Research Tools
1- Search Engines:
Addictomatic
Find news, videos, photos, blogposts and more. Set out by source
Inhale the Web
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up, what's now or what other people are feeding on.
Personalize
After you search, you can personalize your results dashboard by moving around the source boxes. When you're done, bookmark the page and keep coming back to your personalized results dashboard for that search.
Browse the News
Our news pages provide the latest headlines on topics such as entertainment, politics, shopping, sports and more. You get all the feeds from the best sources in each category. And like your search results dashboard, you can personalize the layout of the headline boxes, delete ones you don't like and bookmark your personalized page.
Wolfram Alpha
An ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and watch it compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing..
Goals
Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.
Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.
Status
That it should be possible to build Wolfram|Alpha as it exists today in the first decade of the 21st century was far from obvious. And yet there is much more to come.
As of now, Wolfram|Alpha contains 10+ trillion pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. Built with Mathematica—which is itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research—Wolfram|Alpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, Wolfram|Alpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica.
Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge base and capabilities already span a great many domains, and its underlying framework has the power and flexibility to support ready extension to essentially any domain that is based on systematic knowledge. More »
The universe of potentially computable knowledge is, however, almost endless, and in creating Wolfram|Alpha as it is today, we needed to start somewhere. Our approach so far has been to emphasize domains where computation has traditionally had a more significant role. As we have developed Wolfram|Alpha, we have in effect been systematically covering the content areas of reference libraries and handbooks. In going forward, we plan broader and deeper coverage, both of traditionally scientific, technical, economic, and otherwise quantitative knowledge, and of more everyday, popular, and cultural knowledge.
Wolfram|Alpha's ability to understand free-form input is based on algorithms that are informed by our analysis of linguistic usage in large volumes of material on the web and elsewhere. As the usage of Wolfram|Alpha grows, we will capture a whole new level of linguistic data, which will allow us to greatly enhance Wolfram|Alpha's linguistic capabilities.
Today's Wolfram|Alpha is just the beginning. We have ambitious plans, for data, for computation, for linguistics, for presentation, and more. As we go forward, we'll be discussing what we're doing on the Wolfram|Alpha Blog, and we encourage suggestions and participation, especially through the Wolfram|Alpha Community.
Future
Wolfram|Alpha, as it exists today, is just the beginning. We have both short- and long-term plans to dramatically expand all aspects of Wolfram|Alpha, broadening and deepening our data, our computation, our linguistics, our presentation, and more.
Wolfram|Alpha is built on solid foundations. And as we go forward, we see more and more that can be made computable using the basic paradigms of Wolfram|Alpha—and a faster and faster path for development as we leverage the broad capabilities already in place.
Wolfram|Alpha was made possible in part by the achievements of Mathematica and A New Kind of Science (NKS). In their different ways, both of these point to far-reaching future opportunities for Wolfram|Alpha—whether a radically new kind of programming or the systematic automation of invention and discovery.
Wolfram|Alpha is being introduced first in the form of the wolframalpha.com website. But Wolfram|Alpha is really a technology and a platform that can be used and presented in many different ways. Among short-term plans are developer APIs, professional and corporate versions, custom versions for internal data, connections with other forms of content, and deployment on emerging mobile and other platforms.
Info Please
General searches plus almanacs, biographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedia, spelling.
Why Infoplease.com?
Users come to infoplease.com to feed their hunger for facts and information.
About Infoplease.com
Recent Accolade for Infoplease.com
"Highly recommended . . . should be a bookmarked site at all public, academic, and special libraries. [Infoplease.com] is a must for patrons of libraries and information centers, from high school through graduate school."
—CHOICE MAGAZINE, May 2006 (published by the American Library Association)
History
Information Please began as a famous 1930s hit radio show, and went on to become one of America's premier almanacs. From 1947 through 1997 it was published annually under the title The Information Please Almanac; since 1998 it has been published by Time Magazine as The TIME Almanac with Information Please. In 1998, Infoplease.com was launched on the Web, and quickly became an authoritative and respected reference for Internet users. The website is especially popular with students—as well as anyone looking for reliable, well-researched facts. Over 9 million visitors come to Infoplease.com for answers each month, viewing some 35 million pages of content.
Infoplease.com contains:
· The Columbia Encyclopedia, a Random House Dictionary, and a thesaurus.
· An atlas with maps and detailed profiles of every country and U.S. state.
· Daily features such as This Day in History, Today's Birthday, and Word Quiz.
· Timelines, quizzes, and polls, and "top ten" lists.
· Interactive features such as a "convert anything" tool and a periodic table.
· A Homework Center for students.
· Timely features on current news, entertainment, and seasonal events.
· Statistical tables and rankings that are continuously updated.
· A powerful search tool that provides relevant results instantly.
Dogo
Fodder, cool sites and global news for young minds.
DOGONews is an online news and web resource for elementary school children, aged 5-10 and a publishing platform for aspiring reporters ages 9-15. "DOGO" (not DoGo), means young or small in Swahili.
The website consists of three sections: News, Sites and Earth.
