| Title |
Description |
| Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts |
Site contains a catalog with roughly 2,000
links of e-texts, located on various servers. And has the additional
search ability to search for content phrases and convert documents
into PDF format. The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is
a collection of digital texts from American literature, English
literature, and Western philosophy. |
| American Library Association |
700+ SITES for CHILDREN covering Literature
and Language as compiled by the Children and Technology Committee
of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division
of the American Library Association. Includes digital books |
| Betts, J. and Loveless, T. (2005) Getting Choice Right:
Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy |
Public debate on school choice in the United States often
focuses on the elemental question of whether school choice
is "good" or "bad." But the reality is
that school choice is here to stay—and is likely to grow.
Getting Choice Right seeks to move the debate over school choice
beyond the issue of whether parents should be allowed to choose
a school for their children by examining the connections between
school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in education.
[Chapter
1]
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| Book Pop - Barely There |
Childrens' stories read in American English at regular speed.
See the text, too. |
| Digital Text Project |
Links to great books by Aristotle, Dante, Dewey, Plato, etc.
E-text source for academic texts and links to other digital
text projects. |
| Electronic Text Center |
This extensive project from the University of Virginia includes
many texts in the public domain."
The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately
45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages,
with more than 50,000 related images (book illustrations, covers,
manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections
books, museum objects, etc.)" Inlcludes Palm versions. |
| ESL Online Textbooks |
Links of Interest to Teachers and Students of English as
a Second Language |
| HELP Read™: the Freeware
Reader Project. |
HELP Read™ is FREE software that reads along with you
while you do the reading. Whether you’re younger or older,
new to reading or have your own library, HELP Read™ should
be able to help you read more and understand more of what you
read. |
| A
history of the personal computer: the people and the technology |
PDF version - also see National
Library of Canada - Electronic Edition |
| International Children's Digital Library |
The International Children's Digital Library
(ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National
Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library
Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research to create a digital
library of outstanding children's books from all over the world
from the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Internet Public Library |
Links to childrens and young adult works,
including picture books, short stories, myths and fables. Also
has links to online newspapers and magazines. |
| Making Science Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers |
This guidebook is for science teachers, particularly in upper elementary, middle school, and high school, who have ample knowledge of science standards and concepts, are comfortable with basic teaching and classroom management methodologies, but may have had limited preparation for teaching science in classrooms where at least some students are also English learners.- includes online chapters. |
| Moursund, D.G. (2006). Computers
in Education for Talented and Gifted Students: A Book for
Elementary and Middle School Teacher. |
This 116 page book explores various roles of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) in talented and gifted (TAG)
education |
| National Academy Press |
NAP's website allows you to search the fulltext
of their digitized books. NAP publishes books in the sciences,
engineering, and health. |
| On Evaluating
Curricular Effectiveness: Judging the Quality of K-12 Mathematics
Evaluations |
From the Mathematical Sciences Education Board |
| One more Story |
See sample
book link available for home subscription for $40/year. |
| The
Online Books Page |
The On-Line Books Page is a website that facilitates access
to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also
aims to encourage the development of such on-line books, for
the benefit and edification of all. Their index includes more
than 13,000 English works in various formats |
| Online Literature Library |
The site contains information about Authors Biography and their Literary works. |
| Open
Source Books |
by Moursund |
| Parent's Guide to Computers in Education |
The book is intended for parents of K-12 students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers. It consists of 19 short chapters, each ending with some specific advice to parents. The first chapter is the longest. It is 7 pages covering Threats and Opportunities. Most chapters are 4 pages in length, each covering a single topic. |
| Project Gutenberg |
Project Gutenberg is a large collection of public domain
texts. As the website explains: "We cannot publish any
texts still in copyright. This generally means that our texts
are taken from books published pre-1923... So you won't find
the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will
find the classic books from the start of this century and previous
centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well
as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by
Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others... Project Gutenberg
publishes an average of one e-text every day!" |
| Reading Online with English Dictionary |
Turns any Web page into an online reader. You can look up
any word with just a click. It underlines the words with frequency
between 7,000 and 20,000, the typical vocabulary gap between
ESL learners and native English speakers. |
| SearcheBooks |
SearcheBooks searches multiple fulltext book sites |
| Stiggins, R., Arter, J., Chappuis, J., & Chappuis, S.
(2004) Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it
right—using it well. Portland, Oregon: Assessment Training
Institute. [TOC
PDF] |
Retreived from: http://www.assessmentinst.com/cat_assets/pdf_toc/1.pdf,
January 28, 2006
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| Stone Soup Young Writers
Site |
Magazine by young writers and artists |
| Wiggleworks |
WiggleWorks was researched and designed in collaboration
with the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST). CAST
is an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology
to expand opportunities for all people, including those with
disabilities. CAST researchers have found that emerging readers
achieve more reading success if the literacy curriculum includes
flexible, universally designed multimedia tools and inclusion
strategies. |
