How to use MESMS LMC Links

This blog is dedicated to sharing reliable, authoritative, current links for Internet resources related to class research projects.

Please share excellent links you discover! Be sure to evaluate the links before you submit them for posting. If in doubt, use the MESMS Internet Website Evaluation Worksheet found in the LMC.

Send your links using the comment directions below. Please be sure to include the URL (website address) and a brief annotation (description of the website content) for each website you would like to post.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The links listed below provide appropriate images for school curriculum related topics at the time of this posting. However, due to the everchanging nature of Internet content, search results are constantly changing. Please report any inappropriate image results.

Click the comment link to add any sites that you find useful for images and they will be included on the list below.

Famous People:
The Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/

General Use:
Alltheweb (select the pictures tab)
http://alltheweb.com/

Ask (direct link to image tab)
http://www.ask.com/?o=0&l=dir

DK e-Encyclopedia image library allows you to search by keyword or subject
http://www.dke-encyc.com/

Ditto a visual index recommended by Kathy Schrock to help you find pictures for educational use
http://ditto.com/

Clusty (direct link to image tab)
http://images.clusty.com/

Metacrawler searches Yahoo, Google, MSN Search and Ask; select Images
http://www.metacrawler.com/

Smithsonian Images: Digital Photography, Printed Pictures, Historical Images and more. Browse by category.
http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home

New York Public Library Digital Collection
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

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