Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation
This website has detailed and practical information for graduate students preparing to work on a thesis or dissertation. Created by a Michigan State University professor, this guide presents strategies, suggestions, and advice on every stage of the project. It covers not only how to do the research, but also how to select a supportive committee, how to make a compelling presentation, and how to actually get the paper written. For additional help, the site has links to related resources.
http://www.msue.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/guide.htm

Comcast Online Schoolyard
This is a K-12 Web site featuring links to over 500 high-quality education sites on the Internet for students and educators. The site, enhanced with graphics, animation, video, and audio, is designed especially for the high-speed cable modem environment, but is available to all users of the Internet. The Online Schoolyard has a simple, easy-to-use design, and well-selected links to school subjects including Arts, English, Math, Science, Computers, Social Sciences, Physical Education, and much more. In addition, there is a helpful collection of references for educators.


Arty the Part Time Astronaut
This website gives a hint of some of the untapped possibilities of the World Wide Web for education and fun. Young astronomers can guide Arty and his alien friend Greg on an interactive adventure though the Solar System. You get in your space ship and click on a brightly-colored, orbiting model of the Solar System to select the planet of your destination. Once there, you get an animated closeup of the planet with some of its vital statistics. Later, in the games and activities section, you can test your knowledge of the Solar System, find out what your weight would be on other planets, and see how long it would take to get there. The site uses the Shockwave Flash 3 plug-in; however, there is a non-Shockwave version for slower browsers.
http://www.artyastro.com

MindReadr: The Education Internet Index
This comprehensive K-12 education website lists resources for students, parents, teachers, librarians, and administrators. The visual presentation is a collection of file folders that can be opened to explore each subject in depth. Teachers can find curricula, research materials, and lesson plans here. For students, there are places to look for study help, course enrichment, and lessons on various subjects. Parents will find health information, financial information, and college and career references, in addition to general parenting resources. Administrators will find links to educational institutions, grants, and government departments. There are also many links to libraries, directories, Web tools, and other reference sources.


The Office of Learning Technologies
This Canadian website embraces the use of technology in innovative learning opportunities. An extensive database here lists research projects; learning technologies programs worldwide; 250 organizations delivering or using learning technologies; 30,000 books, articles, reports, and periodicals; and over 400 electronic journals and documents. You can also find bibliographies, glossaries, news, and over 200 mailing lists you can join. The Learner's Corner lists educational institutions, online and distance courses, digital study resources, learning networks, and guides for distance learners. The Practitioner's Corner has references for teaching professionals, including courseware,Web-based instruction, Internet conferencing, multimedia, animation, and virtual reality. Look here also for online and on-site conferences, meetings, and workshops on learning technologies around the world. The website is in both English and French.
http://olt-bta.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca

Let's Go!: Around the World
This 500+ page site takes students on learning adventures to various regions of the globe, and provides teachers with pages linking site content to math, science and social studies curriculums. The site features language arts, music, video and over 100 color photos, each with a link to its own "Tell Me About It!" page providing fun facts and puzzlers. The children can visit an East African village and learn about African culture from African children tour guides, learn to speak over a million Swahili sentences, and read traditional African folk tales. Or they can visit the Amazon rain forest to meet exotic frogs and other animal friends. There are poems, activities like "guess the mystery animal," and a companion reader for students called The Culture Connection Newsletter. A free companion newsletter is available for teachers.
http://www.ccph.com/

Get Educated!
If you want to get an education while earning a living, or can't get to regular college classes, this website can offer a lot of help. The Adult Education and Distance Learner's Resource Center provides resources here which include The Distance Learning and Accreditation FAQ; a directory of colleges and graduate schools that offer online or other distance learning opportunities; a weekly syndicated column on distance learning; articles from publications; and The Virtual University Gazette, a free electronic newsletter. The Distance Learner's Hall of Fame has real-life success stories of people like the founders of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. The site is maintained by the authors of the book Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools: Earning Your Degree Without Leaving Home.
http://www.geteducated.com

Life Long Learning on the Web
These online self-study guides from the Central Institute of Technology cover a wide range of computing topics, provide comprehensive notes and interactive tests, and are mirrored in over 83 universities around the world. Courses currently available include 8051 Microcontrollers, 80x86 Assembler, Bus Systems, C Programming, Data Communications, Data Structures, Hardware Fundamentals, Hardware Systems, Introduction to the Internet, Internet Management, Javascript, operating systems, Networks and Netware, Pascal, Unix, Windows NT 4.0, WWW & HTML. The courses can be accessed online for free, or can be purchased on CD-ROM.
http://www.cit.ac.nz/smac/csware.htm

