Bob Jensen's Bookmarks  on
Education, Tutorials, Government, Law and Libraries Section
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

Instructions:  My advice is to left click on an index item below and then scroll through the bookmarks.   If you choose one of the bookmarks, I suggest that you right click on the bookmark link and then choose "Open in a New Window."   This will enable you to keep the Index and other bookmarks open in one window while you visit a web site in another window.

Note: Top 25 Google e-searches of the month
          Most Popular Web Sites 2006 - 2007 --- http://www.webtrafficstation.com/directory/

Acceptance Speech for the August 15, 2002 American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator Award --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/AAAaward_files/AAAaward02.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

FREE access to ANNUAL REPORTS in XBRL --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm#TimelineXBRL
From EDGAR Online --- http://www.tryxbrl.org/

History of XBRL --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

Bob Jensen's updates on education technologies, assessment, and learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 

Bob Jensen's "Search Engine Helpers" at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 
The best place to find training and education programs --- 
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#EducationOrganizations 

Bob Jensen's main bookmarks page is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries  

Bob Jensen's overview of electronic books and custom publishing --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm 

Bob Jensen's threads are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 

Selected additions to New Bookmarks (with commentaries) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm

Bob Jensen's Advice for New Faculty is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm 

You can download (for free) hours of MP3 audio and the PowerPoint presentation slides from several of the best education technology workshops that I ever organized. --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/002cpe/02start.htm 

OKI and OCW:  Free sharing of courseware from MIT, Stanford, and other colleges and universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI 

Bob Jensen's Threads on Knowledge Portals 
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/portals.htm 

Bob Jensen's Threads on Speech Recognition and Conversations With Computers
 http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/speech.htm 

Bob Jensen's threads on foreign language translation are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#ForeignLanguage

Click here for commercialization corruption of higher education --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book05q3.htm#EducationCommercialization

Click here for business school ranking controversies --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book05q3.htm#BusinessSchoolRankings

Bob Jensen's Other Threads http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 

Privatization, Commercialization, Media Rankings, and Other Problems of Higher Education,
Including Selling Out Education Quality to Athletic Spectaculars ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

MIT's Video Lecture Search Engine: Watch the video at --- http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them. Announced last month, the MIT Lecture Browser website gives the general public detailed access to more than 200 lectures publicly available though the university's OpenCourseWare initiative. The search engine leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other institutions to convert audio into text and make it searchable.
Kate Greene, MIT's Technology Review, November 26, 2007 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/?nlid=686&a=f
Once again, the Lecture Browser link (with video) is at http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm

Find free video lectures from free universities at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

 

Index
(Scroll down to view categories and bookmarks)

Education in General

| College and Other School Finders (Including Financial Aid and Scholarships | Colleges, Virtual Online Colleges, and Online Certificate Programs | Directories for Educators | Education Search Engines | | Ethics Study | ListServs, Listservs, Bulletin Boards, Forums, Chat Rooms, and Newsgroups |  Higher Education News |Virtual Libraries | Applications On-Line | Classrooms, Hardware, Software (Including Special Needs, Handicapped (Disabled) Students) | Collaboration | Publishing Firms | Course Services, Examination Services, Technology Aids | Faculty and Program Performance Appraisals | Diploma Mill Frauds | 

Also see Bob Jensen's Threads on Knowledge Portals and Other Threads at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm | 

Asynchronous Learning Issues | MUD, MOO, MUSH Learning In Student-Created Settings  

Software for Online Examinations 

Free Tutorials
| Educational Disciplines | Arts, Entertainment, History, Literature, Museums, etc. | Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy | Grammar, Spelling and English | Languages | Law and Legal Studies | Mathematics and Statistics | Miscellaneous Educational Disciplines | Movies and Video | Music | Science, Engineering and and Medicine | Education Statistics (Data) |  Aids to Handicapped and Disabled Learners | Education Technology Tools |

Open Courseware (free video and other course materials from major universities)

| Evaluation and Learning Assessment | Examples of Good Sites | Experiential Learning | Games (Educational) | Grants and Funding | Glossaries, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries  | Internet Journals and Books in Education | Multimedia Presentation of Content | Pedagogical and Psychological Issues | Research Ideas: Serious vs Sad |

The Taxonomy Warehouse is a fantastic search engine in terms of helpful categories --- http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/ 

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing of courseware are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

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From the University of Michigan
National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife --- http://www.academicworklife.org/

Today, college and university faculty members face many challenges, including an increasingly diverse workforce and new models for career flexibility. The National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife (NCAW) provides resources to help faculty, graduate students, administrators and higher education researchers understand more about all aspects of modern academic work and related career issues, including tenure track and non tenure track appointments, benefits, climate and satisfaction, work/life balance, and policy development.

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Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World: OKI, MIT, Rice, Berkeley, Yale, and Other Sharing Universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Free Textbooks and Cases --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Free Mathematics and Statistics Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

Free Science and Medicine Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science

Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

Free Education Discipline Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm

Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

Free Education and Research Videos from Harvard University --- http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp

VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

From Princeton Online
The Incredible Art Department --- http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/

Online Mathematics Textbooks --- http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html 

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives --- http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp 

MIT's Video Lecture Search Engine: Watch the video at --- http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them. Announced last month, the MIT Lecture Browser website gives the general public detailed access to more than 200 lectures publicly available though the university's OpenCourseWare initiative. The search engine leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other institutions to convert audio into text and make it searchable.
Kate Greene, MIT's Technology Review, November 26, 2007 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/?nlid=686&a=f
Once again, the Lecture Browser link (with video) is at http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm

Find free video lectures from free universities at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

 

Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

• Bob Jensen's Video Tutorials and Other Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideosSummary.htm 
  (Includes video tutorials on Camtasia, MS Access, MS Excel, Managerial Accounting, and Accounting Theory)
   
• Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/caseans/000index.htm
   
• Accounting for Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/fraud.htm
   
• Accounting Theory --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm
   
• Electronic Commerce and Computing Security --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm
   
• XBRL and OLAP --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm
  
  

Bob Jensen's Archives of New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookurl.htm

Bob Jensen's Tidbits Blog --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Bob Jensen's Updates on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Links to Documents on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free electronic literature, including free online textbooks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free online video, music, and other audio --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm

Bob Jensen's documents on accounting theory are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm 

Bob Jensen's links to free course materials from major universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's links to online education and training alternatives around the world --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

Bob Jensen's links to electronic business, including computing and networking security, are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm

Bob Jensen's links to education technology and controversies --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

 

Links to Bob Jensen's Workshop Documents on Education and Learning

Bob Jensen's Education and Learning Bookmarks	Bookmarks
The Shocking Future of Education	First File Second File
E-Learning and Distance Education's Top  (Award-Winning) Illustrations	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Cross-Border (Transnational) Training and Education (Includes helpers for finding online training and education courses, certificate programs, and degree Programs)	Detail File
Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade      (Including Edutainment and Learning Games)      (Includes aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged)	First File Second File
The Dark Side of the 21st Century: Concerns About Technologies in Education	Detail File
Assessment Issues, Case Studies, and Research	Detail File
History and Future of Course Authoring Technologies	Detail File
Knowledge Portals and Vortals	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Advice to New Faculty (and Resources)	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Electronic Books	Detail File
Threads of Online Program Costs and Faculty Compensation	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Helper Videos and Tutorials	Detail File
Jensen and Sandlin Book entitled Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education (both the 1994 and 1997 Updated Versions)	Old Book
Some Earlier Papers Working Paper 265 on Metacognition Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training: Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success? http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm   Working Paper 255 on Asynchronous Learning Networks Using Asynchronous Network Courses to Bridge Gaps in the Teeth of a University Curriculum With Imported Gold: Bridgework May Be Optimally Effective Only by Incurring High Labor Expenses http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
Additional Links and Threads	Threads

Bob Jensen's home page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/

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International Society for Technology in Education --- http://www.iste.org/ 

ISTE is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. We are dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education. We provide our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of incorporating computers, the Internet, and other new technologies into their schools. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Education Technology (CARET), and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE meets its mission through knowledge generation, professional development, and advocacy. ISTE also represents and informs its membership regarding educational issues of national scope through ISTE–DC. We support a worldwide network of Affiliates and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and we offer our members the latest information through our periodicals and journals.

An organization of great diversity, ISTE leads through presenting innovative educational technology books and programs; conducting professional development workshops, forums, and symposia; and researching, evaluating, and disseminating findings regarding educational technology on an international level. ISTE’s Web site, www.iste.org, contains coverage of many topics relevant to the educational technology community.

Bookstore. L&L. NECC, NETS. About ISTE, Educator Resources, Join!, Membership, Affiliates

ISTE 100, SIGs, Professional Development, Publications, Research Projects, Standards Projects, Site Map

Over 30,000 Free Academic Literature and Multimedia Items from EServer (including some "Bad Subjects") --- http://eserver.org 

Internet History
NSF and the Birth of the Internet (video) --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/
How Internet Stuff Works --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Web

Personal Computer History
"Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer --- The PC's back story involves a little-known Texas connection," by Lamont Wood, Computer World, August 8, 2008 --- Click Here

 

The EServer, founded in 1990, is now based at Iowa State University. We are increasing efforts to publish new works (31846 so far). 

The Academy	miscellaneous resources for students and faculty
Art/Architecture	links to art, architecture, and aesthetic theory
Audio and Video	audio recordings of scholarly presentations
Bad Subjects	political education for everyday life
Books	book-length nonfiction and miscellaneous literatures
Calls for Papers	calls for conference papers and journal articles
Cultronix	a journal of contemporary art and cultural theory
Cultural Logic	an electronic journal of marxist theory and practice
Cultural Theory	readings in cultural studies and critical theory
Cyber Tech/Culture	discussing links between technology and culture
Drama	a collection of plays, modern works and classics
Early Modern Culture	works and discussions in Renaissance studies
Education	resources for both students and teachers
Eighteenth Century	a site for eighteenth-century cultural history
Electronic Labyrinth	a study of the implications of hypertext for writers
Feminism	select resources in feminism and women's studies
Fiction	novels and short fiction, classics and new works
Film & Television	works in film, television and other media studies
Gender/Sexuality	some resources on gender, sex and sexuality
Government	materials in government, law, and their social implications "The Library of Congress Online for Educators," by Leni Donlan, Technology & Learning, March 2004, Page 20 --- http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17701379
History	works and links in history and historiography
Home Pages	the personal home pages of EServer members
Internet	resources about the internet: guides, essays and articles
Journals	links to academic journals and popular magazines
Languages	resources in language studies and theory
Libraries	links to worldwide library catalogues
Literary Events	events for any date from literature and the arts
The Mamet Review	the journal of the David Mamet Society
Marx & Engels	a collection of writings in economic and social theory
Multimedia	a small collection of artwork, audio, graphics and video
Music	a vast collection of works in music and music theory
Philosophy	writings by modern and classical philosophers
Pittsburgh	information about the city and its neighborhoods
Poetry	original and classic verse, literary and poetic theory
Race	materials on race and ethnicity in the U.S.
Recipes	vegetarian recipes, and links to good related sites
Reference	select reference materials useful for research
Rhetoric	scholarly and pedagogical resources for rhetoricians
Software	freeware and shareware for your computer
Sparks	a publisher of fiction, poetry, music, art and spoken word
Sudden	original poetry that reflects imagination and intelligence
Tech Comm Library	a web portal for tech, sci and professional communication
Thoreau Reader	the works of American philosopher Henry D. Thoreau
Web Design	a site for discussion of new media design
Zine375

Accreditation Issues are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245prest.htm#Accreditation 

British Columbia's History of Education Web site http://www.mala.bc.ca/homeroom/ 

 

Academic careers --- http://www.academiccareers.com/

 

April 14, 2003 message from Seamus Fitzroy [englishjobmaze@mail.com] 

Dear Bob,

I would like to submit for your consideration an ESL/EFL job & info site for possible inclusion in the 'Program Search' (or other relevant) section of your informative area of the Trinity website.

The English Job Maze (http://www.englishjobmaze.com) is an

International ESL/EFL job & information site for ESL/EFL teachers and schools around the world. But it is also much more than 'just another' ESL/EFL job site. It contains a wealth of free TESL industy-related info for teachers, including one of the largest ELT bookstores on the Internet, plus 'Countries @ a Glance' - the most comprehensive TESL guide to pay, taxes, visas, travel, etc, in 50 of the world's most popular teaching destinations.

I hope you find this site useful. Hundreds of ESL/EFL teachers, schools and university/college graduates around the world have told us they do.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Warm regards

Seamus Fitzroy
English Job Maze
info@englishjobmaze.com 

 

GMAT & TOEFL PREP 
BusinessWeek Online has developed an area that focuses on the ins and outs of these exams. You'll find expert advice, sample questions, and more http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/gmat/ 

Kaplan Test Prep --- http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=dLA8uJFSIfQ&offerid=26836.10000744&type=3&subid=0 

Get higher scores on those important tests by taking Kaplan courses for AP, SAT, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, PCAT, OAT, DAT, NBDE, NCLEX, CGFNS, USMLE, CSE, COMLEX, CME, and others.

Study or Teach or Volunteer Abroad 

OKI (Open Knowledge Initiative started by MIT) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI 

| Top Education WWW Sites  | Issues in Education Sites | Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.) Favorites  | Bob Jensen's Favorites  | Syllabus Top 40 | Top Technology in Education Research Centers |

Also see the | News, Magazines, and Publishing Firms | Technology Section |

Software at huge educator discounts www.edu-software.com  or call us 800-679-7007

You can download (for free) hours of MP3 audio and the PowerPoint presentation slides from several of the best education technology workshops that I ever organized. --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/002cpe/02start.htm 

A Great Summary of Web Instruction Resources 
Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist --- http://inst.augie.edu/%7Egray/ 
Augustana College, 2001 Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD  57197
gray@inst.augie.edu, 605-274-4907 

Faculty Pay and Benefits Database from the Chronicle of Higher Education (Salaries) --- http://chronicle.com/stats/990/2001/ 

For GREAT comprehensive listing of Web Instruction Resources, go to http://inst.augie.edu/~gray/WBI.html

From The Scout Report on January 18, 2002

A+ Country Reports http://www.countryreports.org/ 

A fantastic resource for students, teachers, tourists, and anyone else interested in the globe, A+ Country Reports offers a wealth of information on all of the countries of the world. Like the CIA's World Factbook (last mentioned in the September 28, 2001 _Scout Report_ ), A+ Country Reports presents up-to-date information on population, geography, economy, history, and politics. Aside from that, however, the site presents a lively array of extras that don't figure in the CIA's matter of fact dossiers, things such as audio clips of national anthems and links to current weather reports. As the site itself boasts, through a list of quotes from current reviews, A+ Country Reports is particularly appealing to teachers and younger students, and it's obvious why it's appealing, given its attention to the kinds of details kids demand -- bright graphics, large fonts, and Flash-automated features among them. For those interested in sharing what they have learned or already know, there is also a discussion area and links to sites for further study.

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FindTutorials http://www.findtutorials.com/

FindTutorials offers hundreds of tutorials and professional online IT and Softskills training courses that are available for a variety of disciplines and skill levels. In addition, it offers an online e-mail system, an IT job database with thousands of daily updated positions, and a host of additional resources on internet training skills. With simple to use navigational tools and a "sophisticated in-house developed site search", finding information to meet your requirements merely takes the click of a button.

Related Sites of Possible Interest

See the history of course authoring technologies at  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/290wp/290wp.htm 

Advice to New Faculty and Bob Jensen's Resource Summary can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm 

Bob Jensen's Helpers for Educators at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/default1.htm

Bob Jensen's Educator Helper Bookmarks at  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

From Infobits on September 30, 2002

RECOMMENDED READING

"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu  for possible inclusion in this column.

Two free, electronic newsletters devoted to distance learning issues came to my attention recently:

DESIEN [Distance Education Systemwide Interactive Electronic

Newsletter]

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien/  

Infobits subscriber Rosemary Lehman <email: lehman@ics.uwex.edu> edits DESIEN. The newsletter is published monthly by the University of Wisconsin-Extension <http://www1.uwex.edu/>. Each issue offers original articles which emphasize distance education themes. News, updates, conference information, and contributions by subscribers are also regularly included. Subscription information is included on the DESIEN homepage.

[Note: the August 2002 issue includes the article, "Electronic Content Accessible for Distance Learners with Disabilities," by the CIT Infobits editor. The article is available at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien/2002/0208/focus.htm]

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SIDEBARS

http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/index.htm

Infobits subscriber Glenn Millar <email: Glenn_Millar@bcit.ca> co-edits SideBars. The newsletter is published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology to provide "useful information and news items for instructors, course developers, educational technologists and anyone else who has an interest in distributed learning in its various manifestations." Subscription

information: http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html

From C-SPAM
Booknotes (with audio and video) http://www.booknotes.org 

Booknotes, 
C-SPAN's signature author interview program, has served as a forum for books about history, politics and public affairs for a dozen years. C-SPAN's unedited, commercial-free format, allows for an in-depth discussion with an author distinct from other author interview programs.

The format is simple: one author, one book, one hour. For a full hour every Sunday night, fifty-two weeks a year, an author discusses their recently-released work of non-fiction. Beyond the book's subject matter, authors are also queried about the writing process, about how and why they came to write their book and their own lives and influences. Authors may appear on Booknotes only once in their writing career.

The host of the program since its inception is C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb. With over 630 author interviews since 1989 consisting of heads of state, war correspondents, biographers, scholars, generals and peacemakers, Lamb's Booknotes provides a variety of perspectives for its viewers. Guests have included Colin Powell, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Neil Sheehan, Martin Gilbert, Jean Strouse, Betty Friedan, and Henry Louis Gates.

Mr. Lamb is also the author of three collections of Booknotes interviews, the latest of which is Booknotes: Stories from American History.

Writers and journalist have had this to say about the Booknotes program:

In a USA Today article, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam called the program "wonderful," adding it "connects serious writers in a highly-civilized way to serious readers out there."

The Los Angeles Times called the program "unique," stating "Long before Oprah discovered reading and the mass market for books, Brian Lamb was serving up a special kind of journalism that lets writers talk - and talk and talk - with little or no interruption."

C-SPAN, the political network of record, was created in 1979 by America's cable companies as a public service. C-SPAN is currently available in 82 million households, C-SPAN2 in 65 million households, and C-SPAN3 in nearly 4 million households nationwide. For more information about C-SPAN, visit our web site at c-span.org.

A Great Free Service for Researchers

From the University of Maryland Libraries --- http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html 

The Virtual Technical Reports Center

EPrints, Preprints,  & Technical Reports on the Web

Welcome to the Virtual Technical Reports Center! The Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web.  This site  contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.  Some metasites are  listed by subject categories, as well as by institution.  This site will be updated monthly. Please email the author, Gloria Lyles Chawla, gc9@umail.umd.edu,with suggestions for additional links.

 

I am making the presentation files and the audio files of CPE Session No. 1 available for free downloads at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/001cpe/01start.htm

The speakers are all on the leading edge of accounting and education technology. You can find out the latest updates from the radically-different distance education pedagogy of the new Canadian Chartered Accountancy School of Business, the online courses from UNext and Cardean University, the Prentice-Hall supplements for a popular basic accounting textbook, and the world's greatest effort to develop a knowledge portal (Fathom).

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Wow Multimedia Site 

Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/plagiarism.htm 

An Award Winning Copyright Website --- http://www.benedict.com/ 
Includes MP3 Audio, MPEG Video, an online service for obtaining a copyright for your Website materials, and advice for copyrights of software.

This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net. Launched on May Day '95, the Copyright Website strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery. As spice is to Dune, information is to the Web; the spice must flow. Or, if you prefer another metaphor, take the blue pill and I'll show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes...

