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Class Lesson Example: Technology, ILT, Computers

Student Practice Research Topics:

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  2. Africa, Animals, Jane Goodall
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CitingTaylor, David and James Williams. The Ultimate Dog Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Internet Strategies
Collaborative filtering, huge database. Excellent. Natural language search engine.
Large database, good results. Search engine, vertical engines, directory.
Visual search tool.
Web, Usenet. Speedy. Large database. Search engine from Microsoft.
Web, Usenet. Directory. Large database..
Web, Usenet, news, maps, directory, yellow pages, company profiles. Metasearch tool. Site previews.
Search and directory, sports, news, weather, reviews. Deep Web metasearch tool.
Search and pictures, sound, news, software, rated sites. Performs metasearching on web, Usenet, FTP.
Web search and directory.

Clustering metasearch tool.
Search engine for university sites. Results from several engines, tabbed format.
D i r e c t o r i e s
Most popular directory, image searches. Nicely set up directory from Reader's Digest.
Google rankings applied to Open Directory. Very Good.

Directory created by volunteer editors.
Directory of expert guides, including Web searching. Excellent, easy to use directory.
Very nice directory, dozens of categories
Directory plus links to search engines.

Directory by educational subject, with annotated entries.
Really cool graphic directory with good reference links. Directory of education related sites.
100 most popular web sites in many categories, including newspapers. Engine with links to companies and government pages.


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Encyclopedia Britannica & Internet Guide. Search or deleteread several English and other versions of the contentBible.
17,000 short articles (Concise Columbia Encyclopedia). Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary.
Concise version of Microsoft's Encarta. Reference and createLibrary yoursite.
Database of articles and ownreference page!materials.
Another encyclopedia.
Excellent dictionary, multiple sources. More reference works. Good.
Links to facts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, news, much more. Dictionary of Computer Terms.
A global encyclopedia. Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Several hundred searchable dictionaries. The meanings of acronyms.
Extensive index of scholarly Internet resources. Wonderful list of specific links.
Find a word if you know only part of it. Science sites.
Another dictionary. Search archived Web Sitescontent.
Articles on philosophical topics. Community written encyclopedia.
Dictionary and resources.
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Search hundreds of journals.
Hundreds of databases by category. Full text magazine articles.
Journals & other free academic content.
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Full text of more than 18,000 books.
G r a p h i c s
Search engine for photographs and graphics. Audio and film archive.
Image search from Google. Marine Art Information Center. Paintings, photographs, and more.
Art, photography, maps, and more. More than 100,000 art images.
Stock image photography. Thousands of art images.

Many excellent art works.

The U. S. National Gallery of Art.
Links to all the arts, including museums. Links to hundreds of online maps from library at U Texas.
National Gallery of London. Encyclopedia of art and artworks.
WikiS p e c Tip:i a l t y
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Search discussion groups. Directory and search for health and medicine.
Lists of mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites.
Directory of mailing lists, by category or search.
Directory of people, business, government, cities, more. Ask real people questions.
Directories by AT&T of people, businesses, toll-free, more. Reference, news, diagnosis and other health info.
Find businesses, get maps and directions. Legal resources.

Yellow pages from everywhere.
Info on health, disease, nutrition, medicines. White & yellow pages, reverse phone lookup.
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News News and archives.
G o v e r n m e n t
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Gateway to linkmany to,federal orgovernment thesites. completeThe U. S. Census Bureau.
Government info gateway. Gateway to statistics from many government agencies.
Links and search for anyU.S. sitefederal, onstate, & local government. Foreign too. Hundreds of consumer information items.

Library of Congress American Memory.
Lots of government links.
B o o k s
Includes reviews of many titles. Used, new, hard-to-find, and out of print books.
Lots of books.
Lots of Christian books. All kinds of book information.
Search for the web.best price from many bookstores at once. Book information, reviews, sites with reviews.
Books, bargain books (remainders).
The University of California Library catalog. Books and other items.
Book shopping bot. Compare prices. Shopping bot to compare prices.
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Internet Movie Database with reviews.


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General News.
News source, search engine, and gateway to news sites.


Emphasis on technical and computer news.
Media watchdog organization.
Links to 15,000 newspapers, TV stations, other news sources.

Cable channel news site.

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