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COMPUTER KING EDUCATIONAL PAGE
Education will become the raging hot industry of the new
millenium. Starting with REFDESK, you will find a plethora of sites
that will train you for free or give you information to accomplish
repairs etc. We have tried to organize the information for you in one
convenient location and give you a short description of each site. This
will continue to be the most exciting section on our site, since the winners
are just figuring out how to educate over the internet.
Staying Safe on Line By Google
Google’s finally done it they came up with a tutorial for keeping your data safe, how to protect yourself with strong passwords. It covers Phishing, Malware , Secure Site and Safe networks. Ells you how to use Free Google Security tools.
Technical terms are explained in Jargon Buster. If you do a good job, you may succeed in
understanding your 10 year old.
“People Powered News” There are thousands of laid off, frustrated journalists who can’t stop thinking or writing. Find the latest and best alternative stories, direct from thousand of sources. We let “almost anyone write almost anything”. THIS IS THE PROMISE OF A FREE PRESS!
You can come to this page everyday for something new and
refreshing. It beats the hell out of the main stream media in content. You can
also join them and have them put you on their email list. Enjoy reading a newspaper again!
REFERENCE DESK
If you are a home schooler this is your one page resource
department. This page has a link to everything. It is marvelous. If
you don't know where to start in a search for information, this may be the
place. This is a page for a generalist and may be a little too much for
some people, But it beats jumping around trying to get an answer. Beside when
you get tired you can ask an expert. Try it out , you will be delighted.
Foreign Service Institute Language
Courses Free !
Welcome to fsi-language-courses.org -
the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These
courses were developed by the
Solutions for WINDOWS
and MAC and tips and downloads for getting things done. Check it out. Covers everything from hard disk drives
to Itunes.
How to Geek is really designed for the geek at heart. They cover a lot of territory and they seem to have their act together. Go to their site and look at the variety of areas they cover. They have a game extension for google chrome. Check it out.
These MATH
Kids Place by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt selectable grade K to 6. Roz’s Math-o-Rama etc.
This is has some pretty cool games and
teasers. May be a little too advanced for most Grandparents.
http://www.flyadventures.com/kids/games/index.html
Counting Coins is the name of the game and is
Grandparent friendly. Nice game but you
will have read for young ones.
Social Studies
Take tours of historic places such as Mt
Vernon. Intriguing for adults as well as
kids.
Reading Between the Lions. Games
and stories for parent & teachers.
Skill Builders via games such as Grand Prix racing.
Dr. Seuss Games at all levels
Math/
Reading car racing.
macmillanmh.com/science/2008/student/
Science a closer look for K thu 6 grade.
A fantastic website to practice phonics and
reading! Check it out.
TV ORIENTED
PBS Kids Games , Video and music.
This is the home Dora the Explorer, Diego and Boots. Let your grandkids explain it too you.
A personal request from Mr. James Dendrinos. This is his current favorite.
A personal request from Mary Anne Dendrinos. This is her current favorite. This version works on Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome only.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tn.
SCHOOLS PRE-K to 12th
Grade
I don’t know
who produced JeffersonCounty Schools’
Interactive sites for PRE-K-12 but they did one hell of a
bang up job. It Super ! It would be a
great resource for home schoolers as well
V.A.L.U.E. Video Assisted Learning for Universal
Education by Steve Dendrinos
20 Years ago I had an
idea for systematizing Education. We
planned to use Video taped courses from the best of the best and add in human
teachers as backup. Congressman John Duncan of
MIT meanwhile took the lead of
opening their courses free to the
public.
As of August 2008, of the over 1800 courses
available, only 26 included complete video lectures, and not all of these have complete
lecture notes. The lack of lecture notes makes it difficult to follow some
lectures, for example, when the lecturer is referring to slides being projected
in the lecture hall. The selection of available courses is somewhat incomplete.
For example, prerequisite classes for a given course are frequently not
available. However, the quality of those courses which include complete
materials is very high, and many of the lecturers are extremely compelling. The
video is available in streaming mode, but may also be downloaded for viewing
offline, though the procedure for downloading is not explicitly given. Many
video and audio files are also available from iTunes U. Since that time many other forward
looking universities around the world have joined MIT. Note to NEA, MIT is
still here and is still one of
Check out the OPEN Courseware Consortium made up
of many different Universities on a world wide scale. And dog gone it, this Video Assisted
Learning for Universal Education is FREE
! Education is free at last … Free at last .
History of MIT Program ==è http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_OpenCourseWare
SEARCH VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES
The Vatican Archives, one of the world's most important historical research
centers, with over 630 different archival sources extending over more than 85
kilometers of shelves, covering over 800 years of history, can now be visited
on the Internet. This library is second only to the library of
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
This is a great resource of information. Their motto is " More
than a library ". Get it Online Words.. Pictures and
Sound. I was captivated by some of their Photographic tours on a variety
of subjects and periods. They also have great Cybercasts to choose
from. If you have a broadband Comcast Cable or DSL, the cybercasts
are great. Show off your system by going to this site ... really great !
