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Educational Sites To Link To Your Page:
- CIESE
Educational Links Guide - Great place to find an
organized list of unique and compelling math and science resources.
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - a
subject-arranged guide to over 800 links for teachers to enhance
curriculum.
- Awesome
Library - organizes carefully
reviewed education resources for teachers, students, parents, and
librarians. Site contains a directory, an index, and a search engine.
- ExplorAsource
- Great search tool for teachers. Search by subject area, grade level and
curriculum standard.
Search For Pictures,
Graphics, Buttons and Logo's to Place On Your Page:
Getting Your Web Page
Noticed
- Tips
on How To Get Your Web Page Noticed By The Major Search Engines
- Meta
Tag Builder - Help the search
engines list you
- Submit
It--register your site with various
search engines
- Register your homepage with Web66
- Did-it (Check
to see if your web site is registered on the major search engines. Give
URL and they will email the results to you.)
- Go
Net-Wide - a 'do-it-yourself'
pointer page with direct links to web site submission forms for over 200
Internet search engines, directories, hot lists, and announcement sites.
No charge, ever.
- Web66
- A Directory of Teachers and Schools and their web page addresses.
Additional Tools You
Can Use To Build Your Web Page
WYSIWYG HTML Editors - Software programs that
you install on your computer that look and feel similar to a word processing
program.
- Netscape
Composer - Free for anyone to
download & use on both Mac & Windows.
- Microsoft
FrontPage - Better than Composer,
but is not free and has outdated version for Macintosh.$$
- Claris
Home Page - A lot like FrontPage,
available for both Windows and the Mac.$
- NetObjects
Fusion - A higher end Web Page
Editor for the serious website builder. $$$ Free Trial Version available
for Download.
Mac & Windows Compatible.
- Go
Live - Another higher end website
design and management program available for both Windows and Mac. $$$
Web-Based Page
Builders
These free sites provide online templates that you add your own text and links
to. They will also host you web page too and are compatible with all Internet
connected computers. Note: Most are require Ad's on your pages.
- GeoCities
- a complete publishing tool available through your Yahoo e-mail
address. One drawback is the required ads the service places on your
page.
- My
School Online - form based page
builder available from the Family Education Network and
TeacherVision.com. Very rigid.
- Bigchalk.com - very flexible web
hosting service just for teachers. Provides easy published templates and
freedom to publish your own creations.
- SchoolCity
- similar to Homework Central.
- SchoolLife
- similar to Homework Central.
- RedRival
- Easy to use web host. Only accepts new users in bunch's - luck of the
draw.
- The
Globe - a complete publishing
tool. One drawback is the required ads the service places on your page.
- Angelfire-
a complete publishing tool. One drawback is the required ads the service
places on your page.
- Netscape
Netcenter - a complete publishing
tool. One drawback is the required ads the service places on your page.
Graphic
Creation Tools - You can use these tools to create pictures, logos and buttons
in GIF or JPG format's for use on your web pages.
-
Paint
Shop Pro - the Windows standard
in creating GIF's and JPG's (web graphics). Available in a free trial
version by Download.
Not available for Mac.
- CorelDraw
LE - a free graphics creator and
editor for the Mac. Available for Download.
- Microsoft
PhotoDraw 2000 - another great
graphics creation tool for non graphic artists. Available for both
Windows only. $$$
- Ulead
PhotoImpact - another great graphics creation tool with many web
features.
Site Enhancement Tools
- You can use these tools as either a compliment to your site or as functional
application with in your site.
- Web-Based Teaching/Distance Learning Tools
- Use these form based tools to put your lessons or entire courses
online for free.
- Blackboard.Com-
easy to use, advertising supported.
- NiceNet
- maintained by Northwestern University, not advertising supported.
- Web-based Calendar/Schedule Creators - Use
these free template based services to put up your syllabus, class
schedule or experiment timelines and then link to them from your web
page. Note: Advertising Driven.
- Web Based Literary Publishing Systems -
use these form-based systems to copy and paste student writing and
publish work to the web for all the world to read.
- Web-based Bookmark/Favorite Systems- Use
these systems to manage your bookmarked resources on the web and then
link to them from your web page.
- Web-Based File Storage/Online
Briefcases/Online Hard Drives - Use to put documents online for easy
access or to share with multiple users. Useful for collaboarative
projects, document distribution for many classes or just backing up your
files. Most are free with $ for more space.
- Java Scripts- Use scripts to place
real-time information on your page like the time and date, or to make
the site more active with scrolling text or buttons/text/image that
changes color when the users mouse moves over it. These scripts are free
but require you to give credit to the author.
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