Organizations of Interest to Teachers

Children's Book Council
12 W. 37th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10018-7480

International Reading Association
800 Barksdale Road
PO Box 8139
Newark, DE 19714-8139

National Association for the Education of Young Children
1509 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-1426

National Council of Teachers of English
1111 W. Kenyon Road
Urbana, IL 61801-1096

Full-Text Literature on the Web

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Project Gutenberg
Hundreds of texts from which to choose, including many suitable for elementary-school readers.

Fairy tales
This site also includes links to several other archives of folk and fairy tales.

Reliable Sites to Recommend for Student Research

Appalachian Educational Laboratory

Library of Congress
Home of LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System database.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

The Smithsonian

Communications

Book Rap
An Internet site designed to help children discuss literature with other children.

Cyber Mentoring
Information about cyber mentoring projects that make use of videoconferencing technology.

Hewlett Packard E-mail Mentor Program

International Telementor Program
Facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide.

Kidlink
An organization focused on enhancing global communication among children through the secondary school level.

Kidsphere
An electronic mailing list. Teachers or students must subscribe to the list by sending an e-mail to kidsphere-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu
. Subscribers receive all messages sent to the list until they unsubscribe by sending an e-mail to the same address. Users can post messages to all other subscribers by sending them to the Kidsphere e-mail address: kidsphere@vms.cis.pitt.edu.

WorldClassroom
A curriculum-based educational telecommunications network.

Interactive Internet Projects

Education Place
The Project Center portion of this site has a list of Internet projects for schools.

Ink Spot
An Internet site where young writers can find resources to expand their writing abilities.

Global Schoolhouse
and
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connection
Two sites for teachers looking for collaborative Internet projects with schools in other countries. Global Schoolhouse is a resource for permanent, ongoing Internet projects.

NASA Quest
Allows students to communicate with and "look over the shoulders" of the people at NASA as they do their work.

Stories from the Titanic
Internet workshop.

WebQuest
The WebQuest page, from San Diego State University, freely makes available examples and information about using WebQuests.