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Yet along with the opportunities are challenges. Danger lurks in the form of sites with misleading, incorrect or even harmful information, attempts to violate privacy by gathering personal information, and there are also predators and pornography. In addition, using general search tools returns lists of thousands of sites, most of which are off topic or inappropriate, and their sheer number can overwhelm students. Using a search engine designed specifically for education makes all the difference. For example, netTrekker d.i. contains a carefully generated taxonomy to return only resources that have been identified and reviewed by educators. There’s never a chance of encountering dangerous or inappropriate sites. The Web is a visual medium; because pictures are worth a thousand words, teachers have to be careful where to send students to find them. Searching with netTrekker d.i.’s new image database means that students will find only safe, pornography-free images.

When you search for resources online and when you send students to the Web, you want to make sure that they have a wide selection of grade level appropriate materials. The content should be relevant to the curriculum you are teaching and support your state’s academic standards. With netTrekker d.i., you can find lesson plans, learning exercises, primary source documents, and language-specific sites for ELL students and sharpen your search with an expanded set of refi nement tabs. When you find exactly the resources you need on netTrekker d.i., email those search results to students as an assignment or save them to use later.

even more, check the readability measure based on Lexile® ratings and other popular methods that netTrekker d.i. assigns to each website in it’s database. And use the dictionary/translation hot key for definitions and translation to multiple languages for any word in all of netTrekker d.i.’s 180,000 resources.