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Teaching and Learning Resources Resource Center: Exemplary Information
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Exemplary Curriculum Web Sites: Interdisciplinary: Back to School Resources - From Kathy Schrock's Discovery School page, including icebreakers, classroom management tips, and links to numerous curriculum sites. Center for Media Literacy - This site offers lesson plans and other resources related to integrating technology into the curriculum. The Commons - This collection of photographs for teaching was launched by the Library of Congress. Viewers can add tags and comments. One section has photos from the '30s and '40s. Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People - This page offers links in all areas of curriculum, including information literacy and technology. Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - This site is sponsored by the 30 federal agencies. Interactive Web Sites - Web sites listed by the Center School District for use with interactive whiteboards. KidsClick! - This site was created for students by librarians. Links are divided by content areas. The site has search lessons that classroom teachers and teacher-librarians may want to use with kids. LifeQuest Expedition - Includes the BRIDGE intergenerational study for school children based on the Big6! PBS for Library Media Specialists - PBS hosts a collection of resources to support the work of teacher-librarians and to encourage the integration of online resources. Reach Every Child - This site has the goal of reaching every child and teacher with resources for learning, particularly via technology tools. Sites for Teachers - The mostly free resources on this site cover all content areas and are arranged on the page by popularity, an easy what to learn what other teachers are currently thinking is useful. Surf Report - Wisconsin's Educational Communication Board publishes updates to a list of online project-based learning experiences for students. This is a well maintained and thoughtfully selected reference. Information Literacy: American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-century Learner - Released October 2007 Big6 Information Literacy Model - These six steps guide learners as they develop questions, locate resource, comprehend, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information and their learning process. NetSmartz - This site offers "activity cards" to help students at various grade levels learn to use the Internet appropriately. Web Searching: Web Directories: Discovery School.com - Kathy Schrock provides subject area access to resources, links to search tools, and "teacher helpers." Internet Public Library - This search directory has special features like KidSpace and TeenSpace that provide subject-area resources, many that support kids in doing homework or independent learning. The culture quests in the KidSpace may be helpful for curriculum planning. KidsClick! - Students can use these links to locate free and fair use images and sounds that they can then integrate into their projects. Use this link to conduct an image search. Use this link to conduct a sound search. Search Engines: For a complete review of search engines, visit a CNET article called "Searching Beyond Google and Yahoo: Nine Online Search Engines Compared." A9 - This search engine helps you customize your searches and save the results. Altavista - This search engine is superior for audio and video searches. It also has a specific English, Spanish feature that is particularly useful for some Southwest searchers. It does not include people searches. AOL Search - This tool doesn't have nearly as much power as Google.com. It does not offer people searches. AOL members get the best results with this search engine. Ask Jeeves - This was the first search engine to allow searches the opportunity to ask questions. It includes a feature that allows searchers to preview a site before opening it. This can save time. Ask Jeeves now includes a feature called "Bloglines" that allows users to set up, track, and/or search blogs. Google - There's a reason why everyone uses Google first. Reviewers have found that its greatest (or only) short-coming is in the area of multimedia searches. looksmart - This tool has a unique find-articles feature. Lycos - This one may be the best for people searches. It clearly separates sponsored links from general Web results. MSN - This search engine is not as robust as Google or Yahoo. It performs reference searches using Encarta. The advertising may be over-the-top for purists. ProFusion - This tool allows you to search these specialized databases and can be customized to search only the ones you are interested in. Yahoo - Along with Google, Yahoo is the most frequently searched tool. It offers superior multimedia searches as well as excellent local and people searches. Like MSN, it is littered with advertisements. |
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