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The UK newspaper The Guardian hosts this online teacher network, which includes articles (top page) as well as a resource database accessed through this page. You can filter by subject, grade level and even creator type (e.g. Guardian, teachers or partners). While there is a decidedly UK slant, there might be some neat teaching ideas here.

The website's tag line is "songs for teaching, learning & fun." Created, in part, with an NSF grant, the site's founders are interested in studying the "usefulness of music in science and math education." The searchable database is great, and the blog is interesting -- conferences and other updates on topics of interest to those interested in the intersection of music and education.

Created by the Annenberg Foundation, this site provides a variety of classroom resources for teachers, including Lesson Plans. Lesson plan database can be searched by grade level as well as subject area.

Created by Cheryl Carter (n.d.). as part of the Southern LINCS database. From the database's home page, LINCS is "a national electronic information and communication system for adult literacy." The lesson's stated objective is to help learners understand "registers of language,...distinguish between different registers...and utilize these registers for more effective communication." This lesson is based on Ruby Payne's work.

TO'C taught a full lesson on language registers, week 13, semester 4.

A collection of related studies looking at college completion and student success from the ECS Research Studies Database. Studies are from a variety of sources -- not the ECS (e.g. Journal of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, and American Educational Research Journal).

Center for Student Success (CSS) is part of the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP group). This is a database of nearly 300 case studies.

Trudy Smoke, Published in Journal of Basic Writing, Vol 20, No 2 Fall 2001, pages 88-96. This bookmark is to the citation in ERIC. Article is available through the ProQuest Research Library database.

By Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long, forthcoming in Economic Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Success, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein, eds., Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2006. Looks at preparation and remediation generally, but also focuses on a database of students maintained by the Ohio Board of Regents.

By George Hillocks, Jr. Published in Rhetoric Review, Vol 7, Issue 2 Spring 1989, pages 257-272. This bookmark is to the citation within the publisher's database. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

This site offers a searchable database of materials in a variety of subject areas, from Arts to Social Sciences, in all grade levels (Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary). As the site notes, "OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know."

eduTecher is a great place to look at new educational technologies, or to find just the right technology to do a job (e.g. document collaboration or word clouds). Each tool is reviewed by the staff, and users can search the database various ways. While many tools have a K-12 focus, there are plenty that would be useful in postsecondary education as well.

By Kristen di Gennaro in Journal of Basic Writing, v 27(1), p. 61-79, 2008. This page, from the ERIC database, includes an abstract for this article. The article itself is subscription only. Please check with your local library for more assistance.

This site (currently in Beta) was founded by James Gee and is essentially a database of in-progress projects, begging for feedback/interaction/collaboration with and by others. For more on the site, click through or follow the wep tag to see the About page.

Part of UD's Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, this program offers workshops at the K-12 or post-secondary level for how instructors can integrate problem-based learning into their own classrooms. The PBL Clearinghouse, a "peer-reviewed online resource" collects PBL problems and articles. Additionally, the site offers resources including sample syllabi and projects.

Published by the University of Nottingham (UK). This site is a "continually updated collection of peer-reviewed academic development resources...[ranging from] "2-5 minute videos [to] 500-1000 word texts...." There are a variety of entry points to access the materials, ranging from discipline areas (on this page) to themes (see Teaching & Learning themes at the top). I also like the Guest editor block (this page, lower left), where a faculty member writes a brief editorial and selects resources of interest.