NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 29 Jun 1999 - Special issue (#1999-465)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. RESOUR> RUSSIA: Art Galleries & Museums
2. RESOUR> ABC Country Book of Russia
3. RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Retirement Planning
4. MISC> An updated list of my articles on the net
5. K12> T2T> Water Sites - Tennessee Virtual Watershed
6. RESOUR> Yahoo to Geocities users: your website is my website
7. K12> Liddy Dole: Put a lid on Libraries
8. MISC>< Paytrust Launches on the Web to Take the Chore Out of Monthly Bills
9. K12> Enter Educational Drawing to win teaching module - Understanding
Environmental Health Risks
10. K12> K-2 Math Sites
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:05:45 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> RUSSIA: Art Galleries & Museums
From: nikst [mailto:ni...@glasnet.ru]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 11:52 PM
RUSSIA: Art Galleries & Museums
http://dove.net.au/~rabogna/russian/rus01.htm#Section 1B
1.Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art, Moscow
2.Art Gallery of Novosibirsk
English and Russian (Cyrillic WIN).
3.The Art Museum of Nizhny Novgorod
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI, WIN, DOS and ISO).
4.The Art Museum of V.P. Sukachov, Irkutsk
Russian only (Cyrillic KOI and WIN).
5.Dyatkovo Art Glass Museum, Bryansk
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI and WIN).
6.The Fleischer Museum of American and Russian Impressionism, Scottsdale
Arizona
7.The Kaluga Gallery
8.The Manezh, St. Petersburg
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI and WIN).
9.Moscow Museum and Art Gallery of Russian Impressionism
10.Moscow State Museum "Vadim Sidur"
Russian only (Cyrillic WIN).
11.Museums of Russia
English and Russian (Latin and Cyrillic KOI, DOS, ISO and MAC).
12.Outsider Art Museum, Moscow
English and Russian (Cyrillic WIN).
13.The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Russian only (Cyrillic WIN).
14.Russian Photographic Museum
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI, WIN and DOS).
15.The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI, DOS, ISO and MAC).
16.The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1.Art Library
English and Russian (Cyrillic).
2.ArtsStudio Conservation Department
3.Centre for Practice and Research in Museum Education
English and Russian (Cyrillic KOI and WIN).
17.The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Russian only (Cyrillic WIN).
18.Victor Samsonov's Private Museum of Russian Art
19.Wachtanoff Doll Gallery, Moscow
English and Russian (Cyrillic WIN).
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:05:51 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> ABC Country Book of Russia
From: nikst [mailto:ni...@orc.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:26 AM
ABC Country Book of Russia
(The country guide)
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/russia_geography.html
. Index
. Flag
. Geography
. People
. Government
. Economy
. Transportation
. Communications
. Defense
. Feedback
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:05:56 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Retirement Planning
From: rob...@insync.net [mailto:rob...@insync.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:52 AM
To: websit...@egroups.com
Subject: [WebSiteDaily] Retirement Planning
Retirement Planning
http://www.CalBrown.com/
Certified Financial Planner, Cal Brown helps widows, retirees, business
owners and professionals develop strategies for estate and retirement
planning, education funding, investments and risk management.
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:06:02 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> An updated list of my articles on the net
From: Amnon Till [mailto:amn...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:50 AM
Here is an updated list of my articles on the net:
Articles published in the Well Connected Educator
http://www.techlearning.com/content/reviews/articles/features.html#Amnon
1. Till A. Sites on Technology, Education & the Future
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/amnon.htm
2. Till A. Education in Israel Online
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/amnon2.htm
3. Till A. Teaching & learning about the holocaust
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/amnon3.htm
Articles published in the site of Tel-Hi Networks LTD site
http://www.telhi.co.il/cgi-bin/websearch/websearch.pl?category=Internet
4. Till A. Interesting people on the net
URL: http://www.telhi.co.il/english/intpeople.htm
5. Till A. Non Educational Sources which include valuable educational
material
URL: http://www.telhi.co.il/english/ematerial.html
6. Till A. Telecollaborative educational projects on the Net
URL: http://www.telhi.co.il/english/telecollab.html
7. Till A. Other educational projects
URL: http://www.telhi.co.il/english/telecollab.html
8. Till A, Important people outside the Net
URL: http://www.telhi.co.il/english/impeople.html
Hebrew & English sites on Human Rights
9. URL: http://62.0.12.19/~mtal
Please visit the topic u'r interested in & resopnd. I would like to
hear your comments.
