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 Lists of Educational Links |
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| MIT's OpenCourseWare | "A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world." Complete course materials from MIT in many subject areas, by top scholars. |
| Education Index | An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web |
| Scholars' Guide To WWW | Great resource for scholarly research on the Internet |
| Education World | Searchable education-oriented database of the web |
| LibrarySpot | Very large list of libraries and other reference sources |
| H-Net | Information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Voice of the Shuttle | Web Page for Humanities Research - extensive resource listing |
| Scout Project | "Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, reading hundreds of announcements each week looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community." |
| ERIC | "World's largest digital library of education literature" |
| LIBWEB | Links to over 1100 libraries in over 45 countries |
| Digital Librarian | A librarian's choice of the best of the web |
| Online Technology Journals Worldwide | Scholarly journals on many subjects |
| NewJour | List of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet. |
| Study Web | Search their collection of over 97,000 Research Quality URLs |
| On-line & Distance Learning Courses |
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| USDLA | United States Distance Learning Association |
| MIT's OpenCourseWare | "A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world" |
| free-ed.net | "Free online courses, tutorials, and study guides" |
| Distance Education Clearinghouse | Comprehensive distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources |
| WannaLearn | Links to "the best free, family-safe, online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented websites on the Net" |
| Yahoo's Links to Distance Learning Sites and Sources | Many links to online education |
| Learner Online | The Annenberg/CPB Project's Web Site for Learners and Educators |
| School for Champions | "Free online courses in success areas, as well as science, business, TQM, ISO 9000, writing, speaking, training, CBT, WBT, and web development(e.g., ColdFusion)." |
| Epistemology and Learning | "MIT Media Lab explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing" |
| World Lecture Hall | Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials |
| Blue Web'n Library | A library of Internet-based instruction |
| Virtual University | On-line courses via e-mail |
| Learning.Net | "A suite of knowledge communities offering continuing education, recurrent training and professional development" ... Membership is free, requires registration." |
| Children's & other Curious Persons' Links |
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| Cool Science for Curious Kids | "Butterflies don't look like caterpillars. What's the connection? " |
| FactMonster.com | "America's coolest news magazine for kids." Lots of puzzles, games and craft diversions. |
| Yak's Corner | "Largest free reference site just for kids! Get homework help & find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education and health.". |
| B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper | Over 240 research links |
| ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Library | "The library currently contains more than 5,000 web sites to search and surf. Built by kids for kids to use and learn." |
| find out why | Hands-on science activities |
| Kitchen Scientists | Links to sources for home science experiments |
| Exploratorium | Interactive science exhibits & experiments, more |
| A Maths Dictionary for Kids | "An animated, interactive maths dictionary for kids which explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language." |
| Discovery Channel Canada | The fun side of science |
| Science Experiments You Can Do | For the budding amateur scientist |
| The Thinking Fountain | A children's oriented science discovery site from the Science Museum of Minnesota, which is itself a wonderful site, with many more treasures to explore. |
| Yahooligans | Web Guide for kids |
| Book Reviews |
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| Amazon.com | Many useful reviews, both editorial and users contributed |
| Booknotes | A companion web site to C-SPAN's Sunday author interview series - has archived RealVideo versions of Booknotes interviews! |
| Book TV | Book TV on C-SPAN 2 - has archived RealPlayer versions of programming - excellent! |
| Guardian Book Reviews | Well executed reviews...ranks with NY Review of books in quality of original thought. |
| BookGuys.com | Real-audio archives of book reviews, interviews with authors. Overlook the poor page design...it has great content. |
| complete-review.com | Another example of poor page design, but it has links to 1200+ reviews. |
| Yahoo's List of Book Review Sites | A large list of specialized and general subject book reviews on the Internet |
| New York Times Review of Books | Requires free registration |
| New York Review of Books | Premier book review site |
| ForeWord Online | "Devoted to independent publishers, university press and independent booksellers." Selected reviews and articles from the current and previous issues. |
| American Library Association's Booklist | Reviews of the latest books and electronic media |
| Book Publishers/Sellers |
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| A1Books | Discounted books - 22% to 32% |
| AddALL.com | "Search and compare among 40+ sites, 20,000 sellers, millions of books" |
| Alibris.com | Connects to thousands of independent booksellers around the world. Over 30 million used, new and hard-to-find titles |
| Amazon.com | Search 2.5 million-title catalog of books! |
| BarnesandNoble.com | 20 - 30% discounts |
| Best Book Buys | "Helps you search for books and compare prices at 20 online bookstores" |
| biblio.com | Online marketplace for buying and selling used, rare, and out-of-print books |
| Bigwords.com | Discount text books |
| Bookbrowse.com | Let's you read excepts from many titles, reviews, author interviews. |
| Book Lovers | Excellent selection of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers. |
| Bookpool | Discount computer-relatedbooks! |
| Books-A-Million | New deep-discount online bookstore! |
| Bookcloseouts.com | Book bargains |
| BookWire | Categorized listings for booksellers, publishers, libraries, and hundreds of other book-related resources |
| Borders Online | Discounted books from Borders |
| Collegebooksdirect.com | New and used textbooks |