LD Pride Online
LD Pride Online is an online community for learning disabled youth and adults. This interactive site has live Java chat, a place for visitor comments, and a bulletin board. Find out about learning disabilities and how to tell if you have one. Join the discussion on how to increase LD Pride in the community. There are useful links here for learning disability, attention deficit disorder, and deaf resources.
http://www.byoc.com/homepage/137233/Ldpage1.htm

Tech-Link: Linking Students with Disabilities with Careers in Technology
Tech-Link is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce students with physical and sensory disabilities to careers in science, math, and technology. Founded in 1991 through a grant from Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation, Tech-Link introduces young people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal cord injury, visual impairment, and hearing loss to careers in high-tech fields. The organization provides middle and high school students with information, role models, and mentors, and creates learning opportunities through on-site visits to businesses and corporations. Matching students with professionals in one-on-one academic and social situations gives the students a chance to find out about specific careers. Observing a "day in the life" of a professional can provide a look at what goes on during a workday. Tech-Link's aim is to inspire students to live functional and independent lives. Tech-Link also keeps in touch with employment opportunities for students with disabilities, and sponsors awareness programs such as conferences, support groups, and an organization for parents.
http://www.lnt.com/tech-link/

Edo, Japan: A Virtual Tour
Edo was the ancient name for Tokyo. During the reign of the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's emperor reigned in secluded majesty at the imperial capital in Kyoto; however, the true center of power, government, economy, and social life was Edo, where the Shogun lived and ruled the country. Edo is more than a historical city; it has a romantic and symbolic image, representing the roots of Japanese culture and tradition. This website offers a multimedia tour through Edo, beautifully illustrated with ukiyoe graphics, and embellished with tales of tea houses and samurai. Visitors can get a lesson in Japanese history, tour a gallery of Japanese art, and consult the I Ching - an ancient Chinese oracle - for fun.


Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
This website was created by high school seniors in the Bronx, NY and Borlange, Sweden for the ThinkQuest Project, to explore the mystery behind the Mona Lisa smile. The student partners designed the site to be viewable with any browser, and accessible to the hearing impaired. It is available in frames and non-frames versions. The students created an animated morphing sequence to illustrate one theory about the origin of the Mona Lisa. Technical features of the site include HTML scripts, image mapping, multimedia sound, and animated graphics. Visitors to the site can create and send digital musical postcards in twelve languages, take an online interactive quiz with any browser, and discover a dozen da Vinci diversions. The site includes sound clips of some of Da Vinci's original music. Also, please sign their guestbook.
http://library.advanced.org/13681

The Princess America Project
This website and online newsletter follow the voyage of the 34-foot sailboat Princess America while reporting on marine, scientific and environmental issues. The Princess America Project is a learning adventure that inspires students to develop curiosity about the world around them, and to pursue an education which will launch them into a fulfilling career. Each newsletter includes a featured adventure, a question and answer section, and articles by students. As students follow the Princess America they examine subjects in science, geography, culture, and navigation as an interesting and practical way to learn math. Some of the adventures include students; for example, a group of high school students flew 35,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico in a NASA jet to conduct experiments in weightlessness. Other educational trips include a visit to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab where astronauts train underwater for the weightlessness of space; the rescue of dolphins by the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, the discovery and excavation of the 300-year-old La Salle shipwreck, efforts to save sea turtles, and the restoration of a World War II PT boat.


Private Art: WWII Letters To And From Home
This website shares a soldier's letters to and from the home front during World War II, during two and a half years in the United States Army in England, Normandy, and most of the European Theater. Rather than the adventures of a famous war leader, these letters tell the story of an ordinary soldier, Private Art Pranger of the 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion. The letters from relatives and friends show how devoted Americans were to their men in the military during the crisis. Visitors can experience the World War II era through photos, army pamphlets, RealAudio samples of 1940s Hit Parade music, and a great collection of World War II links.
http://www.private-art.com/

The Boomerang Box
In Washington State, home of this website, one out of every four people works in international trade in some way. More and more jobs all around the country relate to international trade. Here's an Internet resource to help students learn about world trade. The Boomerang Box is a 40-foot cargo container, painted by Seattle school children, that is traveling the Pacific Ocean carrying real cargo for real shipping line customers. Its travels are tracked on the website, and as students follow the route of the Boomerang Box they are introduced to geography, current international trade topics, and profiles of jobs that support international trade. Each week, students can log on to learn where the Boomerang Box is, what goods it is carrying, and where it is going next. The class can track the expedition on a map and learn about the country it is visiting, plus expore trade topics such as "Why are containers used?" The Boomerang Box features regular "people profiles" about jobs in international trade, some written by students. For teachers, the site provides study questions and projects to explore with the class, and guidelines for studying the math of international trade, including currency and conversions, prices of goods, the logistics of importing and exporting, NAFTA and other trade regulations. Schools can use the website to keep in touch with what other schools around the world are doing, and set up pen-pal relationships.
http://www.apl.com/boomerangbox

