Harnessing the
Power of theInternet
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David Warlick
Technology Educator and Author

david@landmark-project.com


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point.gif (834 bytes) Finding it on the Net
Links to Colleges & Universities
College & University Home  Pages http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
List of Colleges by  Country http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/college-email/country/index.html
Yahoo's List of  Universities by Country http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/
Finding Experts
Ask an Expert Page From New Jersey Network Infrastructure in Education http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
State Government Links
State & Local Government on the Net http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html
U.S. State Pages http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html
Federal Government Links
The Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html
U.S. Federal Government List of Sites http://www.fie.com/www/us_gov.htm
U.S. Federal Government Agencies http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Topic Oriented Directories
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Galaxy http://galaxy.einet.net
NewHoo http://www.newhoo.com
Netscape Netcenter http://home.netscape.com
Internet Start http://home.microsoft.com
LookSmart http://www.looksmart.com
Snap http://www.snap.com
Apali Spanish Language Directory http://www.apali.com
Education Related Directories
Yahooligans (Yahoo for children) http://www.yahooligans.com
Link-o-Rama (from Global SchoolNet Foundation) http://www.gsn.org/links/_cfm/links.cfm
G.R.A.D.E.S. (Global Resources and Educational Link Archives from Classroom Connect) http://www.classroom.net/Grades
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://capecod.net/schrockguide/
Landmarks for Schools http://www.landmark-project.com
Planet K-12 http://planetk-12.planetsearch.com/
Standard Search Engines
Search Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
Meta Search Tools
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com
DogPile http://www.dogpile.com
Highway 61 http://www.highway61.com
Kid-Friendly Search Engines
Ask Jeeves http://ajkids.com/
Disney Internet Guide (DIG) http://www.disney.com/dig/today/
Lycos SafetyNet http://personal.lycos.com/safetynet/safetynet.asp
S.E.A.R.C.H. Tutorial http://www.landmark-project.com/search/
point.gif (53 bytes) Harvesting Internet Resources
Text to Disk Saving the text of web pages to disk for importing into other information processing tools.
Text to Word Processor Moving text from web pages directly to a word processor for formatting or searching.
Tabular Data to Spreadsheet Moving columns and rows of data into computer spreadsheets for calculations and graphing.
Images to Graphics Software Saving computer images to disk for importing into graphics software for enhancement and manipulation.
Web Harvesting Products
Web Whacker http://www.bluesquirrel.com/whacker/
Web Buddy http://www.datavis.com/dataviz.htm
Teleport Pro http://www.tenmax.com/pro.html
NetAttaché Light http://www.tympani.com/
Permission Templates
Template 1 Permission for the teacher to use Internet resources for developing teaching materials.
Template 2 Permission for the teacher to harvest (whack) web pages or sites for use by students for a limited amount of time.
Template 3 Permission for students to use Internet resources for completing their projects
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Software
AOLPress (Mac OS & Win) http://www.aolpress.com
Arachnophilia (Win) http://www.arachnoid.com/
Many Other Web Tools -- TuCows http://www.tucows.com/
HTML Tutorials
HTML Reference Manual http://www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/html_ref.html
Compendium of HTML Elements http://www.htmlcompendium.org/index.htm
HTML Quick Reference http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/HTML_quick.shtml
School Web Site Registries
Web66 International Registry of Schools on the Web http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Gleason Sackman's Hotlist of K12 Internet School Sites http://www.gsn.org/hotlist/index.html
Projects
International School CyberFair http://www.gsn.org/cf/
ThinkQuest http://www.thinkquest.org/
Project Based Learning from
Global School House
http://www.gsn.org/