http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

http://www.hypercourseware.com/SOC

Note from Jensen:

There are some good parts in the above book, but it needs to be updated for asynchronous network learning. In this context, I did not find it "up to date."

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Netscape has licensed Macromedia Flash technology and will include the Flash player with every future copy of its browsers. Millions of Netscape users will automatically experience high-performance Flash content—including web graphics, cartoons, illustrations, animated web pages and more—without having to download a separate plug-in. Flash will be integrated into the next maintenance release of Netscape Navigator, to be released this summer.

If you haven’t flashed someone yet join in on the fun.

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/1998/index_netscape_flash.html

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/

http://plato.stanford.edu/

http://www.washington.edu/ark2/

http://pw2.netcom.com/~crfowler/pcorner.htm

http://www.technoir.net/jazz/

Bob
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June 23, 1998

Barry Rice and others set us straight a while back about the Good Times virus hoax. That hoax threatened to crash our computers by using email. However, we took comfort in the fact that nobody had invented a virus for email software or web browser software. These were "good times" because all threats of crashing our system using email software or browser software were hoaxes. You had to do something more dangerous like open up a downloaded file in Word or Excel where macro viruses germinate and thrive.

This is no longer the case, especially for users of Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, and Outlook Express. With ActiveX and the exploding popularity of Windows Scripting Host (WSH) utilities, we are in swimming out farther into troubled waters. To read more about the problem and what you might want to do now to protect your system while using email or web browser software, go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#ActiveX

Why didn't Mac win the war (sigh)?

Go for it Paula, although this web site seems to ignore a lot of cognitive science research.
Memory - The Exploratorium looks at the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory.

The ZDNet web site has put together a series of articles intended to help users search the Net more efficiently. To see the list of articles, go to:

The History of Writing

Better yet --- Spellweb

This American Life (requires RealAudio playback) --- This week features fathers/children stories

Find your own best place to live ---- this Money Magazine web site lets you choose your own criteria

A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children, both in Spain and in refugee centers in France rendered in pencil, crayon, ink, and watercolor

Do you want to know where Dilbert sneaks to in order to find those corporate buzz words? Let’s spruce up our own writing with those "in" buzz words. Become a better yuppie at

Yoohoo’s lampoon of Yahoo

Welcome to the Electronic Edition of INTERNET SEARCH ADVANTAGE, the professional’s guide to Internet searching.

In this electronic issue:

Disney announced a new partnership with Infoseek last week. Disney will pay Infoseek $70 million for a 43% share of the Infoseek Web portal. This is just the latest move by media companies in a sort of land grab for Internet portal sites. In recent weeks, General Electric Co.’s NBC unit announced plans to pay $26.2 million for a majority stake in CNet Inc.’s Snap!. And AT&T is currently negotiating to acquire America Online. As Vernon Keenan of Zona Research put it:

"These portal sites have some characteristics that are all attractive to media companies. They recognize that it’s a global media network and none of these guys have yet recognized global penetration into people’s homes."

Disney Makes Deal to Acquire an Internet Portal Service - New York Times

The Web portal land grab of 1998 - ZDNN

Disney to Acquire Stake in Infoseek - Internet.com

UPDATE YOUR SEARCH SKILLS

The ZDNet web site has put together a series of articles intended to help users search the Net more efficiently. To see the list of articles, go to:

You’re now reading the email edition of Internet Search Advantage. To receive the print and web site editions (including access to the articles listed below), you must subscribe.

You can receive a free sample issue of the newsletter by filling out the form at:

Of course, you can jump to any of the articles described below by going directly to the accompanying URLs. Whichever way you access the articles, remember that you’ll have to register before you can access any of the content on the web site. To register, simply point your URL to http://www.cobb.com/secure2/regform.htm.

Once you get to the registration form, just enter your Customer Number (contact Customer Relations if you don’t know your Customer Number) at the top of this email message into the form. (You can ignore the example on the registration form about how to find your Customer Number on your mailing label, since we’ve given it to you already!) After you enter the Customer Number, scroll down and enter your proposed UserID and Password. (Be sure to give three possible UserIDs, since we won’t process your registration without them.) After you hit the Register button, the web site will verify your UserID and Password. (It’s probably a good idea to write it down somewhere.) Now when you attempt to access one of the articles on the web site, you’ll be prompted for your UserID and Password. Once you enter those, you’ll have full access to the site.

In addition to the articles below, be sure to check out other features of the web site. Some are active now, and others will go live in the next two weeks:

OTHER ZD ARTICLES

In this section, we’ll provide you with links to articles from other Ziff-Davis publications on search-related topics. Come here to connect to informative articles in such publications as PC Computing, PC Week, PC Computing, or Internet Computing. We’ll update this section as our sister publications produce new articles on search-related topics.

http://www.cobb.com/isa/otherzd.htm

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ACCESSING AND SEARCHING NEWSGROUPS

Newsgroups are probably the largest decentralized information resources in existence. Each day, more than 250,000 articles are posted to 17,000- plus USENET newsgroups on the Internet, where information is discussed and traded on almost every topic imaginable. Unfortunately, accessing newsgroups can prove difficult.

NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCHING

The ultimate goal of search engine programmers is to make querying a database or index so simple that anyone can access information without difficulty. Natural-language search engines are working toward that goal. Natural language is defined in artificial intelligence (AI) research as a language spoken or written by humans, and as one of the hardest problems of artificial intelligence due to the complexity, irregularity, and diversity of human language.

CREATING QUICK ACCESS TO RESEARCH BOOKMARKS

Professional researchers know that to make search resources viable, they must be at your fingertips. You don’t have time to look for search tools or bookmarks. Both Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x include a great time-saving toolbar feature that makes creating and organizing bookmarks much easier. In this article, we’ll explain how you can create and edit buttons in your Web browser for gaining fast access to your search bookmarks. Then we’ll go one step further and explain how you can create entire pop-up menus of bookmarks you can organize and how you can access sections of bookmarks—for example, search engines, reference sites, and dictionaries—under a single toolbar button.

A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO TRANSLATION

By Richard Seltzer

Since the AltaVista Translation Assistant became available in December, information providers have been scrambling to find ways to take advantage of this new service to expand their reach to Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German audiences. Because the potential audience for any Web site is global, it often makes sense to provide your content in more than one language. Additional languages can help open new markets, both by making your content understandable to many more people and also by showing respect for the culture and heritage of people in your target audience.

INTERNET SEARCH TERMINOLOGY

In Internet Search Advantage, we often use some unusual terms. We’ve likely discussed many of these terms in past issues, but to ensure a common language, we’ve provided this glossary to explain prevalent Internet jargon, terms, and acronyms involved in searching.

EFFECTIVELY USING SUBJECT DIRECTORIES

The Internet is now composed of 70 million plus documents. Powerful search engines such as AltaVista and HotBot have indexed a significant percentage of the Internet, and you can search their database indexes in only a few moments. How, then, can relatively small subject directories like Yahoo! compete? What search advantages can they provide? In this article, we’ll tell you how a subject directory can improve your Internet searches.

The following questions are based on recent correspondence about my articles. They deal with matters that many people find confusing, and many of you should find the answers interesting.

SEARCHING FTP SITES WITH FILEZ

The Internet abounds with FTP (File Transfer Protocol) files, which you can

download to your computer. FTP files include business software applications, browser plug-ins, graphic images, sounds, fonts, and information documents. Some popular shareware and download sites boast that they index in excess of 180,000 files for downloading. The more traditional Archie servers index well over 5 million FTP files each.

REFERENCE AND RESOURCES

Each month, we’ll review small search engines, link stations, and reference sites that provide excellent resources for your Internet research.

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When Trinity University eventually requires students to have laptops or provides leased laptops to students, it is possible to redesign courses to for interactions in class. I call your attention to pp. 16-20 in the June 1996 issue of T.H.E. Journal. The article written by George D. Stetten (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University) is also available online at http://www.thejournal.com/98/current/698trends.asp All student laptops in the class interact without wires using IR technology.

The above issue of T.H.E. Journal also has a wonderful summary of music software and trends in music technologies. The online version is at http://www.thejournal.com/98/current/698sw.asp

Also the current June 1996 issue of Syllabus is full of interesting articles. The Cybertext online accounting and information systems textbooks are mentioned on Page 10. Links to online degree programs are provided in "An Ecology of Distance Learning" by Robert Lucas. On Page 26, Jack Wilson notes that each of the departments at Rensselaer Polytechnic no has at least one appointed member to the Faculty of Information Technology. A new degree program in Information Technology is also available.

