The URLs below are organized into six areas: Advocacy Libraries ... search engines Websites where specialized materials may be ordered EdTech-sponsored workshops (with links relevant to your own work this semester) Listservs you might want to join Dictionaries, style guides, and software skill builders!

Advocacy SDSU Institutional Review Board (and the tutorial mandated by National Institutes of Health directives)		Libraries and search engines Alta Vista (and Alta Vista translator) HotBot Lycos Excite Ditto Dogpile Direct Hit Google RealNames Fast Search: All the Web/All the Time GuruNet: Hunt down information on the fly! Find Articles/LookSmart Ingenta (which offers free article delivery via the SDSU Gateway) HighBeam Research SDSU library UCSD libraries Internet Public Library Burrelles/Luce Information Services (media monitoring!) NoodleTools
Sites for ordering EdTec resources THE Journal's Roadmap to the WWW (for educators) US Dept. of Education (where you can sign up for a personalized webpage: My.ED.gov) California Dept. of Education Educational Resources Catalog The Complete Teacher Academy (a computer-based system that depicts the teacher/facilitator in multiple roles) Special publications offered through the General Accounting Office (GAO); if you prefer "hard-bound" versions, direct ordering is available Government reports and testimony: a repository of reports on a variety of topics of interest to a broad range of constituencies -- including program and product evaluators References for performance measurement and program evaluation offered through the Government Performance Information Consultants (GPIC)		EdTech-sponsored workshops Symposia (Summer '98, Fall '98, Summer '99, Summer '00) facilitated by Bernie Dodge, and directed to teachers participating in SDCS's two Challenge Grant projects (Triton and Patterns) ... where you'll find tips and techniques for: -- conducting focused web searches -- manipulating images, and -- general strategies to help you use the web more effectively. Staff development available to teachers participating in the Sweetwater Union High School District's ACT Now! Challenge Grant project
Listservs (sign-up info) Sponsored by International Forum of Educational Technology & Society Sponsored by AEA Sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication (ID & Learning SIG) PM-Talk (a discussion list for anyone who wants to learn more about project management) Tomorrow's Professor Listserv ITFORUM (sponsored by the Dept. of Instructional Technology, University of Georgia)		Dictionaries, style guides, and software skill builders The Writer's Reference ("a short list of tools of use to writers ..., with an emphasis on writing reports and research papers") "Grammar Guide" (provided by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke) Purdue University's Online Writing Lab Merriam Webster Dictionary online YourDictionary.com Dictionary.com Updated guidelines directly from the APA website Personal skill building! Atomic Learning BATS workshops at SDSU (and handouts in PDF format) Classes (computers/office skills) available at North City Career Center Tutorials available from Microsoft--for educators and for data analysis and reporting Element K (publications and other products) Plagiarism and copyright! Plagiarism--and how to avoid it Copyright and fair use (from Stanford University Libraries) Turnitin (the "official" plagiarism-prevention service to which SDSU subscribes. [Also see details provided by SDSU's Instructional Technology Services] An overview of SDSU policies on academic misconduct (including cheating and plagiarism)