Surfing the Net with Kids: The Best of 2001
"Each year at this time, I pick five sites that best show off the Web’s ability to teach us something new. As always, choosing just five sites was tough. I like the following sites because of the range of their educational content: history, science, literature, health, and current events. Wishing you a safe and happy New Year, full of educational opportunities."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Best of 2000
Another year, another five thousand Web sites visited and considered. To sumup the year, I’ve chosen the following five sites (from the 255 sites that made it in my column) asrepresentative of the educational nature of the Internet circa 2000. Their topics vary (history,health, math and geography) but they each make use of the interactive nature of the Internet toteach us something interesting. Wishing you a happy and safe new year full of educationalopportunities!
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Sonic Net
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Shoutcast
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Sherlockat
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Scholastic Newszone
"Well-designed and well-written, Junior Scholastic Online is a must-see site for news hungry elementary students. Junior Scholastic Online combines original reporting with an interactive news quiz (ten multiple-choice questions about the week’s current events), a NewsZone RealAudio Radio broadcast, and an opinion poll ("Should pitchers have intentionally walked Barry Bonds?") Some of the content is only for Junior Scholastic print subscribers, but there is plenty for the rest of us, including an excellent Special Report on America Responds."
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Rockets: Soar and Explore
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Red Alert Computer Security
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Radio@Netscape (formerly Spinner)
"America Online’s Spinner has merged with Netscape Music to form Radio@ Netscape. They produce 175 free Internet-only music channels that stream 90 million songs per month. With such a large selection of musical styles, you are sure to find a station (or two or three) that you like. And because all the channels are programmed by professional DJs, their quality and interface are consistently good. You can listen with any RealPlayer software, but if you download the Radio@Netscape Plus, you can rate songs, influence song play, and save favorite channels."
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Radio-Locator
"Radio-Locator is the place to find radio stations you listen to in the car, or to search for international stations. It is a comprehensive database of 10,000 radio stations, a quarter of which offer Internet audio streams. You can search by call letters, zip code, city, format (such as jazz or K-12) or country. I was surprised to learn my favorite local station offers an online stream, because they don’t promote it on air (and I’ve listened for hundreds and hundreds of carpool hours.) Internet-only stations are not included in the Radio-Locator directory."
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