Drafting a Faculty Copyright Ownership Policy http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=982 

Many colleges and universities are either considering ways to revise their existing copyright policies or drafting new policies. A copyright policy encompasses both the use of copyrighted works owned by third parties and the ownership of works generated by faculty, staff and students within an institution. The purpose of an ownership policy should be to encourage research, scholarship and the dissemination of knowledge; thus, the ownership model the school adopts should further this purpose.

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I got up earlier than Bob Jensen so you get this email from me instead of the other Bob.

The Web site below is very interesting on several levels.

http://www.CampusTours.com/ 

The site allows one to see a photo album of 800 college campuses.

From time to time I have the opportunity of going to a campus that I have not visited before. This web site allows the chance to "see" the campus before going.

It also shows what some schools are doing to "show off" their institution.

The campus tours site also lists those schools that have web cams, campus maps, videos, and VR tours. Trinity was one of the first to have a VR tour.

Give it a quick look if you like to see what the other guys are doing and look like.

Bob Blystone

Robert V. Blystone, Ph.D. 
Professor of Biology 
Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 78212 
rblyston@trinity.edu  210-999-7243 FAX 210-999-7229

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National Academy Press: Scientific Inquiry in Education http://www.nap.edu/books/0309082919/html/ 

i-xiii
Executive Summary	1-6
1 Introduction	7-18
2 Accumulation of Scientific Knowledge	19-34
3 Guiding Principles for Scientific Inquiry	35-56
4 Features of Education and Education Research	57-68
5 Designs for the Conduct of Scientific Research in Education	69-90
6 Design Principles for Fostering Science in a Federal Education Research Agency	91-112
References	113-138
Appendix: Biographical Sketches, Committee Members and Staff

 

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CPE SESSION 1 - August 11, 2001
American Accounting Association, Atlanta, Georgia

Good vs. Bad Online Content for Learning: How the Pros Design, Author, Test, and Deliver Knowledge Portals and Online Courses for Prestigious Universities and Online Supplements for Publishing Companies

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/001cpe/01start.htm

I hope these files are helpful to all persons seeking to know what the pros in this business undertaking at the moment.

 

Links to Bob Jensen's Workshop Documents on Education and Learning

Bob Jensen's Education and Learning Bookmarks	Bookmarks
The Shocking Future of Education	First File Second File
E-Learning and Distance Education's Top  (Award-Winning) Illustrations	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Cross-Border (Transnational) Training and Education (Includes helpers for finding online training and education courses, certificate programs, and degree Programs)	Detail File
Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade	First File Second File
The Dark Side of the 21st Century: Concerns About Technologies in Education	Detail File
Assessment Issues, Case Studies, and Research	Detail File
History and Future of Course Authoring Technologies	Detail File
Knowledge Portals and Vortals	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Advice to New Faculty (and Resources)	Detail File
Threads of Online Program Costs and Faculty Compensation	Detail File
Bob Jensen's Helper Videos and Tutorials	Detail File
Jensen and Sandlin Book entitled Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education (both the 1994 and 1997 Updated Versions)	Old Book
Some Earlier Papers Working Paper 265 on Metacognition Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training: Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success? http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm Working Paper 255 on Asynchronous Learning Networks Using Asynchronous Network Courses to Bridge Gaps in the Teeth of a University Curriculum With Imported Gold: Bridgework May Be Optimally Effective Only by Incurring High Labor Expenses http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
Additional Links and Threads	Threads

 

 

Governmental Agencies and Information

Where is a good place to start when searching for a U.S. Governement Web site?
Answer:  FirstGov at http://www.firstgov.com/ 

Yahoo Government --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/ 

National Center for Education Statistics

Projections of Education Statistics to 2011 --- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfor.asp?pubid=2001083 

Total public and private elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase from 52.9 million in 1999 to 53.4 million in 2005. Then total enrollment is projected to decrease to 53.0 million by 2011, an overall increase of less than 1 percent from 1999 (table 1). Between 1999 and 2011, public elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase 8 percent in the West, while in the South it will increase 1 percent. In the Northeast and Midwest, enrollment is projected to decrease 4 and 3 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 5). Enrollment in degree-granting institutions is projected to increase from 14.8 million in 1999 to 17.7 million by 2011, an increase of 20 percent. A 16 percent increase is projected under the low alternative and a 23 percent increase is projected under the high alternative (table 10). High school graduates from public and private high schools are projected to increase from 2.8 million in 1998-99 to 3.1 million by 2010-11, an increase of 11 percent. This increase reflects the projected rise in the 18 year-old population (table 23). Between 1998-99 and 2010-11, the number of public high school graduates is projected to increase 20 percent in the West, while the South will increase 12 percent. The Northeast and the Midwest are projected to increase 11 and 2 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 24). The number of bachelor's degrees is expected to increase from 1,184,000 in 1997-98 to 1,392,000 by 2010-11, an increase of 18 percent (table 27). Under the middle alternative, a 34 percent increase in current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools is projected for the period from 1998-99 to 2010-11. Under the low alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 29 percent; under the high alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 40 percent (table 33). Under the middle alternative, current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment are forecast to increase 33 percent in constant dollars from 1998-99 to 2010-11 (table 33). Download, view and print the entire report as a pdf file (937kb).

 

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ 

Features IPEDS Web-Based Data Collection allows institutions to provide NCES with the required statistical data, replacing the paper survey forms that have been used in past years. IPEDS Peer Analysis System and Self-guided Tutorials enables a user to easily compare a LinchPin institution of the user’s choosing to a group of peer institutions, by generating reports using selected IPEDS variables of interest. IPEDS College Opportunities On-line (COOL) presents data on institution prices, financial aid, enrollment, and type of programs that are offered by the institution. IPEDS COOL is designed to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college.

 

College Opportunities Online --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/ 

IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here. College Opportunities On-Line is brought to you by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education. NCES was authorized by Congress in 1998 to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college. College Opportunities On-Line helps you find out about a specific college or set of colleges, if you have some in mind. You can name the colleges and obtain information about them. If you are not sure what colleges might be of interest, IPEDS COOL has the tools to help you search for a college. You can search for a college based on its location, program, or degree offerings either alone or in combination. The more criteria you specify, the smaller the number of colleges that will fit your criteria. Once you've found some colleges of interest, you can obtain important and understandable information on all of them. Once you have determined the colleges that meet your interests, we urge you to obtain more information about them by visiting their web sites, writing for more information, or visiting the schools of your choice. Warning: An institution's inclusion in IPEDS COOL does NOT imply approval of the institution or its programs by the U.S. Department of Education. Title IV eligible schools (those that participate in awarding Pell Grants and other federal financial aid) have recognized accreditation. This is important for acceptance of transfer credit or degree recognition. Other College Related Links Contact the IPEDS Staff

Academic careers --- http://www.academiccareers.com/

Evaluation of Information Sources --- http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm 

American Library Association (ALA) --- http://www.ala.org/ 

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education --- http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html 

Introduction Information Literacy Defined Information Literacy and Information Technology Information Literacy and Higher Education Information Literacy and Pedagogy Use of the Standards Information Literacy and Assessment Standards, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes Appendix I: Selected Information Literacy Initiatives  Task Force Members: Developing the Information Literacy Competency Standards

Association of College and Research Libraries --- http://www.ala.org/acrl/ 

Government

FedWorld --- http://www.fedworld.gov/ 
FirstGov (over 30 million government Web pages) --- http://www.fedworld.gov/firstgov.html 
U.S. Government Information --- http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/godc/database/govdb.htm 
Government Documents --- http://lib.trinity.edu/servcols/govdocs/ 
Government Information and Maps --- http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/  
U.S. Federal Government Gray Literature --- http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ 
Public Records and by State --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 
Politics and Government --- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html  
Also see Yahoo at http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/ 

Census Information --- http://www.peoplefind.com/frames/freeresources/govdataindex.htm 
Also see http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/ 

Trinity University Library --- http://lib.trinity.edu/ 

Quest --- New Databases --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/new_databases.htm  

Databases for Trinity Students, Faculty, and Staff --- http://lib.trinity.edu/dbs/dbs.asp 

eJournals, Electronic Journals --- http://www3.tdnet.com/trinity/ 
Also see http://sharewareconnection.com/play/402000index.html 

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory --- http://lib.trinity.edu/dbs//dbs.asp#U 

Michael Kaminski --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/ 

Research Tips --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/research_tips.htm 

New Databases --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/new_databases.htm 

Information Databases

Free Database Links --- http://www.docx.com/freedb.htm 

Multiple International and Historical Databases (including Encyclopedias and Photographs) --- http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/databases.htm 

Global (Music, Literature, etc.)--- http://www.isop.ucla.edu/lac/bibliography-databases.htm 

Academic Gateway --- http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/sources.html 

University of Wisconsin Core Databases and Journals --- http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/coreguide/corelist.htm 
Also see http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Instruction/jaid.htm 

Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives --- http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=basic 

Baker Library (Harvard Business School) Electronic Resources --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/abouta.htm 

Business Information Databases --- http://www.ficci.com/ficci/Databases/databases.html 

Biographical Databases --- http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/biography/ 

Biomedical --- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases.html 
Drug Information --- http://matweb.hcuge.ch/Medical_search/Drugs_pharmacology_pharmacy.html 
Drug Information --- http://www.coreynahman.com/medicalinfodatabases.html 
Drug Information --- http://library.pbac.edu/drug_information_databases.htm 
UNC Health Sciences --- http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/degrant/introduction.htm 
Health --- http://chid.nih.gov/ 
Dorland Healthcare Information --- http://www.healthcare-info.com/database.htm 
Pesticides --- http://ace.orst.edu/info/npic/tech.htm 

Business Databases --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Information/Databases/ 

Internet and Information Systems --- http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/ 

Public Records and by State --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 

Government Information and Maps --- http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/ 

Legal Information Databases --- http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwlib/subject/legal/databases.html 

Politics and Government --- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html 

Restaurants and Diets --- http://businesstravel.about.com/cs/restaurants/ 

Country of Origin and Legal Information --- http://www.unhcr.ch/research/rsd.htm 

Internet Public Library (from the University of Michigan) --- http://www.ipl.org/ 
20,000 electronic texts, and an annotated guide to web sites

Bob Jensen's Guide to Economic Statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics 
Economic and Demographic Statistics --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 
From New Zealand (Statistical Information Databases) --- http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/webpages/statsdb.htm 
Baker Library (Harvard Business School) Electronic Resources --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/abouta.htm  

Sociology Databases and Other Great Links --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/ 

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm 

Primary Sources 

Enter "Primary Sources" into Exact Phrase at http://www.google.com/advanced_search 

ORB --- http://orb.rhodes.edu/library.html 

Gray Literature (hard to find documents)

Enter "Gray Literature" into Exact Phrase at http://www.google.com/advanced_search 

U.S. Federal Government Gray Literature --- http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ 

Shareware and eBooks ---  http://sharewareconnection.com/play/402000index.html 

| Brooks AFB - Armstrong Laboratory | Military and USS Wisconsin Battleship  | Miscellaneous Governmental Agencies and Information |

Law, Murder, Plagiarism, and Legislation

| Law | Fair Use Guidelines, Copyrights, and Patents | Miscellaneous Law Links | Plagiarism, Citation Guides,  and Copyright Law, Including Fair Use Safe Harbors |  SEC | Taxation | Web Censorship and Libel |

Libraries and E-books

| Virtual Libraries | Miscellaneous Libraries | Coding Project --- An Appeal for Greater Efficiency in Web Searches | News, Magazines, and Publishing Firms |

Search for Library and Reference Databases 

Evaluation of Information Sources --- http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm 

American Library Association (ALA) --- http://www.ala.org/ 

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education --- http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html 

Introduction Information Literacy Defined Information Literacy and Information Technology Information Literacy and Higher Education Information Literacy and Pedagogy Use of the Standards Information Literacy and Assessment Standards, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes Appendix I: Selected Information Literacy Initiatives  Task Force Members: Developing the Information Literacy Competency Standards

Association of College and Research Libraries --- http://www.ala.org/acrl/ 

Government

FedWorld --- http://www.fedworld.gov/ 
FirstGov (over 30 million government Web pages) --- http://www.fedworld.gov/firstgov.html 
U.S. Government Information --- http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/godc/database/govdb.htm 
Government Documents --- http://lib.trinity.edu/servcols/govdocs/ 
Government Information and Maps --- http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/  
U.S. Federal Government Gray Literature --- http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ 
Public Records and by State --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 
Politics and Government --- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html  
Also see Yahoo at http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/ 

Census Information --- http://www.peoplefind.com/frames/freeresources/govdataindex.htm 
Also see http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/ 

Trinity University Library --- http://lib.trinity.edu/ 

Quest --- New Databases --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/new_databases.htm  

Databases for Trinity Students, Faculty, and Staff --- http://lib.trinity.edu/dbs/dbs.asp 

eJournals, Electronic Journals --- http://www3.tdnet.com/trinity/ 
Also see http://sharewareconnection.com/play/402000index.html 

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory --- http://lib.trinity.edu/dbs//dbs.asp#U 

Michael Kaminski --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/ 

Research Tips --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/research_tips.htm 

New Databases --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkaminsk/new_databases.htm 

Information Databases

Free Database Links --- http://www.docx.com/freedb.htm 

Multiple International and Historical Databases (including Encyclopedias and Photographs) --- http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/databases.htm 

Global (Music, Literature, etc.)--- http://www.isop.ucla.edu/lac/bibliography-databases.htm 

Academic Gateway --- http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/sources.html 

University of Wisconsin Core Databases and Journals --- http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/coreguide/corelist.htm 
Also see http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Instruction/jaid.htm 

Baker Library (Harvard Business School) Electronic Resources --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/abouta.htm 

Business Information Databases --- http://www.ficci.com/ficci/Databases/databases.html 

Biographical Databases --- http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/biography/ 

Biomedical --- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases.html 
Drug Information --- http://matweb.hcuge.ch/Medical_search/Drugs_pharmacology_pharmacy.html 
Drug Information --- http://www.coreynahman.com/medicalinfodatabases.html 
Drug Information --- http://library.pbac.edu/drug_information_databases.htm 
UNC Health Sciences --- http://www.hsl.unc.edu/lm/degrant/introduction.htm 
Health --- http://chid.nih.gov/ 
Dorland Healthcare Information --- http://www.healthcare-info.com/database.htm 
Pesticides --- http://ace.orst.edu/info/npic/tech.htm 

Business Databases --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Information/Databases/ 

Internet and Information Systems --- http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/ 

Public Records and by State --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 

Government Information and Maps --- http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/govdoc/ 

Legal Information Databases --- http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwlib/subject/legal/databases.html 

Politics and Government --- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html 

Restaurants and Diets --- http://businesstravel.about.com/cs/restaurants/ 

Country of Origin and Legal Information --- http://www.unhcr.ch/research/rsd.htm 

Internet Public Library (from the University of Michigan) --- http://www.ipl.org/ 
20,000 electronic texts, and an annotated guide to web sites

Bob Jensen's Guide to Economic Statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics 
Economic and Demographic Statistics --- http://www.pac-info.com/ 
From New Zealand (Statistical Information Databases) --- http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/webpages/statsdb.htm 
Baker Library (Harvard Business School) Electronic Resources --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/abouta.htm  

Sociology Databases and Other Great Links --- http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/ 

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm 

Primary Sources 

Enter "Primary Sources" into Exact Phrase at http://www.google.com/advanced_search 

ORB --- http://orb.rhodes.edu/library.html 

Gray Literature (hard to find documents)

Enter "Gray Literature" into Exact Phrase at http://www.google.com/advanced_search 

U.S. Federal Government Gray Literature --- http://www.osti.gov/graylit/ 

Shareware and eBooks ---  http://sharewareconnection.com/play/402000index.html 

Miscellaneous Interesting Sites

From The Scout Report on February 22, 2002 

Columbia Newsblaster http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/ 

With a team of researchers headed by Prof. Kathy McKeown, Columbia Newsblaster is an online project at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Newsblaster currently looks at news reports from thirteen sources, including Yahoo, ABCNews, CNN, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Virtual New York, Washington Post, Wired, and USA Today. The product uses artificial intelligence techniques to cull through news reports published online and then sorts and summarizes these reports in five different news categories -- US, world, finance, entertainment, and sports. These summaries are based on reflecting factors, such as where a fact is mentioned in the published reports and how often it is repeated across reports dealing with the same event or subject. They are also based on the news value of individual facts, such as how many were killed or injured, or how much damage to property occurred. On the whole, in an age of information overload, this newly developed tool may provide assistance to journalists, executives, and average news consumers.

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Lycos free foreign language translations online http://translate.lycos.com/ 

Librarian's Index to the Internet --- http://lii.org/ 

Arts - Architecture | Museums | Performing | more... Automobiles - Motorcycles Business - Investing | Taxes | more... California - Government & Politics | - San Francisco Bay Area | - Southern California | - more... Computers - Software | Viruses | more... Cultures (World) - Anthropology | Africa | Asia | Europe | LatA | MidE | NorA Disabled - more... Education - Distance | K-12 | Colleges | Aid | more... Families - Best places | Homes Food - Recipes | Restaurants | more... Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Geography - more... Government - Federal | International | more... Health - Diseases | Nutrition | more...

