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=Searching/Researching=


 * Michigan Electronic Library (MEL)**- administered by the Library of Michigan, MEL provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information.

Search Engines

 * **Google Safe Search** - learn how to lock Google search options to block sexually explicit search results


 * **ChaCha** - mobile question answering service.
 * **GoGooligans**- simple but complete search engine for kids.
 * **MelZoo**- provides visual previews of search results pages.
 * **Quintura** - visual search engine based on word clouds
 * **Quintura for Kids**
 * **Triplify** - search, compare and sort results from the main three engines - Google, Yahoo and Bing.
 * **SpaceTime 3D** - visual search returns.
 * **Sweet Search** - search engine for students. See [|Ten Steps to Better Web Research]
 * **Wolfram Alpha** - "the world's first computational knowledge engine." Be sure to watch the overview video and view the examples.


 * Image Search Engines**
 * **Behold** - visual image search engine for high quality Creative Commons images.
 * **Compfight -** searches Flickr with option for finding only Creative Commons licensed images.
 * **Pics4Learning**- a safe, free image library for educational projects.


 * Video Search Tool**
 * **WatchKnow-** index of over 15,000 online educational videos for children, reviewed by educators, in a directory of over 3,000 categories. Browse the directory or search by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings all edited for usefulness.

**21st Century Information Fluency**

 * Students need to develop the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. This ability involves Internet search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. //(21st Century Information Fluency Project//)
 * **MicroModule Tutorials**
 * **Internet Search Challenges**

=Gaming= > =Creating= = = =Other Sites= = = =Staying Safe Online= With resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations, the program is designed for children ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement.
 * **Lure of the Labyrinth** - Online game in which students solve a variety of math problems embedded in the story of an eerie world where monsters want world domination at any cost. Pre-algebra for grades 6-8, includes proportions, fractions, and ratios; variables and equations; and numbers and operations.
 * **iCivics - **project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.
 * **Free Rice** - Learn and practice math, chemistry, English, geography, language learning, and humanities. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme.
 * **NobelPrize.org** - games and simulations, based on Nobel-awarded achievements, teach and inspire.
 * **The Problem Site** - educational math puzzles, word games, brainteasers, strategy games, and web quizzes.
 * **Animoto** -allows users to easily incorporate images, text, and music into web based videos. Examples: Tribute to Class of 2009, Simple Machines,Rube Goldberg Physics, Fractions
 * **Create-a-Graph** - @http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp
 * **GoAnimate** - create original animations - Example: Introduction to Newton's Laws
 * **Glogster **- create online interactive posters - Examples: Alexander Graham Belland Radioactivity
 * **Scratch** - a programming tool that makes it easy to create your interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and then share the creations on the web. Free program must be downloaded and installed on computer. LearnScratch.org includes video and written tutorials.
 * **Tiki-Toki **- multimedia timeline creation tool - Ideas for Using Tiki-Toki - Examples: Prime Ministers in History
 * **Voki **- free service that allows students to create personalized speaking avatars and embed them on a blog or wiki or send them via e-mail. Examples: Voki Book Talks
 * **Wordle** - create word clouds from text. The size of the words in the word cloud depends on the word's frequency in the input text.
 * Examples: Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, Obama Inaugural Address, Online Safety Terms
 * **Academy of Achievement**- purpose of the site is to bring aspiring young people together with real-life heroes.
 * **Kahn Academy** - a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
 * **Princeton Review Vocab Minute**- a series of short musical podcasts that each teach four words in about 60 seconds.
 * **Smithsonian Education** - information and resources for students, educators, and families.
 * **[|ThinkFinity]** - more than 55,000 reviewed educational and literacy resources for teachers, students and community programs including standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and web sites.
 * [|NetSmartz]**- interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, providing age-appropriate resources to help teach kids how to be safer on- and offline.
 * Common Sense Media** - advice for parents on Internet Safety, Digital Citizenship and all things media.

**For information about this wiki contact:**Carol Mayer, Instructional Technology ConsultantWayne RESA33500 Van Born Rd, Wayne, MI 48184mayerc@resa.net

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