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Learning Coach 2000
WELCOME TO PERSONAL LEARNING
COACH!
Learning Coach provides
resources and information. It brings to your finger tips a variety of tools
that are only a click away.
Always feel free to send me
suggestions or addresses for sites that will improve Personal Coach.
MAGAZINES:
American
Woodworker;
Bon Appetite;
Discover;
Ebony;
Field and Stream; Forbes;
Golf Digest;
Good Housekeeping; Gourmet;
Hearst Magazines (Colonial Homes, Cosmopolitan, Country Living,
Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, House Beautiful, Mr. Food, Redbook, SmartMoney,
Sports Afield, Town & Country);
House & Garden; LIFE;
Money; National
Geographic; Newsweek;
People;
Popular Mechanics; Popular
Science; Prevention; Readers
Digest;
Self (links to , Allure, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Women's Sports &
Fitness, Vogue,);
Sports Illustrated; Time;
US News & World Report |
NEWSPAPERS:
Alabama
newspapers;
Anchorage Alaska Daily News;
Atlanta Constitution;
Boston Globe;
Chicago
Tribune;
Christian
Science Monitor;
Dallas Times;
Denver Post;
Kansas City Star;
LA Times;
Lexington
Herald Leader;
Maui News
(Hawaii);
Miami Herald;
Minneapolis
Star Tribune;
New York Times;
Portland
Oregonian;
San Francisco
Chronicle;
Seattle Times;
USA
TODAY;
Utah Standard
Examiner;
Washington
Post;
(See
Virtual
Reference Desk for more papers)
KENTUCKY: Benton;
Bowling Green; Campbellsville;
Cincinnati area;
Elizabethtown; Glasgow;
Gleaner; Grant
County; Harrodsburg;
Henderson;
Louisville; Marion;
Oldham; Owensboro;
Paducah; Paintsville;
Princeton; Shelbyville;
Winchester
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REFERENCE |
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Virtual
Reference Desk;
Meta-
(Multiple Engine) Search Engines: All4One;
Askjeeves; Debriefing;
Dogpile;
GoHip;
Find;
Highway
61; InferenceFind; InfiniSearch
(no ads); Locate.com; MegaWeb;
MegaSpider; MultiMeta;
Ms.DaChanni; MetaFind;
MetaCrawler; Mamma;
MetaGopher;
Husky; MetaW3;
1Blink; MonsterCrawler;
MyGo;
OneSearch;
Profusion; SavvySearch;
Supercrawler; LocoSeek;
UseIt;
General Search Engines: Beaucoup,
for listings; Search Engine
Guide;
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Information retrieval is one of
the big challenges today. The two questions that I face over and
over again are:
1. Where is that information or site that has such-and-such
on it, and
2. Where can I find out something-or-other.
Tip:
Once you have explored Personal Coach, you will know where a lot of
certain kinds of information are located. I recommend doing the same
with Virtual Reference Desk. Together these two WEB sites
will place a lot of things at your finger tips, so that you can stay on
top of answers to Question #1
To find something for the
first time, I favor the Meta-search engines because the chances of
appropriate hits are increased and you save time.
I like Askjeeves because it doesn't require you to learn Boolean
operators, only to ask a question or put up key words.
Of course, if you can't find it on Askjeeves, then you will need to
explore some of the other meta-search engines. This strategy will
help you with answers to Question #2.
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Dictionaries: English;
English ->
Foreign I; Foreign
-> English; Dictionary.com;
Jargon; Medical;
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Thesaurus: Thesaurus.com;
Roget's;
Visual thesaurus;
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Encyclopedias:
Ask-An-Expert.com; Britannica.com;
CIA World
Factbook; Census Bureau data;
Internet
encyclopedia; Explore.com;
Financial terms;
Intnl Financial Encyclopedia;
Mythology/folklore/legend;
National
Archives; JFK
Assassination Records;
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Specialty Resources:
American Type Culture Collection;
Biology Workbench;
Life sciences;
National
Center For Biotechnology Information;
Genethon Human Genome Res
Ctr;
Molecular Biology Tools;
The
Quite Useful MolBio Page;
Yeast Genome
Database;
National Library of Medicine / PubMed
/ Grateful
Med;
National Institutes of Health;
National Academy of Science;
National Science Foundation;
Nobel Foundation;
Nuclear Receptor Resource;
Internet
Zoo Library;
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This font-look identifies sites
that are teaching resources or especially for kids
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Science:
Agriculture;
Anthropology; Archeology (Stone
circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts, European
megaliths & other ancient sites);
Biology (Bio On
Line)(birds)(Birds/Audubon,
bird-watching) (Cellsalive.com) (National
Center For Biotechnology Information) (National
Wildlife Federation) (Sharks)
(Great
White) (Pelagic Shark); (Visible
Human Project);
(National
Health Museum);
Botany (GARDENING:
Composting/ Garden.com/
GardenWeb.com/
VirtualGarden.com/ WindowBox.com/
UK Horticulture);
Chemical
Engineering;
Chemistry;
Engineering;
Entomology (arachnology/spiders)(home
pests)(Butterflies);
Environmental
(Environmental Defense)
(EPA)
(Wildlife)
(World
Wildlife)
Geneology;
Geology(Ask-A-Geologist)(Bermuda
Triangle[map])(More BT)(Still
more BT)(Coastal Modeling)(Devil's
Triangle)(Dinosaurs)
(Earthquake Information) (KY
Aerial & Geographic)
(Landform Atlas)
