Online Resources
Hartford
Area Career and Technology Center
Hartford Area Career
and Technology Center (HACTC) serves students attending Hartford,
Hanover, Lebanon, Mascoma, Windsor and Woodstock high schools, along
with Thetford Academy, Sharon Academy and home-study students. We
are truly a “melting pot” of secondary education for
the Upper Valley. At HACTC we take great pride in our motto: “A
Respectful Environment is Everyone’s Responsibility and Everyone’s
Right.”
Junior and senior students
may enroll in any of the following technology and career programs:
Allied
Medical Services
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Design & Illustration/Media
Arts Engineering/Architectural
Design |
Art
- Blogging
Blogger.Com - probably the most popular "Free Blog" - out there. Very easy to use VisitMyClass.Com - another free blog designed for teachers
NovemberLearning Blogs - create your own and see what other educators are doing with Blogs
Technorati - A blog Search Engine - keyword searches - try finding a blog on your favorite movie, author, artist, or just anything.
College Help/Scholarship Searches
College is Possible - College Is Possible is the American Council on Education's K-16 youth development program that motivates middle and high school students from underserved communities to seek a college education.
College Express
e-Scholar - Scholarship programs through the federal government for students who have demonstrated high scademic achievement and the desire to further their education in a field of study.
Scholarships for Minorities - Compiled list of numerous web sites for minority scholarships and financial aid opportunities
Fastweb - The largest and most accurate personalized scholarship search that compares your background with a database of awards.Only those awards that fit your profile are identified as matches.
CollegeNET - Search the Mach25 database containing over 600,000 awards totaling over $1.6 billion.
SRN Express - SRN Express is a free web version of the Scholarship Resource Network (SRN) database.
The SRN database focuses on private-sector, non-need-based aid, and includes information about awards from more than 1,500 organizations. The database is updated annually.FinAid Specific Majors or Course of Study Scholarship Opportunities - On this page you'll find a several scholarship databases as well as individual scholarships and awards,which assist students pursuing specific majors or courses of study.
Computer & Information Literacy (also see Internet Searching)
Web Wise Kids - Web Wise Kids is a nonprofit organization located in Southern California. Since 2002, Web Wise Kids has been committed to teaching children and their caregivers strategies for safe Internet use, including methods of detecting and deterring online predators. Our programs are currently in use in 49 states.
- Easy WhoIs - find out who owns a domain or web site
Alan November
Alan's organizations main site/homepage
Alan's Information Literacy Pages
Alan's favorite web sites. Includes writing tools, searching, web site validating tools, global, interactive projects for students, and more...
Computers & Software
English
- The Children's Literature Web Guide
- Electronic Versions of Classic Children's Literature
- Peoria Library Children's Reading Room
- Great Books Online
- University of Maine Online Resources for Writers
- Other Online Writing Centers and Resources
- Texas A&M University Writing Center Handouts
- Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts
Plagiarism.org - the online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of Internet plagiarism. This site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how Turnitin and iThenticate are now being used by educators and content creators all over the world to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.
Foreign Languages
- The Human-Languages Page
- The National K-12
Foreign Language Resource Center
American Association of Teachers of French - Harford
County Public Schools Foreign Languages Web Site (look
for Language Links and Teacher Resources in the menu)
Conjuguemos.Com - practice your verb conjugations in Spanish, French, German, and Latin
Prentice Hall Parent Center - This special Web site provides you with free resources, including homework help, research aids, test practice, online activities, and parent newsletters. Explore the site to view materials that support your child's classroom learning such as study guides, test preparation materials, or even electronic versions of textbooks for home use and can be purchased directly from the Parent Center.
Internetworking Issues
- Child Safety on the Information Superhighway
- Web Filter Report from National Public Radio (RealAudio Player required)
- Get Net Wise Site for Parents About Children's Online Safety
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- EdTech Not
- Learning in the Real World
- Building Community Nets Speech
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Internet Fraud Watch
- Global Internet Liberty Committee
- Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Internet Searching
- Search Engines
- NoodleTools - NoodleTools
is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals
with their online research. From selecting a search engine and
finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or
APA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier!
Search Strategies Tutorial
Google - no frills; very good
Teoma.Com - suggests ways to refine your search as well as offer "expert" sites
Go.com
Lycos
Dogpile - multiple search engine
Yahoo - search directory
AskJeeves - natural language interface
LookSmart - search directory
Altavista - pay for top listings
Overture.com - pay for top listings
- Subject Databases
Lii.org - Librarian's Index of the Internet - reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world.
Internet Public Library - The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
The Google Directory - contains over 1.5 million URLs that are The web pages in the Google directory have been selected by thousands of volunteer editors from the Netscape Open Directory Project.
The Yahoo Directory
About.Com
The Open Directory Project - a large public directory managed by Netscape. The ODP is maintained by a group of volunteer editors from around the world who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. The web pages selected by these editors are organized into a number of broad categories under which are many more specific subcategories. Google uses this hierarchy as the basis for its directory.
For Children- AskJeeves for
Kids
Yahooligans - Yahoo for Kids
Disney's Kids Search Engine - Google Newsgroups - search newsgroups
- Google News - search recent news stories
- Search for People or Businesses including address, phone, and email
Mathematics
- A Catalog of Mathematics Resources on WWW and the Internet
- Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason
- K-12
Mathematics Link
Prentice Hall Parent Center - This special Web site provides you with free resources, including homework help, research aids, test practice, online activities, and parent newsletters. Explore the site to view materials that support your child's classroom learning such as study guides, test preparation materials, or even electronic versions of textbooks for home use and can be purchased directly from the Parent Center.
Mathematics Games
- The Math Forum
- Dr.Math
Math PlayGround
Mystery picture with fractions
The Fraction Attack
Fraction Frenzy
Virtual Manipulatives
MathSplat
Fishy Fractions
PixelFace
Pattern Blocks
Soda Constructor
Long Division
Multiplication.com
Math Baseball
Hidden Picture
AAA Math
Cool Math
Math Manipulatives
Miscellaneous
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Yahoo - Education:K-12
- ThinkQuest Student Web Site Contest Winners
- Global SchoolNet Foundation
- Teen Reading from the American Library Association
- Internal Revenue Service
- Welcome to the White House
- College and University Home Pages
- The MIT Home Page
- Walt Disney World
- The Electric Postcard
- Urban Legends
Research
- Educators Reference Desk (including ERIC searches)
- The Learning Resource Server--University of Illinois (resources for research in educational technology)
Science
- United States Geological Survey Ask A Geologist Program
- The Field Museum of Natural History
- The American Museum of Natural History
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Mars Rover News and Pictures
- Mars Pathfinder News and Pictures
- Solar Data Analysis Center
- African Americans in Science
Prentice Hall Parent Center - This special Web site provides you with free resources, including homework help, research aids, test practice, online activities, and parent newsletters. Explore the site to view materials that support your child's classroom learning such as study guides, test preparation materials, or even electronic versions of textbooks for home use and can be purchased directly from the Parent Center.- Amusement
Park Physics
- Journey
North - Journey
North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration
and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations
with classmates across North America. They track the coming of
spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald
eagles, robins, hummingbirds, manatees, whooping cranes -- and
other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight
and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities
and information to help students make local observations and fit
them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices
model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen
science" project for children. The general public is also welcome
to participate.