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LM_NET FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Last updated: February 20, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Members may wish to save the FAQ for quick reference. We post this twice each month, note in subject line when changes are made, and mark in the contents with an asterisk(*) items updated that issue. Retired FAQ's may be visited at the website http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/retiredfaqs.htm. Topics covered include: words ending in gry words, "they came for...I didn't speak up" quote, My Name is America series for boys, 1998's "This Month Is" resource, "Hello, thanks, other greetings in multiple languages", "Embassy addresses and links", booktalk source, and sources for internet acceptable use policies. Do not forget to check the archives for any question you suspect may have been answered before: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html We can take no responsibility for accuracy of information that comes from postings to the listserv and which are listed here. Please direct corrections or updates of this information to: Diane Chen (chend@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us), Library Media Specialist, Hickman Elementary School, Nashville, TN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: 1.* Out-of-print book sources 2.* Websites with lesson plans 3. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources 4. Printing an entire web page, menu bar, tool bar 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 evaluations 15. Copyright Information 16.* Authors and Illustrators 17. Search for graphic 18. Copyright and Message Posting Reminder ************************ ********* 1. out-of-print book sources ********** ************************ 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.alltogethernow.org/mp/4.htm#Top http://www2.gol.com/users/steve/f_books.htm#Usedbooks http://www.interloc.com/ http://www.bookwire.com http://www.powells.com ***************** ********** 2. Lesson plan sites ********** ***************** 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 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/ *************************************************** ** 3. Online Library Lesson Plans & Resources ** *************************************************** 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 ******************* ********* 4. Printing an entire web page, menu bar, tool bar ********* ******************* 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 ***************************************** ***** 5. This Day in History Sites: ***** ***************************************** The first four are most highly recommended: http://www.scopesys.com/year/ http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/ http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp http://www.alltogethernow.org/sc/109.htm#Top http://www.440int.com/twtd/today.html http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/daynum http://almanac.mpr.org/ 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 *********************** ********** 6. News Sites Online ********** *********************** Links to Sites http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html http://ajr.newslink.org http://dewey.chs.chio.k12.ca.us/news-ss.html http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/incedx.asp http://www.wecb.org/edu/resource/archives.htm http://www.esu3org/districts/millard/centmidd/events.html http://www.pathfinder.com http://www.newsindex.com Other Sites -- not usually on these links http://www.npr.org/news http://www.washingtonpost.com/ http://www.nando.com *********************** ********** 7. Dealing with junk e-mail ********** *********************** 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 ***************************************** ***** 8. Urban legends and False Virus alerts ***** ***************************************** 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 ***************************************** ***** 9. Choosing the best search engine ***** ***************************************** 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 ************************** ***** 10. Bibliographic citations for electronic resources ***** ************************** 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 ************************** ********** 11. Sources for keypals/penpals ********** ************************** 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 ******************************* ********** 12. Listservs for educators and others ********** ******************************* 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. ***************************************** ****** 13. Vendors and publishers lists on the web: ****** ***************************************** http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/pubr.html ***************************************** ****** 14. Job descriptions & program evaluations ****** ***************************************** http://www.alltogethernow.org/mp/79.htm#Top ***************************************** ****** 15. Copyright Information ****** ***************************************** Groton Public Schools Copyright Implementation Manual Online: http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm ***************************************** ****** 16. Authors and Illustrators ****** ***************************************** 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 http://www.alltogethernow.org/docs/author.htm#Top ***************************************** ****** 17. 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