NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 5 Apr 1999 - Special issue (#1999-287)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. K12> Math Awareness Month at Math Goodies
2. MISC> [DUC] INFO - Databots
3. RESOUR> [DUC] INFO - Prospect research
4. RESOUR> [DUC] INFO - Europe searches
5. RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Y2K Directory
6. MISC> Consortium of Vermont Colleges
7. RESOUR> Serbia, and the Kosovo crisis
8. K12> T2T> Re: Periodic tables
9. K12> T2T> Re:More Periodic tables
10. K12> [edresource] To teach about the conflict in Europe
11. K12> LOGAL.net - Web-based Science Simulations
12. RESOUR> Time Capsule Web Site
13. K12> This week in TAPPED IN
14. MISC> Java Class Explorer
15. MISC> Newspaper article on Sand Sculptures on the Net (4/2/99)
16. MISC> FREE online access to a different journal every week!
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:54:39 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Math Awareness Month at Math Goodies
From: Gisele Glosser [mailto:in...@mathgoodies.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 9:38 PM
April is Math Awareness Month! The theme this year is Mathematics and
Biology. In honor of Math Awareness Month, please post your lesson
ideas for studies involving Math and Biology at our Interdisciplinary
Projects Message Board. The board can be accessed from the following
page:
http://www.mathgoodies.com/connections/
Come join us!
Gisele Glosser
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:00:30 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [DUC] INFO - Databots
From: Curt Davis [mailto:cda...@syspac.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 11:00 PM
To: d...@egroups.com
Subject: [DUC] INFO - Databots
Databots - the Bot of the week are very interesting search
mechanisms... a New Form of Synthetic Life that gets smarter as
it digs. DataBots can act alone or in concert and observe,
generalize, and manipulate an influx of information using their own
independent judgments in browsing databases, choose their own
perspective, and build compound cascade structures capable of
autonomous discovery. Find out more about DataBots here:
http://www.imagination-engines.com/databots.htm
Check out all of the Bots at BotSpot:
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Don't forget to visit:
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace
http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:00:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [DUC] INFO - Prospect research
From: Curt Davis [mailto:cda...@syspac.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 11:01 PM
To: d...@egroups.com
Subject: [DUC] INFO - Prospect research
The University of Virginia Prospect Research Office has produced
a great comprehensive list of useful Internet sites that Include links
to biographical resources, corporate sites, Internet directories,
foundations, grants, and suggestions for conducting international
research and finding assets on the web.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dev-pros/Webresources.html
Don't miss the list of property assessors online - where all of the
assessment offices linked allow you to search by owner name or
address and give you in return the most recent assessed value of
property.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dev-pros/Realestate.html
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Don't forget to visit:
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace
http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:00:40 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [DUC] INFO - Europe searches
From: Curt Davis [mailto:cda...@syspac.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 11:03 PM
To: d...@egroups.com
Subject: [DUC] INFO - Europe searches
The next time you need to find something... in Europe - give
EuroFerret a try. The EuroFerret is a unique index of European
Web sites, allowing you to find web pages with all the simplicity
and power of Muscat technology. Work on the Ferret
commenced in 1996 and it now indexes over 30 million
documents, running on a pair of Sun Sparc Ultra 1 machines.
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Don't forget to visit:
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace
http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:55:10 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Y2K Directory
From: Robert W. Neill, Jr. [mailto:r...@rwneill.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 9:58 PM
To: WEBSIT...@egroups.com
Subject: [WebSiteDaily] Y2K Directory
Y2K Directory
http://www.yelm.com/y2k.html
Directory of Y2K sites around the country.
Frequently updated.
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WebSiteDaily is one of the Internet's leading sources of
new web sites, resources, and events. To subscribe, send
an email to WebSiteDail...@egroups.com or visit
our web site at http://rwneill.com Visit our list archives at
http://www.eGroups.com/list/websitedaily to find hundreds
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for quick search results of all major search engines.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:57:41 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Consortium of Vermont Colleges
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 8:14 AM
From: ma...@cki.com
http://www.vtcolleges.org/consortium/welcome.htm
Through this web site interested parties may access information about
24 colleges and universities, view information about VT, and
electronically forward reply cards.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:49:16 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Serbia, and the Kosovo crisis
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:23 AM
From: mon...@wanadoo.fr
http://www.transglobalenterprises.com/serbia.htm
This page provides complete details about Serbia. It covers it's
geography, History, economy, communications, Miltary, political, and
similar information.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:00:52 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> T2T> Re: Periodic tables
From: owne...@teachnet.com [mailto:owne...@teachnet.com] On Behalf
Of DThom...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:26 AM
To: t...@teachnet.com
Subject: T2T> Re: Periodic tables
These are all very interesting sites:
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/
Chemicool Periodic Table
http://www.chem4kids.com/elements/index.html
Kapili.com:Research:Chem4Kids:Elements
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
Another interesting site is found at
http://www.science-education.org/studentsandteachers/bbc8.html
Have Fun!
