Carlson, P., & Makedon, F. (Eds.). (1996). Educational
Telecommunications, 1996. (Proceedings of ED-TELECOM
96: World Conference on Educational Telecommunications. Boston, MA:
June 17-22, 1996). Charlottesville, VA:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Irvine, M. (1997). Web
Works. New York: W.W. Norton.
Owen, T., Owston, R., & Dickie, C. (1995). The
Learning Highway: The Canadian Student's Guide to the Internet.
Toronto,
ON: Key Porter.
Schrum, L., & Berenfeld, B. (1997). Teaching and
Learning in the Information Age: A Guide to Educational
Telecommunications. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Introduction to the Internet and the WWW
Internet Terminology and Internet Etiquette (Netiquette) 
The Nature of Hypertext and Hypermedia
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Telecommunication Networking
Guidelines for Developing Web Based Sites, Courses,
and Projects
HTML Tutorials and Editing Software
HTML Graphics
Working with Frames (Tutorials)
On-Line Projects
Evaluation of On-Line Projects
On-Line Articles/Papers About the Use
of Telecommunications in Education
On-Line Forums About the Use of Telecommunications
in Education
On-Line Journals About the Use of Telecommunications
in Education
Some Advanced Topics in Web Page Authoring
The Future of Telecommunications
General Reference
Exploring the Net
An on-line introduction and lesson about the Internet.
History of Internet
and WWW : View from Internet Valley
An overview to the philosophy and history of the Internet with related
links and a section on pertinent statistics.
Introduction
to The World Wide Web
An on-line tutorial developed to introduce students to the WWW.
Learning
the Web
An excellent overview to the various WWW tools.
New
Tools for Teaching: J. J. O'Donnell
A guide to using the WWW in education.
Web
101: Web Basics
An introductory on-line class to using the WWW.
iwonder
This site is devoted to the idea of inquiry-based learning and teaching
utilizing the WWW.
Search
Engines
A collection of search engines to use on the WWW. (Search engines
are your gateway to ascertaining information on the Internet/WWW.)
NetLingo - The Internet Language
Dictionary
This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that
are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community
of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Glossary of Basic
Internet Terminology
A compilation of the most commonly used terms associated with the Internet
and related electronic media.
Glossary
of Terms
A collection of Internet terminology to accompany Entering the World-Wide
Web: A Guide to Cyberspace.
Glossary
of PC and Internet Terminology
This site features a large table displaying all the available entries
in its dictionary.
Internet
Terminology 101
A sampling of much of the relevant Internet terminology.
Net
Knowledge
A glossary of terms for users of the Internet and World Wide Web.
NETGLOS
NETGLOS is a multilingual
glossary of Internet terminology currently being compiled as a voluntary,
collaborative project by a number of translators and other professionals.
Butterfly
Glossary
The Butterfly Glossary contains over 1600 terms of Internet, Data Communications
and acronyms.
Netiquette
Netiquette Home
Page
This site addresses netiquette as both common courtesy online and the
informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.
Netiquette
and Nethics
This is an e-lecture from a university course about the net. (Visit
Netropolitan
Life, the course homepage, for more interesting stuff about the Internet
and virtual communities.)
Practicing
Good Netiquette
A collection of helpful guidelines for communicating with others on
the Internet.
The Net: User Guidelines
and Netiquette
This site presents guidelines for all Internet protocols to ensure
that users become responsible for how they access or transmit information
through the Internet.
A
Beginner's Guide to Effective E-mail
E-mail, as a form of communication, has its own characteristics.
For example, because the turnaround time can be so fast, email is more
conversational than traditional paper communications. This site offers
suggestions for effective e-mailing.
InternetBASICS
A compilation of "rules of etiquette on the 'Net" featuring the use
of e-mail.
E-Mail Etiquette
This document offers guidance and suggestions on e-mail etiquette.
Usenet Netiquette
A collection of documents for users to learn more about the accepted
"rules of the road" for using Usenet.
Newsgroup
FAQs and Netiquette
An introduction to Newsgroup Netiquette by way of presenting FAQs and
related links.