Bye
Amnon
amn...@hotmail.com
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:06:08 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> T2T> Water Sites - Tennessee Virtual Watershed
From: owne...@teachnet.com [mailto:owne...@teachnet.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Merrick
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 6:59 AM
To: t...@teachnet.com
Subject: T2T> Water Sites
Natalie, go to the Tennessee Virtual Watershed's "webliographer" at
http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/vw/links and have a field day! We've been
putting these resources together for 5 years now, and our workshop the
last week in July will move the program further along by giving 16
Tennessee teachers the intensive training necessary to go out and train
more teachers how to instruct their children in water quality awareness
and water science.
Enjoy!
Scott Merrick
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:32:26 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Yahoo to Geocities users: your website is my website
From: owner-...@ready.cpb.org [mailto:owner-...@ready.cpb.org] On
Behalf Of Andy Carvin
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:16 AM
To: wwwedu discussion
Subject: Yahoo to Geocities users: your website is my website (fwd)
Reposted with permission from Wired News.. -ac
Copyright 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
Yahoo: Your House Is My House
by Declan McCullagh
3:00Êa.m.ÊÊ29.Jun.99.PDT
If you're a GeoCities homesteader, be warned: Your Web site is no
longer your own.
Yahoo, which launched its Yahoo-GeoCities site Monday, says it
owns all Web pages, articles, and images on member sites and has
"irrevocable" rights to them for all time.
This presents a problem for those GeoCities members who have
painstakingly assembled large sites with dozens, even hundreds, of
pages of valuable material.
"Somebody please tell me that this does not mean that Yahoo is
demanding the rights to a large portion of my professional writing
and photography if I use my Web site there," complained Tracy
Marks, who estimates that she has 600 Web pages and 23 MB of
files on GeoCities.
To create or update GeoCities pages, members must agree to a
contract that gives Yahoo broad rights over their intellectual
property.
Under its terms of service, publishers must give Yahoo a
"royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully
sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt,
publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform
and display such Content" in any form or media.
Yahoo defends the terms in the contract, saying it's trying to
prevent itself from being sued over copyright infringements and
wants the ability to promote its service.
Consumer advocates say Yahoo has gone too far.
"It's a bad idea. People don't read the fine print on these contracts.
People will give up intellectual property to Yahoo without
understanding what they're getting into," said Jamie Love of the
Ralph Nader-affiliated Consumer Project on Technology.
"People have made investments by promoting their site and people
start to link to them. They're changing the rules in midstream,"
Love said.
Legal experts say that it's likely Yahoo will change its mind.
"I bet that once it comes to light, they'll modify it. They can't get
away with it. They'd have people leaving in droves," said David
Post, a law professor at George Mason University who teaches
intellectual property law.
"My prediction is that Yahoo will say, 'That's not what we intended.
We don't really want to do all these things with their content. We
had it as an insurance policy,'" Post said.
Some scholarly journals have standardized similar contracts that
are even more restrictive: They require authors to give up all rights
to the publication. But as authors began to want to post their
writings on their Web sites, journals have started to become more
flexible.
Yahoo will let users keep their existing GeoCities pages under the
old contract, but customers cannot modify their site until they agree
to the revised terms of service.
Some other Web page-hosting services have similar contracts.
Tripod, which is owned by the parent company of Wired News,
requires its users to grant it "a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable,
nonexclusive, worldwide, unrestricted license to use, copy, modify,
transmit, distribute, and publicly perform or display the submitted
Member Web Page."
Copyright 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
Andy Carvin
WWWEDU Coordinator and Moderator
an...@gsn.org
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:32:33 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Liddy Dole: Put a lid on Libraries
From: owner-...@ready.cpb.org [mailto:owner-...@ready.cpb.org] On
Behalf Of Andy Carvin
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 7:58 AM
To: wwwedu discussion; LM-NET List
Subject: Liddy Dole: Put a lid on Libraries (fwd)
Reposted with permission from Wired News... -ac
Copyright © 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
Liddy: Put a Lid on Libraries
by Declan McCullagh
4:30Êp.m.ÊÊ28.Jun.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential hopeful Elizabeth Dole on
Monday called for restrictions on what Web sites adults may visit
in public libraries.
"Federal tax dollars should never be used to poison our children
or provide free pornography for adults," Dole said during a visit
to a library in Bellevue, Washington.
In a move designed to appeal to conservative Republicans, the
former cabinet secretary asked Congress to deny federal funds
to public libraries unless they restrict Internet access for all their
patrons.
The House this month added a filtering requirement to the
Juvenile Justice Reform bill. It requires schools and libraries to
restrict access to child pornography, obscenity, and material that
could be deemed "harmful to minors."
But trying to identify Web sites as art or smut is a tricky task and
the software used by libraries has been fraught with problems.
A Virginia federal court ruled last year that X-Stop -- a program
touted by antiporn groups as the most precise available --
restricted nonpornographic sites, such as the Safer Sex Page. In
that case, brought against Loudoun County in Virginia, the court
ruled the software violated the First Amendment and had no
place in a public library.
Civil libertarians were quick to respond to Dole's remarks.
"It's sad that presidential candidates feel the need to demagogue
this issue," said Robert Corn-Revere, a lawyer in the Washington
office of Hogan and Hartson.
"I think the solution that ultimately was adopted in Loudoun
County is a reasonable solution. Filtering is optional and the
default position for parents is to choose for their kids," said
Corn-Revere, who sued the county on behalf of local residents.
Antiporn groups said it's about time presidential candidates spoke
out against sexually explicit material online.
"Regulation of the corrupting portion of the Web is going to be a
constant factor until the porn syndicates and children's access to
them is cleaned up," said Bruce Taylor, founder of the National
Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax, Virginia.
In part because of the Columbine shootings, the issue has
become more prominent, Taylor said. "Internet porn has risen to
that level. It's a staple issue of the Washington scene right now."
The current proposal approved by the House on 17 June, and a
companion plan championed by another presidential contender,
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), would restrict federal "e-rate"
money used to wire schools and libraries.
The Senate Commerce committee, which McCain chairs, on 23
June approved his Children's Internet Protection Act. It requires
that libraries and schools receiving federal e-rate money attempt
to block words and pictures that might be "harmful to minors."
Dole would expand that restriction to include eight other federal
programs, including the NTIA Information Infrastructure grants
and the Postsecondary Educational Improvement Fund.
"To protect our families and to protect the taxpayers, we
shouldn't let pornography gain access to federally funded
libraries through an electronic back door," Dole said in a letter to
House and Senate leaders sent Monday.
Copyright © 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
Andy Carvin
WWWEDU Coordinator and Moderator
an...@gsn.org
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:45:56 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC>< Paytrust Launches on the Web to Take the Chore Out of Monthly
Bills
From: Sean Brier [mailto:ne...@connors.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 9:58 AM
Paytrust Launches on the Web to Take the Chore Out of Monthly Bills
Works with Any Biller, Any Bank to Offer Consumers Seamless, One-Stop Bill
Delivery and Payment Online
Princeton, N.J., June 29, 1999 -- A new era of e-convenience begins today
with the nationwide launch of Paytrust(tm) a Web-based service providing
consumers with complete one-stop bill delivery, payment and management.
Harnessing the power and efficiency of the Web, Paytrust
(http://www.paytrust.com) delivers 100 percent of consumers’ bills to a
single, secure Web site and directs payments from users’ pre-existing
checking accounts. Leveraging proprietary, patent-pending technology, as
well as the ability to work with any biller and any bank, Paytrust delivers
on the promise of consumer-focused electronic bill presentment and payment
(EBPP). As an added incentive to try the service, consumers who visit the
Paytrust site beginning today can enroll for a FREE three-month trial
period. Following the trial, subscribers simply pay a low monthly fee of
just $7.95.
About Paytrust
Paytrust is the flagship product of Secure Commerce Services Inc., a
privately held company based in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in October
1998, the company is financially backed by AT&T Ventures and Spectrum
Equity. More information on the company can be found on its Web site
located at http://www.paytrust.com or by calling 1-877-PAYTRUST.
