Digital Content: Web Resource Links

Teacher Friendly Search Engines and Directories

• Engines - index pages using a spider, crawler or robot
  • Alta Vista
  • Excite
  • InfoSeek
  • Lycos
• Directories - index pages using people
  • Yahoo
  • Magellan
  • About.com
• Meta Engines - search multiple search engines
  • Google
  • The Dog PILE
  • MAMMA

Kid Friendly Search Engines/Directories

• Yahooligans
• Kid's Click
• Study Web
• Ask Jeeves for Kids
• Super Kids Super Search
• Super Snooper
• The Awesome Library

Ethical Use / Copyright Resources:

• Copyright and K-12
  http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/rothman.html
• More Copyright Issues
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Web Page Design Guidelines and Tools :

• Netscape Composer Tutorial
  
• Web Tools
  http://www.jhu.edu/HAC/hcic/discspec/humanities/homepages/tools.html

Web Page Design Programs- (What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG))

• Netscape Communicator - FREE
• Claris HomePage 3 - Windows or Macintosh 30 day free trial
• Adobe PageMill 3 - 30 day free trial
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Adobe GoLive 4 - 30 day free trial
• HotDog PageWiz
• Macromedia DreamWeaver - 30 day free trial

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Programs allow you to move your web page files and graphics from your personal computer to a web server!

• WS-FTP LE 5.08 Trial Download for the PC
  http://cidera.tucows.com/preview/195136.html

Assessment/Rubrics:

• Some Guidelines for Rubric Development
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/july/rubrics/Rubrics_for_Web_Lessons.html
• Rubric for WebQuest Evaluation
• http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html

WebQuest Materials:

• The Original WebQuest Page
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
• WebQuest Collections
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.htm  
• WebQuest Matrix
  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html
• Towson University WebQuests
  http://www.towson.edu/~tcantu/webquests.htm

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