Hypertext
"A kind of document that contains links to other documents. Hypertext documents can be structured in many kinds of relationships, rather than in a restricting hierarchical order or menu. Hypertext is text that is not constrained by physical limits like printed text. On the Web, hypertext links (hyperlinks) allow connections to be made to files and information on many computers around the world. Hypertext is both the conceptual and technical foundation of the Web as a globally distributed system of information" (Irvine, 1997, Web Works).
An
Introduction to Hypertext
The University of Colorado at Denver's School of Education has compiled
the resources found at this site. Resources relating to hypertext
include history, theory, and educational applications.
Hypertext: What It's
All About
Let the "The Hypertext Desk" take you through an introduction to hypertext!
How Should
Hypertext Be Used in Education?
A collection of resources addressing various hypertext applications
in education.
Hypertext
in the Secondary School Classroom
The purpose of this document is to examine the benefits, issues, and
implications of hypertext usage in the secondary English classroom.
Hypertext '96
The on-line proceedings of the Seventh AMC
(Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Hypertext.
Hypermedia
"The method of linking and displaying computer files in more than one digital medium (text, audio, image or graphics, and video). Hypermedia expands the hypertext concept to embrace all digital media. The Web is a hypermedia system" (Irvine, 1997, Web Works).
(Please note that the term "multi-media", used in the strictest of senses,
refers to using, involving, or encompassing several media at the same time.
Some of the links below are for information or resources on hypermedia,
while others refer to multimedia.)
A Hypermedia
Timeline
This resource outlines significant events leading to how hypermedia
is presented today on the WWW.
Memex and Beyond
This web site represents a major research, educational, and collaborative
web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia.
Multimedia
Educational Materials
This website provides on-line information useful for developing courses
in multimedia.
The Banff Multimedia
Institute 1997
Astronomical Workshops, presented by the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Multimedia Research
A list of links devoted to research in multimedia that is on-going
at various sites throughout the world.
Index to Multimedia Information
Sources
A collection of links to the topic of multimedia, including FAQs, guides,
and tutorials.
CMC Information
Sources--John December
A series of links to computer-mediated communications (CMC) sites on
the WWW.
Computer
Conferencing on the Web (Discussion Forums and Groupware)
This site evaluates the use of different computer conferencing software
on the WWW.
FirstClass
Software
This York University WWW site allows you to download the different
versions of the FirstClass client software.
FirstClass
Tutorial
An on-line tutorial which outlines how to effectively use the FirstClass
computer conferencing software.
Interaction/IP
This site discusses the issue of creating interaction through the use
of CMC.
High
Bandwidth Web Page
This site provides links to sites that discuss the use of high band
width in telecommunications.
International Telecommunications Union
The ITU, headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization
within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom
networks and services. ITU activities include the coordination, development,
regulation and standardization of telecommunications and organization of
regional and world TELECOM events.
Telecommunications
Information
This site contains links to WWW sites which have useful information
on telecommunication networking (including high speed networks, ATM, ISDN,
Network Management, SNMP)
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library:
Communications
A vast series of links to sites that deal with networking issues in
telecommunications.
Apple
Web Design Guidelines
Apple Computer's on-line guide to Web design.
Building
Your Own Home Page
A step by step guide to build your own home page. Apple
Web Design Guidelines
Educational Web
Page Design
A collection of resources and links to help one build their first Web
Page.
EduWeb Homepage
An extensive and informative guide for educator's who are interested
in delivering their learning materials on the WWW.
Keys
to a Successful On-Line Project
A gopher site which outlines key issues which must be addressed in
order to develop and implement a successful on-line project.
Maricopa
Center for Learning and Instruction
One of the best on-line tutorials for learning how to write and use
the html language.
Project
Cool
A guide to applying some advanced HTML tools to your Web site.
The MoneyTree Software
Company
Web design guidelines and links by Rob McCormack
Weave A Web Page
An on-line course which deals with building Web pages. Lots of good
links for designing and developing your own Web pages.
WebCT - Tool for Publishing
Courses on the WWW
A tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated web-based educational
environments by educators with little or no technical expertise.
