Finding Information
Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
"Information You Can Trust" on educational inquiries from Teaching Aids to Lesson Plans to any subject.
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
"Since its beginning in 1994, the Library of Congress National Digital Library (NDL) Program has been the nation's premier resource for noncommercial, high- quality intellectual content on the Internet...Here, you can see such iconic items from the nation's past as Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the papers of Frederick Douglass, early baseball cards, photographs documenting the women's suffrage movement, maps from the 16th century to the present, films of Thomas Edison and sound recordings from the birth of the recording industry."
UC Berkeley Library: Finding Information on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
This tutorial provides an introduction to the Internet, Web browsers, search engines, search strategies, and evaluating and citing Web pages.
Finding Information
The Educator's Reference Desk (Formerly AskERIC)
http://www.eduref.org/
The Educator's Reference Desk provides lesson plans as well as offers over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues: Counseling, Educational Levels, Educational Management, Educational Technology, Evaluation, Family Life, General Education, Librarianship, Specific Populations, Subjects, Teaching, and Reference.
Educause Center for Advanced Research (ECAR)
http://www.educause.edu/ecar
"The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues of critical importance to higher education, many of which carry increasingly complicated and consequential implications. ECAR provides educational leaders with high-quality, well-researched, timely information to support institutional decision-making."
enGauge 21st Century Skills: literacy Digital Age
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm
Offers answers/research to questions about using educational technology. Good resources on Policy, Technology in the Content Areas, Evaluation Tools, and Software featuring Technology use.
eSchool News: School Technology Buyer's Guide
http://www.eschoolnews.com/bg/index.php
"We have categorized thousands of major ed-tech companies by the products and services they offer to help you to find the right vendor based on your needs. Using this powerful portal, you can do complex "Yahoo-style" searches on over 4,000 school technology product and service providers."
Answers to Questions
About.com
http://www.about.com/
"About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors. Every month, over 53 million people visit us for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, hobbies and more. And we offer solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and more. All created by our network of expert 'Guides' - real people who, like all good neighbors, help others so that everyone's life gets just a little better."
How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Detailed and thorough explanations in article format for questions about how things work.
Yahoo! Kids: Ask Earl
http://kids.yahoo.com/ask_earl
Answers to all kinds of questions asked by kids. Ask Earl anything.
Yahoo! Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/
Answers to questions in many categories. Ask Yahoo anything.
Scientific American Archive
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm
Answers to some difficult questions about Math, Science, and Computers.
UC Berkeley Library Resources
UC Berkeley Library: Finding Information on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
This tutorial provides an introduction to the Internet, Web browsers, search engines, search strategies, and evaluating and citing Web pages.
Recommended Search Strategy
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
A 5-step search strategy.
Evaluating Web Pages: Why and How
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
How to evaluate web pages.
Meta-Search Engines
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html
Compares & rates different meta search engines.
Invisible Web
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
Compares and rates different searchable databases.