Through the Allen County Education Link (ACELINK) we have exciting opportunities to enliven, enrich, even revolutionize, learning and teaching with the rich resources of the Internet. The links below have been specifically selected because they utilize the resources of broadband...audio, video, full-motion animation, etc. Plus, they're just really cool sites and tools!
| Link |
Description |
| Indiana General Assembly Live Video |
The Indiana General Assembly Web site has the information you need to learn more about the democratic process and participate in state government. Through www.legislative.IN.gov, you can watch or listen to General Assembly sessions, obtain legislator contact information, check session calendars, search bills and resolutions, research Indiana laws and administrative rules and more! |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence |
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
Each month they add new teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies. |
| Bet The Farm Virtual Game |
This online, interactive exhibit from COSI Columbus involves problem solving in a farm setting. In this game, children are farmers and make decisions about what to raise, how to manage their crops, and how to market them. Scores are given based on a profit/loss model. Elementary level. |
| E-Field Trips |
ACELINK recommended electronic field trips. |
| Center for Medical Multimedia |
This site is created by the USOF and includes free high quality, multimedia resources for specific medical uses, like pregnancy, cardio health, knee surgery, and more. |
| Citation Machine |
Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property. Students are welcome to use this as well. You merely click the type of resource you wish to cite, complete the Web form that appears with information from your resource, and click Make Citations to generate standard MLA & APA citations. |
| Edheads |
Edheads helps students learn through FREE educational games and activities that are created to support academic standards. Topics include simple machines, weather, virtual knee surgery and odd machines. |
| ElectraGuide Thesis Builder |
ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic, create a thesis, and generate an outline. Click on Thesis Builder from the main page. |
| Freeplay Music |
If you are using Freeplay Music for educational, Non-Commercial use (limited to school grounds and classroom - non broadcast) then Freeplay's musical compositions and recordings may be used (broadcast, synchronized and/or copied) without fee. These reproduction rights, known as master synchronization rights, are absolutely FREE and are granted in perpetuity, provided Freeplay is accorded appropriate screen credit as follows, on a most favored nation’s basis with all other music providers: "Music Provided By www.freeplaymusic.com". |
| Global Gateway |
Find an international partner school using this FREE, searchable database. |
| Global Schoolhouse |
The Global Schoolhouse is the original virtual meeting place where educators, students, parents and community members can collaborate, interact, develop, publish and discover learning resources. |
| Google Earth |
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. It requires broadband to use, and it must be downloaded to your computer, but it is free. You'll need to install it after the download is complete and open it with the desktop icon. |
| Google Maps |
Google has created dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable — no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Want to be able to type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map? Now you can with Google Maps. Since these maps are draggable, you can use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up and down to see areas that are hidden offscreen. You can also use the slider to zoom in and zoom out. |
| Hartford Hospital Live OR Webcasts |
This site includes live and archived surgery webcasts, including many topics. |
| How Many Words-Per-Minute Do you Read? |
This is a simple site with a Start button and reading text to time words-per-minute. |
| Illustrating Art |
A series of 12 Quicktime movies illustrating a variety of drawing and painting techniques, from basic principles of perspective, through brush and paint effects, to experimenting with abstract art. |
| Interactive Grammar Quizzes |
This is a section of one of my favorite sites for teaching grammar. There are 174 interactive quizzes that cover all parts of speech and more! |
| Kids.gov |
Welcome to the U.S. government Kids' Portal. It provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Explore, learn, have fun! |
| Learn the Science of Speed |
This virtual and interactive exhibit from COSI Columbus was created for middle and high school science students. According to the site, "We examine the ways in which speed impacts our lives, becoming blended and blurred into complex human desires: to fall faster, to drop farther, to climb higher." |
| MacArthur High School Website |
This is one of the coolest high school websites that I’ve ever seen. Notice all the web-enabled features and tools for students and parents. |
| Math Calculators & Tools |
This site includes free online calculators, including basic, scientific, square root, circle, prime number, quadratic equation, percent, probability, savings, and trigonometry. |
| MicroSociety at Talbot Hill Elementary |
Talbot Hill's MicroSociety Program simulates a functioning community, with student-run businesses and services. All students at Talbot are part of our MicroSociety program. Together, they run businesses, banks, a marketplace, and a government with branches for taxation, licensing, and dispute resolution. Each student earns "cool cash," which can be used to purchase student-made goods at the marketplace. This model is based on the MicroSociety® program, used in hundreds of school nation-wide. |
| Moodle |
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. |
| National Gallery of Art for Kids |
This site includes interactive art projects that can be made online, and mini art lessons to accompany collections at the Gallery. |
| Open Heart Exhibit |
This hands-on website shows students how the heart works, how the heart gets into trouble, what can be done to rescue it, and what you can do to keep it healthy. Requires Flash player and comes from COSI Columbus. |
| Planet ARKive |
This dedicated children’s site features species profiles specifically for children aged 7-11, with accompanying wild facts, as well as fun games, quizzes and activities. Kids can be a nature detective, build a pond, explore buttlerfly plants, find food, learn about litter and pollution, create a minibeast motel, study the beach, learn about weather and create woodland art. |
| Robby Goes to the Hospital |
This site allows children to follow the experiences of Robby the Bear as he goes to the hospital for surgery. It includes audio and interactive video. The settings can be adjusted for low bandwidth. |
| Simple Machines Virtual Exhibit |
This interactive site from COSI allows students to experience simple machines and manipulate them virtually. |
| Smithsonian TV |
This site features live and archived events and multimedia at the Smithsonian Institute, including 24x7 live web cams of animals, rainforests, environments and more. |
| Students.gov |
This site brings the resources of the government together in one place. By eliminating the need to search the entire web, students.gov makes finding the answers to your questions faster and easier. The site is a cooperative effort between federal agencies, students, and other parts of the education community, under the leadership of the US Department of Education. Check out Kids.gov for elementary-aged children. |
| SurveyMonkey |
Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Surveys with up to 10 questions and less than 100 subjects are free to create and administer. |
TIGER - Teachers' Instructional Graphics |
These materials are developed by the North Carolina School of Science and Math Distance Learning Department for use in distance learning classes. They are made available free, via the internet, so teachers everywhere can also take advantage of these materials. Select from a menu of options for animated graphics to download and use for teaching science, math and history.
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