LM_NET FAQ pt 2: general questions (fwd)

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 08:29:23 -0600
From: Diane Chen <ChenD@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us>

                   LM_NET FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
                      Last updated: February 7, 1999
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Contents:
     1.  Out-of-print book sources
     2.* Websites with lesson plans
     3.  Hello, thanks, other greetings in multiple languages
     4.  This month is...
     5.  This Day in History Sites
     6.* News Sites Online
     7.  Dealing with junk e-mail
     8.  Urban legends and False Virus alerts
     9.* Choosing the best search engine
    10.* Bibliographic citations for electronic resources
    11.* Sources for keypals/penpals
    12.* Listservs for educators and others
    13.  Vendors and publisher's lists on the web
    14.  Job descriptions & program evaluatons
    15.  Embassy addresses and links
    16.* Authors and Illustrators
    17.* Search for graphic
    18.* Copyright Information
    19.* Booktalks
    20.* Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources
    21.* Printing an entire web page, menu bar, tool bar
    22.  Copyright and Message Posting Reminder

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          *********    1. out-of-print book sources   **********
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       http://www.bibliofind.com (recommended the most, try first)
    http://www.amazon.com (they will try, but costly and slow)
                  http://www.auldbooks.com/booksearch.html
                          http://www.abebooks.com/
                      http://antiquarian.com/bookworm/
           http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/mpb.htm#BookSales
            http://www2.gol.com/users/steve/f_books.htm#Usedbooks
                          http://www.interloc.com/
                           http://www.bookwire.com
                           http://www.powells.com

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             ********** 2. Lesson plan sites **********
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Social Studies Lesson Plans from California State University
   http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Visit planetk-12 and register to receive weblinks to lesson plans of
your choosing such as K-12, library media skills, research lessons, etc.
   http://planetk-12.planetsearch.com/
Ask ERIC Lesson Plans http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
   May browse by subject; links to other sites
Blue Web'n http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
   A table like you've never seen before! Lesson and resources galore!!!
Ed's Oasis - The Treasure Zone - Teacher Resources
   http://www.EDsOasis.org/Treasure/treasT.html#META
Lesson Plans From SRVUSD Model Classroom Teachers
   http://jefferson.srvusd.k12.ca.us/tech/TechResource/lesson.plans.html
TeacherLink - Teacher Resources - Units and Lesson Plans
   http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/resources/ed_lesson_plans/
Teachers Helping Teachers http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
   Free, non-profit service, updated weekly during the school year.
Collaborative Lesson Archive http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/
Language Arts Lesson Plans
   http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/languagearts.html#Lesson
Teacher Talk Forum - Lesson Plans
   http://education.indiana.edu/cas/ttforum/lesson.html
Teacher Resources http://www.sonoma.edu/CThink/K12/k12class/trc.nclk
Teacher Net http://www.teachnet.com/
   A little of every thing. Lesson Plans. Teacher Portfolio Development.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/

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         **  3. hello, thanks, other greetings in multiple  languages **
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Jennifer's Language Page lists basic words/phrases & links to similar sites.
                   http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/

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              *********       4. This month is...    *********
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Lists at http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/monthly.htm

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           *****     5. This Day in History Sites:          *****
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The first three are most highly recommended:
http://www.scopesys.com/year/
http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/
http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp

http://www.440int.com/twtd/today.html
http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/daynum
http://almanac.mpr.org/
http://www.altogethernow.orglsc/109.htm#Top
http://www.capecod.net/schrockguide/history/histg.htm
http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.idiotdavant.com/raymond/index.htm
http://www.lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/
http://www.membersxoom.com/AriKukkonin/today.html
http://memory.loc.gov/
http://www.netcore.ca/~gkillops/free.html
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/days.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/aapl/hf-us.html#nin
http://www.sanjuan.edu/schools/mesaverde/index.html
http://www.shambles.net
http://shoga.wwa.com/~mjm/almanac2.html
http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/History/Today_in_History

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              **********   6. News Sites Online   **********
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Links to Sites
www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html
ajr.newslink.org
dewey.chs.chio.k12.ca.us/news-ss.html
www.naa.org/hotlinks/incedx.asp
www.wecb.org/edu/resource/archives.htm
www.esu3org/districts/millard/centmidd/events.html
www.pathfinder.com
www.newsindex.com

Other Sites -- not usually on these links
www.npr.org/news
www.washingtonpost.com/
www.nando.com
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              ********** 7. Dealing with junk e-mail **********
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A. Set filters on your email program.
B. To prevent getting on some lists, download an "anonymizer" which can
   block your identity when visiting a site. Two download URL's are:
   http://www.anonymizer.com and http://www.pgp.com
C. A very good resource page for all sorts of Spam/privacy issues is the
   CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) homepage at:
   http://www.cauce.org/
   and, more specifically, their Resouces page with many links is at:
   http://www.cauce.org/resources.html
D. For more info on SPAM and what to do about it, see section 21 of
   getit4u. Send message to: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp with no subject and
   ONE of these 3 lines in the body of the message:
     send ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/iv/iverham/getit4u.txt
     send http://inetw.com/home/ak/4useries/getit4u.txt
     send http://members.aol.com/bombagirl/freeware/getit4u.txt

