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BACKFLIP
http://www.backflip.com
Backflip is a free service that allows you to store all your bookmarks
or favorites in one location and have access to them from anywhere in the
world where there is a web connection. You do need to sign up for the site’s
membership.
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MAIL2WEB
http://www.mail2web.com
This is a free Internet based email application which allows you to pick up
your email from almost any email server. It works with a PC, laptop, PDA, cell
phone, or Web TV. Simply enter your email address and password. In your
initial setup for cable-based and/or County email service you will need the
address of the POP server.
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Web
English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
This is a comprehensive Hotlist primarily for English teachers, however,
teachers of other curriculum areas will find many resources here as well. It
provides links to general professional resources, prose, drama, poetry, and
vocabulary sites, as well as Shakespeare, Olympics, Journalism, and Critical
thinking.
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Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) lets you search or browse thousands
of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and
projects from over 320 of the 438 GEM Consortium members. You can browse lists
organized by subject or keywords; search
by subject, keyword, title, or
grade level; and limit search results to materials that are free. A project of
the U.S. Department of Education, and located at the Information Institute of
Syracuse at Syracuse University.
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TinyURL.com
http://tinyurl.com
Tired of posting URLs in
emails only to have it break when sent thus causing the recipient to have to cut
and paste it back together? By entering in a URL in the text field on the TinyURL homepage, you can create a tiny URL that will
not break in email postings and never expires. This is a good solution if you
don't mind losing your domain identify and having a generic TinyURL address
instead.
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Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Rubistar is a tool to help the
teacher who wants to use rubrics for project based learning activities but does
not have the time to develop them from scratch.
May 2, 2003 Focus Group
Curriculum:
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Women
of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/
An annotated list of more than
four dozen phenomenal American women of the twentieth century "who left an
indelible mark on our nation." Browse decade by decade or in categories of
activists, reformers, politics and government, arts, media, space and science,
sports, and exploration. A DiscoverySchool.com site.
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Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WW II Arkansas
http://www.lifeinterrupted.org/
Life Interrupted is about Camp Rohwer and Camp Jerome in Arkansas during WWII. This site is a partnership between the
University of Arkansas and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. A beautiful interface (Flash) leads to a variety of
resources for teachers, students, and others with an interest in History and/or
Cultural Studies. Includes an interactive timeline, photos, VR panoramas.
- Vietnam Women's Memorial Project
http://www.vietnamwomensmemorial.org/
Did you know that over 265,000 women served in the armed forces of the United States? Nearly 10,000 women actually served in-country
during the conflict. Articles describe the types of jobs women performed during the war. Also includes first person narratives from women veterans, information
about the memorial, and links to more information.
For You as an Educator:
The
Irascible Professor: Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education Today
http://irascibleprofessor.com/
Created "to provide
intelligent commentary on the successes, failures, and foibles of the American
education establishment...with a modicum of wit, and without the rancor and
mean-spiritedness that characterizes so muchcommentary today." Frequent
guest commentaries and freelance submissions supplement the author's own
essays. Not searchable. Published irregularly by Mark H. Shapiro, professor of
physics at California State University,Fullerton.
Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant
to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Contains
useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic
books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles,
directories of researchers, and many other types of information. INFOMINE is
librarian built. Librarians from The University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, The University of Detroit - Mercy,
and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.
For You As A Reader:
- Readers' Café: A Virtual Meeting Place for Books and Readers
http://www.montgomerylibrary.org/readerscafe/
Great reader's advisory material: monthly Spotlight on themed bibliographies with brief annotations, book reviews
by readers and librarians, author of the month essays with links to more information, and book group suggestions. Some information is local but there is
plenty of general content and anyone may participate in the online book discussion. From the Montgomery
County (Maryland) Public Libraries.
- Page by Page
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
These are electronic versions of hundreds of the "best public domain books, available in easy to read
format." Because the site limits each screen to a brief amount of text, readers can bookmark where they left off in the text so they can get back to it
easily. Listed by author and title, with recent additions noted on the main page.
April 4, 2003 Focus Group
Curriculum
Support Sites:
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DiscoverySchool.com Lesson Plans
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Part of the larger DiscoverySchool.com Teacher Section, you can find hundreds of original lesson
plans, all written by teachers for teachers, organized by subject, grade, or
both. A side menu and a drop-down menu make browsing easy. Covers a wide range
of subject for grades K-12.
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PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Thousands of lesson plans and activities, organized in broad as Concepts Across the Curriculum,
presented as monthly themes.
- Teachers First Content Matrix
http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm
There are lots of things on this site; but the content matrix is one of the most useful when you are in a hurry.
In a simple table format, organized by grades (Elementary, Middle School, High
School) and subjects (art, astronomy, character education, drama, mind stretchers, physical education, writing, and world cultures to name a few). You
simply click on the one you're looking for and you get a big list of links with descriptions. The downside is: everything opens up in the TeachersFirst frame
which can be misleading. - Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols,and Abbreviations
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/
A searchable and browsable "tool for the look up of acronyms and other short terms used in scientific
works." Additionally, there are various reference tables, including the
Greek alphabet, Roman numerals, mathematical symbols and signs, various
conversion factors, periodic table of elements, ASCII codes, and more. - Teacher Created Materials: Free Stuff
http://www.teachercreated.com/free/
Teacher Created Materials is
an educational publishing company founded in 1982 by Rachelle Cracchiolo and
Mary Dupuy Smith, two classroom teachers. The section with the "free
stuff" contains Free Monthly Activities, Free Lesson Plans &
Activities, and Free Brain Teasers. Not a whole lot of stuff; but that makes it
pretty easy to use. Too bad there is no archive
- Life
Magazine
http://www.life.com/Life/
Covers and "classic pictures" from Life Magazine for the years
1936-1972, when it was
a weekly publication. Covers are searchable; pictures may be browsed by
edition, subject, or photographer. The covers section also includes "past
LIFE covers for this day."
