Gloria's Gleanings 1 Links Gloria at Los Alamos Anniversary Picture, 2001 Latest site Hispanic Sources Creating your Homepage Software: Freeware, Shareware, Other Sources for Teachers Sources for Students and Teachers Machine Knitting Tennis and Ice Skating These are a few of my favorite things: Machine Knitting - Machine Knitter's Guild of Southern New Mexico - meeting are held every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 9:30. Afterwards we go out to lunch. Contact me for further information at gmccrary@zianet.com Tennis Sewing ABC Kids Keeping up with my grandchildren #1 Colorado Springs Regionals Davenport. Regionals and at Skate St. Paul Skating in Chicago Sombreros - Ole! More skating friends. Extreme Figure Skating Expo My favorite picture #2 Soccer pictures Soccer Shoot Out - 3 on 3 Baseball My favorite picture #3 Beautiful baby Their mother DD LATEST SITES TO VISIT Education World -- The Educator's Best Friend: http://www.education-world.com/best_of/2005/ Visit my blog: http://newmexicoancestors.blogspot.com/ Lesson Plans: http://lessonplanspage.com/ Hands On Earth Science: http://www.ohiodnr.com/geosurvey/edu/handson.htm Kis GeoZone - learn about the geiosciences through activities. Many links for students and teachers: http://www.consrv.ca.gov/cgs/information/kids_geozone/index.htm The Hole in the Wall - Lighting the Spark of Learning: http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/>http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ Art and crafts projects using material found in the home or classroom: http://www.schoolcrafts.net/ Olga's Gallery has over 10,000 works of art: http://www.abcgallery.com/ Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/archive.html A Learning Center for Young Astronomers: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/ . It is primarily for ages 4-14; it presents material on the Solar System, the Universe, and other Space Stuff. The leading source for online space news: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/index.html For Pictures of our Universe: http://www.photomeeting.de/astromeeting/_index.htm For an awesome picture of the nightsky taken from space by the Boeing built Space Station last November go to: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg More Astronomy links: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html All Kids' Games from K-12, plus teacher and parent resources: http://www.funbrain.com Archives of New Mexico: http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/ Spanish Archives of NM I, 1685-1912: http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmAr/nmar%231972-002/nmar%231972-002_m2.html Spanish Archives of NM II, 1621-1821: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmAr/nmar%231959-200/nmar%231959-200_m8.html Ghost Town Gallery: http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/ Desert Plants and Wildflowers:http://desertusa.com/flora.html Women in Aztec Times: http://www.beautyworlds.com/aztecs.htm Nahuat: The Azteca Web Page. http://www.azteca.net/aztec/nahuatl/index.shtml Online English to Spanish: http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html For great educational resources visit MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/ Spy Letters of the American Revolution: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/ Interactive TimeLine of the Great War; it allow you to trace the history of WWI. Civil War Home: http://www.antietam.com/ Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia for Current Events: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_events For Homework Sharing: http://www.driveway.com At Making Friends and Other Crafts for Kids you'll find lots of creative activities for children ages 2 through 12. The is a great site for parents, teachers, scout leaders and, of course, kids! CESAME, the LAB, and the Math Forum provide support for teachers who are implementing Investigations in Number, Data and Space in their classrooms. One of the best features of Investigations is its games. If implemented effectively, children not only enjoy playing the games, they also learn a great deal in the process. Volcano World: The premier source of volcano information on the Web Desert Research Institute: http://www.dri.edu/ Kids Web, the digital library for K-12 students: http://www.kidsvista.com/index.html Small Planet: Links for Kids: http://www.smplanet.com/kids/kids.html Surfing the Net with Kids: http://www.spokane.net/kids/ Kids' Space: http://www.kids-space.org/ Kids at the National Geographic, fantastic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ Project Gutenberg has compiled a large selection of books, articles, etc. which no longer have a copywrite and are in the Public Domain. These electronic texts (etexts) can be downloaded to your computer. I downloaded all of Jane Austen's books. Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, Alice in Wonderland, and the works of Shakespeare will be next.: http://www.promo.net/pg/ Here is another translator site: http://www.dictionary.com/translate/. This site, also has a dictionary. If you need a Thesaurus go to: http://www.thesaurus.com/ Filamentality helps students, teachers, and librarians create Web pages that encourage real, active learning. To do this, Filamentality can help you create five different kinds of Web-based learning pages depending upon the goal you have for users of your Web page. Smithsonian Institution's HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things: http://historywired.si.edu/index.html# Find out what is good and bad about the foods you eat at: http://www.nutritiondata.com/ Discover hundreds of wacky uses for many well known products. http://www.wackyuses.com/index.html Lesson Plans for Teachers:http://lessonplanspage.com/ New York Public Library has databases, maps, photographs and exhibitions: http://www.nypl.org/digital/digitalgallery.htm George Orwell on Politics and the English Language:http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ Creating Your Homepage How to Create Your Own Web Page: Ask your internet provider to set up a directory for your web page. Make sure you have FTP to transfer your web page to this directory. Your internet provider should supply one. If not an FTP utility can be downloaded from the Web. Web authoring tools : HTML Goodies for the more advanced web page designer: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ Go to WinZip if you need a compression/decompression utility to unzip your files Clip Art for your web pages. Do not use graphics (or other materials) which have a copyright without asking for permission from the owner. The following source contains free clip art:: Free graphics by Syruss (http://www.syruss.com/) A guest book server allows visitors to comment on your page: Ask your Internet provider if they have software you can access for a guest book. If not then go to this site for free guestbook (http://mars.guestworld.tripod.lycos.com/) Visit a nice example of a teacher's page (http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/) Respect the copyright law: Cyberspace Law Institute (http://www.cli.org) Brad Templeton's interesting web site for information on copyrights Return to to top of page Software - Freeware, Shareware, Other MathPlot was developed by my husband Jim to help his students with their mathematics - http://webassign.net/pasnew/mathplot/mathplot.html. QuickTime 3.0, freeware, - movie viewer Molecular Visualization Freeware: Chime for viewing molecular structure on web pages. Go to this really neat site for Chime examples, tutorials, and molecule collections RasMol for viewing molecular structures downloaded from the Web Chemscape Chime - a Netscape plug-in which allows a person to view 3D molecular structures written into web pages Firefox is my favorite web browser. KidsDomain shareware for children Education World is THE Internet's resource for educators and "Where Educators Go to Learn." ASCII Character Table Web sites that post children's software reviews: SuperKids Parent Soupskew Children's Software Revue Go to HotFiles for the following freeware goodies: PrintKey, freeware, a must have program for printing out complete or partial screens; very user friendly. Just type printkey in the search box to take you to the download site. Notepad+ has many more features than Microsoft's own Notepad. Replace it with this one. Just type notepad+ in the search box to take you to the download site. Return to to top of page Sources for Teachers Visit CSPAN to learn about the American Presidents. Each week CSPAN features an American President and offers lesson guides for teachers and students. Visit the Underground Railroad hosted by the National Geographic Society: Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? The route you will travel is based on Harriet Tubman’s actual journeys. Learn about the variety of educational materials associated with Ocean Planet, including a set of lessons and marine science activities which adapt several themes of the exhibition for use in the middle and high school classroom. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, SED, is hosted by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and has information on space, astronomy, rocketry and resource guides. The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information. To learn more about math and about New Mexico's plants and animals go to Katgrahams' Math Odyssey: http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/ Children's Software Revue is the place to visit for finding software packages for your classroom. WebTeacher, a comprehensive interactive tutorial to help you master the Internet and integrate the information into your lesson plans American Life Histories, from the Federal Writers'Project, 1936-1940: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html The Global Schoolhouse (http://www.gsh.org) - great source of information NOVA Online (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers) - information of the TV show and ideas for using the information WebQuest Home Page (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html) - a resource for teachers using WebQuest notion to teach with the web. Chime freeware for viewing molecular structure on web pages. Go to this really neat site for Chime examples, tutorials, and molecule collections RasMol freeware for viewing molecular structures downloaded from the Web The Geometry Center home page: http://www.geom.umn.edu/ Mathematics for K-12: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/math.html Tom Scavo's tangrams: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/trscavo/tangrams.html Fields of Genes, teaches concepts of biotechnology: National 4-H Council, (301) 961-2934, product # ES0046. About $5.00 plus shipping. The "Desert Classroom" laserdisc and manual with lesson plans for teaching about desert ecology. Order by faxing your PO to: (505) 646-2702 Vicky Duran Agriculture Communications, New Mexico State University Box 30003 MSC 3 AI Las Cruces, NM 88003 Toll free # for more information is (888) 750-4156 Price for the disc and manual is $44.00 + 4.95 (shipping) Sources for Students and Teachers Visit CSPAN to learn about the American Presidents. Each week CSPAN features an American President and offers lesson guides for teachers and students. Visit the Underground Railroad hosted by the National Geographic Society: Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? The route you will travel is based on Harriet Tubman’s actual journeys. Learn about the variety of educational materials associated with Ocean Planet, including a set of lessons and marine science activities which adapt several themes of the exhibition for use in the middle and high school classroom. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, SED, is hosted by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and has information on space, astronomy, rocketry and resource guides. The EXPLORATORIUM : the museum of science, art and human perception is a fabulous place to visit. It features online exhibits, science news and resources. The Learning Studio is a great resource for teachers (K-12) and their students. The Digital Library has many online exhibits. The Cow's Eye Dissection is one of the most popular demonstrations at the Exploratorium. For many years it has helped people satisfy their curiosity about what is inside an eye. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium. These "Snacks" use common, inexpensive, easily available materials. By using Snacks in their classrooms, teachers can climb out of the textbooks and join their students in discovering science for themselves. The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information. The Whole Frog Project (http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Frog) - interactive frog dissection kit Welcome to the World of Microbes (http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~schauder) - color photos of microbes The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia The Microbe Zoo is a great place to visit Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory (http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/awesome.html) The Math Forum Homepage (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ Mathematics links and help for students and parents from one of our local area teachers: (http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/) MidLink the Electronic Magazine for Kids in the middle grades: http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink/ Algebra resources: Great sites from the University of Hawii MathPower student tutorials Chemistry resources: Chemistry Lessons Everything you need to answer your chemistry problems. Ask a Scientist Web sites that post children's software reviews: SuperKids Parent Soup Children's Software Revue Return to top of page Machine Knitting To subscribe to one of the many machine knitting list go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knittingmachines/ http://www.woolworks.org/guilds.html list of Guilds Wool Works and links to other sites: http://www.woolworks.org/links.html Irene Woods, online tutor for the Studio LX150 machine: http://www.clearwaterknits.com/ A favorite site: Knitwords Knitting software: Great Knit Designs My Poncho Sports links: Tennis USTA Ice Skating USFSA Contact Gloria at: gmccrary@zianet.com or to mccrary_2002@yahoo.com Updated: March, 2008 Return to top of page You are Visitor: Pick a Search then Click GO! AltaVista Excite HotBot InfoSeek Lycos Net Find Shareware.Com Yahoo Google Web Crawler
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LATEST SITES TO VISIT
Creating Your Homepage
Web authoring tools : HTML Goodies for the more advanced web page designer: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
Go to WinZip if you need a compression/decompression utility to unzip your files
Clip Art for your web pages. Do not use graphics (or other materials) which have a copyright without asking for permission from the owner. The following source contains free clip art:: Free graphics by Syruss (http://www.syruss.com/)
A guest book server allows visitors to comment on your page:
Ask your Internet provider if they have software you can access for a guest book.
If not then go to this site for free guestbook (http://mars.guestworld.tripod.lycos.com/)
Visit a nice example of a teacher's page (http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/)
Respect the copyright law:
Cyberspace Law Institute (http://www.cli.org)
Brad Templeton's interesting web site for information on copyrights
Return to to top of page
Software - Freeware, Shareware, Other
MathPlot was developed by my husband Jim to help his students with their mathematics - http://webassign.net/pasnew/mathplot/mathplot.html.
QuickTime 3.0, freeware, - movie viewer
Molecular Visualization Freeware:
Chime for viewing molecular structure on web pages. Go to this really neat site for Chime examples, tutorials, and molecule collections
RasMol for viewing molecular structures downloaded from the Web
Chemscape Chime - a Netscape plug-in which allows a person to view 3D molecular structures written into web pages
Firefox is my favorite web browser.
