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- Subject: GEN: Part II: LM_NET FAQ
- From: Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:03:10 -0500
LM_NET FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Last updated: December 17, 1999
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This listing of questions frequently asked (and answered) on LM_NET has
been created in hope of reducing some of the repetition encountered by our
members. We post this list frequently and mark in the contents with an
asterisk(*) items updated that issue. Members may wish to save the FAQ for
quick reference. If you have recently posted a HIT about a topic and see
someone else ask the same question, please send a copy of your HIT to that
person and let us know so it can be added to the FAQ for the future. Due to
computer crash, I lost some personal email with suggestions last month.
Please resend all suggestions if not included. THANKS!
Retired FAQ's (including the words ending in "gry" may be visited at the
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Topics covered include: words ending in gry words, "they came for...I
didn't speak up" quote, My Name is America series for boys,"Hello, thanks,
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Contents:
1. "gry" question
2. Websites with lesson plans
3. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources
4. Important Library Dates
5. Snoopy Dewey Classification Posters
6. Locating Books in a Series
7. Out-of-print book sources
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. Readability tests using Word
16. TV-Computer scan converters
17 Plagiarism
18. Quotes about reading
19. Foreign Language Teacher Sites
20. Checking for Dead Links
21. Evaluating Web Sites
22. Copyright and Message Posting Reminder
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********* 1. "gry" question **********
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Please see the results of many postings on this question in the retired
FAQ's at http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/retiredfaqs.htm
This question comes up a lot on the Stumpers_l list as well as here and one
member, Lois Fundis has put together this site:
http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html
An alternative posted by Vickie Rabourn is
http://members.aol.com/WordPlays/gryriddle.html
Larraine Elcock posts: If you go to this site it will give you the answer.
Oh and BTW the answer is "language"
http://www.askjeeves.com/main/FinalAnswer.asp?qCategory=HOBB&Link=http%3A%2F%2Fw
ww%2Egreeceny%2Ecom%2Ftaylor%2Ftopics%2Fgrypuzzle%2Ehtm&Title=What+words+end+in+
%2Dgry%3F&Answers=1&ajparam_fillers=&ajparam_qid=896&site_name=Jeeves&scope=web&
ask=What+words+end+in+%2Dgry%3F&origin=0
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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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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. Snoopy Dewey Classification Posters *****
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These posters can be found for sale at the World Almanac website
http://www.worldalmanac.com/listing.asp?code=04604 . If you have any
trouble getting to this page type in the address to the .com, on their first
page type Dewey in the title line and then select 16 Dewey Decimal Posters
from the eight matches that show up. They cost $26.00.
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******* 6. Locating Books in a Series and by Grade Level **********
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http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/serieslist.html
http://se-gc.org/media/booklist.html
http://www.alltogethernow.org/ Click Great Reading
http://nypl.org/branch/kids/lists.html
http://multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/read3.html
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/toplite.html Click the book list link.
http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/lists/
http://www.eduplace.com/teacher/bib/index.html
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********** 7. 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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***** 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.ks-connection.com/penpal/penpal.html
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
For all those searching for new listservs to join--You can do a search on
AltaVista using "listservs" as keyword: Many of the pages below give links
to various mailing lists including some for reading. There are also Music
Lists available (http://www.music.fsu.edu/listserv.htm).
Educational Mailing Lists for Teachers
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/resources/listserv.html
Listservs and Newsgroups
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/comatt/nwsgrps.html
FLIP-IT listserv for people to share ideas on implementing FLIP-IT
strategies by Alice H. Yucht can be found at http://www.delphi.com/flipit
K12 Admin list: K-12 educators discuss educational administration on a
very active list with many messages a day, according to Brigid Heckman.
Send email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message body, type: subscribe k12admin yourname.