(Rocks/minerals/gemstones) (Satellite
Oceanography)(volcanos);
Mathematics (Calculus)(Geometry)
(Math Skills); Statistics;
Paleontology (Oceans of Kansas);
Particle Physics (Lawrence
Berkeley Lab); Particle
Adventure;
Weather Forecasting (FEMA);
Natl Climatic Data Ctr;
(Tornados);(World
weather & what it affects);
Xplore -
Science;
ExploreZone;
Fun
Science; Funology.com;
Inventors
(MIT Invention Dimension);Mad
Scientist Network;
National Science Teachers Association; Science
Learning Network;
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Aeronautics:
Ask-The-Astonomer;
Aviation
Challenge.com;
Flight
safety Foundation; NASA;
NASA
-Ask-The-Space-Scientist;
NASA
- Human space flight;
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
NASA
Johnson Space Center;
NASA-POETRY;
SpaceViews;Astronomy:
Amateur Astronomy - The Webb Society
(Adventures in Astronomy);
(Astronomy Cafe)
(Info
Ctr for New Star Gazers) (Naked
Eye Star Gazer Links); (Astronomy.Rocks!);
(Hands-On
Universe); Astronomy.net;(Tonight's
Sky)
Asteroids
(NASA- Near Earth
Asteroid Tracking) (Asteroid
& Comet Impact Hazards) (The
Sky Is Falling);
Constellations
& Their Stars; Dwarf
Spiral Galaxies;Earth
& Sky@Worldofscience.com; NASA
- Deep Space Network; NASA
-Hubble - Space Telescope Science Institute; NASA-Origins
Program;
Northern
Lights/aurora borealis;
Planetary Society.org (Planetary
fact sheets) (The
Nine Planets) (Exoplanets)
(Extrasolar planets);
Solar System Live;
Space
Camp.com; Star
Child Learning Ctr for Young Astronomers;
Star
Stuff; Steady
State Theory of the Universe;
Student's for the
Exploration & Development of Space;
Images: Astrophotogtraphy
-Catching the Light;
Best of Hubble; Hubble-
Public pictures; Comets;
The Digitized Sky; Mars-Pathfinder/Sojourner
Images; Messier
Gallery;
NASA Planetary Photojournal;
Magazines:
Chemistry & Industry;
Discovery Channel;
National Geographic;
Science;
Scientific American;
Sky & Telescope;
The Why
Files;
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Tip: If
you are interested in being part of the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, you can get the SETI@HOME
screen saver that processes radio-telescope data (you
will need 128 MB of memory).
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Homework Helper:
Ask
Eric; Dr.
Internet; Exploratorium
(science projects & demonstrations); HomeworkCentral
at NOSWEAT.com; Infoplease.com;
KIDS' Infoplease.com; Kids'
Click!; Kids
Web; Mad Scientist Network; Schoolwork.org;
This
Day in History; Youcan.com;
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Study Helpers:
Homeschool Zone;
HowToStudy.com;
How-to-study.com;
How
to study math & science; How
to study Physics; How
to take tests; How
to study & pass an exam;
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Links for Kids:
Best Sites; Cool
Links; Learning
Place; Cyberkids; Cyberteens;
FreeZone.com; Kids
On the Web; Kid's Domain
(computing); Kids' Space; Yuckiest
Site On the Internet;
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Challenges:
3D-Riddles;
Global
Adventures (GOALS.com);
Virtual
School for the Gifted;
Ivy
Review.com;
Junior Achievement;
Moneyopolis.com;
Young Investor; EduStock;
Investment FAQ;
Ayn Rand Essay Contest;
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Tip: These are safe
sites that are quite creative and clever.
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College & University:
The Top
100 Schools; Link Magazine;
Study Abroad (UM International Ctr);
World Lecture Hall;
CollegeNet;
Fishnet;
Peterson's
Guide;
US News
College & Career Ctr;
American
University links;
Embark.com (formerly
CollegeEdge); Collegeplan.org;
Collegexpress.com; Historically
Black Colleges & Universities; Collegeboard.org
(the SAT people); Collegeview.com;
Princeton Review; 4Colleges.com;
Study
Abroad;
College-Solutions.com
(4 fatal errors/Are you ready?/ checklist/consulting);
Consumer
Information Ctr;
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College Testing:
TestPrep.com
(free Web-based
SAT-preparation course);
SAT
sample questions; Kaplan's
On-line SAT course;
Kaplan
software (SAT/ACT/GRE/GMAT/LSAT);
Princeton Review
software; Educational Testing
Service GREs (software)
(practice questions); ScholarStuff.com
(test preparation); College-Solutions.com;
Financial Aid:
Access
Group;
CASHE (Sallie Mae Scholarship
Service);
Educaid.com; EstudentLoan.com;
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal
Student Aid);
FastWEB Scholarship
Search (student
services);
Finaid.org (Financial aid
information page) (loans);
FRESHinfo.com
(free updated scholarship seach);
NCAA;
Scholarship Resource Network Express (SRN);
The
Scholarship Page;
Scholarship Search (College Board); United Negro
College Fund;
US
Department of Education financial primer;
Yahoo
Financial Aid;
How
to pay for college;
Affording College---MoneySense
(7 Myths/College Funding Basics/Family Contribution Calculator);
Scholarship Scams;
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You can always get to this page from the NETWORD directory
(http://www.netword.com/index.html)
by typing in "Personal
Coach".
Comments, suggestions and requests are welcome.
If you have a site that you think should be included,
please let me know by e-mail ().
Content Copyright 2000, Edward J. Pavlik
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