November 2006
INTERNET TREASURES OR VERY USEFUL LINKS... AND FREE TOOLS
by 10 othersPortal with wide variety of categories; most useful are the evaluative and descriptive annotations for each entry, so you can see how the possible "consumer opinion," for example, sites vary. Place to find free reference tools.
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
by 4 othersa librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006
Pandora Internet Radio - Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
by 192 otherstell your favorite song, hear more like it; site learns your tastes
Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web
visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
by 7 othersfrom "start spot" which has other such categorized listing pages for movies, shopping, museums, etc.
Telegraph | Digital Life | A gallery of galleries
websites for art, visual browsing for your inspiration and pleasure
Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"
a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.
September 2006
Intute - the best Web resources for education and research
by 4 othersUK academics and researchers write entries on many topics of interest, a bit like an encyclopedia that you ask questions of.
Resource Discovery Network
excellent UK academic search tool for all disciplines. I looked up "film theory,' "feminism" and "television" and got useful results of sites I had not visited before, and some I had.
July 2006
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
well designed portal site with lots of examples and tips
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