They have great Digitized Global Treasures i.e Selected items of
international, cultural or historic importance from the Library's
collections. This also includes international Cybercasts. This site is a
real national resource center. Check it out !
LiveScience.Com
LiveScience™.com. Newly launched, LiveScience is an original content site
focusing on the innovative and intriguing in Science and Technology. Aimed at
the intellectually curious, it covers news, views and scientific inquiry with
an original, provocative point of view. With articles by respected science
journalists and contributors, LiveScience looks at new discoveries,
intellectual adventures and the idiosyncrasies of the world that surrounds us.
This was started by Lou Dobbs. Well done check it out! Good for Kids.
Space.Com
Space.com, the award-winning web site that offers rich and compelling space,
astronomy and technology content, including information, education,
entertainment and business news. Space.com syndicates its content to leading
news outlets including CNN.com, USAToday.com, msnbc.com and Yahoo. In 2003,
Space.com's editorial excellence was recognized by the Online News Association
for its coverage of the
BLACKVOICES
Here at Blackvoices formerly Africana.com we have a simple philosophy
that gives us a complex mission. Our prime directive is to bring together
authoritative information about the whole world of
GOOGLE MEXICO
This is a portal to Google
Urban Ledgends Reference Page
Uban legends cover everything from free money from Microsoft to
Alligators in your sewer. This is a quick way to get the down and dirty
information. Senior citizens seem to be targeted for
scams. Welcome to your corner of
urban legends sanity on the World Wide Web! Named by Time magazine in
March 2002 and again in June 2003 as one of the
Gateway Tests for High School Graduation
Free Legal Help
Nolo Press has been publishing self help legal books for years. Now
they are on line with a pretty good web site. What makes it so good is the
plain practical advice it dispenses. They have grest new articles all the
time and you will find them useful. Check it out it pro bono !
Beginners Tutorial for COMPUTERS
Universities are spending a fortune trying to figure out how to put
their courses and classes online. Other web savvy entrepreneurs are just
putting the body in motion and just doing it. if you are a beginner
computer user, you should checkout BEGINNERS a British site that
offers both free and fee based instruction.
From improving the performance of your web browser to downloading hundreds
of free type fonts, This site will turn you into a computer expert in no time
at all.
Find Tutorials the E Learning
Website
This site has links to over 3600 how-to-guides. The vast majority 2400
are computer and internet related topics. Outside the technical topics
you will find you will find tips on how to shop for car insurance and a host of
other useful subjects. They are scouring the internet to find more topics
so check it out frequently. A great place to get a variety of
information .
Free On-Line Training
There are over 200 FREE on-line courses available. The courses cover all the
products Microsoft makes as well as LOTUS, COREL (Wordperfect), Contact
Management, Accounting, and Desktop Publishing. Certification in
these skills by commercial companies cost from hundreds to thousands per
course. But for you it's FREE !!! . Want to learn how
to build a web page download the manual. You will have to have a copy of
adobe acrobat reader in order to print the manuals. For old timers who like a printed
manual to study, this is above and beyond.
Tipking
The Home of helpful, time saving, and thrift tips. Tips are here on
over 700 subjects and growing all the time.
Holding fast to the traditional tips, and ideas that have been passed
down through the generations. Hopefully you will find this site as it is
intended to be. Clutter free, reasonably well organized and the minimum adverts
to keep the site up and running.
Home Repair Plus
This is one of the best of the home repair and improvement sites and offers
a mix of boilerplate tutorials and everyday practical advise from their
members. You just have to check this site as it covers everything around
the house. This site has an active member community that answers each others
questions on dozens of bulletin boards. Getting answers to home repair
questions could save you some big bucks.
Garden Web
The GardenWeb Forums comprise the largest community of gardeners on the
Internet. Covering more than 90 different plants, regions and topics, the
forums allow you to tap the collective wisdom of the thousands of other users
who visit GardenWeb each day. You can post queries on plant care, how to
deal with a landscaping problem or perhaps initiate a discussion on your
favorite subject. If you have any intrest in gardening you will flip out over
this site. You can also make friends around the world.
Repair Clinic
This no nonsense site contains fact files on many home appliances, including
descriptions of how they work and how to diagnose common problems. Their
search engine called the parts detective will help you find an appliance part
you need even if you don't know what it's called. Save a ton of money by making
simple repairs. They have pictures and help files.
JAN'S Computer Literacy 101
One of our customers Jan Smith of Crossville
Vocabulary.com
This is a great site for students that want to build their vocabulary and do
it in a fun manner. Find the meanings of words . And for those transcriptionist
who are pulling their hair out you now have access to the best Medical
and Legal dictionaries money can buy. And its free !
