GENERAL HOMEWORK MATERIALS:
Discovery homework help
BBC's very user-friendly resource for all subjects and all ages
TDSB homework help: Language andMath Grades 1 to 8
TVO's Ask A Teacher evening online homework help - elementary and high school
Infoplease
Dmoz looks at everything
About School
Refdesk
Homeworkspot
SPECIFIC SUBJECT MATERIALS:
English grammar:
University College London
English literature:
Bartleby's Great Works online
Concordances of Great books
National Council for Teachers of English
Humanities Web site
Official Language Programs - summer immersion
Classics
The Internet Classics Archive
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MATH, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
National Science Teachers Association
National Council for Geographic Education
Swathmore University's Dr. Math
U of Minnesota geometry page
Canadian Space agency
NASA.com
Museum of Science and Technology
How Stuff Works
The infinite fractal loop
Education_and_Science/Teaching Tools/
Super general science classes topics
Math text reviews and commentary
Math tutoring
Earth Observatory from NASA
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Excellent program for learning HTML, etc.
King County Library System - Homework Help
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RESEARCH, WRITING AND STUDY SKILLS
These sites should be useful at all levels for research and writing, right through university. It's all there.
Writing
Good techniques for more creative writing
Searching the Web and building sites
Kathy Schrock's Links Comprehensive Guide for Educators
How to search the Web
Designing Web research for students
Personal Brain - mapping
Commercial software for electronic class organization
All the features you need on a web page, including online quizzes
Excellent program for learning HTML, etc.
Sources for Information
A good source of texts
Canadiana - The Canadian Resource Page
Top Humanities Web sites
Absolute Authority on Maps
Statistics Canada
Kirk LaPoint's super links to the world's media. Very Comprehensive
Pacific Western's General reference links
Don Tapscott's Net Gen site: good look at the coming digital generation
ASCD The leading US educational association
PDK: The other educational organization - tied for first!
Harvard Education Letter
The Economist, the UK's (maybe the world's) top news magazine
The Eric educational article data base
Penguin Books
New York Times book reviews
Time Magazine
Newsweek
The American Library Association - impressive!
Education Week
Ranks and standings of current things by Canoe
A huge general resource site Dmoz
Links to world newspapers for local information
Texts Online
9500 texts of world literature
Good source for texts
Online texts, criticisms and biography
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
http://www.ipl.org/reading/shakespeare/shakespeare.html
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
Interviewing
Style Guides
You should find most of them here
University of Missouri's 'Writery' page
Construct your own newspaper
The research paper
ISTE's style guide for writing papers on technology and learning
Research
10 Steps to Writing and Essay
Funderstanding.com
Discovery School
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RESOURCES FOR THE FAMILY
Understanding and Living with Adolescence
Mainly for Teens
Inside your teen brain – lots going on!
Toronto Public Library
Adolescent Directory Online
Mainly for Parents/Teachers
Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence: US Department of Education
Tips for parenting teens
Transform your middle school
For Both
Teens’ health
Common sense tips on teen safety
Community safety in Toronto
Choosing a School/College/University/Training Opportunity
All the schools in the Toronto District School Board
All the schools in the Toronto Catholic District School Board
All the Independent Schools in Canada
Information on training and apprenticeships
Yahoo - should find most schools and educational info - in general
Thousand of links to schools, colleges and universities
Quick index of courses by university and college
National Association of Career Colleges
Comprehensive resources for those with disabilities
Index to web addresses of colleges and universities
Years and courses for study abroad All sort of programs, exchanges and internships abroad
Studying/working in the rest of the world - literally everywhere
Government Sites & Employment
Government of Canada
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Ontario
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Careers and Training
Great ideas for researching career/employment opportunities- good place to start
Youth Resource Network of Canada: education and jobs
Best articles on careers on the Internet
National site with career occupations
Internships
The Computer Learning Foundation- mostly for parents
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), opportunities for employment
The Computer Learning Foundation- mostly for parents
Internships
Volunteering
Comprehensive Guide to Staring a small Business- a must
Creating your own employment - Part 1
Creating your own employment - Part 2
Monster Board job search
Jobs for those with functional handicaps
Parents' Issues and Concerns
Information and resources for those with children with special needs
Great sites for parents
Explaining learning disabilities
Today's Parents
EdWeb: learning and technology
The Computer Learning Foundation- mostly for parents
SSAT's
The SSAT site
Preparing for the SSAT's
Children's Books, etc.
Interesting source of younger kid's online books and resources
Children's Books Central
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RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND TUTORS
Personality and Learning Profiles
The more we know about our strengths, the better we learn.
Concerning the Myers-Briggs test
Keirsey personality types
Bernice McCarthy's 4MAT system of four learning styles
Rich resources on multiple intelligences -catalogue
VERY helpful site for learning theory stuff
Goleman's Emotional Intelligence E.Q.: a test
Another look at self-analysis, this time through True Colors
Special Education Cases
Good starting point for overview
ABC's of LD's
About differentiated learning
Searching the Web
Many of us just click around search engines to find what we are looking for. But there are more efficient means. Here are some good sites to help.
Kathy Schrock's Links Comprehensive Guide for Educators
How to search the Web
Designing Web research for students
How to use a search engine
Commercial software for electronic class organization
Learning and Technology
After about 25 years of information technology in the home and schools, we are still very near the beginning. These sites look to the future.
International Society for Teaching and Technology
The first stop when thinking about designing online courses
From Now On is another 'must' for online course development
Web Quest is another major Web course design resource - incredible
Twenty First Century Teachers' Network
The issues of learning and technology
The Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education
Good general journalism site for technology topics
Excellent design help from the pro: Judi Harris of the U of Texas at Austin
National Academy of Science site: Re-inventing Schools. Covers the main points. Excellent presentations.
Evaluating internet resources: check list from Berkeley
Excellent program for learning HTML, etc.
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