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"The only approach that works if you're a technologist, I believe, is to immerse yourself in the technology and try out lots of new ideas, and see which ones work.Then you go commercial, and hope you hit the window. If you do, take a break, and come back. If you don't, take a break and come back."
-Dave Winer
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm
A Complete information site with links to the major encyclopedas, reference
materals, museums, sports, and research centers throughout the Internet. The
site has received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from teachers,
professors and students alike. A great starting point for learning about
the tremendous amount of material on the Internet.
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HIGHER EDUCATION
NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 23 Oct 1996 - Special issue
Subject: Information Literacy & the Net - Free Lessons
The staff development invention team of the Bellingham Public Schools
invites you to make use of two new online technology-related staff
development courses available at our Web site. While these were designed
for internal use, we encourage other districts to make reasonable use of
these lessons to support the goal of integrating thougthful use of
technologies into the regular classroom programs.
Look under "Lessons Plans and Design Tenets"
1) Information Literacy and the Net - an eight hour staff development course
designed to emphasize student investigations as a profitable means of
exploring the information available over the Internet. The course engages
participants in learning the Research Cycle, several types of literacy,
Gardner's Seven Intelligences and much more.
2) The Database as a Tool to Support Questioning and Investigations - The
database is often the least understood and least often used software tool,
probably because few people were raised using them to accomplish any serious
investigations or explorations.
Even though databases have been available in schools since the early 1980s,
they have been employed most frequently to collect information rather than
to support questioning of a higher order.
This staff development experience is more about questioning and exploration
than it is about how to put information into a database. The goal is to lead
teachers through a series of activities which will heighten their
appreciation for the light a database might shed upon a scientific or social
phenomenon, collecting data to test a hypothesis, for example.
Jamieson McKenzie, Ed.D.
Director of Libraries, Media and Technology
Bellingham Public Schools
1306 Dupont Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
jmckenzie=AT=msmail.bham.wednet.edu
http://www.bham.wednet.edu
(360) 676-6525
"The question is the answer."
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
Subject: EMAG> Stanford HealthLink
http://healthlink.stanford.edu/healthlink/
Health and medical-science oriented magazine. Research news, feature
articles, community health resources and links.
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
Youth Soccer
Welcome to the home of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) on the World Wide Web. Since its founding in 1964, AYSO has been dedicated to providing quality youth soccer programs which build positive character as set forth in AYSO's Mission Statement. Currently, over 525,000 boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 18 are actively involved in AYSO programs in over 850 local regions across the country.
The success of AYSO depends on the dedication of its volunteers. Each local AYSO region is staffed entirely by volunteers; from the Regional Commissioner and Board members to the coaches, referees and team parents. It's our hope that this site will become a valuable resource for these volunteers as well as provide others with a glimpse at our vision of youth soccer.
http://www.soccer.org/
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NBNSOFT Content Awards - 10/20/96
KEN'S NOTE: This is a must see, super site.
CELLS Alive [Netscape/Internet Explorer 2.x Recommended]
http://www.comet.chv.va.us/quill
In all of my online years, I can easily admit I've *NEVER* seen
animation quite like this before. Furthermore, there's a real
education behind each and every frame. What's it about? Your cells!
Those lil' microscopic organisms that, along with love, make the
world go 'round. Aimed for all ages, the content here is simply
amazing, with current features displaying the anatomy of a splinter,
how antibodies are made, and how the HIV virus travels through a
lymphocyte. Powered by many an animated GIF, CELLS Alive is the
type of site the Net was made and lives for!
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NBNSOFT Content Awards - 10/20/96
The Fitness Zone [Searchable Library]
http://www.fitnesszone.com/
You've been sitting in your cushy computer chair so long, staring at
this very screen, that you're starting to feel a bit more maximus of
the gluteous? Fear no more.. The Fitness Zone has arrived to propel
you into buffness! Inside you'll find full access to their national
gym locator - listing more than 13,000 gym and health club listings
across the country, hundreds of searchable articles on health and
fitness, FAQs, a chat forum, and more. Now there ARE no more excuses
to get fit!
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 21 Oct 1996 - Special issue
KEN'S NOTE: For a no nonsense, practical, bullet arranged resource
this is hard to beat. Worth a look and a good page to recommend
to those folks who want to do things right.
Subject: RESOUR> Healthy Computer Page
The "How to Maintain an Healthy Computer" site was awarded a "Cool Site
of the Hour" award. By now some of your teachers are running into
trouble or perhaps pestering you with fairly basic maintenance questions.
Feel free to print out the pages.
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/healthy/
"Maintaining a Healthy Computer" is for basic prevention of problems and
some troubleshooting, but designed to keep people from getting into worse
trouble ...
Joy Hogg, St. Ann School, Cadillac MI
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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 22 Oct 1996 - Special issue
Subject: MISC> NetSports Pro - The Ultimate Sports Connection
http://www.netcom.com/~altair2/sport/index.html
NetSports Pro is the Ultimate Sports Connection! Football, Baseball,
Basketball, Hockey, NFL,Monday Night Football, ESPNet, Sportsline, Sport
Search and more! Bookmark for all Sports!
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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 19 Oct 1996 - Special issue
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The Center for Applied Special Technology, an independent
The study followed a student research project among 500 fourth
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COMPLEMENTARITY IS KEY TO IT PRODUCTIVITY
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THE REST OF THE STORY ON COMPUTER COSTS
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Exponential X704TM Microprocessor More Than Twice the Speed of
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 21, 1996 - Exponential Technology, emerging as
With a core clock speed of 533MHz - more than twice the speed of any PC
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Five High Tech Leaders Unveil Rewritable CD Format
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COMING SOON: CDs THAT CAN READ, WRITE AND 'RASE
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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Culture in Cyberspace, 10/21/96
research organization, has released a study that says elementary
school students learn more when they have access to the Internet.
Reuters reports that net-using groups got higher scores on tests
measuring learning criteria, including topic insight and information
handling accuracy. They also did better in presenting ideas and in
understand different points of view.
and sixth grade students in six inner city school districts. Half of
the classes used traditional teaching methods, including multimedia
computer software, while the other half also used the Internet.
"This study dramatically illustrates the positive effects of online use
on learning," said the director of the Council of Great City Schools,
an association of inner city school districts that sponsored the study.
Reuters: http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/961017/tech/stories/learn_1.html
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 20 October 1996
Researchers at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and MIT have come up with a new explanation for the apparent disengagement between increased investments in computer technology and productivity gains. The key to discerning productivity increases attributable to use of information technology is "complementarity" -- a theory that postulates that productivity gains from expanded use of technology cannot occur in the absence of a number of corresponding developments, such as the introduction of more flexible workplace structures, more delegation of responsibility to lower-level workers, increased skills training for workers and managers, and the installation of new infrastructure, such as Internet connections and "smart" buildings. New research shows that when these complementary factors are taken into consideration, investments in information technology do stimulate productivity and growth. (Technology Review Oct 96 p65)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 20 October 1996
The Gartner Group recently made headlines over its estimate that the typical
networked PC costs $13,000 a year to maintain. The breakdown on that
estimate is as follows: 21%, or $2,730, is the amortized cost of the
computer hardware and software -- the estimate was based on a
Windows-equipped PC, standard office software, and the wires, hubs, routers
and servers that make up a local area network; 27%, or $3,510, is the cost
of providing technical support; 9%, or $1,170, is the cost of administering
the system; and 43%, or $5,590, is the cost of the time the user spends
"futzing" with the machine -- organizing the hard drive, installing
software, waiting for the printer, playing Solitaire, and unproductively
surfing the Net. (Forbes 21 Oct 96 p280)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
EXPONENTIAL UNVEILS WORLD'S FASTEST PC MICROPROCESSOR AT 533MHz
Competitive Solutions; Elevates PowerPCTM and MacintoshTM Systems to New
Levels of Performance
one of the industry's premier developers of high-performance
microprocessor products and technologies, today announced the world's
fastest PC microprocessor, the Exponential X704. The Exponential X704 is
designed for high-end PowerPC-compatible systems.
microprocessor solution currently available - the Exponential X704 brings
workstation-class processing power to PCs, raising the performance bar
for personal computing.
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: NEWONWEB's Latest News & Information- ScienceTechnology
http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/961022/tech/stories/cd_1.html
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 22 October 1996
Philips Electronics N.V., Hewlett-Packard and others have unveiled an
erasable CD-ROM, called CD-RW, or CD-ReWritable. Backers of the new
technology say that erasable CDs will become a flexible new storage
solution, holding 450 times more data than a typical floppy. Critics fear
that "Consumers will be confused," says an industry analyst, who points out
that CD-RWs can't be played on most of the currently installed CD-ROM
drives. CD-RW drives will appear in the first quarter of 1997, and
eventually will replace today's CD-ROM drives. HP hopes to market a
temporary solution called "MultiRead" to enable all new CD-ROM drives to
handle CD-RW discs. CD-RW technology differs from CD-Recordable (CD-R)
technology, which can be recorded on only once. If a mistake is made, the
disc is worthless. Meanwhile, the new DVD (digital video disc) drives that
will be coming out next year will be able to handle CD-RW discs.
(Investor's Business Daily 22 Oct 96 A8)
TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 22 October 1996
The number of U.S. households linked to the Internet doubled during the past
year to 14.7 million, according to Find/SVP, which conducted its most recent
survey with Jupiter Communications. And while commercial online services
provide access for 8.9 million of those households (up 28% from last year),
plain-vanilla Internet service providers are increasing their presence,
providing access to 4.4 million households (up from 1.4 million last year).
"What's really dramatic is the acceptance of the Internet from home," says
Find/SVP's VP. "Consumers are ready for information access from the
Internet." (Wall Street Journal 21 Oct 96 B11)
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