Don Smith's Baker's Dozen +1

(the sites I use most)

  1. Google - http://www.google.com/ - In a year's time it has become the preferred method of finding information accurately and quickly.
  2. Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/ - Adding new functions every month, it's hard to beat this colossal for browsing for just about anything. I prefer not to allow kids to use it as a search engine.
  3. New York Times Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent was to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose was to show people that there's a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html
  4. Chico High School - The Best High School Library online - Librarian Peter Milbury. ( I don't know how he has the time, but maybe it's due to an excellent staff that supports his efforts). http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/
  5. The On-Line Books Page - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ - I use this with my eBook all the time to download books and convert them. I especially like the regional history section.
  6. Digital Librarian: http://www.digital-librarian.com/ - What a great place to browse. I feel that browsing is an essential skill that we need to teach kids. Targeted searches yield results that solve specific problems and issues, but it is through browsing that we broaden our perspectives and fulfill the gaps in our knowledge
  7. Children's Literature Web Guide - http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ - Librarians and reading specialists should gravitate to this page. The links are terrific.
  8. Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educator's - A friend from New Jersey who now lives on Cape Cod and teaches in the school district where I started my career. Kathy is the true web media specialist. (even though it's rumored that she doesn't prefer Macs.......) http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html
  9. KidsClick! Web search for kids by librarians. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ - You can click back and forth with Dewey numbers, what an inspiring tool to teach a librarian's sense of order.
  10. PBS TeacherSource - http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ - Filled with great teaching ideas and over 1400 lesson plans.
  11. Voice of the Shuttle - http://vos.ucsb.edu/ - The site on the Net for humanities information. You could get stuck here all of summer vacation and not see it all.
  12. High School Hub - http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm - Where high school kids and teachers can find key sites for help with their homework and projects.
  13. MCREL - Located in Aurora, Colorado, is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. McREL provides products and services, primarily for K-12 educators, to promote the best instructional practices in the classroom. http://www.mcrel.org/ - Some of the best lists of resources for classroom instruction and many lesson plans.
  14. O'Keefe Library - What's new on the Internet - http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Librarians/new.htm - I just found this page. It's got all the best links for the latest information.

If you find other sites that you would like to add to my list - email me at [email protected]

 

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