The Reference Desk

The Internet is an excellent reference tool, but it is only one of the many resources available to teachers and their students. The references below will be very helpful to teachers, students and media specialists. Other materials should always be incorporated into lesson plans and projects. Use the references below as a means to enhance instruction and make learning fun.



Booklist

Booklist is the digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. A valuable resource to be sure!

Reading Online-An Electronic Journal of the International Reading Association  

This is an Internet journal which offers the latest developments in the reading field. It also facilitates communication among classroom teachers, college-level faculty, researchers, and policy makers. Instructions for submitting articles are posted as well.

International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)

A Worldwide group providing information on conferences, activities, programs, library news, articles, and links to other library resources.

Libweb: Library Servers via WWW

Want to know which libraries are on the Web? This site has links to more than 900 library home pages around the world.

Peter Milbury's School Library and School Librarian Web Pages

An extensive guide to Web pages either created or maintained by school librarians for the entire schools or just for themselves.

The Internet Public Library

An immense reference resource. Check out the Services for Librarians section with professional contacts and articles on contemporary issues.

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians

This paper is a general introduction for librarians on how Web documents are created and discusses the basic HTML concepts and terminology.

Journal of Technology Education

The Journal of Technology Education provides a forum for scholarly discussion on topics relating to TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION (not to be confused with "educational technology" or "instructional technology"). Manuscripts should focus on TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION theory and research. In addition, the Journal of Technology Education publishes book reviews, editorials, guest articles, comprehensive literature reviews, and reactions to previously published articles.

Technology Review Magazine

MIT's National Magazine of Techonology & Policy. This magazine is published eight times a year by the Association of Alumni and Aluminae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Journal of Industrial Teacher Education

The JITE is issued four times annually by the National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators. Published manuscripts are high-quality guest articles, refered articles, "At Issue" essays, "Comments," reviews of books/media and computer hardware and software in an "Under Review" section, and special feature issues that report scholarly inquiry and commentary broadly related to industrial and technical teacher education, military training, and industrial training. A "Journal Feedback" section also reports results of evaluations of the Journal. The journal is being made available in its electronic form by the Scholarly Communications Project of Virginia Tech.

Popular Mechanics Magazine

The PM Zone. Here Popular Mechanics, a magazine that for 93 years has documented the dreams and deeds of those who believe technology will transform the world for the better, is itself transformed. They have gone all out to make the Zone a Web site unmatched in quality and depth of content. There are more than 1,000 pages here. More are added every weekday. And in keeping with Popular Mechanics' tradition of rendering the technically complex transparent, they are going to tell you step-by-step how to make the most of what's there, and elsewhere on the Web.

SyllabusWeb

SyllabusWeb is a free service from Syllabus Press, publishers of Syllabus magazine and producers of the annual Syllabus conference. This site contains useful information on technologies used to enhance education.


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