EFFECTIVELY:

We want our students to search effectively using online tools.

• We can teach them how to use human search tools
  

People are smarter than computers. Right? These indexes list sites carefully chosen by human beings, not computer programs. Search by topic or keyword.

• Internet Public Library

• Intute

• Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII)

• We can teach them how to use computer - generated search tools
  

• How to find the right search/keywords.

• Can't find the words? Try a visual dictionary

• How to Google better

• Other search options

• SITE FOR TEACHERS: KEYS TO QUALITY TEACHING RESOURCES

• We can teach them the basics of how information is organized

• Print: Tables of Contents and Indexes

• Online: Trees and Keys 

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• We can teach them how to use virtual tools

Area convertor

• Astronomy calculators



• Charts (astronomy)

• CAD (Project// Draw)

• Chinese Calligraphy Editor

• Citation creator (Citation Machine)

• Currency converter

• Data Storage converter

• Distance and length converter

• Document readability tester

• Drawing

• Drawing, charting, mind-mapping (Gliffy Basic)

• Personal finance helper: compound interest, leasing, loans, $ projections , retirement

• Graph builder

• Graphic organizers (download and edit HTML)

• Host and IP addresses backlink checker

• Image converter

• Journalism tool

• Latin/Greek prefix converter

• Lease or buy comparer

• Math problem solver

• Math tools

• Measurement units converter

• Microcope simulator

• Online image editor

• Rhyming generator

• Scientific calculators

• Spelling, grammar, and thesaurus check

• Telescope simulator

• Temperature converter

• Time zones

• Timeline generator

• Translate text or webpage (GOOGLE)

• Translation (Babel Fish)

• Weight and mass converter

• Zamzar file converter

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