Web Style Guide
Sun Microsystems guide to Web style.
What Makes a Great
Web Site?
An overview to site design guidelines by Andrew King.
WWW
Course Development Research Page
This site provides information and connections to other sites that
will help one design and deliver a course over the World Wide Web(WWW).
World Wide Web Development
Course
An on-line course about developing and maintaining a Web site.
WWWDEV Listserv Home Page
This World Wide Web Courseware Developers Home Page contains information
of interest to people developing courseware that is to be delivered in
part or totally over the WWW (including a listserv).
Yale C/AIM
WWW Style Manual
A comprehensive on-line style manual for developing Web pages.
HTML Tutorials
HTML
Programming for Beginners
A tutorial designed to teach basic HTML programming skills to people
with little or no programming experience.
Teach
Me Frames
A tutorial to introduce "frames" to the neophyte.
Jay's guide
to F R A M E S
This guide presents the basics of frames.
Frames Tutorial
The best way to learn how to create frames is to make your own HTML
documents while proceeding through this tutorial.
Sharky's Netscape
Frames Tutorial
In five lessons, this tutorial will teach you everything you need to
know about frames to get them going on
your web site!
HTML Goodies - Frame
Tutorial
Learn how to get frames on your page, plus a few advanced commands
to manipulate the frames you get.
Global Education
A series of links about designing, developing, and coordinating on-line
student projects.
Global
Education Telecommunications Network
A paper (with hypertext links) on the criteria required for a successful
on-line project.
Educational Projects
An overview to the types of telecommunication projects taking place
in Montgomery County Public Schools in Virginia.
How Teachers
Find Projects - A Survey
A gopher site which summarizes a survey on how teachers go about finding
and developing on-line projects.
K-12 Projects Connecting
People, Classes, Educators
An extensive list of links about K to 12 on-line projects.
Learning Link 2.0:
A series of links to educational telecommunication projects.
NASA Live Internet
Course Offered
NASA and the University of North Dakota are collaborating to offer
a computerized course in 'telerobotics' -- enabling students to attend
virtual classrooms on the Internet and to earn college credit. Telerobotics
is the operation and control of a robot at some distance from the workplace.
NEA:
The Road Ahead Program
The National Education Association's professional development program
to enhance the use of telecommunications in the American education system
(Note: This program is funded by Bill Gates and Microsoft as a tie in to
his book The Road Ahead.
Rescol Canadien - Canada's
SchoolNet
Industry Canada's "official" K-12 on-line project site.
TeleEducation New Brunswick
NB TeleEducation assists in the the delivery of distance education
courses in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
The
NODE: Ontario's Network for Learning
The Northern Ontario Distance Education Web site, featuring examples
of on-line projects.
Use
of Telecommunications in Education
A vast list of links to K-12 on-line education projects.
Using
the World Wide Web to Build Learning Communities in K-12
An on-line paper discussing how the WWW can be used to build K-12 Learning
Communities.
Welcome To Bay Link
A series of links to lesson plans and on-line project ideas.
Effective
Use Of The Web For Education
An on-line workshop framework for exploring the effective use of the
WWW for education.
Evaluation
for Distance Educators
An extensive paper (with links) on how to evaluate distance education
experiences.
Evaluating
Internet Based Information
An on-line course framework with several links and assignments on developing
an evaluation framework for Web sites.
On-Line
Class Evaluation
A hypertext reference list with regards to the evaluation of the use
of technology in education.
Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources
An evaluation framework developed by the UCLA Library for evaluating
Web sites.
Welcome to the Site Feedback
Form!
The Site Feedback Form is designed by the National School Network Testbed
to help educators colleagues review educationally useful Web sites.
What
Does Research Say About Assessment?
An on-line paper which discusses the issue of assessment and evaluation
in education. A great overview to this topic.
The Computer
Delusion
This on-line paper offers a critical examination of the goal of "computers
in every classroom".
Reinventing
Schools: The Future is Now
A publication from the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy
of Engineering.
A
National Study of the Education Uses of Telecommunications Technology in
American Colleges and Universities: Uses
Executive summary of the educational uses of telecommunications in
American College and Universities.
AusWeb96
Education Managing Online Learning
An on-line paper which discusses the issues of managing on-line learning.
Did
Anybody Learn Anything?
An on-line paper about whether technology does indeed enhance learning.
The
Impact of Telecommunications Education
An on-line paper which details the impact that telecommunications has
had on education.
Educom
Review: Teaching and Learning Index
A list of hypertext linked articles from Educom Review, sorted alphabetically
by author, that pertain to Teaching & Learning issues.
Evaluating
the Impact of Technology: The Less Simple Answer
An on-line paper which outlines why it is so difficult to evaluate
the impact of technology on education.
Impact
of Telecommunications on Education
A paper discussing the impact of telecommunications in education.
Internet, Telecommunications,
and Education
The November/December 1995 issue of Syllabus which deals with
the use of the Internet and telecommunications in education.
Intranets: Readings
and Resources
A series of links to readings and resources about the use of Intranets.
Journals
for Distance Education
A list of Distance Education journals that has been put together by
The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL). Note: The majority
of these journals are off-line.
Making the Web Your
Own While Making Your Own Web
A paper dealing with a conceptual context and practical process for
effective use of the World Wide Web in classrooms.
Mindweave
Links to a series of papers that deal with issues related to the use
of computer mediated communication in education.
New Tools for Teaching
An on-line paper by James J. O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania
which outlines various strategies for using the Internet as a teaching
tool.
On-line Learning and
Teaching in an Information-Rich Context
A paper by Philippe Duchastel on the potential for developing new teaching
models based around on-line learning and teaching in an information-rich
context
Plugging
In
A paper about the effective use of technology in education.
Resources
for Distance Education
A list of distance education resources maintained by Professor Charles
Darling of Capital Community-Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut.
The Future of
Networking Technologies for Learning
A series of papers that discuss the future use of telecommunications
in education.
Using
Telecommunications and the Internet for Education
A paper questioning how the quality of information and interaction
can be ensured for education when using the Internet.
Virtual
Classroom[tm]
A series of links to papers by the New Jersey Institute of Technology
about the use of CMC and the Internet in classrooms.
On-Line Forums About the Use of Telecommunications
in Education
(NOTE: Please be aware that you must register as a participant
for any particular forum. Refer to registration instructions on a
given site.)
The Rise of the Net Generation
(N-Gen): Growing Up Digital
A selection of N-Gen and Grown-Up forums on issues dealing with the
Net Generation and education.
The Chat Room
An introduction to "chats" for the newbie.
Journal of Interactive Media in
Education
An on-line journal devoted to issues associated with interactive media
use in educational contexts.
Boardwatch Magazine
An on-line guide to Internet Access and the World Wide Web
Computer Mediated
Communication Magazine
Reports about people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices,
study, and applications related to human communication and interaction
in online environments.
EDUCOM: Transforming Education Through
Information Technology
On-line articles and papers about the use of information technology
to transform education.
Electronic School
An on-line magazine with articles about enhancing student learning
through the use of technology.
From Now On - The Educational Technology
Journal
An on-line journal devoted to the use of technology in education.
Hot Wired Magazine
An on-line magazine about the newest WWW and Internet developments.
Mediated Learning Review
An electronic review providing the latest information on research findings
and innovations in Mediated Learning.
Mining the Internet
Monthly on-line commentary about the effective use of the Internet
in the classroom.
NetscapeWorld
A monthly on-line journal by Netscape with articles about new
product and application features for the WWW.
Online
Educator: Welcome
An on-line magazine dedicated to making the Internet an accessible,
useful classroom tool.
Science and Technology Review
A monthly review to highlight the Livermore Laboratory's scientific
and technological accomplishments
Syllabus
Web
A free service from Syllabus Press. This site contains useful
information on technologies used to enhance education.
Social Science
Computer Review
"The Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal
covering both social science instructional and research applications of
computing as well as social science research on societal impacts of information
technology."
The Common Gateway Interface
The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for external gateway
programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers.
This site presents resources to learn about CGI.
