Information Literacy


Information Literacy Resources

 

Educator's Reference Desk "builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on."

 

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), "sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature."

 

The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM (GEM) is a "Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."

Evalutech "is an online, keyword-searchable database of reviews of instructional materials...supporting teachers by providing up-to-date, reliable and useful resources and information."

Kathy Schrock’s Web Site Evaluation & Internet Lesson Plan Guide (pdf file)

Kathy Schrock's Presentation on WebQuests

MarcoPolo: "Internet Content for the Classroom is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States."

Partnership for 21st Century Skills-ICT Literacy Maps "can assist educators in developing lesson plans for students that combine learning skills – critical for success in the increasingly competitive global economy – with 21st century tools, such as the Internet and data analysis software."

 

ThinkQuest Library, the Oracle Education Foundation's "free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition."

Trackstar "is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity."

 

TrackStar Quicktips EBR Instructional Technology Document presented to the LA LAMP 2005 Workshop Tour. (pdf file)

WebQuest Page, "designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web."

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