Links

[|Wolcott Destiny Catalog] Search the Wolcott High School Library Catalog
 * Library Catalogs**

[|FollettShelf Ebooks] Access Wolcott High School Ebooks.

[|Wolcott Public Library Catalog] Search the Wolcott Public Library Catalog

[|World Digital Library] "The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."

[|APPitic] "APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings."
 * Web 2.0 Resources for 21st Century Learning**

UDL Toolkit UDL (Universal Design for Learning) "provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs." This site, published by Joyce Valenza, provides us with several free resources that "promote learning for all students based upon principles of UDL."

Web 2.0 Guru This wiki houses hundreds of resources that "assist visitors with the information needed to redesign, retool and sustain truly robust 21st Century education institutions."

Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools This site contains links to presentation tools, research tools, video, tools, organizing tools, widgets and more.

[|Purdue OWL] "The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and they provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction."
 * Research and Database Links**

iConn "iCONN is part of the Connecticut Education Network. It provides all students, faculty and residents with online access to essential library and information resources. It is administered by the Connecticut State Library in conjunction with your local library. Through iCONN, a core level of information resources including secured access to licensed databases is available to every citizen in Connecticut. In addition, specialized research information is available to college students and faculty."

[|EBSCOhost] WHS has access to 12 EbscoHost databases that offer the most comprehensive collection of full-text reference resources available for secondary schools. These databases are designed for the research needs of both students and educators.

[|Discovery Education] "Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content that is immersive, engaging and brings the world into the classroom to give every student a chance to experience fascinating people, places, and events. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform."

IConn Newspapers IConn provides access to several newspapers including //Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, Hartford Courant – Historical, Historical Newspapers of Connecticut, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal// and //Washington Post//. Also provided are links to other multimedia news sources.
 * Newspapers**

[|Free e-books] "In order to help meet the growing demand for e-Books, this page presents major sources of free, downloadable e-Books at a time when iCONN is unable to purchase the most popular e-Books. iCONN provides these links as a convenience."
 * e-books**

Copyright friendly Wiki This wiki is filled with links to copyright free images, sound effects, music and much, much more.
 * Free Sounds and Images and Other Links**

[|Useful Charts] "Useful information in the form of study charts so that students, teachers or simply those interested in increasing their general knowledge can absorb the information quickly and visually."

InfoPlease Provided by Pearson Education, InfoPlease provides authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions and information.