[R3librarians] Friday's Free Resources

[Cindy Franklin]

Wrapping Up Research: 
Information Literacy Skills for the Middle Grades

 

...definitions, activities, rubrics, and much more are
found on this practical information literacy page


 

http://www.highlands.vic.edu.au/research/index.html


 

yourDictionary.com

 

...an extensive collection of more than 1500 dictionaries
found on the Web from language translators to specialized English
dictionaries on many topics


 

http://www.yourdictionary.com/


 

Roget's Thesaurus

 

...a hypertext version of this classic reference
tool


 

http://thesaurus.reference.com/thesaurus/


 

RhymeZone: Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus

 

...students can put in a word a get a list of rhyming
words, as well as synonyms, antonyms, related words, quotes that contain
the word, and much more


 

http://www.rhymezone.com/


 

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus

 

...type in a word and receive a visual display of the
interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps


 

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp?vt


 

OneLook Dictionaries

 

...one-stop searching of over 600 specialized
Internet dictionaries

 

  

 

http://www.onelook.com/


 

Online
English Grammar

 

...a hypertext guide to the parts of speech, words, and
their usage


 

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/


 

iTools : Research It!

 

...look up phone numbers, addresses, words, quotations,
stock quotes, package tracking, maps and more with this reference
tool


 

http://www.itools.com/research/

Internet Library for Librarians : Citation Guides for Internet
Resources

 

...links to many of the guides for bibliographic citation
of Internet sites


 

http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/inetcite.htm


 

Citation Styles for Research Papers

 

...one site including the most common entries and
information for the APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago, and AMA citation
formats


 

http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm


 


Cindy Franklin 
Library & Technology Specialist 
Region III ESC 
cfranklin at esc3.net 
361-573-0731 ext 277 
www.esc3.net/mlib 


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