Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Educator's Reference Desk and ERIC...
A couple more spots to bookmark in your child care resource folder are the Educator's Reference Desk and ERIC, The Education Resources Information Center.
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
You can find lesson plans by subject or can search for specific topics. There is even a Question Archive, which is a sample collection of responses to questions that were sent to the AskERIC service between 1992-2003. These responses may include ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
ERIC, The Education Resources Information Center, can provide invaluable information about nearly any educational topic. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the worldÃ’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun adding materials to the database.
I especially like the Thesaurus search feature on the ERIC website. Though you do NOT need to login or register to use ERIC's search feature, registration is free and by registering you can access some of theneater featuress on this site like the My ERIC site where you can build your personal library and save your searches.
Check out these great sites and let me know what you think about them.
A couple more spots to bookmark in your child care resource folder are the Educator's Reference Desk and ERIC, The Education Resources Information Center.
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
You can find lesson plans by subject or can search for specific topics. There is even a Question Archive, which is a sample collection of responses to questions that were sent to the AskERIC service between 1992-2003. These responses may include ERIC citations, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
ERIC, The Education Resources Information Center, can provide invaluable information about nearly any educational topic. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the worldÃ’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun adding materials to the database.
I especially like the Thesaurus search feature on the ERIC website. Though you do NOT need to login or register to use ERIC's search feature, registration is free and by registering you can access some of theneater featuress on this site like the My ERIC site where you can build your personal library and save your searches.
Check out these great sites and let me know what you think about them.
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 7:59 PM 
