Organizational methods for keeping track of web sites and information

Organizing information you find on the Web is important. The most common way to do this is by using the bookmark feature on you browser. You can also create a personal web directory or a personal navigational web page. Several organizations and individuals have developed directories of social studies and history related web sites. Some of these are listed below.

• American Government from Culver Academies
• Social Studies School Services Links
• Social Studies on the Web from Georgia State University
• Social Studies Web Resources from the Center for Technology and Teacher Education
• National Council for the Social Studies Data Bank
• History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
• ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education
• Fred Risinger's Social Studies Categories for Educator
• The Social Studies Virtual Library from the University of New Orleans
• Social Studies on the Web from Ellis Batson
• WWW.History from History Matters at George Mason University
• Dan Graf's Links for Students of History and Social Sciences

Web logs have become a popular way to organize information. Some high quality web log sites are listed below.

• Internet Scout WebLog
• Top 100 web logs from Web Logs.com

Resources for creating Web Logs

• Blogger
• Moveable Type
• Radio Userland
• Web Log Compindium's list of web log tools
  

ONLINE ACTIVITY - Look at the directory structures of the directories listed above and consider how you would construct a directory.

NEXT - Creating your own directory

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