Best of Surfnetkids Resources

As I spent time planning for 2010, I also took time to look back over the fifty-one subjects I reviewed in 2009. I chose these five sites as representative of the best of the best. Keep in mind, unlike the …[Continue]

As 2007 drew to an end, I revisited dozens of sites to cull my favorites from the year’s selections and to ponder the state of the educational Internet. Eleven years into my columnist gig, I find it easy to overlook …[Continue]

As 2006 drew to a close, I took some time to review all the sites I recommended this year, and pick five favorites. Although TIME magazine highlighted the importance of user- contributed content in naming “You” Person of the Year, …[Continue]

It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for me to peruse my year’s work, and pick my favorite sites of 2005. As broadband connectivity has become more widespread, online multimedia has increased, and all of this year’s …[Continue]

I’ve been reviewing educational websites for eight years. Over that span of time, finding good topics to write about has gotten much easier, since the entire Web has grown so much. But true quality, in both content and design, is …[Continue]

Imagining that I was asked to create a virtual time capsule representative of the state of the educational Internet circa 2003, I chose the following five sites. I gleaned them from the hundreds of sites I reviewed this year, which …[Continue]

To sum up the year, I chose the following five sites (from the hundreds included in my column) as representative of the educational nature of the Internet circa 2002. They were chosen for the variety of their topics (biography, film, …[Continue]

Each year at this time, I pick five sites that best show off the Web’s ability to teach us something new. As always, choosing just five sites was tough. I like the following sites because of the range of their …[Continue]

Another year, another five thousand Web sites visited and considered. To sum up the year, I’ve chosen the following five sites (from the 255 sites that made it in my column) as representative of the educational nature of the Internet …[Continue]

Another year, another four thousand Web sites visited and considered. I’ve gleaned the following five sites (from the 255 sites that made it in my column this year) as representative of the educational nature of the Internet circa 1999. Not …[Continue]