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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hello! Below is the announcement for the Spring 2012 Great Web Sites for Kids list. If your library’s website links to children’s websites or provides patrons
with lists of recommended websites for kids, this list is a great place to start your selection and review process to update your links and lists. Even though these websites are recommended by ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children, your library
should still refer to your internet policy and selection policy to make sure they are in compliance with your own policies.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">katie.anderson@state.or.us, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children’s Great Web Sites Committee is proud to announce their Spring 2012 selections which may now be found at
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://gws.ala.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://gws.ala.org/</span></a></span></u>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Great Web Sites for Kids are those considered the best web sites for children ages birth to 14, outstanding in both content and conception. As applied to web sites for
young people, “great” should be thought to include sites of especially commendable quality, sites that reflect and encourage young people’s interests in exemplary ways. Our selection criteria can be found at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesforkids/greatwebsites"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ala.org/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesforkids/greatwebsites</span></a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Spring 2012 Great Web Sites<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ABCya!
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.abcya.com"><span style="color:blue">www.abcya.com</span></a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Make learning fun with a variety of educational computer games for kids. Learn new skills and improve old ones in areas such as math, language arts, and typing.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All About Birds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org"><span style="color:blue">www.allaboutbirds.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Learn all about birds in this website created by the Cornell Lab of Orinthology. Bird names, species, location and history are all featured. Also included are bird songs
and videos. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">CIA for Kids-Games
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.cia.gov/kids-pages/games/index.html"><span style="color:blue">www.cia.gov/kids-pages/games/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Find out what the CIA is all about, play games, and solve puzzles. Resources for various audiences including parents and teachers.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Common Sense Media
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org"><span style="color:blue">www.commonsensemedia.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Common Sense Media helps parents make decisions about media and technology for their families. Information and advice is provided in a variety of formats including reviews,
videos, and even lesson plans. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Generation on Youth Advisory Council
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.generationon.org"><span style="color:blue">www.generationon.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Whether you are looking for something to do after school or to fulfill a service requirement, you'll find inspiration to change the world around you here. This interactive
website has a volunteer position search, blogs full of personal stories, and offers project tips from young people like you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Judy Schachner
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.skippyjonjones.com"><span style="color:blue">www.skippyjonjones.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Fun, festive, and full of fantastic resources, this author webpage includes interactive stories, games, print-outs, and educator resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PBS Kids Raising Readers Kids Island<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.pbskids.org/island"><span style="color:blue">www.pbskids.org/island</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Helps children develop and practice basic reading skills through online games and activities with their parent, teacher or caregiver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Poptropica
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.poptropica.com"><span style="color:blue">www.poptropica.com</span></a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Created by Jeff Kinney of "Wimpy Kid" fame, this virtual world invites young gamers to create a character and to undertake age-appropriate quests on over a dozen "islands"
based on themes from history, nature, and human culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Seymour Simon
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.seymoursimon.com"><span style="color:blue">www.seymoursimon.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Called by the New York Times "the dean of [children's science] writers," Simon offers information about himself and his books (over 250 and counting!) on his official
site, along with study guides, science news and videos, a science dictionary and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The New York Times Learning Network
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning"><span style="color:blue">www.nytimes.com/learning</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The New York Times Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on NYT content. It includes lesson plans and resources for teachers as well
as quizzes and activities for students 13 and older.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We Give Books
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.wegivebooks.org"><span style="color:blue">www.wegivebooks.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We Give Books enables children to read a book online and after doing so, a physical book will be donated to a child in need through literacy programs around the world.
Created by the Penguin Group and the Pearson Foundation, it combines the promotion of literacy, both to the child reading online and the giving of books, and the concept of giving.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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