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Bobby 3.2 is a "free service provided to web page authors to identify and repair barriers to access by individuals with disabilities." CyberBee: Web Construction contains a Guide for Making a School Home Page, a template, tips, and links to design tools. The information is easy to understand, and provides a basic overview of web page design for the school. From Now On: School Website Design contains articles on why you should have a school webpage and legal issues, as well as links to examples and resources. Elizabeth Miller: Web Page Design Resources contains a rationale for why teachers should create home pages, as well as links to examples of web pages, tutorials, templates, guides, guidelines, HTML, colour charts, and criteria for evaluation. The School Library Web Site: On the Information Highway or Stalled in the Carpark? (1999) Web Presentation to Support a Paper presented by L. Anne Clyde at the IASL/AASL Joint Conference. The site presents data on school library web sites as well as links for the presentation itself, and links to evaluation models in librarianship and in education. IASL Concord School Library Web Page Award gives you a chance to get some great ideas for your own page by looking at some award-winning sites. School Home Page Building Blocks provides a guide to building school home pages. It runs through the purpose, content, design, and organization of the page as well as providing resource links. If you are just getting started on your page, then this site is a very good but brief overview. SBC: Filamentality
is a fill-in-the-blank type of website that allows you to create
online learning activities. You are guided through the process
of selecting a topic and gathering sites. You have the options
of creating a hotlist, scrapbook, treasure hunt, or webquest.
Your learning activity will be stored on their site for 1 year
after which you will need to rebuild or update the activity in
order for it to remain active. Filamentality is a great place
for those new to creating online learning activities. School Library Journal Online: Site of the Month
TeleEducation NB:
Learning
on the Web by Michael Elliot and Rory McGreal (manual
on designing online courses), and Distance Education Resources:
K-12
Teacher which contains links in Distance Education and
Trends, Project Planning, E-learning Environments, Course Delivery,
Professional Development, The Reference Shelf, Online Discussions,
Instructional Design, Development, Toolbox, and Networking. Yale Style Manual is a fairly-detailed guide to web style. Its section headings are: Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation. This manual is more detailed than others I have listed on this site, but it is still fairly straightforward and should prove useful for slightly more advanced web design. These websites may contain some graphics that are not appropriate for students so you need to review the sites yourself before you pass them along to students. Although, I have reviewed these sites it is still recommended that you check the guidelines for use for each site before you use their graphics.11 Web has a free graphics section with animation, backgrounds, bullets, Christmas, etc. I especially liked some of their theme sets which I have used on this page before (Daisy Chain and Africana). ALA: Library Card Sign Up Month (September 2001) contains Arthur graphics relating to books and libraries. Andrew's GraphXKingdom has a nice collection of icons including books, computers, flags, food, Halloween, marine, medical, music, and more. Art
Today is the best clipart site I've found online. It is
a subscription site but they sometimes have free trials that you
can sign up for. They've got great school-related graphics as
well as literary, historical, animal, art graphics and more. Awesome Clipart for Kids is a clipart site suitable for kids. It contains among other things aliens, animals, Christmas, creatures, Halloween, icons, robots, skins, thanksgiving, toys, weather, and some nice background sets. Bridget McManus: School Series Clipart has a small number of colourful and fun images. Bibliographic Database Applications Standard Icon Set contains black and white icons. Clips Ahoy: School Clipart is just one section of clipart at Clips Ahoy. Some of the clipart in this section are apples, books/library, art, assignments, graduation, geography, history, math, and studying. ClipArt Gallery does not have a school clipart section, but they do have clipart in alphabets, animals, arts & entertainment, business, culture, design elements, electronics, government, holidays, house & home, internet & web, music, people, places, science & nature, sports, and travel. This page does contain animated clipart as well. Clipart Place contains 29 categories of small clipart. They are fairly simple and nice, and there is a Books category. Coop's Teacher Graphics contains 3 pages of cartoon-type graphics suitable for elementary schools. DiscoverySchool Clipart has a variety clipart for both students and teachers. D & W's Educational Clipart contains 10 pages of school-related clipart. Flaming Text: ClipArt has a good selection of icons and other clipart. Graduation Backgrounds and Borders basically has the cap and diploma but nice. Graphix by *snogirl has some really cute graphics and backgrounds that you can download. Check out the Back to School Graphics & Backgrounds page, it has a books background set which is really nice and promotes reading. Iconolog: Art of the Virtual Letter has a great collection of icons. However, there are a couple here that are not suitable for students so don't pass this link along to them. Index of Library Clipart 2 contains a small collection of library graphics. I would check out the acceptable use information on these graphics though because they are taken from other sites. ITD - IRAP Web Graphics
Archives: Books
contains book-related GIFs. Jo's World: Library page contains animated graphics in the following categories: Books, Guest Books, Globes, Paper E-mail, Print Media, Writing, Readers, and Stacks. There's a fairly good selection here of library-related graphics. Kansas City Metropolitan Library and Information Network: Library image collection contains 4 pages of library-related gifs. Kid's Domain: Clip Art Index contains a nice selection of "cute" clipart and icons as well as links to external sites. Library Graphics: A Collection of Book and Computer Images contains pages of images - some animated. Site is easy to navigate, and there's a good number of graphics here. Library
Media & PR has some great clipart as well as external
links to other websites. The "At The Library" clipart
is especially great. NVTech Clip Art: Education contains some nice jpeg images. Literacy contains images in Author's Works, Periodicals & Newspapers, Public Library, and Reading. I took a look through the Reading images, and they had some really nice ones of parents and grandparents of different racial backgrounds reading to children. You can find book images in School: School Objects and Supplies. All images have the NVTech credit on the bottom though but it's not too intrusive. Original Country Clipart by Lisa: School Graphics which contains apples, blackboards, art supplies, ruler, calculators, lockers, book ends, and ABC background. Kids Artwork and School Supplies Graphics contains a "Welcome to our school" banner, paint set background, and art supply clipart.School & Learning has several backgrounds and a few clipart images. School
Image Gallery from Hoxie
High School is the largest collection of school-related graphics
that I've found, and it really has everything (except backgrounds).
Students actually maintain the page, and there are 60+ pages of
graphics here of good quality. There are animated graphics, alphabets,
school subject headings, dividers, and more. The only drawback
of the site is that the graphics are not indexed so you'll have
to go through them page by page. Soo-Hyoung's Library Clipart contains the following clipart: books, reading, library, librarian, and computers. Teacher Files: Clipart contains a variety of educational clipart including icons, animals & nature, cartoons, students, math & science, etc. Teacher's Guide: Educational Graphics contains a variety of graphics taken from around the Internet. Teachnet: Free Education Clipart contains cartoon style graphics in the following categories: animals, food, holidays & seasonal, school mascots, school, recreation, and headers. UVic's
Language Teaching Clipart Library contains 3 000 images
that can be used to teach basic vocabulary. The clipart is nice
and simple, and there is a school category that has various library-related
clipart. Web Page Creation Graphics: Classroom Clipart contains some nice computer-generated clipart. Please report any dead links.
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