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A TOPICAL WEBSITE REFERENCE DIRECTORY

Prepared by Joan B. Perry University of New Brunswick

for Course ED-3110 Methods & Strategies in Adult Education: An Introduction

CONTENTS

TOPIC: ADULT ED./LEARNING/LITERACY

TOPIC: COMPUTERS/INTERNET LEARNING

TOPIC: CONTINUING EDUCATION

TOPIC: ENGLISH

TOPIC: ESL

TOPIC: GED-PREPARATION

TOPIC: GREETING CARD/GRAPHICS SITES

TOPIC: JOB SEARCH

TOPIC: LITERACY GROUPS/ORGANIZATIONS

TOPIC: MATH

TOPIC: SCIENCE

TOPIC: SOCIAL STUDIES

TOPIC: SPECIAL NEEDS

TOPIC: TEACHING (PD & RESOURCES)

TOPIC: THEOLOGY

URL Address (http://) Name or Description Referred by

TOPIC: ADULT ED./LEARNING/LITERACY

www.nald.ca/clr/demyst/demyst.htm#table

Demystifying Adult Literacy(Facts & barriers; tutors & learners)

www.pbs.org/literacy/peer/peerhome.html

Peer Lit Instructional Website Links(adult learners; Online courses, GED content, workplace skills)

www.ed.psu.edu/isal/nfrm_pubs.html

Inst. for study of Adult Literacy

www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6124/ADULTED9.HTM

Internet & adult learners

www.nald.ca/newslet/raw/rawdescr.htm

RAW Newsletter (Down Under)

Terry Phillips

www.indwes.edu/courses/ced356/elkins.html

Adult Christian Ed.

www.ldpride.net/

LD Pride online (for those with learn.disabilities)

www.acq.osd.mil/dau/dauconf/cnwsdtls.html

DAU Synopses

http://Litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/seirtec/Seirtec1.htm

SEIRTEC Adult Literacy Policy paper (Interview questions & survey findings)

www.unevoc.de/congress/tables-e.htm

UNESCO Roundtables (Tech.& Voc. Ed.)

http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/introll.html

Learning to Learn (Think.& learn. skills) (Teaching those with learn. disabilities)

Linda Lewis

www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed360946.html

Educating P. T. Adult Learners in Transition (a research paper)

www.nu.edu/nuri/llconf/conf1995/thompson.html

Why do they all want A's (adult students)

http://web.nysed.gov/vesid/sped/trans/faqslist.htm

Transition (FAQ)

www.sc.edu/fye/

(Nat'l Resource Ctr.) First Yr. Experience & Students in Transition

www.outsider.co-uk.com/welcome/index.htm

Learning Styles ID (trial diagnostic screening)

www.pbs.org/als

Workplace skills/ Distance Learning

www.uts.edu.au/fac/edu/ravl/links.htm

Researching Adult & Vocational Learning

http://literacy.kent.edu/~nebraska/

Nebraska Inst. for study of adult literacy

www.filmwest.com/pairedreading

Paired reading for adults (video, manual & teaching technique resources)

Brenda Despres

www.schwablearning.org

Bridges to Learning(strategies for coping with reading problems)

Brenda Despres

www.si.edu/rif

Tips for getting kids to read(adaptable)

Brenda Despres

www.bookadventure.org

Reading Incentive Program Brenda Despres

www.bookitcanada.com/entry.html

Reading problems Brenda Despres

www.ldac-taac.ca/

Learning Disabilities Assoc. of Canada

Brenda Despres

ww2.statcan.ca/english/profil/

Education stats.(from census)

Literacy Connections

www.nald.ca/crd/start.htm

Directory of Can. Adult Literacy Research in English (Cdn. research in field from 1994)

NALD

www.trainingpost.org

Alpha Plus (literacy students site) (assisted free writing/ cloze procedure exercises)

Literacy Connections

www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/NCSWL/csw.homepage.html

Nat'l Ctr. for Study of Writing & Literacy (U.S.) (Reports, newsletter, video resources for teaching literacy)

www.scoe.otan.dni.us/teasers/olderadults/oasubjectteaser.html

OTAN Older Adult documents (Samples of course outlines, lesson plans, reference documents)


