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	WWW News August 28, 1995	Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
an irregular gathering of web stuff by... Alan Levine

• Webbing it Back to School!
• Coloring Toys for NetScape to make those beautiful backgrounds
• Announcing your pages what's a good page if no-one knows its there?
• Interactive Age goes all electric
• Animation on Web Pages pushin' and pullin'
• HTML Corner a never ending round-up
• Top o' the Web ... the best of the pack, in our unorthodox, unscientific opinion
• Sites of Intrigue ... hot, cool, lukewarm, here are some new places to surf/cruise

Enough fluff, here's some cool school stuff:

Inegenious Online

makes learning products for use in schools and home.

Higher Education Processes (HEPROC)

provides educators and students, and all who labor in their support, information about higher education themes such as assessment, faculty development, quality, networking, and more.

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine Volume 2, Number 6 / June 1, 1995

SPECIAL ISSUE:

The Electronic Schoolhouse: Thinking about Computer Technology in Education

• The Kids Who Would Be King: Electronic Publishing,
• The Cutting Edge: News in Brief
• The Information Highway: Littered with Roadkill?
• Beyond the Hype: Planning for Computers in the Classroom
• What's a (Teacher, Parent, Administrator) to Do?
• Desktop Video?
• Book Review:A Starting Point for Educators on the Internet
• Change and the Public Forum: A Student's Perspective on Online Sexism

"Life, the univeristy, and everything"

in Issue 5 of .net the Interent magazine... "Those tedious assignments, hideous essays and lengthy dissertations needn't be a hassle when you're at university - get on-line and let the network take the strain. Matthew Bath presents a practical guide for students starting out in cyberspace."

Computer Assisted Learning

at University of Strathclyde includes a wonderful directory of online resources

EASI (Equal Access To Software And Information)

is an affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. We are dedicated to disseminating up-to-date information about access to computing and information technology for persons with disabilities.

AT&T Center for Distance Learning

is hoping to advance the state of the art in distance learning

Flybrain

is a guide and database of the Drosophila Nervous System

Agora Language Marketplace

an on-line buyers guide for language related publications, products and services and aninformation source for the foreign language professional.

Test Of English for International Communication (TOEIC)

is the international standard for measuring English-language proficiency.

Ancient Treasure Coins

Roman and Greek coins and artifacts and interesting info on Roman Rulers.

Biology Learning Center

relates to Biology courses presented at the University Of Arizona. It provides both links to Biology-related WWW sites, sites for DNA sequence information, molecular imaging and related types of information, plus many unique images and tutorials.

Free Money For College!

They say that "$9.4 billion in financial aid went unused last year because students and/orparents did not know where to apply"

Center for Education and Equity in Mathematics, Science, & Technology (CEEMaST)

is for teachers at all levels of technology, mathematics, and science education.

Davidson & Associates, Inc.

is a leading publisher and distributor of multimedia educational and entertainment software for both the home and school markets.

Luck questionnaire

from the Consciousness Research Laboratory at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, is designed to understand further the concept of luck and widespread beliefs toward luckiness. See also their On-line 'precognition' experiment which is designed to see if you, the participant can determine what a picture looks like before it is presented.

GeoLinks

is a K-12 geography curriculum tool, developed by teachers and for teachers.

Training & Development

is a gold mine of Internet resources for the Training and Adult Education online communities.

The Digital Frog

is aa company dedicated to producing high quality educational software. Our flagship product, The Digital Frog CD-ROM, won two educational technology awards prior to release.

Marilyn is Wrong

Here's a collection of errors, with clear and simple explanations, from the Ask Marilyn column published by Parade Magazine.

Dudley Accelerated Learning Systems

This system will help you learn more, quicker.

Distance Education Clearinghouse

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, the Clearinghouse gathers information on teleconferencing technologies, instructional design, programs and courses, and other distance learning resources.

A Computer Generated 'Walk' through the Second Temple

A computer generated reconstruction and video tour of the Second (Herod's) Temple in Jerusalem and the LDS Temple in Nauvoo, Ill.

Worldwide Classroom

maintains information about 3500 schools in 70 countries including foreign language institutes, universities, adult education centers, and volunteer programs.

Fermat's Last Theorem

Reports from the Boston University Conference on Number Theory, August 1985.

The Language Arts Page

A collection of links to documents and sites of interest to all lovers of language.

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Add pizzazz with background colors! Obscure your text with awful color combinations!

There seem to be a lot of black backgrounds now.. must be some sort of Generation-X type fad. We've seen bunches of stars and many variations on grey stucco. Looking for more? The best starting place are the pointers at Yahoo where you can find resources to deal with those Hex colors (I just looove that #F290E5) as well as galleries of images for backgrounds. One of the nicest interfaces is ColorServe for selecting background colors and also ColorServe Pro for selecting background colors and text colors. My favorites for using on the Mac include ColorHex and WebColor.

