Resources for Teachers


Software | Elementary Keyboarding Information | Websites & Lesson Plans | Special Needs


Associations and Benchmarks 

http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp - U.S. Department of Education

This is the U.S. Department of Education site. The main page includes information about grants/contracts, financial aid, education resources, research statistics, and government policy. By clicking on the Information tab, users can obtain information for students, parents, teachers, principals, and administrators. Information is given about becoming a teacher and a survival guide for new teachers is included. Finding teaching opportunities, improving student performances, and professional development information is also given on this site.


http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/ - Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

This is the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s website and includes information about the operation of schools in Wisconsin, including administrative rules, educator licensing, jobs, news, statistics, and reports. Additional Wisconsin links are available on this site.


http://www.nbea.org - National Business Education Association (NBEA)

The National Business Education Association Online is a service for Business Education professionals to review and receive current information from NBEA. Information on conferences, workshops, and professional opportunities are given.


http://www.wbeaonline.org - Wisconsin Business Education Association (WBEA)

The Wisconsin Business Education Association lists on its website information about seminars and conventions, membership, scholarships and awards, and the WBE Journal Online. Users can also find out how to subscribe to the Business Education List Serve.

http://www.fbla-pbl.org - FBLA

The Future Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lambda combine on this website. Information is given about the national organization, membership, conferences, competitive events, and library resources. In addition, chapter news, current events, awards and recognition, and scholarship information is included. A message board is available for members.

http://www.deca.org - DECA

DECA is the national association for students in marketing, management, and entrepreneurship at the high school and college levels. This site gives information about the association, membership, conference schedules, scholarship opportunities, and much more.


http://www.ncrtec.org - North Central Regional Education Library

http://www.dike-newhartford.k12.ia.us/Resources/Edresources/teachref.html 

http://www.canby.k12.or.us/Technology/Curriculum/index.html 

http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/Classroom/itc/K5/tech%20curr/contents.html 

http://www.danenet.wicip.org/mmsd-it/sba.html#three

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Software

http://www.berniestypingtravels.com - Bernie's Typing Travels

http://www.swep.com/ - Southwestern Publishing

http://www.sra4kids.com - SRA Publishing

http://www.qwerty.com - Ainsworth Keyboard Trainer

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/home/ - Jump Start Typing

http://www.ingenuityworks.com - All the Right Type

http://www.broaderbund.com - This site offers many products for teaching elementary children

http://bytesoflearning.com - Bytes of Learning publishes Ultra Key, a keyboarding software package.

http://www.ingenuityworks.com - A demo of the keyboarding software package called "All The Right Type" is available on this site.

http://www.learningcompanyschool.com - This site is for all educators and offers educational software for K-12 schools.

http://www.mavisbeacon.com - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is the keyboarding software advertised on this site.

http://www.sunburst.com - Sunburst offers several software packages for teaching keyboarding to elementary students.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviewstyping/ - This site reviews several software packages.

http://www.uni.edu/profdev/elem/one/read1a.html - This site reviews several software packages.

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Elementary Keyboarding Information

All by Lloyd W. Bartholome – Elementary Keyboarding expert 

http://www.bus.usu.edu/bise/faculty/lwb/keyboard.pdf 

http://biseben.bus.usu.edu/wbea/papers/keyboarding/keyboarding.htm 

http://biseben.bus.usu.edu/wbite/papers/onlinetutor/index.html

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Teacher Information, Websites & Lesson Plans

http://www.edweek.org - Education Week on the Web

http://ww.edweek.org/tm/ - Teacher Magazine

http://school.aol.com - AOL @ School

http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp - Microsoft in Education

http://www.microsoft.com/teachnet/education/default.asp - Microsoft Technet for Education

http://www.angelfire.com/ks/tonyaskinner/keybrd.html 

http://school.discovery.com/teachers/ 

http://www.education-world.com 

http://www.teachbused.com/mainframe.htm 

http://www.knowledgematters.com 

http://www.iloveteaching.com 

http://www.eschoolhouse.com/main.cgi?screen=signout 

http://www.teachersfirst.com 

http://www.masterteacher.com/index.html 

http://www.schoolworld.asn.au

http://www.studyweb.com

http://msn.directhit.com/msn/search.php?cmd=qry&qry=elementary+keyboarding++

http://www.gp.k12.mi.us/ci/ce/computer/keyboarding.htm

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Educator Resources for Students with Special Needs 

http://www.cec.sped.org/ - Council for Exceptional Children

http://www.nichcy.org - National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities

http://www.seriweb.com - Special Education Resources on the Internet

http://fctd.ucp.org/fctd/talinkst.htm - Family Center on Technology and Disability

http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/e/resources.html - Special Needs Education project

http://www.3.ibm.com/able/guidelines.html - IBM's Accessibility Center

http://www.at-center.com/windows.html - Windows shareware and freeware for people with disabilities

Resources covering mental/psychological special needs:

http://www.idonline.org/ - Interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.

http://www.aacap.org/web/accap - American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/ - Lilly Walter's website on one hand typing and keyboarding.

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