The Kids Food CyberClub
The Kids Food CyberClub is an educational website for third to fifth grade children with activities which teach kids about food, nutrition, and hunger. The webmasters have created a site which is visually appealing and truly makes learning fun. Children can explore 14 sections of the website and learn about nutrition and health through interactive quizzes, make food selections and receive feedback about the nutritional value of their choices, investigate and build the food guide pyramid, contribute recipes to a Clubhouse Cookbook, use Internet search engines in an online scavenger hunt, and contribute book reviews. The kids can also print out instructions for growing their own food indoors or outdoors, and learn about efforts to solve the problem of hunger. A teacher's guide on the site includes detailed lesson plans and suggestions for classroom activities. A parents' section offers parent-child activities to teach about nutrition and improve eating habits.
http://www.kidsfood.org

Explore the Sacred Sites
Since prehistoric times sacred places have exerted a mysterious attraction on people around the world. This website features photographs of such places as the Dome of the Rock, the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Angkor Wat, the Bodhi Tree, Stonehenge, Easter Island, the Basilica of St. Francis, and Mt. Olympus, with commentaries. The creator of the website, Martin Gray, is a photographer, anthropologist, and explorer specializing in the study of sacred places and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Gray spent fifteen years visiting and photographing more than 900 sacred sites in forty countries. Based upon academic knowledge and his own experiences, the author discusses pilgrimage places, sacred traditions, archaeoastronomy, ancient civilizations, and mythology. There are also many links to related WWW resources.
http://www.sacredsites.com

The Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
The University of Southern California's School of Education offers this excellent collection of annotated links on multilingual and multicultural education. This website is home to the nationally recognized Latino and Language Minority Teacher Projects. There are many links to full text articles, plus information on English as a second language, language policy and language rights, and Native American, Asian-American, and African-American resources. Look here also for news, a calendar of events, technology in education resources, teacher education and paraeducator resources, and addresses of professional organizations.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr

Take Your Children on the Internet Week
Take Your Children on the Internet (TYCOTI) Week is dedicated to getting children of all ages online. Activities include Build Your Own Home Page, an interactive story, World Wide Web Scavenger Hunts and Write Your Own Scary Story.
http://www.witi.org/TYCOTI/

Leonardo da Vinci - Scientist, Inventor, Artist
This website, a collaborative effort between USWeb Utopia and the Museum of Science Boston, captures the genius of the Renaissance man, with text, illustrations, and interactive audio and video. The site has four sections: The Inventor's Workshop, which gives students a chance to analyze Leonardo's gadgets and design their own; Leonardo's Perspective, which explores Renaissance techniques for representing three-dimensional perspective on paper; What, Where, When?, a brief biography with images; and Leonardo: Right to Left, which shows Leonardo's curious reverse left-handed writing. There are lesson plans and teachers' notes designed for grades four through eight, but the site could be interesting for anybody. The site presents Leonardo as a role model for applying the scientific method creatively in every aspect of l ife, including art and music. Although he is best known for his artwork, Leonardo conducted dozens of carefully designed experiments and created futuristic inventions in a time before modern science and invention had really begun. A map shows the regions of Italy where Leonardo lived; click on a region to learn about the inventions, experiments, and artworks he produced while there. And everyone will have fun with the portrait of Leonardo on the introductory page, watching his eyes follow the cursor (if you put the cursor on his nose, he becomes crosseyed).
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

Museum of the City of San Francisco
This engaging site covers all aspects of the history and culture of the colorful city of San Francisco, illustrated with photographs and other artwork. The site covers California's pre-European History, the rise of San Francisco from its origin as a Spanish garrison, the missions of the Spanish era, the Mexican governors of Alta California, the Gold Rush years, and the story of San Francisco up to the present day. Here visitors can read articles by Mark Twain, see photographs by Dorothea Lange, and learn about the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes and the Tong Wars of 1920s Chinatown. Find biographies, excerpts from old diaries, and genealogy data. Research San Francisco's landmarks, commerce, art, and educational institutions. Explore famous hotels of the city's past or make online reservations in modern hotels; learn the history of crime, vice and political corruption in the city; or take a trip to the world of '60s Haight-Ashbury, with psychedelic posters and rock concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium. Search the index by subject or by year. Look here also for the Museum's physical address and hours of operation.
http://www.sfmuseum.org