Mr. W’s Sped & Research Links: Updated 9-15-09

This is collection of useful links that can benefit students, parents and teachers.  The list is usually added to and updated as the school year progresses (see Updated date above).  There are a few links (mainly in the Program-Software sites section) that may not be accessible from a school computer, depending on current district policy….in some cases these were left on the list to be accessed from a user’s home computer.

Areas Table of Contents

Dictionary - Thesaurus

Encyclopedias Online

Inclusion

Lesson Plans & Instruction

Literature

Maps

National-State Ed-SpEd links

News

Online Ed Games

OR Benchmark links

OR TSPC-PRAXIS links

OR-WA SD’s-ESD’s

Parenting Resources

Program-Software sites

Research resources - Misc

Science

Search Engines

Special Education Associations

Special Education resources

Transition-Occupational links

Vendors, Publishers & Ed Software/Materials

Notes:  The materials, viewpoints and other representations on the websites that are linked to from this page do not necessarily represent the author’s or Three Rivers School District’s.  For dead link updates etc., please contact Mike Wessner at michael.wessner@threerivers.k12.or.us

Dictionary-Thesaurus

http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml   alphaDictionary.com.  This site has 2 or 3 hundred links and countless languages that can be translated back and forth.

http://dictionary.reference.com/   Dictionary.com.  Dictionary, translator (5 languages), style source.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionarytitlepage.html   Illustrated Picture Dictionary.

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm   MSU's American Sign Language Pg.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/   Thesaurus.com.  Browse by definition or Roget’s word categories.

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/    Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries.  Translates from 5,400 Spanish words, and can translate English to Latin & vice versa.  Maybe 10 to 20 languages.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp   Visual Thesaurus.  Flowing, Branching thesaurus, cool!!!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict.htm   WWWebster Dictionary.  Searchable.

Encyclopedias Online

http://www.britannica.com/   Britannica.com.  Arguably the best Online, complete articles.

http://www.encyclopedia.com  Encyclopedia.com.  With links to 14,000 + articles.

http://www.infoplease.com/  Information Please.  More of an Almanac, but much information can be gathered here.  Excellent organization and searchable for specific categories of info.

http://www.internetoracle.com/encyclop.htm  Internet Oracle Online Encyclopedias.  Best link site to multiple encyclopedia sources.  Great site!

Inclusion

http://www.help4teachers.com/   Help4Teachers.com   Good resource for embracing inclusion and multi-leveled ability groups of students in one classroom.

http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/   Inclusive Education Web Site   Learn about the What’s and How To’s of Inclusive Education, basic guidelines for teaching in an inclusive classroom, and resources for learning more about the topic.

Lesson Plans & Instruction

http://www.4teachers.org/   4teachers.org.  Lots of instructing ideas.  Searchable.

http://www.aplusmath.com/   A+Math Home pg.  Flashcard & worksheet generators (Decimals & picture $)

http://www.aaamath.com/   AAA Math Page.  Lots of categorized (by grade & subject) great ideas, online teaching strategies, and a few math links here; nice site!!!

http://www.aaaknow.com/   AAA Math.  Lots of basic interactive practice & instruction for many concepts.

http://www.abcteach.com/index.html   ABCTeach Home pg.  Good all-around site for ideas.

http://www.abcteach.com/Math/mathTOC.htm  ABCTeach Math section.  Excellent source for lower level math instruction, WORKSHEET GENERATOR, numerical awareness, number grids etc!!!

http://www.albertsons.com/   Albertson’s Shopping Online Home Page.  Go to Shop section to see all products, price/Lb, and shelf prices.  Great for functional math!!!

http://www.eduref.org/  AskEric Lesson Plans.  Go into virtual library.  1000’s of plans plus links.  Popular site but there are better.

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/  Awesome Library.  Searchable 14,000 + carefully reviewed sources, including the top 5 % in education.  Wealth of info not just limited to lesson plans including sections on: Cores, Technology, Language, Lessons, References, News, SpEd, and Counselor/Teacher/Family sections.

http://www.sensorysoftware.com/bigcalculator.html   Big Calculator (Download).  Can make it big etc.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html  Blue Web’n Learning Sites Library.

Searchable by subject and/or grade level.  All links are annotated.  Very nice spreadsheet format wherein you can see how many entries are in the following categories:  Web-based tutorials, activities and projects, Unit and lesson plans, Hot lists, Other resources, and References & tools.  Subjects covered are cores plus foreign language, technology, vocational ed, and education.  Nice!

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/  Columbia Education Center’s Lesson Plans.  Each core area is subdivided into three areas: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12.  Based in Portland, OR.

http://www.criticalthinking.org/  The Critical Thinking Community.  Divided between College and Prep school areas.  Great source for articles in the library and lots of ideas/lessons, divided up by approximate age/grade levels. A great source to improve critical thinking.

http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html   Discovery’s Teaching Tools: Worksheet generator/Puzzlemaker etc.  Looks like a “Quia” for free clone here, worth checking out especially for supplemental handout activities.  UN: tiedyedmw – PW: discovery

http://www.edhelper.com/   Ed Helper.com.   Lesson Plans are good, file downloads, links and good Math Worksheet Generator and other worksheets.  Overall, too good a site not to include.

http://www.educationindex.com/   Education Index. Virtually all curriculum areas are addressed except reading/spelling etc.  This is more of an activity/student resource-based site.  Lesson plans are thinner than other sites but activity links are well done.  Coffee shop/chatboard.

http://www.eduplace.com/  Education place.  Divided into kid, teacher and parent areas.  Teacher’s place is searchable for core areas by grades K-8.  Good limited idea source.

http://www.education-world.com/  Education World.  Searchable database of 120,000+ sites which include: Cores, SpEd (with Newsgroup/ListServ info), Internet, Parents, & Vocational.

http://www.fossick.com/  Fossick Education & Academic Resources.  This is one of the best link sites for education, to date.  Links up to the biggest ed sites on the net!!!

http://thegateway.org/index.html   Gateway to Educational Materials.  Searchable by topic and grade levels, heavily tied to Eric but does give more than just Eric sources.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/   Internet4Classrooms Home pg.  Daily Brain teasers, nice organized links section, and lesson plans for computer applications!!!  Nice Site.

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/   The Internet Pizza Server Home Page.  Make Pizzas (visual depictions only) On-line, especially useful for fractions instruction!!!

http://www.interventioncentral.org/index.php   Intervention Central Home pg.  Very innovative site with downloadable teaching tools, ELIGIBILITY REPORT GENERATOR etc.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/  Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators.  Cores plus: Agricultural Ed, Internet, References, SpEd, Vocational Ed, and Government/Organizations.  Annotations are brief.  Well organized site, and is a favorite of many.

http://www.adprima.com/lesson.htm   Lesson Planning and Lesson Plans.  Bigger emphasis on “how-to’s” concerning writing lesson plans/objectives, & good links as well.  Home pg excellent source for all teachers.

http://www.lizardpoint.com/math/mathsheet.html   Lizard Point Math Worksheet generator.  Basic!!!

http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/sped.html  Marc Sheehan’s SpEd page.  Long nonannotated list of the better SpEd links & a page containing over 70 lesson plan sites and an ed resource pg.

http://www.math.com/students/worksheet/algebra_sp.htm   Math.com’s Algebra worksheet generator & More.  Also has interactive practice for basic add, subtract (#s to 12), fractions etc. Timed, gives hints. Looks best for kids in fractions and up but nonetheless Great site!!!!!

http://www.mathfactcafe.com/   Math Fact Café.  Has very good Math Worksheet generator which allows the user to manipulate range of numbers better than most other generators, also has premade java flashcards and other premade well-organized worksheets.  Like this site a lot and it looks to be growing!!!

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/  The Math Forum Home Page.  Huge math resource.

http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html  Math Playground.  LOTS of basic interactive practice and instruction for a many math concepts.

http://www.mathstories.com/   MathStories.com.  4000+ Math story problems/sheets; K-8.

http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/   Math Worksheet Wizard.  K – 5 templates!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx   Microsoft/Encarta Lesson Plan Page.

http://www.multiplication.com/   Multiplication.com  Great site for planning mult. Instruction!!!

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/  PBS TeacherSource.  Searchable for 1,400 + Core lessons, many real life-based formats, plus TV listings (enable java for searching).

http://www.proteacher.com/lessonplans.html   Proteacher.com’s Lesson Plans.  Great links to help with basic literacy and math and is searchable.

http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/best-resources-secondary-level-history-and-social-studies-teachers-161655.html  QandA Encyclopedia.  Social Studies lessons etc.  Great Resource!!!

http://readingrockets.org/   Reading Rockets Home Pg.  Reading instruction resource page.

http://www.resourceroom.net/index.html  Resource Room.  Excellent general Resource Room ideas as well as math/literacy ideas.

http://schoolexpress.com/   School Express  Strengths of this site are the large number of free Math worksheets for basic operations and numeration, as well as the downloadable reading comprehension activities under free worksheets, subsection - software.   Another growing site!!!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/   Sheppards Software.  Mainly lower level flash ed games.  

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html   Sites for Teachers.com.  100 + Teacher sites.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/   SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator.  Creates basic add, subtract, multiply, divide, and fraction worksheets.

http://www.superkidz.com/money.html  Superkidz Money Instructional Links pg.  Nice.

http://www.surfnetkids.com/  Surfing the Net with Kids.  Excellent searchable site, leans towards younger kids but is well put together and reviewed.  Addresses mostly elementary topics but some great ideas/links for SpEd remedial instruction can be easily found here.

http://teachers.work.co.nz/   Teachers at Work.  Over 3000 links that are reviewed and rated, addresses most curriculum areas, good activity links appears to be a strength, pretty good for lesson plans.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/lessons.html  Teacher’s Desk Lesson Plans.  Excellent site for Literacy Lesson Plans (250 +)!!!  Spelling, reading, writing for 5^th/6^th Gr level.

http://www.teachers.net/search/  Teachers.Net.  Searchable and lessons appear more informal teacher-typed in with responses by others who have read them.  Homepage has a chatboard!!!

http://www.newmathteacher.com   Terri Husted’s Home Page – A Home Page for New Math Teachers.  Highly rated “new” site & nice categories, lots of “out of the box” stuff going on here!!!

http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx.   Thinkfinity.  Appears to be the “child” of the Marco Polo Ed site.

http://www.toshop.com/math/   Tom Nunamaker’s Basic Math Worksheet generator.  Fairly basic!!!

http://www.uen.org/core/   Utah Ed Network.  Nice Lessons.

http://www.webmath.com/   WebMath.  Ask Q’s about math concepts & problem solving interaction also.

Literature

http://eldritchpress.org/ac/jr/  201 Stories by Anton Chekhov. “The Bet”

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/   Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts  Mark Twain – What is Man? Et al

http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/   Bab Books/Online stories for kids.

http://www.bibliomania.com/  Bibliomania.com.  Over 60 Classic novels online, plus the almost complete works of Shakespeare, and its searchable.

http://www.billybear4kids.com/story/books.htm  BillyBear4Kids pg.  Downloadable animated storybooks, for beginning readers.

http://www.bookshare.org/    BookShare.org  Lots of copyrighted books, member fee of appx. $50.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html   Children's Literature Web Guide  This site gathers & categorizes Internet resources related to books for Children/Young Adults as well as movies about books.

http://underthesun.cc/Classics/   Classic Authors.net/Great Literature Online  At least 200 authors +

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/   Clifford’s Scholastic Pg.  Phonics activities!!!! And read-a-longs.

http://eduscapes.com/  Eduscapes.  Nice links for Newberries, Caldecotts etc.

http://www.gradesaver.com/   Gradesaver.com.  Book study guides, literature essays etc, NICE!!!

http://classics.mit.edu/  The Internet Classics Archive.  441 Classic works by 59 authors, PLUS a Links section to other online text pages on the internet.

http://www.ipl.org/  Internet Public Library.  Many links for young readers & for researching.

http://www.loc.gov/  Library of Congress Home Page.  Use it to find rare books/authors.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/   Magic Keys books.  Online kid stories.

http://www.mysterynet.com/   Mystery.net.  Mini-Mysteries.  With links

http://www.nt.net/~torino/novels3.html   Novel Study Guides for the CR Teacher.  Lots of organized ideas/questions/paper topics on famous novels.  Somewhat limited but very nice!!!

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/   The On-line Books Page.  10,000 listings plus more

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp   Pink Monkey  Literature notes/outlines for novels etc (probably will become a pay site)

http://www.gutenberg.net/  Project Gutenberg Search by Author.  Excellent online resource for searching out short stories from Edgar Allen Poe etc.  A lot of misc. reviews mixed in with stories. Looks like one of the best e-text literature sources available.

http://www.sparknotes.com/   Sparknotes.com.  Literature notes/outlines for novels etc & is FREE!!!!!

http://www.storybytes.com/  Story Bytes – Very Short Stories.  2 to 2048 words. Online stories.

http://www.cagle.com/teacher/  Teacher’s Guide for the Professional Cartoonists’ index.  Great resource to use political cartoons to heat up some discussions & minds, for more mature middle schoolers and up.

http://www.worldreading.org/  World of Reading.  20 + Classic Books online in e-text.

http://webscription.net/   Webscription.net  Lots of new science fiction books & other stuff.

Maps

http://www.atlapedia.com/  Atlapedia.com.  Atlas and Encyclopedia rolled into one.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html  Color Landform Atlas of the U.S. Color Maps.

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_National_Forest/or.htm  Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP) Oregon.  Home links to the rest of U.S.  State Maps can be broken down

http://www.mapquest.com/  Mapquest.com.  Great for directions!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/  National Geographic’s Map Links.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.  The best map collection to date.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/map_sites.html

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection’s other map sites/links, HUGE

National-State Ed-SpEd links

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/index.html?src=mr   Office of SpEd and Rehab Services – U S Dept of Ed.

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/number_index.html   OR Administrative Rules.

http://www.ode.state.or.us/  Oregon Dept of Education.

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=40   Oregon Dept of Special Education.

http://www.ed.gov/  U.S. Dept of Ed.

http://www.k12.wa.us/   Washington Education Home Page

News

http://www.boston.com/globe/  Boston Globe.com.

http://chicago.tribune.com/  Chicago Tribune.com

http://www.cnn.com/   CNN.com.

http://www.sfgate.com/  The Gate.com.  (SF, CA).

http://www.latimes.com/  LA Times.com.

http://www.nytimes.com/  NY Times.com.

http://www.oregonlive.com/  OregonLive.com.

http://www.seattletimes.com/  Seattle Times.com.

http://www.specialednews.com/index.html   Special Ed News.  Look under Educators section.

http://usatoday.com/  USA Today.com.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/  Washington Post.com.

Online Ed Games

http://www.4kids.tv/   4Kids.com.  A few java games.

http://www.aplusmath.com/  A+ Math.  Good basic online math games, Java and non-java. 

http://abc.go.com/   ABC TV station page.  Go to Millionaire game, great for reading/thinking.

http://www.allmixedup.com/cgi-bin/hangman/hangman  All Mixed Up – Hangman.  More for basic reading and Graphophonic awareness than anything else.

http://www.arcadegamesonline.com/   ArcadeGamesOnline.com.  One of the best free online game sites. 

http://www.arcademachine.com/   ArcadeMachine.com’s Arcade Games Page.  Arcade games are of great quality not to mention other games on the Home Page. Tailgunner is one of the best free online games around, great sound and depth (Large Version!!!).

http://www.arcadepod.com/java/mainpage.asp     ArcadePod.com’s Java Arcade.  Smaller Mega-site, with 20 game classic section with Centipede, Frogger etc; & other sections/categories; Racing section has Burning Metal 3D (Great graphical race/shoot game but slow-loading).

http://www.barbie.com/   Barbie Home Page.  Girl site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml   BBC Ed Resources – Literacy.  Many areas to find resources, online games/practice, lessons, etc…..great stuff for computer aided literacy!!!

http://www.vgf.com/forums/arcade.html   Cheat City Java Games.   Uncategorized list of about 80 good games including Othello and Lemonade Stand; must now register to have full access.

http://clevermedia.com/arcade/   CleverMedia Shockwave Arcade.  Problem solving games & fun ones.

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/   Coolmath4kids.  LOTS of interactive math games etc!!! Fun & committed to growing in size!

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html   Crickweb - interactive ed resources for younger students.

http://disney.go.com/index   Disney Home Page.

http://www.edu-soft.org/index.shtml   Educational Software Cooperative (ESC)  a quick browse discovered a downloadable crossword maker, looks big and useful.

http://www.ezone.com/   Ezone! Shockwave Games.  Big list of fairly cool games, but with coolness usually comes a 5-minute download time!  With Sound!!!

http://www.edu4kids.com/math/   Flashcards for Kids! By CANITech.  Add, subtract, division, and multiplication.  You can manipulate the difficulty and do a timer.  Nice.

http://www.freearcade.com/   FreeArcade.com.  Moderate number of generally, only quality games. Including great graphic versions of blackjack and video poker. Super Dunk Basketball (shooting/dunking).

http://funschool.kaboose.com/   Funschool.com.  Java must be enabled (as in most online game sites).  Be patient while games load.  Games are educational and a step or two above basic.

http://www.funbrain.com/  Funbrain.com.  Great basic educational (most) games for kids.

http://www.iwin.com/  Iwin.com.  Mostly fun games but a couple of ed games.

http://literacycenter.net/   Literacy Center.net   Interactive basic skills html program/game; click and speak numbers, letters, shapes, colors etc

http://marykateandashley.com/   Mary Kate & Ashley Home Page.  Girl site.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html   National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for K-12 (NLVM)

Lots of interactive lessons/activities online etc.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/   NCTM’s Illuminations – Resources for Teaching Math.  Games, interactive lessons and teaching tools/links.

http://pbskids.org/   PBS kids Home Page.  LOTS of fun for simpler thinkers, links to many subpages.

http://pollypocket.everythinggirl.com/home.aspx   Polly Pocket Home pg.  “Girly stuff” looks fun!!!

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/  Puzzlemaker.  Via Discovery site.  The Bomb for making crosswords, word searches etc. free.

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/   Surfing the Net with Kids: Games.  Some cool games.

http://nxn.netgate.net/games2_XarcadeX.html   Web Games City’s Arcade Page.  Slow-loading Front Page.  About 150 games with links to other categories on the main page.

http://www.zeeks.com/  Zeeks.com.  preteen to young teen fun site, games etc.

OR Benchmark links

http://www.openc.k12.or.us/open01.html  OPEN Teacher’s Standards Page.  Standards page.

OR TSPC-PRAXIS links

http://www.tspc.state.or.us/  OR TSPC Home Page

http://www.ets.org/praxis/  Teaching & Learning.org.  Praxis Home.

http://www.ets.org/praxis/prxor.html  Necessary SpEd OR Praxis scores (2001) – App 156; Core 155.

http://www.webed.com/   WebEd   Link to ONLINE CPDU COURSES!!!!!!!!!!

OR-WA-CA SD’s-ESD’s

http://www.aft.org/research/salary/home.htm   AFT Teacher Research site (Salaries!!!).  Data Galore x2!!!

http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/CareerCenter/  

CEC Your Career in Special Education.  Info and links.

http://www.edzapp.com/applicant/default.aspx?mid=33  Edzapp.com.  New COSA site

http://www.oregoned.org/   Oregon Education Association Home Page.

http://econ.oregon.gov/   Oregon.gov Search under communities section 

http://www.openc.k12.or.us/oproj02.html  OR School Districts on the web (OPEN).  Map!!!

http://www.teachingjobs.com/   The Teacher’s Employment Network.  Nationwide postings

http://www.teachoregon.com/   Teach Oregon Home Page.  Edzapp link and more

http://www.teachers-teachers.com/   Teachers-Teachers.com.  Nat’l Teacher recruitment site.

Parenting Resources

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/   American Academy of Pediatrics. Searchable, lots of different articles to read!!! Including: Environmental tobacco smoke, eye examinations and vision screening, discipline, media violence.

http://www.familyeducation.com/home/   Family Education Network: A Parenting and Education Resource.  Great site for parents, lots of tips, quality links, activities etc.

http://www.agirlsworld.com/  A Girl’s World.  Pre-teen to teen girl site, if you’re a girl…pen-pals, advice.

http://parenting.ivillage.com/   iVillage Home Page.   Parenting tips, message boards etc…

http://www.parentstalk.com/   KidsCom Parent's and Teacher's Place  Very nice site with some top “problem” tips etc.

http://www.fathers.com/   National Center for Fathering   Good site for Dads.

http://www.pacer.org/   Parent Advocates for Children’s Rights

http://www.cesa7.k12.wi.us/sped/Parents/plintro.htm   SpEd in Plain Language Home Page.  Nice Resource for "boiling down" all that silly SpEd lingo and laws!!!!!

Program-Software sites

http://www.cnet.com/  Cnet’s Download pg.

http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_all.html   Completely Free Software.

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/  Download.com.

http://driverguide.com/   Driver Guide.com.  Excellent place to search for missing/needed drivers etc!!!!! Username: drivers – Password: all

http://www.thefreesite.com/   FreeSite.com.  LOTS of free stuff/links here, including software!

http://www.nonags.com/   No Nags.com.

http://shareware.cnet.com/  Shareware.com.

http://www.topqualityfreeware.com/  Top Quality Freeware.  Need to pay to be a member here, but well worth it. Great site for ed game program free downloads!!! Reading, spelling, math and more (This & ESC site provide a lot of free usable stuff, especially for lower skilled students) Note to self: Normal UN & PW.

http://www.tucows.com/   Tucows.com.

http://whatis.techtarget.com/   What is.com pg.  LOTS of computer information/terminology here!!!

http://www.windrivers.com/   Windrivers.com.  Drivers etc. for all sorts of hardware/devices!!!

http://www.winfiles.com/  Winfiles.com.  My 2^nd favorite program site.

http://www.zdnet.com/   ZDNet Downloads.  My favorite.  Ratings & Searchable!!!

Research resources - Misc

http://www.artcyclopedia.com   Artcyclopedia.  Over 6,000 artists and links to their works!!!!!

http://www.biography.com/find/find.html  Biography.com.  20,000 lives at your fingertips.

http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/  BJ Pinchbeck’s HW Helper.  Core info plus: Foreign Language, Reference, Playtime, Computers/Internet etc.

http://www.americanpresidents.org   CSPAN’s US President’s Page.  Excellent bios with links.

http://www.digital-librarian.com/  Digital Librarian.  Librarian’s choice web sites.  Amount and usefulness of information/links is enormous.  Countless sections to choose from!!!

http://www.excite.com/travel/countries   Excite’s Travel Guide.  Lots of info on lots of places.

http://globalcomputing.com/   Global Computing Home Page.  Links to all 50 states info pgs, most government pgs, windows tips, computer info links etc.  Great misc info.

http://www.historychannel.com/home/index.html   The History Channel.com.  Searchable!

http://www.thehistorynet.com   The History Net.  Of the best world history sites.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/  How Stuff Works.com.  Excellent resource, & searchable

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html   Hyper History Online.  Searchable by time period for: People, History, Events, and Maps.  Covers 3,000 years of World History.  One of the best!!!

http://www.patents.ibm.com/  IBM Intellectual Property Network.  Searchable for patents etc.

http://www.libraryspot.com   Library Spot.com.  Access to online books and journals as well as nice variety of link areas.  Also lists law and music libraries and more.

http://www.almanac.com/  The Old Farmer’s Almanac (Almanac.com).

http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/   Oregon School Library Information System.  Comprehensive/Links.

http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/index.html  Multnomah County Library HW Center.  Focuses on linking students to sites where they can get help on HW or research assignments but has lesson plan links as well.  Many subcategories to search from.  Education Resources links to a site that is specifically designed to provide useful links for teachers in the greater Portland, OR area.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/  OR Dept. of Fish & Wildlife.  Excellent info plus great OR links.

http://portland.citysearch.com/  Portland CitySearch.com.  Portland, OR page of CitySearch.com

http://www.publiclibraries.com/  PublicLibraries.com.  Links to all public libraries across U.S.

http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/  The Quotations Page.  Great quote page & nice setup.

http://www.refdesk.com   Refdesk.com.  Unparalleled source of information, links are numerous, highly usable and fantastic.  This has to be seen to be believed!

http://schoolwork.org/   Schoolwork.org.  Excellent site with spreadsheet organization.  Links to authors, writing style, maps and many many other academic and other areas.  Well-researched

http://thomas.loc.gov/  THOMAS: U.S. Congress on the Internet.  Politicians & voting records

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/  U.S. Copyright Office Home Page.  Copyright info/links etc.

http://www.census.gov/index.html  U.S. Census Bureau Home Page.  Data on people – geogr.

http://www.icom.org/vlmp/  Virtual Library Museums Pages (VLMPs).  One of the biggest link site to worldwide online museums, huge!

http://whatis.techtarget.com/   What is.com.  The ultimate computer jargon resource.

http://www.vlib.org/  WWW Virtual Library.  Searchable resource on many topics.

Search Engines

http://www.4anything.com/  4 anything.com.  Another popular search site, like About.com.

http://home.about.com/index.htm   About.com Home page.  600+ topics.

http://ask.com/  Ask Jeeves!  Works from user Q’s that helps to narrow one’s topic search etc.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/   Kidsclick! Search Engine.  Displays results with a broad range of reading levels displayed for each result!!!!!(i.e. 0 – 2; 3 – 6; 7+)

http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm  Kid’s Tools for Searching the Internet.  General Kid's tools.

http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html   Ivy’s Internet Search Engines for Kids.  And more kid-related sites and resource links.  Slow to load.

http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html   Refdesk.com.  Good overall site has areas that can mimic a metasearch engine such as Copernic, Ixquick etc.

http://www.tekmom.com/search/   TekMom’s Search Tools for Students.  Well-organized.

Science

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content   American Chemical Society.  Has Periodic Table etc

http://www.ama-assn.org/   American Medical Association.  Has human atlas & searchable.

http://www.wildlifeartistry.com/hints-tanning.htm   The Art of Tanning.

http://nyelabs.com/  Bill Nye’s Online Lab.  Cool demos and more.  Enable Java.

http://www.discovery.com/  Discovery Channel Online.  TV listings and much, much more.

http://www.enature.com/   E-Nature.com.  Field guides are very nice!!!

http://www.fda.gov/default.htm  Food & Drug Administration Home Page.  Food & drugs.

http://www.froguts.com/   Froguts.com.  Virtual frog dissection (now, subscription based).

http://www.homewatersproject.org/pages/Resources/teacher_resources.html   Home Waters Project.  Links.

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu   How Things Work FAQ Site.  Lots of A’s for lots of Q’s!!!

http://www.innerbody.com/   Human Anatomy Online.  Interactive Human Anatomy explorations.

http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Kids/lifescience.html   Life Science Resources for Kids & Teachers.

http://www.madsci.org/  Mad Scientist Network.  Ask-a-Scientist is the unique feature, read their directions first, there is also an archive of previously answered questions etc.

http:// http://medworld.stanford.edu/home/   MedWorld (Legacy site).  Good links.

www.nasa.gov/   NASA Home Page.  Multimedia section has photo galleries

http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/  NASA - Maps of the Solar System.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/  Nat’l Geographic Home Page. Maps, photos, education.

http://www.newscientist.com/  New Scientist.com.  Magazine.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/  PBS TeacherSource.  1,400 + Lessons/Activities etc.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/index.html   Pond Life ID Kit.  Microbe guide for pond critters.

http://www.popsci.com/  Popular Science.  Searchable.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/index.htm  Science Daily Magazine.  The latest in Real Science.

http://www.sln.org/  Science Learning Network.  News, links, museums and more.

http://www.sciencemag.org/  Science Magazine.  Searchable and has archive.

http://www.sciam.com/  Scientific American Magazine.  Links and archive.

http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library   Thinkquest Library Lots of Science & other project ideas

http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento/   Virginia Tech Entomology Home Pg.  Interesting current research areas etc.

http://www.webelements.com/   WebElements Periodic Table pg

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html  Whole Brain Atlas.  Pictures of brains.

http://dir.yahoo.com/science/index.html  Yahoo!: Science Links.  Huge and diverse.

Special Education Associations

http://www.abledata.com/  ABLEDATA, The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research – U S Dept of Ed.  Links, searchable database and good diversity.

http://www.chadd.org/index.htm   Children & Adults with ADD/ADHD.  Very comprehensive & good links, a good place to start.

http://www.cec.sped.org/  The Council for Exceptional Children home page.  Excellent site.

http://www.ldanatl.org/   Learning Disabilities Association (LDA).  Resources and What’s inside sections had plenty of info.

http://www.ncld.org/  National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc. (NCLD).  LD site with resources.

http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/  National Center to Improve Practice in SpEd through Technology, Media & Materials.  Assistive and instructional technology info/links in education.

http://www.nichcy.org/  Nat’l Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities.  State Resource sheet section is great for locating services and the Publication section is good.

http://www.specialolympics.org/  Special Olympics Home pg.

Special Education resources

http://www.cdipage.com/ADD_medications.htm   ADHD Medication Information.

http://www.adhdnews.com/   ADHD News.com.  Well put together site, great links, much info.

http://www.thearc.org/   The Arc’s Home Page.  Links page is fantastic!!!

http://www.redcross.org/where/where.html  American Red Cross Chapter Locator.

http://www.bluemountain.com/index_homec.pd   Blue Mountain Online Cards.  Make & Print and more.

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/downloads/pdf/NewTeacherSurvivalGuide.pdf   New Teachers Survival Guide….in PDF format….great ideas

http://www.bry-backmanor.org/index.html  Bry-backmanor.  Picture recipes, activity pages (size matchup templates for grocery activities is nice!!!, funstuff too; great life skills-oriented site.  Print it all it out!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.behavior.org/  Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Homepage.  One of the best behavioral resources (See Also SERI’s – Behavior section!)

http://www.closingthegap.com/  Closing the Gap.  Computer technology in SpEd and rehab.  Chat, library, resource directory. good site.

http://www.coloringbookfun.com/   Coloring Book Fun.  Lots of printable things to color!!!

http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/   The Creative Teaching Website.  Small but some good ideas.

http://www.do2learn.com/  Dotolearn home pg.  Free boardmaker-like pictures/ideas for schedule making and lots of ideas for students with autistic and special needs.

http://www.behavioradvisor.com/   …&….

http://www.behavioradvisor.com/oldindex.html

Dr. Mac’s Amazing Behavior Management Advise Site.  Has a bulletin board manned by grad students in special ed, and the following excellent sections: Tips on managing student behavior, “How-to” pages (simple yet comprehensive), and a couple of other items.  Very nice!!!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionarytitlepage.html  Enchanted Learning’s Illustrated Dictionary

http://www.eduref.org/   Eric homepage.

http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx  Family Village.  One of the best SpEd resources on the net for teachers and parents.  Library is awesome.

http://www.iconcool.com/part1.htm   Iconcool.com  Pretty big link site to free icons.

http://mentalhealth.com  Internet Mental Health.  Discusses over 50 common disorders and over 70 common prescriptions.  Also has links, articles etc.

http://orsaminore.dreamhosters.com/handy/links/uk_various.html      Internet Resources for Special Children (IRSC)   Extensive list of severe and some mild disability links; categorized.

http://www.iser.com/index.shtml  Internet Special Education Resources (ISER).  A lot of LD, ADHD resources, searchable by state directory, great site especially for Parents.

http://seab.envmed.rochester.edu/   Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.  Searchable from 1968.  Some full text, most requested etc.

http://www.ldonline.org/  LD Online.  Great site for Ps, Ts, & Ss links, essays etc.

http://www.ldresources.com/   LD Resources.  Huge site.

http://www.lil-fingers.com/  Lil Fingers.com.  Lil' Fingers is a site for toddler age children/DD younger persons with games, storybooks and coloring pages.

http://mentalhelp.net/   Mental Health Net

http://www.middleweb.com/   MiddleWeb Home Pg.  General Middle School Info.

http://www.millan.net/   Millan.net.  Look under animated GIF’s, funny stuff!!!!!

http://www.special-ed-careers.org/       The National Clearinghouse.  SpEd professional page.

http://www.naturalreaders.com/free_version.htm   Natural Reader.  Listen to emails, web pages, reports etc.

http://www.niteowl.org/kids/  Niteowl.org.  Coloring page printouts of nursery rhymes etc., nice!!!

http://www.preschooleducation.com/   Preschool Education.  Great ideas, crafts etc.

http://www.readplease.com/   ReadPlease Home Pg.  Browser reader and a copy/paste reader, free trials

http://www.readthewords.com/   Read The Words.  Web-based tool that assists with written material using Text-to-Speech.

http://seriweb.com/  SpEd Resources on the Internet (SERI).

http://www.speechteach.co.uk/  Speech Teach UK Home pg.  Nice full site for communication stuff & downloads and chatrooms.

http://theteachersguide.com/   The Teacher’s Guide.  Very diverse site, hard to fit in any one category.  Excellent SpEd Section, Math lesson plans look useful, & lots more in ed.

http://www.thinkquest.org/   ThinkQuest Home Pg.  Communities, great links recommended by kids and teachers for kids and teachers (Library of Entries is the Links page).

http://www.timetimer.com/   Timetimer.com Home Pg.  “Disappearing Red” timers.

http://www.tinsnips.org/   Tin Snips Home pg.  Awesome site for autism resources!!!!!

http://www.tokyojon.com/   Tokyo Jon's ESL Teaching ESL Page.  Teaching overseas guide!

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html   Virginia Tech’s Study Skills Self Help Info Pg

http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/wa.php   Web Anywhere.  Text Reader, reads aloud from inside the browser, no program to install!!!

http://www.optimalhealthconcepts.com/Stress   The Web’s Stress Management & Emotional Wellness Pg.  Cross-referenced all over the net.  Stressed-out? Excellent tips & readings.

http://wholechild.net/    The Whole Child Center.  LD, ADHD/ADD, Mental health resources and help for learning, behavior, and social problems, a great site.

http://callcentre.education.ed.ac.uk/wordtalk/index.html   Word Talk.  Text Reader.

http://www.slideshare.net/paulhami/word-talk   Word Talk Slide Show.

http://www.disciplinehelp.com/  WWW .disciplinehelp.com.  aka You Can Handle Them All.  The section that addresses solutions for handling “117” behaviors is fantastic, every teacher and parent should see this.  Kids are “stereotyped” for the exhibited behavior “The Whiner” etc. and solutions abound!

Transition-Occupational links

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/   America's Career InfoNet.  Great economic/career info site/database.

http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/   Career Services: What can I do with a Major in…?

http://www.acenet.edu/clll/ged/index.cfm  GED Testing Service Homepage.

http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/links/     Job Accommodations Network’s Points of Interest Links Page (JAN)  Lots of good transition/occupation sites (250 + and counting !!!)

http://www.jobdango.com/   Jobdango.  NW jobs for NW people, interactive site for employers/seekers

http://jobstar.org/index.cfm   Job Star Central.  Good general job pre/skills/searching site

http://www.ncset.org/   National Center on Secondary Education & Transition

http://www.doleta.gov/programs/onet/   O*NET, The Occupational Information Network.  A database (Windows) that has info on job requirements and worker competencies.  Very Nice!!!

http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/default.aspx  Oregon's Career Information System Homepage (CIS).  Awesome software available to match student characteristics with jobs.

http://www.olmis.org/olmisj/OlmisZine   OR Employment Department: OLMIS

Vendors, Publishers & Ed Software/Materials

http://abilitations.com/index.jsp   Abilations Home pg.  Lots of PT/OT stuff here.

http://ablenetinc.com/  Able Net Inc.   Makers of the BIGmac and Speak Easy communication aids, Big Red and Jellybean switches, and other products.

http://www.acadcom.com   Academic Communication Associates   HO’s for life skills/comm./emotions

http://addwarehouse.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/index.html     A.D.D. Warehouse   Excellent unique on-line catalog of books, videos, training tools, games, assessment/tracking tools for ADD,  ADHD etc.

http://www.aroga.com/     AROGA Technologies Disability Products  Lots of computer products for persons with Physical, Communication, Low Vision, & Blindness disabilities.

http://www.assistivetech.net/   Assistivetech.net Home Pg.  Lots of AT links, info, reviews & searchable

http://www.attainmentcompany.com   Attainment Company, Inc. Software: Academic and Life Skills Software, First Money, TimeScales

http://www.broderbund.com  Broderbund Software, Inc. Living Books Series CD Roms-12 titles i.e. Just Grandma and Me, Arthur's Birthday, Cat in the Hat, etc. (Instant Access Overlays for the CD Roms are available from IntelliTools to work with the IntelliKeys device).

http://www.closingthegap.com/index.lasso   Closing the Gap.  Computer hard/soft-ware products for Sped.

http://www.dafont.com/  Dafont Home Page.  Lots of Fonts to download/install.

http://www.donjohnston.com/   Don Johnston Learning Intervention Resource Pg.    Co-Writer (speech to text) and Write Out Loud.  (Downloadable Demos)

http://www.flaghouse.com/   Flaghouse Home pg.  PT/OT, adaptive PE & sensory items, toys/gizmos

http://www.franklin.com/community/education/   Franklin.com Education Page.  Home of the Franklin Spellers which NOW have speaking spellers/readers!!!  Wow!!!!!

http://www.greatleaps.com/   Great Leaps Reading Program Home Page.  Good for older kids!

http://www.gusinc.com/     Gus Communications Inc.  Specializing in multimedia speech systems for Windows-compatible computers that turns screen into a dynamic display, speech output device; some free downloadable products.

http://www.hwtears.com   Handwriting Without Tears.  Multisensory approach to writing letters, nice.

http://www.highnoonbooks.com/   High Noon books, which are Hi Int – Lo RL (Great books for decoding and excellent for comprehension!!!)

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/   Hot Potatoes Home Page.  Downloadable Freeware program that enables user to create interactive multiple-choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap fill exercises.

http://hmlt.hmco.com/index.php   Houghton Mifflin Company & Edmark Home Page.

http://incentivesforlearning.com   ICL Home pg.  Misc. games, books, manipulatives

http://www.intellitools.com/     IntelliTools   IntelliKeys alternative keyboard, IntelliTalk talking word processor and other Early Learning, Sped, and Basic Skills technology products for Mac/Windows.

http://www.kaplanco.com   Kaplan Company.  Great for manipulatives – may have different catalogs for different age levels of students; the early childhood edition has A LOT of manipulatives etc for elem.

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com  Knowledge Adventure Software:   Hyper Studio, Jump Start Series

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com   Lakeshore Basics & Beyond.  Inclusion, reading books etc. diverse

http://www.lindamoodbell.com/   Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Home Page: Programs for Learning Disabilities etc.  This got a ringing endorsement from speech pathologists as an affordable multisensory reading development program (they have other programs for math etc.)

http://www.littlefingers.com/   Little Fingers.com.  Some free Mac programs for early numbers/letters/phonics etc.

http://www.linguisystems.com   Linguisystems Home Page.  Great stuff!!!

http://www.marblesoft.com   Marblesoft   Early Learning (I, II, III), Functional Life Skills,-Money Skills, Overlays for IntelliKeys

http://www.mayerjohnson.com/     Mayer-Johnson Co.  Makers of Boardmaker and Speaking Dynamically software plus many other products like PCS for special needs learners.

http://www.mcrel.org   McREL Home pg.  Strengths are: Searchable, has much standards information, lesson plans that link to standards, talks on issues, BIG list of publishers etc.

http://microsoft.com/enable/     Microsoft Assessibility Services   Information and software resources on access in Windows 95/98, 3.11, Windows NT and some DOS tools including using the built-in magnifier for vision impaired (partial window).

http://www.mindplay.com   MindPlay.com  Online reading test/email register & lots of other ed software.

http://www.nanopac.com/dragondictate.htm   NanoPac Inc.’s Dragon Dictate pg.  Lots of innovative hardware/software solutions for computer control adaptations.  Dragon Dictate allows user to manipulate Windows “hands-free.”  Nice!

http://www.noxpress.com/   Nox Press Home Page.  Nice High Interest – Low Reading Ability books etc

http://www.nuance.com/   Nuance Home Page.  Speech Recognition software for ages 11 + up etc

http://www.ortongillingham.net/  O-Gillingham Training for Staff Devel’t of SpEd Teachers.

http://pcicatalog.com   PCI Educational Publishing.  Very cutting edge, catalogs are for big or small kids.

http://www.proedinc.com/customer/default.aspx   Pro Ed Home Page.  Major publisher.

http://www.psychtest.com/   Psychtest.com  Sped Academic/ Cognitive/Misc test order site.

http://readingmanipulatives.com   Reading Manipulatives  Hands-on reading stuff

http://readnaturally.com/   Read Naturally Home Pg.  Great material for assessment (WRPM etc), has comprehension questions for different grade level passages, which are numerically sub tallied by line on the passage itself; also can come with tapes or on CD-ROM.  Nice but $$$.

http://www.rempub.com   Remedia Publications  One of the best for limited reader materials!!!

http://rjcooper.com/   RJ Cooper Sped Soft/Hardware. Creative computer usage adaptation-minded stuff!!!

http://www.sdlback.com/   Saddleback Educational Inc.  Best Hi-Int/Lo RL order sites on net!!!

http://www.sammonspreston.com   Sammon Preston Rolyan.  Adaptive device haven!!! Sock devices etc

http://www.scholastic.com   Scholastic, Inc. Wiggleworks Plus (K-2), Smart Place (3-6)

CD Roms(To support Literacy Place)

http://www.scilearn.com/    Scientific Learning Corporation   Makers of Fast Forward, Fast Forward Two, and Away We Go, for language-learning impaired children.

http://smartkidssoftware.com/   SmartKids Software.  Reviewed/orderable ed software!!!

http://www.sopriswest.com/  SoprisWest.com.  Ordering site for Language! Reading Program.

http://www.southpawenterprises.com/   Southpaw Enterprises.  Fantastic Resource for Autism; lap belts, hammocks etc.  Very Impressive and creative stimulation gizmos!!!!!

http://www.sra4kids.com/  SRA Home Page.  Corrective Reading and Math programs!!!!

http://store.sunburst.com/   Sunburst  Write On! Plus (middle/high school series)

http://www.superkids.com/   SuperKids Educational Software Review.  Reviewed/orderable ed software!!!

http://switchintime.com/   Switch in Time  Music and other free Mac programs for severe needs people.

http://www.techlearning.com/   TechLearning.  Reviewed/orderable ed software!!!  Also, The ultimate "hotlist" of recommended sites categorized by curriculum area and Teacher recommended ed sites!!!!!.

http://www.tfeinc.com   Technology for Education Inc.  Mostly adaptive stuff/OTish

http://www.texthelp.com   textHELP Systems Ltd.
Read & Write, Version 4 (text reader with speech feedback, talking spell checker, word prediction, abbreviation expansion, homonym support etc.)  US dollar pricing and school license available.

http://www.thinkwave.com/index.html   Thinkwave.com.  Revolutionary online grade book that teachers, parents and students can log onto and benefit from.  Looks Awesome, recommend inspecting this one.

http://www.wilsonlanguage.com/  Wilson Reading System Home Page. Good for older kids!