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
National LINCS
Recent additions to the LINCS 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
LINCS 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.
