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Alabama Virtual Library and Other Online Library Links
Alabama Virtual Library
Visit Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Nelson to get your free AVL card for HOME access. Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access to essential library and information resources. It is primarily a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research. Through the AVL, an equitable core of information sources are available to every student and citizen in Alabama, raising the level of excellence in schools and communities across the state.
http://www.avl.lib.al.us/databases/
Rogersville Public Library
Rogersville's Public Library offers an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). An OPAC allows patrons to remotely browse the library's collection to locate books, periodicals, audio/visual materials or other items.
http://www.rogersvillelibrary.org/
Internet Public Library Teen
We've put together information to help you with life, school, friends, and work. You'll find articles written especially to help you solve problems, links to web sites you can use for homework, and a place to ask questions. There's lots more, too. Explore!
http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/
Librarians' Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, the nation, and the world.
You can also search and browse our website for the best of the Web. We have over 20,000 entries, also maintained by our librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.
http://lii.org/
Awesome Library
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 35,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Read Print
A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. (eBooks)
http://www.readprint.com/
Presidential Libraries
Presidential Libraries promote understanding of the presidency and the American experience. We preserve and provide access to historical materials, support research, and create interactive programs and exhibits that educate and inspire.
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/
eBooks (free electronic books)
From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
eBooks
Electrifying Classics
Books have changed. Not the words but how books are shared. This simple reading program is going to help you make the most of electronic format classic books. You can share them through your website too.
Many people are saying, "Electronic reading is hard." And they're mostly right. But using this Java applet these books almost read themselves. You doubt it - well try it right now.
Open Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol now. Experiment with the option controls. See for yourself how you could enjoy these books for hours.
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/
eBooks (University of Iowa State)
The EServer is an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.The site is dedicated to clear, accessible writing in the humanities.
http://eserver.org/
EServer
The EServer is an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.The site is dedicated to clear, accessible writing in the humanities.
http://eserver.org/
Podcasts
http://www.libraryspot.com/podcast/othercasts.htm
Career
University of Alabama CAREER Resources
Provides NUMBEROUS handouts for deciding a major and job related handouts. Get expert advise concerning:
Deciding a Major, What can I do with this Major?, Job Search Strategies, Professional Social Etiquette, Leadership, How Well Do You Communicate?, Resumes, Cover Letter, Interview - Questions, etc.
http://www.career.ua.edu/resources/handouts.asp
College & Testing Prep.
Number2.com
Number2.com's online test preparation courses are totally free! FREE SAT, ACT, & GRE practice!
http://www.number2.com
Florence Lauderdale County Public Library
Test prep. at "Learn a Test." Users need: 1) a library card from the Florence Lauderdale County Public Library and 2) a password assigned by the Reference Staff.
http://www.flpl.org
AHSGE Reading Test Prep.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rsherbert-82402-ahsge-reading-review-education-ppt-powerpoint/
AHSGE Math Test Prep.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rsherbert-82401-ahsge-math-review-education-ppt-powerpoint/
AHSGE Testing Prep.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rsherbert-82400-ahsge-science-lesson-education-ppt-powerpoint/
Academic Info.
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers). Currently features over 25,000+ hand-picked resources and update the website on a daily basis.
http://www.academicinfo.net/
Open College Courses
OpenCollege e-Learning Content Library is the ultimate resource for the Internet-based education of the future. It provides online course developers, teachers, and students with access to more than 700 interactive learning models.
http://www.opencollege.com/
English
Enotes
A day no pigs would die.
http://www.enotes.com/day-pigs-qn
Funbrain
Idioms
http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/
Discovery School
Salem Witch Trials.
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
Salem Witch Trials
Web Sites Links
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
American Rehetoric
Hear the top 100 speeches and browse the online speech bank.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Cyber Guides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
LitLinks
With biographies and carefully chosen, annotated links for over 700 authors, LitLinks provides guidance to the best research resources on the Web.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx
Mythology
We've tried to blend good research and documented sources with a pleasing and sophisticated technical presentation in order to provide a stimulating encounter with this fascinating subject.
This entire site is 'G Rated' and is suitable for all ages.
http://messagenet.com/myths/search/index.html
Literary Criticism
http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm
http://www.libraryspot.com/litcrit.htm
Grammar Guide
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm
Mythology
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/mythology.html
Mythology
http://www.digital-librarian.com/mythology.html
Mythology
http://www.loggia.com/myth/content.html
American Writers
American Writers: Journey through history and American Writers II: The 20th Century are now available as permanent archives for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C-SPAN series.
http://www.americanwriters.org/
American & British Authors
Academic, scholarly, and critical articles on British and American writers, poets, novelists and playwrights of the twentieth century,
and on world authors writing in English. All articles are open access and free.
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Modernists.htm
Repeat After Us
Created by a high school student, RepeatAfterUs is an award-winning online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. Our free audio clips provide an excellent resource for students and literature lovers of all ages.
http://www.repeatafterus.com/
Alabama Authors
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape is a project of the Alabama Center for the Book. Its purposes are to spotlight Alabama's literary past, present, and future and to encourage the reading of Alabama literature. The authors included in this project have been selected by a committee made up of scholars and experts in Alabama literature. Authors are researched by volunteers, and profiles are created by project staff.
http://www.alabamaliterarymap.org/authors.cfm
Academic Word List
The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of words which appear with high frequency in English-language academic texts. The list was compiled by Averil Coxhead at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
The list contains 570 word families and is divided into 10 sublists. Sublist 1 consists of the 60 most common words in the AWL. Sublist 2 contains the next most frequently used words and so on. Each sublist contains 60 word families, except for sublist 10, which contains 30.
http://www.academicvocabularyexercises.com/id17.htm
Homework Helper
Free Homework Help Online
This service offers free homework help from subject specialists. Available Sunday - Thursday -- 3p.m. until 10 p.m.! Free Tutoring for Math, Science, Social Studies, and English for Grades 4-12 and College Intro. It is provided free of charge to all residents of Alabama by APLS (the State Library of Alabama) and your local Public Library with a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
http://www.homeworkalabama.org/
Math
S.O.S. Math
Your FREE resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations!
The perfect study site for high school, college students and adult learners. Get help to do your homework, refresh your memory, prepare for a test. Browse our more than 2,500 Math pages filled with short and easy-to-understand explanations. Click on one of the following subject areas: Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Variables, Matrix Algebra, or Mathematical Tables.
You can find topics ranging from simplifying fractions to the cubic formula, from the quadratic equation to Fourier series, from the sine function to systems of differential equations - this is the one stop site for your math needs.
http://www.sosmath.com/
Mathematical Atlas
This is a collection of short articles designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information, as well as answers to some common (or not!) questions.
http://www.math-atlas.org/welcome.html
NRICH (University of Cambridge)
Welcome to the ERICH math enrichment site. This site supports teachers and learners of mathematics with thousands of FREE resources which are designed to develop subject knowledge and problem-solving skills. Skill levels: primary, lower and upper secondary school, and post-16.
http://nrich.maths.org/public/
The Physics Zone
The Physics Zone is designed to help students learn introductory level, Algebra & Trig based, Physics.
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/
Math Gems
http://www.sciencegems.com/math.html
News
Professional
United Streaming
*Offers more then 4,000 educational programs for classroom use anytime--FREE for our Alabama teachers.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
ALEX
Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX), a project of the Alabama Department of Education, is designed to compile many types of educational materials and information into a time-saving one-stop resource for teachers and administrators in Alabama. By sharing the wealth of expertise and knowledge of Alabama educators, the children of Alabama will be better served.
http://alex.state.al.us/
marcopolo
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the Verizon Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
Thinklink Assessment
Established in 2000 as a for-profit company by Vanderbilt University, ThinkLink Learning has been determinedly focused on the use of formative assessment to improve K-12 student learning and performance.
http://www.thinklinklearning.com/
Clip Art
More than 150,000 free images and sounds from Microsoft.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/
FREE Powerpoint Templates
To download these templates, you need a password only provided to Indezine members -- membership is free and takes a minute, you'll be able to download immediately thereafter!
http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/
Internet 4 Teachers
K-12 Free, HIGH-QUALITY lesson plans! (Assessments, Timelines, Integrated Technology Lessons, Technology Tutorials, Differentiated Instruction, Teacher Tools, and much more!)
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Rubric Templates
RubiStar is a FREE tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The teacher may customize the rubric text to make it fit their own project.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Enotes
eNotes.com features high-quality study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in various academic areas.
http://www.enotes.com/
LCBOE Technology Links
http://www.lcschools.org/Default.asp?PN=Links&L=1&DivisionID='1599'&DepartmentID=''&SubDepartmentID=''&ToggleSideNav=ShowAll
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Provides an "index" to FREE award-winning curriculum that will help educators incorporate technology activities. A "free" and valuable resources for Science, Math, History and Language Arts.
http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm
Hot Chalk!
HotChalk is a FREE learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education.
The HotChalk Learning Environment is the online teaching resource you have been looking for. Designed to make your life easier, HotChalk provides a free online learning management system (MyClasses), a robust library of free and premium digital content (MyLibrary), and a portal into the today’s educational landscape with innovative articles and the latest news (MyDesk).
http://www.hotchalk.com/mydesk/
MIT OpenCourseWare
Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
What is MIT OpenCourseWare?
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
OCW is not an MIT education.
OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
Workshops - Teacher 2 Teacher
The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative has been created by and for America's teachers. It supports teachers' efforts in the classroom through professional development workshops and digital workshops and by sharing relevant information through email updates.
http://www.t2tweb.us/Workshops/About.asp
Learner.org
Advancing Excellent Teaching in American Schools
Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.
