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Internet Resources

Academic Integrity

Examples of High School Policies
    
Alexis I. duPont High School Academic Integrity Policy:   
       
http://www.aiduponths.com/academics.html
    
Norcross High School Student Academic Integrity Policy:  

        www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/NorcrossHS/pdfs/integrity.pdf
     Springfield Township High School Research Integrity Policy:
        http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/acadintegrity.html
    
General Websites and Articles
   
 Advice to Faculty on Fostering Academic Integrity: http://integrity.unc.edu/fac_advice.html
     Center for Academic Integrity: http://www.academicintegrity.org/index.php

     Faculty Commitment to Academic Integrity: 
          www.stanford.edu/dept/vpsa/judicialaffairs/faculty/materials.commitment.htm
     Research on Academic Dishonesty - Facts Worth Knowing:
        http://integrity.unc.edu/research.html

     SFU Task Force on Academic Honesty & Integrity: http://www.sfu.ca/integritytaskforce/index.html
     Survey of First Year SFU Students on Perceptions of Academic Integrity in High School:         
        www.sfu.ca/integritytaskforce/first%20year%20comments%20summary%20web.h

Associations, Organizations
& More

American Federation of Teachers: www.aft.org/index.html

Education Connection
): http://www.educationconnection.org/

Connecticut Educators Association: www.cea.org

CT State Dept. of Ed: www.state.ct.us/sde

National Education Association: www.nea.org


U.S. Dept. of Education: www.ed.gov
Assessment
 
GLEF - Assessment Research: http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/Assessment/types.php

Designing Performance Assessments: www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8658

EducationWorld - Teachers Learn From Looking Together at Student Work: www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr246.shtml

Looking at Student Work: www.lasw.org

TechLearning - Assessment, Assessment Rubrics, and Evaluation Guidelines: www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/evalguid.html


Techtreckers - Rubrics: www.techtrekers.com/rubrics.html

Character Education Boston University Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character: www.bu.edu/education/caec

Character Counts: www.charactercounts.org

Character Education Partnership: www.character.org

Good Character.com: www.goodcharacter.com
Copyright American Library Association - Copyright: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/woissues/copyrightb/copyright.cfm

Code of Best Practices For Fair Use in Media Literacy Education: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Media_literacy_txt.pdf

Copyright Crash Course: www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

Copyright Facts and Resource: http://www.vistaprint.com/marketing-article-detail.aspx?pid=866&GP=6%2f1%2f2009+10%3a49%3a54+AM

Copyright With Cyberbee: www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html

Cyberbee - Copyright and Digital Content: www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct01/cybe0110.htm


Fair Use: Music, Video, Graphics and Text: http://www.danbury.k12.ct.us/midweb/FairUse/Site/Fair%20Use.html

NEA: Intellectual Property & Copyright Resources: www.nea.org/he/abouthe/intelprop.html

New Rules of Copyright: http://www.techlearning.com/article/14522

Schools, the Internet & Copyright Law: http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech121.shtml

Stanford University - Copyright & Fair Use: http://fairuse.stanford.edu

Tech Learning - Copyright:
http://www.techlearning.com/search.aspx?q=copyright

U.S. Copyright Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Critical Literacy Instructional Strategies That Facilitate Learning Across the Content Areas: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/section7.pdf

The Intellectual and Policy Foundations of the 21st-Century Skills Framework: www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/images/stories/epapers/skills_foundations_final.pdf

Making Sense of Online Text: Four strategy lessons move adolescents beyond random surfing to
using Internet texts meaningfully: http://ctell1.uconn.edu/coiro/EdLeadership2005.pdf

Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy: http://www.all4ed.org/files/ReadingNext.pdf

Supporting Adolescent Literacy Across the Content Areas: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_
01/0000019b/80/19/86/ce.pdf

Task, Text, and Literacy for All Subjects: http://www.kckps.org/teach_learn/pdf/group3/t_l7_task.pdf

Why We Need Critical Literacy: Dynamic Texts and Identity Formation: www.sagepub.com/upm-data/13699_Chapter2.pdf

Critical Thinking Avoiding Second-Hand Thinking: http://fno.org/feb02/secondhand.html

Beyond Cut-and-Paste - Engaging Students in Wrestling With Questions of Import: http://fno.org/sept08/cut.html

Critical Thinking Community - Index of Articles: http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/index.cfm

Critical Thinking Community - Professional Development for K-12: http://www.criticalthinking.org/professionalDev/k12.cfm

Critically Thinking Community - Universal Intellectual Standards: www.criticalthinking.org/articles/universal-intellectual-standards.cfm

