__     __ __     __ __     __      web's eye view                    07-09-97
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /      alan levine                          
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /       Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
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..............New bag of URLs.......http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/
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Here We Are...
It's Summer 1997, year 4 On The Web, and we are awash in URLs. so many we do not
know what to do. We have the newest bag of URLs for you at

     http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html
     
and we now invite you to send us any great URLs that you come across by using the
web form under the "drop" link. In fact, we have a new system created by MCLI's
perl wizard Derek Cline, that automatically archives the submitted sites, and via
a web interface we can delete, edit entries, and when we are ready, build a brand
new HTML file for the current issue. 

Build Some More Webs With Us
We know there is a ton of web development happening out in Maricopa land and we
invite you again to use one of MCLI's online forms to add your example of using
the web in or for a course to our searchable collection of "Teaching & Learning
on the WWW". To search the collection, just go to:
  
     http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
     
and sporting its new interface, click on SUBMIT to find the form used to enter
the information about the site you created.

Other new things at MCLI's Site:

Ocotillo's New Look- featuring a web discussion board
     http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/

Learning Communities: Getting Started - a monograph by Geri Rasmussen and
Elizabeth Skinner (GateWay Community College), available in Adobe Acrobat format
     http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ilc/monograph/
     
Community College Web- new search interface for collection of links ro 594
colleges as well as searchable collection of resources
     http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/
     
     
WebDev will Return
Preliminary plans are in the making for an October Web Developers Day. For past
information, see:

	http://www.maricopa.edu/webdev/

Maricopa Home Page	
And speaking of that Maricopa home page, the Gila monster returned. but more
impartantly, see the very useful Student Information page at:

	http://www.maricopa.edu/general/index.html
	
that contains links to all of the automated college schedules. And browsing even
more, look at the nifty Academic Calendat created by Doug Allenberg:

	http://pvax2.dist.maricopa.edu/~allenberg/cal/index.html
	
I use WebDial quite often to find phone numbers and/or email addresses:

	http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/its/webdial/
	
	
New Search Tools
Here are two more ways to find things on the big vast ugly web.

DogPile
is a "meta-search" tool that takes your keywords and sends it to numerous other
search engines, and returns the results in one page. Great logo, too.
http://www.dogpile.com/

Ask Jeeves
is a friendly search butler! You type in your search as a real question, verbs,
nouns, and all. Jeeves will try to interpret the things you are looking for by
returning a page of search queries where you can refine it from a series of
pop-up menus.
	http://www.askjeeves.com/


Other Ways to Navigate The Web
Webring is an Internet self-building concept- each "ring" of sites is a linkage
of sites in a particular subject matter. Each "ring" piece is a remote site, and
by becoming part of a ring, it has links to the next and previous links in that
ring as well as a tool to randomly jump to any other link in the ring.
	http://www.webring.org/

In a similar, if not almost identical manner, is Looplink:
	http://www.looplink.com/

It's A Small Web After All
We recently had two vistors from the Medical Education department at the
University of Berne, Switzerland. They came through Phoenix more or less based
upon the interest they had in Maricopa's web sites. They showed some interesting
instructional technology applications to us.

HemoSurf - An Interactive Atlas of Hematology
is a web site that uses a large amount of JavaScript to give students the
oppurtunity to learn morphological
hematology by observing hundreds of blood film images. Going through
increasing stages of diffculty and getting different forms of feedback,
students become confident in interpreting the films. 
	http://www.iawf.unibe.ch/aum/VLZ/BWL/Haematologie/Index.htm

They are also showed an interactive CD called "Interactive Neurology", designed
to " to supplement clinical experience and enhance the diagnostic skills of
medical students. The programme enforces the neurologic capabilities of a student
or doctor by means of case-studies someone has to go throught or vice-versa by
doing an theoretic part which is illistrated by the examinations undertaken on
the case-studies." More info is at:
	http://www.iawf.unibe.ch/aum/Portrait/prod/Neuro_Projekt.HTM

WebCT
Here is some info that recently arrived in our emailbox:

"WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide
Web-based educational environments. It can be used to create entire on-line
courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses.

WebCT not only produces courses for the WWW, but also uses WWW browsers as the
interface for the course-building environment. Aside from facilitating the
organization of course material on the web, WebCT also provides a wide variety of
tools and features that can be added to a course. Examples of tools include a
conferencing system, on-line chat, student progress tracking, group project
organization, student self-evaluation, grade maintenance and distribution, access
control, navigation tools, timed quizzes, electronic mail, automatic index
generation, course content searches and much more."
http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/

More URLs.
Here is a selection from the latest bag:

Designing Site Navigation a well written and designed column by Dimitry Kirsanov 
	http://www.webreference.com/dlab/9705/

Carol's Clip art Collection source of graphics 
	http://www.carols-clipart.com/

Builder.com another big site from C|net, for web developer information. Articles
from various c|net locations are compiled in the topics of web authoring,
graphics and design, servers, hosting & hardware, and marketing and management. 
	http://builder.com/

Dr. Felix's Free Medline Page is a comparison of twenty-eight web based services
that offer free access to parts or all of Medline. 
	http://www.beaker.iupui.edu/drfelix/

JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer a tutorial that will take you step by
step through the fundamentals of Javascript 
	http://www.hardlink.com/~robyoung/javatour.htm

How to Succeed as a Student by Kevin B. Bucknall, Griffiths University, contains
tips and advice on how to study, take notes, write assignments, sit exams, live
cheaply etc. 
	http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/stubod/stuadv/stu_advice.html

A Brief History of the Internet, Version 3.1 from the Internet Society 
	http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/

Weather World 2010 (WW2010) Developed by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), WW2010 is a WWW framework
for integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional
resources using new and innovative technologies. 
	http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/

International E-Mail-Tandem-Network Universities in many countries working
together to enable their students to learn languages in tandem using e-mail. 
	http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

WebMonkey Teaching Tool The folks from Wired provide decent instructions for HTML 
	http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/