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United States Distance Learning Association
http://www.usdla.org
The USDLA is a distance learning association providing advocacy, information, networking, and opportunity.
Big Six Skills
http://www.big6.com
The Big6 is an information literacy model.
Internet 4 Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm
This page is a directory of educational technology tutorials online.
University of Idaho Engineering Outreach
http://www.uidaho.edu/eo
Engineering Outreach delivers courses appealing to a variety of students in both technical and nontechnical fields.
U.S. Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov
The Whitehouse website has links to current issues and news, as well as information about the history and people of the executive branch.
Get Wise Net
http://kids.getnetwise.org
Get Wise helps parents educate themselves and their children about how to use the Internet safely.
CyberPatrol
http://www.cyberpatrol.com
CyberPatrol's parental control software helps users choose when and how kids use the Internet.
Cyber Sitter
http://www.cybersitter.com
Cyber Sitter is an Internet filter designed for home, educational, and small business use.
Cybersnoop
http://www.pearlsw.com
Cyber Snoop is an Internet monitoring, filtering, and control software program designed to monitor and control the Internet activity of a stand-alone PC.
Net Nanny
http://www.netnanny.com
Net Nanny parental control software includes family-safe filtered search, an Internet monitor, web site filtering, time limits, chat recording, newsgroup blocking, and privacy controls.
Surf Control
http://www1.surfcontrol.com
Surf Control provides protection against Internet threats of pornography, spyware, phishing attacks, viruses, and malicious downloads.
WatchDog
http://www.sarna.net/watchdog
WatchDog Parental Control software limits, protects, and monitors what users do on the computer.
X-Stop
http://www.8e6.com
This company is a provider of appliance-based Internet filtering and reporting solutions for business, education, government and ISPs.
Norton Internet Security
http://www.symantec.com
Symantec's Norton Internet Security provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats.
Spyware Doctor
http://www.pctools.com
PC Tool produces innovative software products to protect the privacy and security of Windows computer users.
SafeKids
http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm
SafeKids is a web site devoted to keeping kids safe in cyberspace produced by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Internet Alliance.
CookiePal
http://www.kburra.com
Cookie Pal is a complete Internet cookie management system for Windows.
Cookie Manager
http://www.spychecker.com/software/cookiemanager.html
Cookies Manager helps you to select which cookies you always want to keep and which cookies you always want to delete.
Plagiarism.org
http://www.plagiarism.org
Plagiarism.org is an online resource for people concerned with the problem of Internet plagiarism. The site is designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism.
My Drop Box
http://www.mydropbox.com
MyDropBox.com provides the technology to detect and prevent cases of Internet plagiarism.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
http://www.icann.org/
ICANN is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions.
Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry, and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
Google
http://www.google.com
The Google search engine is designed to provide a simple, fast way to search the Internet for information.
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Inc. is a global consumer and business services company, offering a comprehensive network of essential services for Web users.
AskJeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com
Ask Jeeves Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with world-class information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals, and desktop search applications.
Dog Pile
http://www.dogpile.com
Dog Pile brings the Web's best search engines together in one place to deliver more comprehensive and relevant results.
Vivisimo
http://www.vivisimo.com
Vivísimo creates software to access and cluster information for better search and discovery.
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
HotBot offers a search powered by a choice of Hotbot (Inktomi-powered), Google, or AskJeeves.
Kartoo
http://www.kartoo.com
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces.
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine that simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites.
Criteria for Evaluating Website Content
http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
The "WWW CyberGuide" Internet evaluation forms were developed by Karen McLachlan informally as a means of introducing the World Wide Web to novice users in 1996.
Netiquette
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
This page provides links to both summary and detail information about Netiquette.
Emoticons
http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm
http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/smiley.html
An emoticon is a sequence of characters on your computer keyboard that convey emotion. Both sites display a large collection of emoticons.
Text Messaging Abbreviations
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp
This page lists abbreviated phrases used as shorthand in chatrooms and instant messages.
Intranet Journal
http://www.intranetjournal.com
This site helps information technology managers.
Smart Technologies, Inc.
http://www.smarttech.com
Smart Technologies is a producer of group collaboration tools, including interactive whiteboards, multimedia furniture, whiteboard capture systems and software.
Web Whacker
http://www.bluesquirrel.com
Web Whacker is software that copies entire web sites to a computer's hard drive.
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