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| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /      alan levine                          
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..............New bag of URLs.......http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/
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How do You Make Web Pages?
We've been asked more than once about what kind of software tools/HTML editors
people at maricopa are using to create their web pages (yes, some of us are
typing them out, tag by tag...). If you'd care to share your experiences with
things like PageMill, NetScape Gold, Microsoft Internet Assistant, etc, please
send them to me and we'll compile and bounce them back.

South Mountain's New Look
The web design team at South Mountain Community College has done a wonderful
redesign of their site. Visit it at:

   http://www.smc.maricopa.edu/
   
District Curriculum Web
now offers a searchable index of open/cloed courses, and links to course
information:

   http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/eddev/curric/

Teaching/Learning via the Web
If you are using the web in your classes, we invite you to submit an entry to
MCLI's  searchable collection at:

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
   
where you enter a new entry usign the form at:

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/sub.html

Here is a smattering of related sites:

"Web-Based Instruction"
a new book by Badrul H. Khan (Editor) University of Texas at Brownsville 
http://www.utb.edu/~khanb/wbitc.html                                    
                                             
First Annual Conference Learning on the Internet:  A Practical Approach to
Integrating the Internet in the Classroom 

   April 3-4, 1997
   Santa Rosa Jr. College
   Santa Rosa, California 
   http://online.santarosa.edu/conference/


Exploring Multimedia (Media 121) from Bellvue Community College, WA
http://www.bcconline.ctc.edu/

interNET-University
Net-U is a collection of courses offered over the Internet. 
http://www.net-u.com/

Merlin's Academy of Alchemy. 
"The best Chemistry education on the 'Net!" [they say]
http://www.virtual-pc.com/mindweb/merlin/alchemy

Human Anatomy On-line
This Java-based site offers access to a great deal of human anatomy images,
each labeled and hyperlinked to related information and/or more
images/animations. There are also some lessons with more under construction.
The frames interface and Java may be a bit of a barrier now...
http://www.innerbody.com/

Teaching with Electronic Technology
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html

From Now On
an educational technology journal by Jamie McKenzie. The February issue
contains:

The "New HomeWork"
Parents and Students Together on the Web: A Dozen Information Skills for the
Home
by Jamie McKenzie

The Internet in the Context of Cross Cultural Management
A Study of Graduate Business School Use of the Internet
by Jon Franklin Ramsoomair http://fromnowon.org/


COLLEGE CLUB ONLINE SERVICE LINKS ACADEMICS
(from Edupage)
College Club, developed by students at the University of San Diego, offers
students and faculty members a nationwide e-mail system with services geared
toward the U.S. academic community.  Users receive a free e-mail account,
and may participate in chat rooms, discussion groups, and take advantage of
tools to design resumes, find jobs and build their own Web pages.
(Chronicle of Higher Education 14 Feb 97)
http://www.collegeclub.com/

Silly Web Sites
The Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything
lives up to its name and provides reams of feedback from other visitors
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~twoflowr/button.htm

RealAroma
a sarcastic play on technology:
introduces a whole new dimension to the
man/machine interface game- smell. With the
RealAroma Drive(TM), and RATML(SM) (Real Aroma Text
Markup Language) you can share smells in real time, over the
Internet, with olfactory buddies all over the globe.
includes "SmellU SmellMe(R)" Aroma Conferencing software.
http://www.realaroma.com/

The Next Browser War Contestants
In this corner, weighing in at a svelte 5 MB, is Microsoft Interent Explorer

     http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/
     
And over here, the present champion, at a whopping 16 MB is NetScape
Commander:

     http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html

Stand back while the World Wide Web Consortium
  
     http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/
          
attempts to referee. And now, round 4.0..... ding ding....

A JavaScript Automatic Footer
JavaScript... without going into a long history, is a way to add more
functionality to your web pages by including programming and commands into
your HTML source. One of the downsides is that is not supported on all
browsers, partially on some (Microsoft). So think carefully before you embrace
it!
  
Here is a tiny example of a script that does something useful! Many web page
designers like to include a standard "footer" at the bottom of a web page.
With JavaScript, you can make it so that the script automatically inserts the
URL for the document and the date of last modification. The URL would always
be updated, whenever you moved the file from one directory to another!  

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>JavaScript Automatic Footer</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<font size=+3>This is my web page. It has an automatic footer.....</font>
<p>
<script language=JavaScript>
<!-- hide scripts from crusty old browsers that do not know what to do with
this

// This script creates a dynamic footer for all MCLI web pages
// The document title, modification date, and location are inserted

// This is the HTML for the basic statements included in the footer
document.write('<b>' + document.title + '</b><br>');
document.write('<ADDRESS><A HREF="http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/">');
document.write('Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)</A><br>');
document.write('<A HREF="http://www.maricopa.edu/">Maricopa Community
Colleges</A><p>');
document.write('The Internet Connection at MCLI is'); 
document.write('<a href="http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/">Alan Levine
--}</a><br>');
document.write('Comments to <b><A
HREF="mailto:levine@maricopa.edu">levine@maricopa.edu</A></b>');
document.write('</ADDRESS><p>');

// This is where we write the modification date
document.write('<tt><b>last modified: </b>' + document.lastModified);

// This is where we write the URL
document.write('<br><b>URL: </b>' + document.location + '</TT><p>');
// done hiding -->
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

One thing to note is that if you load this page from the desktop the
modification date may not be correct as JavaScript seems to depend on time
information from a web server (when I tested this on my mac, I got a date of
Febraury 3, 1927 (!) but once the HTML file was uploaded to our web server, it
gave the correct date.

This is but one example of what JavaScript can do. One of the greatest places
to find examples is the JavaScript Cut n' Paste:

   http://www.infohiway.com/javascript/
   
You can also see how they have used it at Phoenix College to create some
dynamic buttons on their site:

   http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/
   
   
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