This week’s site selection is dedicated to improving search skills. Some of today’s sites feature a single daily question (or search challenge), and others offer a collection of topic-based research questions often called online scavenger hunts. Good hunting!…[Continue]
History of the World Wide Web
Although commonly used as a synonym for the Internet, the World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a hypertext media service that runs on the Internet. Separate from other Internet services such as email or FTP, the Web …[Continue]
Photo Sharing
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by a growing collection of unorganized digital photos. And, as camera resolutions improve, file sizes get bigger, and even emailing pictures to friends and family becomes nearly impossible. Each of today’s picks take a slightly …[Continue]
Free Clip Art
Although plenty of it exists, finding free clip art can be a frustrating experience because so many clip art sites simply point to other sites, which in turn send you off to yet more sites. Today’s picks, however, are guaranteed …[Continue]
Learn to Code
In celebration of Hour of Code, this week’s roundup is a collection of websites where kids of all ages can be introduced to computer programming. Hour of Code is a campaign created by Code.org to introduce 10 million students to …[Continue]
Internet Glossaries
No matter your age or your level of expertise, technology changes so fast, we all need somewhere to lookup technical jargon and obscure acronyms. Today’s picks are online dictionaries specializing in Internet and computer terms, and although they are not …[Continue]
Back-to-School Clipart
To kick off this back-to-school season, I present these free clipart sites. But first a couple of ground rules. One, please respect common clipart etiquette and do not hot link directly to these images. Instead, always download images to your …[Continue]
Cloud Storage
Want your files to be everywhere you are? Throw away your thumb drives, and think cloud storage. With so many big companies clamoring to give you free online storage, cloud storage is hot. And, as with many online tools, there …[Continue]
Cloud Music
The recent trend toward cloud music has several benefits. Putting your music in “the cloud” can ease syncing music across many devices, provide backup in case of computer disaster, offer social tools to share your musical tastes, introduce you to …[Continue]
History of the Internet
On October 29, 1969, the first transmission over the ARPANET computer network was sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Although the system crashed after sending just two letters (first “L” then “O”) this was the beginning of the …[Continue]
