Blue Web'n and Beyond: How to find stuff you want!
Blue Web'n
Blue Web'n is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites. Sites are hand-picked and are, in our opinion, among the most useful for classroom or instructional use.
When you are searching on Blue Web'n, it is good to remember IT'S NOT GOOGLE. There are only a couple of thousand websites in Blue Web'n. The Blue Web'n search tool does not search every page for the word you are searching for; the search tool searches the key terms submitted into our system when the website was added. So, for example, a search of "pluto" would return 1 hit. Searching for Space would return 52 hits.
Beyond
We'll be investigating other search tools to find lots of stuff.
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Are there any cool things other teachers are doing? Look at
TeacherTube (Warning, this site has been very slow this week because so many teachers are in training).
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Want some cool images you can use in class (that may not be blocked by your school filter? Try
Pics4Learning.com.
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Want to search for a hardware store in town? Try
city.ask.com
- Looking to videoconference with a museum or park? Look in Videoconference Adventures.
- Need to understand a term that you know is technology related? Try Wikipedia.org.
Now that you have some tools, try these mini-challenges:
- My son is reading The Dangerous Book for Boys and wants to make a crystal. Where would I get alum? What is alum?
- Find a picture of a butterfly.
- Where would you find a video explanation of a mathematics concept?
- Do any students from your school have a publicly available page on MySpace?
- Find a museum that videocnferences with students.
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