civic education

Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky who-is-at uoknor.edu)
Tue, 6 Aug 96 10:37:24 -0500

If you want to use the WWW for either personal enlightenment or the
education of students, here's a list of web sites that'll help prepare the
populace for the fall elections:

Politics Now (summaries on issues): www.politicsnow.com/issues/

AllPolitics (CNN/Time briefings): allpolitics.com/issues

Rate Your Rep (compare your voting decisions with those of your rep)
voter96.cqalert.com/cqrate.html

Smarter Voter Guide (League of Women Voters primer):
www.lhj-lwv.com/smarter/voting.html

Forum One (search engine for online discussions): www.ForumOne.com/

Direct Access (Tues, 6PM chatroom with public figures):
www.politicsnow.com/interact.direct/

Congressional E-Mail Directory (self-explanatory)
www.webslingerz.com/~jhoffman.congress-email.html

Interactive Democracy (from Conservative Generation X) www.cgx.com/id.html

Institute for Study of Civic Values (toolbox to build a better citizen):
www.libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html

Civic Practices Network (community problem solving toolkit): www.cpn.org

Federal Web Locator (guide to 3 branches of govt):
www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html

Thomas (Library of Congress site on House/Senate activity: thomas.loc.gov

Vote Smart Web (links to civic sites) www.vote-smart.org/

Charlotte's WWWeb (links to citizen groups, reform groups, etc.)
www.emf.net/~cr/homepage.html

Window on State Government (Texas info) www.sindow.state.tx.us/

Project Vote Smart (Texas link) (descriptions of candidates)
www.vote-smart.org/state/Texas/legis/election.html

Power the Vote (League of Women Voters and Ladies Home Journal mail
registration site): www.lhj-lwv.com/register/register.html

Peter Smagorinsky
University of Oklahoma
College of Education
Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum
820 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, OK 73019-0260
office phone: (405)325-3533
fax: (405)325-4061
psmagorinsky who-is-at uoknor.edu