Beginning this issue, we've gathered the lists of Web links
that are
often printed either in sidebars or under the resources
subhead at the
end of many L&L print articles and listed them here in
one, easy-to-browse
place. By clicking on the title of an article, you'll jump to
the resources
listed in that article and be able to jump from there to the
Web sites
suggested by the authors. Of course, ISTE and L&L
can't vouch
for the accuracy, usefulness, or even the availability of
these links
although they were functioning at the time of publication.
What's not on the Web
When students create their own
WebQuests
And? And...
Indispensible Inventions
Great U.S. Women
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What's
Not on the Web
By Joyce Kasman Valenza
Editor's Note: The supplemental material mentioned
in the
print version of this article has been incorporated into
the section
of this article entitled: Antidotes
for Yahoo!
Dependency. The additional items have been marked with
an asterisk
(*).
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Select
Subscription Databases
ABC-CLIO Schools (http://abc-clio.com/schools)
offers full-text databases in American history and government,
and world
and state geography.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive (this link no longer available) has more
than 500,000 high-quality, current, and historical photographs and is perfect
for students creating multimedia or desktop publishing projects.
BigChalk.com (www.bigchalk.com)
offers several database options, including several versions of
eLibrary,
a full-text source that pulls materials from six media
types—newspapers,
magazines, books, pictures, maps, television, and radio
transcripts. eLibrary
elementary is available for younger students. ProQuest Platinum
offers
coverage of more than 2,000 newspapers, magazines, journals, and
reference
works.
Congressional Quarterly Library (http://library.cqpress.com)
offers comprehensive coverage of controversial issues addressed
in two
of CQ's publications, CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher. Each
article includes
background, a chronology, the major sides of the debate, and an
annotated
bibliography.
EBSCOHost (this link no longer available) offers thousands of full-text
and abstracted articles from general magazines, business and health journals,
and newspapers. Searchasaurus is the kid-friendly database interface from which
students may access Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, and Funk
& Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia.
Encyclopedias Schools should subscribe to, and students
should
use, full-featured encyclopedias online, rather than the
freebies. Grolier
Online (http://go.grolier.com), Encarta
Deluxe (http://encarta.msn.com/products/deluxe/signup.asp),
and World Book Online (www.worldbookonline.com)
are some examples of what's available.
Facts.com (http://facts.com) offers comprehensive news coverage from
1980 to the present, including graphics, maps and carts, weekly updates from
Facts On File World News Digest, and a growing archive of historic events. Also
available are Issues and Controversies, which provides deep background on important
current issues, and Today's Science, which presents the "latest scientific
discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them," drawing material
from major scientific journals, magazines, and newspapers.
GALENET (www.galegroup.com/schools/index.htm)
offers outstanding curricular coverage through its Resource
Centers, including
Student Resource Center Gold, Literature Resource Center,
Biography Resource
Center, and History Resource Center. Its Discovery Series
includes DISCovering
Science, U.S. History,World History, Authors, Shakespeare,
Multicultural
America, Poetry, and Nations, States and Cultures. The site also
has a
Student Health Reference Center and American Journey (Primary
Sources).
InfoTrac products offer access to hundreds of full-text
magazines and
newspapers.
SIRS Knowledge Source (www.sirs.com/products/database.htm)
combines three databases: Researcher, Government Reporter, and
Renaissance
and offers thousands of selected full-text articles on social,
scientific,
historic, economic, political, and global issues and the arts
and humanities.
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe is a reference database for
children in
Grades 1–9, offering full-text articles and graphics
selected from
more than 1,200 carefully chosen domestic and international
publications.
Articles are assigned reading levels based on educational
content, interest,
and readability.
WilsonWeb (www.hwwilson.com/ftabsind.htm)
offers the Readers' Guide Full Text database, which features
access to
lengthy abstracting and full-text journals. The Wilson
Biographies databases
include full text and images from the standard reference Current
Biography.
Antidotes
for Yahoo! Dependency
Subject
Directories
About.com (http://about.com) Human
guides offer their picks for best links as well as original
content in
more than 700 specialties.
Argus Clearinghouse (www.clearinghouse.net)
is an academic selective collection of topical guides.
