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NetTrekker
 

 

netTrekker is a search engine designed for use in schools.  Over 180,000 online resources which are reviewed and selected by educators are available to students. Students can access this resource from home or school but are required to login.  Student login information can be obtained from the school library media center.

NetTrekker has many features not available to commonly used search engines.  The keyword or phrase search will give you relevant and manageable results from its educator-selected sites. There are grade level tabs that will let you explore online resources by grade level: Elementary, Middle, or High School.  A readability support function lets you filter content so it is appropriate to a students reading level. Additional audio text-to speech support is available reads back text in the web site.  Finally there is a dictionary / translation hot key that gets definitions and/or translations for any word on a website.


 

 
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