Fall 1997
Vol 6 Issue 1
IN THIS ISSUE...
A First Year Editor's Perspective
Wu Yi - MCCD Business Initiative
Alternative Assessment in Mathematics
The Library Tour is Gone, Long Live Live Instruction
Bag of URLs
SEE ALSO...
The Labyrinth
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
Bag of URLs
Here is a mixed sampling of interesting web sites we have come across. These and more are available from MCLI's "Bag of URLs" site: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/
We encourage you to visit and drop some URLs into our collection.
Education World
"Where educators go to learn."
http://www.education-world.com/
A Web of On-line Dictionaries
Robert Beard's resource for translation of words using over 350 different
online web dictionaries, plus other linguistic and grammar resources.
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
the Why Files "Science Behind the News"
Explores of the science behind the news, featuring the science (and math,
engineering, and technology) of everyday life.
http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/
Literacy Online
"Your gateway to high quality adult learning and literacy resources available
on the Internet."
http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/
The Elements of Style
The online version of William Strunk's guide has been made available by
the Bartelby Project at Columbia University.
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Glacier
An introduction to the continent of Antarctica, weather conditions, antarctic
oceanography, and photographs of life at several research stations.
http://www.glacier.rice.edu/
Ethnologue
Links 6,700 languages and the countries in which they are spoken.
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/
Marx/Engels Internet Archive
Includes works of Marx and Engels, and other Marxist writers.
http://www.marx.org/
Mining the Internet
An on-going column that appears in the publication Learning and Leading
with Technology (formerly the Computing Teacher).
http://teach.virginia.edu/go/mining/
DiversityWeb
Links colleges and universities that are working to engage the diversity
of United States society in educational mission, campus climate, curriculum
focus and connections with the larger society.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversityweb
The National Teaching & Learning Forum
An online and print publication, "The Newsletter for faculty to faculty"
is a conversation about teaching.
http://www.ntlf.com/
Weather World 2010 (WW2010)
Developed by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), WW2010 is a framework for integrating
current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/
Earth and Moon Viewer
A site where you can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and
night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon,
the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified
by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit,
or above various cities around the globe.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Teachers.Net
Assistance for utilizing the Web, developed by teachers for teachers.
http://teachers.net
Education Index
An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web.
http://www.educationindex.com/
Multicultural Pavilion
Provides resources to teachers and others interested in multicultural
education and issues.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural
Chinese Character Genealogy
A dictionary that dissects over 4000 Chinese characters, explaining their
origins according to traditional etymologies and showing their complex
interrelationships with a unique series of "genealogical charts."
http://zhongwen.com/
AskAsia
An information source for Asian and Asian American studies.
http://www.askasia.org/
HIV InSite
A vast collection of medical and social information for HIV from the University
of California, San Francisco.
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
.edu
The College and Career Center from US News and World Report.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/home.htm
Douglass
An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/