BUBL LINK/ 5:15 (http://bubl.ac.uk/link)
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
Read
the About section for an interesting explanation of the site
name.
Digital Librarian (www.digital-librarian.com)
"A librarian's choice of the best of the Web" with
emphasis
on the "A librarian." The site is maintained by one
librarian:
Margaret Vail Anderson in Cortland, New York.
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Research Collections (http://infomine.ucr.edu)
is produced by the University of California and intended for use
at the
university level. Infomine is a "comprehensive showcase,
virtual
library, and reference tool."
Librarian's Index to the Internet (http://lii.org)
The author's very favorite, LII is an annotated subject
directory of Internet
resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their
usefulness. The
Current Awareness Service points to the best new material on the
Web.
Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org)
A comprehensive directory maintained by "a vast army of
volunteer
editors." The "Project is a collaboration between
Lycos, Mozilla.org,
and HotBot to build the Internet's most comprehensive taxonomy
of Web
content."
Searchedu.com (www.searchedu.com)
searches university and education sites only and ranks them in
order of
popularity.
StartSpot (http://startspot.com)
This network of helpful gateways includes CinemaSpot, BookSpot,
LibrarySpot,
and HeadlineSpot.
WWW Virtual Library (http://vlib.org/overview.html)
The oldest Web catalog of the Web is "run by a loose
confederation
of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular
areas in
which they are expert."
For
Kids
KidsClick! (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!)
Subject directory sites have been selected, categorized, and
annotated
by librarians. Sites are tagged by reading level and amount of
graphics.
Multnomah Homework Center (www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework)
The librarians at Multnomah County Library (Portland, Oregon)
organize
the materials students most need into categories that ensure
easy access.
Searchopolis (www.searchopolis.com)
offers broad but filtered searching and the ability to sort its
directory
of selected Web sites by grade level. It also makes handy a
suite of reference
tools.
Trolling
the Invisible Web
AlphaSearch (www.calvin.edu/library/searreso/internet/as)
A gateway to the "finest Internet gateways."
CompletePlanet (www.completeplanet.com),
in beta version at this writing, searches the "deep
Web" for
relevant search engines and databases.
FindArticles.com (www.findarticles.com)
Free services that offer full-text access to articles dating
back to 1998
from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Fossick.com (http://fossick.com),
"the WebSearch Alliance Directory," is a selective
collection
of more than "3,000 specialist search engines and topical
guides."
Invisible Web (www.invisibleweb.com)
"The Search Engine of Search Engines."
Lycos Searchable Databases (this link no longer available)
SearchIQ.com (www.zdnet.com/searchiq/subjects)
is a subject directory of search engines.
xrefer (www.xrefer.com) "The
Web's reference engine" offers free access to more than 50
reference
titles.
Next
Generation Search Tools
*Applied Semantics http://oingo.com
(formerly Oingo) Offers a "meaning-based search" to distinguish
variant
meanings among ambiguous terms (Type in "java" and you'll be
asked to
select among coffee, the programming language, or several
towns.)
AskJeeves (http://askjeeves.com)
allows users to pose questions in natural language and select
results
from a database of similar questions.
Direct Hit (www.directhit.com)
Uses popularity, how often a site is visited, and how long
visitors stay
to score relevance with a ranking system of one to five little
"people"
icons.
Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
Dogpile's metasearch presents results from each of the search
engines
it queries individually, rather than mixing them all together
into a single
list.
*Excite http://search.excite.com/search
Excite's new Zoom In function helps refine the search with lists
of related
suggestions. Great for narrowing a vague topic.
Google (www.google.com) Google's
link relevance forces the most-often-linked-to results to the
top of the
hit list. A refreshingly clean interface and an "assumed
AND"
makes this an especially useful tool for students.
Guidebeam (http://guidebeam.com)
suggests subcategories even before you view your results.
*ILOR http://ilor.com
Powered by
Google, ILOR's advanced hyperlinks allow you to search more
efficiently
by creating lists, saving specific results for later use,
viewing similar
pages or pages that link to a result
IxQuick (www.ixquick.com)
is a metasearch tool that translates searches into proper syntax
for each
search engine and eliminates duplicates. The "star"
scoring
system helps identify the sites that more than one search engine
reports
as relevant.
