LINKS OF INTEREST 

The following links have been recommended by various people to the OSPA Web Editor. These are presented "as is." The quality of the links will vary and, over time, some of the sites will undoubtedly disappear. (Let us know if you find a broken or objectionable link, or if you wish to recommend a new link.) Use them at your own risk and exercise judgment before following any advice that you may encounter.

Quick Index

 SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCES 

• American Psychiatric Association
  
• APA Journals
  
• APA Monitor
  
• Ask the Pharmacist
  
• Attention Deficit Disorder
  
• Canadian School Psychology
  
• Center for Effective Collaboration (functional assessment, problem behavior, etc.)
  
• Cognitive Strategies
  
• Community Psychology Network
  
• Consortium for Dispute Resolution in Special Education
  
• Down Syndrome Website for Kids
  
• Early Warning; Timely Response
  
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  
• Emotional Intelligence (at the George Lucas Educational Foundation site)
• Estate Planning for Special Kids
  
• Free downloadable scoring software. Good information on DAS (an online reference manual), LD, other assessment topics.
  
• Gifted & Talented
  
• Global School Psychology Network
  
• International School Psychology
  
• Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
  
• Journal of Psycho- educational Assessment
  
• Journal of School Psychology
  
• LD Online
  
• Low-incidence conditions, remedial strategies, pediatric neuropsychology, many links.
  
• Mental Health Directory
  
• Mental Health Resources Search
  
• Mental Retardation (AAMR)
  
• Nat'l Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards & Testing
  
• Nat'l Institute on Drug Abuse
  
• NASP
  
• NASP Listserv
  
• Neurologic Movement Disorders
  
• OSPA Forum
  
• Parenting ABCs
  
• Parenting Info
  
• Parenting Pages
  
• Parenting Q&A;
  
• Pediatric Database
  
• Prevention
  
• PITSCO links
  
• Project KNOW (National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign)
  
• Psych-Ed Solutions Network
  
• Psychology links
  
• PsychWeb
  
• School-Based Intervention Team (Syracuse)
  
• School Humor Mailing List (no subject or message needed!)
  
• School Psychology Resources Online
  
• School Psychology Website
  
• Special Ed. Resources
  
• Sp. Ed. Resources on Internet (SERI)
  
• Suicide Prevention
  
• Talking with Kids (info on tough topics)
  
• Violence Prevention
  

RELATED SITES

• All Kinds of Minds
  
• American Association of School Administrators
  
• American Family Physician
  
• American Guidance Service Inc.
  
• American Indian Suicide Prevention
  
• American Library Association Parents Page
  
• American Medical Association
  
• American Red Cross
  
• Apple's Disability Resources
  
• Autism (TEACCH)
  
• Behavioral & Brain Sciences
  
• Benton Foundation for Children's Mental Health
  
• Center for Applied Special Technology (web accessibility)
  
• Child Abuse
  
• Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
  
• Children's Defense Fund
  
• Class Links
  
• Clinical Information
  
• Council for Exceptional Children
  
• Deaf/Blind-Link
  
• Disability Resource
  
• DOE Gateway to Educational Materials
  
• Dr. Koop
  
• Dr. Weil
  
• Education Policy Analysis
  
• Education Technology
  
• Education Week
  
• Educational Psychology
  
• E-Journals
  
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
  
• Expert Consensus Treatment Guidelines
  
• Family & Youth Services Bureau
  
• Keep Schools Safe
  
• Kids Together (sp.ed. topics)
  
• Milken Educational Technology Exchange
  
• Magazine for Moms
  
• National Association for Gifted
  
• National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities
  
• National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
  
• National Education Association
  
• National Health Information Center
  
• National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities
  
• National Information Center on Deafness
  
• National Organization for Victim Assistance
  
• National Research Center on Gifted & Talented
  
• On-Line Quiz Service
  
• Outside the Box
  
• Parent's EduSource
  
• Parent - Teachers Assn.
  
• Pediatric Development and Behavior
  
• Pew Research Center for People & the Press
  
• Public Agenda
  
• Rare Diseases
  
• Recordings for Blind & Dyslexic
  
• Rehab Engineering & Assistive Technology
  
• Resources
  
• Scholastic Publishing
  
• School Page
  
• School Reform, Critical Issues
  
• Science News On-Line
  
• Special Needs Net
  
• Teacher Net (info for teachers)
  
• University of Iowa "Virtual Hospital"
  
• Yahooligans!
  

