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The American Library Association’s great sites
http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html The full title for this site is “700+ Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Colorful Websites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them.”…
PCWebopedia translates tech talk
http://www.pcwebopedia.com Technophobes, rejoice! This is the definitive spot on the web to learn everything you need to know about computer terms, systems, peripherals, and other…
CoSN site delivers membership news and more
http://www.cosn.org The Consortium for School Networking is a nonprofit organization created to further the use of telecommunications in K-12 education. Its web site gives you…
Got questions? AskERIC!
http://ericir.syr.edu AskERIC is a personalized internet service providing information and assistance to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents. It’s a division of the Educational Resources…
Educast lets you customize internet resources
http://www.educast.com Educast, an educational broadcast network, also delivers free personalized information to teachers and administrators using the internet. Its selling point is a feature through…
ASD school web sites face probe
The American School Directory (ASD) is under fire. The internet-based marketing operation sells magazine subscriptions on some 106,000 home pages bearing the names of…
Apple: An old friend shows signs of new life
Rumors of the demise of the school field’s traditional favorite computer maker apparently are greatly exaggerated, but so perhaps are reports that Apple Computer Inc. is out of the emergency…
$1.8 billion worth of computers could replace books for 4 million students
There’s a hot debate in Texas over whether to replace all school textbooks with laptop computers by the end of the millennium. The idea is…
Ongoing Grants
ClassLink Grants Sponsored by cell phone manufacturer Nokia and a consortium of cell phone service providers (organized by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association), this program gives cell phones and free calling…