History - Genealogy | Ancient | Medieval | Military | U.S. Images - Clip Art, Graphics, Pictures Internet - E-mail | Evaluating | Filtering | Training | more... Jobs - Listings | Resumes | more... Kids - Fun | Health | Homework | Net Safety | Parents | Teachers Language - English | Spanish | more... Law - Censorship | Copyright | Crime | more... Libraries - Public | for Librarians Literature - Authors | Genres | Publishers | more... Media - News | Newspapers | Periodicals | Radio | TV Medicine - Diseases | more... Men - Health Music - Jazz | Lyrics | Rock | more... Organizations - Associations | Nonprofits

People - Collected Biographies Politics - Elections | more... Recreation - Games | Gardening | Movies | Outdoor | Pets | more... Reference Desk - Almanacs | Dictionaries | Holidays | Phone Books | Statistics | more... Religion & Philosophy - Christianity | Islam | Judaism | Mythology | Philosophy | more... Science - Animals | Astronomy | Environment | Math | Technology | more... Searching the Internet - more... Seniors Sports - Baseball | Olympics | Tennis | more... Travel - Lodgings | Places | Transportation | more... Weather - Tides | more... Women - Health | History | Politics | Studies

 

Internet Companies Directory (A Partial Listing)

COMPANY	DESCRIPTION	URL
e-Retail (consumer products and services)
1-800 Contacts	Contact lenses	http://www.1800contacts.com/
Alloy Online	Goods for teens	http://www.alloy.com/
Amazon.com	Books, music, electronics	http://www.amazon.com
Autobytel.com	New, used car guide	http://www.autobytel.com/
Barnesandnoble.com	Books, music	http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Drugstore.com	Medical products	http://www.drugstore.com/
eBay	Auctions	http://www.ebay.com/
Egghead.com	Computer products	http://www.egghead.com/
Expedia	Travel planning	http://www.expedia.com/
Hotel Reservations Network	Discounted hotel rooms	http://www.180096hotel.com/
Priceline.com	Travel reservations	http://www.priceline.com/
Stamps.com	Postage	http://www.stamps.com/
Ticketmaster	Guides, tickets	http://www.ticketmaster.com/
Travelocity.com	Travel reservations	http://www.travelocity.com/
e-Finance (banks, brokerages and credit companies)
Ameritrade	Securities broker	http://www.ameritrade.com/
Charles Schwab	Securities broker	http://www.schwab.com/
CSFBdirect	Securities broker	http://www.csfbdirect.com/
E-Trade	Securities broker	http://www.etrade.com
IndyMac Bancorp	Mortgage lender	http://www.indymacbank.com/
Intuit	Personal finance info	http://www.intuit.com/
NetBank	Consumer banking	http://www.gefn-compubank.com/
NextCard	Consumer credit	http://www.nextcard.com
TD Warehouse	Securities broker	http://www.tdwaterhouse.com/
Wit SoundView	Securities broker	http://www.witsoundview.com/
e-New Media (advertising/subscription-supported media)
AOL Time Warner	Consumer content	http://www.aoltimewarner.com/
Ask Jeeves	Search engine	http://www.ask.com/
Cnet Networks	Technology content	http://www.cnet.com/
HomeStore.com	Real estate content	http://www.homestore.com/
HotJobs.com	Career content	http://www.hotjobs.com/
InfoSpace	Wireless content	http://infospace.com/
MarketWatch.com	Financial content	http://cbs.marketwatch.com/
McAfee.com	Computer protection	http://mcafee.com/
MP3.com	Music content	http://www.mp3.com/
Multex.com	Financial content	http://www.multexusa.com/
NBC Internet	Consumer content	http://www.nbci.com/
SportsLine.com	Sports content	http://sportsline.com/
Terra Lycos	Consumer content	http://www.terralycos.com/
TheStreet.com	Financial content	http://www.thestreet.com/
Apollo Group U of Phoenix Online	Education content	http://www.ipopros.com/histdeal_pla.asp?deal=2285
Yahoo	Web guide	http://www.yahoo.com/
e-Access providers (connections to the Internet)
Aether Systems	Wireless Internet access	http://www.aethersystems.com/
Excite At Home	Internet access	http://www.excite.com/
EarthLink	Internet access	http://www.earthlink.net/
Juno Online Services	Internet access	http://www.juno.com
Metricom	Wireless Internet access	http://www.metricom.com/ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please be advised that Metricom has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
NetZero	Internet access	http://www.netzero.net/
Prodigy Communications	Internet access	http://www.prodigy.com/
RCN	Internet access	http://www.rcn.com/
Research in Motion	Wireless Internet access	http://www.rim.net/
WorldGate Communications	Internet access	http://www.wgate.com
e-Learning providers (corporate) For more details go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm
Caliber	Training and executive dev.	http://www.caliber.com/
Pensare	Executive development with plans for degree programs in partnership with prestige universities	http://www.pensare.com/
UNext	Executive development and for-credit programs through UNext's Cardean University and in partnership with prestige universities	http://www.unext.com/
Smart Force	Executive development	http://www.smartforce.com/
Quisic	Content development, executive development, and for-credit courses	http://www.quisic.com/  (Formerly called University Access)
Headlight (From CyberU)	Recreational learners and an online small business training center	http://www.cyberu.com/training/headlight/index.asp
OnlineLearning.net	Training and executive development and for-credit courses	http://www.onlinelearning.net/
University of Maryland University College	Training and executive development and for-credit courses	http://www.umuc.edu/
Fathom (headed by Columbia University in conjunction with many prestigious partners)	A huge knowledge portal that offers over 600 courses	http://www.fathom.com/index.jhtml
New York University Online	Training and executive development and for-credit courses	http://i5.nyu.edu/~jmm282/nyupage.html
University of Phoenix	Training and executive development and for-credit courses (The largest accredited private university in the world.)	http://www.phoenix.edu/index_open.html
The Kaplan Colleges	Training and executive development and for-credit courses (including the online Concord School of Law)	http://www.kaplancollege.com/
Sylvan Learning Systems	Training and executive development and for-credit courses (and testing centers)	http://www.sylvan.net/
Intellnex from Ernst & Young (the first Big 5 accounting firm university)	Training and executive development	http://www.intellinex.com/flash/index.htm
Many other corporate providers are discussed in a book that can be downloaded free: The Business of Borderless Education, by S.C. Cunningham, et al., (Australian Department of Education, Evaluations and Investigations Programme of the Higher Education Division, 2000).  Hard Copy ISBN 0 642 44446 3 and Online Copy ISBN 0 642 44447 1 --- http://www.detya.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip00_3/bbe.pdf

Bob Jensen's documents on e-Learning are available free at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 
(Note that most prestige universities have already or are forming private corporations for online delivery of training, executive development, and for-credit courses)

How to find online training and education programs http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Bob Jensen's other bookmarks are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm 

 

 

Bookmarks are Listed Below

Education in General

Bob Jensen's updates on education technologies and learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 

AskEric Database --- http://ericir.syr.edu/ (Includes options to communicate live with experts)

Sad message of the January 30, 2004 Week from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]  

ERIC CLEARINGHOUSES CLOSE

After over thirty years of service, the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC Clearinghouses, and the AskERIC service, permanently closed at the end of December 2003. ERIC is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources. The Clearinghouses, stationed at various educational institutions, provided documents and reference services on educational topics ranging from Elementary and Early Childhood Education to Urban and Minority Education to Adult, Career, and Vocational Education.

The new ERIC uses one URL (http://www.eric.ed.gov) to:

-- search the ERIC database,

-- access the ERIC Calendar of Education-Related Conferences,

-- link to the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) to

purchase ERIC full-text documents, and

-- link to the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility to

purchase ERIC tapes and tools.

For other sites to distance education programs and resources around the world, go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) from the U.S. Department of Education at http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/ 

The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.

National Education --- The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040801ed-index.html 

Lingua Franca's Breakthrough Books --- http://www.linguafranca.com/bookworm/breakthrough/index.html 

In every issue of LF we ask the experts to recommend the breakthrough books in their field, those books that have defined a particular area of thought. Currently, we are in the process of making our entire archive of Breakthrough Books available on line. Not only can you read about the best books in all the subjects we've covered over the years, but you can also order them directly through our links to www.barnesandnoble.com .

Commentary from Yahoo

Lingua Franca, the rag of choice for academic types, presents this collection of seminal books that have "defined a particular area of thought." The creme de la creme, the top guns, the grande fromages -- these are the books that rule the schools. From Suburbia to Cognitive Science, the Welfare State to Neglected Fiction, these are the books that the brainiacs worship. And to shamelessly jump on the PBS bandwagon, you'll also find some great books on Jazz.

Topics

Aesthetics African-American Studies American Cinema American Literature The American West Anthropology Architecture Campaigns & Elections China The City The Classical World The Classics Cognitive Science Collective Memory Crime Dance Design Economic Disaster and Dysphoria Emotions The Environment Ethnomusicology Ethology Exploring the Universe Ex-Yugoslavia The Family Fashion Film Folklore Food and Eating Fundamentalism Geography History of Science The Home Intellectual History Intellectual Property The Internet and World Wide Web Intelligence and Security Studies International Relations Ireland Islamic Studies Jazz The Market Medieval Studies Medical Ethics Medicine Middle East Museum Studies Neglected Fiction Nuclear Weapons Opera The Postcommunist Condition Psychoanalytic Theory Race Reading Reference Books Spain and its Empire Suburbia Tourism Studies Technology and Higher Education Translations University Victorian Studies War The Welfare State

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Some Ethics Study Sites

Hi Dr. Jensen, 

We haven't met, but I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Kristin Oliver, and I am a counselor at Trinity's Counseling Services. I'm in the process of putting together a list of websites on a variety of psycho-social topics, and thought I'd pass one of the sites along to you! The site is a racism slideshow put out by the American Psychological Association. I used it as a required reading when I was teaching at the University of Hawaii last year, and my students loved it... I think it should be required reading for everyone! It's well-done and easy to navigate (the "next" button is in the upper right corner).

http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/homepage.html 

Aloha, 
Kristin Oliver

 

The Wikipedia page on ethics --- http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics 

Case Study Links --- http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/business/case_studies.html 

Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions --- http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hot/ethicsguide2.htm 

• Includes a free periodical (Perspectives on the Professions) hard copy mailed to your home or office.
  
  
• Ethics Across the Curriculum --- http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/eac/eac_index.html 
  
  
• Library --- http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/library/library.html 

LegalEthics.com --- http://www.legalethics.com/   (this cite is directed at the law profession)

Business Ethics magazine --- http://www.business-ethics.com/web-ethi.htm 

Centre for Applied Ethics --- http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/wsotw.html 

eldis --- http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hot/ethicsguide2.htm 

Ethics Case Studies (Chowan College) --- http://www.chowan.edu/acadp/ethics/studies.htm 

Virtual Ethics http://itrs.scu.edu/mcalkins/spring00/proposition209/perspectives.html  (at the philosophy studies level)

Center for Business Ethics (University of St. Thomas) --- http://www.stthom.edu/cbes/ 

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Techlearn 2001 at http://www.techlearn2001.com/ features the following learning system demonstrations.

Technical Learning Demos Linked at http://www.techlearn2001.com/ 

Product demos Building E-Business (Harvard Business School Publishing) Element K (Element K) KnowledgeNet EXPRESS (KnowledgeNet) KnowledgeNet INTERACTIVE (KnowledgeNet) KnowledgeNet LIVE (KnowledgeNet) learningVista (TM) - a new learning management solution (GlobalLearningSystems) Lectora Publisher (Trivantis Corporation) Microsoft LRN Courses (CyberstateU.com) (CyberStateU.com) MoneyMaker - The Simulator for Sales Professionals (Intermezzon) Oracle iLearning - Learning Community Management System (Oracle Corporation) Prime eLearning System™ (PrimeLearning.com™ ) SkillSoft NetUniversity, SkillPort and Web Based Courseware (SkillSoft ) VIS Custom e-Learning Services (VIS Corporation)

The Techlearn 2001 website also features a long listing of E-learning products and services at 
http://www.techlearn.net/elab/layout.cfm?header=mainheader&page=product_selector 

Assessment Tools
Associations
Audio Video Equipment
Auditing Tools
Books and Printed Materials
Collaboration Systems
Consulting Services
Courseware
Development Services
Enterprise Learning Systems
Instructional Design Services
Learning Management Systems
Learning Service Providers
Performance Support Systems
Simulations
Streaming Technology
Technology Delivered Learning
Testing
Videoconferencing
Virtual Classroom Systems

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College and Other School Finders

The easiest way to find a college's home page is to use Google at http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en 

Bob Jensen's search helpers for finding a the right college are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#education

College-HQ --- http://www.college-hq.com/

You can search for key words on a college's server using http://www.google.com/options/universities.html 

Bob Jensen's links to distance education training and education pages are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Boston College Center for International Higher Education --- http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/ 

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Law School Directory --- http://www.aboutlawschools.org/

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Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/

Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free).

I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

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June 29, 2007 message from StudentsReview [administrator@studentsreview.com]

I was browsing for resources for prospective students and I found your webpage. ("Bob Jensen's New Bookmarks for Quarter 2 in the Year 2001" http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book01q2.htm )

I see that you link to Usnews and Xap, and I was hoping that you might consider linking to StudentsReview ( http://www.studentsreview.com/  ) as well.

StudentsReview has collected 50,000 in-depth college reviews, which it provides freely to prospective students. Students can perform personalized rankings, learn about majors, and read up on campus news/life from over 150 student newspapers. StudentsReview has been mentioned by the Washington Post and is listed as #1 in Google for "College Reviews".

Here is how a student describes us: "I am a senior in high school, and I think that your site is one of the BEST I have seen online. Since it isn't just the brochure perfect things you see from the school, I actually get a more realistic hold on what the colleges are like. [...] Keep up the amazing work~!"

Please let me know -- Anything that we can do to help out students is much needed! Beracah

Beracah Yankama
beracah@studentsreview.com
Director, StudentsReview
http://www.studentsreview.com/

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College is Possible --- http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CIP1

College Is Possible (CIP) is the American Council on Education's K–16 youth development program that motivates middle and high school students from underserved communities to seek a college education. As the umbrella organization for higher education and a presidential association, the American Council on Education (ACE) is uniquely positioned to build a bridge between colleges and universities and their local K-12 community with commitment at the executive level. Resources

• Paying for College
• A Brief Look at Student Financial Aid Programs
• Basic Facts About College Prices and Student Aid
• Financial Aid Glossary
• Myths and Realities About Paying for College
• Recommended Web sites, Books, and Brochures
• Preparing for College
• A Guide for Parents: Ten Steps to Prepare Your Child for College
• Courses Students Should Take in Middle, Junior, and High School to Prepare for College
• Recommended Web sites, Books, and Brochures
• Choosing the Right College
• Search for Colleges
• College Admissions and Financial Aid Calendar
• College and University Web sites
• Recommended Web sites, Books, and Brochures

For distance education programs go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

 

A Comprehensive Guide to Universities, Colleges, and Schools Worldwide --- http://www.internationaleducationmedia.com

From T.H.E. Newsletter on April 14, 2004

The International Education Media site allows visitors to search for and learn more about educational opportunities abroad. The site contains an A-Z list of foreign countries that accept international students. For each country, the site has a listing of all the universities, colleges and schools that recruit international students, with many of these institutions providing contributed articles that give a more in-depth look at their school. Visitors to the site can also search for schools by educational topic and search through links for information about student visas.

The Taxonomy Warehouse is a fantastic search engine in terms of helpful categories --- http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/ 

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 

Finding Colleges, College Rankings, Financial Aid, and Online Programs

EServer --- http://eserver.org/academy/ 

A fee-based window to 75,000 providers of over 700,000 scholarships --- http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/ 

Revised Student Loan Site from the U.S. Department of Education Gets a Lot of Hits (50% increase in the first month of operation) --- http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ 

Bob Jensen's College Finder --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#EducationInGeneral 

Online Distance Education Training and Education Courses and Programs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Google Links to Colleges and Universities --- http://www.google.com/options/universities.html 

Search engine for education sites --- http://www.searchedu.com/  

 

AmericanCollegesand Universities

InterNIC Guide to U.S. Universities (Directory)

Yahoo! - Education:Higher Education:Colleges and Universities
Yahoo Links to Distance Learning Sites
Good links to education sites http://www.teleport.com/~hadid/bookmark_page.html

United Scholarship Foundation --- http://www.unitedscholarshipfoundation.org/ 

Sam Walton Community Scholarships --- http://www.walmartfoundation.org/wmstore/goodworks/scripts/index.jsp 

From Syllabus News on January 13, 2004

Wal-Mart Signs Capella U. as ‘Preferred’ Online Ed Provider

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, has signed a deal for Capella University to become the online education provider for its new My Education Connection program. Under the offering, Walmart customers can receive tuition discounts for online degree programs from Capella, which has 9,000 students and offers degrees and certificates to working adults in business, technology, education, human services, and psychology.

Online Training and Education Courses and Programs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Google Links to Colleges and Universities --- http://www.google.com/options/universities.html 

Search engine for education sites --- http://www.searchedu.com/  

 

Links to the "Best" Educator Web Sites

Welcome to NACUBO! 

Directories for Community Colleges

World-WideGraduate School Directory
Gradschools.com Directory of Graduate Programs

studyabroad.com Study Abroad Programs Directory

RankIt College Site (Student Opinions)

Internet Address Finder

Page Stage = Directories to K12 Web Sites

American Association of University Professors

InterNIC Guide to U.S. Universities (Directory)

AmericanCollegesand Universities

Collegescape - Admissions On-Line

Collegescape Home Page

Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes

Directories for Community Colleges

Welcome to the ETS Net

World-WideGraduate School Directory

AACSB Home Page

Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
US News Online Comparisons of Programs in Higher Education

Associated Colleges of the South

Collegescape Home Page

Education Solutions (Netscape)

GRADUATE SCHOOL GUIDE

NetSchool

New Chalk Vol.1, No.10 (Online Technology in Education Newsletter)

Page Stage

QuickReference for Education Materials (U. of Texas)

StudyWEB (Education, References, Links)

ELECTRONICLEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD

SimpleStart - UNC-CH (Training for Education Technology)

Society for Applied Learning Technology (Recommended by "Kimberlye P. Joyce"

HEPROC Home Page (Education Research ListServs)

Yahoo! - Education

Yahoo! - Education:Universities

Yahoo! - Regional:Countries:United States:Education:Colleges and Universities

College Rankings and other Statistices

Facts and statistics (Fast Facts) --- http://gwu.edu/~gprice/handbook.htm 

Find out what's new in U.S. Universities (added to monthly) http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/new  

Finding Colleges, College Rankings, Financial Aid, and Online Programs

Bob Jensen's updates on education technologies and learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 
Note especially the search helpers at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 

Guides to Distance Education Courses and Programs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

See the U.S. News service ways for finding college financial aid --- http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/040906/6stories.h.htm 

ADEC --- http://www.adec.edu / 

ADEC is:
an international consortium of state universities and land grant institutions providing high quality and economic distance education programs and services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies. Primary emphasis is on programs relating to:

• Food and Agriculture
• Children, Youth and Families
• Community/Economic Development
• Distance Education & Technology
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Nutrition and Health
• Others

 Common Application - The common application is one of the most helpful tools in the college application process. One hundred and ninety one colleges accept the common application, giving it the same weight as their own application. Some of them will even let you apply online. By using this site, you can buy yourself the time to perfect your application.
 US News & World Report: .edu - This site features all sorts of information relating to the college and graduate school search. You can find out where to get financial aid, search for scholarships, and take a look at the yearly school rankings. There is even an option that allows you to compare two schools head to head. Whatever you need in your college search, this site can make it easier. Developed by U. S. News and World Report.

• California Virtual University - A comprehensive listing of accredited colleges and universities that offer online and long distance courses.
• Channel 4000 Education - This site provides answers to many questions college bound students and their parents will have.
• College Board Online - Serving high schools, colleges, universities, students, and parents, this organization is a nationally recognized source of essential programs, services, and information in the areas of assessment, guidance, admissions, placement, financial aid, curriculum, and research.
• CollegeView - A free online college search service with profiles of 3,500+ colleges & universities, virtual tours, electronic applications, financial aid info, and career planning tools.
• CollegeXpress - The latest information on America's best private colleges and universities, including admissions, financial aid, and college life.
• FishNet, The College Guide - A good starting point for the college bound student.
• Kaplan's CollegeZine - This site offers analysis and tips for students taking the PSAT, SAT, and ACT college entrance exams. It also has information on financial aid, admissions, and freshman year success strategies.
• Mapping Your Future - Provides information and advice on many aspects of your future, including finding a school, funding school, and finding a job.
• Peterson's Education Center - A large database of K-12 programs, college programs, special schools, travel and employment information, and many other resources for students and educators.
• Scholar Stuff - A valuable resource, providing links to colleges and universities globally, graduate degree programs, scholarships, and financial aid. There is also information on fraternities and sororities.

School listings --- http://www.zapme.com/net/future/colleges/college_schoollistings.html

United States Schools Canadian Schools

International Schools

• Best of B-Schools - This site evaluates the best business schools in the country.
• Braintrack - A worldwide university index on the Internet with Internet addresses for universities, polytechnics, colleges, and other higher educational institutions from all over the world.
• Campus Tours - Provides virtual campus tours, campus maps, college videos, pictures, and more for campuses nationwide.
• College Home Pages World Wide - Links to over 3000 colleges and universities worldwide (listed alphabetically).
• Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Provides access to Internet resources developed by HBCU, as well as other educational materials of interest to HBCU. Also provides links to college home pages.
• Marr and Kirkwood's Official Guide to Business Schools - Offers a linked list of all the business schools in the world, GMAT information, and a rankings and ratings lists. Useful for finding information on international schools.
• MOLIS - Minority Online Information Source. Includes minority colleges and financial aid information.

