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Topics in this special issue:
1. K12> Special EdWeek Update: Supreme Court Ruling, June 20, 2002
2. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Online Broadband Toolkit for Rural Communities
3. K12> [netsites] Educamp
4. K12> Robot Soccer -- Network Nuggets
5. K12> [netsites] Roman Coins
6. MISC> [netsites] Day of Birth
7. MISC> [netsites] The Wildlist
8. UPDATED> [DIG_REF] Version 43, Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography
9. K12> New kids radio program
10. MISC> [WWWEDU] high court to consider net filters (fwd)
11. RESOUR> [DIG_REF] Collaborative live reference services
12. K12> Arizona ASSET Education Portal
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:55:26 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Special EdWeek Update: Supreme Court Ruling, June 20, 2002
From: "Education Week on the Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Special EdWeek Update: Supreme Court Ruling, June 20, 2002
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:46:57 -0400 (EDT)
A special update from EDUCATION WEEK on the Web
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a60373a89281709a1
High Court Rejects Students' Right to Sue Under Privacy Law
In what is seen as a victory for school districts and colleges, the U.S.
Supreme
Court has ruled that the federal law that guarantees the privacy of student
records may not be enforced through private lawsuits. Parents and students will
no longer be able to resort to litigation if they believe a school or college
has illegally released their education records, the Court ruled. Rather, their
sole avenue of complaint will be the Family Policy Compliance Office in the
Education Department. (Web-only story.)
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a60373a89281709a0
Stay tuned to EDUCATION WEEK on the WEB for continuing coverage of Supreme
Court
decisions on education issues. A ruling on the Cleveland voucher case is
expected next week.
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From EDUCATION WEEK on the WEB. This update is provided as a weekly service of
Editorial Projects in Education, the Washington, D.C.-based publisher of
EDUCATION WEEK newspaper and TEACHER MAGAZINE.
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Copyright (c) 2002 Editorial Projects in Education.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:43:53 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] Online Broadband Toolkit for Rural Communities
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:02:12 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Online Broadband Toolkit for Rural Communities
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, http://www.lonestarbroadband.org,
a Web-based telecommunications toolkit was launched
at a press conference at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lonestar Broadband is a telecommunications toolkit for rural
leaders and officials interested in securing high-speed services
essential for economic development, education and health care in their
communities. The toolkit features success stories of rural Texas communities
that have secured or are in the process of securing broadband services. Based
primarily on personal interviews with local business, economic development and
community leaders, the purpose of these stories is to serve as models for
community-based broadband initiatives and offer lessons learned from the
successes and failures of past efforts. These stories demonstrate the ways in
which broadband is serving local economic and community development
initiatives.
In addition to these community models, the toolkit offers a variety of
broadband-related resources, many of which have been developed by the research
team through extensive literature review, interviews with telecommunications
providers, community leaders, and state officials.
The contents of this site were produced by a research team of graduate students
at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (some
of us are participants here on the Digital Divide discussion group). The State
of Texas Public Utilities Commission contracted with the team of students,
under the faculty supervision of Dr. Gary Chapman, to conduct a policy research
project on telecommunications and economic development in Texas. Access to
broadband service in rural Texas is considered essential for future economic
development, education, and health care, yet it remains largely unavailable in
remote communities.
For more info., please visit http://www.lonestarbroadband.org/
Rajasvini Bhansali
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LBJ School of Public Affairs
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:44:37 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Educamp
From: Philip Lomoas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [netsites] Educamp
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:01:54 -0700
Educamp
http://www.educamp.us/
"EduCamp is a co-ed day, residential year-round camp for kids ages 5 to
19, offering fun-filled academics and sports activities at McGill
University, the University of Central Florida and the University of Toronto."
Philip Lomoas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:45:39 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Robot Soccer -- Network Nuggets
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:20:22 -0700
Subject: Robot Soccer -- Network Nuggets
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "nuggets ola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*** [[[ ROBOT SOCCER ]]] ***
http://www.robocup.org
A little light year-end viewing for science,
technology, and physics classrooms with
inquiry-based learning and a fast Web
connection.
