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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/ -
"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 -
"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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