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Adaptive Technologies

Alliance for Technology Access
http://www.ataccess.org/
The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based resource centers,  developers and vendors dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.

Bobby
http://www.cast.org/bobby/
Supply a URL and the name of a browser you wish the site to be compatible with and Bobby will analyze it both for accessibility problems and for html problems that will keep it from displaying properly in that browser.

Designing a More Usable World
http://trace.wisc.edu/world/
Advice from the Trace Center On Technology and Disability, on designing websites, kiosks, and other technology for the disabled.

Disability Graphics
http://www.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/disgraph.html
Collection of graphics that depict disabled people and objects of particular interest to the disabled community.

Iowa Program for Assistive Technology--Infotech
http://www.uiowa.edu/infotech/InfoTech.htm
InfoTech is a free information and referral service on assistive technology. The services provided include product information on adaptive devices, the Used Equipment Referral Service (UERS), the quarterly InfoTech newsletter, and funding information for Iowans. 

Resources for People with Print Disabilities
http://www.uky.edu/Subject/disability.html
Adaptations for the blind, the visually impaired, and the dyslexic.

Virtual Assistive Technology Center
http://www.at-center.com/
Includes downloadable free software for people with disabilities.

Bridging the Digital Divide
 

Bridging the Digital Divide:  The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html

Falling Through the Net II:  New Data on the Digital Divide
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/net2/

Impact of CTCnet Affiliates: Findings from a National Survey of Users of Community Technology Centers
http://www.ctcnet.org/impact98.htm

Losing Ground Bit by Bit:  Low-Income Communities in the Information Age
http://www.benton.org/Library/Low-Income/

What Color is the Net?
http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/97/11/index2a.html

Why is There a Gap in Home Computer Ownership among Middle-Class Hispanics?
http://www.cgs.edu/inst/trc_pacbell.html

Distance Learning

Association of Web-Based Learning
http://www.awbl.com/
An excellent set of documents and links for theory and instructional design for distance learning using the web, actual sample courses, and suggestions for evaluation of the courses.

Digital Libraries Initiative
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm
Project by several major research universities to "collect, store and organize the universe of available library information."

Distance Education
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resmay98.html
Extensive review of web sites, usenets, and other prime internet sources from College and Research Libraries News.

Distance Education at a Glance
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html
How to create, monitor, and evaluate distance education programs.

Distance Education Clearinghouse
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

Distance Learning: A Guidebook for System Planning and Implementation
http://scs.indiana.edu/de/dis_ed.html

Iowa Database: A Resource for Distance Education and Learning
http://www3.iptv.org/iowa_database/
Info on using the ICN, including a handbook on videoconferencing, ITTC rules, a K-12 demonstration project, and more.

Journal of Library Services for Distance Education
http://www.westga.edu/library/jlsde/
A brand new online journal addressing a critical problem for distance education programs. Subscription required.

Project ADEPT
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/adept/
As in, Assessment of Distance Education Pedagogy and Technology.

Information Literacy

CSU Information Competence Project
http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/index.html

Educause
http://www.educause.edu/

GET READY
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/attic/getready/

Information Competence - Define the Research Topic
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/01_define/index.html

Information Competence - IC Sites on the Web
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/related.html

Information Literacy
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/report94/rep7.html

 

 

 

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