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Wanda Terral

Awesome Stories - 16 views

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    AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving key sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located. The author of each story is listed on the preface page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information. This educational teaching/learning tool is also designed to support state and national standards. Each story on the site links to online primary-source materials which are positioned in context to enhance reading comprehension, understanding and enjoyment.
meenoo rami

Sweet Search - 4 views

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    possible search tool for students
Donalyn Miller

http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-search/10-ways-and-20-features-for-searching-old-t... - 0 views

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    10 tools for searching your old tweets. Includes reviews of each and suggestions for use.
Karen LaBonte

Dillon School District Info Literacy Resources for Teachers - 12 views

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    Search tools, hoax web sites, search engines, etc. EXCELLENT
Patrick Higgins

NoodleTools : NoodleQuest - 5 views

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    Need help narrowing your research topic?  or finding search engines that will work hardest for your topic?  Try this.
Karen LaBonte

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching - 3 views

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    Recommended by the Johns Hopkins University Library site about verifying web-based info sources
anonymous

Truveo: Video Search Engine - 0 views

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    Search video database.
Mary Worrell

Search Engine's YouTube channel launches: Does the Internet make you dumber? Boing Boing - 4 views

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    This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.
Nik Peachey

SubZin.com (BETA) - Movie Quotes Search Engine - 3 views

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    Find words and phrases in film scripts.
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