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=Welcome to Sand Creek Intermediate's Library Wiki Site.=

Here you will find resources that you can explore and use for many of your class projects.


 * = **Research**
 * Web Tools** ||= **Creation** ||= **Organization** ||= **Collaboration**
 * Communication** ||
 * = Google ||= Movie Maker ||= Googledocs ||= Wikispaces ||
 * = Youtube ||= Voicethread ||= Wordle ||= Skype ||
 * = Teachertube ||= Animoto ||= Picnik (Photo Editor) ||=  ||
 * = Google Earth ||= Survey Monkey ||= Befunky (Photo Edito ||=  ||
 * = BrainPop ||= Blabberize ||= Commoncraft (Tutorials) ||=  ||
 * = Wikipedia ||= Googlelittrips ||=  ||=   ||
 * = ReadWriteThink ||=  ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Wikipedia ||= Googlelittrips ||=  ||=   ||
 * = ReadWriteThink ||=  ||=   ||=   ||

Here are some Search Engines for you to try out.


 * ** DEFINITION: // Search engines // ** use a computer program called a spider. A spider is sometimes called a webcrawler because it crawls around the Web, exploring webpages and their links and collecting information. ||
 * = Name ||= URL ||= Notes ||
 * All the Web || [|www.alltheweb.com/] || All the web offers related searches, identifies where results were found, and offers a search pad. Search pads allow you to save, organize, and take notes on your results. ||
 * Bing || [|www.bing.com] || Great images on home page that you can move your mouse over to reveal information about image. ||
 * Browsys || [|www.browsys.com] || Browsys allows you to compare your results from different platforms, including search engines, websites, and blogs. ||
 * Bytesize Science || [|www.podfeed.net/podcast/Bytesize+Science/12847] || Bytesize claims to be the premier resource on the web for all things podcast. ||
 * Carrot2 || [] || Carrot allows you to search the web, Bing, Yahoo, Wikis, Images, etc. It also groups results via a tree or by another visualization tool found on the left-hand side of the screen ||
 * Duck Duck Go || [] || Offers icons from the websites which might help you recognize the websites. Be sure to check out their goodies link. ||
 * Gigablast || [|www.gigablast.com/?c=main] || Gigablast does not search near as much of the web as Google, but it does offer a choice as to how to search. You can choose either to search the web or by directory. Plus, they claim that 90% of their searching is done using wind energy. Now that’s green ! ||
 * Google || [|www.google.com] || Make sure to check out the advanced tool feature and also look at the left-hand column of your results page to investigate “more search tools” like Wonder Wheel. ||
 * Hotbot || [|www.hotbot.com] || Hotbot allows you to search with Yahoo, lyGo.com, or MSN. You can even change the appearance of the page by selecting a new skin. ||
 * IceRocket || [|www.icerocket.com/] || Searches blogs in real time. Date is shown to the left of every result to show currency. ||
 * Kngine || [|www.kngine.com] || An excellent Web 3.0 search engine built on semantics. ||
 * Lycos || [|www.lycos.com] || Established search service and web portal with broadband entertainment content. Lycos has some excellent parental controls in order to keep the Internet safe for children. ||
 * Oamos || [|www.oamos.com] || A wonderful visual experience unlike anything else around. ||
 * Quintura || [|www.quintura.com] || Quintura offers a Wordle type aspect for visual learners. When you move your cursor over one of the words, a window will appear with sites linked to that word. ||
 * Rollyo || [] || Rollyo allows you to personalize your search by selecting where you want to get results from. ||
 * Search-cube || [] || This is just cool! Your results show up on a 3-D cube that you can manipulate by using your arrows keys. Each side of the cube displays 16 images of home page that deal with your search query. ||
 * Spezify || [|www.spezify.com] || Get visual results with sticky-type interface that incorporates all sorts of media content. ||
 * Sweet Search || [] || Excellent search engine for students, as everything has been reviewed by educators beforehand. ||
 * Webclust || [] || Webclust gives your results similar to that of Google, but also in the form of a cluster on the left-hand side. The clusters are organized by topic. ||
 * Yahoo! Kids || [] || Y ahoo search engine with kids in mind. Results come back from within Yahoo! Kids, Yahoo Kids Directory, or Web. ||
 * Yebol || [|www.yebol.com] || Yebol's mission is to build human-like world's knowledge base and provide knowledge based search (semantics) and services. ||
 * Yippy || [] || Search the web, images, news, Wikipedia here on Yippy. Results returned in clouds, but similar to clusters categorized by topics. ||
 * Zuula || [|www.zuula.com] || Zuula is a metasearch engine that provides search results from a number of different search engines. Zuula can be used to carry out standard web searches, image searches, video searches, news searches, blog searches, and job searches. ||