If you are a teacher looking for quick and easy access to instructional materials, then you may want to check out this Web site. Trip1.org [http://www.trip1.org/] is a site created by a classroom teacher and technology specialist here in Laurel, MS. Mr. Jeff Davis first created the project to fulfill his graduation requirements for the Master’s of Science of Instructional Technology program at Southern Miss. The site continues to grow since then and contains many inks to different resources that both teachers and students can appreciate. The site serves as a “clearinghouse” to different Web sites categorized by different subject areas such as mathematics, science, and language arts. Once a person enters a subject area, he/she would see links to various Web sites containing instructional resources. A nice feature of the subject-area pages is Mr. Davis’ identification of grade level(s) that the site may be targeted to. For instance, if one teaches fourth grade math, Trip1.org tells the teacher which sites would be most appropriate to use. In addition, the site creator also provides personal comments concerning the site’s benefit and usefulness. Each site listed on the subject-area pages is numbered so that teachers using Trip1.org in the classroom can tell their students to go to a certain number on a page (e.g., under the Science area, go to site #18 to learn “how stuff works”) to access the information. Numbering the site links makes searching easier, because now students do not have to “hunt” for the links on the page. In addition to subject-area pages, Trip1.org has many links to other different instructional resources such as teacher utilities, homework helpers, kid-friendly search engines, and other popular instructional sites. Teachers have communicated to me the value and usefulness of this Web site in their classrooms, so I know that this place is certainly worth checking out. Among all the site links offered by Trip1.org, I am sure that you will be able to find one that you would like to travel to. Enjoy your trip online.


