You can use the following sites to create your own web pages and activities without learning HTML or a web-authoring programs. On many of these sites, all you have to do is fill in a form. You don’t have to worry about putting them on a web server; the site provides the space for you.

http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/pages/infotech29_1.html
Article by Anne Clyde - from Teacher-Librarian magazine on Free Web pages for Librarians

www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/tour.html
Filamentality - This is a fill-in-the-blank web site that guides you through designing a web-based project that guides you through choosing a topic, locating Internet sites and posting it to the web.

http://www.myschoolonline.com/golocal/
My School Online – this site is sponsored by the learning Network

http://schoolnotes.com
School Notes – you can create very wimple web pages using a fill-in-the blanks forms

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/HWCDA/file?fileid=289149&flt=TH
Big chalk

 http://www.teachernet.com/htm/classroomsites.htm#
TeacherNet.

 http://www.mhln.com/
McGraw-Hill Learning Network – Click on teachers to set up a class account

 http://teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/index.htm
Scholastic Classroom Homepage

http://www.blackboard.com
BlackBoard.com – this site helps you to put your course online

Quiz and Puzzle Makers

http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/
Ed Tech Tools – this site can be used to create online quizzes

http://www.Funbrain.com
The Quiz Lab – this is another site where you can create online quizzes for your students; this site even grades the quizzes

http://school.discovery.com/ads/puzzlemaker/ad.html
PuzzleMaker – at this site sponsored by the Discovery School, you can create customized crossword puzzles, word searches, math puzzles and mazes

http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
Quiz Center - from Discovery School

HotLists are organized lists of web resources on a specific topic

http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
Track Star - teachers can create hotlists and post to the Track Star web site; easy to use

http://www.eduhound.com/hotlist/hotlisttutor.cfm
EduHound - this is another site where you can create hotlists and post them to their web site.

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/curriculum.htm
Curriculum Hotlists – by Jerri C

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/hotlists.html
Franklin Institute - this Philadelphia museum has compiled a wonderful selection of hotlists for your content area

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Black History - this is a wonderful list of sites that you can use in your classes

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/#table
Blue Web'N - this site has the most comprehensive hotlists on the internet

http://www.unit5.org/cjhsimc/hotlists/hotlists.htm
Curriculum Hotlists

Treasure or Scavenger Hunts

Treasure Hunts are the electronic version of scavenger hunts; they are a collection of links that motivate student's interest in a specific topic. The teacher provides questions that students must answer about a topic and the websites where the answers can be found. Treasure Hunts are wonderful for providing students with background knowledge on a topic.

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml
Article - from Education World on Scavenger Hunts

http://db.education-world.com/perl/browse?cat_id=4450
Treasure Hunts - this sites offers a variety of treasure hunts for every subject area

http://www.museummania.com/treasure.htm
Museum Mania - treasure hunts for social studies

http://cyberbee.com/hunts.html
Cyberbee - Treasure hunts on elections science, language art, math and social studies

http://www.aea14.k12.ia.us/technology/ScavengerHunt.html
The Scavenger Hunt Page

http://www.montana.edu/4teachers/instcomp/hunts/treasurehunts.html#ART%20TOPICS
Exciting Internet Treasure Hunts – these treasure hunts include all areas of the curriculum and are teacher designed

http://www.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/scavenger.html
Scavenger Hunts

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/shunts.htm
Scavenger Hunts  - from WebTech 

Subject Samplers are organized around a main topic where students are given a small number of highly interactive web sites that acquaint them with the topic. The goal of the sampler is to motivate students to care about the subject.

http://www.nisd.net/holmesww/technology/integration/subj_samp/aesop/default.htm
A History of Aesop’s Fables

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/fleitas/sampler.html
Body System Subject Sample

http://www.eastpenn.k12.pa.us/eyer/aam/sampler.html
My Renaissance

http://www.northside.isd.tenet.edu/cmptecww/DeptWebSite/tiftech/samplers.htm
Subject Samplers from NISD Instructional Center – a variety of subject and grade levels

http://www.odu.edu/webroot/instr/ed/cfleener.nsf/pages/subjectsam_home
Subject Samplers -  created by graduate and undergraduate students

Web Quests are inquiry-oriented group activities where students use web resources to solve a problem.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month8/
Web Quests - this site from Disney Learning Partnerships provides an easy to understand explanation of web quests

http://www.iwebquest.com/
iWeb quest - this site features several web quests including Explorations, OceanQuest, Ancient Egypt Quest, A Pollution Adventure and Medieval Storytelling

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.htm
Web Quest Collection – Bernie Dodge has made your work easy for you by posting to the official Web Quest page the best quests on the Internet This is the site that started it all.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/webquests/directory_of_webquests.html
Web Quests from the University of Virginia – these are organized by grade level and include the subject areas of language arts, social studies, science and math

http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bookweek/web-quests.htm
Literary Web quests – this collection is organized around literary themes and novels

http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM99/
Math Web quests

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/nonprofit/cuela/wq.html - CSULA - this is a listing of web quests found on the Internet

http://www.ozline.com/learning/index.htm
Ozline Magazine – this site is a treasure trove of information on web quests

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