World Cup Soccer finals (for humans) take
place in June this year. Parallel to that
tournament, the Robocup robot soccer league
championships will take place in Fukuoka,
Japan, and Busan, South Korea, from June
19 to 25.
From the Website of the Iranian team that
is competing this year:
"Billed as the largest and most important
autonomous robot competition in the world,
the tournament is now in its sixth year,
having attracted teams from over 23
countries."
"The contest was established with the
ultimate aim of creating a squad of
mechanical soccer players that can take
on, and beat, the best human teams, by
2050."
There are four different competitions, for
small, medium, large, and four-footed robots.
The rules for robot design and behaviour
during play may be of interest to your class.
Many participants mount video coverage of their
teams on university and technical institute
servers: video from last year's competition
in Seattle is on the Web, for example at
www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3340584,00.html.
Your class can try a search for...
Robocup AND video AND 2002
... to see some recent qualifying matches.
The larger robots must be "autonomous players"
-- robots smart enough to work as a team
without direction from the sidelines -- and
some of the robots show truly uncanny skill.
To put an educational spin on this, ask your
students to come up with a list of required
attributes for autonomous robots that play
soccer as a team against another robot team.
Thanks to Dave Rogers for contributing this
nugget.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:46:05 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Roman Coins
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [netsites] Roman Coins
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:23:12 -0700
The Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins
http://artemis.austinc.edu/acad/cml/rcape/vcrc/
"An online catalog of ancient Roman coins designed for teachers and
students and persons with a general interest in the ancient world."
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:46:54 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Day of Birth
From: Percy Veer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [netsites] Day of Birth
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:29:30 -0700
Day of Birth
http://www.dayofbirth.co.uk/
"This site basically tells you the day of the week that you were born
on. It also tells you other pointless but fun things such as: your star sign,
how old you are, what season you were born in, how long until your next
birthday, and how many days/hours/seconds you have been alive (assuming
12:00 midnight so the last two are approximations only). The site also
provides links to other websites, so you can find more information such
as famous people or events that share your birthday."
Percy Veer
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:48:02 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Wildlist
From: Phast Byder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [netsites] The Wildlist
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:46:49 -0700
The Wildlist
http://www.wildlist.org/
The Wildlist Organization is "the world's premier source of information
on which viruses are spreading In the Wild."
Phast Byder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:51:50 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPDATED> [DIG_REF] Version 43,
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:47:24 -0500
From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DIG_REF] Version 43, Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version 43 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
is now available. This selective bibliography presents over
1,600 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources
that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.
HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf
The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each
major section is a separate file. There are links to sources
that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be
searched using Boolean operators.
The HTML document includes three sections not found in
the Acrobat file:
(1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm
(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related Web sites)
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm
(3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new
resources that is updated on weekdays)
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography
is over 130 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 370 KB.
The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are
marked with an asterisk):
Table of Contents
1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History*
2.2 General Works*
2.3 Library Issues*
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History*
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals
3.4 General Works*
3.5 Library Issues*
3.6 Research*
4 General Works
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
5.2 License Agreements*
5.3 Other Legal Issues
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
6.2 Digital Libraries*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues
8.1 Digital Rights Management
9 Technical Reports and E-Prints*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author
Appendix B. About the Author
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes
the following sections:
Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
Digital Libraries
Electronic Books and Texts*
Electronic Serials*
General Electronic Publishing*
Images*
Legal*
Preservation
Publishers
SGML and Related Standards
Technical Reports and E-Prints
An article about the bibliography has been published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems,
University of Houston, Library Administration,
114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (713) 743-9804.
Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:52:02 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> New kids radio program
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:48:12 -0700
Subject: New kids radio program
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Thought teachers might be interested. Even if you don't live near
Philly, you can go online at http://www.WNWR.com to hear Kids' Connection. Let
me know what you think.
Hi everyone,
The Kids' Connection program on Monday, June 17th was WONDERFUL! If you
missed this show on WNWR 1540AM in Philadelphia, go online at
http://www.WNWR.com to listen. Just go to the website, click the archive page
and click Kids' Connection.
Monday's show featured the "live in-studio" musical talents of Peter
Moses, plus kindergarten students from Whitemarsh Elementary School and
Congregation Or Ami. There's also great music from Sesame Street, Warner
Bros., 2ofaKind, Makin' Music, Mickey Leone, Peanut Butter & Jelly and
so much more!
I am pleased to welcome three new sponsors to Kids' Connection:
--Scott Honda (http://www.ScottHonda.com)
--Bragelets (http://www.Bragelets.com)
--Please Touch Museum
Our next remote recording for Kids' Connection will be at Christopher's
Restaurant in Wayne, PA. on Saturday, July 20th from 1:00-2:00. Please
join us for a wonderfully fun afternoon of music, entertainment and good
food. Andi Joseph, The Musical Mommy, has graciously agreed to perform
her terrific tunes.
Also, please let me know of any children's upcoming birthdays, school
announcements and community announcements. If any of your students,
campers or children would like to sing on Kids' Connection, please
contact me.
If you'd like to get involved with Kids' Connection through sponsorships
of radio shows, community programs, concerts or remote broadcasts,
please let me know. The following is more information about Kids' Connection:
"Kids Connection" is the ONLY radio program in Greater Philadelphia
specifically produced for children 6 years old and younger, and their parents.
Airing each Monday afternoon from 12:30-1:30 on WNWR 1540AM, the
response from pre-schools, community centers, youth groups, churches and
synagogues has been overwhelming.
The good news is that the program is now archived on the station's
website, http://www.WNWR.com. The show can now be heard 7 days a week, 24 hours
a day. Simply go to the website, click on the programming page and go to
"Kids Connection". Many families listen to the show online throughout
the week. They are even downloading the show onto CD for their
childrens' enjoyment. Please go to http://www.WNWR.com, give a listen and let
me know what you think.
Each show is filled with good kids' music and stories, local young
talent, and information for children and their parents. It is a very
unique show for the very unique community of young children in Greater
Philadelphia.
Kids' Connection is promoted in the vast majority of pre-schools,
daycares, nurserys, community centers, churches and synagogues in
Greater Philadelphia. We promote community events for young kids and
bring talented children on the show.
If you would like to get involved, in ANY way, with Kids' Connection,
please let me know. There are a many ways through Kids' Connection to
promote your business, service or event. I can even do a remote
broadcast from your location or have you on the show as a special guest.
So, contact me and we'll chat.
I hope that you'll also like to get involved with the program through
sponsorships and advertising. I'd truly like to help you promote your
business to 1,000's of children and their families. Quite honestly, the
cost of advertising on "Kids Connection" is extremely low.
RATES FOR SUMMER '02--
One 30 second spot- $50.00
Two 30 second spots on same show- $75.00
All show sponsors will also be promoted for free on the program's
website which will be finished shortly. Plus, all sponsors will be able
to promote their services and programs at ALL Kids' Connection live
events, programs and concerts.
Here is my contact information:
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home #: (215) 632-8934
Business #: (215) 632-6583
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Scott
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:02:20 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [WWWEDU] high court to consider net filters (fwd)
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:01:28 -0400
Subject: [WWWEDU] high court to consider net filters (fwd)
From today's Benton headlines... -ac
HIGH COURT TO CONSIDER NET FILTERS
On Thursday, the Bush administration renewed its legal battle against
Internet pornography. The Justice Department, acting on behalf of the FCC
and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, formally notified the
Supreme Court that it will appeal last month's overturning of the Children's
Internet Protection Act (CIPA). The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Philadelphia ruled unanimously that CIPA relies on filtering software which
blocks sites that should not be supressed. "Given the crudeness of filtering
technology, any technology protection measure mandated by CIPA will
necessarily bock access to a substantial amount of speech whose suppression
serves no legitimate government interest," the judges wrote. Justice
Department lawyers argue that Internet pornography is too pervasive to not
have protections for children. Also, the law does allow for adults to
request filters to be turned off. The lawyers added that libraries who
wished to provide unfiltered Web access could simply turn down
federal funding.
