The Uselessness of Pi and its irrational friends
Need links to Pi? Html's for Pi to the 100, 31,000 and 1,200,000 places. Play with "Friends of Pi" http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless/pi.html

Language Arts/Literature

• Children's Literature Web Guide
  The Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. (David Brown, Univ. of Calgary) http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
• The cathouse.org Urban Legends Archive Urban legends, indexed by subject, from celebrities to commercial products to Disney and more. Also contains a link to related usenet sites http://www.cathouse.org/UrbanLegends/
• Book Nook -- E-Z Template System See Book Nook: this is their E-Z template form for submitting book reports. When they receive at least 50 reviews of the same title, it is reviewed to inclusion in the Book Nook list. http://I-Site.on.ca/Isite/Education/Bk_report/

Languages (Bilingual pages)

• Things Latino at Egoweb (Spanish)
  A Latin Homepage with an attitude. Particularly nice materials to support Maya, Inca and Aztec related units. Many articles in both English and Spanish; connections to interesting, although very leftist oriented, alt. newsgroups in Peru. http://edb518ea.edb.utexas.edu/html/latinos.html
• Latin World - Latin America on the Net (spanish)
  Primary link for all things connectined to latinos and chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for latino themes for North, Central and South American related information. http://www.latinworld.com/
• Nuevo (University of Quadalahara) (Spanish) Art, culture, pre-columbian artifacts and more. English and Spanish versions. Spain Internet Resources http://udgftp.cencar.udg.mx/ingles/CUAAD-INGLES.html
• Spain Internet Resources (Spanish) Using Adobe Acrobat Map links, travel Spains universities, museums, and historical sites. http://www.uji.es/spain_www.html
• Spain and Spanish on the Net (Spanish) With links in spanish and English, this Spain resource covers language, universities, libraries, demographics, newspapers, tourism, work opportunities and language learning support. Quite comprehensive set of links. http://gias720.dis.ulpgc.es/spain.html
• ESPA A HOY: NOTICIAS (Spanish) A WWW newspaper from Spain by students from the University of Madrid. It focus's on national, sports and cultural news. http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Periodico/
• World of Vikings (Danish) Coordinated by the Nat'l Museum of Denmark and the N.Y. Archeological Trust; home page links to Viking History, with a particular focus on the years 800-1100 CE; includes brief text histories, rune FTP's, photos and Viking MUD's. http://www.demon.co.uk/history/index.html

Resources

• Global SchoolNet Foundation Home Page
  The concept for the Global Schoolhouse originated in 1985 when teachers in San Diego linked their students to classrooms on the east coast. http://gsn.org/gsn/gsn.home.html
• CUE home page
  CUE is the oldest and largest organization in the United States dedicated tolearning, teaching and technology. CUE is a not-for-profit educationalcorporation registered in California. http://www.cue.org/
• Mendocino Community Network Home Page A model of what every school and community should be and can be doing. Explore its school and curriculum pages, in particular: gopher:quest.arc.nasa.gov/11/Internet resources/Mendocino's Curriculum by Topic. http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/
• Core+ links This is the California On-line Resources for Education Home Page. check out the "Cool Places" and "K-12 Kaleidoscope" pages. Fantastic links by, subject area, for educators, students and parents. Also learn about the low cost Internet service named GINA. http://www.coreplus.calstate.edu/
• Deaf World Established in 1995, this page provides a central net point for information for and about the deaf world. It contains three core tracks: youth, culture and references. http://deafworldweb.org/deafworld/
• Latin World - Latin America on the Net Primary link for all things connectined to latinos and chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for latino themes for North, Central and South American related information. Be sure to check out the University of Quadalahara's home page and art museum. http://www.latinworld.com/
• Edutopia Home Page This is the home page for the George Lucas Educational Foundation. It contains recent information and copies of the foundation newsletter. This can connect you to Lucas's commitment to education and educational support. http://glef.org
• Education First - Table of Contents Pac Bell's proposal to collaborate on establishing ISDN connections for the public schools. Start here. http://www.pacbell.com/SuperHi/EdFirst/edfirst-toc.htm
• goldmine.cde.ca.gov root menu The California Department of Education's homepage. News, updates, grant projects, and more. http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
• TeleEducation NB - Learning on the Web Welcome to Learning on the Web: An Instructor's Manual. Another fine resource from Canada. I ti s their hope that this manual will help teachers learn, adapt and develop their own courses for delivery, using the Web. Go to "introduction for index. http://cnet.unb.ca/lotw/
• WebMuseum Check the Medieval art section forglimpses of life of the times. Tis is just a place tostart fora trulyfabulous on line cllection of art work. http://watt.emf.net/wm/
• Reference books
  Encyclopedia Fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, set up by a word/subject search http://204.32.221.16/
• Britannica on-line This new service is not for a fee, but they should be considered. Besides all the best features of this encyclopedia, the search features are annotated and linked. http://www.eb.com/
• English-to-Spanish Dictionary excellent database, but one word at a time. http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/forms/spanish.html
• Spanish-to-English Dictionary excellent database, but one word at a time. http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/forms/span2eng.html

Newspapers/news services

• CNN Interactive All you would expect and more from the premier news network-and it is becomming more net friendly, including daily news updates, CNN speicals, especially for education and well linked features section http://www.cnn.com/
• The New York Times A daily 8-page digest of the New York Times; include easy link to current versions of Acrobat Reader and JPEG View. http://nytimesfax.com/
• The Gate The San Francisco Chronical/Examiner; includes word search fature for issues of the Chronicle and the Examminer, back to Nov. 1994 http://www.sfgate.com/
• The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Updated daily, national, international and economic news plus Dow Jones updates. Free subscriptions available. http://update.wsj.com/welcome.html
• San Jose Mercury Center Home Page Daily updated news, in a real newspaper format, all sections, with photos, this is a great stop. For my 7thgraders, an excuse to use the Internet for current events http://www.sjmercury.com/
• On Line Newspapers Homepage An excellent listing of daily nat'l and internat'l newspapers. Links include the San Francisco Chronicle, London Telegraph, St. Petersburg Express and The China News Digest. http://baretta.calpoly.edu/htmlpages/publications.html
• Ecola's News Stand: Newspapers Current events on-line. Major newspapers on-line versions from across the US to Worldwide. http://www.ecola.com/ez/newspapr.htm
• ESPA A HOY: NOTICIAS (Spanish) A WWW newspaper from Spain by students from the University of Madrid. It focus's on national, sports and cultural news. http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Periodico/

Magazines

• COLOQUIO La Revista Cultural en espa-ol publicada mensualmente en Baltimore, Maryland. The Governor of Maryland's 1993 Award winner http://www.clark.net/pub/jgbustam/coloquio/coloquio.html
• Radio (Live and Pre-recorded)
  National Public Radio A Real Audio page, NPR brings you Morning Addition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Science Friday. http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr.html
• CBC National Radio News Originating from Toronto, this area contains two audio newscasts per day and= a frequently updated text based service Headline News http://radioworks.cbc.ca/radio/programs/news/news.html
• AP/Trib.com News Page The Associated Press home page, with direct links to newspapers around the world. In particular, the AP link lists breaking stories, http://www1.trib.com/NEWS/

Search tools

• Forum Internet Resource Collection The Swarthmaore Math Forum has developed a distributed, universal iindex that can be relied on for up-to-date http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/
• Yahoo Very friendly search engine, which also lets you narrow the search by categories, such as sports, politics, entertainment, business, etc. http://www.yahoo.com
• Alta Vista Created by Digital Equipment Corp, this site indexes all 8 billion words & 16 million sites on the Internet. http://altavista.digital.com
• Internet Sleuth Here you can search all 900 searchable databases on the Internet from one site. A little slower than going to a search site direct, as it acts as a "middleman" http://www.intbc.com/sleuth/
• DejaNews Research Service - homepage Provides usenet searching; a variety of options allow you to tailor your search. http://www.dejanews.com/
• FeMiNa The first comprehensive WWW based directory and information resource containing information for women and girls online. Uses standard word-search subject form. http://www.femina.com/

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• The Flag of the U.S.A. This page is dedicated to the Flag of the United States and American patriotism: beginning with the Pledge of Allegiance. http://www.elk-grove.k12.il.us/usflag/
• From Revolution to Reconstruction (gr 5-12) American history, from the colonial period until World War I; well linked, with excellent subdivisions. http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
• The Federalist Papers Online The Federalist Papers were written and published from 1787 to 1788 in several NY State newspapers. The primary authors were Alexander Hamilton and James Madison with help from John Jay. http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fedpaper.html
• Colonial Lexington An excellent example of a school creation and contribution to the net. http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/WebPages/Colonial/Colonial.html
• Declaration of Independence In addition to the full text of the Declaration of Independence, some good background, plus the full set of signers to (by State). http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/decl.html
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address "=8A All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the wil= l of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect=8A" http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/jeff.inaug.html
• Arlington House Excellent example of an elementary/middle school home page http://www.co.arlington.va.us/arlhous.htm
• Freedom Trail The freedom trail takes you through almost three centuries of Boston's colonial and revolutionary history. http://www.std.com/homepages/std/freedom.trail.html
• Mark Twain & the Philippine/American War (grades 8,11) Our bloodiest and cruelest war during the US imperialist period at the turn of the 19th century. Mark Twain was a passionate anti-imperialist. http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/twain_ph.html
• Civil War Documents and Books Very good resource for links related to the Civil War. Includes links to several primary sources (letters and diaries) http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/docs.html
• Sources of Civil War Information Brief listing of links to civil war photographs, newsgroups and Bryan Boyle's Civil war Index http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/civil_war_sources.html
• Gettysburg Address (gr 8, 11) Includes original copies of the both the Hayes and the Nicholas versions, as well as the only known photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/G.Address/ga.html
• Letters Home from a Soldier in the U. S. Civil War Letters from a union soldier, Newton Robert Scott; rich detail of life, living conditions in theis oral history; from UC Santa Cruz. http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html
• Civil War Letters of a Jewish Soldier Primary source materials: letters from a jewish Civil War soldier http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/jewish.html
• Black Studies: global Selections from the African-American Mosiac-a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black History and Culture. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/African.American/intro.html
• California Gold Rush Three year diary of Eugene Rings journey to California's Gold Rush, via sea, and South America. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sring/
• The U.S. Historical Text Archives (gr 8,11) A subsection of the Historical Text Archive (see Soc. Sci-general), it has a wonderfully laid out US History section, with excellent linkages. http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/usa.html
• Hispanics in the American Revolution Galvez and Spanish Louisian's role and impact for the colonists during the Revolution. http://www.wishing.com/webaudit/wa.html
• NativeWeb Home Page Welcome to NativeWeb, a project of many people. Our vision touches ancient teachings and modern technology. Our purpose: to provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples. http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/
• US Political Documents and resources A primary link page to many of our US historical documents, as well as modern political documents and resources. Worth a quick glance to file for when needed. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/inds/politics.html
• Political Science
  Welcome to PoliticsUSA A service of the National Journal and the American Political Network, it is the leading website for political news, resources & involvement. http://PoliticsUSA.com/
• CNN Interactive All you would expect and more from the premier news network-and it is becomming more net friendly, including daily news updates, CNN speicals http://www.cnn.com/
• Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall Playful, informative; choose from choices of current political news and commentary to reminiscences and old comic strips to polls and commercial items. http://www.doonesbury.com/main.html
• Vote Smart Web Exceptionally up to date, this non-partisian page links us to most state and federal elections info, as well as candidate and party info. http://www.vote-smart.org/
• The Peace Corps Home Page (gr 11, 12) Information regarding the Peace Corps' background and history, programs, as well as how to become a volunteer. http://www.clark.net/pub/peace/PeaceCorps.html
• US Nat'l Archives Document Service (gr 8-12 CLIO is an information system that combines vast collections of information available from the National Archives & Records Administration. http://www.nara.gov/
• The invisible agency-CIA Go to save this bookmark and all you get is the URL, no name. Not surprisingly, this is the CIA homepage. You can take it from there http://www.odci.gov/cia/index.html
• CIA Publications Includes the 1995 World and intelligence fact book, maps, cia publicatins, key members of government globally, plus an extensive keywork search feature. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
• Library of Congress html (all grades) Yes-this is the place; magnificent exhibts, research and more http://www.loc.gov/
• THOMAS: Congressional Info (gr 8-12) Legislative Information on the Internet, particularly focusing on the 103rd and 104th Congress; includes email addresses of the members of Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/
• Whitehouse Home Page: (gr 6, 8,11,12) As THOMAS is to the Legislative Branch, this homepage is to the Executive Branch. In addition, it links to Fed World and to other branches of government. http://www.whitehouse.gov/
• International/United Nations
• Japan Home Page Provided by the The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this page serves as a major link to japan's foreign service, educational and cultural exchanges http://www.nttls.co.jp/infomofa/
• APEC Official Home Page The page from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs focuses on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) http://apec.tokio.co.jp/
• Japan information Network JIN has been set up by the Japan Center for Intercultural communications to provide recent information about the society, culture, education and other aspects of Japan. http://jin.jcic.or.jp/
• Spain and Spanish on the Net With links in spanish and English, this Spain resource covers language, universities, libraries, demographics, newspapers, and language learning support. http://gias720.dis.ulpgc.es/spain.html
• CIA Publications Includes the 1995 World and intelligence fact book, maps, cia publicatins, key members of government globally, plus an extensive keywork search feature. Terrific for current demographics. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
• United Nations html (Vienna) (gr. 9-12) From the UN office at Vienna, this page also contains links to other UN international organizations, as well as information about the International Year of the Family ftp:///www.un.or.at/
• United Nations html (New York) (gr 9-12) Similar info to the UN:Viena site; in addition can find UN curricular units by emailing Bill Huff at unancd@igc.apc.org or looking at http://www.igc.apc.org http://www.un.gov/
• United Nations Development Program Public information about the UN-what it is and what it does. This page includes UN General assembly documents, including the Security Council, Economic Council and the Social Council file:///www.undp.org/un_dpi.html
• UN 50th Anniversary in San Francisco We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save future generations from the scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, http://foghorn.lh.com/un50sf/
• Social Science: General
  K to12 Kaleidoscope (gr K to 12) Provided by the California On-line Resources for Education (CORE+), this Social Science section is small but growing. http://www.coreplus.calstate.edu/KALEIDO/Nav.html
• Gateway to World History This page contains primary links to a strong set of online history resources as well as the World History Archives http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/world_history.html
• Hispanic pages in the US Extremely diverse and fruitful list of resources. These include Spanish language magazines, famous Hispanics in History and more=8A http://www.clark.net/pub/jgbustam/heritage/heritage.html
• Le Monde diplomatique Le Monde Diplomatique archives (in French) is another text archive for contemporary political, economic & social events world wide, so far for 1994. You can search by month or by keyword (thesaurus) http://www.ina.fr/CP/MondeDiplo/mondediplo.fr.htm
• Washington State B.E.S.S.T. Under construction by Building Excellence in Social Studies through Technology and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction http://www.halcyon.com/garycres/sshp/startup.html
• Gateway to World History Excellent starting place for world history, laid out by geographic region. This site contains scholarly papers and related newsgroup connections, http://neal.ctstateu.edu:80/history/world_history/world_history.html
• The University of Kansas The University has assembled a massive Social Science Internet index of linkages, listed alphabetically. http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html
• Medieval studies virtual library A primary source of links to Medieval Studies. http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/Virtual_Library/Medieval_Studies.html
• Science
  > Exploratorium Home Page Located in San Francisco, this creative site provides excellent teacher resources in science, special exhibits, and serves as an internet gateway to what is new in the world of Science. http://www.exploratorium.edu/default.html
• Hubble telescope images This directory contains publicly released images and other informationfrom observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.stsci.edu:80/ftp/stsci/epa/
• Virtual Frog Dissection Kit Peel away layer after layer of a frog; follow the respiratory system, nervous system and more. http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/dissect.html
• Interactive frog dissection (main menu) http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/~insttech/frog/menu.html
• The Interactive Frog Dissection The on line tutorial for the Interactive Frog Dissection html http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU:80/~insttech/frog/
• Math and History AIMS Education Foundation AIMS is the acronym for "Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science," the AIMS magazine homepage is both educational, promotional and commercial.
• http://204.161.33.100/
• MathMagic! Math Magic is a project designed for students to integrate the learning of problem solving skills with computer skills. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/
• Women Mathematicians An extensive set of well written biographies of women mathematicians, written by students from Agnes Scott College, Georgia. http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
• MacTutor History of Mathematics (grades 5-12) This set of more than 100 hypercard stacks was assembled at the university of St. Andrews, Scotland. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html
• A Brief History of Algebra and Computing (grades 7-12) Oxford university brings us a brief, entertaining and well linked history of algebra and Computing, from the ancients to analytical engines to recent developments. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/algebra/
• Mathematicians of the 17th and 18th Centuries (grades 6-12) From Trinity College, Dublin, we are presented with an extensive set of biographies of English and European mathematicians (primarily male). http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html
• Past Notable Women of Computing This is one portion of the Yale ADA collection of resources for women in computing. In particular for the K-12 classroom, be sure to visit both the notable women of the past and of the present sections. http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/past-women.html
• History of Mathematics: Web Resources A strong central resource, with many global links; an especially nice collection of history oriented links, from Lewis Carroll (Dodgson) to Copernicus. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/webresources.html
• Pi_through_the_ages A pleasant and informative journey into the approximations of Pi. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/Hist.Math.html
• Mathematics This Is Mega-Mathematics! From the Los Alamos Laboratory, excellent lessons for math concepts, espcially for 4th -9th grades http://www.c3.lanl.gov:80/mega-math/
• Explorer Home Page From the Univ. of Kansas, this page contains countless math science resource materials. Although most are only available in Michigan and the East Coast, many have downloadable claris and Adobe packages. http://unite2.tisl.ukans.edu/
• Ask Dr. Math Students from Swasrthmore College have a revived a 1994 program where K-12 students could send in questions to "experts" and get personal answers. Today the Web and email maintain that immediate and long term contact by Swarthmore's SWAT team. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html
• 21st Century Problem Solving Problem solving strategies for Algebra I, Chemistry and Physics. In particular, there are 13 great Algebra I story problems that illustrate their problem solving approach, with solution sets. http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html
• =46un With Numbers: The Home Page Find fun and crazy links to Pi, the powers of 2, factorials and Buckminster Fuller. Great for math teachers who want to creat their own classroom posters. http://www.mind.net/xethyr/numbers/index.html
• Mathematics: Vatican This Library of Congress exhibit has it all-manuscripts, art, history, from Rome to China and back. In particular, check out its history of mathematics section under original manuscripts: Euclid, Ptolemey and Apollonius http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Mathematics.html
• Links to other History of Mathematics pages A browsers delight, another set of primary links to math related pages, from the University of Kansas. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/External/external_links.html
• Calculus and Mathematica Home Page (grades 11, 12) Produced by the University of Illinois, it contains lessons for those using and teaching with Mathematica software.It also includes links to other sites using C & M and a superb http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu/
• mathlist.html Nice listing of Math resources, especially for Pi and mathematica http://odin.math.nau.edu/~abr/mathlist.html
• Mathematics Archives WWW Server Exceptional primary link page for mathematics, from softwares to abstracts. http://archives.math.utk.edu/newindex.html
• UCI SEP - Mathematics From UC Irvine, this is a primary link broken down by math levels and topics. Virtually all the links produce something productive. http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/math.html
• Escher's Art Museum =46rom the World of Escher, a commercial business, they share about 20 of th= e works of us Escher in a pleasant gallery setting http://www.texas.net/escher/gallery/gallerym.html
• Zvi Har'El's M.C.Escher Collection Over 60 of Escher's works, starting from very early in his career. Some color. The initial is jammed full of expandable gifs., therefore initial loading takes awhile http://gauss.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/
• Math Forum Home Page =46unded by the Nat'l Science Fndnnt., this Swarthmore site is a virtual center for math education on the Internet. Goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents & educators. Includes a math search engine. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
• =46orum Internet Resource Collection The Swarthmaore Math Forum has developed a distributed, universal iindex that can be relied on for up-to-date, comprehensive access to all of the sites and individual pages available for mathematics education. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/
• Pi folder
• The Uselessness of Pi and its irrational friends Need links to Pi? Html's for Pi to the 100, 31,000 and 1,200,000 places. Play with "Friends of Pi" http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless/pi.html
• Pi picture Just a cute graphic of pi for a color printer. http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~eveander/pi.html
• PI Some more esoteric and higher level math methods for the computation of Pi http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/~roy/pi.html
• Archimedes' Constant More scholarly calculus and trignometric approachs to looking at Pi. Also includes superb links to "Unsolved Mathematics Problems." http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/pi/pi.html
• Language Arts/Literature
• Children's Literature Web Guide The Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. (David Brown, Univ. of Calgary) http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
• The cathouse.org Urban Legends Archive Urban legends, indexed by subject, from celebrities to commercial products to Disney and more. Also contains a link to related usenet sites http://www.cathouse.org/UrbanLegends/
• Book Nook -- E-Z Template System See Book Nook: this is their E-Z template form for submitting book reports. When they receive at least 50 reviews of the same title, it is reviewed to inclusion in the Book Nook list. http://I-Site.on.ca/Isite/Education/Bk_report/
• Languages (Bilingual pages)
  Things Latino at Egoweb (Spanish) A Latin Homepage with an attitude. Particularly nice materials to support Maya, Inca and Aztec related units. Many articles in both English and Spanish; connections to interesting, although very leftist oriented, alt. newsgroups in Peru. http://edb518ea.edb.utexas.edu/html/latinos.html
• Latin World - Latin America on the Net (spanish) Primary link for all things connectined to latinos and chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for latino themes for North, Central and South American related information. http://www.latinworld.com/
• Nuevo (University of Quadalahara) (Spanish) Art, culture, pre-columbian artifacts and more. English and Spanish versions. Spain Internet Resources http://udgftp.cencar.udg.mx/ingles/CUAAD-INGLES.html
• Spain Internet Resources (Spanish) Using Adobe Acrobat Map links, travel Spains universities, museums, and historical sites. http://www.uji.es/spain_www.html
• Spain and Spanish on the Net (Spanish) With links in spanish and English, this Spain resource covers language, universities, libraries, demographics, newspapers, tourism, work opportunities and language learning support. Quite comprehensive set of links. http://gias720.dis.ulpgc.es/spain.html
• ESPA A HOY: NOTICIAS (Spanish) A WWW newspaper from Spain by students from the University of Madrid. It focus's on national, sports and cultural news. http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Periodico/
• World of Vikings (Danish) Coordinated by the Nat'l Museum of Denmark and the N.Y. Archeological Trust; home page links to Viking History, with a particular focus on the years 800-1100 CE; includes brief text histories, rune FTP's, photos and Viking MUD's. http://www.demon.co.uk/history/index.html
• Resources
• Global SchoolNet Foundation Home Page The concept for the Global Schoolhouse originated in 1985 when teachers in San Diego linked their students to classrooms on the east coast. http://gsn.org/gsn/gsn.home.html
• CUE home page CUE is the oldest and largest organization in the United States dedicated tolearning, teaching and technology. CUE is a not-for-profit educationalcorporation registered in California. http://www.cue.org/
• Mendocino Community Network Home Page A model of what every school and community should be and can be doing. Explore its school and curriculum pages, in particular: gopher:quest.arc.nasa.gov/11/Internet resources/Mendocino's Curriculum by Topic. http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/
• Core+ links This is the California On-line Resources for Education Home Page. check out the "Cool Places" and "K-12 Kaleidoscope" pages. Fantastic links by, subject area, for educators, students and parents. Also learn about the low cost Internet service named GINA. http://www.coreplus.calstate.edu/
• Deaf World Established in 1995, this page provides a central net point for information for and about the deaf world. It contains three core tracks: youth, culture and references. http://deafworldweb.org/deafworld/
• Latin World - Latin America on the Net Primary link for all things connectined to latinos and chicanos. Excellent search mechanism for latino themes for North, Central and South American related information. Be sure to check out the University of Quadalahara's home page and art museum. http://www.latinworld.com/
