Nettrekker

=Treasure Hunting with Nettrekker d.i. : a powerful search engine now has video content!= M. Saragnese

The award-winning educational search engine, **Nettrekker ([|http://www.nettrekker.com])**, brings the best of the web to K-12 students, teachers, librarians, and parents. **NetTrekker d.i**. connects you to more than 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites - organized by readability level and aligned with __your__ state educational standards, providing resources ideal for every student's learning needs with safe, reliable results. With the advanced search strategy feature, you can limit your results to different sources of information (specific subject searches, different types of search results – museums, libraries, etc. and specific forms of multimedia.)

And now, for the first time, **video content** is available as part of **Nettrekker**.

One source of video content is **//Atomic Learning.//** “AL” offers various online tutorials for various software applications. These video “clips” are designed to be short and easy-to-understand. They zero in on a specific questions or problems you need to address while using a specific computer program. A select list of these tutorials is available for FREE to Nettrekker subscribers. **//Atomic Learning//** is also a district subscription and the full range of content is available at [|http://www.atomiclearning.com.]

A second source of video content is provided by **WGBH Educational Foundation Teachers’ Domain**. **Nettrekker** subscribers now have the ability to access a digital library of nearly 1,000 multimedia selections in the sciences. **Teachers' Domain** provides access to classroom-ready video clips and interactive activities from programs such as **//NOVA//**, **//ZOOM//**, and **//A Science Odyssey//**. **Teachers' Domain** also includes multimedia resources from **NASA**, the **National Park Service**, the **Museum of Science and Industry**, the **Smithsonian Institution**, and many other reliable sources. These resources, which relate to science curriculums, have been specially adapted for use in the classroom. Teachers' Domain content was added to **NetTrekker** in early February 2007 and can be easily accessed by either entering keyword **Teachers Domain**, or by expanding the Refinement Tabs and clicking the Teachers' Domain tab, on any Search Results page.

You can also enjoy art exhibits and related activities through **NetTrekker**. Many art museums both in the United States and around the world have created websites full of images, activities and even lesson plans. These are wonderful resources across the curriculum, not just for the art teacher. Social studies lessons on China, for instance, can be enhanced by including an online visit to an art exhibit called "**China****: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795**." Language arts teachers can find plenty of images to use as writing prompts, or to give students a visual sense of the time period in which the literature they read takes place. Science teachers will find that artists have created precise and accurate illustrations of plants and animals (think of John James Audubon's bird paintings), and math teachers can use artwork for a geometry study. To find these excellent resources in NetTrekker, just select the Art section. Within this category, you will find the Art>Visual Arts>Art Museums section and the art world will be at your fingertips.

For more information regarding Nettrekker, please see the following article in the //__T.H.E. Journal__// http://www.thejournal.com/articles/19782 or visit the Nettrekker website at: [|http://www.nettrekker.com].