Hunting for Treasure on the Internet: How & Why Teachers Should Become Net Savvy Researchers

NCAECT Conference

2-3-00

Presented by:
David Warlick
Raleigh, NC
david@landmark-project.com
http://landmark-project.com/dfw/
919-571-3292


Finding People
Searching for Digital Information
Searching the Internet: A Three Part Article (From Outside the Box)
Evaluating Internet Resources



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Finding People


point.gif (840 bytes) Finding Experts

Ask an Expert Page http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
Pitsco's Ask and Expert Page http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/cat/
The Mad Scientist Network http://medinfo.wustl.edu/~ysp/MSN/
The Franklin Institutes' Ask a Scientist Page http://sin.fi.edu:80/tfi/publications/askexprt.html


point.gif (840 bytes) Sources of Internet Mailing Lists

The Directory of Scholarly E-Lists http://n2h2.com/KOVACS
Liszt Directory of E-mail Discussion Groups http://www.liszt.com/
TileNet http://tile.net/
Publicly Accessible Mailing LIsts http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
Egroups http://www.egroups.com/eGroups/


point.GIF (840 bytes) Free E-mail for teachers and students
Gaggle -- free and secure e-mail for students with customized filteringh http://www.gaggle.net
Yahoo Mail http://www.yahoo.com
KOZ Mail http://www.koz.com
Excite Mail http://www.excite.com


point.GIF (840 bytes) Internet Mailing Lists that have Formed Professional Collaborative Communities

Send message to indicated address and type

Subscribe [listname] [your name]

in the body of the message.

List Name E-mail Address & URL
Net-Happenings listserv@lists.internic.net
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/net-hap/index.html
Media-L listserv@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
AltLearn listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
Edpolyan listserv@asuvm.inr.asu.edu
WWWEDU listproc@ready.cpb.org
http://edweb.gsn.org/wwwedu.html
Hilites majordomo@gsn.org
http://gsn.org/majordomo/info/hilites
K12Admin listserv@listserv.syr.edu
LM-Net listserv@listserv.syr.edu
Edresource EDRESOURCE-subscribe@egroups.com New
Searching for Digital Information
point.GIF (840 bytes) Topic Oriented Directories

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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.snap.com
Snap http://www.looksmart.com
Apali
Spanish Language Directory
http://apali.com/
Native Search
Directory of Native American Web Resources
http://nativesearch.com
point.GIF (840 bytes) Education Related Directories
G.R.A.D.E.S. from Classroom Connect http://www.classroom.net/Grades
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ Updated
Planet K-12 http://planetk-12.planetsearch.com/
Blue Web'n http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/categories.html
Link-o-Rama http://www.gsn.org/links/ New
Education World http://www.education-world.com/ New


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Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com
Excite http://www.excite.com
HotBot http://www.excite.com
Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
point.GIF (840 bytes) Kid Friendly Search Engines
Ask Jeeves http://www.ajkids.com/
Disney Internet Guide (DIG) http://disney.com/dig/today/
Lycos SafetyNet http://personal.lycos.com/safetynet/safetynet.asp
point.GIF (840 bytes) Meta Search Engines
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com Updated
DogPile http://www.dogpile.com
Highway 61 http://www.highway61.com


point.GIF (840 bytes) Good Links for Bookmakring

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Landmarks for Schools http://www.landmark-project.com
PBS Online http://www.pbs.org
Discovery Channel Online http://www.discovery.com
The History Channel http://www.historychannel.com
CNN Interactive http://cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/
http://cnn.com/video_vault/
http://cnn.com/CustomNews/
Earth Science Enterprise from NASA http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ese/science/
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ese/gallery/
Dictionary of Units
A wealth of information on units of measure.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm New
Paradign Online Writing Assistant
Paradigm provides a tutorial and reference service for
the writing of essays, thesis, argumentatives, etc.
http://www.idbsu.edu/english/cguilfor/paradigm/ New
World Atlas
You see a list of countries & regions. Click on the
country or region and receive a map and a wealth of
data and information about the country.
http://www.teachersoft.com/Library/ref/atlas/homepage.htm New


point.GIF (840 bytes) Web Harvesting Products

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Web Whacker from Blue Squirrel http://www.bluesquirrel.com/whacker/
Web Budy from DataVis http://www.datavis.com/datavis.htm
Teleport pro from Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems http://www.tenmax.com/pro.html
NetAttaché Light from Tympani Development http://www.tympani.com/