Duke of URL

	Duke of URL This isn't pretty, but it's thorough. It is a cutting and pasting of every URL used in all my Classroom Connect Presentations.
	Troubleshooting & Emancipation PC Troubleshooting & Emancipation Mac Independent Internet Problem-Based Learning MP3s Sound in the Classroom Keeping Two Steps Ahead	Staff Development & the Web WebQuests: What's New? Writing and Technology: Natural Partners Project-Based Learning Supporting Technology in our Schools
top	URLs used in PC Troubleshooting Presentation
	www.drivershq.com Hardware drivers www.driversplanet.com Hardware drivers nortonweb.cnet.com Catch-Up! update checker Wwug.com World-wide user’s group discussion board www.powerquest.com/driveimage Hard drive imageware www.scumware.com Scumware checker and info www.lavasoft.de Scumware remover www.dibeneditto.com/resources/20011111 DLL OK-fails and info www.jufsoft.com recover data from damaged disks www.jasc.com/products/qvp QuickView Plus -- view, copy, paste most file content Additional Useful URLs www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/downloads/powertoys.asp Power Toys www.howstuffworks.com/category.htm?cat=Comp Computer tutorial http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml Slashdot discussion board http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia Techopedia http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/TERM/I/ Webopedia http://www.tomshardware.com definitive knowledge site http://firingsquad.gamers.com definitive gamers knowledge site http://www.pcmag.com/utilities Free clean utilities from PCMagazine (must join free) http://shopper.cnet.com Savvy shopper from CNET www.pricewatch.com Price comparisons on tech http://www.ehow.com How do I? (must join free) http://www.internet101.org/ Internet 101 http://www.comptia.com/certification A+ certification home http://www.freepractice.com Free exams A+ prep and more http://www.testfree.com/exams.asp Free exams A+ prep and more http://www.examnotes.net/?action=examen&testid=COMPTIA A+ info http://www.certportal.com Certification portal – info on many exams http://www.harmonyhollow.net Cool freeware utilities (but comes with scumware)
	Tech Support URLs
	www.iste.org International Society for Technology in Education www.cosn.org Consortium for School Networking www.ed.gov/Technology/ US Dept of Education Technology nces.ed.gov/ National Center for Educational Statistics www.internet2.edu/ Internet2 home www.superkids.com/ Educational Software Review www.seirtec.org/P2P.html Planning into Practice SEIR-TEC www.ncrel.org/engauge/ EnGauge helping schools integrate technology www.ncrtec.org/capacity/guidewww/gqhome.htm Guiding questions www.nctp.com/ National Center for Technology Planning www.netdaycompass.org/ Resources aplenty www.mff.org/edtech/ Milken Foundation www.glef.com George Lucas Foundation www.schoolgrants.org School grants HelpDesk Software www.asksam.com/brochure.asp www.dbandsons.com/products.htm www.deksoftware.com/hdm/index.html www.helpdeskpro.net www.opinionpower.com
top	Mac Links aplenty!
	Apple Site kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa Apple Knowledge Base www.apple.com/find/sitemap.html Full Apple site map www.apple.com/find/areas.html Alternate Apple site map, includes Location Links http://support.info.apple.com/support/support.html Alternate2 AppleCare links www.mac.com Home of .Mac services – iTools, iDisk, etc www.apple.com/macosx/applications/office/ Office v.X www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sherlock.html Sherlock 3 Links to Links www.macintouch.com/contents.html Links Aplenty! (minimalist look) www.everythingmac.com/ Top 100 links www.macdirectory.com/ Links www.macpicks.com/ Links Downloads Shopping Software www.deal-mac.com DealMac shopping and discussion bard http://www.aladdinsys.com Home of Stuffit and other excellent Mac apps and utilities www.versiontracker.com The latest versions of software for Mac and Windows and Palm www.macreviewzone.com/ Best deals shopping www.macspeedzone.com/ Shopping www.everymac.com/ Mac upgrade peripheral card information www.searchstandard.com/ Free Sherlock Plugins www.macupdate.com/ Software downloads www.chezmark.com/osx/ OSX-ware downloads Discussion Help Tech-Support Troubleshooting www.cit.cornell.edu/helpdesk/mac/macos/extconf1.html Extension crashes and other advice www.gse.uci.edu/301c/Troubleshooting01.html two-page faq of troubleshooting tips (circa 1998) www.macfixit.com/ Latest news on latest bugs and fixes and issues http://www.barebonessoftware.com/ Home of SuperGetInfo www.macosxhints.com/ gold mine of tips www.resexcellence.com info tips www.macintoshos.com/ Downloads, Museum, Discussion board www.appleerrorcodes.com/ All Apple error codes and excellent troubleshooting resources wwug.com World Wide User’s Group Discussion Board ask questions on any application or OS www.appletechs.com/ ask a question www.macinstruct.com/ Excellent tutorials UNIX www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/commandline Unix commands OS X tips www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix Unix Tutorial for Beginners News www.macobserver.com News www.macworld.com Equipment and software reviews Magazine www.macaddict.com News tips Magazine www.geekculture.com Mac culture www.machome.com MacHome Magazine www.macresource.com/ news, downloads, links maccentral.macworld.com/ News www.atpm.com/network/ Mac Networking for any skill level (threemacs.com) www.xlr8yourmac.com/ News, tips, reviews www.macnn.com Mac News Network news reviews Discussion board www.osxzone.com/ News www.tidbits.com/ MacZine
