Buncombe County Schools

Asheville, North Carolina

Educational Internet:
Administrator's
Perspective

919-571-3292
david@landmark-project.com

-- Links to Colleges & Universities

• College & University Home Pages-- http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
• List of Colleges by Country -- http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/college-email/country/index.html
• Yahoo's List of Universities by Country -- http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/

-- Links to "Ask and Expert" Projects

• Ask an Expert Page From New Jersey Network Infrastructure in Education -- http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html

-- State Government Links

• State & Local Government on the Net -- http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html
• U.S. State Pages -- http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html

-- Federal Government Links

• The Federal Web Locator -- http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html
• U.S. Federal Government List of Sites -- http://www.fie.com/www/us_gov.htm
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies -- http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

-- Sources for Internet Mailing Lists

• The Directory of Scholarly E-Lists -- http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/
• Liszt Directory of Email Discussion Groups -- http://www.liszt.com/
• Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists -- http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/
• Search the List of Lists -- http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
• Tile Net -- http://tile.net/lists/

-- General Directory Tools

• Yahoo -- http://www.yahoo.com
• Galaxy -- http://galaxy.einet.net
• NewHoo -- http://www.newhoo.com
• Netscape Netcenter -- http://home.netscape.com
• Internet Start -- http://home.microsoft.com
• LookSmart -- http://www.looksmart.com
• Snap -- http://www.snap.com
• Apali Spanish Language -- http://www.apali.com

-- Education Related Directories

• Yahooligans (Yahoo for children) -- http://www.yahooligans.com
• Link-o-Rama -- http://www.gsn.org/links/_cfm/links.cfm
• G.R.A.D.E.S. (Global Resources and Educational Link Archives from Classroom Connect) -- http://www.classroom.net/Grades/
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -- http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
• Landmarks for Schools -- http://www.landmark-project.com/
• Planet K-12 -- http://planetk-12.planetsearch.com/

-- General Search tools

• Alta Vista -- http://www.altavista.com
• Excite -- http://www.excite.com
• HotBot -- http://www.hotbot.com
• Infoseek -- http://www.infoseek.com
• Lycos -- http://www.lycos.com

-- Meta Search Tools

• MetaCrawler -- http://www.metacrawler.com
• DogPile -- http://www.dogpile.com
• Highway 61 -- http://www.highway61.com

-- Kid-Friendly Search Engines

• Ask Jeeves -- http://ajkids.com/
• Disney Internet Guide (DIG) -- http://www.disney.com/dig/today/

• NC Department of Public Instruction (InfoWeb) -- http://www.dpi.state.nc.us
• NC Education News -- http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/whats_new.html
• NC Association of Educators -- http://www.ncae.org/
• Professional Educators of NC -- http://www.ntwrks.com/~penc
• NC Principal Fellows Program -- http://www.ga.unc.edu/Principal_Fellows/
• North Carolina Association of School Administrators -- http://ncasa.eastnet.ecu.edu/ncasa_home.htm
• North Carolina School Boards Association -- http://www.ncsba.org/
• North Carolina Public School Forum -- http://www.ncforum.org
• North Carolina Parent Teacher Association -- http://www.ncpta.org

Several months ago, I started publishing an online (e-mail based) newsletter called NetSA, for Networking for School Administrators.  The goal of this publication was to share with school and system administrators information about the Internet and tips for using this technology within the context of educational administration.

The newsletter was published once a week until October when my travel schedule prevented me to keep up the publication.  Since then, I have worked out an alternative way of reviving the publication by combining e-mail and the web, and by combining content for administrators with idea geared for direct instructional applications of the Internet.

The new publication, From Outside the Box (FOTB), will be located on the world wide web at:

http://landmark-project.com/fotb/

FOTB will not follow a strict publication schedule, but will change and evolve as new articles, ideas, and resources become available.   As new information is added, you can choose to be informed via e-mail.  Older pieces will be archived and available to readers.

Members of the NetSA e-mail distribution list will continue to receive announcements of new features in From Outside the Box.   An additional list will eventually be established for teachers and other educators.   If you are not already a member of the NetSA list, you can join by typing your e-mail address in  the following text box and clicking Subscribe.