NYSED> NYSED's unix5 gopher
Gleason Sackman
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 15:47:21 -0500
From: George Casler <a...@unix5.nysed.gov>
Subject: NYSED's unix5 gopher
What's New at New York State Education Department's
unix5 gopher
Access by pointing your gopher client to: unix5.nysed.gov
URL: gopher://unix5.nysed.gov
NO PUBLIC TELNET ACCESS
Today's date is: July 5 1995
Conferences, Calls for Papers
- The International Symposium on Technology and Society calls for
papers
- Computers, Freedom and Privacy - 6th Conference - calls for
papers
Education News
- A short review of the SimTel FTP archive, which contains music
software for DOS environment
- Childrens-voice website features student writing from grades
K-8.
- Franklin Institute's Heart Health page reviewed
- Families and Disability News now on the Web
- CM magazine reviews Canadian materials for children, young adults
- Teacher Talk: magazine/website for preservice, secondary
education teachers
Government Info
Internet Resources
+ Internet (General)
- The Internet Index has been updated to #8 (28 June 95, for those
who want to check currency)
- The June 30, 1995 issue of the Scout Report is available
K-12 Resources
+ Art Gallery -- This is the new one:
+ Arts & Humanities
+ The Gallery - These haven't been moved yet
- Pablo Picasso's "Bread and Fruit Dish on Table": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "Brick Factory in Tortosa": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "House in a Garden": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Manuel Pallares": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "Still Life with Death Head": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "The Dance of the Veils": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "Vase Bowl and Lemon": from USENET
- Pablo Picasso's "Wine Glass": from USENET
- Vincent Van Gogh's "Undergrowth with Two Figures": from
USENET
+ Disability Resources and Information
- Pointer to NIMH publication "Coping with Learning Disabilities"
+ English
- Reader's Theater adaptation of Twain's "The War
Prayer for grades 7 and up
+ The Library
+ General
+ Education Technology
+ Health, PhysEd and HomeEc
+ Health -
- A document containing recipes from the American Heart
Association (Please note, however, that we have been having
trouble with their server going Up AnD dOwN aLl DaY. Be patient
until the Code Blue team gets there.)
+ A new folder has been created: Mental Health. In it
have been placed the following pointers:
- Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment Programs
- Information about Alzheimer's Disease
- Information about Anxiety Disorders
- Information on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Information on Eating Disorders
- Information on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- Panic Disorder Education Program
- Schizophrenia Questions and Answers
- You Are Not Alone: Information on Mental Health and Mental
Illness
+ Home Ec
- Pointer to the Big Recipe Collection at University of
Minnesota
+ Phys Ed
- The FAQ for the USENET newsgroup misc.fitness has been added
+ Languages Other than English
+ Math, Science & Technology
+ Science, Astronomy
- Short article from North American Skies, explaining "Why are
they called 'Dog Days'"
+ Science, Biology
- Photo of Day Lily with aphid: from USENET
+ Occupational and Technical
+ Other Educational Gophers
+ Social Studies
+ American Studies
- Pointer to U.S. Department of Justice gopher
+ Global Studies, Asia, Ecostan News
- The July 1995 issue has been loaded. Yes, I know we're missing
the June issue; I've contacted the publishers to see where it
went.
TelecommInfo
+ Reading Room
- The Network Observer, V2N6, has been uploaded; the previous
issue, V2N5, has been renamed so it appears in the menu in
correct order
+ Reference Desk
- "Tunneling SSL through a WWW Proxy" and internet draft by
Ari Luotonen of netscape Communications Corp., describing a
proposed modification to the behavior of conventional WWW
proxies to allow for use of SSL in a situation where a proxy must
be used, possibly in an insecure environment.
- "Using SSL Tunneling to Increase User Privacy" by Hal Finney.,
discussing the above-mentioned document
TelecommNews
- Newsletter focuses on network technology and libraries
- List of the top 80 words in gopherspace titles during first week
of May 95. Mediahypers (like Time magazine) will be disappointed;
"sex" is 1,245th with 4469 instances; "erotica" is 13,290th
with 261 instances; and "pornography" is 16,179th with 197
instances. Tough luck, headline grabbers!
direct all comments, flames, kudos and ESPECIALLY pointers
to new resources or reports of dead links to:
gca...@unix5.nysed.gov
with the subject line: FEEDBACK, and thank you for your help!
George R. Casler
Internet Scout and Gopher Administrator
New York State Education Department
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