Education

Early Childhood:

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Head Start Association

Midwest Association for the Education of Young Children

Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children

Head's Up Reading

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Technology:

OAEYC Tech Lab
This website gives links to free instruction in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, as well as digital cameras.

Macromedia Training Cafe
This website offers free instruction on the internet for teachers. It is run by Macromedia, a very reputable company.

Resource Library
This website offers instruction in all kinds of programs and technology for teachers. The web page contains links to several printable tutorials on software titles that include Kidpix, PowerPoint, and Hyperstudio. Also included is a guide for creating newsletters using good design principles.

Intel - The Journey Inside
The Journey Inside is an engaging Web site featuring a broad range of interactive activities to help teachers, students (in 5th-9th grades), and learners of all ages explore information on how computers and the Internet work.

OAEYC Tech Links
This page provides links to other related technology and early childhood pages.

OAEYC Tech Facts
This page of the OAEYC technology site provides many documents related to technology such as emailing, sending attachments, clip art and web pages.

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College:
University of Cincinnati's One Stop Student Services
This page provides an entrance into registration, schedules, transcripts, billing accounts, etc.

University of Cincinnati Main Library
University of Cincinnati Library's web page

Adventures in Education
Tips on developing career goals, choosing schools, and applying for financial aid.

Collegiate
A comprehensive list of research links and actual college Web sites.

College Board
In-depth information about all two-year and four-year colleges in the United States.

College Net
A database of colleges, scholarship sources and academic resources.

College View
An overview of 3,000 colleges with direct e-mail links to request additional information

Embark
How to research, apply for, and finance a college education.

Goverment Financial Aid
Explanation of government financial aid programs.

Library Spot

LibrarySpot was created to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by the editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.

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Teacher's Resources

Curriculum Resources:

Best Kids Books
This site is a good reference tool for finding information about children's books, their authors and illustrators.

Bugbios
This website has some wonderful resources on butterflies.

Early childhood
Resources for early childhood teachers.

Early Connections
The Early Connections website has ideas for curriculum, technology, classroom arrangement and more.

Enchanted learning
Prek activities

Eric Carle's Web Site
Contains information on the authors books, questions from children, biographical information, etc.

Insect Image Gallery
Wonderful Insect pictures and information.

Ladybugs 1

Ladybugs 2

These webpages give lots of information on ladybugs.

Jan Brett's Website
This is the author's website. It is full of printable resources for the classroom that are related to her books.

Kids Smart Early Learning
This website has good information for parents and teachers regarding using computers with young children. The first page allows you to choose what language you would like to read the site in.

Little Kids Curriculum
A web site that contains on-line books for young children. Very nice. Look for the ones that say "emergent" for preschoolers.

PBS - The Brain
Here's a neat website that has some wonderful information on brain development in children. Fantastic pictures too.

Pbs kids
Information and activities from all the pbs children's shows.

PBS for Teachers
This site has many many resources for teachers. A good resource.

Perpetual preschool
Resources for early childhood teachers.

Preschool Rainbow
This site is filled with rhythms and rhymes for the preschool classroom.

Project-approach
This website explains and explores doing projects with young children.

Publishing perfection
Photo search web site

Snowflakes
This website has wonderful photos of snowflakes that would be great for making math games, for the science table and more!

UC Llibrary's Curriculum Resources
The University of Cincinnati's PreK - 12 curriculum resources.

Creating a Classroom Webpage:

My School On-Line
This website allows teachers to easily create a classroom website. On this web page, click on "Create a Site Signup" (left side of page) to get started.

EBoard
This is an alternative to having a classroom website. On the eboard, messages and pictures are easily posted. Everyone uses a password to access the message board.

Teachers Net
Free
Click on "Web Tools" - the click on Net Homepage Maker

Myclass
Free homepage for teachers

Scholastic
Free homepage for teachers

Webpages4teachers
One time $10 fee to teachers for creating and hosting a classroom homepage.

Teacherweb
$2.50 per month - or $25.00 per year if paid in advance to create and host a webpage for teachers

Websites for Elementary School Children:

Scholastics Kids Fun

Lots of activities for elementary aged children.

School discovery

Good website for older kids.

Digital Photography:

Adobe for Kids

Adobe Photoshop Album

Short Courses on Digital Photography

How Digital Cameras Work

Intro to Digital Photography

Printers

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