RESOURCE WEB SITES

Here is my list of education related web sites:

1. How Stuff Works - http://www.howstuffworks.com/
   HowStuffWorks is widely recognized as the leading source for clear, reliable explanations of how everything around us actually works. HowStuffWorks also provides a popular series of books, an acclaimed kids' magazine, as well as many other ventures, it is an award-winning company that has helped demystify the world for millions of curious people.  This site is used daily in my classroom to meet our reading and writing standards in which students are asked to read an article of interest and write a short report on what they have learned based on the KWHL rubric.  The site can also be used a part of or included with teaching curriculum in any area of education.

2. Daily Rotation - http://www.dailyrotation.com/
   Current news headlines from hundreds of tech related sites that you choose yourself, this saves time clicking on each of your bookmark links to check out your favorite sites.  Perfect site for any information technology classroom and a valuable resource to IT teachers.

3. Citing Internet Resources - http://www.bcit.cc/English/citing.htm
   Just as students need to cite the books and periodicals they use to support their research, they must also cite online sources of information. As my classes are all Information Technology oriented with lots of online time for research and curriculum, this web page helps students cite Internet resources as accessed through their Internet browsers. This method also makes it easy for educators to check the veracity of every online source their students cite.

4. Wikimedia Foundation - http://www.wikimedia.org/
   Is an international non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge.  This is a highly recommended resource site for both students and teachers for everyday information.  The collaboratively-edited reference projects include:
   Wikipedia -  is a Web-based, multi-language, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. Example
   Wiktionary -  is a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations and quotations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.  Example
   WikiQuote -  a free online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and direct links to Wikipedia for further information!  Example
   WikiBooks - is a collection of free textbooks with supporting book-based texts, that is being written collaboratively on this website. The site is a WikiWiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any book module right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikibooks module.  Example
   WikiSource - is a Wikimedia project to create a growing free content library of primary source texts, and translations of source texts in any language. Example
   WikiNews - is a free news source written by the readers.  Everything you read here is written by individuals just like yourself. You can also edit any other article you see — expand them, fix spelling mistakes, correct facts, or otherwise!.  Example
   WikiMedia - is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.  Example
   WikiSpecies - it is an open, free directory of species. This will cover animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life to the extent that users allow.  Example

5. About - http://www.about.com/
   Guides that offer practical advice and solutions for every day life and other content that is relevant to your interests.  These guides are written by experts in the field and written in the the "How To" format for both teacher curriculum and student research.

6. The Journal - http://www.thejournal.com/
   Offers educators a wide range of professional development at all levels offering courses in a wide variety of mediums ranging from online and multimedia to on-site training.  In addition they offer an array of consulting services.  There EduHound online gateway to education resources on the Internet is designed to save educators, parents and students time.  In particular, they have a resource link to all educational conferences being held in one area with a search option build to your needs.

7. CTE Online - http://cteonline.org/
   CTE Online is poised as a resource devoted to connecting educators and leaders within the unique field of Career and Technical Education to quality professional development tools that help establish the role rigorous academic skills play in pursuit of industry and career related coursework. Local instructional leaders will find all of the tools necessary to help their faculty members identify and align rich career and technical curricula with the promotion of academic skills commonly measured on state assessments facing our students, schools, and districts each year.

8. Career Resources - multiple
   Our main goal in vocational education is to ensure the students moves forward to a continuing education or to start a career.  These links help our students to find more information about their interests or discovery of one:
   Career Cruising - Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training.
   Career Voyages - This web site is the result of a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide information on high growth, high demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
   Career OneStop - In line with the Department of Labor’s vision for America's Labor Market Information System, CareerOneStop is a collection of electronic tools, operating as a federal-state partnership, and funded by grants to states. Each tool offers a unique solution to the overwhelming demands of today’s labor market from the perspective of the job seeker, the employer, and the public workforce community.

9. College Resource - multiple
   Our main goal in vocational education is to ensure the students moves forward to a continuing education or to start a career.  These links help our students to find a college according to their interest:
   CollegeBoard - connects students to college success and opportunity. Composed of more than 4,700 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three and a half million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program®(AP).
   Schools in the USA - direct query search of all colleges in the US with any easy to read program overview of search results.

10. Job Resources - multiple
    Our main goal in vocational education is to ensure the students moves forward to a continuing education or to start a career.  These links help our students to understand the requirements and fundamentals of their industry and start the process in finding a job:
    PickaJob - to help employers / recruiters source and hire the most qualified professionals and provide those professionals with the best job opportunities. Offers a broad array of unique services and proprietary technologies, which enable quality hires, resulting in, streamline processes.
     Monster - (with emphasis on technology) connects you to the real world opportunities that can help you achieve your goals and realize your dreams. Whether you're thinking about a new job, new career, a new city or a new direction... Monster will help you explore the possibilities and find the opportunities that are right for you.