EDIT 7500 @ UGA

This is the CIA's Word Factbook, filled with lots and lots of data on every country in the world. It's very helpful for Geography, Political Science, and History classes. We looked at it in class, so I figured I would bookmark it!

This is a webquest for sixth grade language arts, and I'm bookmarking it because it's very similar to the format of the webquest I will be doing for Fahrenheit 451. It would be easy to follow this format and change the content as it suits you.

This is a Fahrenheit 451-related WebQuest that deals with book banning and how it relates to the Bill of Rights, good to prep students before the Bradbury book.

In this short lecture, Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest sites WebQuests and QuestGarden, talks about the way to view learning games with this equation: Power = Attention x Depth x Efficiency. It actually applies to other uses of technology, not just games

This is outdated, but it is fairly similar to my own project, so I thought I would share. It is a webquest dealing with Fahrenheit 451 and propaganda.

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, share and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

The American Memory project from the Library of Congress offers up a wealth of information on America in various media, particularly in discussing American History.

With Google Sites you can create customized websites and secure wikis for free.

This is really hard to describe, but with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, you can get workers (really bored workers?) from around the world to complete menial tasks for you, some of them research oriented, for very little money. It's pretty bizarre, but I've seen people do academic work on there.

Though this is a pay site (it's not very much--$20/2 years), Questgarden allows the user to create WebQuests, including supporting documents like rubrics.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: * monitoring a developing news story * keeping current on a competitor or industry * getting the latest on a celebrity or event * keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

A lot of PBS' excellent Frontline programs are available for viewing via Quicktime or Windows Media here. These are some great documentaries that apply to a lot of the Social Sciences.

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

This is a WebQuest creator that doesn't require knowledge of HTML.

Knols are articles that try (at the very least) to be definitive articles on a particular subject, eschewing the wikipedia model of everybody chipping in. Instead, readers rate each knol, so the good ones rise to the top.

Mymoney.gov is a joint project on financial literacy run by a number of branches of government, most notably the Federal Reserve. There are a lot of calculators available as help with investing and mortgages and stuff that would be appropriate for a high school economics class.

This webquest deals with the homeless issue in America: what its causes are, what services are available, and even includes a small service-learning component. It's a WebQuest that reaches outside of the classroom and the computer.

This is the hub for all educators interested in using the vast resources of the Smithsonian Institute for education. There is something for every subject represented here.