installing and Using Communicator

Effective Bookmarks Management - A step-by-step tutorial on managing your Netscape bookmarks.

Understanding URLs - a guide to "dissecting" Uniform Resource Locators (or web addresses)

Understanding and decoding URLs - Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs, are the Internet addresses that you see on the Location bars at the top or bottom of your Web browser (e.g., Netscape or Explorer). Here's how to dissect their composition and understand them better.

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL

Harnessing the Power of the Web - This guide will help you to understand collaborative, project-based learning on the Internet.
Internet Search Tools

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Internet Searching Tools

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL

Links to Various Search Engines

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching - become a better searcher by simply mastering 7 tricks in AltaVista

Internet Guide to Search Engines - by Memorial University of Newfoundland

Introduction to Search Engines - Kansas city Public Library's Guide

Search Engines Chart
Website Evaluation Tools

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - addresses specifics in filtering authorship, publisher, bias/point of view, referral to and/or knowledge of the literature, accuracy, and currency. This site also includes a link to "Practical Steps for Evaluating Authorship, Publishing Body, and Currency."

Caveat Emptor: Weighing the Worth of Web Resources - LeAne H. Rutherford with the Instructional Development Service of the University of Minnesota provides this excellent resource on the evaluation of WWW sources.

Evaluating Quality on the Net - A thoughtful article on the importance and processes for evaluating web sources by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist - Librarians and other information specialists share their expertise in evaluating Web information resources in the articles listed here. Included in this resource guide is a checklist of questions to ask when evaluating a Web site as a potential educational resource.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys - a series of evaluation surveys to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usabilty

Evaluation Rubrics for Websites - rubrics for use with Primary, Intermediate and Secondary grades

ArtFul Minds: Recommended Evaluation Resources - Recommended Web Resources: Web Site Evaluation Tools

Ten Cs Guide for evaluating web research resources - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, McIntyre Library

Selection Criteria - How to Tell if You Are Looking at a Great Web Site

Evaluating Web Pages: Why and How - Teaching Library Internet Workshops, University of California, Berkeley

Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate (includes checklists, and links to actual Web page examples that illustrate the concepts discussed)

Web Resource Evaluation Techniques a PowerPoint Presentation by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate

Evaluating Web Pages Part I : Group Exercises - Some practice in evaluating websites across various criteria
Web Resources in the Curricular Areas

Provincial Curriculum Documents - The Newfoundland Department of Education produces a wide variety of curriculum and curriculum related documents. Documents are organized into five major categories–Curriculum Outcomes, Levels and Other Handbooks, Curriculum Frameworks, Curriculum and Teaching Guides, and Curriculum Support Documents.

ArtFul Minds - Recommended Web Resources: Content Area Resources for Educators in various curricular areas

From the Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network:

Language Arts and Social Studies Lessons

Math, Economics, & Science Lessons

Geography & History Lessons

ARTSEDGE: Teaching Materials - Curriculum WebLinks for Educators

ProTeacher.com - a web directory and online community for elementary school teachers in grades K-6.

Kidlink - a project aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10 - 15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. Students must register and can participate in conferences or projects with other students around the world.

Implementation of a Global Internet Project - An intermediate level unit which involves the communication and collaboration among a group of people with a common interest in global learning and discoveries. This unit focuses on creating a successful global internet project and using a listserv.

Too Cool School House Educational Site of the Week - The School House presents weekly the best educational web sites active today.

Special Education and Rehabilitation Internet and Assistive Technology Resources - by the University of Kentucky Assistive Technology (UKAT) Project. The purpose of the UKAT Project is to examine the effectiveness of a functional approach to the delivery of assistive technology services in schools.

Selected Internet Resources for Assistive Technology - from The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education

Java Applets on Physics - these applets demonstrate mechanical, concepts in physics like Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Atoms, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics, Theory of Relativity, etc.. Applets in Mathematics and Astronomy also available.

Chemistry: a Tutorial on Polymers and Liquid Crystals - this site provides the student with a virtual lab and textbook on the subject.

Learning HTML / Web Page Design

Some Interesting Sample Web Pages

Welcome to Critical Mass - a marketing company witha sleek design and interesting use of javascript mouse-over

The Pierre Smirnoff Company - a Vodka company tha uses Macromedia Flash in its design.

Outtacontext- Jeff Gates' Web Site that has an artful approach (nice graphic design)

Doc OZONE's Site - a master graphic design and web designer (some interesting use of javascript)

Project Cool's Sightings page - highlights creative web designs daily
HTML Tools and Tutorials

Download a HTML Text Editor from Tucows - Note Tab Light ® for win95

The Basic Tags of HTML Code - an overview of the basic tags of HTML code to get you started (by Michael Coady)

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners - This tutorial is a "hands-on" tutorial. You get to test your new HTML skills as you learn it ... all within your own browser.

webTeacher: Your Source for Web Knowledge - a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts basic and in-depth information about Web design at your fingertips

HTML for Beginners - a tutorial by Microsoft Developers Network.

