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The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History

For Students 9th - 10th
An article by Tim Berners-Lee that focuses on the history of the WWW from his point of view.
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Xml: Berners Lee and the Semantic Web Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an article by XML highlighting a presentation by World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee in which he describes his vision for the Semantic Web. Includes slides from Mr. Berners-Lee's talk.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Oppenheimer: The Computer Delusion

For Students 9th - 10th
A controversial article from The Atlantic magazine suggesting that there is no evidence to show that using computers in schools improves either teaching or learning. Argues against cutting enriching programs in art and music to fund...
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BBC

Bbc News: Technology: Fifteen Years of the Web

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News presents a timeline that shows the beginning of the World Wide Web introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in August 1991 as a tool for physicists through August 2006 when there are almost one hundred million websites online and it is a...
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Other

W3 C: A Little History of the World Wide Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a timeline with information about the world wide web dating back to 1945. The timeline includes links to other information relating to the web.
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Goodell Group: Learning Html for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial provides 12 step-by-step lessons for young children to learn HTML.
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Portfolio Trouble Shooting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site features portfolio trouble-shooting strategies. Students and teachers will benefit from this clear and concise overview to help eliminate problems with their electronic portfolios.
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Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Webtext: "Bartleby the Scrivener"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Annotated version of the story offers notes and questions to facilitate active reading.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: A Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a long list of literary terms complete with full definitions and examples.
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Other

Lenny Zelster: The World Wide Web: Origins and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides basic information about the world wide web. How it works, web and computer terminology, and a history are all provided, with illustrative pictures and diagrams available.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Specialized Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on specialized reading strategies such as online reading, reading in math, science, etc., and reading charts and graphs. It provides text, videos, charts and graphs, graphics, and a self-check.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Internet Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, improve your Internet skills so you can connect, use the cloud, download and upload files, and do more online.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Tim Berners Lee

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the man who invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and view links to further related information on this inventor and his invention.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Http Secure (Https)

For Students 9th - 10th
Check your understanding of HTTPS (secure web browsing), in this set of practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Kennedy and the New Frontier

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, compiled in hypertext format by student teams at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, from U.S. Information Agency publications, takes a brief look at Kennedy's administration, the "New Frontier."
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Apollonius of Perga (Ca. 262 Ca. 190 Bc)

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief biography of this Greek geometer. Good hyperlinks to theories he developed.
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Project Britain

Project Britain: History of Britain: Timeline and Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful, easy-to-read timeline takes a visitor from prehistoric Britain, through the various invasions, the Middle Ages, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian periods, and finally through Modern Britain. It is easy to read, with...
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Project Britain

Project Britain: History of Britain: Timeline and Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
This colorful, easy-to-read timeline takes a visitor from prehistoric Britain, through the various invasions, the Middle Ages, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian periods, and finally through Modern Britain. It is asy to read, with...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Elizabethan Playhouses

For Students 9th - 10th
Author provides a comprehensive description of theaters and public playhouses popular in England in the 16th century. Hyperlinks are provided for the Rose, the Fortune, the Swan, and The Second Blackfriars Playhouse designed by James...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Eli Whitney

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia online encyclopedia site offers a brief biography of Eli Whitney (1765-1825 CE), inventor of the cotton gin and many other things. The encyclopedia entry provides many hyperlinks to terms as well as an illustration of...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Alloy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides the definition of the term, "Alloy," and then offers hyperlinks to special alloys. The information is very brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
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Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: John Locke (1632 1704)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a brief biography of philosopher John Locke and highlights of his accomplishments. The summary traces the development of his political beliefs through contrast with other writers of his time. Site includes a bibliography...
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PBS

Africans in America: Virginia Looks Toward Africa for Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
This website explains why Virginia needed laborers, why it led to the use of African labor and how it was justified by Christians. Hyperlinks to related topics on the site.

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