Internet Resources for Science and Mathematics Education, collected by Tom O'Haver.
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Last updated and all links checked July 31, 2002.
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- Teaching, learning, and computing: a National Survey
http://www.crito.uci.edu/tlc/html/tlc_home.html
This site distributes research information from the national survey, Teaching, Learning,
and Computing--1998, a study of teachers' use of computer technology, their
pedagogies, and their school context. More than 4,000 teachers and related technology
coordinators and school principals participated in the study. The study included
schools and teachers from a national probability sample and also included purposive
samples of schools and teachers because of their participation in major school reform
programs or their unusually high amounts of computer technologies available.
- The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology:
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/whitepapers.html
A set of recent research papers related to the effectiveness of technology
in education.
- The Remote Laboratory Classroom
http://olbers.kent.edu/alcomed/Remote/index.html
Exploring the use of the internet for creating and sharing high school
laboratory teaching resources. Current experiments are entitled
Light, Polarization and Color, Spinning Wheel, Crickets Trapped in the Web,
LCDs and Magnetic Fields, Wind Tunnel, Reptilian Thermoregulatory Behavior.
- Current Cites (annotated bibliography on information technology)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature
in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best 10-20 items to annotate.
- UPresent and UGather
http://www.codeblazer.com/
Free Macintosh software from an academic developer.
UPresentŪ is a free multimedia presentation application designed for flexible,
interactive control of presentations.
UGatherŪ is a free multimedia database manager that can catalog images,
QuickTime movies, and audio files and store information related to each file.
- Stella simulation software
http://www.hps-inc.com/Education/new_Stella.htm

Simulation software for easy construction of dynamic simulations of time-dependent
processes. Very popular in science and integrated mathematics/science classes. Used at
middle school to undergraduate college level.
- Extend
http://www.imaginethatinc.com/
Powerful simulation software system, used in industry and education.
- IBM Education WhitePapers
http://www-1.ibm.com/industries/education/
Understanding The Global Information Infrastructure; Protecting Privacy
And Securing Data; Assuring Access For All; Making Electronic
Commerce Work; Protecting Our Health
And Safety; Rethinking Government; Achieving Educational
Equity With Advanced Technology; A New Vision For The
Utility And Energy Services Industry; Reducing Uncertainty
In Our Health Care; Banking In The Network Economy; How Network Computing
Is Changing Industrial Processes; How Travel & Transportation Will Change In a Networked World; Transforming Developing Countries with Network Computing;
Transforming Higher Education; Understanding Internet Content Principles.
- Homestead: Free Web Sites
http://homestead.com/
Easy way to build free Web sites for personal use, small business, hobbies, clubs and organizations,
events and holidays.
- Excel Tutorial
http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/pc/excel97/excel.html
What is Excel?; Getting Started; Creating a Simple Workbook;
Writing Formulas Using Operators and Functions; Formatting The Appearance of a Workbook;
Advanced Excel (Copying Cells); Linking Documents in Excel; Creating Charts.
- Index to Web Training Material
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/train/
Written for teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland, but mostly useful to everyone.
Starter Guide to general HTML, and much more.
- Tips, Tricks, How to, and beyond - Web design resource
http://www.tips-tricks.com/index.shtml
This site was created to help you design "a better web page".
Below you will find the answers for most of your web design
problems. If you don't find your answers here, drop your questions at
our lively discussion board, someone will answer your questions
there!
- Multimedia Streaming
http://pocahontus.doit.wisc.edu/
Introduction to media streaming; Four streaming technologies compared; Introduction ot
Copyright; several examples of presentations.
- Software Download Page
http://www.uncwil.edu/tc/software.htm
Information and links for obtaining and installing plug-ins and other software used in instruction.
- The Cross-Platform Page
http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/xplat/xplat.html
This page lists resources for reading and converting image, video, audio, and data compression/encoding file formats on most
common computer systems.
- LOGAL (science simulation software)
http://www.riverdeep.net/logalsimlibrary/simlibrary_jump.html
Publisher of a wide range of excellent commercial science and mathematics simulation software
and related support materials. Middle school to college level.
