Learning Seed
Learning Seed provides a catalog and web site listing educational videos and CD- ROMs. Subjects covered include: foods and nutrition; parenting and children; thinking skills; consumer education, marketing education, multi-cultural, house and interior design, careers and job skills, clothing and fabrics. Most videos are less than 30 minutes and cost about $89. Videos may be previewed.
Contact information: phone 1-800-634-4941 Fax 1-800-998-0854 www.learningseed.com

Michigan State University Extension Out-of-School Time
At this site you will find a list of resources for out-of-school time programming assembled by MSU 4-H and Family and Consumer Sciences specialists and agents. There are also useful links for out-of-school time programming..
http://www.msue.msu.edu/cyf/OST

The Character Education Task Force of the Programs Committee of NAE4HA has been working on compiling a list of character education materials developed by Extension professionals. The site is an alphabetical list of materials for a variety of ages and settings, by title. Each item on the list includes a brief description, target age, cost and directions for ordering. The list includes both juried materials and materials that have NOT completed that process. The list has been posted on the following web site: http://www.reeusda.gov/4h/curricul/character-edu.htm

The 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System is a resource for printed materials (over 150 curriculum products) to support youth development programs K-12. The web site is www.n4hccs.org

Publications from the Search Institute for Out of School Time:

Tag, You’re It! by Kathleen Kimball-Baker, offers 50 ways for older community members to connect with youth. It is a simplistic representation of the Search Institute’s asset-building concept to involve adults in the lives of youths, 137 pages. $7.95.
Contact information: www.search-institute.org

More Building Assets Together by Rebecca Grothe, details 130 activities the author has bound effective in helping youth realize and develop their own potential.
Contact information: www.search-institute.org

Publications for Out of School Programs with teens:

Looking Glass: A Positive Communication Work-Book by Lynda Regan, Sally Jones and Carole Pelling.
This is a catalog of activities for youth workers interested in reaching out to young women.
Contact information: www.turnkeypress.com

For the Children: Redefining Success in School and Success in Life by Rob Langston begins with a personal account of the educational challenges Langston faced growing up with severe dyslexia. He talks to youth and explains the successes he has encountered since he accepted his disability.
Contact information: http://www.bookpros.com/Clients/For%20the%20Children/FTCHome.htm http://www.turnkeypress.com
http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2003/jan03/issue/spec_living.html

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD by Gary Fisher and Rhoda Cummings is written as a help for adolescents who have learning disabilities. Contact information: www.freespirit.com

Web Sites for Out of School Programs: http://northeast.osu.edu/neurban/outofschool/websites.html
The sites at this link were reviewed and found suitable and also interesting to youth of various ages. These sites are useful for out-of-school time programs so that the available computers can be both fun and educational for the children. The appropriate age for each site is noted Not all aspects of every site have been reviewed. This is not an endorsement.

Sites were selected and annotated by:
Joseph H. Konen, District Specialist, Urban Programs, Ohio State University Extension, Northeast District
1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691-4096
Voice: 330-263-3831 Fax: 330-263-3667 email:konen.2@osu.edu

Web Sites for Out of School Time Programs -- Sites in Spanish: http://northeast.osu.edu/neurban/outofschool/spasites.html
(see description above) These are different sites that are in Spanish