The High School is implementing
Edline as a common source of course information for Students, Parents and Teachers. Each individual will need to activate an account at Edline. Classes, assignments, test schedules, syllabi and reading links will all be available in one location. Links for Teachers:
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks |
MVRHS Course Catalog 08-09
Search Engines Some of the better ones with a brief description of their features, tips, deep search engines and a link to a site with 2500 search engines. Try a search engine with a different look.
Wolfram Alpha is a compuational search engine, the search engine you didn’t know you needed. While other search engines find things that already exist on the internet, Wolfram Alpha answers questions and also gives detailed information from real sources in the realms of science, math, geography and demographics. It performs numeric calculations on the data and displays the results in graphs and tables. Try searches such as "Joshua Jennifer", "weather 02575" or "gdp usa" (all without quotes).
Bing is an algortihmic search engine from Microsoft. Search pages are customized according to what type of search you do (health, travel, shopping, news, sports). The algorithms determine the order and layout of the page. This can include anything from images to videos and local results.
More like a scrapbook than a search engine, Spezify pulls pages from a large number of websites in different visual ways. lt shows you blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
A new President, a new spirit, a new White House web site.
The Library of Congress "The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections
The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations." Here is an extensive list of available LOC services
Visuwords an online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. It doesn't look anything like a printed dictionary. Move the words around. Hold the curser over a word for its definition. It does require Flash be installed on your computer.
Libraryspot An incredible metalist of Libraries, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Maps, Phone Books, Reference Desks, Newspapers, Quotations, etc. This site is loaded with useful and interesting information, definitely worth seeing. Contains an excellent image section if you need a picture.
Google Scholar allows you to search for scholarly literature. Google says, "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
The Owl at Perdue University covers almost every aspect of research and writing. Clear, computer-friendly pages of both APA and MLA citation styles may be copied as well as tutorials, how to develop a thesis statement, outlining, note-taking, components of the research paper and more.
Wikipedia Free semi-authoritative user-contributed encyclopedia. Good for an overview if you don't know much about a particular subject. Since anyone can add or delete material from this site it would be wise to check another site as well for verification. Some colleges do not allow citations from this site to be used in research papers.
Internet Public Library has good material in the subject collections but I wouldn't use it to start searching for a term. It includes the Online Literary Criticism Collection and the Ready Reference Collection. It also lists sites that offer homework help.
Newspapers and Magazines Online links to local papers, important national papers, current news searchers, lists of newspapers world wide and magazine databases.
Search the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library's card catalog. Since it is now on line, the card part is a metaphor. The database is not updated every day so it's a better indication of the contents of the collection rather than what is checked in or out right now.
