Surfing the Net with Kids: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
"If a newspaper is news printed on paper, then what do you call the news you read online? News sites? News nets? Whatever you call them, several readers asked me for them, so here are my favorite current event sites for kids and their families."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Libraries
""Read! Learn! Connect! @ the Library" is the theme of this 1999’s National Library Week, celebrated April 11 - 17. Is their use of the ubiquitous ""at"" sign a clever tribute to the Internet? Of course. Despite predictions that libraries would become obsolete in this era of technology, libraries are as vital as ever. Many, in fact, are on the forefront of defining the digital library and preserving our cyber-rights. In 1953, President Eisenhower wrote "The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free, inquiring minds. To them, our citizens must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth.""
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Homework Help
"When you’ve searched, queried and pleaded for answers to your homework questions to no avail, who ya gonna call? Homework busters, that’s who! Here’s the scoop on real people (teachers, librarians, experts, authors, and fellow students) who will answer your most perplexing homework questions via e-mail."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Great Speeches
"One of the delights of Internet research is the availability of primary sources, such as original recordings of political speeches. Whether you’re a student writing a report, or a history buff of any age, you’ll find something of interest in the following speech collections."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Internet Glossaries
"No matter your age or your level of expertise, technology changes so fast, we all need somewhere to lookup technical jargon and obscure acronyms. Today’s picks are online dictionaries specializing in Internet and computer terms: some are designed for elementary school students, and others for techies of all ages."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Online Encyclopedias
"Although the Internet could be viewed as one giant encyclopedia, there is one very important difference: the bulk of the Internet is written by sources with dubious credentials. When you need background information for a school paper or a research project, you not only need it quickly, you need to trust your sources. Here are my recommendations for trustworthy (and free) online encyclopedias."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Kid-Friendly Internet Directories
"Although often confused with search engines, today’s featured sites are actually directories, because each and every entry is handpicked by a human, not an automated Web crawling computer program. Yes, their databases are considerably smaller than the huge search engines, but when you type in your keywords, and hit enter, you can be confident only appropriate family- friendly sites will be returned."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Online Dictionaries
"It’s back-to-school season, and a return to my favorite homework mantra: Look it up! Online dictionaries are fast and easy to use while surfing the Web, because you can cut and paste the words you want to look up. Although I still prefer the printed kind for off-line look ups, these sites are also handy when my hardback dictionary is buried under so many papers I can’t find it!"
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Surfing the Net with Kids: College Bound
It’s never too early to involve children in thinking about their future. Will they go to college? What will they study? Where will they go? How muchwill it cost? Wondering where to find some answers? Look to the Web. Here aresome terrific cyber-resources to get you started.
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Career Explorations
"People have told me I’m lucky: I’m working in a field I feel passionate about. I’ve known since I was twelve, when I took my first programming class, that I wanted to work with computers. And I’ve enjoyed (almost) all of my twenty-eight years (so far) in computers. But I don’t think it was luck. My mother taught me at an early age to follow my passion. And I did. I hope to teach the same to my children."
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