Determining Authority - use the about us link, truncate the URL, or use one or all of the following to investigate expertise:
Alexa - can help determine ownership, reliability
Use Google's linked: command or related: followed by a web address, to locate sites linked in or similar to the site you are examining
Whois Source will tell you who owns a domain name
Primary Sources
Primary and Secondary Sources - a clear explanation
Career Information
America's Career InfoNet - use the Wages and Trends section
Arizona Career Information System
Username: salpointehs
Password: 4azcis02
Career Exploration Pathfinder - IPL2
Job Star Central - State of California - Public Library site
O*NET - portal of career information created by the U. S. government
Digital Footprint
Opportunities for Writers
Blue Pencil Online - where high school writers publish
40 of the Best Sites for Young Writers
NaNoWriMo - November is national novel writing month and this website encourages you to write a novel in November. Great list of resources.
Teen Ink - a monthly magazine of young adult writing
Rosen Publishing - personal stories to add to Rosen Publishing's website, Teen Health and Wellness.
Annotated Bibliographies - Purdue OWL
Annotated Bibliography Guidelines
Boolean Operators - advanced search technique
DiRT - Digital Research Tools Wiki
Research Log Template - everything you might need for a long-term research project
Research Project Calculator - for planning a paper, presentation, or video
Search Smarter Search Faster - YouTube video on database search technique. |
Art History
Biography Reference Center - http://web.ebscohost.com/brc/search?sid=dc9d6add-8075-4133-9e26-64b69aca3ad8%40sessionmgr13&vid=1&hid=113 (database)
Intute - http://www.intute.ac.uk/ (Keep it simple, search by artist)
ANSC 100 Image Library - http://www.usc.edu/programs/cst/deadfiles/lacasis/ansc100/library/
BBC Your Paintings - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art - www.metmuseum.org/ (the entire website, not just the research)
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. - www.moma.org
SmartHistory - http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/
Web Museum Artist’s Index - http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
General Information
Art Babble - video about artists, creating art, topics in the art world.
Google Images with Context - after a regular web search, use the left hand column, More search tools, Sites with images.
Image Portal - Springfield High School Library copyright free images and subject area portals
WolframAlpha - a computational search engine
Graphing Calculators - work at school
Callahan Sr.
Apaez
Selecting the right chart type for your data
Infographic organizer - Google Doc
Picktochart directions
Thesis
Web Site Comparison