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Internet Resources for Education

by Michele Frasier-Robinson, Head Editor, INALJ Oklahoma

Internet Resources for Education

As an academic librarian, one of my responsibilities is creating and maintaining subject research guides for multiple disciplines. Part of this task requires locating quality Internet resources to add to each guide. Thus, I am always on the hunt for accurate and reliable Internet resources. Recently, while compiling a new list of web resources for my Education research guide, I came across several websites that are noteworthy. Not only are these sources appropriate for Education students, but teachers and homeschoolers are sure to find a goldmine of information at these sites as well.

 

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)

Established as an initiative of the Institute for Education Sciences, the WWC serves as a resource for informed education decision making. Through practice guides, intervention reports, and single study reviews, educators are provided with the tools they need to improve student outcomes.

 

Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE)

FREE is a collection of more than 300,000 digital teaching and learning resources which are browsable by subject or standard (i.e., common core mathematics). The sciences make up the bulk of the subject material available on this site. Users can filter content by type, such as animation, photo, video, or primary document.

 

LD Online

Promoted as the world’s leading website on learning disabilities, LD OnLine offers reliable information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD.  Educators and parents alike will benefit from the expert-reviewed articles and resources on various topics, including behavior and social skills, college prep, and stress management. Also included is a very helpful glossary of frequently used LD terms.

 

Thinkfinity Resources

Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, this site is a free online professional learning community. The resources here may be searched by keyword or by state standards. Users may also filter searches by grade level and subject area. Much of the site’s content is supported by leading educational organizations such as the Smithsonian’s History Explorer and Science NetLinks.

 

Hot Chalk’s Lesson Plans Page

First developed by students and faculty at the University of Missouri, this site contains over 4,000 lesson plans (including math worksheets and science experiments) from pre-school through high school. Users may search or browse lesson plans by subject and grade level. Lesson plans can also be searched by topics, including back to school, financial literacy, and cultural heritage. And for those new to the field, this site offers a guide to writing quality lesson plans.

 

Naomi House

Naomi House, MLIS, is the founder and publisher of the popular webzine and jobs list INALJ.com (formerly I Need a Library Job) and former CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of T160K.org, a crowdfunding platform focused on African patrimony, heritage and cultural projects. INALJ was founded in October 2010 with the assistance of her fellow Rutgers classmate, Elizabeth Leonard. Its social media presence has grown to include Facebook (retired in 2016), Twitter and a LinkedIn group, in addition to the interviews, articles and jobs found on INALJ. INALJ has had over 21 Million page hits and helped many, many thousands of librarians find employment! Through grassroots marketing, word of mouth and a real focus on exploring unconventional resources for job leads, INALJ grew from a subscription base of 20 friends to a website with over 500,000 visits in one month. Naomi believes that well-sourced quantity is quality in this narrow job market and INALJ reflects this with many new jobs published daily. She has also written for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 LexisNexis Government Info Pro and many other publications in the past decade. She presents whenever she can, including serving on three panels at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Las Vegas; as breakout presenter at OCLC EMEA in Cape Town, South Africa; as a keynote speaker at the Virginia Library Association annual meeting; at the National Press Club in Washington DC; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; the University of the Emirates, Dubai, MLIS program and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Naomi was a Reference, Marketing and Acquisitions Librarian for a contractor at a federal library outside Washington, DC, and has been living and working in Budapest, Hungary and Western New York State. She spent years running her husband’s moving labor website, fixed and sold old houses and assisted her husband cooking delicious Pakistani food. She is preparing to re-enter the workforce and is job hunting. Her husband is now the co-editor of INALJ, a true support!  She has heard of spare time but hasn’t encountered it lately. She pronounces INALJ as eye-na-elle-jay. 

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