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- Financial Aid
- This is, without a doubt, the first place to check if you need money for college. Why pay for a search when you can do it for free. This site is run by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
- College Board Online
- The folks who bring you the SAT have a site that can be searched by many criteria, including co-ed housing and average SAT score. Remember to press the "search now" button to get the list of colleges and the "view info" button to get to information about an individual college.
- WebWare for the SAT
- After you sign in, this program helps diagnose your weak areas and work on them with SAT math and verbal skill review lessons.
- College Guides & Admissions Website
- Overwhelmed with college preparation information? Stop here and you'll have complete access to a free, searchable, rated directory of more than 100 information sources.
- The 1997-98 Student Guide: Financial Aid from the U.S. Dept. of Education
- From this site, you can order booklets from the US Department of Education which discuss financial aid, how to choose a college, how to apply for a grant, loan, or work-study funds, and how to apply to each college including deadlines.
- CollegeNet
- Site maintained by Portand-based Universal Algorithms can be searched by region, name, type of school, enrollment, major or sports. It does not search by SAT score or other measure of a school's academic status. Students can apply on-line to a limited number of schools.
- The Princeton Review Search of the Best Colleges
- You can search an alphabetical list of schools, by region, or state, and see the Princeton's Reviews of each.
- CollegeXpress
- Search for private schools by school profile or academic region. The trick here is that you can order extra information from the schools by making a simple mouse click. This site requires JAVA.
- Collegeview
- The usual searches. Some colleges at this site have multimedia presentations, with small amounts of animation and sound.
- College Scholarships and Grants
- A search engine for scholarships and college admissions
The College Connection- A listing of free scholarship information updated monthly
- Financial Aid Through the Web
- This search looks at a 400,000 item data base to find scholarships tailored for specific students
- Scholarship and Fellowship Database
- A variety of scholarship information
- This is without a doubt, one of the best sites for students to brouse!!! With links to just about any place anyone doing homework would ever want, this is a great resource site. It has links to dictionaries, search engines, and sources for just about any subject a student could wish for.
- Newspapers - My Virtual Reference Desk
- This is a fantastic site, with links to: 1 Daily national/international newspapers; 2 Columnist by paper; 3 Columnist by person; 4 Editorial Pages; 5 Magazines; 6 Financial News(Can check all of your stocks every few minutes); 7 Entertainment News; 8 Cartoons/Comics; 9 Sports; 10 Weather; 11 Wire Services. It's possible to spend hours here!!
- Education World
- This site has educational topics/references/resources like Developmental Learning, Home Schooling, School Projects, Directories & Indices, Interactive Learning, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources and tons more. It also has Educator's Forums, the latest education news, reviews of sites, newsgroups and more.
- Research Paper Helper
- Starting point for students who are using the Web to do research and then write term papers. It offers "topics, ideas, and assistance for school realted research topics.
- Online English Grammar Site
- If you don't know your "your" from your "you're" or your "its" from your "it's," then you need this site. It's a good refresher course in English Grammar.
- New York Times Book Reviews
- New York Times Book Reviews are now available on line. This includes the complete Sunday Book Review, and an archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews - an archive that is searchable. You need to register for this site, and remember your password.
- Senate E-mail List
- Northern Webs has an updated Senate e-mail address list. This links to US Federal Senators and their web sites if they have one.
- Academics
- This site addresses the concerns of students and parents. Study Skills, Self help, information, the Homework Page, Research Resources - this introduces the viewer to the Schoolhouse Project.
- Writing Skills
- Help for students with writing, term papers, editing, and skills related to producing good papers.
- The United Nations Cyber School Bus
- A global educational experience that makes good use of web resources. A look at every member of the United Nations, a good source for Geography, Social Studies, Art, History, and Global Studies.
- Study WEB
- Wondering where to send your kids for research paper information? You could do worse than to start them out at Study WEB. They've put 15,000 research URLs geared toward the school-age into 35 categories with thumbnail sketches of each. You can search or browse by category.
- The Library of Congress
- The Library of Congress, the mother of all American libraries is open for your browsing enjoyment. The site offers a complete catalogue of holdings, photograph, movie, and sound archives as well as resources for educators and a really cool 'Today in History' feature.
- ROGET'S Thesaurus
- When you can't find the word your looking for check out ROGET'S Thesaurus to search for synonyms by either full text (eg: 'threat') or by headword (eg: threat or mean.) A very useful site.
- MapQuest
- MapQuest generates maps of just about any location on the fly. One of it's coolest features is TripQuest which can give you detailed driving instructions between any two locations in the US. MapQuest also has an interactive atlas of the world.
- The Weather Classroom
- Hey, teachers and students, if you're looking for science and nature curricula, the Weather Channel has a whole site devoted to weather education. The site's 200 pages of material are linked with a series of 8 minute commercial-free programs that air in a block of three on the cable network Mondays and Thursdays at the ungodly hour of 4 am EST (for videotaping, one presumes). Resources include teaching guides and related experiments for students to carry out.
- Study Guides and Strategies
- Over 50 pages of summary guides to assist students in their studies: Stress management, test preparation, organization, reading, writing, more.
- Problem Solving Skills Builder
- Students are given a problem from a literary or historical event and are asked to come up with solutions to the problem.
General quick resource
- The History Net
- The Best Free Software Site
- Check this site for PC and Mac software. It is the most complete we've seen. Don't let the name Tucows put you off either.
- Total News
- Stay on top of it all with links to major news sites all over the web. Requires JAVA.
- The Great American Web Site
- This is the online companion to 'The Gret American Web Book,' published by Times Books/Random House. It shows you where to find government treasures on the Net. If you've ever been seeking anything that is realted to the government of the United States, this should be your first stop. It's neatly organized and really has everything. You'll find every branch of the government that is on line here as well as site 'special attractions' like where the "ten Best Agency Sites" are, which are the best for business and market research, and which have the "Best Encyclopedias for International Relations."
- The National Geographic Society
- A super site with access to current and past issues of the National Georgraphic, maps, pictures from the magazine, and audio clips of the authors commenting on their articles. This is a site where one can spend some time without even trying.
- The Electronic Newsstand
- Free access to articles from many current magazines.
- Library of Congress
- A link to the resources available at the Library of Congress.
- Internet Dictionary Project
- The Internet Dictionary Project has recently made its free dictionary files available to the public. These files are free and will remain free, and will continue to increase in size so long as volunteers continue to help at the IDP homepage. The IDP currently has Spanish/English, Italien/English, and German/English dictionary files available via FTP.
- International Newspapers Online
- New Inkpot Links Collection with pointers to over 400 international newspapers, categorized by countries.l This site should soon have a search engine included.
- Webster's Dictionary
- This is a Merriam-Webster free on-line dictionary including illustrations, a word of the day, and an online book store.
- Canadian Review
- A biweekly journal that reviews books, video and audio tapes, CD-ROMs, and web sites designed for children and young adults. A great resource for teachers, librarians, parents and kids. Indexes of reviews by title and author, and a dedicated search engine make finding information on children's book and authors easy.
- Census Bureau USA
- USA Counties complies useful demographic, economic and governmental information spanning several years. Features both clickable map of USA or the ability to scroll by state.
- Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- This site offers on-line multilingual translation dictionaries for all to peruse free of charge. There is French, German, English, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Afrikaans, and Esperanto among others.
- The World-Wide Event Seeker
- If it is going on somewhere in the world, you can find out about it at this site. The site tracks holidays and special events from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
- American Government sites on the Internet
- This site can link you to over 100 information-rich sites on the Internet that deal directly with Government in the United States.
- The Fifty States of the United States
- A list of all 50 states, their state features, flag, song, bird, motto, etc.
- The Michigan Electronic Library
- A free resource that evaluates and organizes over 7.000 internet resources in 13 subject areas.
- ABCentral
- A huge site with 7,000+ educational links from all over the world including 41 categories, sorted from Accounting to Veterinary. Good history material in just about anything a person would ever want to look into.
