Online Florida Educational Partners

The following school districts, community colleges or universities currently (as of June, 1999) have a homepage of information available via the Internet. In some cases, there are also links that include information pertinent to adult, vocational and community education, workforce readiness, and literacy providers. You will find direct links to the following when the information was available:

Adult Education Programs;
Community Education offerings;
District Technology Plans that impact adult & community educators or even literacy providers;
VACE or Vocational Departments with workplace emphasis;
Community Colleges homepages in the service area;
Universities in the service area.

You will find useful liks to sites via URL's in the following locations:

District Programs
Community Colleges
Universities

Additional sites will be added, including community -based organizations and businesses, as the information is made available. Every attempt will be made to link pertinent sites which offer workforce readiness skills or adult and community education.

District URL's in Florida

Alachua County URL: http://www.sbac.edu/

Alachua county has a Technology Plan for the District (http://www.sbac.edu/district/techplan.html). Check and see if VACE is mentioned in the plan. Take a look at the URL: http://www.sbac.edu/~it/ . This page includes a link to how you and yours can get free computers for your learners as well as a lot of other valuable resource information related to purchasing equipment.

Bay County URL: http://www.bay.k12.fl.us/commed/commed.html

Bay County's Community Education home page.

Brevard County URL: http://www.brevard.k12.fl.us/

Home page for Brevard County. A number of individual schools linked. Check to see if there is any evidence of VACE involvement.

Broward County URL: http://www.browardschools.com/main.htm

Collier County URL: http://www.naples.net/educate/zadmmain.htm

Collier County District site. Has a specific link for Adult Education information (http://www.naples.net/educate/adulted/zadlted.htm). Also has information on Vocational offerings (http://www.naples.net/educate/votech/votech.htm) with class schedules for adult basic education, child care instruction, literacy training, etc.

Dade County URL: http://dcps.dade.k12.fl.us/

Home page for Dade County. A large number of individual schools on the web. Extensive information on multicultural programs available (URL: http://dcps.dade.k12.fl.us/www/inst/multcult.html)

Some innovative programs involving school-to-home connections that could be adapted for VACE. URL: http://dcps.dade.k12.fl.us/www/inst/h_school.html. Also has a graph reporting the state-of-affairs regarding computers available per student. Such information needs to be recorded statewide, specifically related to adult students.

Duval County URL: http://www.duval.k12.fl.us/

Duval County School District has a hiome page and has an Applied Technology homepage (URL: http://www.duval.k12.fl.us/atcd/index.htm). Saw no direct links to adult or community education.

Lee County URL: http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/

Home page for Lee County School district. One Tech center has a home page (URL: http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/nvt/). The District has a large number of individual schools with homepages.

Leon County URL: http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/Index.html

Leon County School District has a large number of schools online and anticipates all schools to be online by 1998 (URL: http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/DistrictServer/Schools/Index.html).Their technology plan is online (URL: http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/DistrictServer/Technology/TechPlan/Index.htm)

Okaloosa County URL: http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/

Excellent list of resources and links are available on Okaloosa School Districts homepage, including information as to how K-12 schools can get assistance in building web pages through Microsoft (URL: http://207.22.231.50:80/fetc/home.htm).

Links available to Okaloosa Walton Community College and to Adult Education department(URL: http://www.owcc.cc.fl.us/tech_ed/abe.html) Great example for other community colleges to follow or other school districts. Also has links to other colleges in the area.

Orange County URL: http://www.ocps.k12.fl.us/

Orange County School district's site appears k-12 oriented. Has an extensive list of web sites in Florida in business, education, etc., of particular use to families living in Florida.

There is a workforce-realted page at URL: http://www.ocps.k12.fl.us/workforce/.

For speakers of other languages, there is a a specific site at URL: http://www.ocps.k12.fl.us/registre/.

Osceola County URL: http://www.osceola.k12.fl.us/

Osceola has a number of web sites for individual k-12 schools within the district. So no evidentce of adult, vocational or community education.

Palm Beach County URL: http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/

Palm Beach Schoos has a link for adult and community education in the district. URL: http://www.flinet.com/~davce/. Great example of what all VACE programs could set up as a starting point.

Pasco County URL: http://www.pasco.k12.fl.us/

Pasco County has a number of individual schools with web pages. See URL: http://careers.pasco.k12.fl.us/ for information about career, vocational and adults programs..

Pinellas County URL: http://www.pinellas.k12.fl.us/

Pinellas has one vocational education site that is online. Little information was available as to what programs are actually offered at the site.

Putnam County URL: http://www.firn.edu/schools/putnam/district/

Putnam has a homepage, but so no listing of VACE sites.

St. John's County URL: http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/index.html

St.John's District has a couple of technical sites that appear to be in process of loading information. What was St.Augustine Technical Center is now a Charter School, First Coast Technical Center. An extensive listing of courses is available on one of the pages (URL: http://www-satc.stjohns.k12.fl.us/)

St. Lucie County URL: http://plato.stlucie.k12.fl.us/

St. Lucie District has a web site. No mention of VACE programs.

Seminole County URL: http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/

The "museum and galleries" page under the cybersschool is a wonderful site for any age learner. this can be found at URL: http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/cyberschool/cyberschool.htm#Museums and Galleries. Techies and want-a-be techies should go to Browser Central and download some software or other tools for your use at URL: http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/site/browser%20central.htm.

Volusia County URL: http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/

Volusia District has all schools listed with basic information about location and contact. Some schools at lower levels have well-developed web pages. Saw no VACE programs.

A couple of alternative schools are located at URL: http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/schools/alted/.

Florida Community College Sites

With adult education, community education, or literacy -based prrograms or areas of studies.

Sante Fe Community College URL: http://www.santafe.cc.fl.us/

Seminole Community College URL: http://www.seminole.cc.fl.us

Valencia Community College URL: http://valencia.cc.fl.us/

Florida University Sites

With adult education, community education, or literacy -based prrograms or areas of studies.

Florida A & M University URL: http://www.famu.edu/

Florida Atlantic University URL: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/coe/leader.htm

Florida Atlantic University's College of Education has several sites of interest to adult educators, community educators and literacy providers.

Degree-related information for individuals interested in Educational Leadeship with an emphasis in adult education may find information at URL: http://www.fau.edu/gr-cat/
Individuals interested specifically in community education may find a wealth of information at URL: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/coe/fauced.htm
Information on the Community Education Digest can be found at URL: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/coe/cerd.htm
Those persons interested in literacy and adult, vocational or technology education will find extensive information and additional links at URL: http://www.acenet.fau.edu/ideal/default.htm
Adult Education grants funded in Florida and exemplary educational practices in Florida, are located at the following sites:

For individuals interested in possible taking an online course in educational leadership specifically related to issues concerning adult and community education, the following is available: URL: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/coe/distance/EME6426/syllabus.htm or contact Dr. Valerie C. Bryan at bryan@fau.edu.

Florida Institute of Technology URL: http://www.fit.edu/

Florida International University URL: http://www.fiu.edu/

Florida State University URL: http://www.fsu.edu/

University of Florida URL: http://www.ufl.edu/

University of Miami URL: http://www.miami.edu/

University of Central Florida URL: http://www.ucf.edu/

University of South Florida URL: http://www.usf.edu/

As additional sites are added this information will be updated. If you are aware of adult and community education agencies, community colleges or universities with adult, comunity or literacy education programs, or literacy providers with homepages, please forward the URL addresses to Dr. Valerie Bryan to be included on this resource page.

bryan@fau.edu

Page designed and copyrighted by Dr. Valerie Bryan, Assistant Professor @FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33431,

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