Urban Legends and Email Virus Hoaxes

Urban Legends, Virus hoaxes, email spam http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/ Before you forward that email, check here to find the latest hoaxes and false information that flows so freely around the internet.

Urban Legends Combat Kit http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/ Learn about which email legends are true or untrue. This site also has some great "canned" responses to send out to those that continue to send your urban legends.

Educational Links

GradFinder. www.GradFinder.com A free service to stay in touch with others that you went to school with or graduated with you from elementary, middle, high school and college. Teachers can also register as staff at buildings where you have taught. You can post a picture and include information about yourself so others can contact you online. A neat feature also sends you an email when another student registers from one of your schools.

Education World. http://www.education-world.com  A place for teachers to gather and share ideas. A complete online resource guide for educators to start each day, find lesson plans, and research materials. A search engine for over 115,000 educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet. An information source on the Web with news from USA Today, monthly site reviews and employment listings to keep educators up to date. Also includes original content such as lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom, so educators can find ideas at the click of a mouse.

Kathy Schrock's guide for educators. http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ A categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

Talented and Gifted Resources. http://www.eskimo.com/~user/kids.html This Gifted Resources Page contains links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists and early acceptance programs, including CTY, EPGY, CTD, NRC/GT, TIP, RMTS, ERIC, NCSSSMST, Odyssey of the Mind, and many, many others. It contains links to 4+ years of TAG-L mailing list archives (over 10 MB). It also contains contact information for many local gifted associations and government (mostly US state) programs. As more resources become available, they will be added. This page is intended to be a convenient starting point for gifted students, their parents and educators to access Gifted Resources, whether on the internet or otherwise.

Newslink. http://newslink.org/ The most comprehensive news resource on the World Wide Web. Over 9000 links to newspapers, magazines, tv and radio.

School House World Village. http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/school/html/school.htm Educational software reviews, feature articles, cartoons, cool sites, and downloads.