TOPIC: COMPUTERS/INTERNET LEARNING

www.slonet.org/global/education/web.html

How to use "web" in class (history, resource links)

www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html

Net: User Guidelines & Netiquette

www.accel.net/download/virus/

Download directory of Virus Scans

www.quia.com/tech.html

Quia! Technology activities (create-own Java games)

www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/default.htm

Complete Internet Guide & Web tutorial

www.aics.edu/

American Inst. for Computer Sciences(distance learn.)

www.nsn.org/wkkhome/adult/Netcards.htm

Net Cards (Internet experience for adult readers/ESL )

www.nald.ca/nald-nb/english/innosucc/facilit/ff.htm

Classified ads quiz of online newspaper

Terry Phillips

www.nald.ca/shouse/page9.html

Literacy software downloads & evaluations (Samaritan House training centre, Manitoba)

NALD

www.makeawebpage.com/webpages/CASP.html

Terry's Website for CASP Terry Phillips


TOPIC: CONTINUING EDUCATION

http://teleeducation.nb.ca/home/

Tele Education NB http://nbcc-correspondence.telecampus.com/

NBCC-Correspondence www.woodstock.nbcc.nb.ca

NBCC-Woodstock www.smythe.nbcc.nb.ca/Smythe

NBCC-Woodstock (Smythe St. ext.-F'ton)

www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb.html

Can. Educ. on Web www.planetpostcard.com/

Can. Univ. & College Programs (A2Z)

www.schoolfinder.com/index.htm

School Finder www.educating.net/

Continuing Education www.cicic.ca/postsec/volume2/index.stm

Postsecondary Educ. Systems in Canada

www.icaap.org/database/journals.html

CADE(distance education)


TOPIC: English

webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Grammar & writing www.educate.org.uk/

Educate children (word level resources)

Terry Phillips

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Create your own puzzles(words)

Linda Lewis

www.onelook.com

Dictionary work Terry Phillips

www.voycabulary.com/

Vocabulary/dictionary site Terry Phillips

www.grammarlady.com

Grammar Lady online (fun with language)

www.grammarbook.com/

The Blue book of Grammar & Punctuation (Jane Straus' easy-to-use ref. guide & workbook)

www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html

Common spelling errors in English

NALD

www.mit.edu/storyfun

Fill-in for story topic lines(parts of speech)

http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

A Word-a-day site http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Anagram-maker site bjkmarks

www.thesaurus.com/

Thesaurus www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Merriam-Webster dictionary www.rhlschool.com/english.htm

English Basics: worksheets www.quia.com/eng.html

English activities Terry Phillips

http://62.6.162.42/intro.html

An Elementary Grammar

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing

Guide to grammar & style http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html#Spelling

English exercises/quizzes/games (Spelling site)

Terry Phillips

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html

Fry's Readability Graph

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/

Writing den Linda Lewis

www.schoolbytes.com/plots.html

Plotbytes (Literature & Arts)

http://members.home.net/englishzone/grammar/grammar.html

Grammar Sonya (cmcasp)

www.englishpractice.com

Free lessons by e-mail Brenda Despres

www.brain-teaser.com

Brain teasers Lisa Kinney

http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml

Literary calendar (authors/quotes)

Saint John Learning Exchange

www.lib.unb.ca/z3950/nbls.html

NB Public Libraries Union Catalogue

www.informit.com

Library on line (access books)

Brenda Despres

www.thrall.org/loclib.htm

Library systems & sites Terry Phillips

www.nlc-bnc.ca/ehome.htm

Nat'l Library of Canada http://cela.albany.edu/

Ctr .on Eng. Learning & Achievement (CELA) (Teaching Lang.Arts/researches on curric.& assess.)

www.edunet.com/english/grammar

Anthony Hughes' Online Eng. Grammar (Spec. tutorials on bus.writing, grammar & punct., Parts of speech, *Alphabet in English with sound pronunciations)


TOPIC: ESL

www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6124/ADULTED9.HTM

English class in Hawaii (Pen-pal opportunity)

NALD

http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/theb/home.htm

Second Lang.Acquisition in Fr./Eng.

