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Grades 5-8 Searches

I would like to start a project to get girls interested in computers.
Keywords to search: Girls interested in computers, website design, web design, online collaboration, women in IT
Results:

Roz and Calypso present What?
http://www.giantcampus.com/what/
This website, created by Giant Campus, offers 8 tutorials related to website design. Users can chose from tutorials on enhancing photographs, animation, programming, graphic arts, digital images, and storyboarding. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it uses inclusive images of girls or women and links STEM to other topics of interest such as arts.......
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Wise-Women
http://www.wise-women.org/tutorials/
This section of the Wise-Women website provides technical tutorials on computer maintenance, software, and website design. Some topics include optimizing graphics for use on the Internet, using cascading style sheets, promoting your website, improving computer performance, and animation. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it targets girls or women........
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Wise-Women
http://www.wise-women.org/resources/
This section of the Wise-Women website provides recommendations and reviews of technical books and links to explore the sites archived mailing lists. The books reviewed cover topics ranging from software manuals, website design and development, programming, tutorials, and reference books. This resource is appropriate for all users, particularly for girls and women, because it targets girls or women.......
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Speak Out
http://speakout.terc.edu/index.cfm
Created by middle school girls involved in Eyes to the Future, a project housed at TERC Inc. in Cambridge, MA, this online magazine contains websites written and produced by middle school students and their mentors envisioning science and technology in high school and beyond. The program seeks to help girls understand how their science classwork relates to interesting scientific careers. High school.......
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Ergonomics
http://www.girlzone.com/html/Ergonomics.html
This section of the Girl Zone website provides a tutorial on ergonomics. After a lesson about the basic aspects of computer related ergonomics, the tutorial offers a quiz to test your knowledge. This tutorial is partof a series created by GirlZone. Girls participate in online 'techtorials' that are fun and interactive. The monthly projects will stimulate girls' interest, skills and confidence in.......
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