Literacy Links

Project-Based Learning

Suggested Web Sites

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

The Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsn.org/Web/
The Global Schoolhouse vision of the Internet in the classroom is based on a student-centered, project-based learning point of view. Teachers learn to use the Internet for "information gathering...to engage and challenge students to learn and to excel."

The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
WebQuest is designed to serve as a resource to teach using the Internet in the classroom. There are numerous examples and collections of materials for ideas and model when developing project-based learning activities using the Web to obtain information to create a final product.

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

Adult Literacy Resource Institute
http://alri.org/pubs.html
This Web site includes useful resources for teachers, such as the new Fabric of History Curriculum that looks at American history using the theme of clothing and fashion. Another link at this site is Web-based Lessons for Adult Literacy/Basic Skills/ESOL students written by teachers

The Key New Readers Newspaper Project
http://www.keynews.org/
This Web site is a service of Milwaukee Area Technical College. It provides easy reading for the new reader, beginning ESL student, Pre-GED students, and advanced ESL students. Topics include: Government, Consumer Affairs, Current Events, Education, Health, and Parenting.

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/index.html
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search. Currently there are approximately 2,000 Etexts (Electronic texts). This is a great Web site to help readers learn to love literature.

FUNDING

National Institute for Literacy
http://www.nifl.gov/
Recent additions to the NIFL Web site include a new fact sheet, Top Ten Things Businesses Can do to Support Literacy. Especially helpful to programs is the newly-updated Grants and Funding Sources page.

LEARNING DISABILTIES

LD Online: The Interactive Guide to Learning Disabilities
http://www.ldonline.org/
This site offers information and ideas about learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children.

WORKFORCE EDUCATION

NIFL Southern LINCS Workforce Education Special Collection
http://worklink.coe.utk.edu/home.htm
Southern LINCS provides links to workforce education resources and is being developed through the collaborative efforts of a consortium of fourteen southern states and regional partners including Texas.