NALD

www.wfi.fr/volterre/

Eng./Fr. lang. resources NALD

www.dictionaries.travlang.com/

Translating dictionary Terry Phillips

www.tc.umn.edu/~babin005/esl/#list

ESL Link site NALD

www.sccd.ctc.edu/~ssesl/

Visiting the doctor (dialogues, language)

NALD

www.gl.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm

Eng .grammar links for ESL students

http://canadian-living-english.freeservers.com

Canadian Living English www.tesl.ca

TESL Canada http://members.aol.com/eslkathy/esl.htm

The ESL Centre www.cal.org/ncle/Esearch.htm

Nat'l Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (Adult ESL resources in ERIC system)

http://esl.about.com/education/esl/msub15.htm

ESL software (about.com)-resources to teach & learn ESL

www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar

ESL: The English Channel (theory & exercises in Business Eng. at lower-intermed. to upper & adv. Levels)- deals with reading, writing, speaking, listening, idioms, and grammar.


TOPIC: GED-PREPARATION

http://cite.telecampus.com/GED/index.html

CITE- GED Resources www.nald.ca/gedblue/default.htm

GED Front Page NALD

www.nald.ca/gedblue/nb.htm

GED-NB NALD

www.grammarbook.com/index.html

Jane Strauss: Grammar & Punctuation

http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/math/tests

Source Explorer Math Testing Ctr.

http://cite.telecampus.com/courses/ged1test.htm

How would you score on GED?

www.math.com

Algebra worksheet generator

Lisa Kinney

www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/gedscience.html

Online Text for GED-Sci .prep.

www.acenet.edu/calec/ged/science-A.html

Centre for Adult Learning Educ. Credentials (CALEC). GED Sci. test background


TOPIC: GREETING CARD/GRAPHICS SITES

www.bluemountain.com/index.html

Blue Mountain Arts www.zing.com/card/

Zing "photo" cards www.sendafriend.com/

Send A Friend http://greetings.emazing.com/

EMAZING greetings http://www.wotch.com/

WOTCH mini-cards http://ca.greetings.yahoo.com/browse/

Yahoo greetings www.123greetings.com/sendcard.html

123 Greetings www.expressit.com/110_Greetings/

3D Greeting cards (plug-in needed)

www.webplaces.com/search

ClipArt Searcher


TOPIC: JOB SEARCH

www.atlanticcanadacareers.com/

Atlantic Canada Job openings

NALD

www.brainstalent.com/

Job Recruitment agency(talent scout)

NALD

http://jobs.gc.ca/home_e.shtml

Public Service Commission jobs

http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/

HRD-C Job bank www.careermosaic.com/cm/cm1.html

Career Mosaic (posting resume/job search criteria)

www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ei/common/home.shtml

EIC website http://nbjobnet.gov.nb.ca/

NB Job Net www.joboptions.com/esp/plsql/espan_enter.espan_home

Job Options Job search www.nbclassified.com/

NB Newspapers Classified ads

www.worksitecanada.com/news

Can. Newspaper classified Job ads

www.ele-spe.org/ele-html/provResE.html

Electronic Labour exchange (skill checklist)

www.worksearch.gc.ca/

Worksearch (Links & tours to help you explore Career and work options)


TOPIC: LITERACY GROUPS/ORGANIZATIONS

www.nald.ca/llnb.htm

Laubach Literacy NB (LLNB)

www.nald.ca/ldanb.htm

Learning Disabilities Assoc. (LDANB)

www.gov.nb.ca/lnb-anb/abc.htm

Literacy NB Inc. (site being redesigned)

www.nald.ca/nbclhom.htm

NB Committee on Literacy www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/

Clear Lang.& Design (CLAD)

www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/MISC/literacy.html

Literacy @ Vancouver Public Library

www.trainingpost.org/

Training Post http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html

Western Pacific Literacy Network

www.nlhp.cpha.ca/

Nat'l Literacy & Health Program

www.nald.ca/jhsfred.htm

John Howard Society (F'ton) www.interdys.org/

Intl. Dyslexia Association www.frontiercollege.ca/

Frontier College (Helping Canada read)

www.literacy.ca

Movement for Can. Literacy www.literacy.ca/newslet/nov97/page6.htm

Literacy Bin (MCL's journal/newsltr./resources)

