Using Email to Mine the Web

Your email account can become your ticket to a wealth of web resources. Many educational websites offer free monthly newsletters. Others explore the web for you and send you the results. Three sites, in particular, can be an excellent source of information about new websites just perfect for educators.

Blue Web'N, sponsored by Pacific Bell, is an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added. You can get a list and description of these additions sent to you by signing up for free weekly updates!

Classroom Connect sponsors a wide variety of email lists that deliver news, discussions and resources to your email inbox. Library Hot Five brings you the best curriculum and lesson plan links from the Web organized around a timely topic. You can view the archives to see what topics have already been covered.

Kathy Schrock's Sites of the School Days introduces a new website every few days throughout the school year. While you can view the new site online, you can also have it delivered to your email inbox for easy viewing.

So send in your subscriptions and start finding the best of the web without ever leaving your email.