DOGONews (www.dogonews.com) - This section is a fun and educational alternative to sites like Time for Kids, National Geographic and Science Daily. With hundreds of archived articles and new content added daily, the section is chockfull of fun and inspiring news from all around the world.
The content is written in a simple, easy to understand format and kept relatively short, in order to keep young children focused and interested. Videos are added whenever available. There is also an integrated dictionary for challenging words and a map mash-up to provide a geographical context. The main aim of the site is for kids to read and learn about world events in a fun, interactive and safe environment.
In addition to encouraging kids to read, DOGONews is also a publishing platform for older kids. We currently have three young regular contributors ages 9,10 and 14. If you are interested in writing for us send an email to
DOGOSites (www.dogonews.com/sites) - a directory of fun educational kids sites. A great resource for teachers, kids and parents. Each site is carefully vetted prior to inclusion.
Joongel
Search the internet by category.
Joongel is a simple web application for searching and navigating through the most popular sources on the Internet in different categories. Our search method is based on the geographic location of the user and traffic ranking analysis from Google, Hitwise, Compete, Comscore, Nielsen//Netratings, Quantcast and more.
We created Joongel while thinking about how to make the Internet easier for you. We believe that just like us, you find the Internet to be from time to time a little bit like a jungle. Instead of presenting you with an enormous amount of scattered results from different subjects and websites, Joongel provides direct search results from the ten most viewed websites in a specific subject or subcategory. The Joongel application can be used in different platforms such as search plugins, expert websites and the Joongel main website.
By using the Joongel application you are given the skills of a search expert without a learning process, you save time and you find the highest quality of information that is 100% relevant to your needs.
The Joongel websites are currently running on a beta version.
Spezify
New visual search engine that collects search results in different media formats (e.g. definitions, images, Flickr photos, quotes, wikipedia articles), arranges them on a desktop and can be dragged around as an (almost) infinite collage.
Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a
large number of websites in different visual ways.
We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building
the bigger picture.
We collect websites and are aiming to use as many relevant, free and open API:s as possible to generate extensive and diverse search results
2-Research Resources:
John Locker
Online documentaries listed under categories. Great classroom resource.
JohnLocker.com was started in April of 2008 to help students, teachers, educators, and the public get educated on a variety of topics. As the first user powered online learning network, you can expect to come away with knowledge that both challenges and empowers you.
By harnessing the power of social communities and video sharing, JohnLocker.com is able to provide the best documentaries and educational videos found on the web. It is our goal to make the process of watching, adding, rating, and discussing the videos as simple as possible.
Every video on JohnLocker.com was added by people just like you. By clicking "Add Video", you can instantly import any video from YouTube, Google Video, Veoh, MegaVideo, and DailyMotion by simply copying and pasting the URL of the video.
Please help JohnLocker.com grow by telling all your friends and relatives where they can educate themselves online for free. Without all of you, JohnLocker couldn't provide the videos and documenataries you see today.
JohnLocker.com is based out of Chicago, Illinois. If you would like to contact us, please use the contact form or e-mail: johnlockerdotcom at gmail.com.
ABOUT OUR NAME
John Locke was 17th Century English philosopher that came up with some of the most important philosophical theories of recent history. In fact, the United States Constitution was based upon some of his principles.
One of his most prominent theories was the idea of "the self" and how we are born without any innate ideas or biases. With this thinking in mind, we like to think that JohnLocker is a verb that means opening yourself up to a whole new way of learning.
We hope you like this new educational venue and we hope that it opens you to some interesting and mind provoking ideas.
Teachers.tv
Thousands of educational programmes on TV and online.
What is Teachers TV?
Through engaging videos, practical resources and an active online community, Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field.
· Instant access to up to date professional development videos and resources
· Learn from other education professionals by going inside their classrooms and into their schools
· Save time with practical tips, lesson ideas and classroom resources
· Help across the year to meet classroom targets and achieve personal goals
· Keep informed with content covering the latest developments in the education agenda
In addition to the website, Teachers TV programmes are available on the TV Channel on Sky 880, Virgin Media 240, Freesat 650 and Freeview 88 (4-6pm) and, most recently, through iTunes U.
Editorial independence
Although Teachers TV is funded by the DCSF, it is editorially independent of government. This is a requirement of the 2003 Communications Act and Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications industries.
To ensure the channel remains editorially independent but is also accountable for the public money it receives, a governance process has been established, managed by the Teachers TV Board of Governors.
Teachers TV Board of Governors
The Board of Governors is responsible for:
· Upholding the editorial independence of the channel and ensuring it delivers value for money
· Setting targets and measuring the channel's performance against them to make sure it meets the needs of the people who work in schools
· Supporting the strategic development of Teachers TV
· Providing a complaints appeals process to resolve viewer issues
The Teachers TV Board of Governors can be contacted via the Board Secretariat at:
Teachers TV Board of Governors, c/o Secretariat, Area A First Floor, Mowden Hall, Staindrop Road, Darlington DL3 9BG.
SnagFilms
Watch free documentaries.
SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve.