In this issue...
More Maricopa Webs
New on the map of the Maricopa Web servers
is GateWay Community College featuring a wide
range of campus-based information for their faculty and staff.
The Maricopa District Web server provides information that applies across the ten colleges
that make up our communtiy college system. This includes information about the Apollo project,
a "partnership with Oracle Corporation to develop and
implement learner-centered, financial records, human resources, and electronic mail systems that will support
effective teaching and learning within the Maricopa Community Colleges, both now and in the future."
A new addition is the Legal Access Page,
from the Office of General Counsel of the Maricopa County Community
College District, where you can find legal information related to our college district.
The Common Pages for Maricopa include policy statements common to all the Maricopa Community
Colleges.
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly of Netscape
NetScape is big, no kidding. Estimates indicate
more than 80% of web users are using NetScape. They've caused much contention and name-calling
on various newsgroups over the incorporation of features that are not [yet?] part of the
HTML standard. Yes, we here
have succumbed to using the enhancements- colored/textured backgrounds and tables and variable font sizes and
center alignment that are supported in NetScape 1.1. For even more information, see
Creating High Impact NetScap-able Documents
Looking for backgrounds? Try NetScape Background Textures
or Kai's Power Tips Background Archives. Here at
MCLI we've been using the Texture Explorer of Kai's Power Tools in Photoshop. We've had better luck compressing
the files with other programs rather then using the GIF save option in PhotoShop.
So what is out there to see? Be sure to visit the
NetScape Hall of Shame.
Our favorite is the page with glaring red background, supersized text, unwieldy graphics,
and the prompt to enter your credit card number. There is also a special home for
the Hall of Shame Homepages:
This is the Hall of Shame Homepages, a new section of the Enhanced for Netscape Hall of
Shame. If you have a homepage, and it's Netscape Enhanced, you can get your page listed
here!
To contribute your page, mail me a quick note with your first and last name and the URL of
your homepage. Please put "HOS Homepages" as the subject. I'll take a look at it, and if it's
Enhanced enough I'll put it right here. I reserve the right to reject any homepage that
doesn't quite cut it. If you made your homepage with the Internet Assistant for Microsoft
Word, don't even bother sending it in.
Are you stumped on how to use the NetScape enhancements? Well, just
Nutscapify for pages by sending a URL to
this server. It will go through a HTML document and randomly apply NetScape'd features.
It has to be seen to be appreciated.
Cheap NetScape tricks? These fall into the category of "It's Neat the
First Time, But Gets Old There-After".
Newest are the animations in the title bar as a web page comes in.
this is achieved by including a long list of <title>...</title> tags
in your HTML. As the document reads in to your web browser, it keeps updating the title
bar for each entry. For example, the following in an HTNl file would make the word
animate scroll across the title bar:
<title>...........a</title>
<title>..........an</title>
<title>.........ani</title>
<title>........anim</title>
<title>.......anima</title>
<title>......animat</title>
<title>.....animate</title>
<title>....animate.</title>
<title>...animate..</title>
<title>..animate...</title>
<title>.animate....</title>
<title>animate.....</title>
<title>nimate......</title>
<title>imate.......</title>
<title>mate........</title>
<title>ate.........</title>
<title>te..........</title>
<title>e...........</title>
<title>............</title>
The other trick is have a colored background "fade in" through a series of tags (NetScape only here)
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<body bgcolor="#FFFFEE">
<body bgcolor="#FFFFDD">
<body bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<body bgcolor="#FFFFBB">
where the bgcolor tag specifies the Red-Blue-Green values in hexadecimal (This gets hairy so
try the Color Editor for HTML 3.0 Backgrounds)
For a shining stunning example of NetScape to the max, see
Dave's Home Page. It
has to be seen rather than described!
WARNING: Browser Interaction Precaution
Dave's Home Page is contraindicated for those who are NCSA Mosaic
dependent. Severe gastric discomfort may occur for those using non-Netscape
web browsers.
Be sure to look for the icon of NetScape squashing Mosaic
An finally, our pick of the highest impact document, not for the faint of graphics or
the slow of modems is ImageX Design.
Science! Science! Science
Alan Cairns,
Physics teacher at Bellevue High School
and the Astronomy Dept at the University of Washington sent by email
a list of several resource pages for Science. Keep those URLs coming in
to us!
SciEd:
Science and Mathematics Education Resources
Meet the other "Ed's"...
WebCrawler Hits the Big Time
Webcrawler, one of the well-known friendly critters for searching the
web, was created by humble student at university. Just like those Yahoos
down
at Yahoo (who went from standford.edu to yahoo.com),
the Crawler has hit
the big Commercial time, being bought out by America On Line, who
also swept up Global Network Navigtor (GNN) as described in a recent
press release.
They will form a new entity called Songline Studios that will a "Web-centric" player
in online services as well as software publishing.
But do not think we here at WWW News are slamming an opportunist! Webcrawler
is now VERY fast and has a much more extensive database from which to search.
Pop it up near the top of your own bookmarks.
Net Quotes
Real Words From Real People!
- If I Slip and Fall on my PPP, will it Hurt?
- title of workshop at National Education Computer Conference (NECC '95)
Baltimore
- I don't want my students surfing the net, I want them making waves
- Keynote speaker Ben Shneiderman at same conference
World Population
Using the latest in "push-pull" network technology, you can pull up a web
page that updates itself with the up-to-the-minute estimate of the World Population!
It never stops! the data is based on models from the US Census Bureau.
Try the versions from SunSite or the source at the
Census Bureau
Top o' the Web
Every issue we will highlight
a great web site, a completely un-empirical
personal judgement on our part...
This issue, at the Top of the Web is....
Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe PhotoShop
which not only reatures some extremely well-don graphics but a whole warehouse
for those that create computer graphics, espcially using Adobe PhotoShop. These include
tips from Kai himself, fully illustrated and step-by-step instructions to create fantastic effects.
There is also Tom Karlo's Tips for WWW developers,
an Adobe Acrobat version of PhotoShop Techniques,
MacArt Magazine, an archive of
ready-to-use backgrounds for NetScape and more.
And beyond or in front of all of this great information is a very clean web page design (we like the
use of letter spacing on the sub-titles) with an unobtrusive background texture file.
Sites of Intrigue
-
Art
- Broadway Worldwide
- formerly known as Playbill OnLine, puts theater information into cyberspace
- Internet ArtResources
- brings the advantages and
capabilities of the Internet to the art community.
Internet ArtResources is not exactly one location but a compendium of 6 separate locations:
- Internet GalleryWalk
- Internet StudioVisit
- Internet MuseumStroll
- Internet ArtNewsstand
- Internet ArtShows
- Internet ArtSchools
- ArtNetWeb
- is the third phase of a process
to establish an art colony in cyberspace.
- Steven Noreyko's photography
- is made up of images he's taken in his capacity as photojournalist,
- Escher
- is a fascinating educationally based site that
explores the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's unique and often
impossible work.
Biology
- Primate Info Net
- at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Earth Science
- Sedimentology
- is the study of how wind and waves move things like grains of sand.
This site offers images, QuickTime movies, plus
Mac and PC software to simulate your own ripple and dune bedforms and
crossbedding.
- Web Geological Time Machine
- at the University of California
Museum of Paleantology. From the list of 25 geological
periods view a page describing each period, its subdivisions, and
the life and fossils of that period.
Education
- Pathways to School Improvement
- addresses critical issues identified by educators, researchers, and community leaders. National
leaders in each area provide practical, research based solutions to these issues. Contributors to Pathways
come from America's leading educational research centers and universities.
- Chorus Software Reviews
- is a resource for academic and educational computing in the arts/humanities.
- On the Horizon
- Interactive platform for discussing
emerging trends and potential developments in the
social, technological, economic, environmental, and
political sectors and their implications for education.
- The Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN)
- is a
significant contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content
of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN
envisioned and then constructed the concept of the "Global Schoolhouse"
where teachers, students, business, government, and the community can
learn side-by-side.
Government and Politics
- United States Information Agency
- explains and advocates U.S. policies in terms that are
credible and meaningful in foreign cultures, and brings the benefits of
international engagement to American citizens and institutions by helping
them build strong long-term relationships with their counterparts
overseas.
- Clintov and Gingov
- Haven't you always suspected that a randomly selected bunch of hackneyed phrases might have as much
insight as the daily political babble? Clintov and Gingov prove the truth of that suspicion by generating
randomized "speeches" that have the same distribution of three-word phrases as real speeches by Clinton and
Gingrich. The output is an oddly readable, often hilarious amalgamation with embedded nuggets of wisdom.
New random "speeches" are generated every ten minutes, Clintov on the 0's and Gingov on the 5's.
History
- U.S. Civil War Center
- features aspects of the
Civil War and Reconstruction including indexes, letters, diaries, museums, discussion
groups, newspapers, university archives, and Web-accessible documents.
- U.S. Presidents
- Nixon and
Carter
Internet
- DejaNews
- has the largest collection of indexed archived Usenet news
available anywhere.
- IRC Gallery
- is where people using Internet Relay Chat can get pictures of
themselves put up, available to anyone who wants to know how one and another look like.
- Internet Unix Dictionary
- so you can tell your Chew from your tar.
- Stanford NetNews Filtering Service
- provides a personalized USENET News, or Netnews,
delivery service via email. You subscribe to the service by submitting profiles that describe your interests.
Netnews articles (from newsgroups available to our local news host) that match your profiles will be sent to
you periodically.
- Internet and the WWW
- from Earthlink Network
-
Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners
- Read and understand please!
- The Internet Sleuth
- is a collection of over 450 searchable indexes and
databases covering a wide variety of subjects.
- Internet Service Providers
- UMich
- Commerece.net
- HTML Overview
- by Russ Jones, from his book Managing Internet Information Services,
demonstrates the basics of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
- Starting Point
- aims to " provide your single best starting point
for World Wide Web exploration". Nice icons for buttons.
Languages
- Language Dictionaries
- English-French
- French-English
English-German
Law
- LEGAL dot NET (tm) or LdN (tm)
- is for those who provide, regulate, support or
are merely interested in knowing about legal services.
Library
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Library
- is built upon a World Wide Web foundation
Literature
- All About Words
- contains amusing tidbits about the origins of different words and their
usages.
Medicine
- Medicine on the Information Highway
- links for the medical world
- Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC)
- provides access to all kinds of information for and about the
association, including news, events and schedules, constituents,
admissions, financial aid, minority affairs, student affairs,
governmental relations, medical education, residencey issues, and AAMC
program, publications, library resources and archives.
- MedSearch America's Physician Referral
- helps you find doctors
according to criteria such as specialty, certification, years in
practice,education, location, and insurance accepted. No charge is planned
for the service, and some physicians will be available for an initial
e-mail consultation.
Multimedia
- Online, Inc.
- contains selections from four magazines including
Online, Database, CD-ROM Professional, and MultiMedia Schools.
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Music
News
- ClariNet e.News
- is the first and largest electronic news service
on the Internet with general, international, sports, technology, entertainment and financial
news, as well as special features and columns.
- Mecklerweb
- Mecklermedia Corporation is a publisher and trade show sponsor specializing in the
Internet and virtual reality. Their publications include:
- CBS Up to the Minute News
- is a
collection of daily features on space, the Internet, CD-ROMs, women's medicine, parenting, and movies.
From here, you can also jump to CBS's Eye on the Net, with the latest on "The Late Show"
(Letterman), "The Late, Late Show" (Snyder), upcoming movies-of-the-week, and more. No news about
Connie and Dan though.
Philosophy
- No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed (NDOPA)
- is North America's premier philosophy
television talk show, seen live on PBS and other educational stations
across Canada and the US last fall.
Psychology
- Ecopsychology
- suggests that the destruction of
Earth's environment and people's isolation, stress and disorders stem from
a fundamental denial of our sentient connections to nature. From a new book, Well
Mind, Well Earth, the site offers free simple ways to reverse this trend.
Space Science
- Jason Ware's Galaxy Photography
- site contains
some of the most spectacular space photography anywhere and
provides info about the telescope used to
make the photos and tips for beginning astrophotographers.
Teaching and Learning
- National Federal Budget Simulator
- from UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER) lets
anyone on the World Wide Web try their hand at balancing the budget.This
simulation allows Internet users to control a whole range of budget
choices, submit a budget, and interactively see the changes in the federal
deficit. Internet "Senators" can get into the nitty-gritty of controlling
mass transit spending, weapons procurement, national parks allocations,
and social welfare spending and see results of cuts in all areas of the
$1.5 trillion budget.
- Apple's Learning Community
- is a resource for educators,
parents, students, and individuals interested in lifelong learning.
-
NCAL's Adult Literacy Software Database
- describes software available for
demonstration and review in the Literacy Technology Laboratory at the University
of Pennsylvania
- John Conway's Game of Life
- The Game of Life is played on a cartesian grid of cells which are
either 'dead' or 'alive' The game gets it's name from the similarity
between the mathematically defined behavior of these cells and the
behavior of societies of living organisms.
- Storyteller's Pages
from Sherri Johnson at Swarthmore College is a site with
- links to storytellers' pages, children's stories, online stories, and
resources for storytellers.
- Virtual Classroom
- provides course information and on-line
resources for numerous classes at the University of Connecticut
- Bio380 (tele)Communicating Biology
- by William Graziadei is a writing across the disciplines course for
junior/senior classes at SUNY Plattsburgh. This site includes several instructional
hypertexts developed by students
- Geology 202 Home Page
- contains notes and self-directed exercises which complement
the lectures and laboratories of Geology 202, Introduction to
Petrology - a course offered in the Geological Sciences
Department of the University of British Columbia.
WWW News 06-27-95
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa County Community College District
The Internet Connection (1993-2006) at MCLI was
Alan Levine --}
Comments once went to levine@maricopa.edu (no one is at home there)
URL: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webnews/950627.html
