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Search Engines Yahooligans Google Metacrawler Dogpile AltaVista Yahoo LookSmart Excite HotBot Lycos Webcrawler About.com Overture     iTools	General Info Help Sites Kathy Schrock's Guide PBS Online Ask Jeeves Smithsonian Institution
Local Libraries St. Louis County Library Kirkwood Public Library St. Louis Public Library	Learn to Use the Internet Effectively Choose the Best Search for Your Purpose UC Berkeley: Internet Workshops Findspot.com: syntax guide for search engines
On Line References Grolier Online Encyclopedia Brittannica Encarta Encyclopedia Encyclopedia.com News CNN Student News CNN MSNBC New York Times ABC News Weather.com Yahoo News National Public Radio Washington Post Public Television (PBS)	Specialized Help Sites google images, ditto.com (pictures) Public Domain Maps FlamingText, / 3DTextMaker (make your own graphics) Street Maps: Maps On Us, Mapquest, Expedia.com, Fodor's Travel Online FreeFoto.com (photos by category) Free PowerPoint Backgrounds Quotations , Quoteland.com , Bartlett's Free Mac PowerPoint/Office Template Gallery Web Museum Learn PowerPoint (one, two, three) ThinkQuest: home, library Puzzlemaker animations for web pages Guinness Book of World Records Quia.com - activities by subject area distance between cities TypingMaster Keyboarding Tests Online:

for teachers: middleschool.com www4teachers (integrating tech) RubiStar (rubric maker) EBSCOhost: a database of periodicals, professional journals and reference sources (when you reach this site click on the top button--3.1) Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators T.H.E. Journal: Educators Road Map to the Web MarcoPolo CSD Grolier Online NewsBank AskERIC United Nations' Global Teaching and Learning Project TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track. High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium