Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera: ISU News, Interesting Links and So Forth
An online science course and lab (conducted in each
student's kitchen) is helping non-science majors and
first-semester students earn credit - and get a taste
for chemistry. The course and lab was developed by
two professors: Doris R. Kimbrough (University of
Colorado at Denver) and Jimmy Reeves (University of
North Carolina at Wilmington). According to Ms.
Kimbrough, the course "....really gives them [students]
the sense that chemistry is not just something that
happens in a chemistry lab -- that it goes on all
the time. And as a science teacher, that's pretty
exciting."
Sources: EDUPAGE (13 Nov 02); Chronicle of Higher
Education (12 Nov 02)
The Scout Report is one of the most valuable
online resources for current research. A free,
opt-in email newsletter is published every Friday.
Resources are researched, selected, and annotated
by a team of librarians and subject matter expert.
Best of all, the site's "Search" feature enables
browsers to locate materials by key words.
This project is funded by a grant from the
National Science Foundation.
URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/
The Scout Portal Toolkit allows groups or
organizations "...to catalog and disseminate
their collections or resources via the World
Wide Web without a significant outlay of
technical resources or expertise. SPT's metadata
tool comes packaged with Dublin Core fields which
can be modified easily to fit a collection's
specific needs. Other features include a flexible
interface (through separation of PHP and HTML),
privilege settings and workflow management
features. Also of interest are a recommender
system, reader ratings and comments, and a
Google-like search engine. SPT was built with
special attention paid to accessibility issues,
in order to make it more useful to all users,
including those with disabilities. Persons hoping
to take advantage of this excellent (and free)
Toolkit will need to have access to a web server
that supports PHP and MySQL, preferably running
Linux and Apache."
URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/download.html
Source: The Scout Report (15 Nov 02)
Pencils of Light: This site features a searchabe
database of over 300 photographs from the Edinburgh
Calotype Club, the first photographic club in the world.
URL: http://www.nls.uk/pencilsoflight/
Source: ResearchBuzz #208 (22 Nov 02)
The Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, and
Historic Preservation is an archive designed to
connect faculty research with student learning.
Projects include a 360-degree tour of the Church
of La Madeleine in Vezelay, France, and a site
devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house.
URL: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/
Source: The Scout Report (22 Nov 02)
Thought for December:
Genius is one per cent inspiration,
ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison
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