Within each topic, hundreds of different sites are just a click away. A former library and media specialist for D-Y's Wixon Middle School for seven years, Schrock still possesses a librarian's thirst for finding sources. That thirst, combined with a fearlessness of technology, has enabled her to amass an impressive list of great Web links for educators. The site is maintained by the New York affiliate of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It provides an interactive history lesson giving information through words and pictures.
Users just click on the facade of an apartment building.
The scenes change depending on the date, telling history from the perspective of the people living in that building. It contains 40,000 cartoons featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The cartoons were donated to the FDR Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y. by a collector. They might well have grown moldy in a folder. But now they are on the Internet and organized by categories highlighting the president's numerous accomplishments.