[SOURCE: The New York Times, AUTHOR: The Associated Press]
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Filtering.html)
(Subscription required)
See also:
BUSH: BRING BACK LIBRARY FILTERS
[SOURCE: Wired News; AUTHOR: Julia Scheeres]
(http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53389,00.html)
Andy Carvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:18:26 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [DIG_REF] Collaborative live reference services
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:04:48 -0500
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DIG_REF] Collaborative live reference services
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last week I posted a note to several discussion groups asking for examples
of collaborative live reference projects/services. I've put together a quick
and dirty list of the projects I have located so far:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/collab.htm
If you have corrections, or if you know of other services that I haven't
listed, please drop me a note.
Thanks!
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax: (217) 265-0454
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:21:43 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Arizona ASSET Education Portal
From: "Grantham, Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:11:08 -0700
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARIZONA ASSET LAUNCHES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEB SITE
POWERED BY CLASSROOM CONNECT
San Antonio, TX - June 17, 2002 - Arizona School Services through
Educational Technology (ASSET), an organization that provides the latest
professional development opportunities to Arizona educators, today at
the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), announced it has
launched its own online professional development Web site powered by
Classroom Connect. Professional development courses, available free of
charge to all Arizona teachers and administrators, are located at
<http://www.asset.asu.edu> and begin the first week in June.
Approximately 35,000 educators are expected to use the ASSET Education
Portal, which features brief tutorials and "How To" topics in addition
to 12 courses hand-picked from Classroom Connect's Connected UniversityŽ
professional development course catalog. Key to ASSET's appeal to
Arizona educators is the five customized, Arizona-specific courses that
are delivered via the Connected University platform.
"Through the Connected University Authors course, our course designers
were able to learn how to create courses specific to the needs of
Arizona educators," said Kathryn Kilroy, executive director of ASSET.
"There is such a need for professional development that can take place
on each educator's own time, that online instruction was a natural
solution for us to serve Arizona's teachers." The new Arizona courses
will serve as "doors" to other resources on the ASSET Web site, all of
which will soon be available only through the ASSET Education Portal.
ASSET has authored courses in addition to those currently offered
through Connected University. "As more states identify a need to
enhance educators' expertise in specific areas, the need for more
customized and online-delivered professional development will continue
to grow," said Pat Harrigan, president and CEO of Classroom Connect.
"We have had a wonderful experience working with ASSET and feel we have
collectively developed a tool from which all educators in Arizona will
benefit."
In addition to the courses, ASSET now uses a customized calendar
function to announce events, speakers, registration deadlines, beginning
and ending course dates, and other pertinent information. Although
ASSET will administer all the courses and functions, Classroom Connect's
professional trainers will provide support and help monitor progress.
Educators will access the portal with a one-time activation code and
afterward with a user ID and password.
About Classroom Connect's Customized Portals
The Classroom Connect "portal" is an online subscription service that
enables Classroom Connect to provide customized Web sites for states and
large-scale districts that meet the specific needs of their teachers and
administrators. Classroom Connect works closely with each customer to
develop an easy to use custom interface and tailored catalog of
professional development content and online curriculum resources,
including online courses from Classroom Connect's award-winning
professional development community, Connected University. Classroom
Connect also provides implementation and "train the trainer" services to
ensure successful usage of the "portal" among educators who may or may
not have previous experience using online technologies. For more
information, contact Classroom Connect by calling (800) 638-1639.
About Arizona School Services through Educational Technology (ASSET)
ASSET provides educators in Arizona with access to the latest
professional development opportunities and instructional tools for
classroom-related technology. The organization is supported by grants,
as well as a membership structure. Membership is open to all public
school districts, private, charter, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools,
and home school families. ASSET's primary service is instructional
television programming offering instructional resources in content areas
that are critical to primary, elementary, middle and high school
students. For more information about visit the organization's Web site
at <http://www.asset.asu.edu>.
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Lisa Grantham
Director, Corporate Communications
Classroom Connect
http://www.classroom.com
tel: 650-351-5137
fax: 650-351-5337
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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