




THE
BASIC WWW / MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE CENTER
SEARCH ENGINES & WEB RESEARCH GUIDES
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AltaVista
Query - One of the top three search engines! 
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HotBot - Multi-Search
Engine - One of the top three search engines. 
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Yahoo Search
- The most popular directory! 
Note simple, advanced and refined search options plus excellent tips
and help.
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Columbia
University Libraries: MAJOR ONLINE TEXT COLLECTIONS - by language.

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US
STATE DEPARTMENT FY 1998 Country Commercial Guides

Country Commercial Guides (CCG's) are prepared annually by U.S.
embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies. These
reports present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments,
using economic, political and market analysis. Be prepared if you try
to print; these reports run about 80 pages for each country!
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Déja
News - Usenet Search Service 
The original and foremost service for Internet Discussion Groups.
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MIT's Usenet Address Database
(4 million+)
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Editor
& Publisher's Database Directory of the World's Online Newspapers

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eDirectory (Search Engines / Flag
/ Info / Map for 40+ countries)
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MAPQUEST
- Interactive World Atlas / TripQuest / TravelPlans USA
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Canadian Education Web Search
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Education World
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Excite - Search
Engine and Directory
See also "Global Excite" search for Australia, France,Germany, Japan,
Netherlands, Sweden, and U.K.
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Infoseek
Guide
Search Engine and Directory - good search tips.
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Infoseek Ultra - Search the Web,
News, Companies, Usenet
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WorldWide
Infoseek
Infoseek International Search. Choose from: Brasil, Danmark, Deutschland,
en español, France, Italia, Japan, Nederland, Sverige, United Kingdom.
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Lycos Search
Engine
and "Your Personal Internet Guide."
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Magellan:
Internet Directory 
with highly regarded Web Reviews.
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MetaCrawler - Meta-search
engine

MetaCrawler sends your queries to several Web search engines, including
Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, and Yahoo. MetaCrawler
queries the other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform
format, ranks them by relevance, and returns them to the user...MetaCrawler
is slightly slower than other engines, but is more likely to obtain accurate
results for your query.
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OpenText Index Web Search Engine

with Simple Search, Power Search (for more boolean search options),
Current Events, Newsgroups, ...Other Languages ---and good search tips
and help.
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SavySearch

Nice "keyword query" search engine from Colorado State. Note choice
of categories for defining the search and links for multilingual search
options.
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WebCrawler
- Search Engine + Directory
yellow pages, newsgroups, people finder, maps, horoscopes, classifieds,
stock quotes, weather, your own personalized WebCrawler Channel (+
Global Excite for International Searches).
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GOTO.Com (the former WWW Worm)
Search Engine and Directory.
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Yellow Web for Europe (Search Engine +
Directory)

The European Web source. Choose your language: Deutsch, English,
Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Russian (Winl251).
Simple and Advanced Searches.
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CJFA - A Virtual Art
Museum (UNC mirror)

Click on Search CGFA to search this site in which Carol Jackson
has scanned and made available over 4500 separate scans of the world's
finest paintings. Her collection may be searched by an Alphabetical Index,
by a Nationality/Time Index and by Featured Artists. This is a definitive
artistic resource.
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Columbia University's
WEBSEEK

A Content-Based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the
Web.
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Don't forget to check out the UR
Library Search Resources
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Research-It! - Your one-stop
reference desk
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World Wide
Web Research Tools (Robert Harris - SCC)

Helpful list of WWW Search Tools, clearly categorized and described.
EMAIL RESEARCH GUIDES & SEARCH ENGINES:
For language-specific search tools click on the specific MMLL language
buttons at the bottom of this page. For additional data bases and language-related
resource collections, see the Language
Research Guides and Tools section of the MMLL Language and Technology Center.
GERMAN SEARCH ENGINES:
RUSSIAN SEARCH ENGINES:
WEB RESEARCH GUIDES and GUIDELINES:
MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING / WEB PAGE CREATION TOOLS:
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Multimedia
Materials Development for International Communication

(CAP529, FRE529, ICC529, SPA529 - a SUNY Cortland 500 level course
for undergraduate and graduate language students) - This definitive "Introduction
to Multimedia Authoring" course pilot is another super contribution to
the profession by the FLTEACH moderators Jean LeLoup and Bob Ponterio,
SUNY Cortand, fall, 1997. Note these helpful handouts for hands-on experiences:
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A Communications
Technology Module for the FL Methods Course - Jean LeLoup,

designed to facilitate the integration of technology education in
the Foreign Language Methods curriculum ...(and) supported by a
grant from the State University of New York Office of Educational Technology.
The four objectives of this FL Methods language and technology instructional
module are built into these four units: Getting
acquainted with the tools, Learning
the basics, Targeting
pedagogy, and Designing
lesson plans (still under construction).
Basic training is provided in the use and instructional implementation
of:
This exemplary site underscores the pedagogical functions of communications
technologies in the FL classroom; and offers assistance in the creation
of sample lesson plans integrating FL communications technologies in the
FL curricula.
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UR Web Information,
Guides, Tutorials
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Web-Based Activities
for Foreign Languages

Patricia Pecoy's Tutorial with examples (Furman University)
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Integrating
Technology into Foreign Language Education.

This excellent summer '97 course offered by Patricia Pecoy (Furman
University) contains a goldmine of Web page creation resources, tools and
tutorials, for example:
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GRAPHICS / ANIMATED GIFS / IMAGE LIBRARY:
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ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
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Publisher's Permissions
for digitizing their materials. An excellent compilation of information
from the manual Curtis L. Broderick (College of the Holy Cross) created
for the FLEATIII conference, August 1997. Don't digitize publisher's audio
cassettes until you read this!
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Intellectual
Property and the Arts:Copyright information and a Sampling of Internet
Intellectual Property Rights Resources.
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NETLAW,
the first transatlantic legal web-based service.
GENERAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES






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