This is a web page with a collection of links to online resources for Special Education teachers. This page is a subset of the larger Educationworld.com website. Links are categorized into broad areas and a short description is given for the contents of each link.
This is a good entry level resource for Special Education teachers
Type of Material:
Collection of links to resources on the web.
Recommended Uses:
This is most useful as an online reference. It can be consulted when educators or parents are engaged in information-seeking about Special Education resources.
Technical Requirements:
Any regular internet browser will work.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This web page provides Special Education teachers with links and access to a range of organization, association and online resources.
Creates awareness among Special Education teachers about the range of resources that are available to them online. Provides an accessible classification system fro resources.
Target Student Population:
Useful for Education majors and Special Education majors at university. It also useful for Special Education teachers at the beginning their careers and parents of differently-abled children who wish to become involved in their education.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
No prerequisites
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Links are provided to the websites of national associations and organizations as well as to completely online resources.
Links are classified into specific areas of interest
Annotations are provided for each link giving a brief overview of information provided at the link.
Concerns:
This resource consists of only one web page and the quantity of resources provided is very limited. There are 16 links to other web sites. Many of these links are dead. They lead to websites that don't exist anymore, 404 error messages for pages that don't exist on current websites.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This web page provides one location with links to national organizations working with special education populations.
Concerns:
Approximately 50 percent of the links don't work. They go to web sites that don't exist, to 404 error pages on existing websites and to feedback forms on other websites
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This link repository is easy to use and the annotations are very helpful in knowing about what will be found at the link location given.
The organization of links into groups is helpful in deciding which aspect of Special Education to follow up.
Concerns:
The repository is very limited because of the quantity of resources collected. Many of the links are dead. They are not current and are therefore not useful.
Creative Commons:
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