KidsDomain shareware for children
Education World is THE Internet's resource for educators and "Where Educators Go to Learn."
ASCII Character Table
Web sites that post children's software reviews:
SuperKids
Parent Soupskew
Children's Software Revue
Go to HotFiles for the following freeware goodies:
PrintKey, freeware, a must have program for printing out complete or partial screens; very user friendly. Just type printkey in the search box to take you to the download site.
Notepad+ has many more features than Microsoft's own Notepad. Replace it with this one. Just type notepad+ in the search box to take you to the download site.
Sources for Teachers
Visit CSPAN to learn about the American Presidents. Each week CSPAN features an American President and offers lesson guides for teachers and students.
Visit the Underground Railroad hosted by the National Geographic Society: Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? The route you will travel is based on Harriet Tubman’s actual journeys.
Learn about the variety of educational materials associated with Ocean Planet, including a set of lessons and marine science activities which adapt several themes of the exhibition for use in the middle and high school classroom.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, SED, is hosted by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and has information on space, astronomy, rocketry and resource guides.
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
To learn more about math and about New Mexico's plants and animals go to Katgrahams' Math Odyssey: http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/
Children's Software Revue is the place to visit for finding software packages for your classroom.
WebTeacher, a comprehensive interactive tutorial to help you master the Internet and integrate the information into your lesson plans
American Life Histories, from the Federal Writers'Project, 1936-1940: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
The Global Schoolhouse (http://www.gsh.org) - great source of information
NOVA Online (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers) - information of the TV show and ideas for using the information
WebQuest Home Page (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html) - a resource for teachers using WebQuest notion to teach with the web.
Chime freeware for viewing molecular structure on web pages. Go to this really neat site for Chime examples, tutorials, and molecule collections
RasMol freeware for viewing molecular structures downloaded from the Web
The Geometry Center home page: http://www.geom.umn.edu/
Mathematics for K-12: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/math.html
Tom Scavo's tangrams: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/trscavo/tangrams.html
Fields of Genes, teaches concepts of biotechnology: National 4-H Council, (301) 961-2934, product # ES0046. About $5.00 plus shipping.
The "Desert Classroom" laserdisc and manual with lesson plans for teaching about desert ecology. Order by faxing your PO to: (505) 646-2702 Vicky Duran Agriculture Communications, New Mexico State University Box 30003 MSC 3 AI Las Cruces, NM 88003 Toll free # for more information is (888) 750-4156 Price for the disc and manual is $44.00 + 4.95 (shipping)
Sources for Students and Teachers
The EXPLORATORIUM : the museum of science, art and human perception is a fabulous place to visit. It features online exhibits, science news and resources. The Learning Studio is a great resource for teachers (K-12) and their students. The Digital Library has many online exhibits. The Cow's Eye Dissection is one of the most popular demonstrations at the Exploratorium. For many years it has helped people satisfy their curiosity about what is inside an eye. Exploratorium Science Snacks are miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium. These "Snacks" use common, inexpensive, easily available materials. By using Snacks in their classrooms, teachers can climb out of the textbooks and join their students in discovering science for themselves.
The Whole Frog Project (http://www-itg.lbl.gov/Frog) - interactive frog dissection kit
Welcome to the World of Microbes (http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~schauder) - color photos of microbes
The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
The Microbe Zoo is a great place to visit
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory (http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/awesome.html)
The Math Forum Homepage (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
Mathematics links and help for students and parents from one of our local area teachers: (http://www.zianet.com/katgraham/)
MidLink the Electronic Magazine for Kids in the middle grades: http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink/
Algebra resources:
Great sites from the University of Hawii
MathPower student tutorials
Chemistry resources:
Parent Soup
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Machine Knitting
To subscribe to one of the many machine knitting list go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knittingmachines/
http://www.woolworks.org/guilds.html list of Guilds
Wool Works and links to other sites: http://www.woolworks.org/links.html
Irene Woods, online tutor for the Studio LX150 machine: http://www.clearwaterknits.com/
A favorite site: Knitwords
Knitting software: Great Knit Designs
My Poncho
Tennis USTA
Ice Skating USFSA
Contact Gloria at: gmccrary@zianet.com or to mccrary_2002@yahoo.com
Updated: March, 2008
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