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Digital Text in the Classroom

Digital Text links

Obtaining Digital Materials

http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=181
CAST overview of how to obtain digital text, images, sounds and video

Converting print materials to digital form

http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=182
CAST guidelines for digitizing existing curriculum materials

Locating Digital Text Online

eText Spider
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=1300
CAST's tool for searching multiple eText sources at once.

Other sources of digital text:

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Catalogue with roughly 2,000 entries of e-texts, mostly on gopher servers
American Library Association Great Sites
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/litw.html (black & white version)
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lit.html (color version)
Comprehensive list of links to literature and language Web sites for children
Children's Literature Web Guide (University of Calgary)
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Internet resources related to books for children and young adults
Electric Library
http://www.elibrary.com
On-line research database containing: newspaper and magazine articles; works of literature; television, radio, and government transcripts; and reference materials such as an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a thesaurus
The Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html
An extensive listing of prose and poetry e-text available for downloading
Electronic Texts Journals Newsletters Magazines and Collections
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/eresources
On-line listings of sources of e-text of collected works, magazines, newsletters, and scholarly journals
Etext Archive
http://www.etext.org/
Eclectic subject matter availabe to download as e-text
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Links to picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables, magazines, and information about authors
KidPub WWW Publishing
http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Thousands of stories written by children all around the world
Literature Online from Chadwyck
http://lion.chadwyck.com/
A fully searchable library of over 250,000 works of English and American literature
On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Directory of sources for over 6000 on-line books
Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/
http://www.gutenberg.net/
Light literature (such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, or Aesop's Fables), heavy literature (such as Moby Dick or Paradise Lost), and references (such as almanacs, encyclopedias, or dictionaries) in downloadable formats
Weller Media Products
http://dlcwest.com/~wmp/Books.html
Directory of electronic books

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