This award-winning site was launched on June 1, 1995 by Kathy Schrock. It originally started out as a subject-classified list of 400 links that would help educators find resources for inclusion in their curriculum. It now includes over 2600 annotated sites for educators. Late in 1998, it partnered with Discovery Channel School, the site of its present home.

Original content is also included to help teachers understand some of the basic Internet concepts. Some of these informative slide shows include :

Creating a Content-Rich Home Page for Your School

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/slides/slide1.html

WebQuests in Our Future : A Teacher's Role in Cyberspace

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html

The Mystery Solved : Differences Between Search Engines and Directories

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/mystery/mystery1.html

ABC's of Web Site Evaluation

http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows/abceval/frame0001.htm

Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning

http://kathyschrock.net/cooking/show/index.htm

Effective Search Strategies

http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows/searching/frame0001.htm

Another popular part of the site is the evaluation tools that can be used with students when critically evaluating a Web page. These are found at

http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Kathy Schrock is the Administrator for Technology for the Nauset Public Schools (Orleans, MA) and may be reached via e-mail at

kathy@kathyschrock.netor phone at 508-255-0016 x216.