Northern Light (http://northernlight.com)
uses "precision relevance ranking" and
"classification
intelligence" to organize results into "little blue
folders"
on the left side of the screen.
Profusion (www.profusion.com)
The new version, in beta stage at this writing, looked promising
for searching
both the visible and invisible (or deep)
*Query Server http://queryserver.com
This metasearch tool merges, ranks, and clusters results.
*Scirus http://scirus.com An example
of a growing number of subject-specific engines. Scirus searches
science
content only.
*Subjex http://www.subjex.com
A new dialogue-guided search engine that goes beyond natural
language
to respond with questions to users' specific search queries.
*Surfwax
http://surfwax.com Offers
its own brand of meaning-based search with FocusWords
(descriptors), SiteSnaps
(quick previews and summaries), and ContextZooming.
Web. Simpli (http://simpli.com)
asks users to specify or refine when there are confu-sions in
meaning.
Type in "java" and you are asked to choose among Java
as a program
language, term for coffee, or Indonesian island.
Vivisimo (http://vivisimo.com)
is a new metasearch tool too good to miss. Results are
"concept clustered"
—sorted into logical subcategories.
When
Students Create Their Own WebQuests
Resources
The WebQuest Page (Bernie Dodge and Tom March): http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
Mid-continent Research for Education and LearningÕs KÐ12
standards database:
www.mcrel.org/compendium/standard.asp?subjectID=2
Southwest Texas State University WebQuest Page (Cynthia Peterson): (this link
no longer available.)
And?
And...
Resources
OTEC,
http://otec.uoregon.edu
Dave's professional pages, http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund
Indispensible
Inventions
Table
1. Sites for Information about Specific Decades &
Inventions
| Site name/Sponsor |
URL |
Description |
| American Memory Collection |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html |
A gateway to primary source materials relating to U.S.
history and
culture |
| Baby Boomer Headquarters |
www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm |
A look at the 1960s |
| Book of the Month Club Interactive Timeline |
this link no longer available. |
A look at different decades |
| Canadian Forces College |
this link no longer available. |
Military history time line |
| Computer Museum History Center |
this link no longer available. |
1945–90 time line of computer history |
| Fifties |
www.fiftiesweb.com |
A personal look at the 1950s from a baby boomer |
| Greatest Films |
www.filmsite.org/filmh.html |
A history of film by decade |
| Kingwood College Library |
www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html |
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame |
www.invent.org/book/index.html |
A look at individual inventions |
| U.S. Army |
this link no longer available |
A comparison of 1790, 1890, and 1990 |
Great
U.S. Women
Selected Web sites containing Fair Use
Doctrine/Copyright
Law Information:
www.publaw.com/publicdomain.html
www.ravesafe.org/copyright.htm
Resources
Pocahontas
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities: www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
Four Faces of Pocahontas (by the Board of Supervisors and
County ManagerÕs
Office of Henrico County, Virginia): www.co.henrico.va.us/manager/pokeypix.htm
Spectrum Home and School Magazine: www.incwell.com/Biographies/Pocahontas.html
Web of Time: Pages from the American Past: http://theweboftime.com/Poca/POCAHO~1.html
Harriet Tubman
New York History Net: www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/ (this link no
longer available)
Personal Web page of Roger Davis (a data security analyst from North Carolina)
on African American History: www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/tubman.htm
Pocantico Hills School (Sleepy Hollow, New York) This was a second-grade
class project. For more on this project, read ÒMeet Harriet Tubman: The Story
of a Web Site,Ó in L&L, March 2000, pp. 42Ð45, 62): http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
Spectrum Home and School Magazine: www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html
University of Houston History Department faculty member Steven MintzÕs pages:
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/35.htm (this link no longer available)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Grolier Online: The American Presidency: http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/first/32pw.html
HoustonÕs Online BuyerÕs Guide: Book review of Eleanor
(Viking Press)
www.b4-u-buy.com/09k4690.htm
MSNBCÕs Time & Again archive: www.msnbc.com/Onair/msnbc/TimeAndAgain/archive/eleanor/timeline.asp
Personal Web site of Sherry Mahady devoted to information
about E.
Roosevelt: http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/smahady/ercover.htm
Public Broadcasting SystemÕs The American Experience: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/index.html
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