 REFERENCE 

 Academic 

• American Universities
  
• Citing WWW resources, rules for
  
• College Guides
  
• College Loans
  
• College Search Engine
  
• National Center for Educational Statistics
  
• Netiquette Core Rules
  
• Philanthropic Research
  
• Positive Message of the Day
  
• Project Gutenberg (on-line manuscripts)
  
• Study Web
  
• Translate Foreign Languages
  
• Virtual Library Education
  
• Virtual Library Educational Technology
  
• Virtual Library Subject Catalog
  

 Bookstores 

• Allyn & Bacon
  
• Amazon Books
  
• Barnes & Noble
  
• Phil's On-Line Bookstore (Great Books for Kids!)
  
• Powell's Psychology Books
  

Communication

• AOL Instant Messenger
  
• Deja.Com (chat communities)
  
• Epinions.com (reviews on almost everything)
  
• ICQ (I-Seek-You)
  
• PowWow Instant Messenging
  
• RemarQ (discussion forums)
  
• SuperFamily.com (free web space for extended families)
  
• Talk City (moderated chat, on-line focus groups & research)
  
• Topica (special interest mailing lists)
  
• XpertSite.com (experts share what they know)
  

 Financial 

• American Express Brokerage
  
• Charles Schwab
  
• Insurance Explained
  
• Internal Revenue Service
  
• MSN Money Central
  
• Quicken Financial Data
  
• TD Waterhouse
  
• TheStreet.com (30 day free trial)
  
• USAA Educational Foundation (financial info booklets)
  

 Government 

• Consumer Product Safety Commission
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  
• Free Stuff from the Federal Gov.
  
• IDEA Ideas That Work
  
• U.S. Dept. of Education
  
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services; on health for kids
  
• White House
  

 Index/Subject Guide 

• Argus Clearinghouse
  
• Britannica Interest Guide
  
• Librarian's Internet Guide
  

 Legal 

• American Civil Liberties Union
  
• Oregon Attorney General
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center
  

 News 

• ABC News
  
• CNN
  
• MSNBC
  
• Oregon News
  
• USA Today
  

 Oregon 

• Oregon Department of Education
  
• Oregon Governor
  
• Oregon Legislature
  
• Oregon Secretary of State
  
• Oregon State Wide Assessment
  
• Oregon Superintendent of Schools
  

 SEARCH ENGINES 

• 411
  
• About.com (people guide you to the information you want)
  
• All-4-One
  
• Apartments
  
• AskEric
  
• Ask Jeeves (safe searching for kids)
  
• Companies Online
  
• Cyber411
  
• Debriefing
  
• Direct Hit
  
• Dog Pile
  
• Excite
  
• Google
  
• GoTo
  
• GuruNet (download the application first)
  
• Highway 61
  
• Hot Bot
  
• InfoSpace
  
• Internet Public Library
  
• KidsClick! (safe searching)
  
• Kid's Web
  
• Learn2
  
• Library of Congress
  
• List of Links
  
• Looksmart
  
• Lycos
  
• Mama
  
• Magellan
  
• Map Quest
  
• MetaCrawler
  
• Metor
  
• MSN.com
  
• MultiCrawler
  
• NBCi.com
  
• Northern Light
  
• Open Text
  
• People Finder
  
• Planet Search
  
• Profusion
  
• PsychINFO (no fee)
  
• Psych Journal's Websites Search
  
• Public Records
  
• Rent Net
  
• SavvySearch
  
• Search
  
• Searchopolis
  
• Snap.Com
  
• Thunderstone
  
• Web Crawler
  
• What U Seek
  
• Yahoo!
  
• Yahooligans! (Yahoo made safe for kids)
  
• Yellow Pages
  
• ZIP codes & more!
  

 SHOPPING 

• Amazon (books, music, electronics, toys - growing all the time!)
  
• Auction (e-Bay)
  
• BizRate.com (customer satisfaction ratings)
  
• Buy.Com (internet superstore)
  
• Car Buying & Selling
  
• Clothing
  
• Consumer Reports
  
• Deal Time (shopping robot keep on until it finds what you want)
  
• Edmund's Auto Resources
  
• FashionMall.com (dozens of stores in one place)
  
• Free Desktop Pictures
  
• FreeShop.com (over 1,000 on-line freebies)
  
• Free Software
  
• Free Web FAXing
  
• Free Web Utilities
  
• Furniture.com
  
• Garden.com
  
• Golf
  
• Harry and David (gift baskets/perfect fruit)
  