Curriculum (District, State Frameworks & National Standards)

 

Connecticut Framework K-12 Curricular Goals and Standards: www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/Curriculum/Curriculum_Root_Web_Folder/ctframe.pdf

National Standards
     AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner (Information Literacy)

     ISTE National Educational Technology Standards

     NCTE Standards for English Language Arts

     National Science Education Standards

     National Standards for Arts Education

     National Standards for Social Studies and History

     Physical Education and Health Standards

     National Mathematics Standards

Region 15 Curriculums: http://www.region15.org/currHOME.shtml

Digital Citizenship (Cyber Ethics)  Building a New Skill Set: www.ciconline.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=118&name=
CIC1108BuildingNewSkillSets.pdf

Education World - Tools for Teaching Cyber Ethics: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech055.shtml

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship - Using Technology Appropriately: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

Raising Good Digital Citizens: www.ciconline.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=
118&name=CIC1108RaisingGoodDigitalCitizens.pdf

Digital Literacy Digital Literacy Literacy: www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=18902855

NY Times - The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate: R U Really Reading Online?: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Teaching With the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times:  http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html

UCONN - New Literacies Research Team Publications: http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/pubs.html

Education News American School Board Journal: http://www.asbj.com/

Education Week on the Web: www.edweek.com

Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/

eSchool News Online: www.eschoolnews.org

New York Times - Education: www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html

From Now On Ed. Tech. Journal: www.fromnowon.org

T.H.E. Journal: www.thejournal.com

Essential Questions

Baltimore County Schools - High School Research Modules (includes essential questions, graphic organizers and assessments): http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/highcore.html

Beyond Cut-and-Paste - Engaging Students in Wrestling With Questions of Import: http://fno.org/sept08/cut.html

Changing the Questions (see "Essential Questions: & "Historical Inquiry"): http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/questions.html

Creating Essential Questions
: http://www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.html

Framing Essential Questions: http://www.fno.org/sept96/questions.html

A Questioning Toolkit: http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

The Question Mark
(An educational journal devoted to questions, questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading and quality teaching): http://www.questioning.org/

General  Resources All Kinds of Minds (learning styles / strategies): www.allkindsofminds.org

BCPS onLINE:
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/curric/high/index.html

Blue Web'n: www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn


Discovery School: http://school.discovery.com/

Education World: www.education-world.com

eSchool News:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/

The Educator's Reference Desk: http://www.eduref.org/

ERIC - http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: www.ed.gov/free

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/

Landmarks for Schools - Library of Links:
 http://landmark-project.com/index.php

The Learning Page: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/

Learning Wave.com: www.learningwave.com

Marcopolo: http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx

MSN Lesson Plans for Students and Educators: http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx

November Learning - Alan's Favorite Sites: http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=150

PBS Teacher Source: www.pbs.org/teachersource

Graphic Organizers CAST Universal Design for Learning - Graphic Organizers: http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_go.html

Region 15 Graphic Organizers:
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

SCORE - Graphic Organizers: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm

Write Design Online - Graphic Organizers:
http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/index.html
  Grants & Funding Education World - Grants Center:
www.education-world.com/grants/index.shtml

Grants Alert: http://www.grantsalert.com/

Schoolgrants.org: www.schoolgrants.org


U.S. Department of Education - Grants & Funding: www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html
Information Literacy  21st Century Connections: http://21centuryconnections.com/node/538

21st Century Literacies: www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent

The Critical Need for Information & Technology Literacy


AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning: www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/informationpower/InformationLiteracyStandards_final.pdf


Big6 Resources: http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/big6/big6_resources.htm

Center for Media Literacy [organized by topic, curriculum area]: http://www.medialit.org/

Finding Information on the Internet - A Tutorial: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Forming an Information Literate School Community: www.fno.org/sept98/cov98sept.html

Information and It’s Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation: http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeit.html

Information Literacy Process Model: www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/tips/index.html

Information, Media and Technology Skills: www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=8

Media Awareness Network: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/

Media Literacy 101: http://www.ciconline.org/medialiteracy101

National Association of Media Literacy Education: http://www.namle.net/

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship: http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Elements.html

Noodle Tools - Information Literacy: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/1over/infolit1.html


Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Power to Learn - Internet Smarts: http://www.powertolearn.com/internet_smarts/index.shtml

Route 21 - Building 21st Century Skills: www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2

S.O.S. For Information Literacy: http://www.informationliteracy.org/

Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Edutainment: www.fno.org/jun99/media.html

