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... part of the Web Site of George North
. . . . . Last update: November 23, 1998
. . . . . EDCI4993 Syllabus
Links to Explore
EDCI 4993, Fall 1998
For Week: Monday, November December 7
| Link |
Description |
| Presentation # 1 |
by Hui Laio, Denise Suhr,Brian Wahl and Roy H. Wilhite, Jr. |
| Semester Project |
This lesson plan centers on reading as educational and fun. A lesson comprised of
cross-cultural and cross-curriculum materials and books, the project begins with the
teacher subscribing to WCU BOOKREAD |
| Science Olympiad News |
under construction by students of UNO's EDCI 4993 course "Computers in Education" |
| Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
The surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target
at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched
the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. |
For Week: Monday, November 16 & 23 & 30
| Link |
Description |
| Animated Gifs |
One-stop source for free web graphics. A collection of loads of high quality animated gifs. |
| MindReadr |
Is a safe K-12 (and more) education website for students, parents, and teachers. |
| Virtual Wall |
The Vietnam Veterans Digital Legacy, an interactive remembrance of the Vietnam War and
its veterans who served, developed by WinStar Communications and the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Fund. |
| C&L Disk Club |
Buy DVD Movies and Music |
For Week: Monday, November 2 and 9
| Link |
Description |
| Math Ed |
The focus of the Math Education Subject Area is to enable future mathematics teachers
to use mathematics as a vehicle to support their students' mathematical thinking. This
involves teaching and learning from a problem solving perspective. |
| Computers as Tutors |
This book primarily focuses on the American education system and its use of computing technology |
| John Glenn goes back to space |
Yahoo's coverage ... |
| Speaking to Write |
Learn more about this federally-funded project which explores the use of speech recognition technology by secondary students with disabilities.
Join an email discussion forum (listserv) of the educational issues associated with using speech recognition technology to support students with disabilities in home and school settings.
Explore the ins and outs of using speech recognition technology to address writing difficulties. |
For Week: Monday, October 26
| Link |
Description |
| 20 years of Byte |
This special report marks the culmination of BYTE's twentieth year of publishing. |
| Growth of the Internet |
... if present growth trends continue, data traffic in the U. S. will overtake voice traffic around the year 2002 and will be dominated by the Internet |
| American Heritage Virtual Archive Project |
The primary goal of this project will be the development of a demonstration system,
which will also provide a test bed to evaluate both the effectiveness of the prototype's
"virtual archive" in providing access to distributed digital library resources, and the
feasibility of the decentralized production methods of the project. To achieve its goal,
the project will explore intellectual, political, technical, and economic concerns |
For Week: Monday, October 19
| Link |
Description |
| Teaching with Technology |
This Technology Model is based on the WebQuest Model |
| Searching and Researching |
Have you wandered through too many Internet web sites searching for valuable information?
Does your favorite Search Engine return too many "hits" having little or no relevance?
Do you compare searching a Browsing Directory with searching for a "needle in the
haystack?" |
| TEC's Web Log |
Facts about who visits TEC's web site, how often, and what they read. |
For Monday, September 28
For Monday, September 21
| Link |
Description |
| Social Studies at UNO |
One of the best teacher recourses on the Web. |
| Cause/Effect |
CAUSE/EFFECT is a practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources--information, technology, and services--published quarterly by EDUCAUSE. |
| (TIE) Technology in Education |
Many, many links to Web sites for Educators |
| Web search page |
Links to Eric Search, Teacher Resources, WWWester Wisdom, Quest Earl K. Long Library, Amazon Books, Roget's Thesaurus, Awesome Library.
Plus access to Alta-Vista, Snap.com, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Magellan, WebCrawler, and Yahoo -- all on one page. |
For Monday, August 31:
| Link |
Description |
| EdWeb |
Be sure to click on every pencil! |
| What is HyperText |
You need to be able to answer the questions:
Who is Ted Nelson? What is Xanadu?
Who is Douglas Englebart?
Why should I care about HyperText? |
| What is W3C |
You need to be able to answer the questions:
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
What is a Web server?
Why should I care about the Web? |
| What is the Internet? |
The Internet began in the late 1960's as experiment by the U. S.
Department of' Defense |
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