CGI Configuration
A collection of tutorials designed to create documents "on the fly"
with CGI scripting.
Java
Java HomePage
This site explains why Java technology is widely regarded as revolutionary.
(Java software works just about everywhere -- from the smallest devices
to supercomputers. Java technology components don't care what kind of computer,
phone, TV, or operating system they run on. They just work, on any kind
of compatible device that supports the Java platform.)
Sample
Java Applets
This site contains examples of Java applets. (All the samples
require Windows 95 and 32-bit Netscape 2, or Microsoft's Internet Explorer,
or newer.)
The
Java Tutorial
A practical, online guide to writing programs in the Java language.
FreeBird
Java Applets
A FREE Internet Resource Center!
Gamelan:
The Official Directory for Java
Gamelan is an index that organizes and focuses the growing world of
Java resources on the Internet.
Java Applets,
Applications and Syntax
This site compares a a detailed look at a primitive Java application
and a Java applet, then offers a closer look at the Java language.
The JAVA Repository
A resource collection for JAVA programmers.
Commission
of the European Communities
White Paper on growth, competitiveness, and employment - The challenge
and ways forward into the 21st century
The Institutions
of the European Union
Administered by common institutions, the Union is subject to democratic
control on two fronts: by the directly elected
European Parliament and by the national Parliaments which monitor their
governments' activities.
Introduction
to the Information Society the European Way
The site explores some of the technological, industrial and social
changes we are currently living, which are leading us inexorably towards
the Information Society.
The Information
Society
An excellent compilation of links outlining specifics about the Information
Society, including healthcare and education.
Towards
the Information Society
This paper outlines how information technologies and communication
are bringing about an industrial revolution based on information, on the
scale of that which rocked the 19th century.
Actions in the Information
Society
A collection of links that outline how the Information Society will
be brought about, these links include information about past G-7 initiatives
toward this end.
The Academic Network
on European Telecommunications (ANET)
This on-line paper describes the development of ANET.
OFTEL
The British Office of Telecommunciations (OFTEL) is the regulator –
or “watchdog” – for the UK telecoms industry.
European Commission
Directorate General XIII
This site provides links that describe Europe's goals for the future
of telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research.
German Ministry
of Post and Telecommunciations
This collection of sites, presented in German, outlines Germany's stance
on the future of telecommunications.
Irish Department
of Transportation, Energy & Telecommunications
This collection of links outlines the overall objective to ensure that
Ireland is recognised as having an outstanding communications sector capable
of competing in the global economy beyond the year 2000.
Workshop on The
Internet: Convergence and Self-Governance
Work on telecommunication policy and information services at the OECD
(Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry / Division for Information,
Computer and Communications Policy) is undertaken by the Committee for
Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) through its working
party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policy (TISP).
Federal Communications Commission
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the way our American neighbors
work, live and learn. It affected telephone service -- local and long distance,
cable programming and other video services, broadcast services and services
provided to schools.
Distance
Learning Resources
One of the most comprehensive set of links to distance learning resources
on the WWW.
Distance Learning Resource
Network
The goal of this website is to disseminate information from and for
educators, administrators, policymakers and parents interested in the effective
implementation of distance education.
Educational Sites
A series of links to sites that deal with the use of telecommunication
in education.
Electronic Sources:
APA Style of Citation
A guide to citing electronic sources in APA style.
Learning
Resources - Academic Technologies for Learning - University of Alberta
A series of links to learning resources on the WWW.
Telecommunications
in Education
A series of hypertext links to multimedia resources on the Internet.
Use
of Telecommunications in Education
A series of links to sites which relate to the use of the Internet
and the WWW in education. (Please scroll down the page to access
the list of links.)
Well Connected Educator
- Publishing Center and Forum
Teachers, administrators, parents and others write about educational
technology, join in conversations, and learn from one another.
World Wide
Web Virtual Library: Distance Education
An extremely comprehensive set of links to sites that discuss distance
education issues.
Digital Diploma
Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
This paper takes a critical look at technology in higher education.
Last revised on May 12, 1998 by Kevin John MacLeod.