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The following sites are the ones I have chosen to report on. Enjoy! http://homepage.eircom.net/~philosophy/index.html This site has many links to University departments, journals, articles and even has its own forum for discussing any issue that interests you. Examples would include the meaning of life, politics and religion. The type of conversation is through a message board. In order to join a discussion or propose a new one, simply click to the message board. Another person who visits the site can look in the Philosophy Discussion Centre and choose to debate on an issue of choice that is posted. The maker of the site is from an Irish background and states that the aim of his page is to provide access to high quality philosophical resources on the internet. He notes that the internet information may be “awash and mediocre and sometimes inane”. I decided to try looking at the message board. I saw myriad amounts of titles ranging from abortion, mercy killing, suicide to marriage and love. All of these messages were all current in the year 2000. The Author explains his dedication to philosophy and teaches you how to get a successful web search for any topic of choice. The author is nice enough to list a glossary of new and old philosophers according to discipline. Everything is done for you. This page is like a huge database of information for the philosophical guru. This site is a must for teachers, professors and students in high school and college. Upon completion of the above site, I found a philosophy search engine called Noesis Philosophy Search Engine and came to another site that is geared for students and professors also. The home page has a dictionary, study guide, timeline and a contents section of papers and essays on philosophy, (hopefully used for reference and not plagiarism). This site offers helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition. The elements you will find on this site include: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names, History of Western Philosophy, from antiquity to the present, A generic study guide for students of philosophy and Recommendation of a few useful Sites for locating philosophy on the Internet. The author of the site highly recommends students taking information from his page and states that they are his motivation fir the creation of the page, but strongly suggests citations. Questions, comments, and suggestions may be sent to: gkemerling@philosophypages.com. Ehtics Updates is a personal web page designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics. The site is introduces by a multimedia clip of the author at his desk thanking you for entering the site. The site is loaded with more discussion forums and has everything from ethical theory to applied ethics. You may submit your own works, papers or arguments to the author, from an email link, and it would be reviewed and published on his site. This would be a great motivator to write a paper and do well on it. W3P4C Philosophy for Children on the World Wide Web This site offers an unlimited amount of resources. I began by printing out the W3P4C sitemap. This helped me study how the site is desined. The three main headins are Inquiry, Community and Resources. Each section has its own type of graphic organizer and subheading are listed. Some examples mapped under Inquiry are events, conference and dialouge. Community listed associations/organizations, people, primary/elementary and Resources had an enormous amount of helpful information as well. This site derves people in many ways. There is a research forum for those involved in that aspect. You can contact peple thru email and it is ideal for teachers and students. There are resources pertaining to both including the opportunity to engage in discussions. This site is highly recommended. http://owl.infosys.utas.edu.au/teaparty/ I was able to search this site from W3P4C. This site offers philosophical stories to read and think about. A Word From the Dormouse, Nathan’s Tea Party and Pizza Dreams were the three discussion tables one could join. I printed and read pizza dreams by Judy Keen. Following the story, questions about control, dreams “stories and imagination” and existence were listed. The purpose of these questions are to make you think and the site encourages you to talk to your friends about them. You can simply “click” to join a discussion. I think this site is worth the time it takes to view. I liked the fact that it was so interactive. The questions that are provided really helps the viewer organize their thoughts. Teachers should view this site for useful questions to utilize in the classroom setting. http://www.inet.hnet.es/fon-argentina/ Due to my limited spanish skills, this website was a challenge! From what I could figure out, the site has information about its program and Matthew Lipman. There is also a book list which states what age it is best suited for. The web site has an address and a telephone/fax number useful for someone using the program. Journal 100 European children think together http://www.xs4all.n1/~krant100/engels/eindex.html The first three pages I printed from this site, I found to be very informative to an individual who is exploring the world of philosophy and for someone who would like to add it to his or her primary educational program. The first heading is, “What is philosophy for children?” It goes on to explain that “doing philosophy with children is thinking together”. It points out that children do NOT have to be capable of learning the thoughts of famous thinkers in order to think for themselves. This site goes on to explain that “philosophy for children is aimed at learning to express one’s own views of the world and to say why one’s thoughts are the way they actually are.” These are just a couple of examples as to why I think this site is valuable. It clearly explains that philosophy is appropriate at the primary level and children are capable of “doing philosophy.” I have taken your class, so I am now aware of that. I read this part of the site and it forced me to reflect back on our first assignment: to read a book and have a philosophical discussion. I thought this would not be possible with my first graders! I did not give my children enough credit. It turned out to be a very worthwhile discussion. This site is so beneficial to those who have the mind set I had before my classroom experience. This site can teach people who are not fortunate enough to learn what I did through a class on philosophy. This site is spreading the word that children can do it! I continued viewing this site and came across three short stories. The theme of these stories and discussion questions followed. The site discusses evaluation and process of evaluation. The information is very teacher friendly and thorough. Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education SAPERE is an educational charity based in the United Kingdom. SAPERE seeks to build on Lipman's work and promote his and other approaches to developing better reasoning, more reflective consideration of values and the development of communities of enquiry at all levels of education and in a wide variety of contexts. This web site is user friendly and is broken up into different categories. It is straight to the point. This site offers courses to be taken in the UK. These would be relevant to teachers, managers, advisers or lecturers concerned with quality of learning, moral reasoning, citizenship or critical thinking and English, PSME or RE specialists. All key stages are covered. Along with taking courses, SAPERE offers a membership online that provides materials, brochures, and newsletters. This site also has a discussion forum that is a great tool for discussion. I can’t emphasize the importance of these forums enough. Forums are the backbones of these philosophy web sites. There is a section in this site that enables teachers to ask advice on what they should do in classroom situations. Topics include how to evaluate and use philosophy in the classroom, raising levels of student thinking through philosophical enquiry, infant perceptions of 'good' reasoning and schools with alternative perspectives and teaching methods. Comments of any kind can be sent to any one of the people in the discussion groups or the author of the web page leaves his own address for email. This site is for the teacher and the professional. The page lets you know that it is updated almost daily and you don’t wait long for responses. http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sapere/Newswise/ NEWSWISE is an online educational resource based on topical news stories. It is designed to improve the literacy and thinking of children and young people aged between 8 to 18. This site also encourages thoughtful discussion and provides online forums Children are able to seek help from experienced teachers as well. The site is basically divided into two levels. One is for younger students (Junior Newswise) and the other for older students (Senior Newswise). Both versions are available and activities are suggested. There are stories listed that one could choose from. “Headlines” is an activity where the teacher reads a headline and the students guess what the story is about (prediction). Bare Bones is a sentence mix up. The students have to match the first part to the second part to make a sentence. This is a super activity for comprehension skills. This is a superb site for all. There is an enormous amount of discussion topics for teachers to choose from. Students can be involved in many ways. Their written work can be sent to the forum. I think this site is a wonderful tool for those involved in promoting philosophy in their classroom. In conclusion, I found this project to be extremely worthwhile. I am sure my research would have been more thorough and less time consuming if I had more experience with the internet. I was surprised to see how much these web sites offered. These sites are useful in many ways. Professionals in the field, teachers, students (both primary and secondary), can benefit from the online activities, resources and information that is available on the internet. Bibliography: Word Count: 1806
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