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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
Copyright Information Sites:
http://www.fno.org/jun96/legal.html
http://www.benedict.com/contents.htm
Educational Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines Development Committee Fair Use
Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.hlm
Copyright and Intellectual Property
http://www.ala.org/work/copyright.html
Primer on the Digital Millennium: What the DMC Act and Copyright Term
Extension Act Means for the Library
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
Digital Copyright Website
http://www.benedict.com/digital/digital.htm
http://www.james-boyle.com/
http://www.plagiarism.org/registration.html
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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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****** 15. Readability tests using Word *****
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Barb Engvall recently posted this message: If you have Microsoft Word, you
have access to a Readability Package... just type in your passage (or scan
it if you have that capability) and run it through spell check. If you
don't get the redability forumula, you need to go to TOOLS - PREFERENCES -
click on SPELLING and GRAMMAR tab and make sure the SHOW READABILITY
STATISTICS box is checked. This program uses Flesch-Kincaid which is the
same one used by Accelerated Reader, thus making your own tests and giving
them accurate readability scores is easy.
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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
On Tuesday, 02 Nov 1999 Joan Eimas posted on this topic under the
Subject: HIT: TV-Computer converters
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****** 17. Plagiarism *****
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Carolyn Gierke (cgierke@shs.k12.ny.us) recently posted a hit on sites to
check for possible term paper "Plagiarism" including:
http://edutools.cityu.edu.hk/wwwtools/cheating.htm (lists hundreds of sources)
http://www.cheaters.com
http://www.superior-termpapers.com
http://www.papermasters.com
http://www.paperwriters.com/intro.htm
http://www.jaberwocky.com/cheat
http://www.cheatnouse.com
http://www.schoolsucks.com
http://www.cheater.com
http://www.geniuspapers.com
http://www.schoolpapers.com
http://www.termpapers-on-file.com
http://www.a1-termpaper.com/
http://www.research-assistance.com/
http://www.12000papers.com/faq.htm
http://www.homeworkcentral.com
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus
Other suggested sites:
http://slysearch.com/index.html
http://www.integriguard.com/ and
http://www.canexus.com/eve
http://www.plagiarism.org
Glatt Plagiarism Program (for sale)
http://www.plagiarism.com/
Another tip for finding plagiarized phrases in term papers: Go to HOTBOT
(http://www.hotbot.com) and use their 'all the words' search capability and
put in a fairly unique phrase.
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***** 18. Quotes about reading *****
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Diane Mentzer has collected library and reading quotes which might be used
on bulletin boards and posted them on the Instructional Resource Library
for her district. The address is:
http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/supportse/reslib/index.html
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****** 19. Foreign Language Teacher Sites *****
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http://www.esc3.net/~rsinclai/language.html
http://www.ecb.org/surf choose Foreign Language
Subscribe to the FLTEACH listserve (available by clicking above) and get
ideas for world languages plus websites
http://www.travlang.com/languages/ (Foreign Languages for Travelers)
http://www.vokabel.com (Vocabulary Training Exercises)
http://www.homeworkcentral.com/files.htp?file=4313&use=jr (Spanish
Vocabulary Lists by Topic)
http://www.cyberramp.net/~mdbutler/ws-vtables.html (Irregular Spanish verbs)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate? (AltaVista Translations)
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****** 20. Checking for Dead Links ******
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The website that searches your website for dead links can be found at:
http://www.netmechanic.com
It will also do a spell check and look for potential errors in your HTML.
The free version will check up to 20 pages.
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****** 21. Evaluating Web Sites ******
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http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/KIDS/Evaluate.html
http://cityoftakomapark.org/library/children/eval.html
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria.html
http://www.sekls.lib.ks.us/staff/willems/li98vlid.html
http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/integration.htm
http://www.fau.edu/library/evaluate.htm
http://infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us/why.html
Kathi L. Vanderbilt recently organized many evaluation sites on her web site:
http://www.mindspring.com/~klv/eval.html
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ChenD@k12tn.net or DianeRChen@aol.com
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