The Instruction, Learning & Technology Leadership Institute's

Practitioner Links

This site was developed in support of the OhioSchoolNet training model.
The numerous and valuable links have not been regularly updated.

These links have been prepared to help teachers interested in developing their own Practitioner Level professional development program, in line with Ohio SchoolNet Teaching and Learning Matrices of Skills .

| Where to Begin | The Cyber Classroom Teacher Links |
| Productivity Tools | HyperMedia Tools | Internet/Information Tools | Networking Tools |
|  SchoolNet "Direct Strand" Support |
| Our Novice Level Workshop Links |

General Practioner Support

  • Skill Support,  Where do you start?
    1. Interested in the Practitioner Syllabus?
    2. How about Ohio SchoolNet's definitions for: Novice and Practioner Certificate Levels; Hypermedia, Networking, Information, and Productivity Tools
    3. Do you know what your skills are, or what skills you could possibly develop in each of the Tool areas? Then try a self assessment: Self Assessment in HyperMedia Tools, Self Assessment in Productivity Tools, Self Assessment in Information (Internet) Tools, Self Assessment in Networking Tools, and even an assessment in Trouble Shooting.
    4. Once you know which tool area to work in, visit Orange School's links to the "Skill Builder Cards"
    5. Are you ready to identify a curriculum & age specific outcome around which to develop a lesson? Use The  ILT's SchoolNet Page to identify particular outcomes.
  • Open a personal account with SchoolNet.
  • Exemplars provides Standards-based assignments, rubrics for teachers and students and annotated benchmark papers
  • Polaris' ILT Leadership Institute's SchoolNet Page

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  • CyberClassroom Teacher Links! Teacher Management Tools, structure for "your family":
  • The ILTLI's Soarweb-based Mentoring Materials, Workshop Materials, and Academies.
  • Freebies site
  • Numerous Network solutions for educators from High Plains Regional Technology Education Consortium
  • Working with Handhelds
  • Free-based resources: Nicenet.net non-profit Internet community for educators, SchoolNotes.com from Copernicus, and TeacherWeb is another.  Some other sources:  Check out  Mr. Goodwin's LearningPlace account and select presentations, WVIZ best free stuff!,

    • Fee-based resources:
    Chalksite ($4.95/m) Aspire, FunBrain (teacher pages), TeachingPoint.com (course materials and their classroom resources),  Blackboard.com, BigChalk, LightSpan.com, MySchoolOnline, XanEdu and Teacher Focus also offers a variety of Classroom Managment Resources. Create your class website with TeacherWeb® ($25 annual), ThinkWave.com, TimeSavers for Teachers, media-x, OneWorld Hosting (14.95/m), OnLine Marketing, SchoolOne, TechSoup's virtual building tools, and Vantage Learning.
    District website and content management tools: finalsite.com
    Quia: An instructional archive with templates, quizzes, calendars, word games, surveys and more!
  • Set up your own:
    • OnLine evaluation/survey (free or fee) at Zoomarang! (take this non-functioning sample survey);
    Design, Post & return instant results with your own poll generater at mypoll.net.
    Discussion areas, calendars, more at Server.com or Chat room at LiveUniverse.com
    Bookmarks file online at:
    Private Accounts: Yahoo's Bookmarksand our tutorial
    Public or Classroom Accounts: iKeepBookmarks.com (The Institute's iKeepSample Site) our tutorial, MyBookmarks,Clickmarks.com, MURL.com (take their tutorial), Blink ($29/yr),
    use BackFlip to organize and save web sites to a public/free account (learn more) or try Trackstar (Trackstar sample).
    Gradebook at MyGradeBook.com.
    Create your own listserv.
    Set up a class e-mail account with e-pals.com.
    Have students publish their book reviews at wwwFanfiction.net.
    Your own "Corkboard" on the web at: eBoard.com (as of March 20, 2002 $29/year) (post daily assignments, pictures, schedule changes, more...)
    Design your own certificates, awards (Holidays, sports, graduation and more) and mazes at Rona's Teacher Tools
  • Palm Computing
    • Tutorials from Lycos
    Concord Consortium's educational applications & sensor technology , University of Michigan's Hi-CE, Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT), education@Palm, Pocket PC Magazine,  what to consider before purchasing, everything you ever wanted to know about palm devices, TechWeb's technical concerns re: wireless... K-12 Handhelds, solutions for educators.
    Commerical Software/products: Media-X, For the administrator PortaData, Leadership in Hand, HandHeldLeader,
  • Design multimedia projects right on the web at SOARWEB, without even learning how to build a web page!  Or go ahead and build your own web site through one of these sites, or TeacherWeb® ($25 annual), Yahoo's GeoCities, MySchoolOnline, Tripod, or even build a site and secure your own domain name at Freeservers.com! Try out the concept of a WebTrip at LightSpan.com.  Jim Emigh of Olmsted Falls was awarded a "Model of Excellence" for his Biology Web Trip integrating some of the Savvy Cyber Teacher® programmaterials. You might also check out Susan Kargan's History Site or Lynn Laux's Physics Site to see the types of tools a teacher might integrate through a class website.
  • Try these very unique web page interfaces, Keebooks (Keebooks sample with SAVVY Cyber Teacher) and Trackstar (Trackstar sample) or use BackFlip to organize and save web sites to a public/free account (learn more)
  • Join a listserv, or even create your own from the ILT's list.
  • AOL has a program for continuing education.
  • netday, the Internet source of Educational Technology for all "stakeholders"
  • The FamilyEducation Network offers family web management tools.
  • Teacher magazines with web support
    • Elementary: MailBox
    All Levels: Scholastic Teacher Site & Instructor Magazine;  Classroom Connect and their Connected Teacher.
  • Life Long Learning from EduScapes.com
  • Professional Development Honolulu Community College Links!
  • Free stuff: from the very useful to the less than useful; screen blankers, wall paper, reference links, software and more.
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    | Productivity Tools | HyperMedia Tools | Internet/Information Tools |
    |  SchoolNet "Direct Strand" Support |

