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Databases
Global Change Data & Information System 7/14/1999 
GCDIS is a collection of distributed information systems operated by government agencies involved in global change research. GCDIS provides global change data to scientists and researchers, policy makers, educators, industry, and the public at large.
 
Technology and Higher Education Statistics, Surveys, and Reports 7/14/1999 
Printed and electronic sources of statistics and other survey information in the field of education, with particular emphasis on higher education and the impact of technology on education. (7/1/1997)
 
Video Online Workshhop 7/31/2000 
Self nomination: Hardly any other websites or resources describe such valuable data as the ITU-T recommended values to mean in the real world. You can find, for instance, ITU-T G.722 audio to hear in the real teleconference. (7/31/2000)
 

Education
Access Excellence 7/20/1999 
Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high school biology teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
 
Arts Edge 7/14/1999 
The mission of ARTSEDGE is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum.
 
BigTenU 9/7/2001 
BigTenU focuses on the broad mix of policy issues affecting higher education today through case studies, informed viewpoints, and a discussion forum. BigTenU also provides a growing list of domestic and foreign education policy resources. (9/7/2001)
 
EdWeb 7/14/1999 
With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much, much more.
 
Greenstar  
Greenstar is investing in self-contained, solar-powered community centers in remote communities around the world. Each center has Internet connections, health facilities, including telemedicine, a classroom complete with distance learning equipment, and a business center, through which we will operate ecommerce in native cultural products. The solar array powers the unit, preserves medicines and also purifies water. Ecommerce is the revenue stream that pays for the facilities and brings wealth into the community. The main line of product will be "digital culture," such as music and art, that can be duplicated and transported effortlessly, making the transaction completely green and highly efficient. The community will eventually own all these social services and an income source that preserves culture by giving it market value. Introduction http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm Presentations: http://www.e-greenstar.com/presentation/ Sweatshops and Butterflies http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/index.htm Media samples: http://www.e-greenstar.com/media/ Greenstar people http://www.greenstar.org/pressroom/braintrust.htm http://www.greenstar.org/people.htm http://www.greenstar.org/bios.htm
 
Help! I'm lost!: Finding Information on the Web 6/29/2000 
Pam Dutcher's article on where and how to start your searches on the Internet. (6/29/2000)
 
IBM On-Demand Learning 7/14/1999 
On-Demand Learning enables colleges and universities to provide students and faculty with network access to courseware and educational materials on multimedia servers.
 
ICONnect 7/14/1999 
Developed especially for school library media specialists, teachers and students, ICONnect offers anyone the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to navigate the Information Superhighway.
 
IDEAS for On-line Learning and Teaching 10/27/2000 
Instructional Development Experiences, Applications, and Solutions, IDEAS, is an e-learning portal designed to support your development initiatives and disseminate meaningful teaching experiences to the university community. This site specializes in On-line Learning & Teaching, OLT. (10/27/2000)
 
Integrating Technology Into Education: Papers 6/29/2000 
A set of papers that emerged from the "Integrating Technology Into Education" HORIZON project. (6/29/2000)
 
Integrating Technology Into Education: Web Sites 6/29/2000 
A list of Web sites related to the "Integrating Technology Into Education" HORIZON project. (6/29/2000)
 
Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers 8/2/2000 
A resource center for educators involved with the undergraduate mathematics preparation of future k-12 teachers, the site contains three major components: an electronic journal, a catalog of related links, and an area dedicated to the use of mathematics specific technologies in mathematics education. (8/2/2000)
 
It's a Jungle Out There: WWW Search Techniques 6/29/2000 
Tiffany Davis' article on how to evaluate various WWW search engines (and the utility of their techniques). (6/29/2000)
 
Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education  
Links to resources of all kinds - books, articles, conferences, people, etc - realted to online collaborative learning (or CSCL) in higher education.
 
Online Educator 7/14/1999 
The Online Educator provides resources and links to make the Internet a more accessible, useful classroom tool.
 
PLATO Learning - Publication's Section 8/2/2000 
PLATO? is a computer-based instructional system designed to enhance the learning process and help adolescent and adult learners reach their fullest potential. We provide solutions for the following groups: Middle Schools High School Remediation High School Enrichment High School Graduation Requirements Alternative Education Special Education Developmental Studies Workforce Training Community Education Adult Basic Education /GED/ESL Programs JTPA Programs Welfare-To-Work Programs The publications below are Technical Papers authored by Dr. Rob Foshay - Vice President of Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning. Technical Papers: * PLATO Instructional Philosophy * Evaluation Guidelines for PLATO * Effectiveness of Computer-Based Training and PLATO * Principles for Teaching Problem Solving * A Guide for Implementing Technology * Instructional Models * Teaching Reading with PLATO (8/2/2000)
 
Plato 9/4/2000 
PLATO? is a computer-based instructional system designed to enhance the learning process and help adolescent and adult learners reach their fullest potential. This site contains a description of Plato products, future products, and technical papers. (9/4/2000)
 
Responsible netizen 8/1/2000 
This site contains resources to assist educators in technology planning and the development of policies and practices to assist students in using the internet in a safe and responsible manner. (8/1/2000)
 
Safety Ed International  
SafetyEd International is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California, and run by volunteers with many years experience in Internet safety education and child advocacy. Founded on August 1,1998, it is made up of skilled Internet users who work in the field of cyberspace safety and safety education. It's President and CEO is Colin Gabriel Hatcher, a cyberspace lawyer and world renowned expert in this field, who has spent more than 10,000 hours online teaching, researching and working in cyberspace safety. For more information on Colin?s qualifications, please visit http://www.safetyed.org/safetyed/gabriel.html. He can be reached by email at colinhatcher@yahoo.com. SafetyEd works in many areas of Internet Safety: proactive educational programs and resources, and child protection and child advocacy. On our website you will find a huge amount of resources aimed at helping librarians, parents, teachers, teens and kids enjoy cyberspace safely, both original research and links to other useful websites and organizations.
 
TechKnowLogia 7/20/2000 
TechKnowLogia is an international online Journal of technologies for the advancement of knowledge and learning. It enjoys worldwide readership and is delivered bi-monthly on the web by FREE subscription. TechKnowLogia looks and feels like a Journal and is available via two online versions - a browser version with search capability, and a PDF "hard copy" version. TechKnowLogia targets policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at local, national and global levels in every country of the world. (7/20/2000)
 
Technology Directors' Resource Center 7/31/2000 
Technology Directors' Resource Center (TDRC) maintains the following features: *Search or Browse - Search or browse for resources. *Add a resource to TDRC - TDRC is designed to support input of the best resources by those who use them - technology directors. Our search files will grow as technology coordinators continue to contribute. Please add your valuable web sites. *Resources of the Month - TDRC will feature three new valuable resources for teachers to use in their classroom. This will assist you in your role as technology coordinator. *E-News - Subscribe to our biweekly electronic newsletter with updates on resources, research, policies, and other pertinent information relevant to technology coordinators (and funding). Resources for E-News is collected by Joe Slowinski, the Director of Technology @ the Chadwick School. *Chat Area - an area for you to meet colleagues to discuss a variety of issues. Both verbal and text chat is supported here. (7/31/2000)
 
The Australian Guide to Online Business 7/31/2001 
The companion Web site to the new book, The Australian Guide to Online Business, has been set up to help people establish a successful business on the Internet. The site also offers a free subscription to the email newsletter, Internet Update, which is designed to help people get more out of the time they spend browsing the Web. (7/31/2001)
 
The AutoAuditorium System for televising lectures  
I would like to make you aware of the AutoAuditorium System, a technology that could have a very positive impact on the availability of Distance Education. In a nut shell ... Create Auditorium and Classroom Videos Without a Crew! The AutoAuditorium System turns an ordinary auditorium, lecture hall or classroom into one that automatically makes broadcasts and recordings of lectures and talks. Permanently installed in the room, it uses cameras and microphones to be "aware" of what is happening on stage. It televises the most common auditorium talk: people speaking on stage, showing slides to a local audience. Because the system is completely automatic, the people on stage and in the local audience are not distracted. To remote audiences, an AutoAuditorium program is usually indistinguishable from one produced by a crew. Easy and economical to use, it is used often. Thus many more people can avoid traveling, or missing talks because of a schedule conflicts. Classes taught in one location can be telecast to other locations and/or recorded for later use. IBM TJ Watson Research has three systems in use. They published a paper in January 2001 saying that they were creating video for their e-Seminar service at the rate of 5 - 10 hours per week. Since then, their use has increased. They created 150 AutoAuditorium videos in 2002, which grew to 233 in 2003. Boeing also has a system, used to send presentations from Seattle around the country. Additional information is available from Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 http://www.AutoAuditorium.com See the video demonstration at http://www.AutoAuditorium.com/videos.html
 
The National Math Trail 1/16/2001 
Real World Math The National Math Trail is a K-12 Internet project. Students explore their communities and create math problems that relate to what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site and can add photos, drawings, videos. All submissions are posted to the site. (1/16/2001)
 
The Ten Best Web Sites for Educational Technology 7/14/1999 
The sites on this page offer information to guide school leaders in making choices about educational technology. These sites generally emphasize the use of new technologies as tools to support problem-solving and decision-making.
 
The University of Virginia Virtual Library 7/14/1999 
The resource page for the University of Virginia library system.
 
The Virtual Learning Space (VLS) 4/18/2001 
The Virtual Learning Space (VLS) is an environment dedicated to learning about Communication & Information Technology (C&IT) via collaboration. As well as a space where peers can come together to share best practice, exchange ideas and establish self help groups, the VLS also includes links to pools of resources and expertise relating to C&IT skills. Initially setup as a Scottish Tertiary Level Education initiative, membership extends to people from more than 30 countries around the world. (4/18/2001)
 
Video Online Workshhop 7/31/2000 
Self nomination: Hardly any other websites or resources describe such valuable data as the ITU-T recommended values to mean in the real world. You can find, for instance, ITU-T G.722 audio to hear in the real teleconference. (7/31/2000)
 
Web66 7/14/1999 
The Web66 project is designed to facilitate the introduction of Web technology into K12 schools.
 
e-LearningHub.com 11/1/2000 
Current information about e-learning. (11/1/2000)
 
iPaper 8/3/2000 
iPaper's technology website describes Internet capable technology that eliminates the need for a "traditional" computer terminal front-end interface for "real-time" student assessment testing. (8/3/2000)
 
pjb Associates - papers and presentations 8/1/2000 
Articles relating to new opportunities for mass-market personalised learning through Personalised TV and its implications for traditional providers of open and distance learning (8/1/2000)
 

Futures
13th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 7/14/1999 
The objective of this symposium is to better understand the implications of the present explosive growth in global computer networks, like the Internet and the World-Wide Web.
 
Greenstar  
Greenstar is investing in self-contained, solar-powered community centers in remote communities around the world. Each center has Internet connections, health facilities, including telemedicine, a classroom complete with distance learning equipment, and a business center, through which we will operate ecommerce in native cultural products. The solar array powers the unit, preserves medicines and also purifies water. Ecommerce is the revenue stream that pays for the facilities and brings wealth into the community. The main line of product will be "digital culture," such as music and art, that can be duplicated and transported effortlessly, making the transaction completely green and highly efficient. The community will eventually own all these social services and an income source that preserves culture by giving it market value. Introduction http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm Presentations: http://www.e-greenstar.com/presentation/ Sweatshops and Butterflies http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/index.htm Media samples: http://www.e-greenstar.com/media/ Greenstar people http://www.greenstar.org/pressroom/braintrust.htm http://www.greenstar.org/people.htm http://www.greenstar.org/bios.htm
 
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies 8/16/2000 
Professor James Dator's homepage and research site, HRCFS has been forecasting, teaching, and implementing futures studies materials since 1971 (8/16/2000)
 
Netfuture 7/14/1999 
NETFUTURE looks beyond the generally recognized "risks" of computer use such as privacy violations, unequal access, censorship, and dangerous computer glitches. It seeks especially to address those deep levels at which we half-consciously shape technology and are shaped by it.
 
OLDaily 9/7/2001 
OLdaily is a daily email newsletter covering trends and developments in online learning. By Stephen Downes. (9/7/2001)
 
Rand Corporation  
This research by the Rand Corporation seeks to determine the major factors and trends shaping the future of work in the current century, and how those factors are likely to evolve over the next 10 to 15 years. It also seeks to determine the implications of these trends upon the workforce, the workplace, and worker compensation.
 
Speed: Technology-Media-Society 7/14/1999 
SPEED provides a forum for the critical investigation of technology, media, and society. Our intention is to contribute toward a democratic discourse of technology and media, one that is always focused upon the material conditions of life that technologies and media constitute and demand, and yet does not lose sight of the power of ideas to change those conditions.
 
The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning 7/14/1999 
This site contains white papers commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology on various aspects of educational networking.
 
pjb Associates 8/1/2000 
Addresses various issues relating to emerging technology issues and their implications for education and training (8/1/2000)
 

Internet Resources
Beyond Bookmarks 7/14/1999 
Links to sites with various schemes for organizing the Web.
 
BigTenU 9/7/2001 
BigTenU focuses on the broad mix of policy issues affecting higher education today through case studies, informed viewpoints, and a discussion forum. BigTenU also provides a growing list of domestic and foreign education policy resources. (9/7/2001)
 
CCollegeJobs.com 8/14/2000 
CCollegeJobs.com is the only Internet-based job board for the community colleges sector, where community colleges post jobs for a fee and job seekers, from inside and outside the community college sector, post jobs for free. Created by Schindler and Associates Inc., lists job vacancies for faculty members, staff, and administrators. Job listings may be searched by discipline, institution type, location, and salary range. Job seekers must register in order to use the site and registration is free. Users may also sign up to receive an electronic newsletter with information about employment trends and advice for job seekers. Registered members may post their resumes on the site free. (8/14/2000)
 
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 7/14/1999 
CPSR is an organization devoted to the responsible use of technology.
 
Greenstar  
Greenstar is investing in self-contained, solar-powered community centers in remote communities around the world. Each center has Internet connections, health facilities, including telemedicine, a classroom complete with distance learning equipment, and a business center, through which we will operate ecommerce in native cultural products. The solar array powers the unit, preserves medicines and also purifies water. Ecommerce is the revenue stream that pays for the facilities and brings wealth into the community. The main line of product will be "digital culture," such as music and art, that can be duplicated and transported effortlessly, making the transaction completely green and highly efficient. The community will eventually own all these social services and an income source that preserves culture by giving it market value. Introduction http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm Presentations: http://www.e-greenstar.com/presentation/ Sweatshops and Butterflies http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/index.htm Media samples: http://www.e-greenstar.com/media/ Greenstar people http://www.greenstar.org/pressroom/braintrust.htm http://www.greenstar.org/people.htm http://www.greenstar.org/bios.htm
 
Hamline University Web Caucus 7/14/1999 
The Center@Hamline is an online support center for conferencing.
 
Information Technology Research Centre 7/14/1999 
This site is dedicated to strengthening the global performance of Ontario's information technology and communications industries through university / industry research partnerships involving the interchange of people, ideas and technologies.
 
Institute for Academic Technology (IAT) Home Page 7/14/1999 
Helping Internet users find the information they need, even when they aren't sure what they're looking for is the purpose of IAT.
 
Internet Resources 7/14/1999 
A newsletter focussing on Internet resources aimed at the higher education community.
 
MSCAN-Michigan Environmental Scanning Consortium 11/16/2000 
Michigan's on-line scanning tool and resource for community colleges, Michigan Works! Associations and Workforce Development Boards. The site allows members to enter scanning abstracts, links or reports. Since the site is dynamic, (database driven) users need not know html to add information. In addition to abstracts, links and reports, users have on-line resources such as FAQ's, a Scanning Guide and ScaNotes, the popular Michigan E-Newsletter. Non-Users have access to Links, ScaNotes, and Reports. The site was built with a grant from the Michigan Department of Career Development and will run until June 30, 2001 on the MDCD funding. After that, community colleges and MWA's and WDB's will be able to maintain access with an annual subscription fee. (11/16/2000)
 
Matrix 7/14/1999 
Into the Matrix is designed to help filter and to help us make sense of the massive amount of information that bombards us in cyberspace.
 
N.A.WEB '96 - The Future is Here! 7/14/1999 
An International Conference in Fredericton, NB, Canada, October 5th - 8th, 1996, Sponsored by the WWW Courseware Developers and the Department of Continuing Education - University of New Brunswick.
 
OLDaily 9/7/2001 
OLdaily is a daily email newsletter covering trends and developments in online learning. By Stephen Downes. (9/7/2001)
 
PLATO Learning - Publication's Section 8/2/2000 
PLATO? is a computer-based instructional system designed to enhance the learning process and help adolescent and adult learners reach their fullest potential. We provide solutions for the following groups: Middle Schools High School Remediation High School Enrichment High School Graduation Requirements Alternative Education Special Education Developmental Studies Workforce Training Community Education Adult Basic Education /GED/ESL Programs JTPA Programs Welfare-To-Work Programs The publications below are Technical Papers authored by Dr. Rob Foshay - Vice President of Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning. Technical Papers: * PLATO Instructional Philosophy * Evaluation Guidelines for PLATO * Effectiveness of Computer-Based Training and PLATO * Principles for Teaching Problem Solving * A Guide for Implementing Technology * Instructional Models * Teaching Reading with PLATO (8/2/2000)
 
Safety Ed International  
SafetyEd International is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California, and run by volunteers with many years experience in Internet safety education and child advocacy. Founded on August 1,1998, it is made up of skilled Internet users who work in the field of cyberspace safety and safety education. It's President and CEO is Colin Gabriel Hatcher, a cyberspace lawyer and world renowned expert in this field, who has spent more than 10,000 hours online teaching, researching and working in cyberspace safety. For more information on Colin?s qualifications, please visit http://www.safetyed.org/safetyed/gabriel.html. He can be reached by email at colinhatcher@yahoo.com. SafetyEd works in many areas of Internet Safety: proactive educational programs and resources, and child protection and child advocacy. On our website you will find a huge amount of resources aimed at helping librarians, parents, teachers, teens and kids enjoy cyberspace safely, both original research and links to other useful websites and organizations.
 
TechKnowLogia 7/20/2000 
TechKnowLogia is an international online Journal of technologies for the advancement of knowledge and learning. It enjoys worldwide readership and is delivered bi-monthly on the web by FREE subscription. TechKnowLogia looks and feels like a Journal and is available via two online versions - a browser version with search capability, and a PDF "hard copy" version. TechKnowLogia targets policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at local, national and global levels in every country of the world. (7/20/2000)
 
Telecomputing 7/14/1999 
A website with resources related to telecommuting and distance education.
 
The Australian Guide to the Internet 7/31/2001 
Companion Web site to the book, The Australian Guide to the Internet, plus a free email newsletter (called Internet Update). The site itself, its categories of Web addresses (in the Sites to Lookup section of the site) and newsletter are all designed to help people get the most out of the time they spend browsing the Web. (7/31/2001)
 
The AutoAuditorium System for televising lectures  
I would like to make you aware of the AutoAuditorium System, a technology that could have a very positive impact on the availability of Distance Education. In a nut shell ... Create Auditorium and Classroom Videos Without a Crew! The AutoAuditorium System turns an ordinary auditorium, lecture hall or classroom into one that automatically makes broadcasts and recordings of lectures and talks. Permanently installed in the room, it uses cameras and microphones to be "aware" of what is happening on stage. It televises the most common auditorium talk: people speaking on stage, showing slides to a local audience. Because the system is completely automatic, the people on stage and in the local audience are not distracted. To remote audiences, an AutoAuditorium program is usually indistinguishable from one produced by a crew. Easy and economical to use, it is used often. Thus many more people can avoid traveling, or missing talks because of a schedule conflicts. Classes taught in one location can be telecast to other locations and/or recorded for later use. IBM TJ Watson Research has three systems in use. They published a paper in January 2001 saying that they were creating video for their e-Seminar service at the rate of 5 - 10 hours per week. Since then, their use has increased. They created 150 AutoAuditorium videos in 2002, which grew to 233 in 2003. Boeing also has a system, used to send presentations from Seattle around the country. Additional information is available from Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 http://www.AutoAuditorium.com See the video demonstration at http://www.AutoAuditorium.com/videos.html
 
The National Math Trail 1/16/2001 
Real World Math The National Math Trail is a K-12 Internet project. Students explore their communities and create math problems that relate to what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site and can add photos, drawings, videos. All submissions are posted to the site. (1/16/2001)
 
edHelper WebQuests, Lessons, Worksheets, and News 11/1/2000 
Over 1,000 Webquests Over 6,000 Lesson Plans Free Worksheets Educational News updated Daily Over 500 Educational Programs (11/1/2000)
 

Journals and Articles
A Socratic Dialogue on Educational Technology By Scott Morrison 7/14/1999 
Scott Morrison writes that educational technology is limited because it is dependent upon theories generated for other fields of education.
 
Articles by George Gilder 7/14/1999 
This series of articles by George Gilder, one of the great techno-optimists, provides some interesting background that may help prepare readers to better understand and place in proper perspective, the concepts and technologies related to what the popular press has chosen to label "The National Data Super Highway."
 
Australia: The Networked Nation 7/14/1999 
Tom Worthington, President of the Australian Computer Society provides a "future history" of information technology in Australia in the year 2005.
 