DJ Thomas
Florida
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:00:53 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> T2T> Re:More Periodic tables
From: owne...@teachnet.com [mailto:owne...@teachnet.com] On Behalf
Of Doc. R.
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:41 AM
To: t...@teachnet.com
Subject: T2T> Re: Periodic tables
There are several periodic tables and lots of other teacher related
items
and 4resources ( for all subjects) at
http://www.theschoolpage.com
When you get to the main page, follow the listed links. Hope this
helps.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:14:28 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> [edresource] To teach about the conflict in Europe
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
[mailto:trip...@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:13 AM
To: Education Resource Listservs
Subject: [edresource] To teach about the conflict in Europe
Dear EdResource buddies,
Replies to: watts rozell at <wa...@athens.net>
I have noticed that your posts on the gld list are helpful and many.
So I am writing you for your suggestions and help. I am working with a
group of folks who are asking the question, how are schools using
online
resources to teach about the conflict in Europe? We have a very young
web site established at
http://asweb.unco.edu/kosovoconnecti/Default.htm
to gather and share information.
Any suggestions or actions on your part in promoting this would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your attention,
Warm regards
Watts Rozell
130 Arbor View Drive
Athens, Georgia 30605
http://ruralministry.com
http://asweb.unco.edu/nai/nai.htm
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Kind Regards
Arun
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:33:28 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> LOGAL.net - Web-based Science Simulations
From: richard hoy @ the tenagra corp. [mailto:ric...@tenagra.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:30 AM
LOGAL.net is a new Web site to support high school science education.
The Web site lets students use a Web-based simulation library of 670
activities in 38 project titles in the areas of biology, chemistry,
physics, and math.
The site also offers detailed correlations of its activities to
published state curricula, geared to standardized tests, which are now
becoming mandatory throughout the United States. Correlations for
Logal activities are also available for the popular science and math
textbooks now on the
market, so that an educator knows exactly what page of the textbook
will coordinate with an activity.
LOGAL.net has been beta tested in 200 schools the country with great
success.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:18:48 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Time Capsule Web Site
From: Best-Web-Sites Announcement List [mailto:BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR]
On
Behalf Of Erica Raspberry
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 3:59 AM
To: BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR
Subject: FW: Time Capsule Web Site
Check out this cool Web site: Plug in any date from 1900 through 1997
and it
will give you American news headlines, a listing of various commodity
prices
on that date like the price of gasoline or the average cost of a
house...and
more!
Time Capsule Website
http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process
erica
Jerome, Arizona
mailto:rasp...@sedona.net
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing happened.
-Winston Churchill
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:56:05 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> This week in TAPPED IN
From: owner-...@ready.cpb.org [mailto:owner-...@ready.cpb.org]
On
Behalf Of Hulda Nystrom
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:25 AM
To: www...@ready.cpb.org
Subject: This week in TAPPED IN
This week in TAPPED IN's After School Online series
http://www.tappedin.org
* Using a Classroom Web Site: Billboard vs. Activity Center
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Tuesday, April 6 * 4-5 p.m. PDT/7-8 p.m. EDT/11 p.m. GMT
John McCarthy (JohnMc) is an English Teacher who uses his own
classroom
Web site to enhance student learning. Among the resources on his site
is
his "My Inspiration Project"
(http://www.edsoasis.org/Spotlight/Cameos/McCarthy.html), a Spring
1998
ED's Oasis MasterSearch winner. Join him to learn how he uses his
site.
John teaches at Clarkston High School in Michigan and is also a
technology
trainer. See more at
http://epiphany.simplenet.com/mccarthy/lessons/index.html
* Project-Based Learning and the Environment
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Thursday, April 8 * 4-5 p.m. PDT/7-8 p.m. EDT/11 p.m. GMT
Several ongoing Affinity Groups were constituted at the Autodesk
Foundation's annual conference on Project-Based Learning last month.
If
you are interested in environmental education, join Dana Erickson,
Director of the Autodesk Project Based Learning Network to explore how
to
use PBL. See also http://www.autodesk.com/foundation/pbl
If you are not a TAPPED IN member, you can login as a guest from the
TAPPED IN Web site with Netscape 3 or above if you have Java enabled
(not just JavaScript).
Of course, you are welcome to join TAPPED IN for free: Just click on
Membership in the navigation bar of our Web site.
See http://www.tappedin.sri.com/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.cgi for our
Events Calendar and http://www.tappedin.sri.com/info/helpdesk.html for
a
schedule of our volunteer-staffed Help Desk hours.
