The ILT's Search Page

Interested  in Internet Service?  Search this list of providers.
Listservs, e-mails and electronic journals for educators!

Check out The ILTLI's recommended  List of Search Engines for educators!
Recommended Search Engines for adolescents.
Our Special Search Pages for Teachers, Educational Subject Guides.
Electronic Database Search Resources

How to evaluate Web site content?
A Digital Index Card, Citation Machine, Citation Request,
Rubric, Evaluation Criteria: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly,
Kathy Schrocks 5Wsstudent practice with Feline Reactions or DiHydrogen; Copyright Issues/Plagiarism?
Hoaxes and Urban Legends at: About.com, Snopes or The Legend Archive

Interested in our RWLO-based Search Resources, a Soarweb Project or  Search Workshop?
Cyberbee's Search Workshop,
7 Steps to better Searching & quiz, YahooligansTeaching Guide
Or review current data on searching at Search Engine Watch and Showdown.

 
 
 
 


 
 

Citing electronic resources: Soarweb-based lesson
Planning Your Research: flowchart
ILTLI's Links to referencing, Copyright, citations; {MLA, APA, Turabian, copyright issues, etc.} or plagiarism
NoodleTools "citation tools" and "quickcite" resources
The Landmark Projects Digital Index Card, Citation Machine, Citation Request & from CyberBee,
J.Mckenzie's Antidote for the New Plagiarism,
Copyright & Educational Issues, When is Copying OKFighting Plagiarism, Detecting Dishonesty & TurniItIn.com
How to evaluate Web site content?
David F. Warlick's Evaluating Internet-based Information
A Rubric and Evaluation Criteria: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
More Links to these topics from the ILTLI
7 Steps to better Searching & quiz
 
These Search Engines are designed for the Kids 
Yahooligans!  
Ask Jeeves for Kids 
Content for students ages 8-14
Kids Search Engine Site! 
Numerous Guides and Search Engines just for kids!
 
Kids Subject Guides 
Internet Public Library (Youth)
KidsClick
CyberBee's Reference Links and Research Tools
Internet Referencing With NoodleTools 
A Student Site evaluation/scoring worksheet
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Educational Subject Guides & Archives 
Copyright & Educational Issues, A Rubric for evaluating Website content, 7 Steps to better Searching & quiz 
MarcoPolo: Search Engine, Partner Content Sites and ILTLI MarcoPolo Workshop 
The ILT's Teacher Resources, Curriculum Links and 
Social Studies Subject Guide 

 SESD's Teacher Resources,  
R.Niles Finding Data on The Web
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators 

Curriculum links from CyberBee! 
Carol Hursts' Children's Literature 



Yahooligans Teacher's Guide, BJPinchbeck's 
Blue Web'n Search by grade or subject area! 
Lane Memorial Library
 
MarcoPolo, 
LycosGeneral Search returns Categories at top,  
For Kids: Ask Jeeves 


Web Tools! 
Land Mark for Schools
Internet/Library Research Tools: 
  iTools.com 
InfoOhio: free to all Ohio k-12 (Scavenger Hunt) 
SEORF References, Youth Library, Pathfinders, ILTLI's Library Links, and Lane Memorial Library Search 
Visual Thesaurus
Classroom Connect  (join) 
Martindale's Reference Desk and The Awesome Library and 
Chico HS Web Resources
The Internet Archive (digital archive of artifacts etc) 
The Wayback Machine (archive of old webpages) 
A School Administrator's Subject Guide! 
EduHound, Education Index
University of CA, InfoMine  
Quia.com & Search Engine Watch's List
Franklin Institute's Educational HotList
Dr. Barry Morris, USF Vanderbilt Exploratorium
 R.MacKinnon's Links Pitsco  Science Learning Network

These Rated Search Engines are for general use
Latest "crawling" statistics, 2005 Trends
 
Two nifty tools!
Educational Bloggers Network a community of educators who use weblogs for teaching and learning
Whois Source discover who owns a domain
 Wikipedia The Free Internet Encyclopedia
Wiktionary Collaborative, Multilingual Dictionary
Wikibooks Collaborative Texts
WikiCommunities
The New York Times CyberNavigator
Use the same search tools used by the NYTimes Newsroom!
 
The ILTLI's 
Fastest Search Engine 
for home use! 
Fast Search
Two Nifty, Graphic Metasearch engines!
KartOO a graphical interface
 
 and the other nifty search engine,
Vivisimo a clustering metasearch engine
 
The ILTLI's Best Ranked Search Engines
 
Ask Jeeves
Boolean and Power Searching with Google's Advanced Search
Google Labs: use some of their "beta" tools
Google search by Geographic Location

 
 

Meta-Search Engines For Educators 
WebCrawler
DogPile

Internet Directories 
Yahoo
About.com
Search Engine Watch's List

 The ILTLI's Top 10+ for General Searching 
 Lane Memorial Library Search
 List of Major Engines 
Specialty Searching
HotBot
 Time's Pathfinder
Excite
Northern Light
Search! Dept. of Ed
 Inktomi
 WEB Crawler
 PointSearch
AOL's Search
Power Search
NBC's Search Microsoft Search  AltaVista
 
The ILTLI's list of Meta-Search Engines 
DogPile, Vivisimo
All 4 One MetaSearch
WebCrawler, Metacrawler Go2Net,  c/net Search.com 
 Search.com
Search for personal home pages Ahoy!
 
Additional Search Tools 
 Eisenhower Clearinghouse
 Library References
 
 EINet Galaxy
 DejaNews
 Search Language Resources

Search Links Teacher Resources Studying The WWW
SchoolNet Institute Home School Projects onLine
 Social Studies Links Curriculum Links Educational Reform
 Community News  Polaris Home Page Institute calendar, Assignments...
Mike Baker <mbaker@polaris.edu> teacher/coordinator
Geoff Andrews <gandrews@polaris.edu> Director of Technology
The Instruction, Learning & Technology Leadership Institute
Polaris Career Center
7285 Old Oak Blvd.
Middleburg Hts. OH 44130
(440) 891-7694
FAX (440) 891-7723
 
 
This page last updated 3/16/2005
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