| efollett.com | "Where you will find the largest inventory of new and used college textbooks online. With [their] buy back program [they'll] buy back your 'gently' used books. Earn Ecredits to get free books." |
| Powell's Books | Powell's out-stocks even B&N, with more than 1 million volumes on its shelves. It also offers great prices - 35 percent cheaper than Amazon overall, as Powell's deals mostly in discounted used books |
| PriceSCAN Books | "Your Unbiased Guide to the Lowest Prices on Books" |
| Random House Online | Books from Random House |
| VarsityBooks | Discount text books |
| On-line Encyclopedias |
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| Encyclopedia.com | "More than 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition" plus over 170,000 Internet links. Third rate compared to Britanica and Encarta, but may have some info they do not. |
| LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia | "Based on what many consider to be the best encyclopedia ever written: the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911." |
| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy | "The manifestation of one of the most influential modern educational theories, the 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy." |
| infoplease.com | "Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records" |
| iTools.com | Everything from anagrams & language translations to UPS rates |
| ENCYBERPEDIA | Virtually every encyclopedia that's on the Web |
| CIA World Factbook | Essential facts, geography, population, etc., on all the countries of the world |
| Nationmaster.com | A data source and comparison tool for national statistics...you can generate maps and graphs easily. |
| The North Carolina Encyclopedia | An overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. |
| Find NC | The central gateway for searching North Carolina Government Information Locator Service (NC GILS) sources. Provided by the State Library of North Carolina. |
| Libraries/E-texts |
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| Project Gutenberg | 700+ texts including everything from "Aesop's Fables" to "Zen and the Art of the Internet" |
| The Bartleby Library | Classic literary works, sponsored by Columbia University |
| Knowledgerush.com | An online book directory: 9500+ free books from 1500+ authors |
| Literature.org | An Online Library of Literature |
| The WWW Virtual Library | A distributed catalog of many academic subjects, from Aboriginal Studies to Zoos |
| Internet Public Library | The first public library of and for the Internet community |
| Bibliomania | "2000+ texts of classic literature, drama, and poetry together with detailed literature study guides to more than 100 of the most studied texts. Large reference book and non-fiction section." |
| Page by Page Books | Hundreds of free on-line books |
| The On-Line Books Page | Many hundreds of free on-line books |
| Modern English Collection | Publicly available free on-line books from Modern English collection in the Humanities Text Intitiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service |
| Library of Congress | Several in-depth archive & research resources |
| Gateway to Library Catalogs | Links to Library of Congress's catalog and those at many other institutions. |
| LibDex | Library catalogs on the WWW |
| Electronic Text Center | Thousands of on-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with many related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)" |
| The Great Books | "A list [with links to most] compiled by ACCESS FOUNDATION from a variety of sources, and based most notably from the one developed for the Great Books collection of the Encyclopędia Britannica by Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Mark Van Doren." |
| EServer | "The EServer publishes over 30,000 works in the arts and humanities free of charge to readers online." |
| American Memory | Brings millions of American historical texts, photographs, maps and video treasures online - from the Library of Congress |
| The Master Works of Western Civilization | "A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others." |
| Shakespeare-Online | "In-depth play analysis, source information, answers to common Shakespeare questions, and much more." |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare with other resources |
| Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet | A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy |
| Internet Classics Archive | Searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) |
| Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts | Folk and fairy tales from around the world in English translation - see also Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas |
| The Electric Library | The Web's most comprehensive one-stop digital archive |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Searchable collection of many different literary resources |
| Luminarium | Beautifully executed site devoted to Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English Literature |
| SF Site | Catalogs works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, including author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books. |
| National Archives | Interest exhibits on World War II, famous documents, more |
| CIA Publications and Handbooks | Encyclopedia of countries, map, histories, their major exports, many more. |
| Gulliver's Travels | Beautifully rendered electronic version of this classic |
| Jane Austen info page | See especially the hypertext version Pride and Prejudice |
| Charles Dickens Page | A fun and educational tour of the world of Dickens - beautifully designed |
| Discovering Dickens! | A Stanford University "Community Reading Project" which takes a detailed look at Dickens' Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. With introductory essay, biographical, and historical context. Also reproductions of their first publication instance and including illustrations, keys to allusions, historical glossaries, and key passages. See also their Sherlock Holmes Project. |
| Charles Dickens - Gad's Hill Place | About the life and works of Charles Dickens |
| Victorian Web | Information regarding religion, philosophy, science, art, economics, and of course, literature of the Victorian period. |
| Victoria Research Web | A source for research guides, journals in Victorian studies, on-line discussion groups in various areas of interest, teaching syllabi, etc. |
| Writing & Research Guides |
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| APA Electronic Style | If you are writing in psychology, sociology, or other behavioral science courses or science-related fields, use this guide from the American Psychological Association for citing electronic sources in the APA style. |
