Teaching & Learning
on the WWW |
Teaching & Learning on the WWW is an index which links to 500-plus exemplary sites and demonstrates just how effective the Web can be as an interactive liearning tool. |
| IDEAL: International Digital
Eelctronic
Access Library  |
IDEAL provides online access to 175 Acedemic Press journals. |
Education World
  |
Education World helps educators, parents & students make use of this selective database of more than 56,000 education-related sites. |
Study Web |
Study Web is a collection of more than 69,000 "research-quality" URLs, this site helps students excel throughout their academic careers, K-12. |
OneLook Dictionaries |
OneLook Dectionaries will instantly search through ore than 287 dictionaries & glossaries, including specialized ones. |
The Online Books Page |
The On-Line Books Page is a massive index which links to the full text of more than 7,000 books. |
| Roget's Internet Thesaurus | Roget's Internet Thesaurus is a favorite among book lovers, this synonym & antonym reference is online ia a quick, fully searchable edition. |
| Web Thesaurus Compendium | Web Thesaurus Compendium links to a variety of specialized sources in order to help you find that elusive mot just. |
 Encyclopedia.com |
Encyclopedia.com has more than 17,000 cross-linked articles from the 3rd edition of the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopdeia |
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the best place to collect famous quotes. |
 The
Land of Quotes |
The Land of Quotes includes quips & aphorisms from more contemporary voices than Bartlett's. |
Reserach-It! |
Research-It has forms for dictionary searches, thesaurus searches, maps, currency converters & more. |
Pitsco's Ask an Expert  |
Pitsco's Ask an Expert links to more 300 Web sites & email addresses that can put you in the hands of those wiser & more experienced than yourself. |
 Fedstats |
Fedstats is by the best place to find the statistics compiled by more tha 70 agencies of the US Government. |
Infonation  |
Infonation is for official data on member countries of the United Nation. |
Information Please |
Information Please in an online version of the popular almanac and will help you clear up that nasty ignornace rash. |
 CIA
'97 World Factbook |
CIA '97 World Factbook keeps track of global shifts (especially nation name changes). |
| 1. Grasp the process.
The Purdue On-Line Writing Laboratory has put together a step-by-step guide to writing research papers--from outline development to note taking to effective paraphrasing. There's even special emphasis on the Net as a research tool.  |
| 2. Don't forget to cite your online sources.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) has established guidelines for citing Web sources. Defy them at your own peril.  |
| 3. Beware of false information.
With the huge volume of new Web sites, sometimes it's difficult to dteremine if data is reliable. Evaluating Internet Based Information will help with the basics. |