Dogpile Search Engine- The great thing about "dogpile" is that it is a search engine that searches many other search engines, saving time. It's a fine place to start an Internet search.
- Metacrawler - Search Engine
Another great engine that searches multiple other search engines.
- Cruise Evaluations
- Want to go on a cruise? Check out this site for first-hand evaluations of different cruise lines, their ships, and the services they offer.
- History Channel
- Learning Channel
- Arts and Entertainment Channel
- Discovery Channel - requires JAVA
- CNN
- Public Broadcasting System
Medical Stuff - references about diseases, medications
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- A general site for things of amusement - great links to wonderful places if you need something to do with your time it's called Amused.com
Shake it Marth Stewart - go here and see Martha dance.
- A look at hundreds of driveways scattered around Hollywood and elsewhere - pick your favorite star or celebrety and see what he/she sees each night when they drive home
- The Dilbert Zone
- The official site for Scott Adam's comic Dilbert.
- The Museum of Unnatural Mystery - requires JAVA
- This site is home to 100+ pages of the strange and unusual. Created by Lee Krystek, the Museum of Unnatural Mystery answers such questions as whether or not there really are flying saucers and what caused the dinosaurs' extinction? Full of scientific facts and accompanied by out of this world pictures, Lee's museum provides dozens of thrilling adventures like that of "The Lost Worlds Exhibition," STop-Motion Photography and Mars Life. Plus there's a neat Mad Scientist's Laboratory where you'll find a number of experiments which you can safely do at home.
- The Three Stooges Archive
- More here than you wanted to know about Larry, Moe, and Curly.
- Cliches
- Using this site, you can find cliches to fit almost any occasion. When you need help being trite, here is the place to go.
- Urban Legends
- Urban legends are those stories that go around that you hear again and again, like the aligators that live in the sewers and the man who woke up in the motel bathtub with his kidney removed. They aren't true, but everybody has heard them and believes them. This site will reveal some you haven't even heard yet.
- The Book of Cliches
- Cliches sorted for every occasion, including broken heart, bad news, death, and general disasters.
- Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- It's always a dark and stormy home page at the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, where you can enter the annual contest for the worst opening sentence in the style of Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian novelist known for his run-on sentences that explain perhaps a little too much in a very awkward style and whose most famous line, "It was a dark and stormy night," was hijacked by Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz. Gasp.
- The Ig Nobel Prize
- Awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last week amidst great pomp and ceremony and went to actual researchers. For instance, the Ig Nobel in Medicine went to Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, who "discovered that listening to elevator Muzak stimulates immunoglobulin A (IgA) production, and thus may help prevent the common cold." Mantovani rules, man.
- Shoebox Cards: Funny But No
- This is sort of the Island of Misfit Toys of the greeting card biz. Shoebox Cards, the edgy, hip, a-go-go division of Hallmark, gets more ideas than they can use. These are the ones that the boss says, "Hm. Funny, but no. You may think, Funny but yes. One favorite: "You're 18! Just think: In a few years you'll realize what a stupid little jerk you are right now."
- Put a Name to Your Political Leanings
- This site offers a quick quiz, and than an analysis which will tell you where you fall politically. Take the quiz and find out the truth!
- Museum of Dirt
- An odd museum that majors in collections of various kinds of dirt - really. Dirt from the homes of the rich and famous among other things.
- Odd Links
- If you like odd sites, this site is the granddaddy of links to strange, humorous, and unusual sites. It's worth more than just a casual look. This site is a collection of links to odd sites. This and that. If you can't find something to amuse you here, you've got a problem!!!
- The Exploding Whale
- Once upon a time in Oregon, a whale washed up on the beach, and the officials decided that the best way to get rid of it, was to blow it up. The result - well, it wasn't prety.
- The Internet Hoax Site and Urban Legand Combat Kit
Not really humor, but good sites to know about to check those warnings about dying kids, virus messages, notes about people losing their kidney in a bathtub and so on.
For general amusement - a site for those "easily amused." This site is also listed above, but it's worth listing twice!
- Hampster Dance - Need I say more
- Froggie Greeting - something to send to a friend
