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• Adult Literacy and Technology Network
  http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/alt/home.html
  The Adult Literacy & Technology Network is a national effort dedicated to finding solutions for using technology to enhance adult literacy. And to provide leadership in the application and use of technology to enhance international adult literacy by means of conferences, training, technical assistance and communication media.

• The Adult Literacy Resource Institute
  http://alri.org/
  The Adult Literacy Resource Institute (A.L.R.I.) is a program and staff development center for adult literacy/basic education/ESOL programs in the Greater Boston area. It is one of five regional support centers of the Massachusetts System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES).

• California Email Project Home Page
  http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm
  This site list many interesting projects you can do with ESL students.

• Directory of National and State Literacy Contacts
  http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/directories/links_directories.html
  Looking for literacy contacts in your area? This page links to national, state, freely associated states, insular states and territories which have key literacy contacts. An excellent resource!

• Educator's Reference Desk
  http://www.eduref.org/
  Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

• ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
  http://ericacve.org/
  The ERIC/ACVE is one of 16 clearinghouses in the ERIC system. ERIC/ACVE provides comprehensive information, publications, and services in adult and continuing education, all aspects of career education, and vocational and technical education including work force preparation.

• General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service
  http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=GEDTS
  "The GED Tests give adults who did not graduate from high school the opportunity to earn a high school equivalency diploma. Recognized nationwide by employers and educators, the GED diploma has increased education and employment opportunities for millions of adults since 1942." This page lists State, Provincial, and Territorial GED Contacts.

• Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council
  http://www.gplc.org/
  Their site has information on Literacy Workshops, Reader Information, Left Vs. Right Brain Modes and there Links to Literacy Programs.

• The Indicators of Program Quality Resource Guide
  http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=13286
  This publication, The Indicators of Program Quality Resource Guide, was developed to help local programs implement the Indicators. It was created as a reference for ABLE consultants and local program directors to use in facilitating continuous improvement of program performance. The guide provides practices used in many Ohio ABLE programs to support the implementation of the Indicators. The publication of the guide makes it possible for these practices to be shared and adapted by ABLE programs throughout Ohio.

• National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL)
  http://literacy.org/ncal.html
  The mission of NCAL is to(a) improve understanding of adult learners and their learning, (b) foster innovation and increase effectiveness in adult basic education and literacy work, and (c) expand access to information and build capacity for adult literacy service provision.

• National Center for Family Literacy
  http://www.famlit.org
  "The National Center for Family Literacy is a nonprofit educational organization with 501(c)(3) status headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1989 through a grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and has as its mission the advancement and support of family literacy services for families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination of information about family literacy."

• The National Coalition for Literacy
  http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/
  In 1981, 11 national organizations concerned about the low level of adult functional literacy founded the National Coalition for Literacy. Our purpose was to increase public awareness of the problem, answer questions and make referrals by establishing a tollfree telephone number, and raise funds to support these and related efforts.

• The National Institute For Literacy
  http://novel.nifl.gov/
  The purpose of the Institute is to enhance the national effort to achieve full literacy by the year 2000 by creating a national support system for literacy and serving as the national focal point for interagency policy development, dissemination of information, technical assistance, program evaluation, and research and demonstration.

• Ohio Association for Adult and Continuing Education (OAACE)
  http://www.oaace.org/
  This is the homepage for the OAACE. Here you can read the News and Views and view their list of Board of Directors.

• Ohio Literacy Network
  http://www.ohioliteracynetwork.org/
  The Ohio Literacy Network is committed to building Ohio’s workforce by strengthening adult and family literacy education.

• Outreach and Technical Assistance Network
  http://www.otan.dni.us/
  The Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN) is a California Department of Education, Adult Education Unit funded project designed to provide technical assistance, communication linkages, and information to adult education providers. OTAN Online provides electronic resources and an information gateway for the adult education and literacy practitioner.

• PBS LiteracyLink
  http://litlink.ket.org/
  "LiteracyLink is a joint initiative begun in July 1996 in response to the growing nationwide demand for basic skills training. Funded by a five-year $15 million grant from the US Department of Education Star Schools Project, LiteracyLink is creating an integrated instructional system of video and online computer technology which will help adult students advance their GED and workplace skills. LiteracyLink also seeks to improve the quality of instruction provided to adult students by offering professional development resources and training to literacy educators. In addition, LiteracyLink offers this Web site to provide general information to the public about Literacy."

• ProLiteracy Worldwide
  http://www.proliteracy.org/
  The merger of the world's two largest adult volunteer literacy organizations is complete and Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. have become ProLiteracy Worldwide.

  ProLiteracy Worldwide is represented in 45 developing countries as well as in the U.S. and serves more than 350,000 adult new learners around the world each year. Its purpose is to sponsor educational programs and services to empower adults and their families by assisting them to acquire the literacy practices and skills they need to function more effectively in their daily lives and participate in the transformation of their societies.

• Standards-Based Lesson Plans: Model Lesson Plan Templates
  http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/lessonplans/modelLPT.html
  These standard-based lesson plan templates can be used in your ABLE classroom. Save the template to your local computer drive and create lessons that focus on these standards.

• Trent Valley Literacy Association
  http://www.trentvalleyliteracy.ca
  "The Trent Valley Literacy Association (TVLA) is a non-profit organization formed to help adults in Peterborough city and county acquire the literacy skills needed to live and work successfully in the community."

• University-Bloomington School of Education's Distance Education program
  http://site.educ.indiana.edu/Default.aspx?alias=site.educ.indiana.edu/disted
  The Indiana University School of Education Distance Education program offers many online courses dealing with literacy and adult education.

State Literacy Resource Centers

• America's Literacy Directory
  http://www.literacydirectory.org/
  America's Literacy Directory is a national database of literacy programs available via the Internet and the National Institute for Literacy's toll-free number. The ALD connects employers, learners, volunteers, social service providers, and others to current information about literacy programs in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.

• NIFL in the States
  http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/states/state_resources.html
  Here you can find an alphabetical listing of all the states which have literacy resource centers.

Libraries

• Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org/
  The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet. They provide library services to the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.

• Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/
  The Library of Congress mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

• State Library of Ohio
  http://winslo.state.oh.us/
  These pages list information on the State Library of Ohio, Internet Resources, Ohio and its Government, State Governments, Federal Government and Information.

General Education Resources

• AskERIC Virtual Library
  http://www.eduref.org/
  AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the World.

• Educational Resources
  http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Resc/Educ/edres.html
  From the Ohio Literacy Resource Center, these pages link to information for teachers on a variety of topics such as literacy, mathematics, ESL, multicultural and much more.

• Kent State University College of Education
  http://www.educ.kent.edu/
  The homepage for KSU's College of Education.

Lists of Educational Resources on the Internet

• Google Directory - Education
  http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/

• Link to Education Section of Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
  http://education.yahoo.com/

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