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National Center for Education Statistics

Projections of Education Statistics to 2011 --- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfor.asp?pubid=2001083 

Total public and private elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase from 52.9 million in 1999 to 53.4 million in 2005. Then total enrollment is projected to decrease to 53.0 million by 2011, an overall increase of less than 1 percent from 1999 (table 1). Between 1999 and 2011, public elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase 8 percent in the West, while in the South it will increase 1 percent. In the Northeast and Midwest, enrollment is projected to decrease 4 and 3 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 5). Enrollment in degree-granting institutions is projected to increase from 14.8 million in 1999 to 17.7 million by 2011, an increase of 20 percent. A 16 percent increase is projected under the low alternative and a 23 percent increase is projected under the high alternative (table 10). High school graduates from public and private high schools are projected to increase from 2.8 million in 1998-99 to 3.1 million by 2010-11, an increase of 11 percent. This increase reflects the projected rise in the 18 year-old population (table 23). Between 1998-99 and 2010-11, the number of public high school graduates is projected to increase 20 percent in the West, while the South will increase 12 percent. The Northeast and the Midwest are projected to increase 11 and 2 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 24). The number of bachelor's degrees is expected to increase from 1,184,000 in 1997-98 to 1,392,000 by 2010-11, an increase of 18 percent (table 27). Under the middle alternative, a 34 percent increase in current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools is projected for the period from 1998-99 to 2010-11. Under the low alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 29 percent; under the high alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 40 percent (table 33). Under the middle alternative, current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment are forecast to increase 33 percent in constant dollars from 1998-99 to 2010-11 (table 33). Download, view and print the entire report as a pdf file (937kb).

 

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ 

Features IPEDS Web-Based Data Collection allows institutions to provide NCES with the required statistical data, replacing the paper survey forms that have been used in past years. IPEDS Peer Analysis System and Self-guided Tutorials enables a user to easily compare a LinchPin institution of the user’s choosing to a group of peer institutions, by generating reports using selected IPEDS variables of interest. IPEDS College Opportunities On-line (COOL) presents data on institution prices, financial aid, enrollment, and type of programs that are offered by the institution. IPEDS COOL is designed to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college.

 

College Opportunities Online --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/ 

IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here. College Opportunities On-Line is brought to you by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education. NCES was authorized by Congress in 1998 to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college. College Opportunities On-Line helps you find out about a specific college or set of colleges, if you have some in mind. You can name the colleges and obtain information about them. If you are not sure what colleges might be of interest, IPEDS COOL has the tools to help you search for a college. You can search for a college based on its location, program, or degree offerings either alone or in combination. The more criteria you specify, the smaller the number of colleges that will fit your criteria. Once you've found some colleges of interest, you can obtain important and understandable information on all of them. Once you have determined the colleges that meet your interests, we urge you to obtain more information about them by visiting their web sites, writing for more information, or visiting the schools of your choice. Warning: An institution's inclusion in IPEDS COOL does NOT imply approval of the institution or its programs by the U.S. Department of Education. Title IV eligible schools (those that participate in awarding Pell Grants and other federal financial aid) have recognized accreditation. This is important for acceptance of transfer credit or degree recognition. Other College Related Links Contact the IPEDS Staff

 

Financial Aid

Hi Scott,

For financial aid for your daughter, you will find a lot of links at http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Financial_Aid/

I also find the Wired Scholar helpful at http://www.wiredscholar.com/financing/content/index.jsp

Tuition Plans for each of the 50 states --- http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/dollars/dstuit.htm 

On April 16, the Digital Duo on PBS reviewed three websites for applying to college. Their recommendations are linked at http://www.digitalduo.com/214_dig.html

The US News helper website for college applicants at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/cohome.htm  Among other things, this website ranks both undergraduate and selected graduate programs. The US News site also has a service that will conduct a personalized search for each prospective student who is willing to provide SAT scores and high school ranking.

The clearinghouse for online applications is at Embark.com at https://apply.embark.com/  . This website is free, and works with many universities to apply directly online. Embark's service is free, but some schools charge $10 for electronic filing.

To find individual colleges, the Duo recommended Yahoo at http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/ 
(Bob Jensen also recommends http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm  (go to College and Other School Finders.) For online degree programs and courses, I maintain a helper guide at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245progs.htm

But the most complete financial aid information is at http://dir.yahoo.com/education/financial_aid/

Bob (Robert E.) Jensen Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212 Voice: (210) 999-7347 Fax: (210) 999-8134 Email: rjensen@trinity.edu  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen

-----Original Message----- From: Scott Bonacker [mailto:scottbonacker@MOCCPA.COM] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:52 AM To: CPAS-L@VAX.LOYOLA.EDU Subject: Paying costs of education - Sec 529 plans

I have a daughter looking at colleges and thinking about her future, and I am thinking about colleges as well. Here are two sites I've found that have been useful to me, and may be useful to others as well.

The Internet Guide to Section 529 Plans http://www.savingforcollege.com/

On that site, there are many links to articles as well as other sites dealing with the subject of paying for college. http://www.savingforcollege.com/links.htm

The National Association of State Treasurers sponsors a site called "College Savings Plan Network" http://www.collegesavings.org/

And there are links there as well. http://www.collegesavings.org/links.htm

Scott Bonacker, CPA McCullough, Officer & Company, LLC Springfield, Missouri moccpa.com

Students paying for college can get financial help from a new website, if they agree to pay investors a fixed percentage of their future income --- http://www.wirednews.com/news/school/0,1383,43977,00.html 

 

MyRichUncle claims to offer students an alternative method of paying for college. The site boasts a network of investors who will help finance a student's undergraduate or graduate education, and upon graduation, the student must pay the company a percentage of their income for up to 15 years.

 

The MRU Education Investment supplements other grants, scholarships or subsidized loans that students receive to pay for school.

Rate payments are determined by the type of program the student is in, the school they attend, the year of enrollment, work experience and other factors.

The company also plans to offer mentorship opportunities for students with MyRichUncle's network of investors.

The MyRichUncle site is at http://www.myrichuncle.com/ 

 

Related to this is "Dear Student:  We Pay If You Stay" at http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,38080,00.html 

 

Multinational companies with offices in Central Europe and Asia are quietly trying to plug the brain drain that's siphoning technical talent to the United States by offering to pay for the education of their best and brightest applicants

The catch: Students have to attend local schools and then work in their home countries for a specified period of time after graduation.

The United States is still the most popular destination for foreign students, drawing about 578,000 in the 1998-99 academic year, according to the Department of States International Information Programs.

But the number of foreign students attending college in the United States has been dwindling, according to SIIP. Five years ago, about 40 percent of all international students studied in the United States. Today, it's 32 percent.

The decline is attributed to aggressive recruiting problems in students' own countries and in others, especially in the computer science fields. The high cost of tuition at American colleges and universities is also to blame.

U.S. schools are battling back.

President Clinton recently suggested that "educational institutions, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and the business community" should "review the effect of U.S. government actions on the international flow of students and scholars as well as on citizen and professional exchanges, and take steps to address unnecessary obstacles, including those involving visa and tax regulations, procedures, and policies."

In response, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has eased work rules for foreign students. And some colleges are considering adjusting the amount of funds made available for grants to foreign students in order to fill in the gaps caused by weak exchange rates.

Colleges, Virtual Online Colleges, and Online Certificate Programs

Growth in Distance Education Programs and Implications for Federal Education Policy, Testimony Before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate, by Cornelia M. Ashby, September 26, 2002 --- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d021125t.pdf

Bob Jensen's links to worldwide distance training and education sites are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

Bob Jensen's threads on distance education are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 

Bob Jensen's updates on education technologies and learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm 

OKI and OCW:  Free sharing of courseware from MIT, Stanford, and other colleges and universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI 

American Association of Community Colleges http://www.aacc.nche.edu/ 

Portal to Asian Internet Resources --- http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/index.html 

A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources.

Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the PAIR Project is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University.

With a primary mission of providing direct access to online Asian information in native languages and scripts, the PAIR Project team also hopes to broaden access by offering users a suite of instructional resources on the use of Asian character sets and search engines.

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Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/

Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free).

I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

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Education Index --- http://www.educationindex.com/

Welcome to the Education Index®, an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about us, and about all that the Education Index has to offer.

The Web Weasel^SM is here to guide you through the site; you'll find "The Weas" (as we affectionately know it) mixing it up in the chemistry lab, providing health care, and running for office.

This section is a topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web. We're continually reviewing new sites and adding resources, and appreciate your comments and suggestions.

	Agriculture		Finance		Military Technologies
	Anthropology		General Reference		Music
	Archaeology		General Science		Parks & Recreation
	Architecture/Design		Geography		Performing Arts
	Art		Geology		Personal Services
	Astronomy		Health & Medicine		Philosophy
	Biology/Life Sciences		History		Physical Education
	Botany		Home Economics		Physics
	Business		Interdisciplinary Studies		Political Science
	Chemistry		Language		Protective Services
	Communications		Law		Psychology
	Computer Science		Liberal Arts & Sciences		Public Administration
	Conservation		Library Science		Sociology
	Construction Trades		Literature		Statistics
	Economics		Manufacturing		Technology
	Education		Marketing		Theology
	Engineering		Mathematics		Transportation
	Environmental Science		Mechanics		Women's Studies
	Ethnic/Cultural Studies

Bob Jensen's summary of distance education sites is provided at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm 

 

Yahoo's Distance Education Guide
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Distance_Learning/Colleges_and_Universities/  
Petersen's Distance Learning Page http://www.petersons.com/dlearn/  
Information About Distance Learning http://www.gwu.edu/~etl/programs.html  
Note Appendix 1 at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm  
Distance Learning, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. ERIC Digest by Kerka, Sandra
     http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed395214.html  

Accreditation Issues are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245prest.htm#Accreditation 

http://www.libraryspot.com/ 

Good links to education sites http://www.teleport.com/~hadid/bookmark_page.html
College Search Directories --- See Helpers, Directories
Yahoo! - Education:Higher Education:Colleges and Universities
Yahoo Links to Distance Learning Sites
Business and Finance  Welcome to NACUBO!
Yahoo - Business and Economy:Business Schools
US News Online Comparisons of Programs in Higher Education
Yahoo! - Education:Statistics
College Rankings and other Statistics
Asynchronous Learning Trends   

        Also download Dr. Stone's audio and presentation files from
        http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/000cpe/00start.htm

Facts and statistics (Fast Facts) --- http://gwu.edu/~gprice/handbook.htm 

AskERIC Toolbox
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology
LearnOnline (Professors can advertise courses for 50% cut)
College Rankings: USNews - edu
Get Into College: USNews - edu
Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews
Y-Life - America's 100 Most Wired Colleges
ANet People Database Welcome
ANet Australia home (International Accounting Network)
Collegescape - Admissions On-Line
Collegescape Home Page
Concord University School of Law

The Virtual Institute of Information

It is a good idea to track what is happening at Western Governors University
Penn State University's World Campus 101 http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu:8900/public/wc101/  

Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) at http://list.cren.net/
Excellence 21 - CQI in Academe and Elsewhere

Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

Florida International University (FIU)

Golden Gate University Cyberclasses

Human Interface Technology Lab Home Page

Kansas, Department of Philosophy

Kansas--The University of Kansas

Kent Information Services, Inc.
Welcome to Real Education (Online Education Programs)

Michigan State University

MIT EVAT Report - Models of the Future MIT

NYU Center for Advanced Technology

Purdue University

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

The University of Arizona Bookstore

Trinity University WWW Information Service

Univ. of Illinois - Beckman Institute Visualization Facility

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UNLV Colleges and Academic Units

Welcome to Golden Gate University

Welcome to Northern Michigan University

Collegescape - Admissions On-Line

Executive Summary - Learner Support Services of the Western Virtual University

Global Window Main Menu (Business Schools and Culture of Japan)

http://www.isworld.org/isworld.html

Index of /afs/athena/org/

Kennedy Western University

Motorola Search Results

NYU Center for Advanced Technology
California Virtual University

Search the Motorola Web

The MIT Home Page

WiscINFO Web Server

archipelago productions (Distributed Learning Courses)

CASO's Internet University (Links to Web Courses)

California Virtual University

Curtin University of Technology: Home Page (online virtual univeristy in Australia)

GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences

Golden Gate University Cyberclasses

Kennedy Western University

MIT EVAT Report - Models of the Future MIT

Price Waterhouse Coopers Home Education Network

Project at Texas Christian University

SkooMOO's Home Page

The Gemba Program - The Fuqua School of Business (online virtual education at Duke University)

10/20/97 THE HOTTEST CAMPUS ON THE INTERNET Business Week)

Master of Business Taxation Degree Program University of Minnesota

AudioWelcome and Tour Guide, McGraw-Hill World University

CUBEat Pennsylvania State University (Penn State, Irwin)

the NODE: Ontario's Network for Learning (Canada)

Learn with PBS

NIIT NetVarsity

UCLA Home Education Network

University of Phoenix Home Page

Virtual Classroom[tm]

Welcome to the Virtual School

Welcome to Virtual Online University and Athena University

New World Highway: Main Menu

The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning Index

VIRTUAL PLANET Main Menu

Virtual Planet: Campus Main Menu

Welcome to Spectrum's Virtual Planet!
Western Governors University

World Virtual University (with VRML)

Yahoo! - Education:Higher Education:Colleges and Universities
WebTV Network at http://www.webtv.net

March 5, 2003 message from B. Loveless [info@careeradvantage.org] 

Dear Professor Jensen,

I would like to know if it would be possible to place a link on your website linking to my websites, www.community-college.org  and www.university-directory.org . Both are free non-profit websites that provide visitors with a current and comprehensive directory of community colleges and universities throughout the United States. Updates to these websites are made on a regular basis to ensure site visitors the most current and accurate directory of community colleges and universities in their respective geographies. If it would be at all possible to place a link from your website to community-college.org and university-directory.org it would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Becton Loveless
http://www.community-college.org 
http://www.university-directory.org 

From Infobits: Survey of Distance Education Programs
According to a recent study published by Primary Research Group, Inc., an estimated 93 percent of distance learning (DL) programs in North American colleges and universities use email as their DL medium. The study, "The Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education," is based on a random sample of sixty-one college and university distance learning programs throughout the United States and Canada. The report provides a comparison of data reported in 1997 and 1998. Findings show that 36.68 percent of DL instructors in 1998 were adjunct faculty, compared with 1997 in which 27.34 percent of the instructors were adjunct faculty. Instructor/tutor salaries account for the highest percentage of the DL programs' total costs and expenditures -- 31.72 percent. In 1997, instructor/tutor salaries accounted for 37.21 percent of the total costs and expenditures. Other findings of the study include: · 86.96 percent of the programs operate at a profit, while 13.04 percent operate at a profit of greater than 50 percent. · Thirteen percent of the programs in public colleges and twenty-seven percent of the programs in private colleges have created new courses for DL, rather than reusing and retooling traditional courses for the DL programs. The table of contents for "The Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education, 1999 Edition" is available online at http://www.primaryresearch.com/distanc2.htm   . The full report costs $87.50, or $139.75 for both 1998 and 1999 Editions. Contact Gary Boas at 212-764-1579 to place an order. The Primary Research Group home page is at http://www.primaryresearch.com/  .

National Center for Education Statistics

Projections of Education Statistics to 2011 --- http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfor.asp?pubid=2001083 

Total public and private elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase from 52.9 million in 1999 to 53.4 million in 2005. Then total enrollment is projected to decrease to 53.0 million by 2011, an overall increase of less than 1 percent from 1999 (table 1). Between 1999 and 2011, public elementary and secondary enrollment is projected to increase 8 percent in the West, while in the South it will increase 1 percent. In the Northeast and Midwest, enrollment is projected to decrease 4 and 3 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 5). Enrollment in degree-granting institutions is projected to increase from 14.8 million in 1999 to 17.7 million by 2011, an increase of 20 percent. A 16 percent increase is projected under the low alternative and a 23 percent increase is projected under the high alternative (table 10). High school graduates from public and private high schools are projected to increase from 2.8 million in 1998-99 to 3.1 million by 2010-11, an increase of 11 percent. This increase reflects the projected rise in the 18 year-old population (table 23). Between 1998-99 and 2010-11, the number of public high school graduates is projected to increase 20 percent in the West, while the South will increase 12 percent. The Northeast and the Midwest are projected to increase 11 and 2 percent, respectively, over the same period (table 24). The number of bachelor's degrees is expected to increase from 1,184,000 in 1997-98 to 1,392,000 by 2010-11, an increase of 18 percent (table 27). Under the middle alternative, a 34 percent increase in current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools is projected for the period from 1998-99 to 2010-11. Under the low alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 29 percent; under the high alternative, current expenditures are projected to increase by 40 percent (table 33). Under the middle alternative, current expenditures per pupil in fall enrollment are forecast to increase 33 percent in constant dollars from 1998-99 to 2010-11 (table 33). Download, view and print the entire report as a pdf file (937kb).

 

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ 

Features IPEDS Web-Based Data Collection allows institutions to provide NCES with the required statistical data, replacing the paper survey forms that have been used in past years. IPEDS Peer Analysis System and Self-guided Tutorials enables a user to easily compare a LinchPin institution of the user’s choosing to a group of peer institutions, by generating reports using selected IPEDS variables of interest. IPEDS College Opportunities On-line (COOL) presents data on institution prices, financial aid, enrollment, and type of programs that are offered by the institution. IPEDS COOL is designed to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college.

 

College Opportunities Online --- http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/ 

IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here. College Opportunities On-Line is brought to you by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education. NCES was authorized by Congress in 1998 to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college. College Opportunities On-Line helps you find out about a specific college or set of colleges, if you have some in mind. You can name the colleges and obtain information about them. If you are not sure what colleges might be of interest, IPEDS COOL has the tools to help you search for a college. You can search for a college based on its location, program, or degree offerings either alone or in combination. The more criteria you specify, the smaller the number of colleges that will fit your criteria. Once you've found some colleges of interest, you can obtain important and understandable information on all of them. Once you have determined the colleges that meet your interests, we urge you to obtain more information about them by visiting their web sites, writing for more information, or visiting the schools of your choice. Warning: An institution's inclusion in IPEDS COOL does NOT imply approval of the institution or its programs by the U.S. Department of Education. Title IV eligible schools (those that participate in awarding Pell Grants and other federal financial aid) have recognized accreditation. This is important for acceptance of transfer credit or degree recognition. Other College Related Links Contact the IPEDS Staff

 

 

Western Governors University

It is a good idea to track what is happening at Western Governors University at http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/index.html

WGU is education's online "one-stop" shop. WGU is comprised of 31 education providers from around the United States who currently offer nearly 400 courses and two dozen complete degree programs through the WGU Catalog. There's even a doctoral degree available! Plus, WGU is offering 10 of its own unique competency-based degrees and certificates. Look here to see all the academic programs currently available through WGU's Catalog.

WGU's strategy at the higher education level resembles Mike Milken's Knowledge Universe strategy at the elementary and secondary education levels. i.e. a strategy of gobbling up the competition.  Whereas Mike Milken tends to buy up top competitors, WGU forms partnerships.   Although WGU primarily targets online courses to 21 states west of the Mississippi River, WGU formed a partnership with the North American division of the giant Open University in the United Kingdom to deliver courses east of the Mississippi River.  Some of WGU's other partners also deliver courses and programs all over the U.S.  Pricing is rather interesting.   For example, a masters degree from WGU costs a flat $3,000 tuition and is mostly comprised of courses from top universities.  Many of WGU's courses are certificate-level courses rather than academic credit courses.  However, certificate-level courses are probably the wave of the future in life-long learning (see below).

VRML and Surface Modelling

David J. Naples Home Page

David Naples' Bookmarks

Mathematical Surface Modeling and Visualization

SDSC

SDSC:A National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering

The VRML Repository

VRML Repository: Mathematics

VRML Repository: VRML Worlds

 

Directories for Educators

InterNIC Guide to U.S. Universities (Directory)

AmericanCollegesand Universities
Good links to education sites http://www.teleport.com/~hadid/bookmark_page.html

TITLE: U 101 College Search URL: http://U101.com/  (please note that we prefer to omit the www. bit) Description: Directory of college, community college, and university websites in the US and Canada. Lists over 3000 schools by state or province.

The University Pages

American Association of University Professors

Internet Connections

The Virtual Institute of Information

Collegescape - Admissions On-Line

Collegescape Home Page

Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes

Directories for Community Colleges

World-WideGraduate School Directory

AACSB Home Page

Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)

Associated Colleges of the South

Collegescape Home Page

Education Solutions (Netscape)

GRADUATE SCHOOL GUIDE

community of hosts home page

NetSchool

New Chalk Vol.1, No.10 (Online Technology in Education Newsletter)

Page Stage

QuickReference for Education Materials (U. of Texas)

StudyWEB (Education, References, Links)

ELECTRONICLEARNING IN A DIGITAL WORLD

SimpleStart - UNC-CH (Training for Education Technology)

Societyfor Applied Learning Technology (Recommended by "Kimberlye P. Joyce"

HEPROC Home Page (Education Research ListServs)
College Rankings: USNews - edu
Yahoo! - Education

Yahoo! - Education:Universities

Yahoo! - Regional:Countries:United States:Education:Colleges and Universities

College Rankings and other Statistices
Yahoo Education

Directory of (Education) Organizations http://ericdb.uoregon.edu/directory/ 

The Directory of Organizations in Educational Management, formerly a print only publication, is now available as an online database. The purpose of the Directory is to guide users to sources of information on a wide range of topics related to educational policy, management, leadership, and organization of K-12 schools. The Directory lists service and research organizations in this field. For each organization, the Directory gives the title, director's name, phone and fax numbers, address, purpose, scope of subject area, topics of publications, service policy, and other information.

Examples include:

Business Involvement in Education: Links to Related Sites

Clearinghouse on Educational Management. College of Education · University of Oregon

Trends & Issues, Instructional Personnel - Teacher Evaluation

Clearinghouse on Educational Management. College of Education · University of Oregon.        

Also see Helpers, Directories

Education Search Engines

The best place to start --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#EducationOrganizations 

Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) from the U.S. Department of Education at http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/ 

The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.

The Taxonomy Warehouse is a fantastic search engine in terms of helpful categories --- http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/ 

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 

Open Science Directory --- http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

This is mostly a site designed to help you search for help and other information on most any education-related topic, including education technology.

 

Education World (tm) Where Educators Go To Learn

StudyWEB (Education, References, Links)

InterNIC Guide to U.S. Universities (Directory)

Directories for Community Colleges

Welcome to the Digital Future Coalition
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)

Internet Connections

HEPROC Home Page (Education Research ListServs)

Microsoft in Higher Education - Commentary

Education World (tm) Where Educators Can Find Anything (Education, Search)
NCTLA

AskERIC Toolbox

From the Learning Edge
Tools4Teachers --- http://www.thelearningedge.com/t4t/index.htm 
A directory of recommended educational Web sites for educators, parents and their students.

 

Good links to education sites http://www.teleport.com/~hadid/bookmark_page.html

Education Solutions (Netscape)

Guide to finding resources of use

Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

Higher Education Database Search

http://lycos-tmp1.psc.edu/lycos-form.html?

http://www.sunspace.com/(Education Data)

http://www.sunspace.com/(Education Data)

ISWorld Net Home Page: Image Map

QuickReference for Education Materials (U. of Texas)

RankIt College Site (Student Opinions)

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)
Palladian Fall 1998

Today in History
dMarie Time Capsule

Web of Asyncrhronous Leaning Networks

Welcome to the ETS Net

Yahoo - Business and Economy:Business Schools

Your CASO Guide: The Internet University
Yahoo Education

Thank you Richard Meyer
Reveal is an automated alerting service that delivers the tables of contents of your favorite periodicals directly to your e-mail box. The UnCover Reveal service also allows you to create search strategies for your favorite topics. These search strategies are then run against the entire UnCover database of 17,000 periodicals, and weekly alerts on the latest articles published on the specified topics are also delivered to the your e-mail address.

The Coates Library has established a Reveal subscription for Trinity U. faculty only. Faculty can set up their own accounts by following the instructions below. Please ask for help from your liaison librarian if you encounter any problems setting up an account. Trinity faculty should go to http://www.trinity.edu/departments/library/reveal.html   . Everyone else can go to http://uncweb.carl.org/reveal/   (A single-user fee is $25 per year)

 

Higher Education News

Bob Jensen's Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Bob Jensen's New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

Open2 portal to learning
I think Open University in the U.K. is the largest university in the world. It has extensive onsite and online courses.  BBC News and Open University combined forces to create the Open2 portal to learning and news --- http://www.open2.net/
There are also various forums.

Bob Jensen's threads on cross border online programs are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm

 

Inside Higher Ed --- http://www.insidehighered.com/ 

Scout Report --- http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ 

University Business --- http://www.universitybusiness.com/ 

Professional Media Group LLC, located in Norwalk, Connecticut, publishes the following education related magazines: 

University Business is a publication for presidents and other senior officers at two- and four-year colleges and universities throughout the United States. University Business is circulated to 42,000 leaders who manage enrollment, technology, academic affairs and legislation. The magazine covers current and emerging trends in all areas of university and college management.

District Administration is for leaders in K-12 education. District Administration, which has a circulation of 75,000, is the only education magazine to reach every superintendent in the country, along with assistant superintendents, technology directors, school board presidents and federal funds administrators, among others. The magazine covers current trends and pressing issues in the K-12 education industry along with strong coverage of emerging technologies and leadership issues for district-level administrators.

488 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851 Phone: 203.663-0100 Fax: 203.663-0149

Bob Jensen's higher education bookmarks are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm 

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The Pew Hispanic Center --- http://www.pewhispanic.org/index.jsp 

The Pew Hispanic Center's mission is to improve understanding of the diverse Hispanic population in the United States and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation. The Center strives to inform debate on critical issues through dissemination of its research to policymakers, business leaders, academic institutions and the media.

 

Faculty and Program Performance Appraisal Trends

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm 

You may want to especially note the AACSB's  International Performance Indicators Project --- http://www.aacsb.edu/PerformanceIndicators/index.html 

The Performance Indicators Project focuses AACSB International resources on building the most comprehensive and complete database about business schools available anywhere. This database will be used to provide members with a customizable set of information products and services designed to support planning, budgeting and continuous improvement efforts. The online system, scheduled for launch in January 2001, will be available for use only to schools that provide data.

Certain data, specifically indicated in AACSB International surveys and questionnaires, also will be available via the AACSB International Web site to promote member schools to key stakeholders such as prospective students, employers and the media. The Web increasingly serves as the primary resource for prospective business faculty, students and employers. Participating schools also will be eligible for inclusion in exclusive AACSB International lists and other informational pieces designed to better inform stakeholders about business schools, accreditation and the management education industry.

AACSB International Newsline articles about the Performance Indicators Project 

• AACSB Expands Information Services Available to Members (PDF)
• New AACSB Data Collection System is in Development

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Performance Indicators Project – PDF 

This is also one of the topics covered in the American Accounting Association's benchmarking/partnering initiative.  See http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aaa/partners/partners.htm 

ACADEMIC PARTNERS will help your department improve through:

• A newsletter especially for program leaders
• Leadership Express, bi-weekly electronic bulletins alerting program leaders to the latest trends and issues in the field
• Electronic discussion groups led by experts in their areas. Share your expertise and interact with leading accounting educators.
• Opportunities to connect electronically with colleagues worldwide to discuss topics of relevance to you.
• Faculty and administrator development programs
• Discounted registration for midyear Annual Seminar of the AAA’s Accounting Programs Leadership Group (APLG)
• Toolkits, comprehensive collections of resources such as videotapes, books, bibliographies and CDs, on topics like assessment, faculty evaluation, active learning, and cognitive development and professional skills

You may want to track the new Leadership Express Newsletter at http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aaa/partners/vol1no1.htm 

Then if you really want to be overwhelmed, enter the phrase "Faculty Assessment" under the category "exact phrase" at http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Diploma Mill Frauds

Diploma Mill Frauds

Anyone with a modem and some spare cash can buy a fake degree over the Internet. But it's often difficult to distinguish between a legitimate distance-learning university and a diploma mill. "Down by the Diploma Mills Stream," by Kendra Mayfield, Wired News, August 28, 2002 --- http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54596,00.htm

 

Also see Helpers, Search Engines, Listservs, Chat Lines

Asynchronous Learning Issues

My main document on asynchronous learning issues is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm 

 

Also download Dr. Stone's audio and presentation files from http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/000cpe/00start.htm

 

Accreditation Issues are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245prest.htm#Accreditation 

 

EServer --- http://eserver.org/elab/ 

 

Metacognitive Concerns in Designs and Evaluations of Computer Aided Education and Training:
Are We Misleading Ourselves About Measures of Success?

Using Asynchronous Network Courses to Bridge Gaps in the Teeth of a University Curriculum With
Imported Gold: Bridgework May Be Optimally Effective Only by Incurring High Labor Expenses
The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Asynchronous Learning Magazine

Asynchronous Learning Trends
The Internet and Distance Learning in Accounting Education—IFAC
Yahoo Links to Distance Learning Sites

The Web of Asynchronous Learning Network

John Bourne's Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs)

Accounting Department Courses (University of Illinois)

Courses With Web Resource (University of Illinois)

SCALE Library (University of Illinois on Technology in Education)

Brad Stith's Message About Online Teaching of Biology

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources

The "No Significant Difference" Phenomenon (education technology, history)

Videre: A Journal of Computer Vision Research (MIT Press)

Western Governors University Awarded $500,000 Grant

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Home Page

Asynchronous Learning Networks

Western Governors University
California Virtual University

Stanford Online

The Virtual University (Washington Post on Distance Education)

The Web Chronicle - Web Chat Lines in Education
Memory: Memory Links

The innovative way that general education core courses are taught without lectures at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/miller_print/mm981009.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/05/05/fp51s1-csm.htm
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/science/www/Interactive_learning/classrooms.html
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/bp/oz/tsld011.htm (PowerPoint Slides)
You may want to read about the interesting way an Information Technology program is built around designated IT professors in virtually every academic department at Rensselaer:
http://www.rpi.edu/IT/

 

The May/June 1999 issue of Educom Review is available in hard copy and in electronic form at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm99/erm993.html . This issue has two articles about coaches versus teachers in education.   On Page 28, Don Norman states the following:

So the real trick in education is to provide just the right level of difficulty to allow learning to occur and not to allow frustration to occur.  If students are too frustrated, they will just give up.   I would like to see a much more interactive style of lecturing where professors become coaches as opposed to the source of all knowledge.

On Page 22, Peter Denning states writes as follows:

Nevertheless, many faculty feel disoriented as teachers in the world of multimedia, web-based modules, TV links, live-boards, chat rooms and other affects of information technology.  They have not been trained as coaches and managers and their institutions offer no significant development programs to help them learn; and yet at some point they will be evaluated more on the results produced by their students than on opinions of their faculty peers.  They are professionals but do not see that this is the primary reason that students come to them.  Herein lies the major opportunity for professional success of teachers.

To this I might add the problem of overcoming biases of students --- they expect teachers to teach rather than be "coaches and managers."  Even if their learning is superior and longer-lasting after being coached and managed, they may give low ratings to educators for not teaching.  Being taught, in viewpoint of many students, means not having to learn as much on their own and having to read less and sweat less.    Students seek out teachers who funnel feed great knowledge with masterful wisdom.  It is the hard-hearted and battle-scarred coach who can overcome the urge to be popular knowing that without pain there is not gain.   My more detailed comments about this are located at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

From Infobits: Survey of Distance Education Programs
According to a recent study published by Primary Research Group, Inc., an estimated 93 percent of distance learning (DL) programs in North American colleges and universities use email as their DL medium. The study, "The Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education," is based on a random sample of sixty-one college and university distance learning programs throughout the United States and Canada. The report provides a comparison of data reported in 1997 and 1998. Findings show that 36.68 percent of DL instructors in 1998 were adjunct faculty, compared with 1997 in which 27.34 percent of the instructors were adjunct faculty. Instructor/tutor salaries account for the highest percentage of the DL programs' total costs and expenditures -- 31.72 percent. In 1997, instructor/tutor salaries accounted for 37.21 percent of the total costs and expenditures. Other findings of the study include: · 86.96 percent of the programs operate at a profit, while 13.04 percent operate at a profit of greater than 50 percent. · Thirteen percent of the programs in public colleges and twenty-seven percent of the programs in private colleges have created new courses for DL, rather than reusing and retooling traditional courses for the DL programs. The table of contents for "The Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education, 1999 Edition" is available online at http://www.primaryresearch.com/distanc2.htm   . The full report costs $87.50, or $139.75 for both 1998 and 1999 Editions. Contact Gary Boas at 212-764-1579 to place an order. The Primary Research Group home page is at http://www.primaryresearch.com/  .

A Great Summary of Web Instruction Resources 
Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist --- http://inst.augie.edu/%7Egray/ 
Augustana College, 2001 Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD  57197
gray@inst.augie.edu, 605-274-4907 
For GREAT comprehensive listing of Web Instruction Resources, go to http://inst.augie.edu/~gray/WBI.html

Related Sites of Possible Interest

See the history of course authoring technologies at  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/290wp/290wp.htm 

Advice to New Faculty and Bob Jensen's Resource Summary can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/newfaculty.htm 

Bob Jensen's Helpers for Educators at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/default1.htm

MUD, MOO, MUSH Learning In Student-Created Settings

Dungeons and Dragons

MOO Hot-Spots

SkooMOO's Home Page

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)

VIRTUAL EDUCATION

Warwick Trek - MUSH Manual
Yahoo Internet Games (See MUD, MUSHes, MOO, etc. Section)

 

Ideas for Teaching Online (including Distance Education via Centra Symposium) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

Students Creating Their Own Learning Environments ---- See Web (MUD, MOO, MUSH)

Applications On-Line

"The Library of Congress Online for Educators," by Leni Donlan, Technology & Learning, March 2004, Page 20 --- http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17701379 

 

Collegescape Home Page

Welcome to the ETS Net

Audiopublishing
Good links to education sites http://www.teleport.com/~hadid/bookmark_page.html
LearnOnline (Professors can advertise courses for 50% cut)

UOL Publishing, Inc.

Education Solutions (Netscape)

Microsoft in Higher Education (Online Magazine)

New Chalk Vol.1, No.10 (Online Technology in Education Newsletter)

McLuhan-Wolfe Picture Puzzle Interview

Perseus Project Homepage

World Lecture Hall WLH - Computer Science

Academic Assistance Access

Academic Assistance Access - FAQ
The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Asynchronous Learning Magazine

Careers --- See Helpers, Careers

Classrooms, Electronic Classrooms, Hardware, Software

Tools of the Trade --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

Technology Aids for the Handicapped and Learning Challenged ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped

New voice-activated software makes computing much easier for quadriplegics. And the price is right, too.
"No Touch Typing for the Disabled," by Paulo Rebêlo, Wired News, December 25, 2002 --- http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55539,00.html 

In Brazil, physically disabled individuals may no longer need to buy expensive software to operate computers and surf the Web, thanks to a free application developed by programmers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

By downloading a program called Motrix, disabled people can read, write and interact with their computers using an embedded voice-recognition system. Motrix allows the user to perform nearly all computerized tasks, including playing games, and Motrix may be integrated with home automation services.

was created especially for quadriplegics, who number about 200,000 in Brazil, according to the most recent census.

Since quadriplegics cannot operate a computer without assistance, voice-recognition alternatives make life a bit easier, but they are usually quite expensive.

"Motrix changes this situation because it's free and doesn't have to be imported from another country," José Antônio dos Santos Borges, Motrix's main programmer, said.

The system was developed by the Electronic Computation Nucleus, or NCE, a group of technicians and engineers who have been creating adaptable software at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 1994.

Motrix is a revised version of Dosvox, which is known worldwide as one of the best adaptable software programs for the visually impaired.

Launched in 1993, Dosvox uses a low-cost voice synthesizer that evolved from a text editor created by Marcelo Pimentel Pinheiro, a blind computer

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Hi Jim,

Alternative electronic classroom systems are summarized at http://www.ala.org/acrl/is/projects/control.html 

At Trinity University, we are very happy with the Insight system, although this is not the cheapest of alternatives by any means. The Insight system allows us to project any computer in a classroom on the screen. It also allows for designation of groupings of computers for team work.

The Insight system allows for the projection of the instructor's screen on every classroom computer. This makes it easier to read fine print. More importantly, students cannot be doing email, play games, or view any other software while the instructor is teaching from his or her own machine at the front of the classroom. At any point, however, the instructor can give control back to students, who will then return to whatever they were viewing before the instructor took contol of their monitors.

Hope this helps.

Bob Jensen

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim McKinney [mailto:jim@MCKINNEYCPA.COM]  
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 6:40 AM 
To: AECM@LISTSERV.LOYOLA.EDU 
Subject: Electronic Classroom Management Software

Do members of the list have suggestions regarding software solutions to the following issues regarding electronic classrooms: 1) Software that allows the instructor to broadcast his/her screen to classroom computers or to receive the image from their computers.

2) Limiting the applications the students have access to on a temporary basis. For example: I am teaching a segment on Access, I don't want the students using their e-mail. After the class is over I want to enable them to use their software again. Fo a test on the computer I do not want the students to access most software. 3) Limiting the sites a student may go to on a temporary basis. I give exams in the classroom using a database driven web page. I would like to prevent students during the exam from accessing other web sites or instant messaging. After the exam I would like to enable full Internet access.

Does anyone have suggestions or solutions to any of these issues?

Jim McKinney 
Howard University

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Learning-challenged students in Ohio are using wearable computers that are helping the kids be more independent and confident.

"A Wearable Aid for Special Kids," by Katie Dean, Wired News, May 10, 2002 --- http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52148,00.html 

Jeremy Rossiter was not able to speak when he first entered Lisa Zverloff's class for the multiple-handicapped. The third-grader, who is autistic, communicated by hitting and biting. But with the help of a wearable computer, Jeremy learned to mimic, then utter, words and small phrases.

His success story propelled Xybernaut, the manufacturer of the wearable computer, into a new market.

Xybernaut is more known for supplying computers to telecommunications companies and the military. The devices are used for maintenance purposes in locations where carrying a laptop is not possible, such as manholes and the tops of telephone poles.

Credit Zverloff, a teacher at Erwine Middle School in Akron, Ohio, with bringing wearables into the classroom. Her experience led to the product launch of the XyberKids wearable computers in March.

Zverloff says the durable, touch-screen portable computers have made her students more independent and confident. Some kids use it all day; others use it for specific activities. Several students are able to fully participate in mainstream classrooms while using the devices.

It all started with a cold call to Xybernaut.

Zverloff's fiance, Eric Van Raepenbusch, a special education teacher at Turkeyfoot Elementary, owned stock in the company and suggested she call them.

On the phone, she convinced a nearby sales representative to meet with her and Jeremy -- even though the company's initial response was along the lines of, "But ma'am, we don't use (the computers) for people with disabilities," Zverloff said.

Jeremy eventually tried the device and "he wouldn't put it down," Zverloff said. "That's the only proof I need. He didn't bite me, scratch me, pinch me –- this is a positive thing."

The device cost $9,000, but the company agreed to loan the device to Zverloff, a first-year teacher at the time, to see how Jeremy progressed.

She replaced the belt –- made for an adult -- with a bookbag so Jeremy would be able to carry the 6-pound, 8.4-inch touch screen, hard drive and battery. The device runs on the Windows operating system.

When Jeremy touched different pictures on the screen, a computer-generated voice dictated what the item was. He responded better to the digitized voice because the output is the same volume and tone every time, she said.