Inquiry, Project & Problem Based Learning BIE Institute - Problem-Based Economics (downloadable economics standards-based units): http://www.bie.org/pbe/unitsoverview.php

BIE Institute - Problem-Based Government (downloadable civics standards-based units): http://www.bie.org/pbg/unitsoverview.php

Google Directory - Problem Based Learning: www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Methods_and_Theories/Learning_
Theories/Problem-Based_Learning/



Overview of Problem-Based Learning: Definitions and Distinctions: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ijpbl

Project, Problem and Inquiry-Based Learning: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm

Thirteen Ed Online - Concept to Classroom - Inquiry-Based Learning: http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index_sub7.html

Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning: www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html
Instructional Materials & Programming
(Television Schedules)
A&E Classroom: www.aande.com/class/

Cable in the Classroom: www.ciconline.org

CPTV (Connecticut Public Broadcasting): www.cptv.org

Discovery.com TV Channel:
http://dsc.discovery.com/

PBS TV Schedules: www.pbs.org/whatson/index.html

Pod Casting Audacity - Free Podcast Creation Software: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Apple Educational Resources: Podcasting in Education:

 www.apple.com/education/resources/podcastingvideos/


Learn Out Loud: www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

PodCast 411: www.podcast411.com/page5.html

Wikipedia Podcasts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Plagiarism Avoiding Plagiarism: http://www.pomperaug.com/research/avoiding_plagiarism.htm

The New Plagiarism - Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age: http://fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

Plagiarism: What it is, How To Recognize and Avoid it: www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

Turn it in - What is Plagiarism: www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_what_is_plagiarism.html

Professional Development ASCD Professional Development Online: www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.51d81290deb240a98d7ea23161a001ca/

CEA- Professional Development: http://www.cea.org/profdev/

Education connection: http://www.educationconnection.org/


ISTE.org Professional Development: www.iste.org/Template.cfm?Section=Professional_Development


Lesson Lab Professional Development: www.skylightedu.com
Streaming Video BrainPOP: www.brainpop.com

AOL: http://search.aol.com/aolcom/videohome

Google (in beta stage): http://video.google.com/

CNN: www.cnn.com/video/

Learn Out Loud: www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

PBS: http://www.pbs.org/search/search_results.html?q=streaming&neighborhood=none
 
Technology Integration Apple's classroom of Tomorrow: Engagement and Technology: http://images.apple.com/education/k12/leadership/acot/pdf/rpt21.pdf

Best Practices of Technology Integration: http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/

GLEF - Technology Integration: www.edutopia.org/modules/TI/index.php

Edutopia - Technology Integration:
http://www.edutopia.org/tech-integration

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Educational Technology: http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/cfapps/free/displaysubject.cfm?sid=2

Making a Timeline in Excel; http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_time_lines.htm

Microsoft Lesson Plans: http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx

Miscrosoft Program Tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorials.mspx

PBS Teacher Source Technology & Teaching:  www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech.htm

PHS Technology Department Website: http://www.pomperaug.com/departments/technology/engagetech/index.htm

Tech Learning:  http://www.techlearning.com/

Using Spreadsheets in the Curriculum: www.my-ecoach.com/resources/spreadsheets.html

Website Design Creating School Library Media Center Websites: http://www.pomperaug.com/research/slmc_websites.htm

HTML Code Tutorial: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

HTML Goodies: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/

HTML Primer: http://htmlprimer.com

Microsoft's FrontPage 2003 Help and How to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/FX100647001033.aspx

WDG - Web Authoring Tools:
www.htmlhelp.com/tools


W3Schoosl HTML Tutorial:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Web Content Evaluation 2Learn.ca: Evaluating Internet Sties: http://www.2learn.ca/nkh/nkhSRevaluate.html

Authenticating Online Information: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/fact_or_folly_teachers/index.cfm

Avoid Fake Websites: http://whs.d214.org/results/whslibspecial/researchhelps/fakewebsites.htm#cite

Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-Based Approach:
http://landmark-project.com/evaluation/index.html


Evaluating Information Found on the Internet: http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

Evaluating the Quality of Information Found on the Internet: www.pomperaug.com/research/Evaluating%20Information%20Found%20on%20the%20Internet.ppt

Evaluating Webpages - Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or, Why it's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web sources: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

Kathy Schrock Critical Evaluation Information:
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html


QUICK (QUality Information ChecKlist: http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm

WebQuests Best WebQuests.com: http://bestwebquests.com/

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Webquests: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html

Tech Trekers - Webquests: http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/

WebQuests: http://www.webquest.org/

 

Created by Liza Zandonella, Library Media Specialist.

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