| APA Style | If you are writing in psychology, sociology, or other behavioral science courses or science-related courses, use this guide from Purdue University Online Writing Lab. |
| The Columbia Guide to Online Style | "A comprehensive manual that not only covers citation of online documents but provides guidelines for producing them. ... An excellent supplement to the standard style manuals." - Library Journal |
| Dramatica | Free software for screenwriters & novelists. |
| The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr | Classic writing/usage guide, now on-line, part of the Bartleby Library |
| Garbl's Writing Resources | "Annotated directory of web sites focusing on English grammar, style and usage, words, active writing, reference sources, word play, plain language" |
| A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples | Glossary containing definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices and other literary terms |
| Locating and Documenting Sources in MLA Style | This guide explains how to locate online sources, select appropriate information, paraphrase or quote information and paste it into a report, and document borrowed information correctly according to the MLA Style. |
| A Guide to Grammar and Writing | If you are wanting help in writing use this guide by Charles Darling from Capital Community Technical College. |
| Lessons Learned: Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation | How to evaluate website content |
| The King's English by H. W. Fowler | Another classic writing/usage guide, now on-line, part of the Bartleby Library |
| The MLA Online | The Modern Language Association provides online explanation on documenting electronic sources, including Internet sources. |
| MLA Style | If you are writing in humanities or English, use this guide from Purdue University Online Writing Lab. |
| Paradigm Online Writing Assistant | "This online guide offers help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing your writing - of special interest to English composition students and instructors." Contains guides to APA and MLA styles. Click here to download this guide to your hard drive. |
| Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers | This companion website to the The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers provides interactive exercises to help you identify problem areas in your writing. |
| Hypergrammar | Incomplete, but still useful resource. |
| Storymind.com | Free writing classes presented in video for Real Player. |
| UNC Writing Center | "The UNC Writing Center" includes guidelines and examples for writing different types of papers and reports in many disciplines, including how to document research papers in both the MLA and APA formats |
| Writer's Block | "Your connection to professional writers and editors, and the secrets that have made them among the best in their field." |
| Writer's Write | "The Internet Writing Journal -- Award-winning Monthly Online Magazinefeaturing Author Interviews, Writing Articles and Book Reviews." |
| Writing Guides | These guides provide students with instruction and practices exercises in grammar, punctuation, and composition. |
| Word Processing with Microsoft Word® |
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| Guides to Using Microsoft Word® | - Guide to Writing Paragraphs, Essays, Letters, and Memos
Learn the basics of writing with a computer. - Guide to Using Bullets, Numbering, Tab Stops, Headings, and Styles
Emphasize with headings, bullets, and numbers. - Guide to Using Tables
Display numbers or text in columns and rows. - Guide to Creating Charts and Graphs
Use Word® and Excel® to create bar, line, and pie charts (graphs). - Guide to Creating Outlines and Bibliographies
Create formal outlines and bibliographies (with Internet sources). - Guide to Designing a Resume
Use columns and rows to organize. - Using Microsoft Word 2000
Microsoft's "how-to articles" and "tips and tricks" for Word 2000®.
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| Word Origins |
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| Roots of English: an Etymological Dictionary | Windows version downloadable dictionary - about English words with roots in Latin or Greek |
| World Wide Words | Excellent - articles on many aspects of English |
| The Word Detective | "Online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language" - excellent |
| A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia | "Teeny-weeny, fiddle-faddle, ..." - word fun |
| Richard Lederer's Verbivore | "Web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores" |
| WordOrigins.org | Over 300 words and phrase origins |
| The American Language | "This classic was written to clarify the discrepancies between British and American English and to define the distinguishing characteristics of American English. Menckens groundbreaking study was undoubtedly the most scientific linguistic work on the American language to date and continues to serve as a definitive resource in the field." |
| Quotations |
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| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | "Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact." |
| Simpson's Contemporary Quotations | "Comprising over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources, Simpson includes 25 categories and 60 sections ranging from "love" to "criminology." This comprehensive reference contains words of wit and wisdom from such modern notables as Ezra Pound, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and Desmond Tutu." |
| The Quotations Page | Who said, "With just enough of learning to misquote?" Initials are LB. Click here for the answer. |
| Quotation Land | Searchable database of quotations |
| The Book of Cliches | "Phrases to say in times of trouble ... repeat until believe ..." |
| Cliche Finder | "Have you been searching for just the right clich to use? Are you searching for a cliche using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one?" Search over 3,300 cliches. |
| Yahoo's Quotations Sites | Large collection of quotations site links |
| Teaching |
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| Ten Ways to Make Your Teaching More Effective | Good ideas from UC Berkeley |
| Helping Your Students With Homework | A Guide for Teachers |
| Emphasis on Teaching | Some useful articles on teaching - like Create "Knowledge Holes" for Your Students to Fill |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education | The flagship publication on academic issues |
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