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April 2007

Poetry Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Math Awareness Month
Nat'l Kite Month

Apr 3, 1860

Pony Express begins mail service

Apr 6, 1917

U.S. enters World War I

Apr 6, 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning born
Apr 12, 1861 Civil War began
Apr 15, 1452 Leonardo da Vinci born

Apr 22

Earth Day

Apr 23, 1564 Shakespeare born
Apr 24, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched
Apr 26 Sons & Daughters to Work Day

 

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Putting an End fo Topical Research - "Topical research requires little thinking and little imagination. These assignments stress collecting rather than interpreting and analyzing. Students become smarter when teachers show them how to use their minds to wrestle with challenging questions, but scooping and smushing does little to advance their skill." (From Now On)

 

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century -"The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach true literacy in this new milieu. Using the same skills used for centuries—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation—we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking." (Educause)

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General Search Engines and Directories:

Technorati - A search engine for blogs and other "citizen media". It searches and organizes blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.)

Radio Locator - A comprehensive radio station search engine with links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

Clusty - A clustering Metasearch engine using document clustering technology, automatically organizing documents into groups or clusters, generating an ordered list based on comparative ranking.

Teoma - A new search engine which uses Subject-Specific Popularity to determine the quality of a site's content. It also identifies expert resources about the subject of the search.

Google - One of the best, delivers the most relevant search results very fast and usually on the first couple of pages. No advertisements.

AltaVista - A great search engine and directory all in one. Extras include media searches (sound, images, etc.) and a translation service.

Yahoo - Organized by subject categories, an image search and Yahoo search engines in many foreign languages are also available.

About - Organized into useful subject guides, with organized links in over 700 GuideSites. A subject expert maintains each guide and gives advice and guidance. Use the Shortcut Tool to create a single page allowing you to view your favorite About GuideSites on a single page. Also provides a forum for newsletters, discussions & chats.

Child Safe Search Engines and Directories:

Awesome Library - Thousands of sites organized and classified into a searchable directory for teachers, students and parents.

Great Websites for Kids - Excellent websites for children chosen by librarians from ALA.

NetNanny - Family-friendly search engine and directory provides kid safe Web sites.

CyberSleuth Kids - An Internet search guide to help K-12 students sift through the maze of information on the Net.

DMOZ - Kids and Teens Open Directory - channels kids and teens appropriate web sites into a targeted directory.

Awesome Library for Kids - Reviewed sites divided into school subjects and sites of general interest.

Enchanted Learning - A search engine for elementary students.

KidsClick - A collection of sites for kids, grades K-7, chosen by professional librarians.

Ask Jeeves for Kids - Natural language search tool, no directory browsing. Database includes hundreds of preselected sites. Pull down menu displays search results. Locate quick answers to common questions. There is also a study tools reference section.

Yahooligans - A directory of preselected sites for kids. Other resources include an Almanac, Teacher's Guide and Cool Sites of the Week.

   

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