Digital Text in the Classroom Links

Digital Text links

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

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

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

• 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