- Digital Oscilloscope Uses PC Sound Card for Input
http://polly.phys.msu.su/~zeld/oscill.html (slow connection)
Oscilloscope for Windows is a Windows application that converts your PC into a powerful dual-trace
oscilloscope. Oscilloscope uses your PC's sound card as an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to
digitize any input waveform (speech, music, electric signal, etc.) and then presents it on the monitor
in real time, allowing the user to control the display in the same way as on a conventional
"standalone" scope, for example change gain, timebase or plot Lissajous patterns.
- Terry Morse Myrmidon (HTML conversion program for Macintosh)
http://www.terrymorse.com/index.shtml
A $45 (educational) Mac program that can convert any
Mac file into a Web page with just one click. Downloadable demo.
- Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources
http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/reshome.html
Armadillo maintains one of the most comprehensive collections of
Board policies Acceptable Use Policies along with many articles on
issues such as censorship and filtering. Armadillo also contains
resources covering: Networking Projects, Educational Databases and
Lesson Plans, Learning and Instruction, Grant Resources. The site also
lists great Internet resources for each of the major curriculum areas.
- MSNBC Learning Online
http://www.msnbc.com/news/LEARNING_Front.asp
Articles on various aspects of educational technology:
Laptop teachers report from frontline;
Summit, survey show enthusiasm in the K-12 classroom;
state-by-state look at educational technology, etc.
- Project SMART
http://www.ed.uri.edu/SMART96/projects.html
Teacher-designed projects integrating technology with science
and math. Divided by grade level (2-5, 6-8, 9-12).
- NCATE Technology Standards
http://www.ncate.org/accred/projects/tech/m-technology.htm
Case Illustrations of Technology in Teacher Education;
Technology and the New Professional Teacher; Preparing for the 21st Century Classroom
Interview with Art Wise in Fall 1999 Technos contains outline of technology expectations contained in NCATE 2000 standards. Link to article on Technos site.
- Technology and the New Professional Teacher: Preparing for the 21st Century
Classroom
http://www.ncate.org/accred/projects/tech/tech-pressrel.htm
The culmination of a year of deliberations by an NCATE Task Force on
Technology and Teacher Education.
The report makes recommendations about the integration of technology into
teacher preparation programs
- Classroom applications of educational technology
http://iberia.vassar.edu/vcl/electronics/etc/acad/edtech/classroom.html
101 Success Stories of Technology in Higher Education; Academic Instruction Using the WWW;
Computer Assisted Personalized Approach for Quizzes, Exams and
Assignments
- Virtual Laboratory (U. Oregon)
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/
To provide students with truely interactive texts, a series of experiments has been created using
Java to demonstrate the application of this method of teaching. These experiments are meant to be
conceptual interfaces to the equations of physics and/or represent interaction with data that
simulates a real physical experiment. These are targetted at physics classes for non-majors where
we currently have no physical lab sections due to resource constraints. 19 applets are
currently available (Jan, 1998) in the areas of Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Astrophysics,
Electricity, Meteorology, and Environmental.
- Science Teaching Forum
http://www.forum.ncsu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/sciteach/a/1
The SciTeach web forum is a place where science teachers can share ideas, reflections and conversations on
teaching and implementation of technology in the classroom, while also providing support for each other as
members of an electronic professional community. An area of the SciTeach forum has been designated for
use exclusively for preservice science teachers. Student teachers are encouraged to use this area to speak
freely about their experiences.
- Technology Counts: Schools and Reform in the Information Age
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc/tchome.htm
Excellent article on educational technology published in EdWeek in 1997.
- Webmonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/?tw=relaunch
Comprehensive resource for Web
developers, whether you're a first-time page builder or a big-shot
webmaster. You'll find nearly 200 Webmonkey tutorials, recommended tools
and books, links to other developer resources.
- webTeacher
http://www.webteacher.org
An Internet training tool that can be used either as a guide for a
structured teacher training series or as a self-paced workbook for
an individual teacher.
- The Impact of Technology
http://www.mcrel.org/products/tech/technology/impact.asp
Surveys, Bibliographies, Literature Reviews, Articles, Reports, Case Studies from
the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL).
- US Department of Education Technology Initiatives
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/
Technology Programs information, E-Rate information.
- Wired schools: It takes a village
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-204129.html
A look at the
cost vs. the benefits of
computers in schools.
- Maryland Instructional Computer Coordinators Association (MICCA)
http://www.miccaonline.org/
An organization for educators in the state of Maryland interested in the classroom
use of technology to promote the improvement of the teaching / learning process through effective
computer education program development;
promote the integration of computer applications into curricular areas;
foster and promote excellence in computer utilization in the schools of Maryland.