All materials may be accessed for free from www.learner.org
http://www.learner.org/
AcademicInfo: Subject Guides & Online Degrees
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Their mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers). AcademicInfo was founded in 1998 by Mike Madin, a librarian coordinator, and is now maintained by multiple contributors. Over 25,000+ hand-picked resources and update the website on a daily basis.
http://www.academicinfo.net/
Science
SCIRUS
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
Plants USDA
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
http://plants.usda.gov/topics.html
NASA Quest
NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Discovery
Discovery brings the real world to the whole world through its global multiplatform initiatives.
http://www.discovery.com/
Exploratorium
One of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/handson.html
Matter in Motion
http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/sciber00/7th/matter/sciber/intro.htm
Mitosis
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm
How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Check-out the ConsumerGuide for products and autos for editorials that provide professional, unbiased evaluations of products and nearly 1000 new and used vehicles. In addition, we offer expert shopping advice, timely feature articles, and insightful automotive and product editorials.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Dr. Karl
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/
BIOMES
What's it like where you live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/
Biology of Plants
Plants are alive, just like people and animals. How do we know this? Living things all do certain things:
* They grow and die.
* They need energy, nutrients, air, and water.
* They produce young.
* They are made up of cells.
* They react to what's around them.
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/
Animal Index from National Geographic
Visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/ to view U.S. Local Wildlife Guides that provides an A-Z list of animals.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/animals.html
Seed Magazine
Science is changing our world. It is behind the transformations—social, economic, artistic, intellectual, and political—that are defining the 21st century. Through this lens, and with the newest tools of media and journalism, we aim to tell the fundamental story of our world today and to provide information and knowledge to help you prepare for the story tomorrow.
http://seedmagazine.com/
Zoology
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Reading Genres
Romance
http://www.theromancereader.com/newarchive.html
Teens Top Ten
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.htm
Children's Literature Index
Provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books.
http://www.educ1.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
Social Studies
1920-1929 Guide
American Cultural History
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
8th Social Studies
China in the Middle Ages.
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078603072/student_view0/unit4/chapter12/student_web_activities.html
7th Civics
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078662575/student_view0/unit1/
Year By Year
Enter a year and discover what happened!
"Decade by Decade" section allows you to test your knowledge and read about the history the 1900s.
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker Collection from Auburn University.
http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/rickenbacker/
United States Government
THE BRIEFING ROOM
The Blog Your Weekly Address Slideshows Press Briefings Proclamations Executive Orders & Presidential Memoranda Nominations & Appointments THE AGENDA
Civil Rights Defense Disabilities Economy Education Energy & Environment Ethics Family Fiscal Foreign Policy Health Care Homeland Security Immigration Iraq Poverty Rural Seniors & Social Security Service Taxes Technology Urban Policy Veterans Women Additional Issues
THE ADMINISTRATION
President Barack Obama Vice President Joe Biden First Lady Michelle Obama Dr. Jill Biden The Cabinet White House Staff Executive Office of the President ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE
History Presidents First Ladies Vice President's Residence & Office Eisenhower Executive Office Building The Oval Office Camp David Air Force One White House Fellows White House Internships White House 101 Tours & Events OUR GOVERNMENT
The Executive Branch The Legislative Branch The Judicial Branch The Constitution Federal Agencies & Commissions Elections & Voting State & Local Government Resources
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/history/
Primary Sources
Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions
An Internet Hotlist on Document Based Questions (created by Paula Goldstein)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html
History Timeline
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&tbo=p&tbs=tl%3A1&q=history+timeline&aq=0&oq=history+timelin&aqi=g10
1920s Fashion
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/1920links.htm
Study & Learning Skills
Study Guides and Strategies
The Study Guides and Strategies web site is authored, developed and maintained by Joe Landsberger as an educational public service. These student guides are collaboratively maintained across institutional and national boundaries, and last revised June 02, 2006 . Permission is granted to freely copy, adapt, and distribute individual Study Guides in print format in non-commercial educational settings that benefit learners. No request to link to the Web site is necessary. Please be aware that the Guides welcome, and are under, continuous review and revision. For that reason, reproduction of all content on the Internet can only be with permission through a licensed agreement.
http://www.studygs.net/
Technology
How To
Get organized: Learn how to use Microsoft software in the classroom with tips and tricks presented in these how-to articles.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/howto.mspx
Blue Web'n by AT&T
Blue Web'n is an online library of 2094 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm
Filamentality by AT&T
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/index.html
SCORE
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Provides an "index" to FREE award-winning curriculum that will help educators incorporate technology activities. A "free" and valuable resources for Science, Math, History and Language Arts.
http://www.free.ed.gov/index.cfm
Free Excel Spreadsheets
Ninty-one FREE spreadsheets. General spreadsheet resources, templates, and leading expert links.
http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html
LCBOE Technology Links
http://www.lcschools.org/Default.asp?PN=Links&L=1&DivisionID='1599'&DepartmentID=''&SubDepartmentID=''&ToggleSideNav=ShowAll
Cybersleuth
An internet search guide for K-12.
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
Storyline Online
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud!
http://www.storylineonline.net/
MIT OpenCourseWare
Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds. Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. What is MIT OpenCourseWare? MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. OCW is not an MIT education. OCW does not grant degrees or certificates. OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty. Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
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