top	Useful URLs for Integrating Independent Internet Study
	Online Lesson Ideas www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/index.html Franklin Institute Hotlists of independent activities www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ Filamentality – teachers and students can build online portals in a blink teachers.net/lessons/ Lesson plan ideas www.glef.org George Lucas Educational Foundation www.mrgibbs.com/tahoe/ Sample project of mine: personal story with pictures trackstar.hprtec.org/ Search for online lessons webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html It’s Webquest edhelper.com/ Lesson plans galore! The “other” Search Engines `http://all4one.searchallinone.com Big Kahuna of searches` www.mamma.com/ meta search engine www.teoma.com/ authentication search engine www.alltheweb.com/ meta search engine www.filext.com/ lists all file extensions and defines them www.ixquick.com/ meta search engine dmoz.org/ category search engine memory.loc.gov/ Library of Congress American Memory www.mapquest.com/ Find any address webdev.archive.org/ Visit the Wayback Machine to see the early day of the WWW www.webring.org Clusters of Websites on similar topics. A real treasure chest Kid-Safe Search Engines www.ajkids.com/ Ask Jeeves for kids www.factmonster.com/index.html www.kidgrid.com/ sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm www.tekmom.com/search/ www.yahooligans.com/ News Search Engines www.crayon.net/ Create your own newspaper dailyearth.com/ Link to the earth’s newspapers www.daypop.com/ Search newspapers by topic www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html World newspapers, news websites www.newsdirectory.com/ World newspapers www.newsindex.com/ World newspapers www.newstrove.com/ Search newspapers by topic www.feedroom.com Current Events news feeds Awesome full-screen video Search-Engine Search Engines allsearchengines.com/ www.search-engine-index.co.uk/ kresch.com/search/search.htm searchenginewatch.com/links/ Online quizzes, games, tutorials www.puzzlemaker.com/ Make puzzles, mazes, and games thinks.com/ Online thinking games www.learnthenet.com/english/html/00start.html Learn the Internet www.freepractice.com/default.htm Free quizzes for learning computers school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html Make online quizzes interactivetest.com/ Make online quizzes www.quia.com/ Make online quizzes www.internet101.org/ Learn the Internet distancelearn.about.com Take GED, SAT, ACT and others Watering holes for technology-integrating teachers www.education-world.com Watering hole for tech-integrating teachers school.discovery.com/ Watering hole for tech-integrating teachers www.bigchalk.com http://www.journalismnet.com/ http://www.eschoolnews.com/ Misc Other Useful Interesting Sites www.noodletools.com/ Cool online learning tools www.turnitin.com/ Test for plagiarism www.scriptarchive.com/ Scripts for adding functionality to your Web site like discussion boards, forms, and so on www.twinkiesproject.com/ a student project that grew into a phenom www.hostsave.com Domain and hosting $99 a year ericir.syr.edu/ Eric Research Database landmark-project.com/citation_machine Citation Machine messenger.yahoo.com/ Instant Messenger with video and audio capabilities www.bartleby.com/ Books online digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Online books dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Schools/ Directory of world schools babel.altavista.com Translate into nine languages www.benedict.com/ All about copyright and fair use www.teacherweb.com teacherweb.com/CA/Benicia/MrGibbs/index.html www.geocities.com www.geocities.com/sgibbz/ www.blogger.com mrgibbs.inspiringteachers.com/ www.inspiringteachers.com mrgibbs.blogspot.com/ www.tripod.lycos.com members.tripod.com/gibb0/ www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listindependst.html Briefcase.yahoo.com Briefcase.yahoo.com/sgibbz www.opinionpower.com
top	Problem-Based Learning URLS
	• SDSU PBL WebQuest (1998) – http://edweb.sdsu.edu/clrit/PBL_WebQuest.html • PBLI (last updated 2000; similar content to SDSU) – http://www.pbli.org/core.htm • PBL Clearinghouse (must join free) – https://www.mis4.udel.edu/Pbl/index.jsp • Assessment rubric – http://www.idecorp.com/assessrubric.pdf • A Sample PBL UBUYACAR project – http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/ubuystudent/ubuyacar_student.pdf • Merlot – http://www.merlot.org • Trackstar – http://trackstar.hprtec.org/ • Model Problems – http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/whatis/model.html • CIA World Factbook – http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ • Encyclopedia – http://www.encyclopedia.com/ • Daily Earth – http://dailyearth.com/ • eHow – http://www.ehow.com • Big Engine – http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/ • 50 States – http://www.50states.com/ • WhoIs – http://www.whois.net/ • Feedroom – http://www.feedroom.com • News Directory – http://www.newsdirectory.com • Various Search Engines & other educational resources – www.mrgibbs.com • Opinion Power – http://www.opinionpower.com/ • Yahoo! briefcase – http://briefcase.yahoo.com • Landmark Project’s SLATE discussion boards – http://www.landmark-project.com