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       *****      8. Urban legends and False Virus alerts     *****
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   Alt.Folklore.Urban Legneds Archive
       http://www.urbanlegends.com/
   The Mining Company Urban Legends & Folklore
       http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/
   The Urban Legends Reference Page
       http://www.snopes.com/
   Computer Virus Myths Homepage
       http://kumite.com/myths/
   DataFellows AntiVirus Hoax Warnings Page
       http://www.DataFellows.com/news/hoax/
   Stiller Research Virus Hoax News
       http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm

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       *****        9. Choosing the best search engine       *****
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http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.htm
http://www.yahooligans.com/
http://www.aol.com/netfind/kids/
http://www.ebig.com/
http://www.searchopolis.com/
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/KidsClick!/
http://www.ajkids.com/
http://www.schoolwork.org/
http://www.studentsurf.net/
http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
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       ***** 10. Bibliographic citations for electronic resources *****
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http://www.classroom.net/classroom/CitingNetResources.html
http://doe.state.in.us/LearningResources/cybercite
http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles
http://www.pitsco.com/p/cite.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/apa.html
http://www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/library/citing.html

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            ********** 11. Sources for keypals/penpals **********
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To connect with classrooms from 90 countries
   http://www.epals.com/index.html
for "keypals", try this comprehensive database which covers all countries
grade levels, and can search by several different categories:
   http://www.iglou.com/xchange/ece

   For WEBSITES try these
The Net's three most popular keypal sites for schools:
http://www.keypals.com/p/wwwsites.html
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/
http://www.eduplace.com/projects/keypals.html

CyberFriends http://www.dare.com/fr_main.htm
Find a Key Pal http://www.kidscom.com/
Exchange Programs http://www.eskimo.com/~user/zpenpal.html
E-Mail Key Pal Connection http://www.comenius.com/index.html
The Global Classroom Keypal Page
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~reed/global/keypal.html
Global Rigby Keypals http://www.reedbooks.com.au/rigby/global/keypal.html

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         ********** 12. Listservs for educators and others **********
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http://edweb.gsn.org/lists.html
http://www.ucssc.indiana.edu
http://www.liszt.com.

   Tile.Net. is a directory that allows you to locate listservs by subject
or name and provides you with current subscription information.
http://tile.net/listserv

A good list of lists available on the web or gopher...usually known as the
Kovacs list, (real name is the Directory of Scholarly & Professional
E-Conferences). http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS
Contact: Paul Kramer paul@n2h2.com

New listserv for librarians new to the profession NEWLIB-L
To subscribe, please send a note to:  listproc@usc.edu
with the message:"subscribe newlib-l Your Name"

New UK school librarian listserve. To subscribe send a message to:
sln-subscribe@makelist.com . No message required.


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           ****** 13. Vendors and publishers lists on the web: ******
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html

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           ****** 14. Job descriptions & program evaluatons ******
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http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/79.htm#Top

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           ******  15.  Embassy addresses and links         ******
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http://www.embassy.org

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           ******     16. Authors and Illustrators          ******
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MEET AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS:
http://www.childrenslit.com/f_mai.htm

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE ARTS:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm

INDEX TO CHILDREN'S AUTHORS (a hyperlink from above, but no Lang.Arts info):
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WEB GUIDE:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html

http://bridge.ci.lexington.ma.us/library/author.html

http://www.books.com/scripts/authors.exe

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           ******     17. Search for graphic                ******
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1) go to - image.altavista.com , or
2) in AltaVista's regular search screen, choose AV Photo Finder from
Speciality Search (you'll find this under the area in which to type your
search term)
3) in HotBot, you can narrow your search so it has to include an image
(under the search term you choose)
4) use this website - www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

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           ******     18. Copyright Information         ******
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Groton Public Schools Copyright Implementation Manual Online:
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm

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           ******     19.   Booktalks                   ******
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http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/rundlett/booktalks

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      ******  20. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources  ******
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http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/skills.htm
http://www.libertynet.org/lion/lessons.html
http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us (then go to Instructional Resource Library)
http://www.teachers.net
http://www.altogethernow.org/
http://www.eddirect.com/orgs/jhlee/ (click the button before 'Content')
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzredlib/
http://www.nyx.net/~rbarry/
http://www.nyx.net/~rbarry/literacy.html
http://www.ala.org/aasl/learning/
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/index.html
http://ericir.syr.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+listservs
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzredlib/bigsix.html

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       ***** 21. Printing an entire web page, menu bar, tool bar *****
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A freeware program for Windows' that does this IF the entire page is
displayed is PrintNow from Ziff Davis Publishing (PC Publishing)
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000OHK&b

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