    Support for SchoolNet's "Direct Instruction Strand"

    The ILT provides these links to help teachers focus on the "global and fundamental" issues of implementing technology integration
  • ISTE Technology Standards, from the ISTE Website
  • Pedagogical issues
    • The ILT's links to Problem Based, Project Based learning, links to assessment issues, and  links to Educational Reform
  • The most extensive list of rubrics we have found on the Wed! There are various multimedia, HyperStudio, and other technology rubrics posted for Ontario Canada teachers.
  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial Search Engine
    The Learning Space Online Technology Tutorials (variety of materials, take your pick)
  • Other ILT pages:
    • ILT Workshop Links
    Productivity Tools Links
    Media/HyperMedia Links
  • College curriculum/credit for the Practitioner Level: at Miami University and Kent State University.
  • Information Age / Online resources
    1. Jamie McKenzie's FNO OnLine Journal (From Now On)
    2. McKenzie's Self Assessment from May '93.  (old but still very useful!)
    3. McKenzie's "Reaching The Reluctant Teacher"
    4. The CEO Forum's special Self Assessment instrument for University Administrators, Education Professors/Programs, Teachers, and learners: select the "The STar Chart" link of choice.
     
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    | Productivity Tools | HyperMedia Tools | Internet/Information Tools | Networking Tools |
    |  SchoolNet "Direct Strand" Support|

    Productivity Tools

    General Technology & Materials

  • The ILT's Productivity Tools page provides more assistance, our Excel resources through Soarweb.
  • Tutorial Search Engine
  • Excellent Tutorial lessons!  University of N.Dakota's long list of online tutorials!
  • Trumbull County's Educational Resource Center: Resources and handouts
  • The Learning Space Online Technology Tutorials (variety of materials, take your pick)
  • Free OnLine courses from FreeEdu.com.
  • ZiffDavis offers courses, your district might already have an account for teachers with their new venture.
  • PDFs, pdfmailer promotional offer.  (Print or e-mail pdf files without applications.)
  • Here are a variety of tutorials. Everything from Word & Works to Multimedia.
    • Select the "Training Materials" under the pull down menu at The Independent School District from Rosemount MN.  For Web publishing check out their "Web Publisher" materials on the same pull down menu!

    Spreadsheets

  • Personal Skill Development  (don't forget to check our Productivity Tools page, with links to Spreadsheet & Database ideas and tutorials.

