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Education and Literacy
Last Updated: 12 March 2008
- Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies
- http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/
- E-learning web site authored by an e-learning professional; articles are useful – includes things from tools to strategies
- Center for Media Literacy
- http://www.medialit.org/
- Helps teachers use different types of media in the classroom; interested in students processing many types of media
- College and University Rankings
- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm
- Links to various college rankings; well-annotated
- Cyberschoolbus
- http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/
- Global teaching and learning projects from the UN -- geared towards forging cultural understanding in students; excellent world fact book
- Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site
- http://www.behavioradvisor.com
- Excellent site on classroom management produced by an educator; discusses real-life classroom issues
- ED.gov
- http://www.ed.gov
- General government information on everything educational -- from No Child Left Behind to student loans
- Education World
- http://www.education-world.com
- Information and professional development for individuals at all levels of education – administration and teachers
- Educator's Reference Desk
- http://www.eduref.org
- Includes lesson plans and links to sites offering information on various K-12 topics
- FREE: Federal Resources for Education Excellence
- http://www.ed.gov/free/
- Often entire lessons, broken down by topic; includes media; full-text searching available
- The Gateway to Educational Materials
- http://www.thegateway.org
- Searches can be limited by subject, K-college, free/fee and type of activity; includes collections, lesson plans, and media
- Humbul Humanities Hub
- http://www.humbul.ac.uk
- Divided into 16 searchable sections, site offers current humanities information on the Internet -- many primary sources
- International Reading Association
- http://www.reading.org
- Excellent site for all literacy educators; includes web resources: teaching tools
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
- Lesson plans, teacher helpers, and an excellent list of annotated links
- Literacy Web
- http://www.literacy.uconn.edu
- Literacy resources preschool-adult; links to support groups and teaching tactics
- Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education
- http://measuringup.highereducation.org/
- Collects college rating statistics and publishes common rankings; searchable
- MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- http://www.merlot.org/
- Clearing house for online course materials; community of online educators; materials are free, but membership is required if you want to contribute
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/
- Class materials from more than 1700 courses; includes syllabi, lecture notes, exams
- OER Commons
- http://www.OERCommons.org
- "Open Educational Resources," exhaustively annotated and rated list of links to educational materials
- PBS Teachersource
- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
- Extensive lesson plans that include objectives, national standards, procedures, materials and assessment ideas; also some professional development web resources
- Plagiarism
- http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism
- Sharon Stoerger's site exploring plagiarism -- includes policies, articles, case studies, detection tools
- Smithsonian Education
- http://www.smithsonianeducation.org
- Searched resources can be limited to lesson plans, field trips, web sites, publications and products and professional development
- Teachable Moment
- http://www.teachablemoment.org
- Teaching ideas and lesson plans for dealing with difficult current events and social conflict
- Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
- http://www.teachersdomain.org
- Free registration; offers multimedia from many public television partners
- Web Exhibits
- http://www.webexhitibs.org
- Web exhibits mostly on art, but also on daylight savings time and butter; click on "More Exhibits" to see van Gogh's letters
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