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Exploring Educational Sites

Below, are links to web sites that have been sorted according to application types. Explore and select sites you can use or are interested in. You can bookmark, save to disk or publish your selections for future use.

	Enrichments These online enrichment sites offer an alternative to textbook learning. Explore the fun activities, with audio, visuals and interactivity that captivate students.
	Lessons/Online Tutorials A lesson that targets specific learner outcomes and guides a user through instructional steps, often with feedback or checkpoints. Some plans include lessons that involve the web, some do not.
	Tools When a teacher wants to accelerate a process, she may use a tool such as a calculator or a wordprocessor. The dominant Tool most Web-users encounter is the search engine. Other accessible tools such as quiz makers, web page builders and currency converters cut down on time spent creating and duplicating.
	References Some sites have the traditional reference tools like encyclopedias or dictionaries. Others are designed to be searched by a particular topic. Look at the sites below.
	Resources Visit resource sites to find links to pages for a specific purpose. Resource sites have links to lessons, teacher tools, web quests, journals, classroom articles and more. Web-Resources enhance educational programs by making learning more relevant and by tapping into specialized expertise.
	Projects Often in collaboration with community organizations or businesses, students are challenged with a real world problem and work toward an end result using much of what the web has to offer (email, resources, videoconferencing…) These valuable projects are starting to pop up on the web. Learning across disciplines, cooperative learning and presentations are some of the indicators of these projects.
	Activities Authentic tasks and learning experiences, on and off the web, are what make these activities engaging to students. Web quests and virtual field trips are among some of the activities you find.

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Evaluating Existing Educational Sites was created by E. Fabiyi (efabiyi@cuip.net) & L. Gool (lgool@yahoo.com) for the Web Institute for Teachers,
last updated June 6, 2003