Online Journals Articles & Ebooks

Lesson Plans, Teacher Tools & Plagiarism

• Lesson Plans, Activities & Best Practices
  • Education World
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (Science/Math lesson plans)
  • GEM (Gateway) Lesson PlansExcellent tool
  • Merlot  (higher education - identifies activities, lesson plans & best practices)
  • Signpost (Scout Report)
  • Social Psychology Lesson Plans (CROW Project)
• Teacher Tools
  • Evalutech Software Review
  • National Teaching & Learning Forum
  • Science Databases
  • Plagiarism
  • University of Texas(TENET) Curriculum Resources                                      
  • Virtual Hospital
  • World Lecture Hall
• Background & Education
  • ACENET -Military Guides Online
  • Community College Web
  • Community College/Adult Ed. Liaison Office
  • Community Colleges Listing by State/Alphabetical
  • ESL Directory
  • Everything ESL
  • History of Education
  • Departments of Education - all States
  • US Dept. of Education
• Video/audio:   PBS - On Point   | 
 PBS Frontline |  Annenberg's free streaming videos on all topics - http://www.learner.org/
• Preventing plagiarism
  • Preventing plagiarism: http://www.nmc.edu/library/faculty/plagiarism/
  • Plagiarism.org -http://www.plagiarism.org/: A website that offers resources on how to catch plagiarism, along with facts and quotes about this growing epidemic.
  • Maricopa - http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/plagiarism
  • Virtual Salt: Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers - http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Copyright

• SPC Copyright
• Copyright Clearance House
• Copyright & Distance Education
• http://www.copyrightoncampus.com/ -Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance. Designed for academic institutions, this guide helps answer questions ranging from basic copyright law to the more complex topics of ILL and e-reserves.
• iCopyright
• Indiana University -Purdue University
  • Checklist for Fair Use
  
  • Fair Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems
                         
  • Intellectual Property Searchable Database
• Educause
• Florida State Univ. - Teach Act
• Jefferson Schools
• Music Library Association Guidelines for Educational Uses of Music
• Guidelines for Off-Air Recordings of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
• Stanford Fair Use (excellent resources
• TEACH Act
• North Carolina State - Teach Act Toolkit
• University of Texas
• Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images
• Fair Use Guidelines For Distance Learning
• Guidelines For Classroom Copying of Books and Periodicals
• Guidelines For Educational Multimedia

• Using Materials from the Internet
• Fair Use Tutorial 
• Videotaping for the Classroom
• US Copyright Office
 |  US Law

Critical Thinking

• Critical Thinking Resources from SPC
• Criticalthinking.org - Center for Critical Thinking Consortium
• University of Missouri -- Critical_Thinking links
• Leadership, Ethics & Command Central – Creativity & Thinking Skills - See "Library" and "Resources" sections for print & online materials.
• Mission: Critical  San Jose State University "virtual lab," basic concepts of critical thinking in a self-paced, interactive environment.
• Critical Thinking Skills35 dimensions of critical thinking, including affective and cognitive; from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum
• SPC Library Critical Thinking Resources
   
• Net-Library Ebooks (search for "critical thinking" to see list of titles. 

Associations

• Assoc. of Am. Community Colleges
• Am. Assoc. of Colleges for Teacher Ed.- Education Policy Clearinghouse
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation
• Measuring Up 2000 Higher Ed. 
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• NISOD | FACC | NEA & NEA Teaching Links
• League for Innovation

Search Tools

• AcademicInfo.net  (Search tool for higher education sites)
• Alta Vista    (Images and advanced features)
• Department of Education -Subject Directory
• AlltheWeb   (Advanced features)
• Google (Advanced features) | Google Scholar
• Infomine  (Subject listing)
• Ixquick  (Metasearcher)
• SearchEdu.com -- Search engine for education
• All Who Is  (Locate/verify web sites & authors)
• Search Engine Watch  (Updates on search engine news and features)
• Research Buzz