Pacific Grove Adult Education
Internet Links

Inservice Day Activities 6/7/97

Resource Links for the four
Domains of Adult Education:

1. The Adult as Effective Parent and Family Member
2. The Adult as LifeLong Learner
3. The Adult as Productive Citizen
4. The Adult as Productive Worker

and:
Adult Instructor Resources
Search Engines

We will update this list as recommended by our Instructors and Staff.

The Adult as Effective Parent and Family Member [top]

National Parenting Center - http://www.tnpc.com/
Resources and links for Parents and parent education professionals.

Family Literacy Center - http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/menu.html
Resources for building family literacy.

National Parent Information Network
http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/npinhome.html

ParentNet - http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/1055/parentnet.html
Movie reviews, parenting hints, networking: and links for parents.


The Adult as LifeLong Learner

Resources for Seniors [top]

SeniorNet - http://208.215.76.129/
A variety of resources and sites for seniors. Especially focused on building an online Senior Community.

Senior Com - http://www.senior.com/cityhall.html
Various resources addressing issues of importance for Seniors in California.

California Council for Older Americans - http://www.senior.com/npo/caoa.html
Includes updates on state legislation affecting Seniors.


English as a Second Language [top]

Dave's ESL Page - http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html
The Mother of All ESL Pages - a great collection of acitivities and links for both students and teachers

Frizzy University Network - http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~funweb/
Good and friendly site for ESL students to improve skills

The Virtual English Language Center - http://www.comenius.com/
All language skills addressed for the second language student.


E-mail Exchanges [top]

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections - http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
Great site for adults to locate email pals around the world in many languages.



The Adult as Productive Citizen [top]

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html

FedWorld - http://www.fedworld.gov/
Helps the user interface with the huge federal government. Friendly and useful.

American Memory - http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
Library of Congress site with source documents, exhibits, and articles relating to American History

California Home Page - http://www.ca.gov/s/
Who's who, and where to go to contact the state government.

California Legislature Home Page - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/index.html
Updates on legislation, contacts for legislators.

Monterey Bay on the Web - http://infomanage.com/MontereyBay/
Links to local government, schools, other local resources.


The Adult as Productive Worker [top]

Department of Labor One Stop Employment Training - http://www.ttrc.doleta.gov/onestop/
All the links you could want to get online information on job training,

Online Career Center - http://occ.com/
Lists and links of online career resources and job listings.

O*NET - http://www.doleta.gov/programs/onet/
A Department of Labor Site which has useful occupational descriptions
with skills and interest inventories. Good for Career Planning.


Adult Instructor Resources [top]

OTAN - http://www.otan.dni.us/
The best single source for adult education instructors. Everything from scholarly research to practical lesson plans in all curricular areas.

AskEric - http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu/
The most complete collection of research in education with a powerful search feature.

National Institute for Literacy -http://www.nifl.gov/
Comprehensive site relating to literacy skills Training

National Center on Adult Literacy - http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/
Resources addressing issues of literacy and training, including research and practica.

CASAS - http://www.casas.org/
Home page of the comprehensive assessment battery for adult students.

California Department of Education - http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
Directories, policy, staff, announcements.

World Wide Web Workbook - http://sln.fi.edu/primer/newprimer/primer.html
A primer on how to use web pages--a great place for new students to start.

SCORE Sites (Schools of California On-line Resources in Education) [top]
A group of California County Offices of Education have been collecting lesson plans,
instructor resource information, and links in these four subject areas:

History/Social Science SCORE - http://www2.rims.k12.ca.us/score
Language Arts SCORE - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cla.html
Mathematics SCORE - http://score.kings.k12.ca.us
Science SCORE - http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us


Search Engines (a few...) [top]

MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com)
Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.com)
Excite (http://www.excite.com)
InfoSeek (http://www.infoseek.com)
Lycos (http://www.lycos.com)
Web Crawler (http://www.webcrawler.com)
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)



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This page maintained for the PG Adult Ed Program by Bruce Cates
Comments or questions to: bcates@pgusd.org
Last updated: 2/10/1999

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