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Education Internet Resources

General Education ResourcesDescription
In the webliographies below CHOICE Outstanding Site while a star blue star indicates a CHOICE Highly Recommended site
Link to Selected Dunagan Library Social Science Databases and Full-text Materials
Educator's Reference Desk CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  includes some of the resources from the former AskERIC website
Gateway to 21st Century Skills (GEM) sponsored by the National Education Association
 
A to Z Teacher Stuff Comprehensive, easy to navigate
AACTE: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  
AERA SIG: Open Access E-Journals in the Field of Education a list of nearly 100 journals with hot links
Autism Information Center CHOICE Highly Recommended Site
Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character star  some features require FlashPlayer
Center for Dewey Studies Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Center for Media Literacy  defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create mass communication in all forms; aimed at K-12
College and University Rankings CHOICE very good site  U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign; essentially an online bibliography that links users to a variety of web sites featuring all kinds of ratings
Columbia Education Center especially useful for student teachers
Connexions: Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities blue star a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
ED.gov CHOICE Outstanding site 
Education of At-Risk Students  
Education Statistics Annual Reports formerly, Education Statistics at a Glance
Education Week and EdWeek: Research News
Education World: Where Educators go to Learn  star  a rich Web portal for K-16 educators, students & parents
EDUCAUSE  
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology blue star 
Encyclopedia of Psychology  Choice Outstanding Web Site
English as a Second Language a gateway
Environmental Literacy Council blue star 
ESL Resources Organized by Topic Center for Applied Linguistics
Eurydice: The Information Network on Education in Europe  
FREE--Federal Resources for Educational Excellence star
Institute for Urban and Minority Education  star Columbia Teacher's College
Instructional Design.org  
Instructional Design Models U. Denver and of related interest   Tips for Rapid Instructional Design
ID: What is Instructional Design? University of Houston
Instructional Technology Teaching Ideas University of Tennessee
Internet Projects Registry part of Global School Net
LD Online  informative and easy to use
The Literacy Web  star University of Connecticut
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching  blue star 
MIT OpenCourseWare  Web-based electronic publishing initiative; goal is to provide free, searchable access to MIT's course materials
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning & Literacy  star NCSALL
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science  star SUNY-Buffalo
National Center for Early Development and Learning  addresses issues and research related to the cognitive, social & emotional development of children from birth through age eight.
National Educational Technology Standards Projects  
New Teachers Home Page  star
NSDL: National Science Digital Library  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site
Nutrition.gov includes a section on healthy eating for children
Open Yale Courses  star
The Pragmatism Cybrary  very comprehensive philosophy site [John Dewey]
Study Guides and Strategies  Although not directly concerned with teaching, the strategies and ideas on how to learn are very good
Teacher Lingo:  star An educational community to connect teachers from every level   K-16...and beyond
Teachers and Administrators  an IPL gateway
Theory Into Practice [TIP] TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
Texas Education Agency  
TEA : Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills : TEKS  
Texas State Board of Educator Certification Texas Educator Certification: About TExES/ExCET  
Texas School Libraries & Technology  
UK Education-line full-text access to reports, working papers, etc. that support educational research, policy & practice.
U.S. Department of Education: Topics from A to Z  
WWW World Lecture Hall  
K-12 Education ResourcesDescription
Armadillo's WWW Server 1993-1999; archived by Rice University, Houston because it was one of the first two K-12 educational web sites.
Art Education for Democratic Life The 2009 Lowenfeld Lecture by Olivia Gude; pdf file
Art Lesson Plans: K-12 a .com site, but many free materials
Arts in Education  Articles, recommended readings, links to other sites
Arts: 10 Lessons the Arts Teach by Eliot Eisner, from the National Art Education Association
BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources CHOICE Outstanding site 
Behavior Advisor or Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site CHOICE Outstanding site 
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections CHOICE Outstanding site 
Children Now  
Center for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching  star a UK-based site, has many lesson plans
Computer-Using Educators  very comprehensive
Community Learning Network  curricular resources, school home pages, more
Digital Video Library blue star Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Videos to Enhance Understanding and Teaching K-12 Learning Goals
Doing What Works [in Education] blue star Research-based educational practice; a .gov site
Early Childhood Education  an IPL gateway
edHelper.com  lesson plans, instructional materials; one of many helpful practitioner-oriented .com sites
EDSITEment NEH sponsored site with links to the "best humanities sites" and lessons plans
EduHound: Everything for Education K-12  Choice Outstanding web site  a comprehensive menu of educational resources; some fee-based; site also links to a directory of schools & classrooms that have active Web presences
EXPLO.TV: Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium  blue star The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
Great Web Sites for Kids  sponsored by the Assn of School Librarians and ALA
High School Ace: Academic Homepage  offers quality information in most subject areas to students and teachers grades 9-12
Frank Potter's Science Gems  K-12 lesson plans; K-16 science experiments and exercises
Internet Tools for Teachers  a few materials are fee-based only, but there is a rich array of free materials as well
International Reading Association  star  the premier site for useful links to literacy and related topics
Internet Tutorials * University of Albany Libraries  Basic Internet Research Guides
Internet Projects Registry  part of Global School Net a nonprofit educational organization with 70,000+ members; the aim is to provide a venue for students & teachers to exchange ideas & improve learning through collaborative online learning projects
Grantmaking at ED August 2005; this is the updated version of: What I Should Know About ED Grants Sept. 1998
Homework sites
Great Web Sites for Kids and KidsClick! are more highly rated than the other two sites
K-12 Education an IPL gateway
K-12 Environmental Education  
Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educator's an excellent guide in production since 1995
Landmark Project for Schools A site "dedicated to the idea that Information will be the raw material that drives the 21st century, and that today's students should be learning to BUILD with information."
Lesson Plans Library  CHOICE very good site
The Literacy Web  star  an extensive and excellent site providing information on "literacy best practices", lesson plans, and so on
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science  blue star  SUNY-Buffalo
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics  CHOICE Outstanding site  subdivided into elementary, middle and high school, along with higher education and professional development; more than 500 lesson plans
National Geographic Sustainable Destinations Resource Center rich and varied site focused on geotourism
New Teachers Home Page : Inspiring Teachers  blue star  see also New Teacher Center : Launching the Next Generation
Plagiarism  star  Superior and well-organized
SCORE:  star   Schools of California On-line Resources for Education
school-libraries.net  [The site author states that] School librarians are among the most active users of the Internet and World Wide Web. They are especially involved in bringing these resources to their students and staff. The following is a collection of Web Pages created or maintained by school librarians. Expanded to include world-wide links; selected as one of the Best Sites for Librarians by The School Library Journal
A .com site with a similar approach to the site above is Resources for School Librarians
School Psychology Resources Online  
Science Netlinks  star  an essential site, supporting K-12 teachers and their students
Six Steps to ELL Lesson Design  star  designed to help teachers adapt existing lessons or create new curriculum materials to meet the needs of non-English and limited-English students
The Solutionsite.com  Choice Outstanding Web Site  offers teacher-generated lesson plans emphasizing active learning
Smithsonian Education  
Special Education an IPL gateway
Special Education Resources on the Internet  
Teachable Moment  star  an elegant, easy-to-use site; its purpose is to offer timely teaching ideas, lesson plans, essays for discussion, and suggestions for guiding young people as they deal with social conflict in the world.
Teacher's Domain:  star  Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development
Teachnet.org  Choice Outstanding web site  A K-12 teacher's dream
Teachers: Bringing the Power of Primary Sources into the Classroom  CHOICE Outstanding site  Library of Congress
TechEdge / Ed Tech Article Archive 1997-2008, articles include Mobile Digital Storytelling, Social Bookmarks 101,and Addressing CyberBullying in Schools
Teaching Tolerance  star
Thinkfinity (formerly MarcoPolo) major subdivisions are Adult & Family Literacy, Arts & Culture, Economics, Geography, History & Social Studies, Literature, Mathematics, Reading & Language Arts, and Science. Now supported by the Verizon Foundation.
Tim van Gelder's Critical Thinking on the Web  treats the critical thinking movement in education
Vocational Information Center  
Web English Teacher  CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  a review stated: English teacher Carla Beard, who created this Web site, tells users to "think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale." Because it is so focused, this site offers comprehensiveness and depth of materials that most English teachers will find helpful. The site is mostly geared toward middle and high school levels...
What To Expect Your First Year of Teaching (archived) see also Phases of First Year Teaching  an article written by Ellen Moir and first published for the California New Teacher Project
   
Selected news media [.com] sites designed for use by K-12 classroom teachers. NYT and PBS provide lesson plans and other teaching aids.
