OTEN Portals

http://www.searchengineguide.com/
This is a guide to over a thousand search engines, portals and directories. A good starting point for any search.

Northwest Educational Technology Consortium
http://www.netc.org/
A wonderful site replete with links to an electronic library, software evaluations, conference presentations, project-based learning resources, tips on grants and funding, and significantly more.

United States Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/
This is the Department of Education's home page including links to information, resources, government publications and other federal eudcational materials.

ERIC Clearing Houses
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. This is their listing and links to Clearninghouses on a wide variety of topics.

International Society for Technology in Education
http://www.iste.org/
This site contains standards for technological literacy for students of all ages as well as teacher educators and preservice teachers. It contains links to teacher resources, research projects and professional development opportunities.

National Library of Education
http://www.ed.gov/NLE/
The federal government's main resource center for educational information

Connecting Students
http://www.umaine.edu/edhd/
This is the technology and young children page of the technology caucus of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. It contains information and links about research, best practices, funding and more. It is new as of 11/10/2000 and will continue to grow.

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Lesson plans, stories from educators (including this year a running account from two first year teachers), articles, school issues, message boards, links.

Schools of California On-line Resources for Education (S.C.O.R.E)
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/
Math, Science, Social Science and Language Arts sites developed by teams throughout California, aligned with California standards and benchmarks. Over 3000 links.

Cyberguides: Teacher Guides and Classroom Activities:.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cyberguide.html
S.C.O.R.E’s articulated lesson plans and guides for K-12 studies in all areas. This link is for K-3 Language Arts, but there are others for virtually any subject and grade level

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorize