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