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The SchoolTone Alliance The SchoolTone Alliance is a partnership of education service providers who offer web-based portals (providing packages of Internet content, software applications, and communication tools).
 
Sun Microsystems AWhite Paper titled http://www.schooltone.com/pressrelease/whitepaper.htm#The ASP Model This white paper, "Service Providers in Education" by Sun Microsystems, discusses using Education Service Providers as a buisness model for schools.
   
Blackboard.com Blackboard.com is a commercial service that provides course web site creation and hosting on Blackboard's servers, for individual instructors or entire campuses. Blackboard CourseInfoß offers a free sample; teachers can create a single course web site, and have Blackboard host it, for free. Blackboard.com offers examples of online course web sites created by individual instructors. Blackboard Campusß provides online web site creation and hosting of courses for entire campuses.
   
Classbuilder.com Free class management software for tracking attendance, determining grade curves, creating tests and more.
   
Knowledge Adventure Knowledge Adventure provides an archive of more than 500 activities and Internet-based lesson plans for K-12 classrooms. Educast is a free lesson plan software program, offered by Knowledge Adventure, that delivers lesson plans, education news, and internet resources via the Internet (note: a banner ad is displayed in the browser window).
   
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet The Yuckiest Site on the Internet is a site designed for students in grades 3-8 and K-12 that provides information on a variety of "gross" subjects involving biology, anatomy, and other science topics. The Teacher Center provides an overview for educators.
   
The Global Schoolhouse

The Global Schoolhouse provides resources for using the internet in classrooms including a tutorial on using the World Wide Web as a tool for student-centered project-based learning activities, articles about the impact of network-based learning, and discussion lists.

   
TeAch-nology.com TEACHERS: Get lesson plans,worksheets, make rubrics, use teacher tools, and a ton of other FREE resource from the Web Portal For Educators. www.teach-nology.com