Solid backgrounds arrive the fastest and you can easily snazz up a page with just adding the modifier to the body tag:

   <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

Most annoying are interlaced GIF backgrounds that take forever to arrive and come into focus. I find myself reaching for the stop button if I have to wait for just a background to arrive.

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Oh sure, if you are some monfo corporate site, you splash a banner on NetScape's or Yahoo's home pages. But if you are not in such a financial parking zone, there are plenty of sites where you can submit an entry pointing to your site.

But this means visiting about 10-120 major sites and filling our different forms!

Wouldn't it be great if you announce your site to the world, in one click?

You can! First, try wURLd Presence "provides one-stop registration of your World-Wide Web resources with all of the popular search engines, catalogs, and What's New pages. It's the fastest and easiest way to register your Web pages." You then fill in some information, your URL, a description, and then check off the sites where you'd like to register. Another fine site where you can do this Submit-it.

As an alternative, send an announcemnt to the news group comp.infosystems.www.announce. Many "What's New" type lists get their information from this newsgroup. Every week they post a description of how to send in your message.

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Very few publishers have been bold enough to move away from the book and page metaphor. How about acomparison of the leading monthly publications for Macintosh users? MacUser has clearly designed their articles to link together, as well as to external resources. On the otherhand, MacWorld has taken the approach of simply putting the text of their articles on a page with a logo at the top. Quite a few URLs metioned in their most recent issue are already null and defunct.

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The secret? This thing called push-pull... server push, meaning a web server keeps sending a stream of images that are seen as animated objects on your end as well as client pull, meaning you as a viewer send for more images that also pop onto your screen.

But why describe it when you can see it for your self? Here are a few dancing sites:

• Philips Interactive Media Burn:Cycle the CD-ROM action adventure game. Every week a new chapter to the story will unfold.
• Razorfish just follw and click that bouncing blue dot
• DimensionX dazzling graphic display.
• Planet Reebok push and pull the beating heart
• Technolore's Web Directory watch the spinning pyramid

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This issue, at the Top of the Web is

a wonderful example of the interactive possibilites of CGI scripting. You first choose from a menu of topics like "house" or "birthday" or "flower" which gives you a line drawing for your artwork. Next, select a working crayon color and click once on all the areas to fill in that color. Then, click on the "process image" button to update. When all is said and done, you can save your picture. I am very proud of mine and it is proudly displayed on my virtual refrigerator door.

Okay, the results will not stun anyone in the art world. But think about the possibilities that this type of interface can open up. This is another example of where creativity is stemming the tide of www-mania that may be very wide but not very deep.

Carlos' Coloring Book was created by Carlos A. Pero, a graduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also written an excellent tutorial for Introduction to the Web as well as one of the best HTML tutorials on creating FORMS.

Honorable mention goes to the NEW Interactive Graphics Renderer a FORMS interface for creating 3D icons.

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Computers

The Well Connected Mac

your online guide to everything Macintosh.

The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software! (TUCOWS)

provides computer programs for the public to download and use at home.

OS/2 Web

ncludes links to OS/2 resources on the Internet, and the Warp Pharmacy, featuring support information and software updates.

Virtual Software Library

is the most powerful tool available for searching for shareware and freeware on the Internet.

HyperCard HomePage

resources for one of Apple's most popular and now least supported software

BugNet On-Line

Bruce Brown's monthly newsletter gives a list of software bugs and fixes.

Comdex

The biggest of the biggest in conferences

OpenDoc

is Apple Computer's new approach to how we use applications and documents.

Next Computer

Learn WebObjects, an enterprise server for developing object-oriented Web applications. The Nextanswers area allows users to retrieve technical documents and software patches and drivers.

Asymetrix -

Makers of Toolbook and the three-dimensional tool 3D F/X

Internet

NetSearch

is a database that helps you locate companies and resources on the World Wide Web.

NeWWW

a magazine for and by Internet Explorers published from Dartmouth University

Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh

is one of the best written books about the Internet, from Adam Engst, creator of TidBits, the online Mac newsletter.

Point Survey

rates and reviews the best sites on the World Wide Web. We provide surfers with a standard of excellence: a catalog of the most lively, useful, and fun sites on the Net.

Multimedia

QuickDraw 3D

Apple's new format for 3D objects

Apple Multimedia Program (AMP)

is an extensive on-line resource that provides multimedia developers with a one-stop source for information about Apple, its multimedia offerings and its multimedia developer community.

Media Online Yellow Pages

listing of professional media websites, email addresses & more.

the c|net 100

your guide to the hottest CD-ROM titles.

Music

Music Week

is a magazine from the UK. It's slogan is 'for everyone in the business of music'.

Space Science

Browse the Solar System

Clickable image map from Flagstaff field office of US Geological Survey.

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