Fact Monster
This homepage is a homework helper godsend. This is a kid friendly
site. Need a quick profile of
Fact Monster Homework Center
This page has: homework topics/ study skills/ speaking and
listening skills. One fun part is finding out what went on in any year of
the twentieth century. Other sections allow you to find out what happened on
your birthday and what other notable people were born on the same day you
were. This is a wholesome site for kids and adults.
ABC Toon Center
This site built by cartoonist Jack Armstrong and cofounder Bonnie King
contains all kind of fun activities for young web surfers. Younger
elementary school kids will have fun with the interactive games puzzeles and
music.
About Education Homepage
This homepage is kept up to date on education. This covers the
areas of primary, secondary, college, university and adult education. This is a
super resource site . Homeschoolers Check it out.
Inner Learning/Auto/Body
Talk about a combo site . Great for everyone in the family. The INNER
AUTO site will teach you the inner workings of cars and is such a popular site
that many schools around the country are integrating it into their curricula.
They have great interactive exploding view diagrams. The INNER BODY is a
complete site that does for the human body what the auto site does for
cars. Children will love it. The best is yet to come
Librarians Index To The Internet
If you or your child needed a quick index to the internet this is
definitely the site. there are of course search engines but this site was
organized by librarians or "cybrarians" for easy of use. This web
page is so well organized that finding information on it is as easy as
asking a friendly librarian to fetch a title for you. They have tried to limit
any porn or inappropriate site as it was oriented to libraries. try it
you'll love it.
ON Line 11,000 Books
If you were stranded on a desert island but had an internet
connection you could access over 11,000 books on-line on your computer. There
are a list of banned books such as arabian nights etc. This
is a must site for home schoolers. One of the advantages of this site is
that you can do your own research on different topics. This site could be
used by blind people to download the text and have it read by a text to voice
program. Check it out.
Readplease
This is a FREE TEXT-TO-SPEECH program. You must download
it and it is nearly 7 megabytes long. Your computer must be at least a
Pentium 133 or better, with 16 Megs of Ram and at least 20 Megs of Hard
Disk free. ReadPlease 2000 shatters the myth that computers must sound robotic
and monotonous. Just imagine having web pages and e-mail read aloud to
you. If you are finding there is just too much on-screen reading with all
of this technology, then you will love using ReadPlease. This is the original
free version released June 1999. Perfect for blind people or people with
failing eyesight.
Search EDU.Com
Home schoolers this is your site. This site has online dictionaries, CIA
World Factbook, Census Data, Library of Congress, Calculators and Converters including
Currency Converters.
Federal Gateway to Educational
Materials
Teachers, parents, and students can access lessons and educational
materials on any topic on to the Department of Education's new Gateway to
Educational Materials. The Gateway makes finding materials on the
Internet easy by connecting users to over 140 web sites.
Federal Resources for Academic Excellence
Agencies from across the Federal government joined forces to provide Federal
Resources for Academic Excellence which makes hundreds of education
resources available on the web for teachers, students, or parents. Subjects
range from an architectural tour of the National Gallery of Art's
Scirus.com
This is a search engine devoted to science. Scirus is the most comprehensive
science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search
engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages,
enabling you to quickly:Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical
data on the Web and the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre
prints and journals that other search engines miss.Offer unique functionalities
designed for scientists and researchers.
Science.Gov
This is a worthless site as it doesn't do half as good a job as Acccona.com,
But your tax dollars paid for it. Check it every so often, They may make it a
useful site.
Enchanted Learning
This is a great site for small children. It covers Dinosaurs/ map of
the U.S.A quiz/ K to 3 themes/ Preschool themes/ Geography/ the Universe
-astronomy . It's a great site for rug rats and adults. Check it out.
National Gallery of Art for Kids
This site makes the national treasure accessible to kids. This site
gives a guided tour of the subject. This kind of presentation blends history
and geography into an art lesson. Other portions of the site take
visitors tours of various artist's works as well as virtual exhibits at the
gallery. You will love it and learn a lot.
Search.Gov.Com
Want to find general governmental information. This helpful
site will cut through the clutter and get you there fast. It even allows you to
search state and local governments. For our customers in
Search
Mil.Com
This is a great search engine dedicated to searching information about
military information. Try searching for HAARP. This site is devoted
solely to publicly accessible web pages inside the military
domain. Sorry Saddam!
Learn Food Safety
Learn food safety and handling tips, proper cooking temperature for
food, and how to test to see if your kitchen is safe from food borne
illness from the Department of Agriculture.
Biowarfare
Agents
Stan Deyo has a site called Noah's
CDC
Anthrax Health Report
For those worried about Anthrax, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has generated a great site for travelers. They tell you what shots
you need for traveling to destinations in other countries . They list
disease outbreaks. I would rather trust the CDC for a heads up on
diseases affecting my destination. As we are having really
turbulent weather around the globe, even so called safe destinations could
quickly deteriorate due to an earthquake, flood, tornado or
terrorist. Check here before you go.