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TIP: Press Ctrl/f and enter a part of a word or phrase in the Find what: box and click on Find Next to search for a topic on this page. For example, type quiz to search for quiz or quizzes.

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E-mail a question, receive help with research online or in-person, and find help citing print and/or electronic sources at this site.

Citing Sources
Select one of the style links for guidance in citing print sources, full-text periodical articles from online databases such as EBSCOhost, Web pages, and much more!

Comprehension & Active Learning WWW Resources
Explore a variety of Web sites that provide tools, lessons, and games that can be incorporated into onground and online courses to facilitate active learning. Sample sites highlighted during PRISM workshop include:

Game Show Presenter
"Game Show Presenter is presentation software that helps people pay attention and learn any subject by presenting it as a funny, TV-style quiz show. It has everything you need to make your own quiz game shows: music, funny game show host, sound effects and score keeping for up to 10 players or teams!"

ITC Flash Learning Games
At the University of Minnesota, Crookston Web site, select Flash Games in the side toolbar for a list of existing Millionaire, Jeopardy, and Clue games based on Flash templates created by Dr. Lim. To create a new game on a topic(s) of your choice, click on Flash Games in the side toolbar, click on Game Manager, click on U.S. Educational Edition, and click on Game Manager. Logon to the game manager site (if you have not created an account, click on create a new account and follow the directions. A User ID and password will be emailed to your email account). After entering the User ID/password into the Game Manager site, locate the link to "New Game" beneath the Game Options category. Click the link to new game, enter a title/category for the game, and click Create button. Click "Return to: My Account". Next, select the radio button beside the game's name, select the hyperlinked game title, and begin to enter questions. When finished entering questions, close the window and click the link to View beneath the Flash column.

NCTM Illuminations
"Internet-Based Lesson Plans are examples of how the Internet can be used to help create effective Standards-based mathematics lessons. For example, some Web sites provide real-world data that can be analyzed or used to develop mathematical concepts. Other sites provide detailed information about areas in which mathematics is applied or contain tools that can be used to graph, visualize, or compute."

Parade of Games in Powerpoint
"The Parade of Games web site was created to provide educators and trainers with easy-to- assemble educational games in a technology- enhanced environment to support key learning points. The site demonstrates the creative use of popular game shows and other familiar games to reinforce learning. Educators and trainers can select and download those PowerPoint games that support your learning objectives and are compatible with the technology capabilities of your learning environment."

Mathematics Education WWW Resources
This site provides activities, puzzles, lesson plans, and online mathematics journals.

Research
View library tutorials that discuss research techniques; explore learning objects about the information cycle timeline, boolean searching, truncation techniques, plagiarism; listen to online lectures about ERIC keyword searching, evaluating Web sites, searching in Google, etc.

Science Fair Projects
This site contains primers on developing science fair projects, sample science fair project ideas, teacher's guides to hosting a science fair, hands-on science demonstrations that can be used in classrooms, student self-paced science explorations, and Web sites where students can post questions to scientists.

Search for Articles
Locate scholarly and popular full-text articles or article summaries. Follow the directions for off-campus access before accessing the databases remotely.

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