• Edutopia Home Page This is the home page for the George Lucas Educational Foundation. It contains recent information and copies of the foundation newsletter. This can connect you to Lucas's commitment to education and educational support. http://glef.org
• Education First - Table of Contents Pac Bell's proposal to collaborate on establishing ISDN connections for the public schools. Start here. http://www.pacbell.com/SuperHi/EdFirst/edfirst-toc.htm
• goldmine.cde.ca.gov root menu The California Department of Education's homepage. News, updates, grant projects, and more. http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
• TeleEducation NB - Learning on the Web Welcome to Learning on the Web: An Instructor's Manual. Another fine resource from Canada. I ti s their hope that this manual will help teachers learn, adapt and develop their own courses for delivery, using the Web. Go to "introduction for index. http://cnet.unb.ca/lotw/
• WebMuseum Check the Medieval art section forglimpses of life of the times. Tis is just a place tostart fora trulyfabulous on line cllection of art work. http://watt.emf.net/wm/
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• Reference books
  Encyclopedia Fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, set up by a word/subject search http://204.32.221.16/
• Britannica on-line This new service is not for a fee, but they should be considered. Besides all the best features of this encyclopedia, the search features are annotated and linked. http://www.eb.com/
• English-to-Spanish Dictionary excellent database, but one word at a time. http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/forms/spanish.html
• Spanish-to-English Dictionary excellent database, but one word at a time. http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/forms/span2eng.html
• Newspapers/news services
  CNN Interactive All you would expect and more from the premier news network-and it is becomming more net friendly, including daily news updates, CNN speicals, especially for education and well linked features section http://www.cnn.com/
• The New York Times A daily 8-page digest of the New York Times; include easy link to current versions of Acrobat Reader and JPEG View. http://nytimesfax.com/
• The Gate The San Francisco Chronical/Examiner; includes word search fature for issues of the Chronicle and the Examminer, back to Nov. 1994 http://www.sfgate.com/
• The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Updated daily, national, international and economic news plus Dow Jones updates. Free subscriptions available. http://update.wsj.com/welcome.html
• San Jose Mercury Center Home Page Daily updated news, in a real newspaper format, all sections, with photos, this is a great stop. For my 7thgraders, an excuse to use the Internet for current events http://www.sjmercury.com/
• On Line Newspapers Homepage An excellent listing of daily nat'l and internat'l newspapers. Links include the San Francisco Chronicle, London Telegraph, St. Petersburg Express and The China News Digest. http://baretta.calpoly.edu/htmlpages/publications.html
• Ecola's News Stand: Newspapers Current events on-line. Major newspapers on-line versions from across the US to Worldwide. http://www.ecola.com/ez/newspapr.htm
• ESPA A HOY: NOTICIAS (Spanish) A WWW newspaper from Spain by students from the University of Madrid. It focus's on national, sports and cultural news. http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Periodico/
• Magazines
  COLOQUIO La Revista Cultural en espa-ol publicada mensualmente en Baltimore, Maryland. The Governor of Maryland's 1993 Award winner http://www.clark.net/pub/jgbustam/coloquio/coloquio.html
• Radio (Live and Pre-recorded)
  National Public Radio A Real Audio page, NPR brings you Morning Addition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Science Friday. http://www.realaudio.com/contentp/npr.html
• CBC National Radio News Originating from Toronto, this area contains two audio newscasts per day and= a frequently updated text based service Headline News http://radioworks.cbc.ca/radio/programs/news/news.html
• AP/Trib.com News Page The Associated Press home page, with direct links to newspapers around the world. In particular, the AP link lists breaking stories, http://www1.trib.com/NEWS/
• Search tools
  =46orum Internet Resource Collection The Swarthmaore Math Forum has developed a distributed, universal iindex that can be relied on for up-to-date http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/
• Yahoo Very friendly search engine, which also lets you narrow the search by categories, such as sports, politics, entertainment, business, etc. http://www.yahoo.com
• Alta Vista Created by Digital Equipment Corp, this site indexes all 8 billion words & 16 million sites on the Internet. http://altavista.digital.com
• Internet Sleuth Here you can search all 900 searchable databases on the Internet from one site. A little slower than going to a search site direct, as it acts as a "middleman" http://www.intbc.com/sleuth/
• DejaNews Research Service - homepage Provides usenet searching; a variety of options allow you to tailor your search. http://www.dejanews.com/
• FeMiNa The first comprehensive WWW based directory and information resource containing information for women and girls online. Uses standard word-search subject form. http://www.femina.com/