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Karen Brooks, Darlene Westinghouse, Andre

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WOLFRAM ALPHAWebsite - http://www.wolframalpha.comTutorial Overview - http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

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Study Guides and StrategiesWebsite - http://www.studygs.net/

Scheduling and Setting Goals - http://www.studygs.net/schedule/

Creating a To Do List - http://www.studygs.net/todolist.htm

Prioritizing Tasks - http://www.studygs.net/stressb.htm

Reading Critically - http://www.studygs.net/crtread.htm

Fiction – Narrator and Character Type - http://www.studygs.net/fictiona.htm

Checking my Study Skills - http://www.studygs.net/attmot4.htm

Citation Generator –http://www.studygs.net/citation/mla.htm

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Chapter Reviews and No Fear ShakespeareWebsite - http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/ and http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

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Literature Reviews for the iPhone™ & iPod Touch® to help you studyMain Website - http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/

Mobile - http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/CliffsNotes-Mobile.id-397375.html

CramCast - http://tips.cliffsnotes.com/rss/cliffsnotescramcast.xml

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Flashcardshttp://quizlet.com/ and http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

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ChaCha and KGBChaCha - http://www.chacha.com/ KGB - http://kgb.com/

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ITUNES

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Zoterohttp://www.zotero.org/

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MIT

As part of its mission to “advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to put all their courses online for free.  They call it Open Course Ware or OCW and the stated goals of the program are:

 MIT OCW's goals are to:  http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

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http://dogpile.com

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http://clusty.com

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http://www.trovando.it/default.asp

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http://www.gigablast.com

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Visual Search – Kartoo.com

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The Deep Web Web sites or

information that Google or other popular search engines are not capable of indexing

Websites specifically excluded by the search engine

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How Big is the Deep Web

An Internet search typically searches .03% (1/3000) of available content.

95% of Deep Web is accessible to public (no fees or subscription required)

550 billion documents 500 times the content of the surface

Web Google has identified 1.2 billion

documents

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NOVELNY Databases

http://www.ouboces.orghttp://pages.mhlearningnetwork.com/dboyea/id5.html

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Digital Librarian

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CompletePlanet

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INFOMINE