About Me

• About Me

Language Links  (all links open in a new browser window)

• PuzzleMaker from DiscoveryEducation
• Merriam-Webster Word Central - Dictionary, Thesaurus, Rhyming
• Merriam-Webster Guide to Pronunciation
• Merriam-Webster Proofreaders' Marks
• FreeRice.com - feed the hungry while testing your vocaulary and having fun
• International Phonetic Alphabet (from Wikipedia)
• Cyrillic alphabet (from Wikipedia)
• Greek alphabet (from Wikipedia)
• Greek alphabet chart
• IPA chart for English (from Wikipedia)
• Latin

Research  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Cincinnati Public Library
• infoplease
• WikipediA - English
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• AltaVista Search and Translation:
  • AltaVista Family Filter Setup
  • AltaVista Text-Only Search (very fast)
  • AltaVista Search - text, images, audio, video
  • Babel Fish Translation (Translate words, phrases, or web pages from other languages to English, or the other way around.)

• U.S. Customary
• Metric System

Music  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Classics for Kids - from WGUC
• PlayMusic.org - from the American Symphony Orchestra League
• From the Top  Celebrating kids who've shown commitment to music and the arts.
• LilyPond  Music notation for everyone.  Freeware - Part of the GNU General Public License Click here for info on GNU
• The Mutopia Project  All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.  Most titles include a PDF file, a MIDI file, and an LY (LilyPond) file.
  Our Lady of the Visitation School
  • Links for Mrs. Kahny's students

Earth, Geography, Geology, and Cartography  (all links open in a new browser window)

• NationalGeographic.com  Includes:
  • National Geographic Magazine
  • NG Kids Magazine
  • Kids
  • NG Explorer Magazine (Classroom Magazine)
  • News
  • Homework Help
  • Maps and Geography
  • Photography
  • Animals and Nature
  • Adventure Magazine
  • Educators' Page
• FourmiLab (Switzerland) - Earth and Moon Viewer  Extremely cool!
• Map Projections
• Peters Map - diversophy.com
• Planetscapes
• WorldAtlas.com
• Confluence.org  Do a Quick Search on:  Latitude 34 degrees North, Longitude 81 degrees West, which is the confluence in Shandon.
• OMC - Create a Map  Try using 35 for North, -82 for West, -80 for East, and 33 for South.  Select Orthographic map projection.  Check State and Province Boundaries, Rivers and Channels, and Topography, then click Create Map.
• PlaniGlobe.com  Online Map Creation (beta)
• Greatest Places - Mapping in the Round
• TerraServer.MicroSoft.com  See satellite photos and contour maps of your neighborhood, or anywhere in the US!

Mathematics  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Scientific Calculator (Javascript)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Texas Instruments - Education Portal
  • Polynomial Root Finder and Simultaneous Equation Solver App (info and downloads)
  • Guidebook for above (PDF file - 352,444 bytes)
  • Getting Started Activity for above (PDF file - 754,923 bytes)
• Radioactive Boy Scout - when a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor.
  by Ken Silverstein in Harpers Magazine, May 1977
  • the article in Harpers
  • Review in the Christian Science Monitor
  • abbreviated version of the article

Encryption  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Public-key cryptography -- from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Primer on Public Key Encryption -- from MrCrypto.net
• Cryptography FAQ (06/10: Public Key Cryptography) -- from FAQs.org
• Public Key Encryption -- A Term Paper for INP 230 by Patty Bradley, July 16, 2001
• PGP Corporation (Pretty Good Privacy)
• Philip Zimmermann -- is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy
• The International PGP Home Page -- For a wide assortment of freeware versions of PGP
• PGP Desktop 9.0 Beta and the freeware version of PGP 8.0 from PGP Corp.

U.S. Navy  (all links open in a new browser window)

• U.S. Navy -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
• U.S. Navy Band -- Washington DC
• U.S. Navy Music Program
• Audio Clips  Ceremony Music, Bugle Calls, and more.  (all are MP3 files)
• -- Signal Flags

Medical  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Brains - images and writeups concerning common and atypical dementia
  Note:  use the Mockup and JPG format with descriptions links.

Fun  (all links open in a new browser window)

• Screen Cleaners
• Busy Stick People
  • See a screenful of animated stick figures.
  • See a single animated frame of stick people.
  • See the sequence of frames in the stick people animation.
• Carnaval 2005 - Sambadromo - Rio de Janeiro (4 February 2005 through 8 February 2005)
  • Click here for one page with 60 photos totalling 1.3 MB.

This page updated 1 February 2008 @ 01:09