Please continue to assist in reminding students to return overdue library material. You’ve received an overdue list in your email.
South Hills Library Catalog– Search for materials in our library
https://fwisd.follettdestiny.com/common/welcome.jsp?site=102&context=saas01_4233689
Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org/
Video lectures by top scholars (videos seem to be blocked, but check it out at home)
Memidex
http://www.memidex.com/
“Memidex is a free online dictionary/thesaurus with extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, simple interface, and frequent updates.”
The Book Cover Archive
http://www.bookcoverarchive.com
(I have a thing for book cover design)
English Companion
http://englishcompanion.ning.com
Social networking group for English teachers
FreezeFrame
http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/home/home
“over 20,000 photographic negatives from 1845-1960, representing some of the most important visual resources for research into British and international polar exploration”
Zunal
http://www.zunal.com/
Zunal is a website that lets you create a webquest.
Poll Everywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com
Earth Image of the Day & Earth Image Gallery
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/index.php
Satellite images- weather and environmental
CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook
Probably the most up-to-date country profiles
Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Links to electronic resources on nations and areas of the world.
GovEngine.com
http://www.govengine.com
Links to government sites
Visions of Earth
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/visions-of-earth/visions-earth-2008
The State of the News Media: an Annual Report on American Journalism
http://stateofthemedia.org/2009/index.htm
Flags of the World
http://www.fotw.net/flags/index.html
PDF to Word
http://www.pdftoword.com
convert a pdf file to a word document for editing