Introduction to HTML - by the Media Services Department of Eastern Illinois University

Introduction to HTML - by Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Guide To HTML - by Inter-Link 2000 Web Services

A Visual HTML Tutorial - Super Easy & Fun HTML Tutorial that allows you to test the codes you are learning inside a TEST BOX and test it out in Real Time.

Project Cool web design resources - A network of websites sharing the common belief that anyone can make a great website if given knowledge, guidance and inspiration. There's something for everyone within, from the first time webmaker to the designer with years of experience.

Project Cool! Try It! - a section of the Project Cool site that lets you enter your HTML code in an input box to see the effects that certain code has.

Professional Web Design & HTML Tutorials - by Joe Barta

Tables Tutor
Frames Tutor
Forms Tutor

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML - lists every official HTML tag in common usage, plus Netscape and Microsoft extensions.

The Web Diner - a reference site on how to create a web page for the beginner (and intermediate to advanced web developer)

Web Diner's Hexcode Color Chart - A palette of colors with corresponding HTML hexadecimal color code so you can customize the color scheme of your website.

Complete HTML True Color Chart - A palette of colors with corresponding HTML hexadecimal color code.

VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab - An interactive palette which lets you click on 216 browser-safe web colors to display their RGB, CMYK and Hexidecimal codes

Get Hex-ed Simply select your red, green, and blue values; Get Hexed! does the rest converts to hex code, displays the results, and provides a <body> tag for you to slip into your next HTML document.

Hex Colors - A list of the 216 hex numbers in the appropriate colors, that display identically on both Mac and Windows platforms

Technical Guidelines for Integrating Audio into Web Pages - A paper by Dr. Steven G. Estrella, Temple University, outlining general tips, pointers, and implications for incorporating digital audio files within Web sites.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators : Brush Up on the Internet - four mini lessons to introduce grade four students to the Internet

THE RESOURCEFUL TEACHER - making your own web page - a timesaver for educators, by providing links to school graphics, and other helpful links that will make it easier to create your own web page. Also includes some resources that could help students make their own web pages.

Image Maps - What they are and how to create them.

Download Mapedit - an easy-to-use image mapping software

Free Webpage Counters - add counters to your web pages and keep track of visitors

IPSTAT II free counter - counts all the visitors of your pages, and shows the statistics in a clear summary to you.
Web Design Guides

Yale Web Style Manual - Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton use this online version of their book with traditional concepts to clearly illustrate how to make your site interface welcoming and efficient. Emphasis is also placed on how to design for overall style and professional appeal including sections on typography and editorial style.

Web Pages That Suck.Com - critiques of bad web design

How Users Read on the Web - A bi-weekly "Alertbox" column on Web usability by Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group in which he discusses the results of a recent study on how people read information on the Web and its implications for web design.

Does Your Site Contribute to Data Smog? - Steve Outing's New Media News & Analysis column from the "Editor and Publisher" online interactive newspaper of May 28-29, 1997.

The Art of Web Publishing - An interesting and unique site offering personal opinion on good Web site design within a "Do's and Don'ts" approach.

Design for WWW Documents - This site is in essence a multi-chapter course on Interface and Graphic Design by Bonnie Mitchell, Syracuse University. It is an excellent resource tool for Web site design with plenty of examples and ideas provided. (Note: some of the graphics may take a while to load, so be sure you have a decent rate connection)

Creative Design for the WWW - A presentation by Bonnie Mitchell, Syracuse University consisting an overview which outlines many of the elements/issues discussed within the "course" as linked above.

W3C -- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group - Guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explaining how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools.

Internet Bobby - 'Bobby' is a Web-based tool that analyzes Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities, and is offered free as a public service. Bobby reports on accessibility and/or browser compatibility errors (based on W3C standards) found within the identified page(s).

How to Create Accessible Sites - Resources provided by 'Bobby' to help in developing Web sites that are accessible to all types of learners.
Web Graphics

Creating Graphics for the Web - explains the basics of GIFs, JPEGs, compression, anti-aliasing, etc.

Creating Graphic Images for the Web - by PC Magazine

Information about Graphics - by the University of Alberta

JPEG Tutorial - by Ray Wolfgang

Image Search Engines

Lycos Picture and Sound Search

AltaVista - Image Search -This site provides a quick way to search for photos and images and other visual sources of information

The Amazing Picture Machine - Index to Graphical Resources on the Internet by the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium

Imagebase - a browsable/searchable database of image URLs and related information maintained by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Image Bank - provides creative professionals with a rich venue for searching, purchasing and downloading images from a wide range of royalty-free and rights-protected brands.