- Confronting Technology
http://www.gemair.com/~lmonke/main.html
The purpose of this Webpage is to provide a list of resources in
association with Netfuture, a mailing list/newsletter concerned with critically examining the relationship
between humans and computer technology.
- Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com
Everything about using and understanding Web search engines. Extensive.
- The Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm
Explores and deliberates on a comprehensive range of issues important to the professional
database searcher. The magazine is targeted to experienced, knowledgeable searchers and
combines evaluations of data content with discussions of delivery media. Searcher includes
evaluated online news, searching tips and techniques, reviews of search aid software and
database documentation, revealing interviews with leaders and entrepreneurs of the industry, and
trenchant editorials. Whatever the experienced database searcher needs to know to get the job done is covered in Searcher.
- Online Tutorials
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Tutorials
Easy-to-Use Online Tutorials are designed to show teachers how to use Microsoft software in the classroom. Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Internet Explorer 5.0, Outlook Express
PowerPoint97, FrontPage 98, Internet Explorer 4.0
- Discount computers and supplies
- TEAMS Distance Learning
http://teams.lacoe.edu/
TEAMS is the largest interactive distance learning provider for the
elementary grades in the U.S.
(140,000 students, 4,000 teachers, 20 states).
English/Language Arts, History/Social Science, Mathematics, and Science
for grades 4 through 7.
Class projects; kit information.
- EDWEB: Exploring Technology and School Reform
http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/resource.cntnts.html
Over the last couple of years, there's been a lot of talk about how networking tools such as the
World Wide Web will revolutionize education. How much of it is true? How much of it is
hype?
- Technology FAQ For Parents
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~goodall/sent/faqbody.html
The purpose of these FAQs is to provide parents some information relevant to setting up PTA
technology committees at their schools, and to provide some information on computer uses in schools.
- The Technology Coordinator's Web Site
http://www.wwu.edu/~kenr/TCsite/contents.html
Planning for technology use; Educational support resources;
Administrative computing; Educational networking; Sources of educational technology information.
- National NetDay
http://www.netday.org
NetDay is a grass-roots volunteer effort to wire schools so they can
network their computers and connect them to the Internet. Labor and
materials are provided by volunteers and support from companies, unions,
parents, teachers, students and school employees.
- Web-based multimedia courseware
http://www.stanford.edu/~dmiller/coursewaretest/
Here you will find examples and templates of Web-based courseware
created for the School of Education, Stanford University.
Most of these examples rely on new features in Netscape
Navigator 2.0 or 3.0.
- From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal
http://www.fno.org/
Articles on Assessment; Change; Copyright; Grants; Internet Use Policies;
Information; Problem-Solving; Libraries of the Future;
Networks & Connectivity; Research; Staff Development; Technology
Planning; Virtual Museums; Web Site Development.
- Stroud's Consumate Winsock Applications
http://cws.internet.com/menu.html
The CWSApps List is designed to be your one-stop shopping site for the latest and greatest software
on the Internet. Comprehensive file listings, ratings, and extensive reviews for the hottest Windows
3.x/95/NT applications are just a few of the many goodies to be found on this site. All information is
freely available; thanks to the support of its advertisers
- Maryland Connected for Learning
http://mec.state.md.us/mdconnect/
Maryland Connected for Learning is the state's initiative for bringing
internet connectivity and the latest in computer technology to all
Maryland K-12 public schools. We are working with volunteers,
sponsors and organizations to make this happen.
- Challenge Grants for Technology in Education
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/challenge/index.html
Challenge Grants will support communities of educators, parents, industry
partners, and others who are using new technologies to transform their factory era schools into
information age learning centers.
- ICONnect:Get Connected to Learning Using the Internet
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/index.html
Online Courses: Internet Basics; Curriculum Connections:
Integrating Internet Resources into the Curriculum
Collaborative Grants to Develop Curriculum
KidsConnect: An Internet Q&A Service.
- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsrev.html
Selected articles, books, electronic
documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding
scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and
other networks. Where possible,
links are provided to sources that are available via the
Internet.
