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Updated 1.16.12

IMSA Internet Site Electronic Evaluation Tool
Question everything you read on the WEB - WHY?
Web pages do not undergo the same rigorous selection processes that are typically applied
to information that appears in published books, magazines and newspapers.
Search Engines
Use this site for selecting the best search engine to use for your information needs. http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Search Engine Watch Use this site to keep up-to-date on search engines. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
IPL2 Internet Public Library - a subject directory of Internet resources selected and evalutated by librarians for their usefulness. http://www.ipl.org/
IMSA Search Wizard Search engine developed by the Illinois Mathmatics and Science Academy (IMSA)
http://21cif.com/tools/locate/
Search Engine Guide How search engines work and ranking websites. http://mimech.com/web-search/

Search Engines for the Invisible Web
Invisible Web Indexes and databases that are "invisible" or inaccessable to the spiders or crawlers that compile search engine indexes. http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/advicedepth.html
Academic Info A gateway to online college and research level Internet resources. The subject guides are useful for high school students.http://www.academicinfo.net/subject-guides
IncyWincy discovers search engines when spidering the invisibleweb http://www.incywincy.com/

Information Literacy: Search strategies and tips
Explains why each information source is important in the cycle. http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/research/timeline.htm
 
University of Illinois Library Services
http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/index.html
Unverisity of Hawaii's Libraray Research Tutorial http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/eif/ramona/eif2web.html
Oregon State University's Library Research Tutorial http://osulibrary.orst.edu/instruction/tutorials/
Purdue Univesity's writing and research site covers citing and evaluating resources, plagerism, etc. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Sites for Teachers and Parents
Thinkfinity features seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, panel-reviewed Web sites, and additional resources created by the nation's leading education organizations. http://www.thinkfinity.org/
AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers in grades 4-12.
http://www.adlit.org/
21st Century Information Fluency provides news, information, tools, and standards-aligned instructional strategies for information literacy/fluency in K-16. http://21cif.com/index.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources that will help enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites. http://ethemes.missouri.edu/

1,500 lesson plans, primary documents, science animations, math challenges, and works of art, literature, and music from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, National Archives, National Science Foundation, NASA, National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies. http://www.free.ed.gov/
Largest and oldest online safety, education, and help group in the world. Helps teachers and parents with issues, such as cyberbullying. http://www.wiredsafety.org/
 
 

 

 

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