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Ben Chodor and Jim Phelan

Ben Chodor and Jim Phelan of Stream57, Friends of TeachersCount
Stream57, an interactive video and streaming media productions company, is helping TeachersCount increase its web presence. Ben, the company’s President, has been an entrepreneurial pioneer in streaming media since the technology’s inception. Jim, the VP of Development, writes rich Internet applications and develops corporate communications solutions.

Best of the Web

Periodically we compile a list of the best of what the Internet has to offer to teachers—be that in the classroom or just in daily life. The current edition highlights global education resources. The sites are packed with interesting maps, statistics, and facts about the world we live in. If you would like to suggest a topic for a future edition of Best of the Web, please email us at info@teacherscount.org.

View the Best of the Web Archive for past resources, including lesson plans, employment listings, technology in the classroom, and many more.

Global Education

Coverdell WorldWise Schools
This program matches teachers (and their classrooms) with a Peace Corps member. Classrooms and teachers have a chance to learn all about a new and different culture through “eyes on the ground.”
Foreign Policy Association
This website is an information resource that offers in-depth analysis of foreign policy issues.
Global SchoolNet Foundation
Global SchoolNet combines smart teaching ideas with web publishing, video conferencing and other online tools that bridge geographic gaps, allowing young people around the world to learn together. It is a growing international network of 90,000+ online educators who engage in online project-based learning activities. Since its inception, Global SchoolNet has reached more than a million students from 45,000 schools across 194 countries.
Global Story Train
Start a story that travels around the world! Instructions on how to start a new “story train” are available on the website.
iEARN
Founded in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. Student- and teacher-prepared lesson plans are accompanied by exciting professional development opportunities.
Intercultural Email Classroom Connections
Three professors from St. Olaf College designed this site to enable international pen pal relationships between teachers and classrooms around the globe.
Kidlink
A resource page for children and educators, this site offers message boards and internationally themed education projects.
National Geographic
A trusted resource, National Geographic has a website full of lesson plans, maps, professional development resources, and a listing of current events.
NetAid
NetAid offers the World Schoolhouse, the Global Citizen Corps, and Global Action Awards. World Schoolhouse connects people to programs that work to ensure that the world’s most impoverished children go to school; the Global Citizen Corps helps students to raise awareness about poverty; and the Global Action Awards are given to students who have made notable contributions to the cause of eradicating poverty.
Outreach World
Download interdisciplinary, cross-regional and standard-specific units, lessons and instructional aids designed by teachers and scholars and tested by practicing primary and secondary school teachers affiliated with the National Resource Center network.
TeachGlobalEd.Net
This site is the product of collaborative efforts between departments at Ohio State University. The resources are approved for use by teachers in grades K-12.
The American Forum for Global Education
Driven by a desire to enhance knowledge of the world in America, this site offers free resources and serves as a forum for discussion.
The Global Education Project
Compiling fascinating facts about issues including geographic distribution of wealth, biotechnology, fishing and agriculture, and energy supply, this website offers a look at how the world’s resources and problems are spread around the globe.
United Nations CyberSchoolbus
This site boasts the Infonation page, which posts statistics and information about countries. The Model UN discussion section hosts dialogue between students from around the world. The Health Module allows students to converse with health experts, and the Schools Demining Schools section encourages students to help get rid of mines.