The above issue of Syllabus also provides a great Buyer's Guide for Telecommunications, the Internet, and Education. Categories include Conferencing and Collaboration Services and Software, Distance Learning Hardware and Software Solutions, Internet Servers, Networking Hardware and Software, Network/Lab Management Software, and Video and Teleconferencing Hardware. The online version of the Buyer's Guide is at http://www.syllabus.com/jun98_BG.html

On pp. 53-56, Larry Friedlander and Charles Kerns discuss the Stanford University attempts to transform lecture courses into learning laboratoties.

Highlights of the June 1996 issue of Syllabus are available at http://www.syllabus.com/jun98_mag.html . Back issue highlights are available at http://www.syllabus.com/syllmag.html

Bob
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Amazon adds a Music Store

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/002-5603926-5279654

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Directory of Spanish language web sites

http://espanol.yahoo.com

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The Lost Journals of Walt Whitman

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Zach's Investment Research

http://www.ultra.zacks.com/UAW_1access.html

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YAHOT ToolBook Utilities (Thank you Dan Gode from the University of Rochester)

http://www.inet.com.br/~mhavila/toolbook/tbk-util.shtml.en

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Literary Traveler

http://www.literarytraveler.com

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For fun quiz site

http://www.quizsite.com

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Peek at what is going on in your neighbors' backyards (remote control cameras for kites)

http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/arch_faculty_cris/kap

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Palace of Versailles

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Washington Post Pictures of the Year

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A geek site (go for it Glenn Meyer)

http://www.streettech.com

Bob
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Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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1.
Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy: Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age
http://csile.oise.on.ca/abstracts/Piaget.html
By Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

Abstract: We argue that efforts at school restructuring should focus on altering classroom conditions that make minimal understanding strategies adaptive. Toward this end we analyze conditions of schooling that inhibit efforts at understanding, and contrast these with conditions that encourage students to pursue understanding by their own initiative. Our analysis of conditions necessary to enable purposeful pursuit of understanding is based on our experience in developing and implementing a computer-based system (CSILE) for information sharing and knowledge advancement. Results from the use of CSILE suggest that it is possible to create school environments that give understanding a central role and that the benefits from doing so are considerable.

Perelman makes his own distinction between learning and education by presenting his notion of kanbrain or "on-demand learning," a derivative of the modern Japanese industrial notion of just-in-time delivery. JIT is a model in which all the components of a system are manufactured and brought together as needed for production. This is a model in which investments in inventory, labor, and production processes can be called upon as warranted, by demand. In educational terms this means bringing learning resources, instruction, and mentorship to learners as they need it, perhaps without the same kinds of investment in buildings, teachers, and resources as has been the custom. JIT is a mechanistic model for sure, but one which has a certain resonance with budget conscious governments and corporations.

The key technology components of a kanbrain-style, on-demand learning system from Perelman’s perspective are performance support, groupware, intranets, and knowledge-based systems. If you have not heard these terms before, let this be your first notice that these terms will increasingly become buzz words in educational circles.

Abstract: Three studies investigated the ability of elementary school children to ask and recognize educationally productive questions. Knowledge-based questions, formulated in advance of instruction, were found to be of a higher order than text-based questions, produced after exposure to text materials. Depending on familiarity of the topic, knowledge-based questions varied between basic questions, asking for information needed for orientation to a topic, and "wonderment" questions, often aimed at explanation or at resolving discrepancies in knowledge. Children’s questions are seen as a potentially valuable resource in education, but one that requires a different kind of classroom community from the several kinds commonly found. The potentiality of a computer-based medium, CSILE, for supporting a knowledge-building community is briefly considered.

http://agora.unige.ch/tecfa/edutech/welcome_frame.html
Educational Technology - A WWW Virtual Library page maintained by TECFA (Technologies de Formation et Apprentissage)

http://bellproject.educ.queensu.ca
Queen’s-Bell Instructional Technology Update - This site is intended to assist educators new to technology in their efforts to find meaningful and productive ways of using information technology to promote learning. This service is sponsored by Bell Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training and Queen’s University.