- Handouts and tutorials on Internet and classroom multimedia production
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/Handouts.html
Digital Image Literacy; Putting Kid Pix SlideShows on the Web;
Better Graphics for Multimedia and the World Wide Web;
Multimedia Netscape: How to find, download, install and use plug-ins and helper applications;
The Secrets of Computer Graphics;
Customizing Netscape: A One-Page Cheat-sheet;
Locating and Evaluating Information on the Internet
- The Maryland K-12 Web Page (MDK-12 Stuff)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Education/K-12/mdk-12/
An area devoted to the needs of the Maryland K-12 teachers,
media specialists, school administrators, and education agency personnel
who are using the Internet access accounts provided by the Computer
Science Center (CSC) at the University of Maryland as part of its MDEDU
program. Much useful information here.
- Thinkquest winners
http://www.thinkquest.org/
An international project competition for students. Search their
library of over 1000 student-created entries.
- CU-SeeMe video conferencing software
http://www.cuseemeworld.com/
With CU-SeeMe, you can videoconference with
another site located anywhere in the world. By using a reflector, multiple parties
at different locations can participate in a CU-SeeMe conference, each from his or
her own desktop computer.
- K-12 acceptable use policies
http://netizen.uoregon.edu/
This site contains materials to assist school districts in the development of
effective Internet policies and practices.
- An Introductory HTML Tutorial
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/handouts/html.html
A tutorial on HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language), with working examples. Explains
how to create your own Web pages from scratch. Includes text formatting, graphics,
hyperlinks, sound, lists, and tables, etc.
- Reference Table of HTML Tags
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/handouts/card.html
A two-page table of all the essential HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) tags, with
templates that you can Copy and Paste into your own HTML pages.
- Making a Web Project with the Multi-Page Template
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/handouts/MultiPage.html
The multi-page template is a set of HTML files that serve as
a template to facilitate the construction of a Web page project consisting of
25 "student" pages (each with a picture and a paragraph of text),
a hyper-index, a title page, a bibliography page, a Related Sites page,
and a "How we did it" page. The template contains all the "HTML" coding needed,
including links between pages and navigation arrow icons. All you need to do is to type in (or Copy
and Paste in) the text content and to type in the names of the graphic files for each page. NO HTML CODING IS REQUIRED.
You can view an
"empty" template on-line
with its placeholder text, you can
download the
complete template folder to your hard disk, or you can view a
completed project based on this template.
- Digital Image Literacy
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/image/image.html
Questions
and answers about digital imaging and photography: scanners,
digital cameras, resolution, troubleshooting, image manipulation software.
- Putting Kid Pix SlideShows on the Web
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/slideshow/
How to convert a KidPix SlideShow created on a Macintosh into HTML format for
publication on the Web. Using this method, each slide is shown full-size on a separate page, along with navigation
buttons for moving between the slides and a sound button for playing the accompanying recorded sound. No Knowledge of HTML is required.
- Better Graphics for Multimedia and the World Wide Web
http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/image/
How to improve the look and reduce the file size of digital photographs and
computer graphics. Illustrated with lots of graphic examples.
- Technology-Based Curriculum
Delivery
http://www.visc.vt.edu/succeed/
The mission of the SUCCEED Coalition's Technology-Based Curriculum
Delivery (TBCD) Coalition Focus Team (CFT) is to extend the reach and
effectiveness of engineering education through the use of advance computing
and communication technologies.
- Best search engines for finding scientific information in the Net
http://www.chem.msu.su/eng/comparison.html
Eleven different search engines were scanned for eight different terms (used as
keywords) taken from physics and chemistry. The number of found documents
were registered. I think that the number of documents is the primary parameter
when you're looking for scientific information. My estimates show that the
maximum number of documents which can be found in the Net is less than 10% of
the number that can be find using a good scientific database like INSPEC or CAS.
Thus, the bigger is the database of a search engine, the higher are chances that
you won't miss something important.
- Fundamentals of Digital Media
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/Classes/4850/
The nature of sound and light: physical basis, perception, and digital
representations. Capture, conversion, storage, transport, and display of digital
multimedia information. Multimedia devices and architectures.
- Lesson Plans and Design Tenets
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/resource.htm
WWW Curriculum RESOURCES by Subject or Grade Level.
LESSON PLANS integrating the use of technology into the curriculum. A
half dozen lessons for adult learning of new technologies. These are
problems-based and learner-centered. They require teams to explore
challenging and authentic issues.
INSTRUCTIONS for Building Curriculum Pages Learn how to build pages
to help your colleagues avoid endless wandering on the Internet.
