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Last updated: August 19, 1999
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Contents:
1. Out-of-print book sources
2. Websites with lesson plans
3. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources
4.* Important Library Dates
5.* This Day in History and Calendar Sites
6.* Locating Books in a Series
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.* Copyright Information
14. Authors and Illustrators
15. Search for graphic
16. TV-Computer scan converters
17. Copyright and Message Posting Reminder
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********* 1. out-of-print book sources **********
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http://www.bibliofind.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.auldbooks.com/booksearch.html
http://www.abebooks.com/
http://abaa.org/
http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/4.htm#Top
http://www.trussel.com/f_books.htm
http://www.alibris.com/
http://www.bookwire.com
http://www.powells.com
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********** 2. Lesson plan sites **********
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From Dale Copps' Mellow Pages:
http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/130.htm#Top
http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/29.htm#Top
Social Studies Lesson Plans from California State University
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
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
TeacherLink - Teacher Resources - Units and Lesson Plans
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources.html
Teachers Helping Teachers http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
Free, non-profit service, updated weekly during the school year.
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://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
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** 3. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources **
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http://www.alltogethernow.org/docs/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.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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********* 4. Important Library Dates *********
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Banned Books Week Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 1999
Teen Read Week Oct. 17-23, 1999
AASL National Conference Mov. 10-14, 1999
Children's Book Week Nov. 15-21, 1999
National Library Week April 9-15, 2000
Read-In Day May 11, 2000
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***** 5. This Day in History & Calendar Sites *****
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002068.html
http://www.libraryspot.com/calendars.htm
http://www.refdesk.com/factdate.html
http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/
http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp
http://www.alltogethernow.org/sc/109.htm#Top
http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/days.html
http://www.440int.com/twtd/today.html
http://almanac.mpr.org/
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/history/histg.html (scroll down)
http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/
http://memory.loc.gov/
http://shoga.wwa.com/~mjm/almanac2.html
http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/History/Today_in_History
This month is site:
http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/113.htm#Top
http://www.scopesys.com/year/
http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html
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******* 6. Locating Books in a Series **********
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http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/serieslist.html
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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://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
http://www.monash.com/spidap.html
http://www.schoolwork.org/
http://www.ajkids.com/
http://www.yahooligans.com/
http://www.aol.com/netfind/kids/
http://www.ebig.com/
http://www.searchopolis.com/
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***** 10. Bibliographic citations for electronic resources *****
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http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm
http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/apa.html
http://www.nashville.k12.tn.us/TIPSmanual/DocumentationFormat.html
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********** 11. Sources for keypals/penpals **********
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http://www.epals.com/index.html
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/ (for teachers and adults)
http://www.eduplace.com/projects/keypals.html
Find a Key Pal http://www.kidscom.com/ (lots of safety features for home)
Exchange Programs for Gifted http://www.eskimo.com/~user/zpenpal.html
Rigby/Heinemann Keypals http://www.reedbooks.com.au/index.html
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********** 12. Listservs for educators and others **********
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http://edweb.gsn.org/lists.html
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
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****** 13. Copyright Information ******
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Groton Public Schools Copyright Implementation Manual Online:
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm
Harvard Law School's Site:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cc/
Multimedia Information:
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/ccmcguid.htm
To check for plagiarism try these:
http://www.plagiarism.org/
http://www.integriguard.com/
http://www.canexus.com/eve
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****** 14. 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://www.books.com/scripts/authors.exe
http://www.alltogethernow.org/docs/author.htm#Top
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****** 16. TV-Computer scan converters ******
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The devices you purchase to connect your computer screen to a TV (or other
video port such as VCR for taping) are called computer scan converters.
These are needed only if your computer does not come with the newer video
in/out ports. Some popular models have been discussed at length so
searching the archives will disclose products and opinions on TVAtor,
AverKey, IN-focus, Pocket Scan Converter, Scan-it and more. Do a search at
http://www.masteraudiovisuals.com or http://www.Google.com
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