http://www-tec.open.ac.uk
Open University Institute of Educational Technology

http://web.soi.city.ac.uk/research/hcid/intro.html
Centre for Human Computer Interface Design (City University) - The Centre for Human Computer Interface Design (HCID) was formed in January 1992, bringing together research strengths in Business Computing and Computer Science which span dialogue design, natural language, graphics and visual human computer communication. The Centre draws on research experience in human computer interaction, computational linguistics, computer graphics and systems development. As such its central interest is in design of the human computer interface while acknowledging that interface design is an integral part of the whole system and can not be considered in isolation. Computers in Teaching Initiative - The CTI comprises 23 subject-based centres working to encourage the use of learning technologies in UK higher education. The CTI Support Service, based at the University of Oxford, coordinates the work of the centres, and acts as a focal point for the activities relating to the use of computers in university teaching in the UK.

http://sloan.ece.uiuc.edu/scale (also see Bob Jensen's WP 255 at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm
Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments - The Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE) was established in March 1995 with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. SCALE faculty are participating in a three-year project of restructuring undergraduate courses to integrate various techniques associated with asynchronous learning networks. The goals of this project are to create efficiencies in the educational process (cost, time, faculty productivity), to increase student retention, and to decrease time-to-degree.

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim
Center for Advanced Instructional Media - founded at Yale University to explore the educational potential of new interactive multimedia computing technology

http://www.cdlr.tamu.edu
Center for Distance Learning Research at Texas A&M - provides timely and appropriate information on the development, application and maintenance of information technology systems. This information is provided through demonstration, training, publications and technical assistance. The Center’s services are available to all public agencies and private businesses who are interested in the welfare and education of people through the use of appropriate information technology and distance education.

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/tlp
Technologies for Learning Program - provides an innovative learning environment for graduate students, who will draw from five major centers of strength at the University of Illinois: theories of learning and teaching; context-area base; technology development; school-based research; and technology studies.

http://www.hitl.washington.edu
Human Interface Technology Lab - at the University of Washington
The Human Interface Technology Laboratory is a research and development lab in virtual interface technology. HITL
was established in 1989 by the Washington Technology Center (WTC) to transform virtual environment concepts
and early research into practical, market-driven products and processes. HITL research strengths include interface
hardware, virtual environments software, and human factors. The Lab hopes to develop a new generation of
human-machine interfaces to provide solutions to challenges in a variety of domains.

http://citt.marin.cc.ca.us/disted.html
Center for Internet Technology in Teaching

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/ilt/index.html
Institute of Learning Technologies - founded in 1986 at Teachers College, Columbia University, works to advance the role of computers and other information technologies in education and society.

http://www.atl.ualberta.ca
Academic Technologies of Learning (University of Alberta) - Alternative delivery refers to new ways of teaching and learning which expand access beyond the bounds of time and place set by traditional lecture teaching. Alternative delivery is associated with the use of educational technologies. These technologies are designed to improve the learning process in cost effective ways while increasing access to educational opportunities.

http://oberon.educ.sfu.ca
The Excite Center - at Simon Fraser University specializes in Educational Technologies including all manner of

hypermedia and multimedia

 

http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm
EVNET (Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies) - is a collaborative research network of academic researchers, practitioners, and public, private and non-profit organizations involving the evaluation of the effectiveness of computer-mediated communications in education and training.

http://www.det.mun.ca
Memorial University of Newfoundland - Division of Educational Technology

http://wwwctit.cs.utwente.nl/Docs/main.html
The Centre for Telematics and Information Technology at the University of Twente - is a multidisciplinary research institute of the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and does research within the area of telematics and information technology.

