Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
[via History Tech (via David Warlick)] Good options for primary source documents are always a plus. Primary sources presented well are even better. Take a look at the National Archives’ Digital Vaults Collection. “Digital Vaults gives you and your kids a place to find raw materials that are arranged in ways that may make more [...]
Digital Vaults
Tags: Archives, primary source
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Are there times when you already know the definition of something but lack the word to describe it? Merriam-Webster’s visual dictionary is a resource for just that situation. 6,000 color images illustrating and defining over 20,000 items make this a great way to find the names of various things that you might otherwise have struggled [...]
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
Tags: dictionary, esl, reference, resource, visual
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
www.free.ed.gov There is a wealth on information available on the websites for government agencies. However, given that there are so many of them (agencies, that is), hunting down good stuff can be hard to do, especially for students who have less experience with search skills, or even a limited ability to scan through materials. This [...]
FREE – Federal Resources for Education Excellence
Tags: Archives, Elementary, Information Literacy, Middle, Research, Resources, Secondary
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
PBS Kids Go! “Don’t Buy It: Get Media Smart” helps students understand the ways in which people and products are often portrayed by the entertainment and advertising media. “Children spend the majority of their days consuming mass media. On average, children spend four-and-a-half hours a day using television, video games and computers. Yet children are [...]
PBS: Don’t Buy It
Tags: Elementary, Information Literacy, Resources
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
If you could customize the search results for your class searches would you do it? How would you tweak the results? Would you select a list of sites to search? Specify sites that should get preferred listing? A list of sites to leave out of the search? Google’s Custom Search allows such customization. With Custom [...]
Customized Search Results
Tags: Information Literacy, Research, Search
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
INFOhio recently announced the release of the new INFOsearch tool. INFOsearch allows the user to search many of INFOhio’s resources simultaneously. This resource will make it quicker and easier to locate good content via INFOhio. Records can be targeted toward the usual K-5 /6-8 /9-12 groups and can be filtered by resource types. Tip: This [...]
Announcing INFOsearch at INFOhio
Tags: Elementary, INFOhio, Middle, Research, Resources, Secondary
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