Webshots - a collection of digital images by Excite

Corbis Digital Pictures - Make All Your Ideas Picture Perfect

Image Finder (DL SunSITE)

Yahoo! Image Surfer Category List

Clip Art Searcher

Clipart Galleries

School Days Graphics

Discovery School's Clip Art Art Gallery - Discovery Channel School

Microsoft® Clip Gallery Live

MSDN Online Downloads Images TOC

MSDN Online Design: Multimedia Gallery

Webpage Buttons

Free Art - free web page graphics

OZONE: Images Index

ICONZ..... The Ultimate Free Icons Collection For Your HomePage

IconBAZAAR

ClipArtConnection.com - The Clip Art Connection

Absolutely Free Clipart - 100% Free Clipart

Animations and Graphics For Your Website - Index Page -

Web Graphic Collection

Graphics Temple

Humorous Awards for your Website - if nobody else will give your site an award, you can pick one up for yourself here.

Digital Audio and Video

Mike's Sound Page - an overview of some web audio formats. This is linked to a "how-to" page on including sound in your webpage.

MSDN Online Design: Multimedia Gallery

MSDN Online Downloads Sounds TOC

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio

Harmony Central®: MIDI: Sources of MIDI Files

Sounds of Newfoundland

Acoustical Society of America - Sounds

Jaxx's Wild World of WAVs!

Cool and funny sounds

The Princess Bride Sounds

More Princess Bride Sounds

Folk Music - Irish Tunes, Lyrics & Info

Harmony Central®: MIDI: Sources of MIDI Files

Index of /midi/

Index of midi files from popular artists - SUNET (Swedish University Network) FTP site

QD's Midi Files Page

The MIDI Farm Internet.

Free MIDI Files at The MIDI Farm Internet.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio

Acoustical Society of America - Sounds

Directory listing for /pub/sounds/sun-sounds/

Sounds Search: whales

Educational Software Review

SuperKids Software Review - Reviews Index: a completely independent publication which reviews and rates educational software based on a carefully developed set of criteria. Reviews are written by teams that include educators, parents, and children from across the United States.

Techlearning.com - serving educators with ideas, tools, and resources for integrating technology into the K-12 school, classroom and curriculum. Offers an online searchable database of reviews from past issues of Technology & Learning magazine

EvaluTech: Educational Reviews - an online searchable database of instructional materials specifically designed for use in kindergarten through grade 12. This database includes instructional software, educational websites, print and other materials.

Way Cool Software Reviews - a project started in 1995 at the University of Connecticut by a group of graduate students in an Internet/WWW class to promote evaluations of "way cool" software by kids, teachers and parents. Reviews are published on the Way Cool Listserv and on their web site.

Learning Village Software Guide - based in Canada, an independent review and advisory centre for parents and teachers who are looking for quality information on the best in educational software.

Nova Scotia Learning Resources and Technology Software Review Database - published by the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture, this database of software evaluations consists of summaries of reviews done by teachers and consultants in that province.

Nova Scotia Educational technology resources, Curriculum links, Technology news - This site contains many software review links as well as other useful technology education resources

Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee website - a site to keep Ontario Educators informed about the status of provincial licensing of classroom software; includes a Ontario Software Acquisition Program Data Base of Licenced Software (software approved for use in Ontario Public Schools).

The REVIEW ZONE CD-ROM Reviews - provides in-depth reviews on "the best" kids' and family edutainment software, hardware, computer books and cutting edge technology for parents and teachers.

The Review Corner: Educational Product Reviews: Smart Toys, Videos, and Books - devoted to the discussion of educational products and how they test with real kids and parents.Check out their Children's Software Detailed Reviews with Ratings

School House Software Reviews - by World Village ... a website devoted to high quality, family-oriented web resources

Smartlearn Educational Software Reviews - software reviews by a commercial site focusing on quality children's software from publishers like The Learning Company, Broderbund and Creative Wonders.

List of Software Companies - Many companies provide free demo versions of their educational software to teachers who would like to try it before purchasing it.
Sample Software Review Instruments

Children's Software Revue: About the Ratings and Evaluation Instrument

SuperKids Educational Software Review: Software Review Criteria - offers samples of parent, teacher and kids review forms

EvaluTech Review Criteria - here you will find criteria for evaluating CD-ROMs

Way Cool Software Review Form

Video and Software Evaluation Form - published by the Nova Scotia Department of Education

Instructional Design

Future Trends in Educational Technology

Thinking Ahead: Trends affecting public education in the future - an analysis of the Canadian Public Education System which identifies the major social and economic trends over the next 20 years that will shape the environment in which public education operates by Canadian Council on Social Development, one of Canada's most authoritative voices promoting better social and economic security for all Canadians. A national, self-supporting, non-profit organization, the CCSD's main product is information and its main activity is research.

Future Trends in Multimedia CBT - projects how CBT will develop over the next 5 - 10 years (written in 1997-98 by Jim Martin of Martin Information Services, a multimedia development company in North Carolina)

TOYS OF TOMORROW: RESEARCH AND PEOPLE - a walk through some of the technology-enhanced toys of the future as envisioned by the people of the MIT Media Laboratory

The Future of Technology and Education: Where are we heading? - an online presentation by Margaret Riel, Associate Director of the Center for Collaborative Research in Education (CCRE), University of California