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/hae/trc/trcindex.htm
The Telematics Research Centre at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK

http://sauce.uio.no
The University of Oslo and UNINETT Multimedia Lab - UNINETT is the operator of the academic network in Norway. This Web-server is used by UNINETT and the University of Oslo for development work in relation to media on demand over the Internet as well as various other Web related projects.

http://www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de/esf-lhm
Learning in Humans and Machines - The mission of this recently launched programme is to advance our knowledge about learning from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together - on a European scale - researchers from cognitive, computer and educational sciences. The programme has as its guiding theme the analysis, comparison and integration of computational approaches to learning and research on human learning.

http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~unodb/Projects/vir.html
Virtual University Project - is organized by the Uno Laboratory of Keio University at SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), participated by experts across the Keio University system. Collaborating institutions include IIASA (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis), INFORUM (Inter-industry Forecasting at the University of Maryland), CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science Network), and the United Nations University. The purpose of the project is to establish a network for research and education on WWW.

http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/projects/index.html
NCSU/Fujitsu Network-Based Education Project

Updated Bookmarks

I have updated Bob Jensen’s Bookmarks at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

The above file contains nearly 100 pages of bookmarks and loads slow. However, I have improved the index for fast searches by category.

Noted features are the Education in General bookmarks, the Accounting sections, and the Technology Section.

When you find dead links or have suggestions as to how to improve these bookmarks, please let me know at rjensen@trinity.edu

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Selected Bookmark Additions With Commentaries at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm

In addition to my Bookmarks mentioned above, I have added a web document that lists selected additions to my Bookmarks in 1998. This document contains commentaries on many of the added bookmarks.

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Spreadsheets, Mathematics, Science, and Statistics Education: Quite a Lot of What You always wanted to know

http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Spreadsite

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Search Advice from the Cobb Group:

Subject directories, like Yahoo!, are the simplest types of Internet databases. They consist of documents that are usually reviewed before being entered into a database and that are identified by category, title, and a few keywords. Because most subject directories manually screen documents, these databases are relatively small compared to large keyword indexes like AltaVista and HotBot. However, subject directories can provide distinct advantages for finding information on the Internet. The hierarchical nature of subject directories can greatly reduce the odds of irrelevant information showing up in your search results. For example, if you go to Yahoo! and select the Magazines section in the Science category, you know you’ll find links to science magazines and not sports or cooking magazines.

Yahoo! also provides a unique search engine that lets you limit searches to a specific subject category. For instance, lets say you want to find some information on software applications for searching the Internet. From Yahoo!’s main page click the Software link under the Computers & Internet category. Yahoo! will display its Computers & Internet/Software page. Next use the dropdown box (to the right of the search query box) to select "Just this category. " Finally type in the query "searching" and click on the search button. Yahoo! will return a page that contains only matches about

search software. The Yahoo! Internet subject directory is located at http://www.yahoo.com/

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New Additions to NAIL Database - NARA

http://www.nara.gov/nara/recdata.html

The National Archives and Record Administration has added the eight batch, containing thousands of digitized images, to their NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) database. Items include X-1 Correspondence;

Pribilof Island Logbooks and Photographs; the US Navy’s, "Report of the Search for Amelia Earhart, July 2-18, 1937;" 200 images of Southwestern Archaeology from the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian; and over 3,000 images from the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), 1942-1945. Directions for retrieving the featured items from the somewhat complicated NAIL database are provided. [MD] From the Scout Report

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The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/english/emed/emedd.html

Edited by Ian Lancashire of the Department of English at the University of Toronto this online database offers access to 127,000 word-entries from eleven dictionaries from 1530 to 1657. Several search options are available and users may select individual dictionaries or all of them. Additional resources at the site include a helpful overview of EMEDD, a short piece on Renaissance word-meaning, a select bibliography, and dictionary profiles. [MD] From the Scout Report

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CurtainUp: The Internet Magazine of Theater Reviews and Features http://www.geocities.com/~curtainup/

This no-nonsense site is an outstanding guide to current theater in New York City, Washington D.C., and, to a lesser extent, London. Continually updated, the site’s features include extensive theater reviews, book reviews, interviews, and three quotation sections. Particularly useful are the Broadway, Off-Broadway, and D.C. annotated address books, which list dates and locations of performances and offer links to CurtainUp reviews. Additional features include master indices of all reviews and playwrights. Theater lovers or anyone interested in taking in a show in New York or Washington D.C. will find numerous useful items. [MD] From the Scout Report

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The Code of Hammurabi

http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/codeham.htm

Provided by Law Research, a commercial Internet Law Library, this site combines abridged versions of 2500 BC The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King With commentary from Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915) and the Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns’, "The Code of Hammurabi" in <I>The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,</I>.. Select commentary has been drawn from the original texts while the Code, the earliest-known body of written laws, is presented in very nearly its entirety. Government, world study, and introductory law courses should find this site a useful resource. [MD] From the Scout Report

NEW CYBERPSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL

CYBERPSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOR is a new, peer-reviewed journal for the mental health community devoted to the "impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society." Articles in its inaugural issue include "The Gender Gap in Internet Use," "Internet Addiction on Campus," "The Relationship Between Depression and Internet Addiction," and "A Review of Virtual Reality as a Psychotherapeutic Tool."