• Hifi.com
  
• Kelly Blue Book (used car prices)
  
• Kitchenware
  
• Land's End
  
• Mercata (forms groups for volume purchase)
  
• Music
  
• My Simon (technology shop-bot)
  
• Productopia (tutorials to make you an informed buyer, plus shopping robots)
  
• Toys
  
• Wine
  
• Yahoo!'s Shopping Mall
  

 Travel 

• Airline ticket broker
  
• BizTravel Services
  
• Expedia.com
  
• Hawaiian Vacation
  
• Lonely Planet Online
  
• Snow and Avalanche Center
  
• Travelocity.com
  
• WebFlyer (every frequent flier program)
  

 JUST FOR FUN 

• Ask the Baroness (Mac Help)
  
• Bandaids & Blackboards
  
• Can Do!
  
• Car Talk (NPR's automobile talk show)
  
• Card Trick
  
• Coalition Against Spam
  
• Discovery Channel (for Kids)
  
• Disney's Blast Online
  
• Donate Your Car (for a tax break)
  
• Free Stuff
  
• Free Internet File Storage Companies: DocSpace, Driveway, FreeBack,i-Drive, X:drive
  
• Greenpeace
  
• Kidscom (safe Internet for ages 6-16)
  
• Kids' Drawings for Peace
  
• Martha Stewart
  
• Museums OnLine
  
• NOVA (PBS) OnLine
  
• Office Supplies
  
• Portland Art Museum
  
• Printsville (creative projects for printers)
  
• Puzzle Maker
  
• Seiko's "Reading Pen" (text to speech)
  
• Seussville
  
• Space Station
  
• Urban Legends
  
• Useful Site of the Day
  
• Vacation Packages
  
• Virtual Health Spa
  
• Y2K Info
  
• "Yes Man" demo
  
• 'Zine for ADD Kids
  

SEARCH ENGINE HINTS & TIPS

Most search engines have a link very near their "submit" button that will connect you with the specific rules that the search engine will follow. To be an effective searcher, you need to know the exact rules for the particular search engine you want to use. Having said that, the following information may be of some general assistance.

• If you are searching for a general topic, you may want to start with an index, such as Yahoo!, Google, or the Librarian's Internet Guide.
• Excite, HotBot, InfoSeek, and Northern Light attempt to understand your questions phrased in natural English. If you are skitterish about creating a search string, these would probably be more comfortable for you, but they may return a large number of off-subject hits.
• The "Sherlock" search assistant built-in to Macintosh's System 8.5 can accept a question phrased in standard English, will turn that question into a search string, and submit it to a series of search engines. (You can decide which ones it should use.) The results will be returned to you in a listed sorted by relevancy. Ask Jeeves and Alta Vista reportedly have similar "natural language" capabilities.
• If you have a very specific topic in mind, you might want to start with AltaVista, Lycos, or WebCrawler.
• Sometimes casting a wide net is what you need. You should then use a "metasearch" system that, like Sherlock, queries a number of search engines at once. Examples of metasearch systems include Dogpile, Highway 61, MetaCrawler, and SavvySearch.
• If you place a plus sign (+) directly in front of a word, that tells most search engines that the word MUST appear on the page. Conversely, a minus sign (-) tells most search engines that the word should NOT appear on the page. This is not absolute - think of it more as a "suggestion" to the search engine. The search engine may return a page that ignores your advice if it has another reason to provide it.
• Phrases contained within quotation marks are generally taken exactly as is. For example, "mom's apple pie recipe" is less likely to produce off-target hits than simply using those four individual words.
• Some search engines allow you to use the logical terms, "AND" and "NOT," to combine words and prhases. Usually the AND and the NOT need to be capitalized, with at least one space immediately before and after. For example, recipe AND pie AND (apple OR raspberry) NOT "macadamia nuts", should get you pie recipies that contain apples or raspberries but do not contain macadamia nuts.
• If you have at least version 4.x of Netscape's browser, you may be able to save some keystrokes simply by typing in the name of the company you seek. Instead of the whole "http://..." routine, just type in (for example) Delta Airlines, and the "Smart Browsing" feature may just be intelligent enough to send you to the correct location.
• Continuing with Netscape 4.x+ features, if you are registered as a user at "My Netscape" then you can just enter My Stocks or My Calendar in the URL field, and the system will bring up your personalized data directly. Similarly, if you type in (for example) ZIP 97210 then you will jump immediately to local news, weather, sports, etc. (Works only with major cities.)
  
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