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Cheat sheets for commonly used software that will hopefully make you more productive.

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This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.

Research information about the story of our country.

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All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers

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The first in our series our series of public service short videos, produced for discussion, debate, training, and education by any and by all. The topic of this video is: How do students use Wikipedia during their course-related research activities?

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A Three Hour Tour: Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet (Kathy Schrock)

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Lesson plans and activities for using primary sources in the classroom.

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Everything You Wanted to Do With Wikipedia Encyclopedia

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Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items.

* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
* Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts

Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's

* museums and galleries
* archives
* libraries
* audio-visual collections

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Make a bibliography. It's free, easy and OttoMatic.

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The goals of the Copyright Society's Kid's Website are to provide:

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an educational tool to define, explain, and apply copyright issues in language understandable to Middle School students.
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an educational resource on copyright issues for teachers and parents of 5th - 8th graders who are engaged in a creative process.
* instructions about how to protect your own creations by registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The site is designed so that students may use it on their own or in connection with classroom activities. The material provided on this site may be reproduced for educational, noncommercial purposes, provided that the following copyright notice is included: "Copyright 2001, The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.," and the following acknowledgment also included: "These materials are reproduced from the copyrightkids.org website courtesy of Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), an initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.."

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Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

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This wikipedia only uses simple English words and grammar. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English.

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Looking for support to assist students with becoming critical consumers of information? Stop by this site for lesson plans, guides for teaching critical thinking, and how to recognize deceptive arguments.

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities for educators, provides documents and exercises for classroom use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes.

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An online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
* No membership required.

Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

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Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

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