top	Staff Development and the Web Links
	Degree-based Training Options University of Phoenix courses http://online.phoenix.edu/CampusProgramList.asp ClassesUSA http://www.classesusa.com Degree.net lists 100 online colleges http://www.degree.net/ College Hints http://www.collegehints.com/index.html eArmyu http://earmyu.com/ Credit & Certificated training options Ed2Go courses http://www.ed2go.com/courses.html World Wide Learn http://www.worldwidelearn.com PBS Campus http://www.pbs.org/campus/ New Horizons Online Live http://www.newhorizons.com/retail/English/LMS/free/index.asp Sonoma State Extended Education Online http://www.sonoma.edu/ExEd/certificates/et/etindex.html Technology in Secondary Language Arts & Social Sciences (mine) http://www.mrgibbs.com/lass/ Enrichment training & learning options Apple Learning Interchange http://ali.apple.com/ MICROSOFT SITES · Main Site www.microsoft.com/education · Tips and Tricks for Office XP o http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=ClassTipsArchive · Downloadable tutorials o http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=OfficeXPTutorial · Virtual Classroom Tours o http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=InTeachersVCT · Free online Windows & Explorer tutorials using Shockwave multimedia o http://www.microsoft.com/insider/learning/lessons.asp · Schools Homepage o http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=Schools · Teacher lifesavers – peer advice on classroom issues o http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=LifesaversArchive · Cool Projects o http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=ClassProjectsArchive · Clipart o http://dgl.microsoft.com/ · Templates o http://search.officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery INTEL SITES · Home site o http://www97.intel.com/education/index.asp · Exemplary lesson plans o http://www97.intel.com/education/exemplary_planning/SelectPlans.asp CompUSA online training http://www.compusa.com/training/online_training.asp Adobe education http://www.adobe.com/education/ Macromedia education http://www.macromedia.com/resources/education/ Yahoo! education http://education.yahoo.com/ Internet 101 http://www.internet101.org/ Infostation’s links to free training http://home.infostations.net/oranit/e-z/free.htm TrainingTools.com free courses http://www.trainingtools.com eLearning Depot fee-based courses http://www.elearningdepot.com/ How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com Techopedia http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/ Webopedia http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/ Slashdot discussion boards for nerds http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml Webrings http://www.webring.com/rw Free Tests http://www.testfree.com/exams.asp About’s Learn the Net http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html US News article on online learning http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/elearning/articles/020624elearning.htm Sites for Protecting Yourself Online: Fighting spyware & scumware Shields Up http://grc.com/intro.htm Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.de/ Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/ Zeropaid.com Source of peer-to-peer-ware and much spyware http://www.zeropaid.com Obfuscate your email address http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/ Trashmail.net Ontime proxy email service http://trashmail.net/ Spammotel http://www.spammotel.com/ Harass spammers http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/ Mailwasher downloadable http://www.mailwasher.net/index.php Junkbusters advice on all sorts of annoyances http://www.junkbusters.com/ My Self-Made Staff Development Sites Teacher Handbook http://www.mrgibbs.com/bhs/faq/ Contact Me for tech support http://www.mrgibbs.com/form/reply.html Google’s Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search Mr. Gibbs’s Universal Teacher Resource Portal http://www.mrgibbs.com/
top	WebQuest URLS
	• The Original WebQuest Home at SDSU – http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ • The New WebQuest Home (unveiled in Seattle at the July 2003 NECC Conference) – http://webquest.org/ • SBC Knowledge Network Home – http://www.kn.pacbell.com/index.html • Tom March’s Educational Ozline Home – http://www.ozline.com/ • Tom March’s Best WebQuest Home – http://bestwebquests.com/ Steps to implementation • Design Process – http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designsteps/index.html • Tasks Taskonomy – http://webquest.sdsu.edu/taskonomy.html • Process Checklist – http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processchecker.html • Creating a WebQuest Rubric – http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/rubrics/rubrics.html • A Completed Rubric – http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html – Automated Rubric Maker: RubiStar! • http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php • Get Free Templates – http://webquest.sdsu.edu/LessonTemplate.html Sample WebQuests • Anthem: a Utopian Society – http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/lewis/anthem/ • John Merrick (done with basic template) – http://home.earthlink.net/~hagios/webquest/index.htm • Little Rock – http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/ • MacBeth is a Bad, Bad Man – http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webevilinra.html More Resources • San Diego Schools Examples – http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/lewis/rock/index.html • Blue Web’n: Search for “webquest” 61 hits – http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ • SBC’s Eyes on Art – http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/ • Saskatoon’s WebQuest hotlist – http://sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/webquests.htm • Peck, MI, School’s Hotlist – http://www.peck.k12.mi.us/mageskim/webquest_lists.htm
top	Writing and technology URLS
	My Digital Story – http://www.mybta.org/sg/reggae.html – Publish fiction and get world-wide reviews – www.fictionpress.com – www.fanfiction.com – Discussion boards – www.proboards.com – http://mrgibbs.proboards7.com – Blogs – www.blogger.com (start page) – http://gibb0.blogspot.com/ (my blog) – http://blog.tripod.lycos.com/ (start page) – http://gibb00.tripod.com/drummer/ (my blog) – Choose Your Own Adventure Engine – http://chooseyourownadventure.shapebyforce.com – Strunk’s Elements of Style – http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html – Webster College Rules of Grammar – http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm – Rutger’s Jack Lynch Grammer Guide – http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.html – KidPub for $6.95 a year – http://www.kidpub.com/kidpub/ – Utah State Online Writing Lab – http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/writing.html – BigDog Grammar – http://aliscot.com/bigdog/
top	Project-Based Learning Online
	•The George Lucas Educational Foundation –http://www.edutopia.org/PBl –One of many GLEF PBL movies •The Buck Institute –http://www.bie.org/index.php •ISTE’s The Road Ahead Program funded by Bill Gates –http://www.iste.org/research/roadahead/pbl.cfm •CIESE online classroom projects –http://www.k12science.org/index.html •Global Schoolhouse’s Internet Project Registry –http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh •Merlot –http://www.merlot.org http://www.4teachers.org Surveys Opinion Power –www.opinionpower.com –Sample Opinion Power survey –Sample results of Opinion Power survey Discussion Boards – private or public, moderated •Proboards –http://www.proboards.com –Sample of my class discussion boards Blog sites •Blogger –www.blogger.com –http://gibb0.blogspot.com/ •Tripod –http://blog.tripod.lycos.com/ –http://gibb00.tripod.com/drummer/ Web page and WebQuest design •Filamentality from SBC –http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ •Blue Web’n from SBC –http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html •WebQuests from Bernie Dodge SDSU –http://webquest.org •David Warlick’s Citation Machine –http://www.landmark-project.com/index.php Online file storage and sharing •Yahoo! Briefcase –http://briefcase.yahoo.com Contact Resource for other schools •Yahoo! K-12 schools global directory –http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Schools/ •Yahoo! messenger –http://messenger.yahoo.com/ •Microsoft messenger –http://messenger.msn.com/
top	Sound Advice: Using MP3s (and WAVs) in the Classroom
	Peer-to-Peer Clearninghouse http://www.zeropaid.com Kazaa http://www.kazaa.com Bearshare http://www.bearshare.com Limewire http://www.limewire.com Wrapster & Unwrapper http://surfware.bizland.com/unwrapper Aaron’s Web Vacuum http://surfware.bizland.com Speeches and historical MP3s for sale http://www.earthstation1.com/Merchant/merchant.mv Sources for WAV files http://www.edv-internet.de/kostenloses/wav-sounds/ http://dailywav.com http://wav.homez.net http://wavthis.com/ http://www.kcbx.net/~rloomis/index.html http://www.eventsounds.com/ http://www.findsounds.com/ Midi http://www.musicrobot.com/ Player/Store Combos http://www.itunes.com http://www.musicmatch.com http://www.real.com http://www.listen.com http://www.audible.com http://www.microsoft.com/mediaplayer
top	Supporting Technology in our Schools
	(this presentation uses many of the online training links found in Staff Development and the Web) Open Source Software Options for Schools Sun Microsystems StarOffice http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.html Support Group for schools using Open Source Software http://schoolforge.net/ The Linux K-12 project http://www.k12ltsp.org/ Red Hat support for schools using Open Source Software http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/open_lab.html Gimp – a free graphics editing program http://www.gimp.org/ Abiword – a free word processor program http://www.abiword.com/ OPEN OFFICE ** A free office suite http://www.openoffice.org/ Inexpensive Linux/Windows OS with software included http://www.lindows.com/
top	Keeping Two Steps Ahead: Putting Technology to Work in the Classroom
	(This presentation uses the same links found in Writing & Technology: Natural Partners)