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 LET'S BLOG 

We now have a blog! Cut and paste this link below into your browser.Our first thread is to write about what you have been reading.  I look forward to hearing from you!  This is for all ages.  gatorsmediacenter.blogspot.com  

                                     

  GREAT LINKS 

Science for Kids site
This is a great site for kids to learn about
science and the scientific method.  
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Free Videos
Check out these videos from the Discovery Channel.
These are compliments of Alabama Public Television.
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Library Lessons
This is a link that I will use for lessons in the
lower school library media center.  
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Direct link to library
Find out what we have available in the library using
our new Destiny software. You can check this out from
any GLENWOOD computer that has Internet Access!  
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Author's Websites and Birthdays
Have you ever wondered when your favorite author was born?
Have you ever wished you could find out more about your
favorite author? Scroll down to the end of this link and
you will be able to find out MUCH about the author you
have in mind!  

Evaluating Web Sites
Evaluating Web Sites: When using information from
the internet you need to have the following
information:
* Who is the author?
* What is the author's background?
* Is the author an authority in this particular field?
a student? an interested citizen?
* Does the author represent a specific viewpoint?
* How does the author's work compare with that of
experts in the field?  

FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS ONLY!
CHECK OUT THIS GREAT LINK: High School Ace!
You may find the links from high school ace
helpful for planning and student use. It has
information for most every subject and leads
to some good resources.
http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm
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Citation Machine
A Terrific help when citations are necessary!
 
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Citation Style Guides
Another great link for citation and research help.
 
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A.L.E.X.
Teachers: CHECK THIS OUT!!!
 
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Accelerated Reader Site
Access Accelerated Reader Quiz Site from here.  
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Teachers and students this next site is AWESOME!!!

Free Graphics

http://bensguide.gpo.gov

MORE LINKS

Teachers, Parents & Student Resources:

Check out the Alabama Virtual Library:  This is the research tool I encourage all students to use.  We are blessed in Alabama to have state officials that provides this site to its citizens free.  You need to get a card and password from an Alabama public library.  See me for more details.  We are working on getting all our students a card.
www.avl.lib.al.us

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mypyramid.gov/kids/index.   

www.biocourse.com

www.janbrett.com

www.Discovery.com

www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Blog with Kathy Schrock:  kathyschrock.net/blog/

www.surfnetkids.com

www.scholastic.com 

www.seussville.com

www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/

www.coolmath4parents.com/

www.coolmath4teachers.com/

www.coolmathalgebra.com/

To give your Kindergarteners and 1st graders
some exciting reading games to play visit:
www.starfall.com 

For high school students who want
to research college choices:

www.auburn.edu

www.uga.edu

www.ua.edu

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WebQuest Page
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html
Quality WebQuests categorized by grade
level and subject area
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WebQuest Central
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/tools/webquests.htm
Links to collections of webquests from all over the Internet
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The Educators Network
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/
This extensive network of teacher resources contains
links to lesson plans, work sheets, theme units,
teacher tols, and rubrics
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Tennille's Technology Tips
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/stennille/ST3/
Exemplary educator site features teacher, student,
and parent links. Check out the Student Launch
Page for research links by topic and the teacher's
WebQuest pages.
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Teachnet.com
http://www.teachnet.com/
Lesson plans compiled by subject area, web tools,
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TeacherVision
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
Created by teachers for teachers, this site's goal
is to provide lesson plans, resources, classroom
management tips, and other that make your professional
life easier.
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TeachersFirst
http://www.teachersfirst.com/
Teaching tips, professional development resources,
tech tutorials, and content links by subject and
grade level make this a varied and useful site
for teachers.
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Teachers Helping Teachers
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
Links, lesson plans, and laughs! What else does
a teacher need?
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Teacher Resources on the Web
http://info.csd.org/schools/bayless/Elem/teacher.html
Hotlitst of helpful sites.
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Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html
Lesson plans, student instructions, and rubrics
for assessment of classroom computer projects help
teachers new to integrating technology into daily
classroom activities.
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Surfing the Net w/ Kids
http://www.surfnetkids.com/
Educational links listed topically or by date as
appeared on weekly newsletter. Includes games and
puzzles dealing with topics.
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Sites for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Contains links to sites ranked by popularity that
contain teacher's resource and educational material.
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SEIR*TEC Grants and Funding
http://www.seirtec.org/grants.html
Links to grant and funding information sources
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S.C.O.R.E. Science Resources and Lessons
http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/
Lists recommended links to science activities for
kids, lesson plans, and "Ask a Scientist" contact
information by content speciality
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S.C.O.R.E. History/Social Science Resources
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Online Resources and Lesson Plans for K-12 history
and social science
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Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/
Thousands of links to online reference material,
including language translator, global statistics,
reverse address and phone number lookup, classical
music archives, electronic texts, and many, many more
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Math Forum Teacher's Place
http://mathforum.org/teachers/
Math links by grade level
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Mary K. Breeze - The Breezeway
http://welcome.to/breezeway
Exemplary educator site includes links for teachers
and students, training guides, and a "Free Stuff" area
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Laura Turner's Education Web Portal
http://www.bhsu.edu/education/edfaculty/lturner/edportal.htm
Exemplary educator site features web resources by
subject area, tech tips, and deep web search tools
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Landmarks for Schools
http://landmark-project.com
Annotated website links by subject with tips for
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized
list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and
professional growth. It is updated often to include
the best sites for teaching and learning
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K-12 Connection - Where Educators Explore
http://k12connection.org/
Extensive annotated web resources categorized by
subject and grade level
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International Society for Technology in Education
http://www.iste.org
Find the national technology standards, web resources,
and lessons and units which integrate technology
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Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
http://www.valdosta.edu/~djudd/tools.html
Features 200 fun and educational topic pages for
elementary students
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Highlights' TeacherNet
http://www.teachernet.com/
Bulletin boards and discussion groups, along with
links to lesson plans and web resources and idea-a-day
activities
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Helen Teague's Overnight Planning System
http://www.oops.bizland.com/
Exemplary educator site geared to creative teaching
ideas and resources
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Greece Schools Educational Links
http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/noframes/links/links.htm
Educational links in all major subject areas.
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Encarta Online Educator Links
http://www.microsoft.com/education/LessonPlans.mspx
Online resources for educators seeking innovative
Internet projects, lesson plan ideas, source materials,
and opportunities to collaborate with other schools
and teachers.
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EduFly
http://www.edufly.com
Search for web resources by grade level and subject
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EduScapes
http://www.eduscapes.com/
Articles and teaching stratgies for the one-computer
classroom, literature circles, interactive projects,
and other educational resources for life-long learners
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Education Planet
http://www.educationplanet.com/
Search 100,000+ educator-approved educational sites.
Includes web based tools for teachers.
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Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Contains curriculum projects, featured lesson plans,
webquests, tools and templates, educators message
boards, and web resources safe search
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Cool Teaching Lessons and Units
http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
Resources for teachers K-12 include ready-made units
and lessons for all subjects, emphasizing engaged
learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules
and Problem-Based Learning. Also included are other
forms of lessons and tutorials, sites to help you
build your own units, and sources for student research.
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Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Links to authors and stories on the web, resources for
storytelling, lists of recommended books, and children's
book awards links
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Book Units
http://members.aol.com/sskufca/bookunits.htm
Hundreds of links to lesson plans centered around
children's literature, in addition to lists of links for all subject areas
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Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is a searchable library of1200+ outstanding
Internet learning sites categorized by subject area,
audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,
resources, references, & tools).
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BiblioCat Webpage
http://members.aol.com/sskufca/
Categorized links especially for school librarians.
Be sure to check out the Book Units centered around
popular children's literature and check to see if your
favorite author's website is listed
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Ask the Expert
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/askanexpert.html
Lists of experts by subject area so that students can
email questions.
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Alabama Schools Online
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/guide/student_teacher/k_college/schools_online.html
Links to school web pages
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Computer Ergonomics for Elementary School Students
http://orosha.org/cergos/
Computer Ergonomics is about things that you can do
to make working on a computer more comfortable and
better for your body. For example, wearing a bike helmet
when riding a bike and a seatbelt when riding in a car
are two simple things that you do to be safe. The Computer
Ergonomics for Elementary School Students (CergoS) Web
site will show you some simple and affordable ways to
make sure that your body is safe and comfortable while
using a computer.
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School Ergonomics Programs:  Guidelines for Parents
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/MBergo/intro.html
With the number of computers in classrooms increasing
every day, many schools are beginning to institute ergonomics
programs to show students, teachers, and parents how to reduce
the risks of computer-related injuries.  What follows is part
of such an ergonomics program, in the form of guidelines that
have been developed for the parents of school children, from
the needs identified by a project with Blackwell Elementary
School in Redmond, Washington. The guidelines have been
included in the "Get Techfit" program developed by Diane
Tien and her class at this school.
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Computer Glossary
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/docs/info/glossary1.html
Yahooligan's Computer Glossary
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The Journey Inside
http://www.intel.com/education/journey/
The Journey Inside is a series of online lessons for
learning about technology, computers, and society.
This interactive resource uses Web-delivered video,
audio, and other activities to guide students to an
increased understanding of the world of technology.
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Alabama Technology Course of Study -Correlations to
http://thecopyrightsite.org
http://thecopyrightsite.org/teaching/correlations.html
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Cyberethics for Teachers - Lesson plan
http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/lessonplan1.htm
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The Electronic E.L.F.
http://www.lauriefowler.com/elfpage.html
Technology integration activities for grades K-12 that
are aligned with the Alabama Course of Study. Created
by Laurie Fowler, Technology in Motion, University of
Alabama
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TRIP for Teachers/Webquests
http://www.tripforteachers.org/Webquests/WQ.htm
Provides links to WebQuests adapted for Alabama
Course of Study content standards by Mobile County
teachers.

