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USEFUL LINKS |
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USEFUL LINKS ...to the world, and beyond |
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SEARCH ENGINES
A great search engine that categorizes the results of your search.
The Wal-mart of search engines. You can find anything on Google.
CITATION MAKERS
A Tech4Learning site that has a great Citation Maker in the Tools section. It makes citing any source a breeze.
Interactive online bibliography maker. Choose a source category and plug in the information. Copy and paste the citation into your document or presentation. Place the citations in alphabetical order by the first word in the citation.
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FREE PICTURES AND GRAPHICS
This site contains over 25,000 pictures of all kinds, submitted by teachers, students and others. All pictures are free and properly cited. Travis has its own category in the Backgrounds section.
A Web site for those with color issues. Chose an RGB color and Color Schemer will give you 16 complimenting colors.
This is a wonderful site containing over a million photographs from the Associated Press archives. All properly cited and captioned. USERNAME: disd PASSWORD: photo
A wonderful collection of rare and unique pictures and images that have been digitized from the New York Public Library.
OTHER STUFF
This CIA sponsored Web site supplies you with tons of information on every country in the world. Pick a country and download a map, flag, or any fact you could ever want. |
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SUBSCRIPTION SITES
World Book Encyclopedia FROM HOME: Username and Password from Ms. Grissom
Library Media Services provides this online database of magazines, newspapers, animal encyclopedia and pictures.
FROM HOME: Get Password & Username from Ms. Grissom Ms. Grissom recommends KID SEARCH
ABC-CLIO GREAT for social studies projects for Grades 4-12 Get username & password from Ms. Grissom
E-BOOKS Library Media Services is providing online reference books that can be downloaded and “checked out” to read online.
No password needed at this time.
Click “TRAVIS” under ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
DISD Library Catalog From school - Type library in the address bar on any school computer.
From Home:-Click on the above link To place a hold on a book… Patron Number: 7 digitStudent ID# PIN: Last 4 digits of Student ID#
Ms. Grissom will deliver the book
Fantastic student research site. 5th & 6th grade IP???
From Home: Username & password Get from Ms. Grissom Use KIDS or WORLD edition
A website that points you to other sites that have been selected by librarians and teachers. Great for projects!
From Home: Get username & password from Ms. Grissom |