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Webs Across Maricopa
We expect another year of exponential growth in everything web related, 
including our very own webs we create at Maricopa. As a means of making 
information a little more easy to find, District ITS is creating a searchable 
directory of all WWW services among the Maricopa Community Colleges. 

You can search it by going to:

	http://www.maricopa.edu/search/
    
Just type some keywords into the field and click the search button. Note that 
for now, as it is starting out, there are not a huge number of entries. (hint, 
to see them all, search on "dt" -- HTML writers should understand why when they 
see the format of the results).

A database without data is...... not much! It will only grow if those creating 
web pages add their information, which can be done from the form at:

	http://www.maricopa.edu/search/sub_search.html
  
A Regular Dose of New Links
The Internet Scout explores new Internet sites. The best things about the Scout 
are that is includes a brief review written by a person that has explored the 
site, rather than just surfing by. You can get the information via e-mail fron 
an Internet listserv or by going to their web page:

To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
week, join the scout-report mailing list. This is the only mail you will 
receive from this list.

send email to:     
	listserv@lists.internic.net

in the body of the message, type:
	subscribe scout-report yourfirstname yourlastname

The Scout Report's Web page:
	http://rs.internic.net/scout/report


Web Fiction
Is it some new (or old?) genre? Two sites I stumbled/bumbled into recently have 
an online story that sometimes makes you wonder whether it is fact or fiction:

Crime Scene Interactive mystery
Follow the developments in the murder of Valerie Wilson. See if you can piece 
together the clues from
	http://www.quest.net/crime

Ferndale "check your secrets at the door"
This is an interactive experiment in a mountain
retreat. Here, four people will share their problems
over the Internet using Net-Therapy. 
	http://www.ferndale.com/

An Essay on Educational Technology
The Shroud of Lecturing

	http://hawk.fab2.albany.edu/delong/shroud.htm

is written by Stephen E. DeLong, Associate Vice President
for Academic Affairs/ Information Systems and Technology,
University at Albany/SUNY. Okay, there are no graphic, no backgrounds, no font 
size changes, but there *is* a discussion
and links to examples of the new New new New Media and where
it is being used in education.

(We will give a a bonus if you can find MCLI in the essay)
	
Electronic News Stands
Looking for online magazines? Try:

Electronic News Stand
	http://www.enews.com/

Westworld Magazine Stand
	http://www.westworld.com/magazine.html

Ecola's 24-hour Newsstand
	http://www.ecola.com/news/
	
Web Development Cyberbase
This is a set of high-end web pages, NetScape frames galore, that is jam packed 
with web information. It includes sections on HTML, Graphics, CGI, Java, Site 
Promotion, VRML, Web Design. It employs some Java code to do things such as 
flashing a different message depended where your mouse is hovering over the 
page.

The site is created by Matt Johnson, a 19 year old student at Hamline 
University, Minnesota.
	http://www.hamline.edu/personal/matjohns/webdev/html/

QuickTime Plug-In
Apple has not yet released a NetScape plug-in that allows QuickTime movies to 
be played right in a web page (rather than launching an external helper 
application). BUT.... someone else has!

ViewMovie Plug-in
	http://www.well.com/user/ivanski/viewmovie/viewmovie.sit.hqx
	
It works fine- anytime you click on a hypertext item linked to a QuickTime 
movie, it will download it (which still takes a long time!) and play it right 
in the web page.

Once you get the plug-in (a small file)_, just put it in the "Plug-Ins" folder 
inside the "NetScape" folder on your Macintosh computer.

Steve's "Useful" Links
Thanks to Steve Ribbing (MCC) who sent us some of his most "useful"
web sites:

Strunk, William. 1918 The Elements of Style
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
	one that anyone who writes anything should read & keep handy

NET worth
http://networth.galt.com/www/home/networth.html
	financial info galore...build & track your own portfolios / accurate 
15-minute delay market values on issues / etc etc etc (now part of the Quicken 
Financial network... it's free and GOOD )

FinanCenter Hope Page
a wide variety of powerful programs you can use on-line to work out the answers 
to many personal financial 'what-ifs?'
	http://www.financenter.com/resources/


The Bandwidth Conservation Society
good advise and how-to on reducing the glut and getting the 'mostest with the  
fewest' (bits)
	http://www.infohiway.com/faster/index.html
	

Homepage For The Homeless
not a socio-political soapbox, but a server that offers FREE parking for your 
home page ! There's a cyber community a-building there.
	http://www.homeless.com/
	
win95.com
very likely the best source of solid news and downloads for 32-bit windows 
materials ... very well presented and updated almost daily 	a MUST for 
Win95 users !
	http://windows95.com/

Win95 Magazine
a new and well done on-line monthly magazine from Steve Jenkins of win95.com 
fame and glory
	http://www.win95mag.com

Windows95 Annoyances
is NOT a groan and gripe place, nor is it a gathering of 
self-serving back-slappers.  It's _the_ place to go to get a firm handle on the 
'under-the-hood' stuff of and about the Windows 95 OS... though not 
overly-technical to the point of general uselessness, it's not necessarily 
going to be Aunt Bea's favorite starting page 8-)
	http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/