Being Digital By Nicholas Negroponte 7/14/1999 
Nicholas Negroponte examines the possibilities and dangers of living in the digital age.
 
Beyond Teaching 7/14/1999 
An article on how to successfully teach online by Dr. Guy Bensusan, a professor of Humanities and Religious Studies.
 
BigTenU 9/7/2001 
BigTenU focuses on the broad mix of policy issues affecting higher education today through case studies, informed viewpoints, and a discussion forum. BigTenU also provides a growing list of domestic and foreign education policy resources. (9/7/2001)
 
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 7/14/1999 
A non-profit, monthly magazine dedicated to exploring the people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices, research, and applications of CMC.
 
Educational Technology & Society journal 8/3/2000 
The Educational Technology & Society journal(ISSN 1436-4522) is published by IFETS and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force. The journal aims to provide a common platform for educational system developers and educators who implement and manage such systems. (8/3/2000)
 
Electronic Education 7/14/1999 
A series of articles from C-NET Magazine about education and the World Wide Web.
 
First Monday 7/14/1999 
This peer-reviewed e-journal focusses on issues related to the Internet.
 
From Now On 7/14/1999 
From Now On is a journal which supports the use of educational technology which enables students to make up their own minds.
 
From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal 10/31/2000 
Published electronically since 1991, From Now On explores the potential of new technologies to support lieracy and student problem solving. The site offers hundreds of articles, many previously published in leading print journals, that touch on issues of professional development, curriculum development and wise planning of technology implementations. Free subscription via e-mail to monthly issue. 20,000+ subscribers. (10/31/2000)
 
George Gilder Telecosm Archive 7/14/1999 
These articles are a series excerpted from chapters in George Gilder's book, Telecosm.
 
IBM On-Demand Learning 7/14/1999 
On-Demand Learning enables colleges and universities to provide students and faculty with network access to courseware and educational materials on multimedia servers.
 
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 7/12/2000 
The purpose of IRRODL is to circulate scholarly knowledge in open and distance learning theory, research, and best practice to distance education practitioners and scholars worldwide. (7/12/2000)
 
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 7/17/2000 
The aim of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) is to disseminate scholarly information to scholars and practitioners of open and distance learning worldwide. (7/17/2000)
 
Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal 2/27/2001 
Meridian is an electronic journal dedicated to research and practice of computer technology in middle school classrooms. It is published twice yearly by an interdisciplinary team of NC State graduate students representing a broad range of fields, from education to forestry. (2/27/2001)
 
NewScientist 7/14/1999 
New Scientist is the world's best weekly news magazine devoted to science and technology and their impact on the world and the way we live.
 
OLDaily 9/7/2001 
OLdaily is a daily email newsletter covering trends and developments in online learning. By Stephen Downes. (9/7/2001)
 
Online User 7/14/1999 
A Practical Magazine for Knowledge Workers.
 
Opening the Conference Gates to K-12 and Worldwide Educators 7/14/1999 
In Japan, Steve McCarty shows how academic conferences can be held entirely online.
 
PLATO Learning - Publication's Section 8/2/2000 
PLATO? is a computer-based instructional system designed to enhance the learning process and help adolescent and adult learners reach their fullest potential. We provide solutions for the following groups: Middle Schools High School Remediation High School Enrichment High School Graduation Requirements Alternative Education Special Education Developmental Studies Workforce Training Community Education Adult Basic Education /GED/ESL Programs JTPA Programs Welfare-To-Work Programs The publications below are Technical Papers authored by Dr. Rob Foshay - Vice President of Instructional Design and Cognitive Learning. Technical Papers: * PLATO Instructional Philosophy * Evaluation Guidelines for PLATO * Effectiveness of Computer-Based Training and PLATO * Principles for Teaching Problem Solving * A Guide for Implementing Technology * Instructional Models * Teaching Reading with PLATO (8/2/2000)
 
Scientific American 7/14/1999 
The homepage for Scientific American offers access to back issues and special features.
 
Session with the Cybershrink 7/14/1999 
An Interview with Sherry Turkle.
 
Society, Cyberspace and the Future By Bruce Murray 7/14/1999 
An examination of fow new interactive communication technology can enhance harmonious and functional communities at all scales worldwide.
 
TCWORLD 7/14/1999 
A free online magazine about education and technology.
 
