Learning to Learn


Resources for teachers, developers, and support professionals

All of this courtesy of Joseph Frank Landsberger

GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials™
"The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!"

"The Open Directory Project (ODP)
"is the most comprehensive human edited directory of the Web, compiled by a vast global community of volunteer editors. The ODP powers core directory services for some the most popular portals and search engines on the Web, including AOL Search, Netscape Search, Google, Lycos, DirectHit, and HotBot, and hundreds of others."

WEBAim: a primer including key principles of accessible website design. "Most accessibility principles can be implemented very easily and will not impact the overall "look and feel" of your web site."

CAST: Research & Development in Universal Design for Learning : draws on the latest brain research and multimedia technology toward more effective professional development, policy and practice, products, and publications;researches and develops ways to support all learners according to their individual strengths and needs.

Scout Report: " has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata" since 1994. Located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus.

 A Quick Guide to Writing Learning Objectives by Don Clark

Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model (SCORM): "a compilation of technical specifications for web-based e-learning. The SCORM standards are governed and published by the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL). Among SCORM goals are to enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content for industry, government, and academia"

Curriki: A global education wiki. The Global Education & Learning Community with a " mission .. to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free!" The mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with free and open source curricula.

SMETE Digital Library is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. 

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."