Helpful
Web Pages
For
Teachers
This website
is dedicated to students with learning
disabilities such as : Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Dyslexia.
The site contains articles about teaching students with learning
disabilities in the content areas, for parents to help the discipline of their
child, and about the rights of children with learning disabilities.
There is a kidzone in which students can submit their own writings, a
message board in which teachers and parents can communicate with experts and
teachers in the field of Special Education.
The organization offers a monthly online newsletter at no charge.
Eric stands
for Educational Resource Information Center, which provides teachers with a
library, lesson plans, and educational research.
This site is
designed by dyslexic teenagers who wanted a chance to express how it feels to
have a learning disability. It
contains a message board where teens can post their viewpoints, it has study
helps, suggestions for parents and teachers, discusses the style of learning. It
also has articles written by professionals in the field on various topics
concerning learning disabilities.
This website
deals with memory and testing of memory. The
site includes articles and even a lecture on remembering and forgetting which
can be heard over the Internet.
For
Students
For
wordsmiths, it doesn't get any better than this.
Merriam Webster's online language Center has a great dictionary and
thesaurus, plus entertaining and educational side trips.
Need to find
that mot juste? This is the quickest, easiest, way to dig up a synonym or
antonym online.
A great free
encyclopedia on the Web. More than
17,000 cross-linked articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,
Third Edition
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/
Links
to useful sites on U.S. and foreign history topics.
Inspiration
(Mac/Win)
Semantic
web and out@ing tool.
Inspiration Software, Inc. 800-877-4292
Hearlt
(Mac)
Read any text out loud. Download free.
An
excellent web resource on general Id issues.
TextHelp
(Win)
Writing
support for Windows-based computers.
Mac version coming.
Lorien Systems