DESIGN TENETS for WWW Sites This list suggests 18 design tenets to guide
those who would create WWW pages for their schools. Avoid the pitfalls
which have created problems for the pioneers.
- Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1995/9541.html
Why relatively few of this nation's 2.8 million
teachers use technology regularly in their teaching; how
teachers are prepared to use technology; what happens when
they do use technology; and what factors influence
technology integration in schools. The report also examines
what roles schools, districts, states, the private sector,
and the federal government play in supporting teachers with
new technologies; considers why the potential of technology
is not further exploited; and identifies significant
barriers to effective technology integration into our
education system. Especially useful for our project is
Chapter 5: "Technology and the Preparation of New Teachers".
- Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators is a list of over 640 pointers in 18
subject categories and was compiled by a Massachusetts middle school
library media specialist with the goal of enhancing curriculum and
teacher professional growth. It is updated regularly. The page has the
look and feel of a middle school page, and has a selective group of links
in each of its subject areas.
- Mustang: The Educator's Web Cruising Vehicle.
http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/
Step-by-step guide to classroom WWW projects.
- BACK TO SCHOOL: THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY CLASSROOM 101
http://web.csd.sc.edu/bck2skol/fall/fall.html
Class on the Net For Librarians with little or no Net Experience.
Covers history, email listservs, gopher, searching, telnet,
ftp, and WWW.
- Librarian's Ready Reference Guide to the Internet
http://www.winsor.edu/library/rref.htm
An alphabetic listing of selected educational resources. Only full-text sources/data suitable for ready reference are included here. All sources are in
English. Subject headings are a modified Library of Congress arrangement. Given the nature of
the Internet, this must be a living, breathing document.
- Online Internet Institute
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/OII/oii-prelim.html/
The Online Internet Institute (OII) will create a virtual infrastructure on the Internet
to provide leading Internet using educators, proponents of systemic reform, and
teachers desiring professional growth with hands-on experiences which will enable
them to integrate the Internet within their classrooms, and support their peers in
doing the same. A series of online activities and
workshops designed to teach them how to identify and build successful models for
using the Internet for systemic reform and curriculum development at the local level.
Educators must experience what it is to learn through project-based,
technology-enhanced approaches in their own learning, in order to effectively support
this kind of learning for their students.
- RealAudio: real-time audio and video over the Internet.
http://www.realaudio.com/
Listen to real-time audio programs the Internet, using the free downloadable
RealAudio Player for Macs and PCs. Works even over 14.4 kbaud modems.
- Practical Hypermedia Design for the World-Wide Web
http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/CHP/practical-hypermedia.html
This article describes some practical design considerations in writing hypermedia applications
for distribution using the World-Wide Web. It concentrates on overall hypermedia design and
specific tips to compensate for network bandwidth limitations.
- The Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/utilities-faq/
This FAQ was created to answer the following questions concerning popular
graphic utilities:
1) What is the newest version of the graphic utility ?
2) On what ftp site can this version be found ?
3) What types of files does it handle ?
Platforms include DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Windows, & X-Windows .
- Ken Castleman's Digital Image Processing Page
http://www.adires.com/~castleman/
Web page dedicated to digital image processing. It is intended to be
a source of articles, references, pictures, homework problems, links and other
stuff of interest to instructors and students of Digital Image Processing.
- New Tools for Teaching (James J. O'Donnell)
- Multimedia Authoring
- Netscape Plugins
- MECC (producer of educational software)
- Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies
- NASA QUEST: Internet in the Classroom
- Apple Web Page Construction Kit
- Apple education page (K-12 and higher)
- Computer Mediated Communication Journal
- Operate a robot arm remotely
- WebLint: Submit URL for automatic html syntax check
- E-GEMS Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science
Software and shareware reviews
- Evalutech (5000 reviews of instructional materials)
- Family PC Reviews (reviews os software and hardware)
-
Educational Software Preview Guide
ZDNet Software Library (Reviews and download links to shareware)
- School House Software Review
- The Edutainment Page
- Totware: Reviews of and links to PC and Mac shareware and freeware programs for kids.
- Kid's Shareware (PC and Mac)
- Critical Reading Software Reviews
-
About.com guide to shareware
- SuperKids Parent's and Teacher's Guide to
Software
- The Review Zone (Edutainment software,
etc)