Links to  and Informative Sites

· Caldecott Medal Home Page
http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html

· Newbery Medal Home Page
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

· Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html

· Lexington School District One Technology Internet Resource      http://www.lexington1.net/technology/techresource/tis/tech4u.htm

· “The Web Portal for Educators”
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/

· Web version of South Carolina’s literary map
View a list of authors and their connections to the geographic regions of South Carolina. This site is a project of Palmetto Book Alliance.
http://students.libsci.sc.edu/literarymap/first.htm

· American Library Association’s (ALA) Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) website; co-sponsored by the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Washington Office for CIPA. The CIPA went into effect April 20, 2001.
http://www.ala.org/cipa/

· A resource dealing with copyright for kids
http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html

· South Carolina Education Department’s Teaching Learning Connection where you can search for lesson plans relevant to your standards or curriculum
http://www.sctlc.com/

· Brainpop; a cool site that provides educational animated movies in the areas of math, science and technology
http://www.brainpop.com/

· EmTech or Emerging Technologies; contains over 1,200 resources organized by topics for teachers, students and parents
http://www.emtech.net/

· A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/

· Search Engines I like:
http://www.northernlight.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://hotbot.lycos.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.excite.com/

· Bare Bones 101; a tutorial for on-line searching
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

· American Association of School Librarians
http://www.ala.org/aasl/

· American Association of School Librarians Parent Page
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/index.html

· eSchool News Online – “Where K-12 Education and Technology Meet”
http://www.eschoolnews.com/

· Teacher helps for web page design
http://www.electricteacher.com/

· An education site that reviews sites and serves as a directory for sites that relate to education
http://www.educationworld.com/

· South Carolina’s Information Highway newsletter – “South Carolina’s Front Door”
http://www.sciway.net/

· “Classroom Flyer” – a daily newsletter from Riverdeep, the Learning Company, featuring articles and lessons correlated to the standards http://www.riverdeep.net/current/classroom_flyer/index.jhtml

· Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – we all know about and love this resource, offering teacher resources including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing the curriculum and professional growth
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/