"After repeated mimicking of the computer, he then started mimicking the teacher, then he started putting utterances together," Zverloff said. "A three-word utterance is an amazing thing for someone who's only been speaking for two months."

Zverloff also discovered that Jeremy was learning to spell and read.

When she showed him pictures of different animals, he started typing the words and used the voice output. He regularly took the wearable to lunch and on field trips to help him communicate outside the classroom.

"At the end of the year, he was reading words and sentences on a first-grade level," she said.

Researchers are developing similar devices at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).

Continued at  http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52148,00.html  

DisabilityInfo.gov http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/ 

 

Question Mark (Software for Test and Tutorial Generation and Networking)

HEPROC Home Page (Education Research ListServs)

Web-Based Training Information Center (Good Discussion of CBT)

Welcome to AskERIC

AskERIC Toolbox
ConnecText Catalog: A Registry for Online Textbooks

Beckman Institute Visualization Facility

EDUCORP Direct Online

Spreadsheets in Education

IAT: Homepage

IKE - IBM Kiosk for Education

MDO - Computers may be required soon - 12/05/1996

New Chalk Vol.1, No.4

NewChalk Vol.1, No.2

QuickReference for Education Materials (U. of Texas)
The Switched-On Classroom (Free Online Book)
Learning Insights Multimedia Learning Products (includes CD-ROMs for business and accounting education)

The University of Arizona Bookstore

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)

Welcome to the Flexible Class-Lab Site!

Education Library (Vanderbilt)
Palladian Fall 1998

: Asymetrix Distance Learning Development Resources: Cool Sites Research Corner
Rick Birney's demo of streaming ToolBooks

Collaboration

Colloquia Learning Management and Groupware http://toomol.bangor.ac.uk/ll/index.html 

"Teachers' Virtual Space:  Issues in Design and Development of Cross-Country Collaboration," by Julie Reinhart, Tiffany Anderson, and Joseph Slowinski, T.H.E. Journal, October 2000, 26-34. --- http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A3127.cfm 

 

NetObjects Home (Collaborative authoring software)
Epiphany On-Line (Trent Batson)

Judy's Field of Text

resource center for cyberculture studies (Collaboration)

Academic Assistance Access

Academic Assistance Access - FAQ

community of hosts home page

Course Services, Examination Services, Technology Aids

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

Tools of the Trade --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm 

Examination Software

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

Question Mark (Software for Test and Tutorial Generation and Networking)

Barron's Home Page

Metasys Japan Software

Question Mark America home page

Using ExamProc for OMR Exam Marking

Vizija d.o.o. - Educational Programs - Wisdom Tools
Yahoo Links

TechKnowLogia --- http://www.techknowlogia.org/ 
TechKnowLogia is an international online journal that provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic forum to:

Explore the vital role of different information technologies (print, audio, visual and digital) in the development of human and knowledge capital;

Share policies, strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing technologies for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services;

Review the latest systems and products of technologies of today, and peek into the world of tomorrow; and

Exchange information about resources, knowledge networks and centers of expertise.

• Do Technologies Enhance Learning?
  
• Brain Research, Learning and Technology
  
• Technologies at Work for: Critical Thinking, Science Instruction, Teaching Practices, etc...
  
• Interactive TV as an Educational Tool
  
• Complexity of Integrating ICTs into Curriculum & Exams
  
• Use of Digital Cameras to Enhance Learning
  
• Creating Affordable Universal Internet Access

Bob Jensen's threads on education technologies are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

"What's the Best Q&A Site?" by Wade Roush, MIT's Technology Review, December 22, 2006 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17932/ 

Magellan Metasearch --- http://sourceforge.net/projects/magellan2/ 

Many educators would like to put more materials on the web, but they are concerned about protecting access to all or parts of documents.  For example, a professor may want to share a case with the world but limit the accompanying case solution to selected users.  Or a professor may want to make certain lecture notes available but limit the access of certain copyrighted portions to students in a particular course.   If protecting parts of your documents is of great interest, you may want to consider NetCloak from Maxum at http://www.maxum.com/ .  You can download a free trial version.

NetCloak Professional Edition combines the power of Maxum's classic combo, NetCloak and NetForms, into a single CGI application or WebSTAR API plug-in. With NetCloak Pro, you can use HTML forms on your web site to create or update your web pages on the fly. Or you can store form data in text files for importing into spreadsheets or databases off-line. Using NetCloak Pro, you can easily create online discussion forums, classified ads, chat systems, self-maintaining home pages, frequently-asked-question lists, or online order forms!

NetCloak Pro also gives your web site access to e-mail. Users can send e-mail messages via HTML forms, and NetCloak Pro can create or update web pages whenever an e-mail message is received by any e-mail address. Imagine providing HTML archives of your favorite mailing lists in minutes!

NetCloak Pro allows users to "cloak" pages individually or "cloak" individual paragraphs or text strings.  The level of security seems to be much higher than scripted passwords such as scripted passwords in JavaScript or VBScript.

Eric Press led me to http://www.maxum.com/NetCloak/FAQ/FAQList.html   (Thank you Eric, and thanks for the "two lunches")

Richard Campbell responded as follows:

Alternatives to using Netcloak: 1. Symantec http://www.symantec.com  has a free utility called Secret which will password-protect any type of file.

2. Winzip http://www.winzip.com  has a another shareware utility called Winzip - Self-Extractor, which has a password protect capability. The advantage to this approach is that you can bundle different file types (.doc, xls) , zip them and you can have them automatically install to a folder that you have named. If you have a shareware install utility that creates a setup.exe routine, you also can have it install automatically on the student's machine. The price of this product is about $30.

Technology Aids

Bob Jensen's Technology Site --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245gloss.htm
 

"What's the Best Q&A Site?" by Wade Roush, MIT's Technology Review, December 22, 2006 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17932/ 

 

 

Magellan Metasearch --- http://sourceforge.net/projects/magellan2/ 
Question Mark (Software for Test and Tutorial Generation and Networking)

Audiopublishing
The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Asynchronous Learning Magazine
Study Web

StudyWEB (Education, References, Links)

EDUCORP Direct Online

Microsoft in Higher Education (Online Magazine)

NetSchool

New Chalk Vol.1, No.4

NewChalk Vol.1, No.2

Page Stage = Directory to K12 Web Sites

Education Library (Vanderbilt)
Palladian Fall 1998

Scout Report Acrobat .pdf Versions

Scout Report Homepage

Question Mark (Software for Test and Tutorial Generation and Networking)
Gartner Interactive Home

Harvard Business School Multimedia

Kids Connect

NewChalk Vol.1, No.2

NYU Center for Advanced Technology

Researchpaper.com

Saunders Interactive General Chemistry CD-ROM

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology (21-May-1996)
Palladian Fall 1998

Web Course in a Box

Associated Colleges of the South (ACS)
Palladian Fall 1998
Yahoo Education
Yahoo Links

The Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm

Darwin’s evolving thoughts and private communications on the boundaries of science and religion ---
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/index.php

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin --- http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Suggestions for Forming and Maintaining an Educational Technology Support Facility
Many universities do not have adequate support facilities for training faculty in new technologies and technical support teams for course adaptations to new technologies. George Culp from the University of Texas at Austin provides some helpful guides for "Establishing a Center for Instructional Technologies" as reported in in pp. 34-36 in the June 1999 edition of Syllabus (the online version is not yet online, but it will soon be posted to http://www.syllabus.com/   ). The article also discusses innovative ways of funding such a center.

Suggestions for Security

Many educators would like to put more materials on the web, but they are concerned about protecting access to all or parts of documents.  For example, a professor may want to share a case with the world but limit the accompanying case solution to selected users.  Or a professor may want to make certain lecture notes available but limit the access of certain copyrighted portions to students in a particular course.   If protecting parts of your documents is of great interest, you may want to consider NetCloak from Maxum at http://www.maxum.com/ .  You can download a free trial version.

NetCloak Professional Edition combines the power of Maxum's classic combo, NetCloak and NetForms, into a single CGI application or WebSTAR API plug-in. With NetCloak Pro, you can use HTML forms on your web site to create or update your web pages on the fly. Or you can store form data in text files for importing into spreadsheets or databases off-line. Using NetCloak Pro, you can easily create online discussion forums, classified ads, chat systems, self-maintaining home pages, frequently-asked-question lists, or online order forms!

NetCloak Pro also gives your web site access to e-mail. Users can send e-mail messages via HTML forms, and NetCloak Pro can create or update web pages whenever an e-mail message is received by any e-mail address. Imagine providing HTML archives of your favorite mailing lists in minutes!

NetCloak Pro allows users to "cloak" pages individually or "cloak" individual paragraphs or text strings.  The level of security seems to be much higher than scripted passwords such as scripted passwords in JavaScript or VBScript.

Eric Press led me to http://www.maxum.com/NetCloak/FAQ/FAQList.html   (Thank you Eric, and thanks for the "two lunches")

Richard Campbell responded as follows:

Alternatives to using Netcloak: 1. Symantec http://www.symantec.com  has a free utility called Secret which will password-protect any type of file.

2. Winzip http://www.winzip.com  has a another shareware utility called Winzip - Self-Extractor, which has a password protect capability. The advantage to this approach is that you can bundle different file types (.doc, xls) , zip them and you can have them automatically install to a folder that you have named. If you have a shareware install utility that creates a setup.exe routine, you also can have it install automatically on the student's machine. The price of this product is about $30.

 

Also See the Technology Section

 

Software for Online Examinations and Quizzes

Hi Bob,

I recommend that you take a look at Exam Builder 4 at http://www.exambuilder.com/ 

• Web-based interface, works like Hotmail
• No programming or html required
• Muliple choice, Fill-in-the-blank formats, and True or False question types
• 2 Exam Types: Click and Learn Exams force students to answer the answer correctly before they can continue to the next question. Educators can optionally provide instant feedback. Certification Exams allow student to skip questions, flag questions, review questions answered, and change answers prior to submitting exam
• All questions are delivered to students in random order and multiple choice answers are scrambled to guard against cheating
• Multiple Question pools per exams to evaluate knowledge gaps with remediation reports available for students based on performance
• Document Library to offer instant feedback on incorrect questions
• Ability to upload graphics to be incorporated in questions
• Students can easily be grouped into classes
• Detailed reports on both student results and exam statistics. Every answer a student clicks on is recorded in the database
• Data archiving and storage with tape backup for compliance ready solutions

Create a FREE evaluation account today and be up and running in 5 minutes with no obligation! 

My threads on assessment are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

Hope this helps!

Bob Jensen

Bob,

I've scheduled a health economics class in a computer lab this spring. The PCs are configured with their CRTs tightly packed. I'd like to be able to use the machines to give quizzes and exams, but the proximity of the CRTs makes at least casual "peeking" almost a certainty.

Can you suggest or point me to any software into which I could insert quiz or exam questions that would > shuffle the order of questions on the screen > shuffle the order of multiple choice questions > randomize the numbers in quantitative problems > keep track of the answers > automatically score the responses and send me a file of grades?

Back in the Apple II days, there was SuperPilot. But that language does not seem to have been successful enough to be ported to the IBM PCs say nothing about revised and improved. ??

Thanks for whatever thoughts you might be able to share,

Bob XXXXX

 

Free Online Tutorials

Free online textbooks and tutorials (including video tutorials) in accounting, economics, statistics, and other disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology tools and tricks of the trade --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Especially note the section on Edutainment!

A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on blogs and listservs are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm
Note the excellent tutorial course at http://newmediaocw.wordpress.com/

Course Materials

• Syllabus
  • Week 01: Blogs
  • Week 02: RSS
  • Week 03: Wikis
  • Week 04: Bookmark Sharing
  • Week 05: Photo Sharing
  • Week 06: Folksonomies and Tagging
  • Week 07: GIS/Maps/Satellite Tools
  • Week 08: Podcasts
  • Week 09: Creating Audio Podcasts
  • Week 10: Creating Video Podcasts
  • Week 11: Creating Screencasts
  • Week 12: Video Sharing
  • Week 13: Hacks and Mashups
  • Week 14: Final Project
• About the Professor
• Download This Course
• Welcome to the Course!

 

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Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Tools for Teaching and Learning --- http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Tools/

Tools for Teaching and Learning

Look to our specialists to help you use best practices in your teaching. Whether you are new to our services, or an old friend, please don't hesitate to contact us at site@psu.edu with your questions.

Course Design and Planning

• Adult learners
• Developing learning objectives
• Online and blended learning
• Syllabus development
• Test planning
• Using tests creatively in course design
• Writing effective cases
• Cutting Edge Course Design Tutorial

Teaching and Assessment Strategies

• Computer-based testing
• In-class assessment techniques
• Inquiry-based learning
• Large class strategies
• Pedagogy in Action, SERC portal for Educators
• Problem-based learning
• Resources for Teaching Writing
• Rubrics
• Teaching diverse students
• Using discussion in the classroom
• Ways to avoid students sharing test information
• Writing good test questions
• Working with groups

Tools for Course Evaluation

• Classroom observations
• Midsemester feedback
• Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTEs)
• Using item analysis to improve tests and learning

Tools for University Assessment

• General Education Assessment
• Program and Department Assessment

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• Public scholarship
• Service learning
• Teaching and course portfolios
• Writing a teaching philosophy

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

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Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
Especially note the open sharing sources being used

The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2008 --- Click Here

At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability, accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They will initially review four providers of free online educational resources: Connexions, run by Rice University; Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that will begin offering free textbooks online next year; the University of California’s UC College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other courses online; and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Bob Jensen lists other free online textbooks in various disciplines, including accounting textbooks, cases, and free online tutorials, at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic disciplines are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

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Free Accounting Video (YouTube) Tutorials
May 27, 2008 message from Crosson, Susan [susan.crosson@SFCC.EDU]

I have done both Financial and Managerial Accounting videos for my students and posted them on YouTube. They are free to anyone. In fact, they have been viewed by over 70,000 folks worldwide.

Here are the easy links organized by topic and chapter:

Financial:         http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall 2007/Flip Videos Fall 2007/FA Videos.htm

Managerial:      http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall%202007/YouTube.htm 

or go to YouTube.com directly and input my account SusanCrosson or http://www.youtube.com/SusanCrosson 

If you have any other questions, glad to answer...
Susan Crosson

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Learning Resources
Wisc-Online: Online Learning Object Repository (multimedia) --- http://www.wisc-online.com/

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Law School Directory --- http://www.aboutlawschools.org/

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Other free online accounting textbooks and tutorials ---  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/

Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free).

I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

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Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

The WGBH Public Television Station (videos and other tutorials) --- http://openvault.wgbh.org/

Educational Disciplines

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm

A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

New Wiki Helps Humanities Researchers Find Online Tools
A new wiki provides a directory of online tools for humanities scholars. The site, which uses software that lets anyone edit or add to the material, covers more than 20 categories, including blogging tools, specialized search engines for scholars, and software programs that can record what is on a user's screen. The site, called Digital Research Tools, or DiRT, is run by Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University. The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University runs a similar collection of resources called Exploring and Collecting History Online, or ECHO.
Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 6, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3068&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Education statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Statistics

Critical Thinking Web (over 100 free tutorials) --- http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/

Ethics Updates --- http://ethics.sandiego.edu/

From PBS Television
Frontline: Growing Up Online (Video) --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

From NPR Audio
The Infinite Mind --- http://lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm

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The Visual Dictionary --- http://www.infovisual.info/

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Center for Academic Integrity --- http://www.academicintegrity.org/

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A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/

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English Composition: Writing for an Audience --- http://www.learner.org/resources/series128.html

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From the National Science Foundation
ExhibitFiles (Exhibit Design) http://exhibitfiles.org/

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Question
Where can students substitute their college instructors for an online ($399) McGraw-Hill tutor for possible college credit?

An accounting tutor (not for advanced courses)  is listed at http://straighterline.com/courses/descriptions/#accounting1

Other course tutors, including college algebra and English composition, are listed at http://straighterline.com/

"Who Needs a Professor When There's a Tutor Available?" by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3095&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

An unusual new commercial service offers low-cost online courses and connects students to accredited colleges who will accept the courses for credit. The only thing missing: professors.

The service, called StraighterLine, is run by SmartThinking, a company that operates an online tutoring service used by about 300 colleges and universities. The online courses offered by StraighterLine are self-guided, and if students run into trouble they can summon a tutor from SmartThiking and talk with them via instant messaging. Students turn in their assignments or papers to tutors for grading as well.

“We’re using our tutoring service as the instructional component,” says Burck Smith, CEO of SmartThinking. “Students move through the course, and when they have a problem they click a button and they’re talking with a tutor.”

The courses cost $399 each, which includes 10 hours of time with a tutor. If students need more one-on-one help, they can pay extra for more tutoring.

The courses themselves were developed by McGraw-Hill, and StraighterLine uses Blackboard’s course-management service. So this virtual college is essentially cobbled together from various off-the-shelf learning services.

So far three colleges have agreed to grant credit for the StraighterLine courses — Fort Hays State University, Jones International University, and Potomac College.

The colleges see the partnership as a way to attract new students. “One of the things we hope to do is convert those students to Jones students,” says D. Terry Rawls, a vice chancellor at Jones International. “My expectation is that in reality students will take one maybe two courses with StraighterLine and then the students will take the rest of their courses with us.”

Richard Garrett, a senior analyst for Eduventures, sees the service as part of a broader trend of colleges granting credit for unconventional college experience, provided that the students can pass a test or otherwise demonstrate competency. And that raises the question, he says, “what is the core business of the academy versus what can be outsourced?

 

Jensen Comment
It may well be that colleges and universities may soon have to accept transfer credit for these tutors from such places as Fort Hays State University --- http://www.fhsu.edu/

In addition to its onsite programs in Hays, Kansas, Fort Hays State University has its own online degree programs at http://www.fhsu.edu/virtualcollege/

Bob Jensen's threads on asynchronous learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on distance education training and education alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on free online video courses and course materials from leading universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on the dark side --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

Free online tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

Free textbooks and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

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Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/

Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free).

I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

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Harvard U. Students Support Open Access for Student Theses A Harvard University student group
Harvard College Free Culture, has created a freely accessible Web site for seniors’ theses, according to a staff editorial last week in the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Students voluntarily post their theses to the Web site. The editorial announced its support for the project, saying it “should help students find models for senior theses as they enter the daunting process” of writing their own theses. The paper also stated that the project fits well with the open access plan recently adopted by the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2008 --- Click here

Jensen Comment
This makes both plagiarism by students of the world and detection of plagiarism by instructors of the world simultaneously easier --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on open access of learning materials are at the following three sites:

• Free tutorials in many disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
• Free books and learning materials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
• Open courseware and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

This also makes Harvard seniors models for judging how well top students write as seniors in college. How well are your students doing in comparison?

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Scribd Wants to Become the YouTube for Documents --- http://www.scribd.com/categories
It has a long way to go, although it now has over 350,000 archived documents --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribd
There are many tutorials such as those in basic accounting.

"A YouTube for Documents?" by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2008 ---
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2762&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Borrowing a page from the popular video-sharing site YouTube, a new online service lets people upload and share their papers or entire books via a social-network interface. But will a format that works for videos translate to documents?

It’s called iPaper, and it uses a Flash-based document reader that can be embedded into a Web page. The experience of reading neatly formatted text inside a fixed box feels a bit like using an old microfilm reader, except that you can search the documents or e-mail them to friends.

The company behind the technology, Scribd, also offers a library of iPaper documents and invites users to set up an account to post their own written works. And, just like on YouTube, users can comment about each document, give it a rating, and view related works.

Also like on YouTube, some of the most popular items in the collection are on the lighter side. One document that is in the top 10 “most viewed” is called “It seems this essay was written while the guy was high, hilarious!” It is a seven-page paper that appears to have been written for a college course but is full of salty language. The document includes the written comments of the professor who graded it, and it ends with a handwritten note: “please see after class to discuss your paper.”

