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SPECIALIZED, ACADEMIC OR SCIENTIFIC SEARCH ENGINES
LIBRARY AND REFERENCE
STATE EXAM - HOW DID YOUR SCHOOL DO?
State Education Agencies Addresses
Education Resource Organization Directory
Directory of Special Libraries in the Toronto Canada Area
NameBase - Look up the name of someone
META SEARCH ENGINES
| Mycroft | Lexicool |
RESEARCH SITES FOR STUDENTS
ASK A
LIBRARIAN
The Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) is part of the Education Digital Library Initiative of the US Department
of
Education.
Blythe Allison Bennett - Virtual Reference Desk Coordinator,
AskNSDL Coordinator, National Science Digital Library, NSF
Information Institute of Syracuse, Syracuse University
blythe@iis.syr.edu or blytheb@vrd.org
The Library and the Internet: Ten Good Reasons to Use the Library
You can find All the Libraries on the internet
Use Google for academic research
Searching the Knowledge Finder Libraries 8th grade -12th gradeOver one million documents from selected web sites dealing with education and development is fully searchable and links are regularly checked The contents of this virtual library includes documents from around the world and aims to support and enhance the work of learners, educators, administrators and policy makers.
WIKIVERSITY free, open learning environment and research community. Online courses are being created as a form of co-operative and interactive exchange of knowledge.
Search Quilt - tells you what's being searched for and then gives you a nice one-page meta-search for them.
Read Burner - site monitors "several hundred" linkblogs.
RESEARCH SITES FOR 12 and Under
Kids 12 and under You can even limit a search to just pre-school friendly sites.
Blue Web'n
Learning
Sites Library
Sites organized by subject and categorized into online tutorials, activities, projects or lessons
Internet Public Library Youth
Division
Click on the subject categories to find hand-picked web sites which will help you learn about math,
science,
arts, music and more... from the University of Michigan's School of Information.
Multnomah County
Library's
Homework Center
Explore web sites categorized into subject areas by librarians from Multnomah County, Oregon.
Questia the Online Library
The world's largest online library of over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper
articlesRead all books and articles in their entirety Create footnotes and bibliographies automatically
Useful for high school students, college students, educators, and book lovers.
Biographical Dictionary
Includes more than 25,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the
present
day. It can be searched by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and
artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - Over 1000 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a great web site related to it.
Etymology Dictionary provides a dictionary of word origins. Info about each term includes when the word first begin to appear and how the meaning changed through the years.
Fagan Finder known for its many search engines, now offes an image search engine The main body of the image search is a query box and a series of radio buttons that allows you to choose the resource to search. Categories to search include search engines (including Google and AltaVista), Graphics and Clip Art (including Clipart Connection and Icon Browser) and Regional and Historical (including Library of Congress and Images Canada.) Hold your mouse over the name of each resource to get a complete description in a popup window.
FAVORITE TOOLS
FIND YOUR SCHOOL WEBSITE.
IS YOUR SCHOOL WEBSITE ONLINE? IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT PLEASE PUT IT THERE
BUG ME NOT- gives you the password so that you keep your privacy.
Clear Instructions that teach you how to Search
Webquests Defined
Teachers can use webquests to create Web-based learning pages that include the teacher's choice of
Internet links and activities focused on achieving a specific goal. Written by Creator Dr. Bernie Dodge,
this page goes into the components of a Webquest and then provides links to examples as well as a
template
for designing your own.
The Spider's Apprentice http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
Spidap (as it's affectionately known) is not another search engine. It doesn't crawl the Web looking for new URLs. It can't find stuff for you -- iIt helps you find it yourself. The folks behind Spidap figure out which search engines are most effective (even rating them, first in brief and, separately, more in-depth). It also includes ongoing discussions of new search engines and their techniques.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
A part of New Jersey Online, this site appeals to kids in the most primitive way -- using the gross-out factor -- in a unique way to interest children in science. The latest feature of this award-winning Web site is "Your Gross and Cool Body," on human biology. Kids (parents & teachers too) can learn about why one farts, burps, snores & more -- with clickable questions, sound effects (oh no!) and interactive Q&A.
ClicNet- French Culture & Literature http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu
This site is passed along by Gene Klotz at
Swarthmore, ClicNet is a "virtual center for Francophone culture & literature" suited for
all students of the French language, its arts and more. It has lots of contentdirectly applicable for
classroom use or casual interests.
CU-SeeMeFor configuring CU-SeeMe to optimal settings, from the horse's mouth:
National State Legislatures www.ncsl.org/public/sitesleg.htm
National State Legislatures, one-stop
entrance to state agencies, etc. and local representatives"
AskAsia www.askasia.org/
Extensive collection of primary sources on all parts of Asia and its cultures, with discrete learning
modules and navigation aids for educators, this Web site is excellent for teaching and casual learning
as
well. It's sponsored by the Asia Society.
Black History Month Spotlight Feature
Music - Ideas for Classroom Use
WebQuests
Professor Bernie Dodge, San
Diego
State University, coined this term in 1995 for a structured approach to utilizing the Internet to teach
any subject in any grade.
Ethics & Intellectual Property
Resources
Technology creates innovative learning environments -- and unearths new
problems, copyright issues and ethical questions. This is an extensive page of links on some of the
issues
involved.
Free Education Newsletters
Features five newsletters
that deal with the government's involvement with
K-12 education:
* Community Updates
* OERI Bulletin
* Improving Schools
* EdInfo
* Ed Initiatives
Technology Coordinators Home Page
EurekAlert! http://www.eurekalert.org
A "best site" for science news for reporters, researchers and the curious public. This SunSITE was the first to post the news of "life on Mars," for example.