TOPIC: MATH

www.black-hole.com/users/rsch/indexnew.html

Basic Math (Gr.1-6) (BAU levels 1.3 to 1.8)

Terry Phillips

www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm

Math tables (any level) Terry Phillips

www.cod.edu/people/faculty/lawrence/romaindx.htm

Roman numerals/ number recognition

www.worksheetfactory.com/

(Choose Lite version) Free Math worksheet generator

NALD

www.rhlschool.com/computation/

Basic Math worksheets Terry Phillips

www.fairbanks.org/FairShare/CourseServer/courseserver.html

Math worksheets Linda Lewis

www.quia.com/mathjourney.html

Quia! Math Journey (game) NALD

www.bjpinchbeck.com

Math links Terry Phillips

www.littlejason.com/lemonade/start.html

Lemonade stand game www.educate.org.uk/lessons.htm

Educate children-Worksheets & Lesson plans

www.infinet.com/~baugust/worksheet.htm#Math

Math home-schooling site (forms, charts)

www.sssoftware.com/freeworksheets/index.html

Free worksheets for Whole Number Arithmetic

www.eduplace.com

Internet Math and English www.net1plus.com/users/devenslc/abeged.html

ABE/GED hands-on Math activities (Notation games/ Math bingo)

NALD

www.ampsc.com/~engage/js/CoinVocabPRE.html

Canadian coin vocabulary www.math.com

Algebra worksheets for GED-prep.

Lisa Kinney

www.library.thinkquest

Math for Morons Holly McLean (balccasp)


TOPIC: SCIENCE

www.windows.umich.edu/

Earth & Space Sci.(picnic on Mars!)

Terry Phillips

http://marslander.jpl.nasa.gov/

Mars Polar Lander Terry Phillips

www.siast.sk.ca/~science/

Acad. Prep. for Science NALD

http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html

The Heart: An Online exploration

NALD

http://www.boreal.com

Science materials & equipment order (Dist.12)

www.quia.com/bio.html

Biology activities www.quia.com/chem.html

Chemistry activities www.quia.com/sci.html

Science activities www.quia.com/astro.html

Astronomy activities www.infinet.com/~baugust/worksheets.htm#Misc

Home school's daily worksheets

www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/classroom/science/index.htm

Educate the Children worksheets in Science

www.britannica.com/

Britannica Encyclopaedia


TOPIC: SOCIAL STUDIES

www.tradeport.org/ts/countries

World geography of countries

Terry Phillips

www.HistoryChannel.com/

Past & Current History Terry Phillips

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/

Newspapers around the world

www.serbia-info.com/

Serbian newspaper-front page

Terry Phillips

www.gksoft.com/govt/en/ca.html

Amer. version of Can. govt depts.

Brenda Despres

www.mapresources.com

Maps on the web Brenda Despres

http://atl-canadacycling.com/tour05.html

Maps Brenda Despres

http://canada.gc.ca/canadiana/map_e.html

Maps Brenda Despres

http://GeoNames.NBCan.gc.ca/english/nunavut.html

Nunavut Brenda Despres

http://npc.nunavut.ca/eng/nunavut/

Nunavut site Terry Phillips

www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/schoolnet

Downloadable maps www.library.dal.ca/~science/cnmaplib.html

Canadian maps www.townsearch.com/canada2.htm

Can. town information http://atlas.gc.ca/english/quiz/index.html

Quiz & answer section on Canada

www.atlapedia.com/index.html

World countries' maps NALD

www.nationalgeographic.com

Nat'l Geog. maps/magazine site

NALD

www.canadiana.org/

Early Canadiana NALD

www.crk.umn.edu/technology/webtech/cameras.htm

Web Camera sites www.educate.org.uk/lessons.htm

History/Geog. resources (Educate children)

