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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
http://www.go.grolier.com

Encyclopedia Americana Provides comprehensive information that�s 
in depth, reliable,and up to date.Includes all academic subjects 
and curriculum topics.
http://www.go.grolier.com

Lands and People
http://go-passport.grolier.com/

The New Book of Popular Science
http://go-passport.grolier.com/

Pandora--free,commercial-free music of any genre. I prefer 
baroque, classical, ala Mozart.  It's what I have playing softly 
in the library all of the time.
http://www.pandora.com

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 
(audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 
player and listen on the go, Listen to the Mp3 files on your 
computer, View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen 
to the book.
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/author/authors.html

No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with 
a facing-page translation into modern English�the kind of 
English that people speak today.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

How Stuff Works--a website that explains everything about 
everything and then some.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Google Documents--You have to sign up for a free gmail account, 
but Google Documents lets you create spreadsheets, powerpoints, 
and word documents that you can then share, collaborate, and 
publish on-line.  Excellent for group projects and you can 
retrieve them anywhere there is Google!
http://www.gmail.com/

Bob Bowman's free educational technologies index page--all that 
you could hope for in free links and tech stuff!
http://www.user.shentel.net/rbowman/files/fettab3.htm

Bibme.org is a great place to compile your bibliography--it's 
free and it keeps track of the books that are used in your papers.
http://www.bibme.org

Timelines--Google News Timeline
http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

Hundreds of websites for every subject.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html

The Encyclopedia of Psychology is a collection of links to many 
areas of psychology.
http://www.psychology.org/

DiscoverySchool.com has links to over 200 sites on current 
events, math, science, history, and English
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/

Webster's Dictionary is an easy-to-search on-line dictionary
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/

Thesaurus.com is a basic source of synonyms and antonyms.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/

A Web of Online Dictionaries represents more than 1000 
dictionaries and links to different language dictionaries.
http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml

Merriam-Webster On-line Dictionary is available for your use.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Fedstats includes all of the statistics accumulated by our 
Federal government in an easy to access format...
http://www.Fedstats.gov

CIA World Factbook is available for information &statisics on 
foreign countries.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

FedWorld is a listing of all federal sites available on the web.
http://www.FedWorld.gov

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and 
sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos 
and videos to the world.
http://www.flickr.com/

Franklin Institute Science Museum is a wonderful place to visit 
and its website is user-friendly.
http://www2.fi.edu/

ScienceNet provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science 
educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-
based Internet experiences for students.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/

Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource -
Glossary of terms. Material ranges from undergraduate to research 
level.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Dave's Math Tables has math tables for many areas of math from 
general math to advanced calculus. Includes areas formulas and 
integral approximation formulas.
http://math2.org/

The History Channel is a cable television station offering 
programming related to historical events and people.
http://www.historychannel.com

The History Place is an informative website focussing on American 
history from the Colonial period to present-day. Many on-line 
exhibits include timelines, photographs and famous ...
http://www.historyplace.com/

Hyper History Online navigates through 3 000 years of World 
History with links to important persons of world historical 
importance; ...
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Mapquest--Find directions for and explore towns and cities 
worldwide. Display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, 
get driving directions and maps, ...
http://www.mapquest.com/directions

Smithsonian Institution Home Page, the world's largest museum 
complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 
research centers, ...
http://www.si.edu/

WebMuseum, Paris is a wonderful website featuring all artists and 
their works, especially Cezanne.  This site offers images and 
historical context for artists and art movements ranging from 
Gothic and Renaissance to Impressionism and Pop.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

Art History--Metropolitan Museum of Art-- The Heilbrunn Timeline 
of Art History provides an overview of the history of art as 
illustrated and represented in the Museum's collection.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htM

Art History--What you need to know about Art History, including 
artist biographies, timelines , movements and schools, museums, 
images and picture galleries, events, ...
http://arthistory.about.com/

The Sistine Chapel was built between 1475 and 1483, in the time 
of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, the Sistine Chapel has originally 
served as Palatine Chapel. ...This site gives you a full tour 
with closeups of certain art.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html

PBS History contains biographies of dozens of men and women whose 
lives have shaped the course of history as well as links to 
masterpieces of film/tv produced for history buffs by American 
Experience, American Masters, Ken Burns' series, NOVA, POV, and 
others.
http://www.pbs.org/history/

MIT OpenCourse - Resources for all classes
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

Using RSS Feeds in Education
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf

Rubric Creating Site
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Microsoft Office 2007 Tutorials
http://inpics.net

Video-Sharing site featuring videos for use in education:
http://teachertube.com

UPenn Guide for Internet Literacy and Accuracy:
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/tutorials/webliteracy/end.html

A "social-bookmarking" site for sharing and searching 
bookmarked websites.  This site is now available from our 
school's computers.
http://del.icio.us

Free Internet tools for implementing technology into the 
classroom:
http://www.4teachers.org

The best multimedia instruction on the web to help you with your 
homework and study for free. The HippoCampus website uses Adobe 
Flash,recommended is Adobe Flash Player 7.0 or higher installed 
on your system.
http://www.hippocampus.org/

Jing is free software that allows you to the web, emails, and IMs 
instantly.
http://www.jingproject.com/

Zamzar allows you to convert and download video files that would 
otherwise not be allowed by our firewalls.
http://www.zamzar.com/

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary. Look up words to 
find their meanings and associations with other words and 
concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how 
words associate.
http://www.visuwords.com/

Google Scholar has legitimate academic quality articles and 
information that is perfect to use in research papers. Google 
Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many 
disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and 
articles.
Features include:
Advanced Scholar Search
Books
About Google Scholar
Images Web
Google Home
Services & Tools
http://scholar.google.com

Famous Poets and Poems is a free poetry site. We have a large 
collection of poems and quotes from over 550 poets. Read and 
Enjoy Poetry.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Introduces the men and women who shaped the 20th century. 
Includes profiles,biographies, and interviews.
http://achievement.org

Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers 
and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands 
of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and 
amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has 
been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images 
donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
http://pics4learning.com/

National Museum of American History is one of the Smithsonian 
Institution museums located on The Mall in Washington DC.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/

Free translations needed....The translator will not produce a 
perfect translation. In most cases it should adequately convey 
the general sense of the original; however, it is not a 
substitute for a competent human translator. English to 
French...Spanish...or the other way round...
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html

US Government--government made easy.  All the info you need about 
our 
government 24/7.
http://www.usa.gov/

Landmark Supreme Court Cases 
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of 
resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark 
Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of 
each case.
http://www.landmarkcases.org/

Infomine--Scholarly Internet Research Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

The Web 2.0 Guru has lots of interesting ideas for moving 
teachers and students into the 21st century without a lot of 
kicking and screaming.
http://web20guru.wikispaces.com/

Stocksquest game--a free online stock market simulation game that 
whole classes or individuals can play.  It includes lessons and 
keeps track of the money and trades for you.  Delightful to most 
bulls!  You can trade short, bears!
http://investsmart.coe.uga.edu/C001759/stocksquest/mystocks.htm

This is a “Persistent Link” to your Ebscoadmin report:
http://eadmin.epnet.com/eadminplinks/direct.aspx?
type=R&reportID=7833302335233723355331133A3334
http://eadmin.epnet.com/eadminplinks/direct.aspx?type=R&reportID=7833302335233723355331133A3334

Fordham has an Internet Modern History Sourcebook with full texts 
and many goodies.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Timeline of the Twentieth Century
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

The program that we put up for the plp twentieth century learning 
practices.But it's too large to put on Google Docs with a link.  
I'll try a few other things.
plp thing


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