This Webliography consists of web sites that, because of length considerations, could not appear in Technology for Literacy Teaching and Learning. You may wish to explore these sites for possible use in your own professional development and teaching.

A Few Terms of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak
This site defines terms that have come about during the rapid development of the Internet, the Wide World Web, and of technology in general. This is a fine source of word/language study, but the definitions are fairly sophisticated. You may want to use this yourself or send students to the site for specific terms that you have already previewed.

Apple Learning Interchange—Learning Resources
You can search for teaching and learning resources by subject area, content type such as audio, visual, and so forth.

Children's Software Review
You can read reviews of software at this site.


Cinco de Mayo
This site is not only attractive, it is a model of a second and third grade WebQuest that will appeal to students interested in Mexico.

Conferencing Software for the Web
This web site contains a great deal of information about Internet conferencing hardware and applications.You can use this site to learn about the different kinds of systems schools or districts may purchase or use in order to take advantage of telecommunications.

The Copernicus Education Gateway
You can obtain a free account and create notes about homework, etc., and parents and students can read them.There is an online "User's Guide" and a feature called "Flashcards" with which you can create electronic flashcards for beginning readers using your own word lists.

Creating Web-based Lessons: WebQuests & Other Internet Projects
WebQuests are inquiry-oriented online activities designed to get students connected to information quickly so they can spend time thinking about a topic instead of surfing the net to find relevant information. This site links to several collaborative web projects. Be certain to read information at the Judi Harris links, as she writes extensively about very practical ways to use Web resources in teaching.

Creating Web-based Lessons: WebQuests & Other Internet Projects
This site is an example of a WebQuest (Angling Around).

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index
From the home page, you can locate cartoons (K-12) that you can use to discuss events as seen by cartoonists.The site has lesson plan suggestions for teachers who want to use cartoons in discussing current events and other topics.There are links to other types of cartoons, also. You can select today's cartoon and discuss it with the class.

Educational Resources on the Internet
This is a reference site for educators created by The University of Arizona's Library Staff.You might like to check the major universities in your area to see if they have created similar sites about your state or provincial agencies as well as worldwide educational resources.

Electronic Journals in Education
This site contains a list of educational journals. You may not be able to link directly to all of the sites listed, but the journal names may be helpful to you if you are looking for specific journals for professional development.

ENC Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Sometimes your language arts work can dovetail nicely with other curricular areas.This site will lead you to math and science activities. The clearinghouse, established in 1992, is located at Ohio State University.The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) funds the project.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
This site contains information about the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.

FNO From Now On—The Educational Technology Journal
This is a free online journal for teachers written by Jamie McKenzie.He is a prolific writer who generates many fine ideas about using technology in teaching.

FreewareWeb.com—Your Freeware Source
This site is useful for finding desktop tools, multimedia tools, screen savers, and much more.Free ware (also called shareware) is usually free or inexpensive, but you sometimes will find that such programs are quirky. Many shareware programs were created as experiments by their authors or are test versions (also called beta versions) of what later became a commercial product.

Glossary
Not only is this a site where you can learn a few definitions, it is a model of a web page you and students might want to create for terms that come up in your school work. It has the term to be defined, a definition of the term, and links within the term to other terms that might be needed to help understand the first term.

Internet Scavenger Hunts or WebQuests for Kids
This is a source of ideas for conducting scavenger hunts. You create a scavenger hunt by sending students to specific web sites to answer questions you have previously written.To make a virtual tour for other people, take a few students and your regular (or a digital) camera somewhere, take lots of good pictures, and have students write about the pictures.Post the virtual tour to a class, school, or district web site or at one of the web sites that permit you to place materials online at their site.

Jumbo
You can learn about thousands of shareware (free or inexpensive) software programs at this site.

Phil's Place—Children's Software Resources
This site provides quick links to the home web pages of those major and minor companies that sell instructional software.

Thesaurus.com
This site contains puzzles, a dictionary, and a word of the day. Students can search for synonyms using a search engine that reports the words in several contexts.This is an excellent site for studying words.

SECURETECHco.international
This is a site where you can learn about ways to keep computer equipment from being damaged or stolen. Mouseseal®, for instance, protects the track ball in a computer mouse.

Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
Information about WWW resources, some PowerPoint presentations, and ideas for using technology in the classroom appear on this site.

Teachers.Net Live Meetings
You can join other teachers while exploring a topic, and you can read transcripts of previous chats at this site.You can find archived chats about phonemic awareness, the six traits of writing, technology and reading, plus many more topics.Visit the site to see what future topics will be discussed, and join in the ones you think will be helpful to you. All chats begin at 9 p.m. Eastern time and are free to educators.

ThinkWave—Where Teachers, Parents, and Students Communicate
This site permits you to download ThinkWave Educator, which is a classroom management software program that lets teachers post grades, assignments, and other pertinent information to the program and onto the Internet.Parents and students can log on and see their children's status in the class in terms of attendance, grades, assignments, etc.

The W3C Link Checker
This is a good way to check any web site you create to ensure that links to other web pages are not broken.You can also check the HTML source code to find any errors.

Walt's Navigating the Net Forum—Glossary of Internet Terms
This site is updated frequently as new terms emerge. You can submit a term to the site if you do not find it there already, and you are permitted to link to this site from your own, making it a very easy tool for students to access.

The Weather Channel
what is happening weatherwise around the world at the time they click on it. If they think a storm is headed their way, they can check on it, or they can discover what is happening at an e-pal's location, a grandparent's house, or a friend's town in a different state.

Web Watch: Reference Sites (Reading Online)
This is an article I wrote containing descriptions of several online references that you can use including an online 3D thesaurus, dictionaries, atlases, and more.

Welcome to Our Classroom
First and second grade students' ideas and artwork are online at this site.

Welcome to the Carminati Middle School
This is a school web site with classroom web pages, projects, and school news. Use it to get ideas to develop your own school web.

Welcome to HouseCall, Trend Micro's free on-line virus scanner
This site can check your computer for viruses right over the Internet.

Welcome to Web School
This site has lessons for reading, language, and other school subjects. These are good examples of the types of lessons you might want to create on a school web site so students can email assignments to you.


WWWebster Dictionary
If students do not own their own dictionaries, they can use this online reference.Just type in a word and click the button to obtain its definition.There are many word-related activities on this site, including the definition of the "word of the day."