| General Education Resources | Description | |
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In the webliographies below  |
while a star  indicates
a CHOICE Highly Recommended site |
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| Link to Selected Dunagan Library Social Science Databases and Full-text Materials | ||
| Educator's Reference Desk |
includes some of the resources from the former AskERIC website |
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| 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 | |
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| Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character | some features require FlashPlayer |
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| 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 |
U. Illinois-Urbana Champaign; essentially an online bibliography that
links users to a variety of web sites featuring all kinds of ratings |
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| Columbia Education Center | especially useful for student teachers | |
| Connexions: Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities | 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 |
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| ED.gov | |
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| Education of At-Risk Students | ||
| Education index from CollegeView.com | An annotated guide to education-related sites on the Web, sorted by subject and lifestage | |
| Education Statistics Annual Reports | formerly, Education Statistics at a Glance | |
| Education Week and | EdWeek: Research News | |
| Education World: Where Educators go to Learn | a rich Web portal for K-16 educators, students & parents |
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| EDUCAUSE | ||
| Encyclopedia of Educational Technology | |
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| Encyclopedia of Psychology | |
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| English as a Second Language | a gateway | |
| Environmental Literacy Council | |
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| ESL Resources Organized by Topic | Center for Applied Linguistics | |
| Eurydice: The Information Network on Education in Europe | ||
| FREE--Federal Resources for Educational Excellence | |
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| Institute for Urban and Minority Education | Columbia Teacher's College |
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| 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 | University of Connecticut |
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| MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching | |
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| 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 | NCSALL |
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| National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science | SUNY-Buffalo
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| 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 | |
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| NSDL: National Science Digital Library | |
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| Nutrition.gov | includes a section on healthy eating for children | |
| Open Yale Courses | |
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| 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: | An educational community to connect teachers from every level
K-16...and beyond |
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| 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 Resources | Description | |
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| Armadillo's WWW Server | archived | |
| 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 | |
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| Behavior Advisor or Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site | |
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| Child Care & Early Education Research Connections | |
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| Children Now | ||
| Center for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching | a UK-based site, has many lesson plans |
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| Computer-Using Educators | very comprehensive | |
| Community Learning Network | curricular resources, school home pages, more | |
| Digital Video Library | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
Videos to Enhance Understanding and Teaching K-12 Learning Goals |
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| Doing What Works [in Education] | Research-based educational practice; a .gov site |
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| 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 |
a comprehensive menu of educational resources; some fee-based; site also
links to a directory of schools & classrooms that have active Web presences |
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| EXPLO.TV: Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium | The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception |
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| 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 | the premier site for useful links to literacy and related topics |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| The Literacy Web |
an extensive and excellent site providing information on "literacy best
practices", lesson plans, and so on |
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| National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science | SUNY-Buffalo |
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| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
subdivided into elementary, middle and high school, along with higher
education and professional development; more than 500 lesson plans |
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| National Geographic Sustainable Destinations Resource Center | rich and varied site focused on geotourism | |
| New Teachers Home Page | |
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| Plagiarism | Superior and well-organized |
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| SCORE: |
Schools of California On-line Resources for Education |
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| 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 | an essential site, supporting K-12 teachers and their students |
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| Six Steps to ELL Lesson Design | designed to help teachers adapt existing lessons or create new curriculum materials to meet the needs of non-English and limited-English students |
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| The Solutionsite.com |
offers teacher-generated lesson plans emphasizing active learning |
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| Smithsonian Education | ||
| Special Education | an IPL gateway | |
| Special Education Resources on the Internet | ||
| Teachable Moment | 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. |
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| Teacher's Domain: | Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development |
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| Teachnet.org |
A K-12 teacher's dream |
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| Teachers: Bringing the Power of Primary Sources into the Classroom | Library of Congress |
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| TechEdge / Ed Tech Article Archive | 1997-2008, articles include Mobile Digital Storytelling, Social Bookmarks 101,and Addressing CyberBullying in Schools | |
| Teaching Tolerance | |
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| 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 |
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... |
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| What To Expect Your First Year of Teaching | see also The Merrow Report: the First Year of Teaching from PBS | |
| Selected news media [.com] sites designed for use by K-12 classroom teachers. NYT and PBS provide lesson plans and other teaching aids. |
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| Section Updated: 15 July 2009 | Page Created: 10 January 2001 | |
| Children's Literature Resources | Description |
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| American Association of School Librarians | |
| Between the Lions | Won the 2001 Notable Children's Web Site award from the ALA |
| Bibliography of Children's LiteratureCriticism | 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 |
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 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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: 15 July 2009 | Page Created: 30 July 2005 |