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 Connecticut Department of Education http://www.state.ct.us/sde/adult/gedinfo.htm New Jersey Department of Education http://www.state.nj.us/education/ New York City Board of Education http://www.nycenet.edu New York City Office of Adult and Continuing Education http://oace.altschools.org New York State Education Department http://www.nysed.gov/ 
 Adult Basic and Literacy Education NET http://www.lhup.edu/ablenet/home.htm Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) Net is an online technology resource center helping practitioners integrate technology into instruction, administration, and staff development. Cyber Literacy State Education http://www.nyadulted.org ERIC Clearinghouse http://www.ericacve.org Federal government's adult, career and vocational education national information service including lesson plans and virtual library. Literacy Assistance Center http://www.lacnyc.org/ Literacy Online http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/ This site is a resource of news on current projects pertaining to literacy. With links to North American and international literacy sites, Literacy Online provides updated information about conferences and events. NC Literacy Resource Center http://www.nclrc.state.nc.us/home/ This online resource center provides a variety of resources to visitors, organized in three different categories: NCLRC (North Carolina Literacy Resource Center), Database & Links, and Teach & Learn. Each area of the site contains up-to-date information and research including lesson plans and related links. PBS Adult Learning Service http://www.pbs.org/als Western/Pacific Literacy Network: Learning Resources http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/ Learning Resources presents interesting adult literacy material in a way that is useful for multi-level literacy groups. Working independently or with an instructor, ESOL and literacy learners are supported reading stories from CNN’s San Francisco Bureau. Each story is presented in outline form, abridged form and the full text. The ability to listen to the text enhances the story and allows supported reading. Abundant interactive comprehension activities are easy to use and provide challenging work for more advanced learners. The comprehension activity, "Your Turn", allows students to respond to a question concerning the story. Learners use e-mail to submit answers that are then posted. The questions also lend themselves to class discussion and writing. The site is easy to use so the learner can work independently. Instructors can incorporate stories into lessons and can use the categories listed in the archives to work thematically.
 Test Prep Review http://www.testprepreview.com/ged_practice.htm This Web site provides valuable information focusing on "self-help" in your test preparation. It will help you structure and complete your test preparation and learn how to create a more open, relaxed format for test taking. The site will also help you make the diversity in learning styles a strength rather than a weakness. See how the best teacher is the person who knows you best- YOU! Access Excellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/ This innovative site is an online biology resource center for educators. It contains pages on a variety of biology topics, as well as issues of concern to educators. American Association for Adult and Continuing Education http://www.aaace.org Ancient/Classical History http://ancienthistory.miningco.com/mbody.htm?PID+2765&COB=home This site is chock full of useful and exciting information about ancient civilizations. Links provide in-depth articles describing ancient law, art, architecture, literature, education, and politics. CEC Lesson Plans http://www.col-ed.org/index_lessons.html The site contains a large quantity of lesson plans created by K-12 teachers for use in their classrooms. Lessons are arranged by content area and grade level, and provide GED teachers ample resources with which they may augment their coverage of various topics. Center for the Liberal Arts http://www.virginia.edu/cla/home.html This well-designed site provides teaching materials and source information for teachers using thematic approaches with a range of liberal arts disciplines. Developed for teachers of K-12 students, site content can often be usefully adapted by adult education professionals. The Cinderella Project http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html This site is a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale Cinderella from throughout the English-speaking world, dating from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Eisenhower National Clearinghouse http://www.enc.org/ The site includes an exciting variety of resources for math and science educators. Includes links and reviews of math and science sites, interviews with innovative educators, new ideas for teaching math and science, lessons and activities, and an online advice column. Memoirs http://www.asd.k12.ak.us/Schools/West/Memoir/MemoirIndex.html This site, though narrowly conceived, is a useful and entertaining resource for GED teachers and students exploring the genre of memoir. PBS Adult Learning Service http://www.pbs.org/als Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ This site provides learners with listening quizzes they can do online. Navigating between pre-listening, listening, and post-listening activities may be initially confusing for some. However, once familiar with this, the plain format is easy to navigate. While instructors may incorporate this into a lesson, it is generally better suited for independent study. There are general listening quizzes, academic listening quizzes, long conversations and short listening exercises all separated according to level of difficulty. The passages are relevant, authentic and often humorous. The wide variety of listening activities is a huge benefit.
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