Contact:
Sean Brier Lina Page
Connors Communications Secure Commerce Services
212-807-7500 609-720-1818
se...@connors.com lp...@paytrust.com
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:46:04 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Enter Educational Drawing to win teaching module - Understanding
Environmental Health Risks
From: in...@science-education.org [mailto:in...@science-education.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 10:04 AM
The Science Center: Your Gateway to Educational Resources on the Internet
http://science-education.org/
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The Science Center is pleased to offer educators the opportunity to win
a teaching module, \"Understanding Environmental Health Risks\", created
by the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP). This
module gives students the opportunity to explore basic concepts
associated with environmental health risks. Students are encouraged to
look at the risks and benefits to individuals and communities of a
variety of environmental topics such as drinking water safety,
toxicology, and pesticide use.
The Science Center is giving away one module each month for the next
five months. Winners will be notified via e-mail on the first of each
month beginning July 1, and their names will be posted on the Science
Center\'s homepage (http://science-education.org/). To enter the drawing,
just go the following page,
http://science-education.org/classparticipation/questionnaire.html, and
fill out the form and you will be automatically entered.
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:06:55 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> K-2 Math Sites
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_...@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Jayne E. Moore
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 8:19 AM
To: LM_...@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Hit: K-2 Math Sites
Thanks to all who responded with suggestions for k-2 math sites. I have
listed, first, the math sites that I had gathered and then the ones
suggested by LM_Netters. Jayne
Jayne E. Moore, Specialist Phone:(410) 767-0442
School Library Media Services Fax: (410) 333-2128
Division of Instruction & Staff Development E-mail:jmo...@umd5.umd.edu
Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
MATHEMATICS SITES ON THE INTERNET
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/index.html
Mathematics Lesson Plans from AskEric.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Math.ht
ml
Awesome Library math lesson plans.
http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/centers/education/LibraryWeb/elem/EMath.html
Baltimore County Public School's Librarian's Information Network for
Essential Curriculum, elementary mathematics links.
http://project2061.aaas.org/tools/benchol/bolframe.html
Benchmarks for Science Literacy, a companion publication to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) project "Science for
All Americans," describes "what all students should know and be able to do
in science, mathematics, and technology by the time they graduate from
high school."
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is a library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/math.html
Math resources from the Busy Teachers' Website K-12.
http://www.mailbag.com/users/eaglesch/Math.htm
Eagle School of Madison, Wisconsin's Internet Resources on Math.
http://www.ericse.org/mathindex.html
The ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental
Education, Mathematics Education Resources, includes lesson plans and math
links.
http://www.gsn.org/wce/archives/arunmath.htm
Mathematics Web Sites from Global Schoolhouse.
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/math.html
Kathy Schrock's list of mathematics links.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/teachers/elem/
Math Forum from Swarthmore University
Elementary School Teachers' Place.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math/index.html
PBS Teacher Source - Mathline
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/
Mathmagic is a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas
by Alan A. Hodson. It provides strong motivation for students to use
computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies and
communications skills. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four
categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to
pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog.
http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/
Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE).
http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Mathematics
Math lesson plans from Teachers Net.
(These are the ones people sent me from LM_Net - Thank you very much!)
http://www.aplusmath.com/
A+ Math - Flashcards on fractions, multiplication, money, addition,
subtraction, geometric shapes, games, homework helper and problems.
http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/curric/elemmath/link.htm
Elementary Mathematics from Washington County (MD) Public Schools with
Internet Connections for Grades 1-5 and Mathematics Framework.
http://www.warner.clara.net/mathemat.htm
Mark Warner's Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers - Ideas for math
activities to use with children ages 5-11
http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/index.html
Math Central - Fun activities for grades K-6 from Houghton Mifflin.
http://www.edu4kids.com/math/
Math Flash Cards for Kids - Online flash cards for basic math.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/math.forum/arithmetic.html
Math Forum's Arithmetic Lesson Plans
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/elempow/
Math Forum's Elementary Problem of the Week
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~mathed/cmesg-gcedm/CanadaMathEd.html#sites
Mathematics Education in Canada - List of math-related websites
http://www.bhs.edu/wmc/smf/shirlhome.html
Shirley's Math Page - An overview of the math skills shared in a sixth
grade classroom with related Internet resources.
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/index.shtml
SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator - Create math drill worksheets.
June 29, 1999
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