Section Updated: 10 February 2010 Page Created: 10 January 2001
Children's Literature ResourcesDescription
American Association of School Librarians  
An Annotated Bibliography of Children's Literature with Environmental Themes  
Between the Lions Won the 2001 Notable Children's Web Site award from the ALA
Bibliography of Children's Literature Criticism Third edition, University of Winnipeg
Caldecott Medal Home Page ALA; Association for Library Services to Children
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College  
Children's Literature Association Children's Book Council Online
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database access restricted to UTPB currently enrolled students
CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center   CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site  One reviewer described the site as Current, varied, and of high quality, CCBC is a site to visit regularly Funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site  CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site Hurst's site offers a wealth of helpful information for elementary teachers and their students, including how to bring literature into the classroom and how literature can easily be incorporated into other subject areas such as science and mathematics. This site is huge, itself presenting an enormous amount of material as well as linking to other sites.
Children's Literature Web Guide   CHOICE Outstanding Web Site  Dr. D. K. Brown, University of Calgary authors this site; its goal is to use electronic resources to further the reading of books. With more than a million visitors to the page since April 1998, he seems to be succeeding. Features include What's New!, What We're Reading: Commentary on Children's Books, and Web-Traveler's Toolkit: Essential Kid Lit Websites.
Coretta Scott King Award American Library Association
International Children's Digital Library an ambitious effort to digitize children's books from around the world; currently about 400 titles; most titles are picture books; the search interface includes searches by title, author, illustrator, language, and publication date; one can also browse by language, title, author, category, or country of origin
Literature for Children provides access to over 550 high-quality digitized children's literature titles, 19th century to about 1950; exceptional color images combined with some unique titles make this a noteworthy resource for researchers.
Merrycoz.org: Works for Children, 1800-1872  CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site  The site offeres transcriptions and images from a variety of 19th-century children's books and magazines; Dr. Pat Pflieger (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) the site's author aruges that children's books and magazines from this period are important because they what 19th-century American citizens, voters, and politicians read in their most impressionable years This site offers far more commentary and contextual information about these publications than the similar areas on Project Gutenberg or the International Children's Digital Library.
Newbery Medal Home Page American Library Association
Once Upon a Time . . . A Children's Literature Web Site 1997-2007; archived and maintained by Dr. Mary Ellen Van Camp
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database has more than 80,000 entries articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews, and other materials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror; indexes both scholarly and fan writings, it covers all aspects of these genres except for book reviews. Not even the MLA Bibliography has coverage to match this index.
Social History of Children's Literature Rutgers University
Storytellers: Native American Authors Online  CHOICE Highly Recommended Academic Web Site  not specifically a children's literature site, the site contains a rich array of information on native american writers and storytellers
The History of Nursery Rhymes & Mother Goose a brief paper from Waterloo University, Canada The Mother Goose Pages: Nursery Rhymes a page based at the University of Michigan
World of Beatrix Potter 
aka Peter Rabbit.com page gives links to her early childhood sketches, come of her picture letters and information about her life
Aesop's Fables Online Collection  more than 655 fables; many now with Real Audio narrations
Selected Electronic Journals Off-campus access at Remote Access page
Project Muse provides access to numerous journals of interest to children's literature and education. Book History 1998-present; Childrens Literature 2003-present; Children's Literature Association Quarterly beginning in 2005; The High School Journal 2001-present; Libraries and the Cultural Record 2001-present; The Lion and the Unicorn 1995-present; Marvels and Tales 2001-present; Oral Tradition 2003-present; Tolkien Studies 2004-present
ProQuest Research Library  Provides access to The Horn Book 1992-present; Bookbird 1998-present; The Booklist 1997-present (ALA publication); Storyworks 1998- present. Related materials include: Writing 1998-present and The Writer 1988-present; Analog: Science Fiction & Fact 1998-present; Extrapolation 1997-present; Fantasy and Science Fiction 1998-present.
EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete   Provices access to Children and Libraries  2003-present;   Children's Literature in Education  1993-present;  The Explicator  1976-present;  Fabula  2003-present;   Library Media Connection 1989-present;   School Library Journal 1974-present;  Young Adult Library Services 2004-present  
EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete   Primarily reviews Book Links  1994-present, from ALA;   Booklist  2002-present, from ALA;  Library Journal 1976-present;   Kirkus Reviews 2001-present 
Author and Illustrator Sites
Authors and Illustrators on the Web at The Children's Literature Web Guide
Authors and Illustrators at the ALA, Association for Library Services to Children site
Writing and Illustration of Children's Books: A History: The Early Years reasonable brief history; Australian web site
Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors  an online exhibit from The Morgan Library and Museum
Fairrosa Cyber Library: Authors and Illustrators  
Meet Authors and Illustrators  
Section Updated: 10 February 2010 Page Created: 30 July 2005

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