There’s plenty of serious material on the site, too — like the Iraq Study Group Report and an Educause report about the future of technology at colleges.

Bob Jensen's threads on free online documents are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

From the University of Wisconsin
ide@s --- http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/
This site offers tutorials, resources, and videos on over two dozen disciplines.

Education at a Glance 2007 (Comparisons Across Nations) --- http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_39263294_39251550_1_1_1_1,00.html

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World: OKI, MIT, Rice, Berkeley, Yale, and Other Sharing Universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Free Textbooks and Cases --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Free Mathematics and Statistics Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

Free Science and Medicine Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science

Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

Free Education Discipline Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm

Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

MIT's Video Lecture Search Engine: Watch the video at --- http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them. Announced last month, the MIT Lecture Browser website gives the general public detailed access to more than 200 lectures publicly available though the university's OpenCourseWare initiative. The search engine leverages decades' worth of speech-recognition research at MIT and other institutions to convert audio into text and make it searchable.
Kate Greene, MIT's Technology Review, November 26, 2007 --- http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/?nlid=686&a=f
Once again, the Lecture Browser link (with video) is at http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/
Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm

Find free video lectures from free universities at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Free Education and Research Videos from Harvard University --- http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp

VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

From Princeton Online
The Incredible Art Department --- http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/

Online Mathematics Textbooks --- http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html 

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives --- http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp 

To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence --- http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf

National Annenberg Survey of Youth --- http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?myId=10

Global Education Digest 2007 --- http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=7002_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Ibiblio (library science tutorials and resources) ---  http://www.ibiblio.org/

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa --- http://www.foundation-partnership.org/

New York Public Library: Webcasts --- http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/index.cfm?go=5

Stanford Humanities Lab (includes video) http://shl.stanford.edu/

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age --- http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11896 

Bob Jensen's threads on online textbooks are at --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

National Education --- The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/040801ed-index.html 

International Reading Association: Web Resources --- http://www.reading.org/resources/index.html

Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) --- http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/ 

The Future is Digital (with video) --- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/FIDArchive.html

The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa ---  http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/EDU_Flagship_Full_ENG.pdf

Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) from the U.S. Department of Education at http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/ 

The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.

This is mostly a site designed to help you search for help and other information on most any education-related topic, including education technology.

Using Field Lab Write-ups to Develop Observational and Critical Thinking Skills ---
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure04/activities/3856.html

Moving Images Pinewood Dialogues (for students of film) ---  http://www.movingimage.us/pinewood/

The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center (video) ---  http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/

Maynard Institute for Journalism Education --- http://www.maynardije.org/

The Center for Media and Public Affairs --- http://www.cmpa.com/

Arab Media & Society --- http://www.arabmediasociety.com/

Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media --- http://ncam.wgbh.org/

The 2007 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? --- http://snipurl.com/brownreport2007

Stanford Institute for Higher Education --- http://siher.stanford.edu/

National Register Travel Itineraries (historical and possible) --- http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/

Caribbean Community Secretariat --- http://www.caricom.org/

Conversations about Creativity ---  http://www.cecilvortex.com/swath/conversations_about_creativity /

Sociology of Knowledge --- http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/knowledg.html

Some sites to stimulate the sociological imagination --- http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/theory.html#imag

Seen and Heard: Reclaiming the Public Realm with Children and Young People --- http://www.demos.co.uk/files/070928_DEMOS_S&H_Pamphlet.pdf

Over 30,000 Free Academic Literature and Multimedia Items from EServer (including some "Bad Subjects") --- http://eserver.org 

TechNewsWorld --- http://www.technewsworld.com/

Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

The WGBH Public Television Station (videos and other tutorials) --- http://openvault.wgbh.org/

 

November 30, 2007 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

RECOMMENDED READING

"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column.

Infobits subscriber Karen Ellis, founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround (http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/), recommends the

following:

STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION By Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veneema, and Kimberly M. Sheridan New York: Teachers College Press, 2007

$24.95

ISBN 978-0-8077-4818-3

"The authors set out to tell us why arts education is important and to give art teachers a research based language they can use to describe what they teach, and what is learned. They reached their conclusions after studying a number of well-taught studio classes in two schools.

Over the course of a year, they observed what they call a 'hidden curriculum' that defines what art education is and what it does. Studio Thinking presents their findings in a cohesive model along with lesson examples and commentary. The authors say they want to 'change the conversation about the arts in this country' and that could happen if they can resurrect, or reinvigorate, some of their earlier work. Studio Thinking presents what the authors say is the right 'reason' for arts education as opposed to some other rationales, which they say, are just plain wrong."

-- Review by John Broomall, Executive director of the Pennsylvania

Alliance for Arts Education

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/StudioThinkingArtsAdvocacy.html

 

The EServer, founded in 1990, is now based at Iowa State University. We are increasing efforts to publish new works (31846 so far). 

The Academy	miscellaneous resources for students and faculty
Art/Architecture	links to art, architecture, and aesthetic theory
Audio and Video	audio recordings of scholarly presentations
Bad Subjects	political education for everyday life
Books	book-length nonfiction and miscellaneous literatures
Calls for Papers	calls for conference papers and journal articles
Cultronix	a journal of contemporary art and cultural theory
Cultural Logic	an electronic journal of marxist theory and practice
Cultural Theory	readings in cultural studies and critical theory
Cyber Tech/Culture	discussing links between technology and culture
Drama	a collection of plays, modern works and classics
Early Modern Culture	works and discussions in Renaissance studies
Education	resources for both students and teachers
Eighteenth Century	a site for eighteenth-century cultural history
Electronic Labyrinth	a study of the implications of hypertext for writers
Feminism	select resources in feminism and women's studies
Fiction	novels and short fiction, classics and new works
Film & Television	works in film, television and other media studies
Gender/Sexuality	some resources on gender, sex and sexuality
Government	materials in government, law, and their social implications
History	works and links in history and historiography
Home Pages	the personal home pages of EServer members
Internet	resources about the internet: guides, essays and articles
Journals	links to academic journals and popular magazines
Languages	resources in language studies and theory
Libraries	links to worldwide library catalogues
Literary Events	events for any date from literature and the arts
The Mamet Review	the journal of the David Mamet Society
Marx & Engels	a collection of writings in economic and social theory
Multimedia	a small collection of artwork, audio, graphics and video
Music	a vast collection of works in music and music theory
Philosophy	writings by modern and classical philosophers
Pittsburgh	information about the city and its neighborhoods
Poetry	original and classic verse, literary and poetic theory
Race	materials on race and ethnicity in the U.S.
Recipes	vegetarian recipes, and links to good related sites
Reference	select reference materials useful for research
Rhetoric	scholarly and pedagogical resources for rhetoricians
Software	freeware and shareware for your computer
Sparks	a publisher of fiction, poetry, music, art and spoken word
Sudden	original poetry that reflects imagination and intelligence
Tech Comm Library	a web portal for tech, sci and professional communication
Thoreau Reader	the works of American philosopher Henry D. Thoreau
Web Design	a site for discussion of new media design
Zine375

Is Facebook the New MySpace?
 MySpace has an impressive lead today, but things can change quickly in the fluid world of mass-market social networking sites. Just ask Friendster. First Friendster was everybody's favorite social networking site. Then Friendster fell out of vogue--precipitously--and people stopped going there. In its place, MySpace became the darling of the Web. MySpace provided not only a free place to host your own online identity, but a full set of tools for meeting and interacting with others. Now everybody is talking about Facebook, which fits the same description, but in a very different way. Will Facebook become the next MySpace? I think so, and here's why.
 Mark Sullivan, PC World via The Washington Post, July 20, 2007 --- Click Here

A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Reporters Without Borders (includes a press freedom ranking of nations)  http://www.rsf.org

Iceland ranks Number 1
France ranks 31
United States ranks 48
Iran ranks 166
Russia ranks 168
Eritrea in East Africa replaced North Korea in last place at 169

Index on Censorship --- http://www.indexonline.org/index.shtml

Art Education 2.0 --- http://arted20.ning.com/

PingMag (arts and crafts from Japan) ---  http://www.pingmag.jp/

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Assess.htm

Arts, Entertainment, History, Literature, Museums, etc.

Conclusion - history, unfortunately, is too often considered inert, people think that it should be forgotten, denied as having significance now, as the world so rapidly shifts. It's pretty clear we never thought to include the culture of the Muslim world in most of our history books. Our efforts as educators to respond to these feelings has perpetuated these negative perceptions. Awareness leads to discovery and appreciation. It implies life, growth, and moving forward.
Beverly C. Lucey, "History Lessons," The Irascible Professor, February 8, 2008 --- http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-02-08-08.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing of courseware are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on online textbooks are at --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

Search for Online Video --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#VideoSearch

Save2pc 3.25 Software --- http://www.save2pc.com/ 
Save2pc is an application that allows users to download videos from a number of popular sites (such as Google Video) so that they can be used in different settings. Visitors can paste the URL of a video into the application and the selected video will be downloaded.

Are you looking for a video on DVD?

Scheduled video releases --- http://videoeta.com/

Popular video ordering and rental site --- http://www.netflex.com/pages/1/index.htm

Are you looking for a movie at a theatre in your home town?

Internet Movie Database --- http://us.imdb.com/ 
(You can read in your zip code to find out where and when a current movie is playing nearby.)

Panorama Around Mt. Everest (GREAT) --- http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html
(Hold the left mouse button down and move drag around)

Bob Jensen's links to downloadable music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Home Movie Rental
The Netflix home page is at http://www.netflix.com/
This is an economical home video service that I absolutely love.

LocateTV will search over 3 million TV listings across all channels in your area
Type in the name of a TV show, movie, or actor
Locate TV will find channels and times in your locale
http://www.locatetv.com/

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Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/

Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free).

I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

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Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/
 

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A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Open Humanities Press --- http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/

The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html

Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action (for searching history and museums) --- http://www.imls.gov/collections/index.htm

Digital History --- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Frontline: Return of the Taliban (video) --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

The Encyclopedia of TV --- http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

Institute of Museum and Library Services: Primary Source http://www.imls.gov/news/source.shtm

The British Museum: Research http://www.britishmuseum.org/research.aspx

Humorous History of British Nobelmen
The Society of Dilettanti --- http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/dilettanti/

Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society, 1870-1915 --- http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/

Historical Book Arts Collection --- http://content.lib.washington.edu/historicalbookartsweb/

The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present --- http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/color_of_life/

Art Education 2.0 --- http://arted20.ning.com/

Stanford Humanities Lab (includes video) http://shl.stanford.edu/

From the University of Wisconsin
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections ---
 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/

Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination --- http://www.pem.org/cornell/

H-Albion (for communications among historians) --- http://www.h-net.org/~albion/

National Geographic: History --- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/

Villa Cicogna Mozzoni (art history) --- http://www.villacicognamozzoni.it/sito/index.php

The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr.--- http://americanimage.unm.edu/

Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History (video) --- http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/

Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City --- http://exhibitions.nypl.org/eminent

Inspiring Impressionism --- http://exhibits.denverartmuseum.org/impressionism/

Aluka (art history in Africa) --- http://www.aluka.org/

History Net --- http://www.historynet.com/

"Will the Left Ever Learn to Communicate Across Generations?" by Maurice Isserman, Chronicle of Higher Education's The Chronicle Review, June 20, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41b00601.htm?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

H-LatAm (Latin American History) ---  http://www.h-net.org/~latam/

Jazz Old Time Online --- http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm
There's a vast collection here. Some choices are free; Others are not free.

Perseus Digital Library --- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Arts & Crafts Movement: 1880-1920 in Europe and America ---
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=exhibit;id=7015

North Carolina Museum of Art: Far From Home --- http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/farfromhome/main.shtml

A cleverly-constructed timeline on the history of the world's great religions --- http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf
Museum of Biblical Art (video) ---  http://www.mobia.org/index.php

The Labrador Inuit Through Moravian Eyes (video) --- http://link.library.utoronto.ca/inuitmoravian/

From the University of Oregon
CultureWork --- http://aad.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=culturework

Exploring 20th Century London --- http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk

Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Literature/subcollections/RinglBeowulfAbout.shtml

Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York --- http://futureofny.org/home

Internet History
NSF and the Birth of the Internet (video) --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/
How Internet Stuff Works --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob4.htm#Web

Personal Computer History
"Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer --- The PC's back story involves a little-known Texas connection," by Lamont Wood, Computer World, August 8, 2008 --- Click Here

NASA: Everest Expedition --- http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/everest_expedition.html

A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/

BlackPast: Remembered and Reclaimed (African American History) --- http://www.blackpast.org/

King's Last March [civil rights history) http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/

El Anatsui: Gawu: National Museum of African Art (multimedia) --- http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/gawu/index.html

The Civil Rights Digital Library --- http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/

Human Rights --- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/humanrights/

Jonathan Swift: Journal to Stella --- http://www.swiftiana.com/stella/

Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures (Video) --- http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/index.html

America's Favorite Architecture --- http://www.favoritearchitecture.org/

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Recent Additions --- http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html

John H. W. Stuckenberg Map Collection --- http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/gettdigital/maps/stuckenberg_maps.htm

Reservation Life: Helga Teiwes Photography, Arizona State Museum --- 
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/helga/reservation_life.asp?ver= 

Sherman Alexie, 'Sitcom American' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1397737 

American Museum of Natural History: Division of Anthropology --- http://anthro.amnh.org/

Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 --- http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/   

Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy (including Denver neighborhood history) --- http://history.denverlibrary.org/

Chronicles of Oklahoma: The Life and Work of Sequoyah --- http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p149.html

Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson --- http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/higginson/

AFSCME, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike --- http://www.afscme.org/about/1029.cfm

National Gallery of Art --- http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm

National Gallery of Art: Videos & Podcasts --- http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/

American Geographical Society Library: Tibet --- http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/tibet/index.html

National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture --- http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/ballyhoo/

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) --- http://www.sfmoma.org/media/features/miller/

National Gallery of London --- http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Irish Museum of Modern Art --- http://www.modernart.ie/en/index.htm

Masters of Photography (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Xu4PNWkV4

Masters of Photography (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqmco1C6L_E

Flowers by Georgia O'Keefe - Mozart Symphony in F (Presto) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URYhTUYZpAc

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination --- http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG702.pdf

Chautauqua 1999: Georgia O'Keeffe (Part 1) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmQkkCaPFU

Part 3 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLzqbImwHXI

Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv_TVXxWe_A

Louis L. McAllister Photographs --- http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Louis L. McAllister Photographs

National Gallery of Great Buildings --- http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/New_National_Gallery.html

Take Your Time: Studio Olafur Eliasson --- http://media.moma.org/subsites/2008/olafureliasson/

OperaGlass (guide to arias) --- http://opera.stanford.edu/

Ibiblio (library science tutorials and resources) ---  http://www.ibiblio.org/

Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product (video) --- http://cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/multiple_choice/site/?r=4-14-2008

Campana Brothers Select (art history) --- http://campana.cooperhewitt.org/

Online Nevada Encyclopedia --- http://www.onlinenevada.org/  

Critical Postmodern Theory --- http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

Library of Congress to Open New Online Exhibit
The Library of Congress is scheduled to open a new interactive Web site on Saturday, as a companion to a high-tech exhibit designed to give visitors a close-up view of some of the institution's treasures. A copy of the Gutenberg Bible, for instance, is in a glass case at the library, but the new Web site will let users flip through the book and zoom in on its pages virtually. An article in Ars Technica points out that the exhibit is the result of a $3-million gift from Microsoft to promote the use of the company's latest multimedia platform, called Silverlight. The exhibit sounds like a theme park ride -- it's called The Library of Congress Experience. The library has offered digital versions of its collections for years, of course. In fact, The Chronicle described one of its first efforts to do so back in 1994 -- back when the Web was in its infancy. But the latest exhibit suggests that digitized copies of historical items can use updating as technology improves.
Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2899&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

From the University of Pennsylvania
PENNsound [audio poetry, literature, and reviews) --- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

One of the earliest and probably the most famous accounting and investment scandal was the South Sea Bubble in 1720
From the Harvard University Business School
Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library --- http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting history --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance, economics, and statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

American Experience: The American West (Video) --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/west/

Hampton Dunn Postcards Collection --- http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=HamptonDunnPostcardsCollection

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/hurston/

Online History Books --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#history

Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media --- http://ncam.wgbh.org/

Open Source Movies (free downloads) http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies

Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/spalding/

Yahoo's links to Society and Culture --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/

Media Channel --- http://www.mediachannel.org/

Yahoo's links to Entertainment (including humor) --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/

Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Digital Library Colloquium (video lectures) --- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/DLColloquia.html

Visual Arts Data Service (art history) --- http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/

The Jewish Americans (includes four lesson plans) ---  http://www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/index.html

Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (Russian Novel) http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html//index.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS --- http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/ssalbum/

National Register Travel Itineraries (historical and possible) --- http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/

Max Ernst: Illustrated Books ---  http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/ernst/index.shtm

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Interactive --- http://americanart.si.edu/interact/index.cf

Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art --- http://www.tate.org.uk/ita/

Metropolitan Museum of Art --- http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

Explore Art (multimedia) --- http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/

William J. Meuer Photoart Collection --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/UW/subcollections/MeuerAlbumsAbout.html

Museums and the Web --- http://conference.archimuse.com/

Finnish National Gallery: Art Collections --- http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/wandora/w?action=gen&lang=en

British Empire Exhibition 1938 --- http://www.empireexhibition1938.co.uk/

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive --- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Canada Year Book Historical Collection --- http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb_r000-eng.htm 

Moving Images Pinewood Dialogues (for students of film) ---  http://www.movingimage.us/pinewood/

International Spy Museum --- http://www.spymuseum.org/

Arden: World of William Shakespeare --- http://swi.indiana.edu/arden/gi_specs.shtml

History of the United States --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Library 

Thomas Jefferson's Library [video] http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/jeffersonslibrary/Pages/default.aspx

Exploring the Early Americas --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/

Old Sturbridge Village: Collections --- http://www.osv.org/collections/index.html

U.S. Census Bureau: History --- http://www.census.gov/history/

Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others ---
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=history&col_id=149

Great Chicago Stories --- http://www.greatchicagostories.com/

Hidden Truths: The Chicago City Cemetery & Lincoln Park --- http://hiddentruths.northwestern.edu/

Garibaldi and the Risorgimento (Italian Military History) --- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/garibaldi/

Citizen (John) Milton --- http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --- http://www.omarkhayyamrubaiyat.com/

Memory Maps (Art and Cities) --- http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/adult_resources/memory_maps/index.html

British Museum: The Americas --- http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/americas.aspx 

"A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s," by Robert Leggat --- http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/

All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing, and Costume http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/HumanEcol/subcollections/MillineryBooksAbout.html

Courting History: The Landmark International Criminal Court's First Years --- http://hrw.org/reports/2008/icc0708/

 

Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal around 1600 --- http://www.gardnermuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp

William F. Buckley, Jr.(1925-2008) --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley%2C_Jr.

• With Charlie Rose --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Har3ByGiCI
• Noam Chomsky vs. William F. Buckley Debate : Part 1 of 2 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlMEVTa-PI
  Questions and Answers --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvzWo9hulB8
• Noam Chomsky vs. William F. Buckley Debate : Part 2 of 2 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Samvw6Z08
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 1 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIOSkrfRC4
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 2 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRbtk43hIg
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 3 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUwpDUx5cdg
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 4 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Uq3sfJykk
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 5 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlyKrmGFk7s
• With Kenneth Minogue : Part 6 of 6 (Ideology) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-kh4Rtm4M
• With liberal Gore Vidal (1968) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRjZR8j4-z4
  Also see Part 1 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLTDUPJqsU
  Also see Part 2 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzjZrtqCIw
• With Alan Dershowitz --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9qfog0nK4

National Archives Experience --- http://www.digitalvaults.org/

Studies in the History of Ethics --- http://www.historyofethics.org/

National Geographic: Prehistoric Time Line --- http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/prehistoric-time-line.html

"Flickr Taps User Tags to Organize Library of Congress Images," by Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, January 16, 2008 --- http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/flickr-taps-use.html

Flickr has unveiled a new project, dubbed The Commons, which will give Flickr members an opportunity to browse and tag photos from Library of Congress archives. The goal is to create what Flickr likes to call an "organic information system," in other words, a searchable database of tags that makes it easier for researchers to find images.

