There are 9 messages totalling 363 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. MISC> [netsites] Dream Tools
2. K12> GSA-surplus computers - Free
3. MISC> Look at that Asteroid
4. MISC> InformationR.Net
5. PROJ> [Hilites => Projects] Ages 10-14 Student Created Document Based
Questions
6. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Digital Age Reaches Melbourne's Poor (fwd)
7. RESOUR> [netsites] Resource Central - Linking the world with information
8. MISC> [DIG_REF] Copyright as Cudgel
9. Last: posting for Tuesday, July 30, 2002
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:01:46 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Dream Tools
From: "Klaar Von Alle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:41:30 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Dream Tools
Dream Tools
http://www.dream-tools.com/
"Easily add a free Voting Polls or Message Boards to any website in
minutes."
Klaar Von Alle
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:02:16 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> GSA-surplus computers - Free
From: "EDTECH Editor-Eiffert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:12:21 -0400
Subject: GSA-surplus computers
From: Judith Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One of my colleagues just forwarded this information about free
computers that may be of interest:
Free Computers. The General Services Administration offers surplus
computers free to schools. Contact: www.computers.fed.gov.
Peace,
Judith Green
Center for Teaching for Social Justice
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Judith L. Green
University of California, Santa Barbara
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2219 Phelps Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: 805-893-4781
Sec: 805-893-4515
Fax: 805-893-7264
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:09:15 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> Look at that Asteroid
From: "NASA Science News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: NASA Science News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:12:02 -0500
Subject: Look at that Asteroid
NASA Science News for July 30, 2002
There's no danger of a collision. Even so, a big space rock will soon
come so close to Earth that sky watchers can see it through binoculars.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/30jul_ny40.htm?list63210
Tell a kid you know about NASA Kids Club -- they collect virtual trading cards, trade
them online, have their
own e-mail account, and participate in great learning activities for extra club
points. Go to
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Club/Login/SignUp.asp?sng for more info.
If you need to get in touch with us directly, please go to
http://science.nasa.gov/comments
Home page: http://science.nasa.gov
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:10:11 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> InformationR.Net
From: "Amnon Till" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:29:48 +0000
InformationR.Net
http://informationr.net/wl/
World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management,
Information Systems, etc.
Bye
Amnon
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage (Hebrew): http://www.stage.co.il/Authors/AmnonTill
Homepage (English):
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/amnontl/homepage.htm
Teaching HTML (Hebrew): http://web.beitberl.ac.il/~amnont/
Picture:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/amnontl/instant/aboutme.html
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:58:52 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROJ> [Hilites => Projects] Ages 10-14 Student Created Document Based
Questions
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Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 07:43:02 -0700
Subject: [Hilites => Projects] Ages 10-14 Student Created Document Based
Questions
Global SchoolNet Foundation provides this service free of charge to its
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Project Information
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Project Author: Susan Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Project Title: Student Created Document Based Questions
Project Begin & End Dates: 9/01/02 to 11/30/02
Project Summary:
The purpose of this collaborative Internet project is designed to have your
middle school students evaluate historical documents as intelligent
consumers of information. Students will find documents and create
analytical questions for the global educational community to answer online.
The documents and questions will be posted on a web site.
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Project Details
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Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: History and Social Studies
Technologies Used: Email
Full Project Description:
Please see "About this Project" for a full summary.
About This Project
http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/documents/about.htm
Objectives:
The purpose of this project is to have students evaluate historical
documents as intelligent consumers of information.
Middle school students will find primary and/or secondary source documents
and create questions for their global peers to answer online.
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Project Registration Information
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Project Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registration Acceptance Dates: 7/30/02 to 9/30/02
Number of Classrooms: 25
Age Range: 10 to 14 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL: http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~ssilverman/documents/index.htm
Registration Instructions:
Please see the web site for registration information and instructions.
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Instructional Technology Integration Teacher - Comsewogue School District
Pt. Jeff. Sta., New York US
http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:44:45 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Digital Age Reaches Melbourne's Poor (fwd)
From: "Andy Carvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:18:32 -0400
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Digital Age Reaches Melbourne's Poor (fwd)
>From today's benton headlines... -ac
DIGITAL AGE REACHES MELBOURNE'S POOR
Thanks to a local initiative called Reach For The Clouds, things are
changing for residents in a Melbourne, Australia public-housing estate. The
project is hoping to deliver to each of the 770 homes a free refurbished
computer and the chance to get online. Residents will be able to use e-mail
and a community intranet service free, but will pay to connect to the Web.
The project, run by the nonprofit, Infoxchange, has already wired the entire
community with an ADSL broadband system. Although the Linux operating system
was considered for the computers, Microsoft won out in the end for long-term
practicality. Microsoft's operating system handles human languages better
than Linux and it ties in with what residents are likely to encounter
elsewhere. Two massive hurdles for the project are the A$4 million
(approximately US$2 million) price tag and the complications arising from
the fact 38 languages are spoken in the community. Infoxchange is hoping to
use the lessons learned from this first project to tackle Melbourne's 13
other public-housing developments.
[SOURCE: BBC News, AUTHOR: Andrew Webster]
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2153643.stm)
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
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http://www.benton.org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:21:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Resource Central - Linking the world with
information
From: "mariner51" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:25:26 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Resource Central - Linking the world with information
Resource Central
http://www.resourcehelper.com
Resource Central has many categories to the most useful links in
support of information retrieval in resource research. We link to the
best of the Internet world. Resource Central is a family site. Find
here thousands of resources within a well organized interface.
On-line since 1997.
Jim Hatch
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:11:56 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIG_REF] Copyright as Cudgel
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:03:37 -0500
Subject: [DIG_REF] Copyright as Cudgel
There's an interesting opinion piece on copyright and the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act in the August 2 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyright as cudgel. Chronicle of Higher Education,
48(47), pp. B7-B9. August 2, 2002.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
The author is an assistant professor of information studies at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:35:57 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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