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The article reviews several professional development web sites including Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki at http.//wiki.literacytent.org/, Thinkfinity Literacy Network (TLN) at http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/TLN/courses, and Adult Ed Online at http://www.adultonline.org.

The article previews various web sites including Medicine Plus sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, Health Roads Media, and Health Literacy Special Collection.

The author describes several Web sites that feature free online videos useful for adult classroom instruction or for professional development. They include the Annenberg Media video library site at http://www.learner.org/, the Media Library of Teaching Skills for adult learning and literacy at http://mlots.org, and the TeacherTube site at http://www.teachertube.com.

The article recommends several vocational counseling web sites, including the "Occupational Outlook Handbook" of the U.S. Department of Labor, Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS) in the U.S. and The Riley Guide.

The article reviews several web sites for online and distance learning including Scriblink located at http://www.scriblink.com/, Evernote located at http://evernote.com/and Moodle at http://moodle.org/.