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an irregular gathering of web stuff by...
/ Alan Levine / Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction /

MCLI WWW Server

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/links/

In conjuction with the Ocotillo Authoring Languages committee, we are setting up a resource page for "Authoring" at:

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/	  

    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/deluxe.html

NetScape is It!

NetScape is my personal favorite WWW application, both on the Mac and the Windows side. The present version (0.9 beta) will supposedly expire in a month, but version 1.0 is on it's way and should be free also. The recently dropped the "Mosaic" part of their name with the proliferation of Mosaic-items (NCSA Mosaic, Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic). If you have not used this Web browser, it is available from our Apple File Server (Dist MCLI, MCLI SERVER 2, MCLI Public in the folders:

    Into the Internet/
      1-Internet with the Mac/
         World Wide Web   

     http://home.mcom.com/
 

Local Web Acess

      http://www.primenet.com/

(no this is not an endorsement, we receive no kickbacks, this is just for informational purposes, caveat emptor, etc)

Sites of Intrigue

• Search a huge database of listservs from a database (maintained by Dartmouth College) of almost 6,000 mailing lists
  http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/listserv.html
• The Virtual Microscope is a joint project between the Institute of Educational Technology and the Department of Earth Sciences at the Open University The Virtual Microscope, can be used to allow students to rotate a rock sample while viewing it in plane polarized and cross polarized light simultaneously - something which is not possible with a conventional microscope.
  http://hcrl.open.ac.uk/vms/vms.html
  
• Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) is a menu-driven, computerized futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies' earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns. As of October 6, 1994, political contracts include: New Jersey Senate, New York Governor, Pennsylvania Senate, Texas Governor, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Utah 2nd Congressional District, and the Virginia Senate. Companies currently in the EPS market include IBM and KMart. All the software and hardware to run these markets is housed at the University of Iowa. Traders connect to the market through Internet or by modem. http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/
  
• Information Alley is a publication of Apple Computer, Inc., Support Information Services. The goal of the Information Alley is to help Apple computer users get full use of their Apple computers, peripherals, and software
  http://www.info.apple.com/info.alley/info.alley.html
• Smithsonian Institution:
  http://www.si.edu/
• Natural History Museum (UK):
  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
• The "Say" Server Enter a word in this form and it will send back a (mechanized) sound file of the word:
  http://www_tios.cs.utwente.nl/say/
• Easy HTML- create HTML documents from within your WWW browser: http://peachpit.ncsa.uiuc.edu/easyhtml/easy.html
• SuperCard resources [thanks to Jim Tipton]:
  http://www2.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/supercard-ftp-gopher-sites.html
• NASA SpaceLink has been around for a while as a telnet, then gopher site. Now on the WWW, it offers educational services and instructional materials covering the areas of space science:
  http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/
• A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry Explore the generation of geometric figures with detailed explanation of the mathematical concepts behind the algorithms:
  http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html
• Interactive Media Services offer interactive multimedia programs including full motion video, sound, graphics and text, on the WWW. Your presentation can be saved on floppy or downloaded within minutes. Applications include brochures, training, contact with the sales force etc:
  http://www.route-one.co.uk/route-one/
• Ever had problems finding a book you needed? Read USA, Inc. is your one-stop source for any book. On-line, you can browse through their continuously updated book list, and place an order. AND, all books are sold at discount prices:
  http://readusa.com/
• Boson Books offers new manuscripts and out-of-print texts on the Internet, available online through email and the Web:
  http://zeus.cybernetics.net/cm.html