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Serving your surfing needs since 1994. last update: April 9, 2012
served since 1994.
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Search Engines, Weather, E-Postcards, Etc.
- Google.com ranks pages by links made to them.
- Ask.com. Of late an up and comer.
- dogpile.com searches multiple search engines to see what they all might find.
- Yahoo offers categorized listing of web sites.
- SCIRUS is for searches seeking scientific information, only.
- ditto.com for visual materials.
- Fotosearch Photos. offers stock photography for professional uses. It allows users to search 3 million images from 150 of the top photography publishers all at one site. I
- NOAA Photo Library search engine. Good source for physical and historic pictures.
- Weather
- Etc.
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Education
Politics
- American Politics
- Ideology
- World Politics
Feminist Studies
GIS and Maps
- Maps
- Carto Corner, from the National Resources Board of Canada, offers introductory mapping information.
- Map Projections from Paul Anderson has a set of PDF type maps illustrating many major projections.
- National Geographic's Map Machine is an atlas-to-go on the web.
- MapTech MapServer offers topographic and other maps for viewing and downloading.
- TerraServer, from Microsoft, offers photographic, satellite, and map images. This is a tremendous resource for those needing air photography and other images. SUPER
- MapQuest offers an interactive atlas that even contains North Dakota cities and towns.
- Outline Maps from Houghton-Mifflin Company.
- Mapping the World by Heart from David Smith.
- National Atlas of Canada offers some nice maps of Canada using a GIS base to change variables.
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States for great simple maps.
- Maps and References compiled by Mark MacLennan of the University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research is a massive list of map-related resources.
- Graphic Maps has an assortment of maps available for your projects.
It also has a developing web atlas for your use.
is a map source.
- Atlapedia On-Line is a web atlas with a variety of information.
- North Dakota Census Data Center is a source of statistical data on North Dakota. It offers data sets of great value in the production of maps.
- General GIS
- GIS Data
- GIS Examples
- State of Florida Basin Planning and Management offers a GIS database to examine resource management issues involving water basins.
- For-Net Applications, from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, offers LANDSAT images of Minnesota for your analysis.
- Inforain is an online information system concerning the rainforest area of the west coast of the United States.
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General Geography
- General Geographic Materials
- Nation Master offers a wide variety of statistics on the nations of world, with charts and maps..
- Geo-Sense "is an online, one-two player geography based game. You compete against an online opponent to place a city on a world/continent map as quickly and accurately as you can. It's fast paced and tends to keep kids interested while being educational."
- geobee offers a daily quiz from the National Geographic based on past questions in the National Geography Bee.
- Geography at About.Com offers a wealth of geographic-related materials.
- Canadian Association of Geographers is a Canadian site devoted to educational information about geography.
- Stratfor.com is a strategic information service offering up-to-date information on strategic world issues.
- Fodor's offers
information on the world.
- Lonely Planet is the
alternative traveler's guide.
- Ten Risky Places by Mark Monmonier identifies places to be careful about.
- World Climate offers a searchable database concerning world climatic information.
- Connected
Traveler is a traveler's magazine of the odd spots.
- Wendy Chan, Photographer
has great pictures of world spots.
- Adventure Online takes teachers and students on learning adventures around the world.
- Education @ nationalgeographic.com is the main gateway to educational activities at the National Geographic Society site.
- STS-99 Images is the main index at NOAA to images from the STS-99 Mission. Great!
- Geography Page is a source for educational geography information at InfoPlease.com's Homework Helper.
- Xpeditions is a National Geographic Society web site offering family activities.
- Discovery Channel School: Geography offers links to sites of interest to geography teachers.
- Academic Geography
North America
Europe
Asia
Latin America
Africa and the Middle East
- The Living Africa is a student-created web site that mixes information,tours, and interactive materials. [See NEA Today, April 2000: 48 for a review]
- Arab Net
offers a variety of information on the thirteen Arab nations.
- Maghreb.Net offer information on Morocco.
- Africa On-Line offers links to various African news sources.
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Australia and Oceania
- NZ.com offers a guide to touring New Zealand.
- Australia
is a great index for sites on Australia.
- Ogden's
Pacific is a listing of home pages for the islands of the
Pacific. SUPER
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Computer & Multimedia Help
- Power Point
- Power Point FAQ provides basic information on using Power
Point; from Wittenberg University.
- Sound
- Classical MIDI
Archives contains an extensive collection of classicla music
MIDI files. Check the copyright notice prior to the use of any
pieces.
- MIDI Farm contains
news on developments in the MIDI music area. Check the
copyright requirements on each item.
- Graphics
- HTML
- HTML Goodies provides an introduction to HTML, the coding used to create web pages.
- RGB Hex
Triplet Color Chart provides an easy to use color chart for
the identification of RGB numbers. These are used to set the
color of backgrounds, text, links, and used links. [URL Change, July 2001]
- Mapedit
creates image maps for your page. It can be downloaded from
Doghouse Technologies at this site.
Web Cams and
Radio
- Live Cams. The following are Live
Cam sites selected for their educational value, as Americana or
as showing cultural and environmental features.
- Central and South America
- Europe, Asia, Etc.
- Directory Sites to Web Cam and Radio Sites
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