    • DataBases

  • Personal Skill Development  (don't forget to check our Productivity Tools page with links to database lessons, tutorials and samples for teachers.

    • WordProcessing

  • Word practice through Trumbull County Resource Center.
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    | Productivity Tools | HyperMedia Tools | Internet/Information Tools | Networking Tools |
    |  SchoolNet "Direct Strand" Support |

    Information Tools: Internet

  • SOARWEB!  The New State of Ohio Alliance Resource Web for online Media Production.
    • The ILTLI's SOARWEB ToolBox for supporting this new project!
    SURWeb, an original Technology Challenge Grant recipient hosts "media production" for the web.
    The ILTLI's MultiMedia Storyboard

     
  • Yahoo's Web-based-Bookmarksand our tutorial
  • Widener University offers evaluational resources for various web contents.
  • Internet practice through Trumbull County Resource Center.
  • The Learning Space Online Technology Tutorials
  • Polaris' ILT Leadership Institute's Searching & Reference Links
  • Integrating The Internet Lesson Page, What's With This CyberSpace?
  • An Educators collection ofSearch Page Links
  • A variety of Search Lessons, along with a lesson & demonstration of searching from Kathy Schrock
  • Copyright, Referencing, Citations assistance for Educators from the ILTLI.
  • The ILT's Savvy Cyber links for web design.
  • The Savvy Cyber Teacher, Alliance+ Web site , weekly materials, and collaborative projects.
  • The ILT's Projects page.

    • Networking Tools

  • Trumbull County's Educational Resource Center: Resources, Tips & Tricks, and handouts
  • TechSupportfrom Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association
  • Online tutorial on computer networks, help with the basics of school computer networks, produced under a grant from the Florida Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology and the Florida Information Resource Network.
  • Solutions for Windows Users!
  • Online Resource for Drivers and Web based development.
  • From Hewlett-Packard's Online Learning Center
  • Help Desk Online, University of Wisconsin.
  • Links for the Network Administrator
    1. Every file format type in the world from Ace Net.
    2. InfoWorld Electric
    3. TechRepublic
    4. BrainBuzz.com
    5. The ILT's Trouble Shooting links on our Productivity Tools Page.
    6. Orange School's Networking Support.
  • Ready to work with Listservs?

    • HyperMedia Tools

    | PowerPoint | HyperStudio |

  • The ILT's links from the MultiMedia Workshop for N.Olmsted Schools.
    • Our MultiMedia workshop page has numerous links to PowerPoint, general multimedia (sound, image & video) use, trouble shooting, tutorials etc.  Lesson plan ideas using images in multimedia from Pics4Learning.
  • This Teacher Network provides an excellent series of Technology Tutorials Learning Space Online Teacher Network.
  • The University of South Dakota's hints for effective presentations.
  • Dr. Kevin Maney's HyperStudio Resources, at Miami University.
  • PowerPoint
  • Our MultiMedia page has more links for PowerPoint
  • HyperStudio
  • Time for an HyperStudio Tutorial, try this HyperStudio Guide from the University of Florida.  The Official HyperStudio site also provides free workshop materials. The MACUL conference 2000 had some excellent HyperStudio Materials.
  • A brief HyperStudio lesson from The Learning Space Foundation.
  • The most extensive list of rubrics we have found on the Wed! There are various multimedia, HyperStudio, and other technology rubrics posted for Ontario Canada teachers.
  • Our MultiMedia page has more links for HyperStudio
  • HyperStudio
  • The ILTLI's Hyperstudio Storyboard.
  • HyperStudio Hot Site
    • linked from Roger Wagner's page
  • Hyperstudio Network
  • HyperStudio on the Net
  • WEB Stack lesson
    • Vivek Thakkar, New York Senior HS student, lessons
  • HyperStudio on the Net
  • Hyperstudio Network
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    Mike Baker <mbaker@polaris.edu>  teacher/coordinator
    Geoff Andrews <gandrews@polaris.edu>  Director of Technology
    The Instruction, Learning & Technology Leadership Institute
    Polaris Career Center
    7285 Old Oak Blvd.
    Middleburg Hts. OH 44130
    (440) 891-7694
    FAX (440)891-7723
    This page last revised 4/20/2006