Distance Education

Media Sources

Miscellaneous

These are sure to add a little "sweetness" to your teaching!

If you know any good resources, feel free to pass them on to us....they may even find their way onto our page!


Distance Education

Title and Link Description


Learning on the Web

http://teleeducation.nb.ca/content/pdf/english/lotw2002.pdf

A guide to help teacher with teaching courses on the Internet. This guide explains the Internet and how to conduct your classes via this new medium


Filamentality

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

A site which allows teachers to gather Internet resources and turn them into activities. Filamentality has an easy to use "fill in the blank" interface, perfect for teachers who are new to Internet teaching.


Distance Education at a Glance

http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/distglan.html

The Engineering Outreach at the University of Idaho presents this document. This document has thirteen guides dealing with distance learning education.


Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites

http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp

EvaluTech's presents a method for evaluating web sites. The categories detailed are accuracy, appropriateness, scope, navigation and presentation.


Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

The Distance Education Clearinghouse has a wealth of information regarding distance learning. The mission of the site is to produce a well maintained page with the latest resources for distance learning.

 

Media Sources

Title and Link Description


School ClipArt

http://school-clip-art.com

Free clipart for schools. Not a huge selection, but well organized and free!


Google Images

http://images.google.com

Search the web for any image you want. You will have to individually verify that these images aren't copyrighted.


NASA Dryden Research Center

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

Select from over 1500 jpegs, 60 gifs or 90 mpegs of research aircrafts.


Webdeveloper.com

http://www.webdeveloper.com/animations/

Animated gifs to bring life to websites and PowerPoint Presentations. Free to non-commercial sites.


Graphics ByDezign

http://www.graphicsbydezign.com/clipart.htm

A site offering a small, yet quality selection of graphics. There are buttons, borders, accents, banners and more.


NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/proto/images.html

This is a great place to find images and movies of spacecraft, Earth, solar systems and other planets.


FreeFoto.com

http://www.freefoto.com/

A large collection of free photographs for non-commercial use. A fee is necessary if you would like to use them on a commercial site.


CoolArchive

http://www.coolarchive.com/sounds.cfm

CoolArchive has tons of fonts, sound effects, animations, graphics and web art. Watch out for the pop-up windows!


Lycos Multimedia Search

http://www.multimedia.lycos.com/

Lycos multimedia search allows you to find pictures, audio, mp3s and videos on the web. It's up to the user to verify that the multimedia is royalty free.


Smithsonian Institution OIPP

http://photo2.si.edu/reprints/

Smithsonian's Office of Imaging and Photographic Services offers free downloads for personal or educational use.


NASA Image Exchange

http://nix.nasa.gov/

A web-based search engine for accessing all of NASA's online photo collection.


Classroom Clipart

http://classroomclipart.com/

This site contains images, clipart and illustrations for educational purposes only.


Free Audio Clips

http://www.freeaudioclips.com/

As the name suggests, there are tons of audio clips. The formats are in wav, au and midi. Beware the pop-up ads!


Pics4Learning

http://pics.tech4learning.com/

Provides a large number of copyright friendly images. All the images can be used for educational purposes.

 

Miscellaneous

Title and Link Description


Rubric Generators

http://teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Teach-Nology has several rubric generators for different project. Each generator steps you through a form and then generates a rubric.


Seven Phases, Forty Steps to Building an E-folio

http://distancelearn.about.com/library/weekly/aa081803a.htm

About.com presents seven phases to creating an electronic portfolio. The article will walk you through each phase to plan a perfect electronic portfolio.


The irYdium Project

http://ir.chem.cmu.edu/irproject/applets/virtuallab/

Hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, the irYdium Project creates a virtual chemistry laboratory. The virtual lab, programmed in Java, allows you to perform virtual chemistry experiments.


Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

This site has a wealth of information for every type of educator. Kathy Schrock's guide is one of the most complete and organized resources for educators.


Blue Web'n

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

A directory of over 1800 educational sites organized by subject and grade level. Each week five new sites are added. This is a great resource for finding websites for courses.

 

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