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Middle School Math for middle school families                            
http://www.figurethis.org
A fun tool for middle school math challenges and
remediation.

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 Authors 

Just click on the author's underlined name and go directly
to the author's website!

January

2 – Crosby Bonsall
3 – Alma Flor Ada
3 - J.R.R. Tolkien
4 - Jacob Grimm
4 –
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5 – Lynne Cherry
6 – Carl Sandburg
12 –
Jack London
12 – Charles Perrault
17 –
Janet Stevens
18 – A.A. Milne
20 –
Ted Arnold
27 – Lewis Carroll
29 - Rosemary Wells
31 -
Denise Fleming

 

February

1 – Langston Hughes
1 –
Jerry Spinelli
2 - Judith Viorst
3 – Joan Lowery Nixon
7- Charles Dickens
7 –
Laura Ingalls Wilder
10 - E.L. Konisburg
12 –
Judy Blume
14 - Paul Zelinsky
15 – Norman Bridwell
21 -
Jim Aylesworth

March

2 – Dr. Seuss
3 – Patricia MacLachlan
4 - David A. Carter
4 - Dav Pilkey
4 - Peggy Rathmann
5 - Mem Fox
8 – Robert Sabuda
10 – Jack Kent
11 – Ezra Jack Keats
16 – Sid Fleischman
20 – Lois Lowry
20 – Bill Martin, Jr.
26 – Robert Frost

April

2 – Hans Christian Anderson
4 –
Elizabeth Levy
6 – Graeme Base
10 –
David Adler
12 – Beverly Cleary
13 – Marguerite Henry
14 – Robert Lopshire
16 –
Gertrude Chandler Warner
20 – Mary Hoffman
22 – Eileen Christelow
23 – William Shakespeare
25 –
Stuart J. Murphy
27 –
Barbara Park

May

4 - Don Wood
6 – Leo Leonni
10 –
Christopher Paul Curtis
16 – Bruce Coville
16 – Margret Rey
17 –
Gary Paulsen
18 – Lillian Hoban
20 – Mary Pope Osborne
22 – Arthur Conan Doyle
22 – Arnold Lobel
23 -
Margaret Wise Brown
24 – Diane DeGroat

 

June

2 – Michael Emberley
2 – Paul Galdone
5 – Richard Scarry
6 –
Cynthia Rylant
10 – Maurice Sendak
11 -
Robert Munsch
18 – Pat Hutchins
18 – Chris Van Allsburg
25 - Eric Carle
26 – Charlotte Zolotow
30 – David McPhail

 

July

1 – Emily Arnold McCully
2 -
Jean Craighead George
8 - Raffi
11 - E.B. White
14 - Laura Numeroff
17 – Karla Kuskin
19 – Eve Merriam
20 – Paulette Bourgeois
22 –
S.E. Hinton
28 – Beatrix Potter
26 - Jan Berenstain
30 - Marcus Pfister
31 –
Lynne Reid Banks
31 – J.K. Rowling

August

1 - Gail Gibbons
6 – Frank Asch
6 – Barbara Cooney
7 –
Betsy Byars
9 – Patricia McKissack
11 – Joanna Cole
11 – Don Freeman
11 –
Steven Kroll
16 – Matt Christopher
16 – Beatrice DeRegniers
18 –
Paula Danziger
25 –Charles Ghigna   FatherGoose.com
and at
"Kids@Random | Catalog | Charles Ghigna"


28 – Brian Pinkney
30 – Donald Crews

September

1 – Jim Arnosky
3 - Aliki Brandenburg
4 – Syd Hoff
7 -
Eric Hill
8 – Jack Prelutsky
8 – Jon Scieszka
13 -
Raold Dahl
13 – Else Holmelund Minarik
15 – Tomie DePaola
15 – Robert McCloskey
16 –
H.A. Rey
21 – H.G. Wells
21 -
Hans Wilhelm
25 – Shel Silverstein
29 - Stan Berenstain

October 

5 – David Shannon
8 –
Mike Thaler
10 – Robert D. San Souci
14 – Miriam Cohen
14 – Lois Lenski
19 –
Ed Emberley
24 – Barbara Robinson
26 –
Steven Kellogg

November 

9 - Lois Ehlert
12 – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
13 – Robert Louis Stevenson
14 –
William Steig
21 - Audrey Wood
24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett
25 –
Marc Brown
25 – Shirley Climo
25 -
Steven Krensky
26 – Charles Schultz
27 - Kevin Henkes
29 – Madeline L’Engle
29 -
C.S. Lewis

December 

1 – Jan Brett
5 – Walt Disney
10 -
Mercer Mayer
22 - Jerry Pinkney
23 - Avi
25 –
Pam Munoz Ryan
30 – Rudyard Kipling

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Contact Us

Mrs. Jan Sikes
High School Media Specialist
JannaSikes@Charter.net
334-297-3614

Mrs. Susan Corcoran
Lower School Media Specialist
Scorcoran@glenwoodgators.com
334-297-3615

 

 

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