EDUCATION RESOURCES

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “Navigating the Internet”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Online Education Resources:
The Web Virtual Library for Education— http://www.csu.edu.au/education.html
(alphabetical listing by site, education level, type, country, libraries, & newsgroups)
Yahoo— Education Links— http://www.yahoo.com/Education/
(45 sub-categories from Academic Competitions to Women's Education)
AskERIC (Educational Resource Information Clearinghouse)— http://ericir.syr.edu
(A great resource site for educators with lots of K-12 material, lesson plans, & bibliography)
The Schools Register— http://www.schools-register.co.uk/s.html
(Art & Music, Science, Humanities, Information Techology, English Language & Literature)
Online Library Resources:
The Web Virtual Library— http://vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html
(More than 220 virtual libraries from Aboriginal Studies to Zoos)
Ohio Education Computer Network's Gopher Server— gopher://nwoca7.nwoca.ohio.gov
(for K-12 public education in Ohio & the Internet community: search engine for gopherspace;
Government, Library, Reference, & Weather Centers filled with information & resources)
CARL: Colorado Alliance of Regional Libraries— http:telnet://database.carl.org
(Telnet access to over 450 libraries & 17,000 magazines & journals)
OCLC: Online Computer Library Center— http://www.oclc.org
(The world's largest library information network)
Electronic Texts:
Project Gutenberg— ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg
(Electronic texts of complete books & documents for downloading & searches from #1-Declaration of Independence
[Dec 1971] to #2017-Buddha's Dhammapada translated by F. Max Muller [Dec 1999])
Project Bartleby— http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby
(Electronic text of Bartlett's Familiar Quotation [1901 ed.], Complete Works of Shelley & Wordsworth)
Electronic Texts from Virginia Tech— gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/33
(Complete e-texts from 131 classical authors. Look up Aristotle's use of metaphor in his Poetics)
Online Book Initiative— http://ftp.std.com/obi/
(Complete e-texts of 266 files & folders from Aesop's Fables to Zines)
Grimm's Fairy Tales— http://ftp.std.com/obi/Fairy.Tales/Grimm/
(Complete e-texts of 92 Grimm's fairy tales from Adventures of Aladdin to Wolf and Seven Kids)
National Newspapers— http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Periodicals/National_Newspapers/
(National newspapers indexed by regions)
International Newspapers— http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Periodicals/International_Periodicals/
(International newspapers indexed by countries for you to read)
K-12 Education Resources
Using Art to Teach Science K-12— http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Materials/Art/Using.Art.to.Teach.Science.K-12
(NASA Spacelink has provided a dozen fascinating projects using artistic expression in teaching science)
MathMagic— http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic
(A telecommunication project to motivate students to improve their math skills while using e-mail)
EdWeb http://edweb.gsn.org
(A hyperbook for educators with resources, and discussions about education reform & the Internet)
Cisco Education Archives (CEARCH)— http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco
(Virtual Schoolhouse for students, parents, and teachers with meta-index of site)
Art & Science Resources:
Art Treasures— http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/index.html
(The Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation has art 100,000 slides for your viewing)
Art Sources— http://www.uky.edu/Artsource/artsourcehome.html
(Resources on art & architecture submitted by librarians, artists, & art historians)
Cambridge Astronomy— http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/indext.html
(Royal Greenwich Observatory, AstroWeb with 2551 astronomical resource records)
The Exploratorium— http://www.exploratorium.edu
(A museum with over 800 interactive hands-on exhibits)
Jason Project— http://www.jasonproject.org/front.html
(Exploring remote regions of the world from your classroom)