TechKnowLogia 7/20/2000 
TechKnowLogia is an international online Journal of technologies for the advancement of knowledge and learning. It enjoys worldwide readership and is delivered bi-monthly on the web by FREE subscription. TechKnowLogia looks and feels like a Journal and is available via two online versions - a browser version with search capability, and a PDF "hard copy" version. TechKnowLogia targets policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at local, national and global levels in every country of the world. (7/20/2000)
 
Technology Review Home Page 7/14/1999 
The Technology Review is an online journal focusing on ideas and innovations in the world of technology
 
The Digital Agora 7/14/1999 
Successful innovation requires serious reconsideration of existing institutional structures and processes. Yet in 1997 this key success factor often remains overlooked, ignored or under-resourced. In the midst of oversized classes and dwindling resources, the education community needs to broach the question of how information technology can profoundly alter the learning process.
 
The Learning MarketSpace 7/17/2000 
Written by Carol Twigg and Bob Heterick, The Learning MarketSpace is a monthly electronic newsletter that provides leading-edge assessment of and future-oriented thinking about issues and developments concerning the nexus of higher education and information technology. (7/17/2000)
 
The Monitor 7/14/1999 
The magazine from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute for Academic Technology (IAT). The Institute for Academic Technology (IAT) is a national research and development center for the application of information technologies to learning, instruction and research.
 
The Network Observer 7/14/1999 
TNO is a free on-line newsletter about networks and democracy.
 
The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing 5/5/2001 
The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing (RCFoC) is a weekly technology journal providing pragmatic, unbiased insight, analysis, and commentary on contemporary computing's innovations and trends, and on the technologies that drive them -- important elements that drive our businesses and, increasingly, our global society and economy. The goal of the RCFoC is to keep us informed of these innovations and trends, to enable us to make the best possible business decisions in an industry that "moves at net speed." The RCFoC also challenges us to connect these happenings in ways that may be "beyond the nine dots," and so encourages us to consider all of our current, and future, products, services, and business strategies, in light of -- the rapidly changing face of computing. (5/5/2001)
 
The Teacher's Internet Pages 7/14/1999 
An international teaching webzine.
 
The Technology Source 7/14/1999 
The Technology Source is a forum for faculty and administrators at institutions of higher education to share their experiences integrating technology on their campuses and into their curricula.
 
Upside Magazine 7/14/1999 
This magazine, well known for its coverage of the business of high technology, is now on the web.
 
Web-Vantage 7/14/1999 
This E-zine provides information on Internet development trends and directions, plus web-development tools and resource directories.
 
elearningpost 2/3/2001 
Daily Links to Corporate Learning, Community Building, Instructional Design, Knowledge Management, Personalization and more (2/3/2001)
 
ultiBASE 12/17/2000 
UltiBASE is a free peer reviewed e-journal and resource for tertiary teachers. It's aim is to promote teaching best practice in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education in all tertiary settings. (12/17/2000)
 

Listservs
Cybermind 7/14/1999 
Cybermind is a listserv devoted to topics related to cyberspace.
 
EdTech Archive 7/14/1999 
This site was created to help make the archives and references offered by the many subscribers and participants in the EDTECH discussion list more accessible for reference and study.
 
List of Listservs 6/29/2000 
A list of listservs helpful in scanning the macro-environment. Compiled by the HORIZON staff. (6/29/2000)
 
The Red Rock Eater 7/14/1999 
The Red Rock Eater is a mailing list that is concerned mainly with the social and political aspects of computing.
 
WWWEDU Postings 7/14/1999 
Archives of postings from the WWWEDU listserv.
 

Organizations
BigTenU 9/7/2001 
BigTenU focuses on the broad mix of policy issues affecting higher education today through case studies, informed viewpoints, and a discussion forum. BigTenU also provides a growing list of domestic and foreign education policy resources. (9/7/2001)
 
Greenstar  
Greenstar is investing in self-contained, solar-powered community centers in remote communities around the world. Each center has Internet connections, health facilities, including telemedicine, a classroom complete with distance learning equipment, and a business center, through which we will operate ecommerce in native cultural products. The solar array powers the unit, preserves medicines and also purifies water. Ecommerce is the revenue stream that pays for the facilities and brings wealth into the community. The main line of product will be "digital culture," such as music and art, that can be duplicated and transported effortlessly, making the transaction completely green and highly efficient. The community will eventually own all these social services and an income source that preserves culture by giving it market value. Introduction http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm Presentations: http://www.e-greenstar.com/presentation/ Sweatshops and Butterflies http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/index.htm Media samples: http://www.e-greenstar.com/media/ Greenstar people http://www.greenstar.org/pressroom/braintrust.htm http://www.greenstar.org/people.htm http://www.greenstar.org/bios.htm
 
