Miscellaneous Resources

Other helpful sites

Premium Resources

Decades in America
Decade by decade reseach of the 1920s through the 2000s from Salem Press Online. Login with your River Falls library card.

Digital Science Online
From Badgerlink. Cool science stuff - science images, animations, and video for K-12 students.

Soundabuzz
From Badgerlink. A collection of royalty free music, offering a wide variety of audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 as well as universities.

Week in Rap
From Badgerlink. Hip-hop music video series highlighting top domestic, international and pop-culture news each week.

Wisconsin Media Lab
From Badgerlink. High-quality, educational videos, images, and animations covering subject areas from math to art.

Foundations in Wisconsin
Provides searchable profiles of active grantmaking foundations in the state of Wisconsin.

Websites

Ixquick
https://ixquick.com/
An anonymous web search engine. When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine alone.

Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com
Urban Legends Reference Page. Do you see postings on facebook or twitter that seem hard to believe? Do you get annoying emails from your brother-in-law on questionable political or current event topics? Use snopes.com to get the truth on those urban legends.

PolitiFact.com Truth-o-Meter
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
It is really fun to see which political ads rate as "Pants on Fire". A timely website for any election season.

Email providers

Some of the more common and/or locally used email providers

AOL - America Online Mail
Hotmail
Comcast (not free)
Gmail
SBC email (not free)
Yahoo email