The URLs below are organized into six areas:
- Advocacy
- Libraries ... search engines
- Websites where specialized materials may be ordered
- EDTEC-sponsored workshops (with links relevant to your own work this semester)
- Listservs you might want to join
- Dictionaries, style guides, and software skill builders!
- SDSU's Institutional Review Board (and the tutorial mandated by National Institutes of Health directives)
- Alta Vista (and Alta Vista translator)
- HotBot
- Lycos
- Excite
- Ditto
- Dogpile
- 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
- Google Scholar
- Directory of Open Source Journals
- US Dept. of Education (where you can sign up for a personalized webpage)
- THE Journal's Roadmap to the WWW (for educators)
- California Dept. of Education Educational Resources Catalog
- The Complete Teacher Academy (a computer-based system that depicts the teacher/facilitator in multiple roles)
- Special publicatons 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
- Symposia (Summer '98, Fall '98, Summer '99, Summer '00)
facilitated by Bernie Dodge, and focused on teachers participating in
SDCS's two Challenge Grant projects (Triton and Patterns). Though older,
you'll nonetheless find useful tips and techniques for:
-- conducting focused web searches
-- manipulating images, and
-- using the web more effectively and strategically. - Staff development available to teachers participating in the Sweetwater Union High School District's ACT Now! Challenge Grant project
- Return on Investment: a presentation (by Marcie Bober) for the ASTD local chapter (August 2005)
- Benchmarking: a presentation (by Marcie Bober) for the ISPI local chapter (January 2006)
Listservs (sign-up info)
- Sponsored by Interational Forum of Educational Technology & Society
- Sponsored by AEA
- 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 at the Uversity of Georgia)
- Distance Education Online Symposium (housed at Penn State)
- Others on this list
- 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 i: English Centre/University of Hong Kong and Indiana University
- 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)
You'll also want to peruse the ED 690 syllabus from time to time---to review a) the reasons for which educational research is undertaken, b) approaches for conducting literature reviews and interpreting research studies, and c) factors to consider when selecting data analysis procedures.