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Internet
Resources
Educational
Portals (great
starting points to find topics)
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
- Great starting point to find resources topics on the Internet.
- Elementary
Theme Pages by Jim Cornish - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html
- Great internet resources arranged by topic.
- Blue
Web'n - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
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"Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ Internet sites
categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities,
projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade
level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or
specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are
added."
- High
School Hub - http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm
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"The High School Hub is a noncommercial learning portal to
excellent free educational resources for high school students. It
features online learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a
reference collection, college information, and subject guides for
English, mathematics, science, social studies, and world
languages."
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Bookmarking
Sites
- Backflip - http://www.backflip.com/
- FREE - Access your bookmarks from any Internet connected
computer
- TrackStar -
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ - FREE - To see how to use this service, click Tutorial under More
Information.
- Filamentality
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
- FREE - To see how to use this service, click A Tour of the
Process. Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive
Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web,
gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning
activities. The learning activity formats include: Hotlist,
Scrapbook, Hunt, Sampler and WebQuest. The Hotlist format is a
good one for the Specialized Bookmark project.
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Search
Strategies
- Internet
Search Strategies -
http://lttechno.com/links/search.html
- Four main approaches to finding resources on the Internet: Web
Directories, Keyword Searches, Specialized Search Tools, and Guides
and Hot Lists are listed with examples. Also includes links to
search strategy tutorials and "Kid Safe" search engines.
- Choose
the Best Search for your Information Need -
Set in easy to read table format with information needed and which
search strategy to employ.
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Evaluating
Websites
- Using Your Noggin on the Net -
http://www.stillwater.k12.mn.us/csb/TL/brasst/Session%202/UsingYourNoggin.htm
- Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Surveys -
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html ...Forms for Elementary, Middle and Secondary Students.
- Evaluating
Web Resources: Links to Examples of Various Concepts -
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm
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Copyright
and Fair Use
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Copyright
and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web
- http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html
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Fair
Use - Take this quiz - http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/gayle/fairuse/fairuse.html
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WebQuests
- The
WebQuest Page (http://webquest.sdsu.edu/index.html)
Website created by the founder of WebQuests - Bernie Dodge. Many great
resources.
- WebQuest
Resources on the Internet (http://lttechno.com/links/webquests.html)
Many resources categorized by 1. Theories, Structures, and Principles
Present in WebQuests 2. Background Information 3. Examples 4. Steps in
Designing a WebQuest 5. Templates 6. Learning/Process Guides 7.
Rubrics for Evaluation
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