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Return to HomepageWhat kind of Web page is this?A web page's URL (Universal Resource Locator) extension provides clues that can help you identify the sponsor or source. .org Non-governmental and or professional organization .gov Governmental pages .com Commercial or private, corporate, business website .edu Educational institution Country names: uk (United Kingdom, mx (Mexico), ca Canada, br (Brazil) Personal web pages usually have the tilde (~) in the URL and may include .com, .edu, .net, .gov, or .org. Search EnginesFirst Assignment link to find 5 technology terms http://www.instantweb.com/D/dictionary/index.html How Search Engines Work: http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/articles/web/searching.cfm Complete and exhaustive tutorial on the browsers, web terms, everything you wanted to know about the WWW http://www.webteacher.org/macnet/indextc.html
Argus/University of Michigan Clearinghouse Provides rating of bibliographies of Internet resources, including listservs, Web sites, and more, arranged by category. Many links to educational sites.
Google is a very popular search engine and consider the best. You can locate images, websites, directories and groups.
HotBot Claims to have 110 million Web pages in its database. The system automatically inserts a Boolean "and" between search words. In order to narrow a search, you must select "Boolean search" by using operators ("and", "or", "not") in a search statement.
Infoseek Guide Category list of Internet resources. Within a category, provides links to related sites--e.g., go to related newsgroups, or search for similar topics.
Yahoo Items listed by category and submitted by users. Yahoo decides whether or not to include them.
Alta Vista Fast searching. Users may choose to search for Web pages or through Usenet newsgroup posting.
Lycos Results are ranked based on closest match to search terms. Also provides 100 most significant words of Web Page. Good place to search for sounds and graphics. Includes list of top 5% Web sites rated by points.
Met-Search Engines Meta-crawler Does simultaneous search of a number of different search tools. Offers low-bandwidth search option for older machines.
DogPile Allows simultaneous or individual searching through 25 different search tools. Use "custom search" to set the order in which it will search.
Project Based Learning (PBL) defined PBL Technology Websites with Sample Projects click here: http://www.bie.org/pbl/index.html
Absolutely Great Educational Website with links to projects, technology plans, professional development, sample projects, etc. http://home.socal.rr.com/exworthy
Advanced Web Searching http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/articles/web/advance.cfm
LAUSD ITC Website
LAUSD Instructional Technology Commission ITC. Join a Listserv specific to LAUSD technology interested teachers, administrators and staff and has many links to integrating technology into the curriculum/standards, staff development, provide ongoing support and organizations and vendors. http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Jefferson_Cluster/itc.htm
The Thinker is a website of the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco. This Image base is a fully keyword searchable database; it contains
75,000 images from the collections of two museums.
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