Safety Ed International  
SafetyEd International is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of California, and run by volunteers with many years experience in Internet safety education and child advocacy. Founded on August 1,1998, it is made up of skilled Internet users who work in the field of cyberspace safety and safety education. It's President and CEO is Colin Gabriel Hatcher, a cyberspace lawyer and world renowned expert in this field, who has spent more than 10,000 hours online teaching, researching and working in cyberspace safety. For more information on Colin?s qualifications, please visit http://www.safetyed.org/safetyed/gabriel.html. He can be reached by email at colinhatcher@yahoo.com. SafetyEd works in many areas of Internet Safety: proactive educational programs and resources, and child protection and child advocacy. On our website you will find a huge amount of resources aimed at helping librarians, parents, teachers, teens and kids enjoy cyberspace safely, both original research and links to other useful websites and organizations.
 

Tools
1996 Multimedia Tool Guide 7/14/1999 
This directory of hardware and software suppliers provides tables that compares the features of hundreds of products.
 
BigTenU 9/7/2001 
BigTenU focuses on the broad mix of policy issues affecting higher education today through case studies, informed viewpoints, and a discussion forum. BigTenU also provides a growing list of domestic and foreign education policy resources. (9/7/2001)
 
Greenstar  
Greenstar is investing in self-contained, solar-powered community centers in remote communities around the world. Each center has Internet connections, health facilities, including telemedicine, a classroom complete with distance learning equipment, and a business center, through which we will operate ecommerce in native cultural products. The solar array powers the unit, preserves medicines and also purifies water. Ecommerce is the revenue stream that pays for the facilities and brings wealth into the community. The main line of product will be "digital culture," such as music and art, that can be duplicated and transported effortlessly, making the transaction completely green and highly efficient. The community will eventually own all these social services and an income source that preserves culture by giving it market value. Introduction http://www.greenstar.org/introduction.htm Presentations: http://www.e-greenstar.com/presentation/ Sweatshops and Butterflies http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/index.htm Media samples: http://www.e-greenstar.com/media/ Greenstar people http://www.greenstar.org/pressroom/braintrust.htm http://www.greenstar.org/people.htm http://www.greenstar.org/bios.htm
 
Question Mark 7/14/1999 
A program for assisting with on-line surveys and tests.
 
Tek.Xam 8/9/2000 
The is an information technology poficiency exam that was developed by a not for profit group that measures test takers proficiency in the following areas; 1. Internet Research and Evaluation 2. General Computer Concepts, Legal & Ethical Issues within Technology, Computer Terminology, Troubleshooting 3. Web Design - creating a website 4. Presentation Software - creating an effective presentation 5. Spreadsheet - synthesizing, analyzing & presenting numeric data 6. Word Processing - communicating data (8/9/2000)
 
The AutoAuditorium System for televising lectures  
I would like to make you aware of the AutoAuditorium System, a technology that could have a very positive impact on the availability of Distance Education. In a nut shell ... Create Auditorium and Classroom Videos Without a Crew! The AutoAuditorium System turns an ordinary auditorium, lecture hall or classroom into one that automatically makes broadcasts and recordings of lectures and talks. Permanently installed in the room, it uses cameras and microphones to be "aware" of what is happening on stage. It televises the most common auditorium talk: people speaking on stage, showing slides to a local audience. Because the system is completely automatic, the people on stage and in the local audience are not distracted. To remote audiences, an AutoAuditorium program is usually indistinguishable from one produced by a crew. Easy and economical to use, it is used often. Thus many more people can avoid traveling, or missing talks because of a schedule conflicts. Classes taught in one location can be telecast to other locations and/or recorded for later use. IBM TJ Watson Research has three systems in use. They published a paper in January 2001 saying that they were creating video for their e-Seminar service at the rate of 5 - 10 hours per week. Since then, their use has increased. They created 150 AutoAuditorium videos in 2002, which grew to 233 in 2003. Boeing also has a system, used to send presentations from Seattle around the country. Additional information is available from Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 http://www.AutoAuditorium.com See the video demonstration at http://www.AutoAuditorium.com/videos.html
 
The Web Developer's Virtual Library 7/14/1999 
This website offers a host of services for those interested in website design.
 

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