The pilot project features a small sampling of the Library of Congress’ some 14 million images. For now you’ll find two collections. The first is called “American Memory: Color photographs from the Great Depression” and features color photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection including “scenes of rural and small-town life, migrant labor, and the effects of the Great Depression.”

The second collection is the The George Grantham Bain Collection which features “photos produced and gathered by George Grantham Bain for his news photo service, including portraits and worldwide news events, but with special emphasis on life in New York City.” The Bain collection images date from around 1900-1920.

In effect the Library of Congress has become a Flickr user, complete with its own stream and while it’s great to see these image available to a much wider audience, we’re not so sure how much it’s going to help researchers.

If you’re looking for historical photographs do you want to search through comments from self-appointed experts criticizing the composition skills of photography pioneers or adding the ever insightful “wow?” Then there’s the inevitable comments soliciting photos to be added to whatever banal and increasingly inane groups and pools that Flickr members have come up with.

The tagging aspect will no doubt produce something of value, but pardon our cynicism, this may well turn out to be a good test of whether the positive aspects of the Flickr community outweigh the negative.

Powerhouse Museum: Online Resources --- http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/online/index.asp

The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library --- http://www.johnadamslibrary.org/

Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=244

From the U.S. Library of Congress
Exploring the Early Americas --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/ 

The New Museum of Contemporary Art --- http://www.newmuseum.org/

The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic --- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/exhibitions/ramayana/index.html

American Experience: The Center of the World: Philippe Petit --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/sfeature/sf_int_pop_08_01_qt.html

PingMag (arts and crafts from Japan) ---  http://www.pingmag.jp/

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg --- http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/index.shtm

Presidential Library --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Library

Center for First World War Studies: Lions Led By Donkeys --- http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/biogs.htm

What are the favorite links of Neal Boritz besides --- http://boortz.com/  ?

Neal's favorite links:
Nealz Nuze Archives
An Optical Illusion
The Constitution of the U.S.
The Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Who Represents You in D.C.?
E-Mail your Congressman
Are you a Libertarian?
Neal's favorite quotes
Neal's Commencement Speech
Neal's Nuze: 9/11

After Columbus: Four-Hundred Years of Native American Portraiture --- 
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=AfterColumbusFourhun&col_id=182

National Portrait Gallery: Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture --- http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/index.html

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum --- http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/

Ronald Regan Library and Museum --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Regan#Presidential_Library_and_Museum

George H.W. Bush Library and Museum --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush#Presidential_Library

William F. Clinton Library and Museum --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Clinton_Presidential_Center_and_Park

A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage --- http://www.commonwealth.pl/

Other presidential libraries and museums (links are included in the sites below):

George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · James Monroe · John Quincy Adams · Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · William Henry Harrison · John Tyler · James K. Polk · Zachary Taylor · Millard Fillmore · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Andrew Johnson · Ulysses S. Grant · Rutherford B. Hayes · James A. Garfield · Chester A. Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · Grover Cleveland · William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Warren G. Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Harry S. Truman · Dwight D. Eisenhower · John F. Kennedy · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · George H. W. Bush · Bill Clinton · George W. Bush

University of Rochester shares its Abraham Lincoln letters online --- http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=379
Also see http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/20364/?nlid=912

C-Span: Lincoln 200 Years (Video)  http://www.c-span.org/lincoln200years/

Cambridge University: Digital Image Collections --- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/

Cambridge University: Digital Image Collections --- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/ 

Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s to 1970s ---  http://www.lacma.org/beyondgeometry/index.html

National Gallery of Victoria --- http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/

History & Policy --- http://www.historyandpolicy.org/

Reservation Life: Helga Teiwes Photography, Arizona State Museum --- 
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/helga/reservation_life.asp?ver= 

Sherman Alexie, 'Sitcom American' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1397737 

Chronicles of Oklahoma: The Life and Work of Sequoyah --- http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p149.html

UC Berkeley Library's Congressional Research Tutorials --- http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/

History on the Year You Were Born --- http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

American Geographical Society Digital Photo Archive --- http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.html

Leo Tolstoy --- http://www.ltolstoy.com/

Millions of records from Saddam Hussein's regime may soon be available for review at the Hoover Institution (at Stanford University). The Iraq Memory Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based group, collected about 7 million documents from Hussein's Baath Party headquarters just after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Foundation is entrusting the records to Hoover, which has agreed to hold the documents for five years and then help arrange their return to Iraq.
Adam Gorlick --- http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/iraq-061808.html 

Russian History Websites (links to the sites) --- http://alexanderpalace.org/

Nanking Massacre Project --- http://www.library.yale.edu/div/Nanking/

The MacDowell Colony Exhibition --- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/macdowell/

Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives --- http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=basic 

AlphaGalileo --- http://www.alphagalileo.org 

Fifty Years of History in Three Minutes (video) --- http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html

Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 --- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/

Frontline: The Mormons (video from PBS) --- http://www.pbs.org/mormons/

The National Institute for Conservation --- http://www.heritagepreservation.org/

SPARROW - Sound & Picture Archives for Research On Women of India (Multimedia)
http://www.sparrowonline.org/

Time Magazine's choice of the 50 Coolest Websites for 2005 --- http://www.time.com/time/2005/websites/

How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks   The List: Arts & Entertainment The List: Blogs The List: Lifestyle, Health & Hobbies The List: News & Information The List: Shopping

Journey of Mankind:  The Peopling of the World (anthropology) --- http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

Hyper History Online --- http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

World History --- http://www.fsmitha.com/maps.html

Index on Censorship --- http://www.indexoncensorship.org/ 

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature, Digital Collection --- http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv

Mother of All Art History Links --- http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Rauschenberg/images.asp 

Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/index.shtm 

Robert Rauschenberg on De Kooning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCWh3IFtDQ

Michelangelo --- http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html

Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design --- http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1384_leonardo/

Leonardo da Vinci's Geometric Sketches http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1717 

Universal Leonardo --- http://www.universalleonardo.org/

From the Kennedy Center
ArtsEdge: Articles & Reports --- http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/connect/rpt.cfm

Winslow Homer: Behind the Scenes art history) --- http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/homer

The Mind of Leonardo: The Universal Genius at Work --- http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/menteleonardo/

University of Alabama Digital Collections (including agriculture history) ---  http://content.lib.ua.edu/cdm4/about.php

From the Scout Report on January 18, 2008

True identity of Mona Lisa (re)affirmed Da Vinci's Lisa revealed --- http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/16/da_vincis_lisa_revealed/

Mona Lisa descendant just grins and bears it --- http://www.thestar.com/News/article/294443

A closer look at the Mona Lisa [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/detail_oal.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=10134198673229908&CURRENT_LLV_OAL<>cnt_id=10134198673229908&bmLocale=en

Mona: Exploratorium Exhibit [Quick Time] http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html

Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman [Real Player] http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Leonardo_Master_Draftsman/draftsman_splash.htm

Theft of Mona Lisa --- http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/mona_nav/main_monafrm.html

From NPR
Celebrating Mozart's Birthday in Salzburg --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5164428
This is a great history site and some of the categories serve up samples.

Best History Websites --- http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Today in History --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

BBC History: Audio and Video --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/

John Steinbeck

• John Steinbeck: The California Novels http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/ 
• The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/home/index.jsp

Online Historical Population Reports --- http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/

Picture History --- http://www.picturehistory.com/

Historic NYC Photographs --- http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010

Lehman Special Correspondence Files http://ldpd.lamp.columbia.edu/lehman/
Hervert H. Lehman is a former mayor of New York City, Governor of NY, and U.S. Senator from NY

Early Real Estate Atlases of New York --- 
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=cities&collection=EarlyRealEstateInsur&col_id=442

From the Scout Report on February 29, 2008

Concerned about the education of young people, the Common Core organization releases the results of a recent survey Teens losing touch with historical references http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-02-26-teens-history_N.htm 

History Surveys Stumps U.S. Teens --- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/education/27history.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy http://www.bartleby.com/59/

Bill Moyers Journal: Interview with Susan Jacoby http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02152008/watch2.html 

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ 

19th Century Textbooks http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/

Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits --- http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/motto/index.html 

The Silent Picture Era --- http://www.silentera.com/index.html

Brainy History --- http://www.brainyhistory.com/

HistoryWorld --- http://www.historyworld.net/

China Digital Times --- http://chinadigitaltimes.net/

Canadian Architectural Archives --- http://www.caa.ucalgary.ca/

American Women's History:  A Research Guide --- http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

The Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti --- http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 --- http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php

Natural History Museum of London --- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/fun-games/mission-explore/

From the University of Wisconsin
The Aldo Leopold Archives game management and the environment) ---  http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AldoLeopold/

LaFayette: Citizen of Two Worlds --- http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/index.html

Westward by Sea --- http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html

Pew Internet: Online Shopping Report --- http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online Shopping.pdf

History of the Workhouse --- http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807 --- http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html

Design Life Now --- http://www.peoplesdesignaward.org/designlifenow/

The Silent Picture Era --- http://www.silentera.com/index.html

Christianity Missionary Archives
Internet Mission Photography Archive --- http://digarc.usc.edu/impa/controller/index.htm

British Museum: Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/pacific/sacred_objects_of_the_pacific/power_and_taboo_sacred_ob.aspx 

From the University of Wisconsin
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Literature/subcollections/RinglBeowulfAbout.shtml

The translation is intended for "oral delivery," that is, to be read or recited aloud. Accordingly this work includes an audio stream in which the translator provides a reading of his version of the poem. This reading is meant to model metrical and rhetorical features of the translation, not to lay down the law about how it should be "performed." It can be listened to uninterruptedly from start to finish--which takes about three hours--or it can be accessed at the beginning of any of the forty-three sections into which it is divided (and which correspond to the numbered sections of the surviving manuscript).

Do you have history questions?
Facts about any given year.  For example, what took place in 1938? ---  http://encyclopedia.calendarhome.com/1938.htm 
The main page is at http://encyclopedia.calendarhome.com 
Even longer lists for years in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s can be found at http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/index.htm 

(American) History Explorer --- http://americanhistory.si.edu/explorer/index.cfm 

How Entertainment Stuff Works --- http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/

American Civil War History Site --- http://www.factasy.com/

Absalom, Absalom! [William Falkner] --- http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/

Arkansas in the Civil War --- http://www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com/Activities/Arkansas/Arkansas.asp 

Johnson's Island, Unlocking a Civil War Prison: Interactive Dig --- http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/johnsons/index.html

Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence 1763-1848 --- http://latino.si.edu/SpainLegacy/Archive/index.html

Art and Literature in Siena, 1250-1600 (Multimedia)--- http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research/sienalecturesvideo.htm

The Battle of the Somme --- http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00o

Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection (includes music) --- http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html

Scottish Natural Heritage Information Service --- http://www.snh.org.uk/snhi/

Timeline of Art History (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) --- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Podcasts --- http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/educate/list.asp?key=56

Art Renewal Center (portal to many museums and documents on art history) --- http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/contents.asp
(Click on the Museums tab)

National Portrait Gallery --- http://www.npg.org.uk/live/

A guide to great museums around the world
Global Museum --- http://www.globalmuseum.org/

Long-time Indonesian leader Suharto
Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit --- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB242/index.htm

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (some multimedia) ---  http://www.cceia.org/

Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey --- http://preservation.lacity.org/survey

Denver Public Library: Western History Genealogy (including Denver neighborhood history) --- http://history.denverlibrary.org/

Now this is really a history timeline!
Geologic Time: The Story of a Changing Earth (from The Smithsonian)  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/geotime/main/index.html

A cleverly-constructed timeline on the history of the world's great religions --- http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf
Museum of Biblical Art (video) ---  http://www.mobia.org/index.php

Digital History of the U.S. --- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineN.cfm

Historical Census Browser --- http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

November 30, 2007 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

RECOMMENDED READING

"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column.

Infobits subscriber Karen Ellis, founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround (http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/), recommends the

following:

STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION By Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veneema, and Kimberly M. Sheridan New York: Teachers College Press, 2007

$24.95

ISBN 978-0-8077-4818-3

"The authors set out to tell us why arts education is important and to give art teachers a research based language they can use to describe what they teach, and what is learned. They reached their conclusions after studying a number of well-taught studio classes in two schools.

Over the course of a year, they observed what they call a 'hidden curriculum' that defines what art education is and what it does. Studio Thinking presents their findings in a cohesive model along with lesson examples and commentary. The authors say they want to 'change the conversation about the arts in this country' and that could happen if they can resurrect, or reinvigorate, some of their earlier work. Studio Thinking presents what the authors say is the right 'reason' for arts education as opposed to some other rationales, which they say, are just plain wrong."

-- Review by John Broomall, Executive director of the Pennsylvania

Alliance for Arts Education

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/StudioThinkingArtsAdvocacy.html

 

"The Library of Congress Online for Educators," by Leni Donlan, Technology & Learning, March 2004, Page 20 --- http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17701379 

The Taxonomy Warehouse is a fantastic search engine in terms of helpful categories --- http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/ 

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Internet Library of Early Journals --- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

The History Channel (on cable TV) --- http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum ---  http://hoover.archives.gov/

Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge (Multimedia) --- http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk/

Smithsonian TV (history) --- http://smithsonian.tv/default.htm

National Archives Experience --- http://www.digitalvaults.org/

Free lectures from Harvard University --- --- http://athome.harvard.edu/  

Race, Immigration and America's Changing Electorate ---
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2008/0227_demographics_frey/0227_demographics_paper_frey.pdf

Classical Studies Resources --- http://classicalstudy.luckycontent.com/

Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages http://www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/

Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages http://www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/

Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages --- http://www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/

National Galleries of Scotland --- http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education

In Their Words: The Story of British Columbia Fish Packers --- http://www.intheirwords.ca/

Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/millerscrapbooks/

Printmaking
Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Prints in Portfolio at The New York Public Library ---  http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/multiple/

History Channel: Audio and Video --- http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/ 
 

March 4, 1890: Bridge Tech Takes a Great Leap Forth --- http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0304

 

The Belgian-American Collection --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/BelgAmrColAbout.html

 

From UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative ---  http://www.ecai.org/

 

Dakin Fire Insurance Maps (history of urbanization of Hawaii)  ---  http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/maps/index.php?c=1

 

In Search of Ancient Ireland (from PBS) --- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ancientireland/journey_flash.html

 

From the University of South Carolina
William Tennent III: Journal/Diary and Album of Collected Papers ---  http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/tennent.html

 

Eternity Travel (a great site from the Museum of Science in Boston) ---  http://www.mos.org/quest/et/

 

Printmaking
Vive la difference: The English and French stereotype in satirical prints, 1720-1815 --- http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/viveladifference/

 

Canadian Geographical Names (History, Geography, Travel) ---  http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php 
This is a very educational site.

 

The Walt Whitman Archive ---  http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial Exhibition --- http://www.pem.org/library/hawthorne 

World Myths and Legends in Art --- http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/

The Encyclopedia of World History http://www.bartleby.com/67/

Lauren R. Donaldson Collection (first atomic bomb tests) --- http://content.lib.washington.edu/donaldsonweb/

How Ordinary Scots in bygone days found out what was happening --- http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/ 

The Time Machine at Nostalgia Central --- http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/ 

Rose and Chess: Discover Two Reunited Medieval Manuscripts --- http://roseandchess.lib.uchicago.edu/index.html

National Institutes of Health: History of Medicine --- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/
Includes books, reports, pictures, videos, etc.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation tutorials in medicine, medical insurance, healthcare administration ---  http://www.rwjf.org/

Monumental documentary the People's Century that spans 26 parts
People's Century is a monumental documentary series describing the 20th century. It was first shown on the BBC in 1999. It is a 26 part documentary each spanning one hour dealing with the major socio-economic, political climate and cultural movements that shaped the 20th century --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Century

Virtual Museum and Archive of the SEC and Securities History ---  http://www.sechistorical.org/

The Henry Ford Museum --- http://www.hfmgv.org/

Digital Durham, NC ---  http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/

From the National Park Service:  U.S. Cities --- http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/CasselmanImageAbout.shtml

Learning U.S. history with EASE from Michigan State University --- http://www.easehistory.org/
 

EASE History is a rich learning environment that supports the learning of US history. Over 600 videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.

EASE History has three entry points: Historical Events, Campaign Ads, and Core Values. Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads. Three learning modes, single and multiple theme searches, and resources support the comparing and contrasting of historical cases. EASE History's goal is to support experience acceleration- to help learners think more like historians.

Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (History, Anthropolog) ---  http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/yemen.htm

Institute of Chicago presents Art Explorer
An early innovator in the digitization of artwork (its CD of art images "With Open Eyes" was published in 1995), the Art Institute of Chicago presents Art Explorer, an interactive website where visitors can search for art, save selections into scrapbooks with notes, and share the scrapbooks with friends and students. Art Explorer focuses on the Art Institute's Impressionist and Postimpressionist collections, and includes original artworks, as well as additional resources, including texts, video clips, artist biographies, activities, and games. For example, a search on the artist Georges Seurat retrieves eight artworks, and 42 resources, including a biographical text about Camille Pissaro, one of Seurat's contemporaries, a classroom exercise on color mixing based on Seurat's pointillist style, and a Postimpressionist bibliography, compiled by the Art Institute's Museum Education Department. The scrapbook at http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/viewbook.php?vbook=rylnqtvhyaqm is based on this search.
The Scout Report, January 10, 2005 --- http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2005/scout-050610-geninterest.php#2
The site is at http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/

A great historical Website from the Main Historical Society
Once you have visited Maine, it is most certainly not a place that you will soon forget. This website is designed to make sure longtime residents and visitors alike will not forget this tranquil state, as it brings together a very wide range of historical documents and memories from around the state. The site itself was created by the Maine Historical Society, and is supported by monies from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and several other partners. Within the site, visitors can search for historical items and documents, view thematic online exhibits, and learn about how the site may be used effectively in classroom settings. One particularly fine exhibit is the one that offers some visual documentation of rural Aroostook County around the year 1900. In this exhibit, visitors can experience the dense forests and rugged terrain that dominate the landscape of this part of Maine.
The Scout Report, January 10, 2005 --- http://snipurl.com/ScoutMaine
The site is at http://www.mainememory.net/

Center for History of Physics --- http://www.aip.org/history/index.html 

Online Helpers for Physics Educators and Students
The Physics Front --- http://www.compadre.org/precollege/

Context Rich Problems Online Archives (physics) --- http://groups.physics.umn.edu/physed/Research/CRP/on-lineArchive/ola.html

Yale University Library: The Map Collection --- http://www.library.yale.edu/mapcoll/print_online.html

Multimedia Encyclopedia of Chicago History --- http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ 

Yahoo Entertainment --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/ 
Yahoo Recreation and Sports --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/
Yahoo Arts and Humanities --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/ 

University of Virginia Online Visual History (Art, History) --- http://mcgregor.lib.virginia.edu/prints/ 

Historic Cities --- http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/

Online Poetry, Books, and Video --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Literature Online --- http://www.volny.cz/helpforenglish/lit_online.html 

 

Best of History Websites http://www.besthistorysites.net/ 

Historical (Trade and Local) Directories http://www.historicaldirectories.org