Library Links

How to Find a Good Book:

• Literature Map: Type in the name of an author and a mind map of similar authors pops up. Names closest to the center are most similar.

Plagiarism Checker:

• Plagiarisma: A free online plagiarism detector.

Find Infographics:

• Visual.ly: Search for infographics and other data visualizations.

Make a Google Search Story of Your Search: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/

STREAMING VIDEO SITES:

• Explore.org: Hosts documentary and photographs.
• Folk Streams: Host documentary films related to American folk culture.
• Top Documentary Films: All stream online.

• Snag Films: Snag Films allows you to watch films online for free, but also to "snag" it and embed it on your website. A sister site to this is Snag Learning, with films specifically for schools.

• Free Documentaries.org: Documentary films are streamed online from this free site.

• PBS Video Portal: You will find full episodes and clips of many great PBS programs, like American Experience, Frontline, Nature and Nova.

• Discovery Education Streaming Video: This is a paid subscription account and requires you to create an account with the following passcode: ___. You can then find videos for your subject. Each video can be downloaded and there is a teacher's guide as well.
• The Faculties: This is a project out of the UK, where university professors are giving lectures that are geared towards incoming undergrads / high school students. Lectures available in Math, History, Chemistry,English, Psychology, and Biology.