http://abcnews.go.com/

Current events/news Terry Phillips

www.quia.com/geo.html

Geography lessons www.britannica.com

Britannica encyclopaedia www.quia.com/hist.html

History lessons (American) www.gksoft.com/govt/en/ca.html

Gov'ts on WWW: Canada http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

Govt of Canada site (Can.) Brenda Despres

http://atlas.gc.ca/legacy/schoolnet/

Nat'l Atlas (Interactive learning about Canada & its Geography)

http://canada.kos.net?Welcome..html

Canajun Notebook(current events, favourite places, Weather watch, news & media, Canadiana)

www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.html

Newcomer's Intro. to Canada

www.downhomer.com

Newfoundland's downhomer magazine

www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/geography/index.html

CIA Kids Page: Geography Holly @ balccasp

www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/history.html

Today in History Saint John Learning Exchange

www.2learn.ca/mapset/mapset.html

Maps Saint John Learning Exchange

www.2learn.ca/mapset/Reference/Referencemenu.html

Reference sites Saint John Learning Exchange


TOPIC: SPECIAL NEEDS

http://dww.deafworldweb.org/pub/s/signlang.html

Sign Language Dictionary (for deaf)

www.croydon.gov.uk/skillsboost/dyslexia1.htm

Skillsboost. Offers "Am I dyslexic questions" For adults.

www.futurenet.com/charity/ado

Adult Dyslexia Organization (Dyslexia 2000)


TOPIC: TEACHING (PD & RESOURCES)

www.gov.nb.ca/education/index.htm

NB Dept. of Education http://language.ca/Main_En_/E_Benchmarks/e_benchmarks.html

Ctr. for Can. Lang. Benchmarks

www.teachers.nb.ca/nbta/index.html

NBTA www.tesl.ca/

TESL-Canada www.nald.ca/teslnb.htm

TESL-NB www.quia.com/

Quia-create your own learning activities (all subj.)

www.hsu.edu/faculty/worthf/hs.html

Home school resources www.iloveteaching.com/techlink/

Helpful sites for teachers http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Puzzle maker creations www.lrdc.edc.gov.ab.ca/scripts/cgiip.exe/default.html

Learning Resources Distributing Centre

www.cspinet.org/quiz/quiz_diet1.html

Rate your diet Quiz www.humberc.on.ca/~stuserv/stress/stress.htm

Anti-Stress Book (Humber College Counselling Dept.) Manage the stress of student life.

www.bjpinchbeck.com/

Homework Helper http://home.about.com/education/index.htm?PM=59_0204_T

Education sites (Adult ed.) www.educate.org.uk/lessons.htm

Educate the Children worksheets (all subjects)

www.infinet.com/~baugust/worksheets.htm#Misc

Home schooling worksheets

www.enneagram-edge.com/

Nat'l Educators Inst. @ Milton Academy (Transforming Teaching Workshops)

http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html

Personal word search/ lesson plans/Education links

Lisa Kinney

www.ets.org/aboutets/tsdirect/directry.html

Educational Testing Service Network

www.nald.ca/clr/demyst/demyst.htm#table

Various teaching resources Sonya Ctrl. Miramichi

www.statcan.ca

Teacher's Kit /'96 census results

Brenda Despres

www.itools.com/front.html

Search & reference site


TOPIC: THEOLOGY

www.breakthrough.net/brkthr.htm

Breakthrough Ministries (World Harvest)

www.ola.bc.ca/ices/

Intl. Credential Evaluation Service (ICES)

http://protestantism.about.com/

Christianity-Protestantism home page

www.indwes.edu/courses/ced356/elkins.html

Adult Christian Ed. www.botcw.com/index.shtml

Best of the Christian Web www.bible.org/

Biblical Studies foundation www.servehim.com/index.html

Christian start page (Serve Him)

www.wsbaptist.com/fsi

Fresh Sermon Illustrations www.sermons.org

Sermon Illustrations www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/classroom/re/index.htm

Educate children-Religious worksheets

www.voyageronline.net/~lmartin/PENT.HTM

Lee R. Martin's (Church of God minister) site on Pentecostal Theology (Biblical languages, text, hermeneutics, theology, and sermons.)

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