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