March 7, 2003 Focus Group
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BACKFLIP
http://www.backflip.com
Backflip is
a free service that allows you to
store all your bookmarks or favorites in one location and have access to them
from anywhere in the world where there is a web connection. You do need to sign
up for the site’s membership.
-
MAIL2WEB
http://www.mail2web.com
This is a
free Internet based email application which allows you to pick up your email
from almost any email server. It works with a PC, laptop, PDA, cell phone, or
Web TV. Simply enter your email address and password. In your initial setup for cable-based and/or County email service you will need the
address of the POP server.
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Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
RubiStar is a tool to help the
teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to
develop them from scratch.
The Deep Web
BrightPlanet has uncovered the Deep Web – a vast reservoir of Internet content that
is 500 times larger than the known "surface" World Wide Web. The Deep
Web contains billions of high-quality documents in about 350,000 specialty
databases -- all hidden from view from standard search engines.
Deep Web Search
Tools
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Complete Planet
http://www.completeplanet.com/combined.asp
Discover
& Search 103,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines. BrightPlanet's, CompletePlanet is the
largest compilation of searchable databases and engines on the Internet --
40,000 listings and growing placed in a 7,000 category directory structure.
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A collection of Special
Search Engines
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm
A listing of uncommon search engine/directory links.
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Direct Search
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm
This "hidden" web resource is a growing collection
of sites not easily accessed through normal search engines. Maintained by
Gary Price, it includes news archives, bibliographies, government sites, ready
reference, and humanities.
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IncyWincy
http://www.incywincy.com/
A search engine for the "invisible" web, sites are
reviewed, annotated, and categorized. Keyword searching can be basic or
advanced.
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GEM
http://thegateway.org/
GATEWAY
TO EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS is sponsored by the U.S.Department of Education and is a special project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. GEM makes finding educational
resources easy, fast, and free access to lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational materials on the Internet. Efficient & Effective – NOT overwhelming & time consuming. Combines
the best features of search engines, directories
February 21, 2003 Focus Group
Curriculum
Support Sites:
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DiscoverySchool.com Lesson Plans
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Part of the larger DiscoverySchool.com Teacher Section, you can find hundreds of original lesson
plans, all written by teachers for teachers, organized by subject, grade, or
both. A side menu and a drop-down menu make browsing easy. Covers a wide range
of subject for grades K-12.
- PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Thousands of lesson plans and activities, organized in broad as Concepts Across the Curriculum,
presented as monthly themes.
- Teachers First Content Matrix
http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm
There are lots of things on this site; but the content matrix is one of the most useful when you are in a hurry.
In a simple table format, organized by grades (Elementary, Middle School, High
School) and subjects (art, astronomy, character education, drama, mind stretchers, physical education, writing, and world cultures to name a few). You
simply click on the one you're looking for and you get a big list of links with descriptions. The downside is: everything opens up in the TeachersFirst frame
which can be misleading.
-
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols,and Abbreviations
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/
A searchable and browsable "tool for the look up of acronyms and other short terms used in scientific
works." Additionally, there are various reference tables, including the
Greek alphabet, Roman numerals, mathematical symbols and signs, various
conversion factors, periodic table of elements, ASCII codes, and more.
-
Teacher Created Materials: Free Stuff
http://www.teachercreated.com/free/
Teacher Created Materials is
an educational publishing company founded in 1982 by Rachelle Cracchiolo and
Mary Dupuy Smith, two classroom teachers. The section with the "free
stuff" contains Free Monthly Activities, Free Lesson Plans &
Activities, and Free Brain Teasers. Not a whole lot of stuff; but that makes it
pretty easy to use. Too bad there is no archive
-
Life
Magazine
http://www.life.com/Life/
Covers and "classic pictures" from Life Magazine for the years
1936-1972, when it was
a weekly publication. Covers are searchable; pictures may be browsed by
edition, subject, or photographer. The covers section also includes "past
LIFE covers for this day."
February 7, 2003 Focus Group
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Google
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Vivisimo
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WiseNut
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Backflip.com
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Mail2web
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Bartleby.com
Internet publisher of literature, reference adn verse providing students,
researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books
and information on the web, free of charge.
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Booklists
for Young Adults on the Web
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The Gateway to
Educational Materials
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Lives, the Biography
Resource
Lives, the largest guide to biography sites on the Web, now provides
professional, customized design of personal biographical sites.
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Librarian's Index to the
Internet
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MagPortal
Magazine Article Search Engine, Directory, and Data Feeds
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Reading Rants
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RubiStar
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but
does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
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S.C.O.R.E.
Language Arts
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Scientific American
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Screen It!
Entertainment Reviews
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U. S. Census Bureau,
United States Department of Commerce
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Web English
Teacher
Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts
teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts,
criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
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