Enchanting e-tours

www.enchantedlearning.com

An enchanting site for children! This site contains a variety of subjects like nursery rhymes, crafts, animals and scientific inventions and discoveries. The main page features current topics of general interest like the U.S. elections. Children have a chance to write a poem or crack a joke too!

Of great value is The Little Explorer, a pictorial dictionary with links to more than 1,000 educational websites. As many as 1,758 entries are illustrated. When you delve into "danger" after clicking "d", for example, a "Watchout" site opens which gives you safety tips regarding various activities. It also educates them on first aid and emergency situations.

www.zoomdinosaurs.com

A "hypertext book" offers what is suitable and digestible in a user-friendly format. The site offers basic information, FAQs, pictures, and an encyclopaedia on dinosaurs. It is interactive and teachers can bookmark the page and use it in the library for the benefit of students. It has also got printout sections. "What was the length of the longest dinosaurs? Which animal is bigger than a dinosaur? Could dinosaurs fly?" These are fill-in-the blanks for grade 2-3 given in the printout section. And for answers, you have to log onto the site. Apart from classroom activities, one can play dino games.

http://spaceflightnow.com

"Stars, like babies, make quite a fuss during their first few days after birth." With such teasing information, this site takes you on a flight into space. Learn more about the latest Chandra X-ray Observatory's discovery on protostars - stars in their youngest stage.

Here is a great opportunity to know what the International Space Station crew is doing right now, whether the latest of rockets have lifted off from space centres, and when the Cassini probe will pass by the Jovian atmosphere link onto the site.

The news is condensed into a capsule and sent as daily e-mail and listed computer-users have to simply log into desk-top e-mail to learn about the happenings and select stories for viewing on the Internet.

www.healthline.com

This is a popular magazine in the U.S. The electronic version is user-friendly. For each subject, it has got a medical specialist writing and answering the queries. There is also a general "Ask the Doctor" facility.

The healthline "headlines" are crisp and generate reader interest. They are both general and specific, with findings of latest research in medicine and health. The archives of headlines lead you to back issues of the magazine wherein the relevant articles are featured.

www.chennaionline.com/

cityscape:

A city is like an awkward adolescent stretching into adulthood. The anatomy is ever in a state of growth. What one needs is a map that keeps pace with the anatomical growth of a city. This site seems to address that need. The clickable map gives a view not only of the important areas of Chennai, but also zooms in on not- so-well-known streets. The map, powered by Spotomac, provides information on areas, streets, roads and landmarks entered in the query box. There is an alternative clickable map in Tamil, too. Also available are links to amusement parks, places of worship, places of interest, movie houses, shops, star hotels, restaurants, blood banks, police, press, train and air timings, hospitals, engagements and much more. If you have any grievance with regard to civic amenities you would do well to fill out the online grievance form. In "Your Voice in Chenaionline" facility you can say what you like or dislike about the city. Your views would be promptly posted.

(Compiled by K. Kirubanidhi and Prince Fredrick)

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