Cyberpsychology & Behavior [ISSN: 1094-9313] is published quarterly by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2 Madison Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538; tel:

914-834-3100; fax: 914-834-3582; email: info@liebertpub.com; Web:

http://www.liebertpub.com/

From INFOBITS in May 1998.

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Bob
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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Barron’s Education Web Site (includes test preparation guidance)

Tracking down Web site contact information with InterNICs Whois database The Internet consist of about 30 million Internet hosts that provide easily accessible information to anyone with an Internet connection. But tracking down basic contact information from a Web site can often prove extremely difficult. Some Webmasters simply overlooked including contact information about their Web site or bury it on an obscure page. In other cases the site administrator might purposely avoid including contact information - for example, someone illegally publishing copyrighted material - in which case finding contact information for the ISP is also often difficult. In most cases you can track down contact information for a Web site with InterNIC’s Whois database.

What is Whois?

Whois server database programs were first set up in the 1970s to register host computers and administrators at various sites. InterNIC’s Whois service provides a way of finding e-mail addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers of those who have registered "objects" with the InterNIC.

New York Public Library’s Digital Library Collections

The Florida Department of Corrections. This is a unique web site. It has a searchable inmate database. For some of you, this site may be useful in your research.

Use of distance education and applied technology is discussed at

The Annual Report is quite detailed at

You can purchase groceries from Albertsons via the web. Avoid those hot parking lots.

Action Atlas

National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain

Royal Horticultural Society

For Michele --- The Useless Facts Page

The sound recorder that comes pre-packaged with Windows 95 sucks (e.g., it is limited to 60 seconds of recording). I think Recall is the best buy on for audio recording. I received the following message from Jim Sells:

RecAll v2.3 Beta version Now Available (sound activated recording program)

A new release of RecAll will soon be ready. As a registered user, you are now invited to evaluate a beta release of this program before the official version release. (As you may know, a beta version of a software program is one that has finished testing within the software company (alpha test) and is ready for evaluation by users outside the software company. After fixing any problems that show up in the beta version, a "production" release version of the program is made available for general distribution.) If you do not care to try the beta version, look for an announcement for the official production release of version 2.3/1.3 in early May. As a registered user, you will be able to download the new version and it will automatically recognize the registration code already stored on your computer.

Major features added:

1) Built-in timer: useful for recording and time-shifting radio programs, etc.

The timer has start and stop times, with the option of starting a new file when programming starts, and specifying a filename prefix for each timer-start event.

Some things fixed/improved:

1) "can’t find data chunk" error fixed.

2) Read-only sound files are handled correctly.

3) Save-As menu item now makes copy of file, instead of renaming file.

4) When pressing Fast-forward during playback, playback resumes after the position is advanced one segment. A similar thing happens with the Rewind button.

5) Resolved a problem with a particular MPEG ACM codec.

6) Increased resolution of Position slider, for easier navigation in very large files.

7) Show button keyboard accelerators in bubble-help, and resolve an accelerator conflict.

8) Renamed Level slider, in an attempt to reduce confusion, and now show Getting Started topic on first run of program which explains the operation of this control.

9) Added total-elapsed-recorded-time to main window display.

10)Fixed compatibility problem with SoundForge/CoolEdit due to inaccurate "Fact chunk" size estimate.

best regards,

Jim Sells sells@sagebrush.com Sagebrush Systems,Inc. More gadgets, more power

Unique Windows software http://www.sagebrush.com/~sells/ or email for info
WinChime v2.4/v1.4 wind chimes; RecAll v2.2/v1.2 sound-activated recorder
WaveSong v2.4/v1.4 nature sound generator; MouSing v2.3/1.3 mouse-theremin

Bob
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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