Please contact me if you have any questions about this session, about
scheduling an After School Online discussion or about TAPPED IN in
general.
Hulda
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:44:26 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Java Class Explorer
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:25 PM
From: dus...@mail.idt.net
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6879/JavaExplorer.html
JDK 1.1 API browser. The left window views classes as folders in a
graphical folder tree. The right window shows information about the
class selected in the left window.
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:18:42 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Newspaper article on Sand Sculptures on the Net (4/2/99)
From: Best-Web-Sites Announcement List [mailto:BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR]
On
Behalf Of South Mississippi Lady
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 4:00 AM
To: BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR
Subject: Newspaper article on Sand Sculptures on the Net (4/2/99)
Sand Sculptures on the Net
By Robin Nobles
Do you enjoy walking along the beach, watching sand artists create
masterpieces in the sand, only to have those works of art washed away
at the next high tide? Sand sculptures, or castles, are as intricate
and breathtaking as a fine oil painting, maybe more so, due to their
short life span.
If getting to the beach is difficult or impossible for you, you can
view these unique pieces of art on the Internet.
We'll begin our tour at the Human Touch Experimental Museum Sculpture
Garden, where you'll not only find pictures of amazing sand
sculptures, but you'll also learn how to begin creating sculptures
yourself. An insightful commentary is provided with each sculpture,
which lets you know what the artist was thinking when creating that
particular piece of art. To learn tips for creating your own
sculptures, click on Library from the main page, then look for the
Reference Desk.
http://www.sandhands.com/
Last September, I went to the Mississippi Gulf Coast with the hopes of
being able to watch this next artist at work. But, one of our infamous
hurricane scares prevented the sand sculpture contest from being held.
At the Beach Buddies Sand Sculpture page, you'll find pictures of
remarkable sculptures, such as the Biloxi lighthouse, a majestic lion,
and even a bear sitting in the woods, which earned them first place in
a recent contest.
http://members.aol.com/beachbuddy/sandsculpture.htm
Now here's a site that will make you want to pack your bags and head
for the beach: Sand Castles by DC Sand and Fun Club. The sculptures
are unique and different, such as "Lady Hideous," who they claim is
Medusa's not-so-well-known sister. These folks create sandcastles
extraordinaire, complete with living (yes, living) mermaids. Their
work is totally amazing.
http://www.flash.net/~problema/
At the South Padre Island Sons of the Beach Sandcastle Page, you can
view an animated sandcastle slide show that will show you the
different stages of how the castle was created. Click on the World
Record Page to see a picture of the tallest indoor sandcastle, which
measured 33.5' tall. You'll find reviews of sand at different beaches,
and a 1999 Sand Sculpture Contest Schedule.
http://www.unlitter.com/sandcastle/index.html
For some tips on building a sand sculpture yourself, visit Sand Castle
Tips for Beginners.
http://www.unlitter.com/sandcastle/bggnrs.html
Finally, visit Sand World and click on Cool Photos, where you'll be
astonished at the quality of these works of art. The picture of the
horse heads is amazing, as are all the pictures in this collection.
Spend some time clicking through the site and see for yourself the
work that goes into creating these breathtaking sculptures.
http://www.sandworld.com/
Robin Nobles is a freelance writer who can be reached at
ro...@robinsnest.com. View past articles at
http://www.robinsnest.com.
Robin Nobles
ro...@robinsnest.com
Robin's Nest for Writers and Web Surfers
http://www.robinsnest.com
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:24:30 -0500
From: Gleason Sackman <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> FREE online access to a different journal every week!
From: Best-Web-Sites Announcement List [mailto:BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR]
On
Behalf Of Claire Jones
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 8:05 AM
To: BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR
Subject: FREE online access to a different journal every week!
* FREE online access to a different journal every week! *
Dear List Members
I thought I would draw your attention to a useful resource.
Each week, you can have FREE online full text access to current and
past
journal volumes in MCB University Press's 'Journal of the Week'
campaign. A
different journal will be featured every week.
The first free journal will be 'Campus Wide Information Systems'. The
journal is devoted to discussing and providing examples of successful
networking across campuses as case studies and keeping libraries
informed of
the latest developments. Free access to this journal will run for the
extended period of 01/04/99 to 11/04/99 due to the Easter holidays.
To access this journal and others FREE for a week go to the 'Journal
of the
Week' homepage at http://www.mcb.co.uk/jotw/
--
Claire Jones +44 (0) 1274 785132
Internet Brand Executive cjo...@mcb.co.uk
MCB University Press http://www.mcb.co.uk
(This message has been sent to the BES...@VM.EGE.EDU.TR list).
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