Jennifer Lamkins's List: Research resources

The World Digital Library, supported by UNESCO, is a project to provide primary sources from other countries and cultures free of charge, and is offered in seven different languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, andRussian. The design of the website is easy to navigate and very interactive, with its map of the world and timeline beneath it. Moving either of the lime green bars on the left and right of the timeline will change the images on the world map above it, and will provide images of the time period chosen when clicked. Each image is explained in whichever of the seven languages chosen in which to view the site, but any language that appears in the image remains in its original language. At the top of the page, visitors can choose to browse by "Place", "Time", "Topic", "Type of Item", and"Institution". The image quality is excellent, and once chosen, the image can be zoomed in on and panned. Thumbnails of similar items to the image chosen are also provided underneath the image.The World Digital Library, supported by UNESCO, is a project to provide primary sources from other countries and cultures free of charge, and is offered in seven different languages, including Arabic, Portuguese, andRussian. The design of the website is easy to navigate and very interactive, with its map of the world and timeline beneath it. Moving either of the lime green bars on the left and right of the timeline will change the images on the world map above it, and will provide images of the time period chosen when clicked. Each image is explained in whichever of the seven languages chosen in which to view the site, but any language that appears in the image remains in its original language. At the top of the page, visitors can choose to browse by "Place", "Time", "Topic", "Type of Item", and"Institution". The image quality is excellent, and once chosen, the image can be zoomed in on and panned. Thumbnails of similar items to the image chosen are also provided underneath the image.

Scoopler is a new search engine that allows you to simultaneously search Delicious, Digg, Twitter, and Flickr in one place. Scoopler is quite simple, enter a search term and you'll find results from all four of those services. Results are sorted into two columns, "live" which provides the most recently shared links and "popular" which is based on the number of times a link has been shared.

While many people think of the Library as simply the place where we keep all the books, there is much more here for your classroom, even if you don’t teach history or language arts. A good place to start is the Learning Page which offers lesson plans for using primary sources in the classoom and much more to help you use the Library site. Other sections include the fabulous Amercian Memories collection, online versions of many of the Library’s exhibits, the Global Gateway to access international resources, and Thomas, an index of recent and ongoing Congressional legislation. On top of everything else, they’ve recently revised the site to make it easier to navigate.

General guidelines and format samples will counsel students through the process of forming MLA style papers. At the 2nd link above, sample entries are available for the 2009 updates in the style guide, for online databases scholarly journal articles and online only publications.

Primary sources

Creative commons photos. Wylio automatically sizes the image, hosts the image, and builds the photo credit into the code.

citation site, free for educators and students at this time. Great tool for helping students learn how to cite websites effectively. Not APA style but does allow for capture of text, images and notetaking on websites and PDFs.

"a daily curated assortment of the best content on the Web for history, language arts, science, news, culture and other topics."

Talking History is an oral history website produced by SUNY Albany for the purpose of sharing history lessons and audio artifacts. Every week publishes two audio segments about various historical topics. One of the segments features historians talking about an event or theme in history. The other segment features an audio artifact about an event or theme.

High school students sometimes find the process of creating a research project stressful. This research guide should relieve some of the stress. It takes the student step by step through the process providing tip sheets for each step. Each tip sheet also contains links to additional information to help clarify that step. Students can use the tip sheets in order to learn or review the entire process or easily locate the specific information for the step that they need. Tip sheets include: Selecting a research topic; Listing keywords; Making source cards; Finding information within sources; Writing a statement of purpose; Brainstorming research questions; Writing a thesis statement; Making an outline; Citing sources; Writing an introduction and conclusion, etc.

Eek! Pass that scrub brush! Take an interactive look at the various flora and fauna that inhabit your body, and see if you don't feel like scratching here and there after viewing this Nova exhibit.