Developing Web Pages for Educators, 2d ed.

Evaluating Internet Web Sites:
An Educator's Guide

©1997 The Master Teacher

This 32-page booklet provides educators with the tools needed to learn how to effectively evaluate a Web site. Once you feel comfortable with this evaluation process, it will become second nature to teach these same methods to students to educate them about information validity on the Internet. Although this title was written in 1997, the tenets of critical evaluation of Web sites has withstood the test of time!

Evaluating Internet Web Sites includes:

• Tips for preparing to think critically about the Web
• An in-depth Web Site Rating Form
• Reproducible Evaluation Surveys for students at all levels
• Lesson plan (with transparency originals) for teaching students how to evaluate Web sites
• Glossary of terms
• References suggested for additional reading

Microsoft Publisher
for Every Day of the School Year: Project Templates CD

©1998 Linworth Publishing

This CD-ROM contains over 180 ready-made templates for teachers to use with Microsoft Publisher 97 through the newest version of Publisher.

The projects include everything from Visitor Hall Passes to Graphic Organizers to Backpack Tags to Math Formulas for Secondary School, and everything in between!

The projects are divided into seven areas. These include:

• Projects for teachers (46)
• Projects for students (22)
• Projects for parents (3)
• Curriculum support projects (95)
• Art projects (13)
• Class newsletter (1)
• Class Web page (1)

This CD-ROM is available now for $10.95 (plus $4.50 S&H). ($10.95 S&H for Canada, Mexico, Europe, Pacific Rim and S. America)
The order form may be found here.
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Slide Shows
for Teaching and Learning

©1995-2003

Kathy has compiled all of her slide show presentations on one CD in both PowerPoint™ and PDF format. Some of the titles on the CD include:

• Tools for Change:
  Classroom Technology in 2004
• Introduction to HTML
• Putting the Puzzle Together:
  Using the Net in the Classroom
• The Internet:
  Exploration, Evaluaiton, and Elaboration
• The Changing Role of the Library Media Specialist
• WebQuests in Our Future
• Creating a Content-Rich Home Page for Your School
• Orchestrating the Research Process: Library Media Specialist
• The Many Faces of Technology: Technology and the MI
• Effective Search Strategies
• The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation

Writing and Research
on the Computer

©2000 Teacher Created Materials

Writing and researching reports using the computer has changed dramatically in the last few years. Access to interactive CD-ROM's, the Internet, and other pieces of software for collection and storage of data has made the process more complex for both teachers and students.

This book offers the teacher tips, tricks, and proven methods to help teach research skills. It also provides lessons for students in grades 4-8 to use when formulating the research question, conducting the research and evaluating the results. A CD-ROM is included with PDF versions of all the handouts, sample databases, and additional information.

The 96-page book includes chapters entitled:

• Introduction to Research
• Choosing a Topic
• Documenting Information
• Collecting Information
• Searching for Information
• Evaluating the Information
• Using the People on the Internet
• Information Retrieval Skills System
• Research Investigations Lesson

This book is available now from Amazon.com.

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Available through Amazon.com

Technology Connection: Building a Successful
Library Media Program

©2000 Linworth Publications

This 256-page book contains a compilation of the many useful articles which have appeared in the Linworth magazines, Technology Connection, Library Talk, and The Book Report within the last five years. Get important tips, tricks, and techniques, as well as breakthrough ideas, for all the roles today's library media specialist plays.

Each of the six chapters uses a house-building analogy (i.e. Drawing Plans, Gathering Tools, Sound Footings, Building the Structure, etc.) and contains up to thirty articles dealing with the changes technology has brought to library media programs. An overview at the beginning of each chapter explains the theme of the chapter and updates any URLs which may have changed from the article's original publication date.

This publication is available through Amazon.com here.

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Inquiring Educators Want to Know: TeacherQuests
for Today's Teachers

©2000 Linworth Publishing

This book offers answers to many of the common questions that administrators, teachers, library media specialists, students, school board members, parents, and community members have in relation to technology in the schools. The questions and answers are offered in a framework called a TeacherQuest"!. There are over 80 TeacherQuests in the book.

The book is arranged to align with ISTE's Recommended Foundations in Technology for All Teachers. These standards are intended for pre-service teacher education students, but are applicable and useful for practicing teachers also. Attainment of these standards is intended to provide every educator with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively use technology to support and enhance the curriculum.

This book is meant to be used in a variety of ways. The comprehensive keyword index allows a teacher or library media specialist to easily find the concept he or she is looking for within the text of a TeacherQuest"!. The index listed by ISTE standard allows a professional development committee to focus on areas of improvement for the teachers in their district. A technology coordinator or administrator may easily find the information needed to support a program or create a grant for enhanced technology use in the classroom.

This book is available through Amazon.com here.

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Kathy Schrock's Every Day of the School Year Series

©2002-05 Linworth Publications

This new series of books for educators will be growing by leaps and bounds over the next few years. Each book includes activities, tips, reproducibles, and much more for the classroom teacher. The titles available now include (available through Amazon.com):

• American Memory Collection:
    Primary Resource Activities Across the Curriculum (A-G)
• American Memory Collection:
    Primary Resource Activities Across the Curriculum (H-Z)
• Computer Activities: Word Processing Projects
• Computer Activities: Teaching With Spreadsheets
• Computer Activities: Making Slide Shows and Simple Web Pages
• Daily Celebration Activities: September Through January
• Daily Celebration Activities: February Through June
• Endangered Species: Activities for Understanding the Process of Extinction
• Expand and Enrich Reading: Grades K-2
• Expand and Enrich Reading: Grades 5-6
• Language Arts: Biographies Across the Curriculum (4-6)
• Links to the Past Through Genealogy: Curriculum Activities for the Classroom
• Lively Literature Activites: Grades PreK-K
• Lively Literature Activites: Grades 1-2
• Mastering Math Through Magic
• One, Two, Three Follow Me: Math Puzzles and Rhymes (K-1)
• Teaching Language Arts Through Literature: Grades 4-6
• Teaching Language Arts Through Literature: Grades 6-8
• Teaching Science Through Literature: Grades 4-6
• Teaching Science Through Literature: Grades 6-8
• Teaching Social Studies Through Literature: Grades 4-6
• Teaching Social Studies Through Literature: Grades 6-8