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SweetSearch Biographies offers profiles and outstanding search results for thousands of famous-or infamous-people from many walks of life, professions and countries, spanning many centuries.\n\nOur nifty filters help you choose the intriguing people you want to learn more about. Looking for female African American authors, for example? Choose Women from the categories on the left, then select African American and Author as your filters.\n\nThe names in bold link to profiles on our sister site, findingDulcinea. The rest link to the search results for that person on SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, which searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our research experts.

A student shared this resource with me. This is what she told me, " The thing that attracted me to it was their feature that allows you to type in a book title and it gives you recommendations based on that book. Plus, if you really want to narrow down your search you can add up to four books for more personalized results. I thought over the website was awesome, so I thought I just had to share it with you.." I think it looks like fun. This link is for the section on young adults and teens. 

Times puzzle master Will Shortz has edited these crossword puzzles, which are grouped by topics such as American History, Fine Arts, Language Arts, Science, Technology. Each puzzle page has links to learning more about the topic. Explore the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals extensive image database in combination with the Rocks and Minerals crossword.

This is the direct link to Google Search Education, including lesson plans for teaching Google search. It was discussed in a blog post saved earlier for this group.

Great set of useful online links from Joyce Valenza. Whoo hoo! Look no further? Ok...I'll keep it up

Found this when I was looking for a "best practices wiki" for HS libraries. Is there such a thing, or should we build one?

"David Rumsey Historical Map Collection The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps site have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. (more ...) link to this page "

great for teachers for searching, also includes a student section. Add to library site.

Great blog post with youtube video, links about current trends in copyright

Here is our Twitter account for our media center...I just started this a couple of weeks ago. I am hoping to ramp it up! I have a direct link to it from our blog and our media center website, http://webtech.cherokee.k12.ga.us/creekview-hs/mediacenter . :-)

Resources from the classroom 2.0 Diigo session