McComas, 'CYBERSPACE MONITOR', Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture v3n03 (August 31, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/aejvc/aejvc-v3n03-mccomas-cyberspace Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture ________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1081-3055 August 31, 1995 Volume 3 Number 3 EJVCV3N3 MONITOR THE CYBERSPACE MONITOR _________________________________________________________________ Karen McComas, Editor mccomas@marshall.edu _________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents This edition of the Cyberspace Monitor contains information about: 1. International Conference on Distance Education (ICDE '95) 2. Discovery Channel On-Line 3. Houghton Mifflin/GNA Web Site 4. Kid Safe Sites List 5. Preparing Your Child for College 6. PAL: Peer Assisted Learning 7. Teaching with Technology 8. What Should I Know About ED Grants? 9. Interactive Guide for Developing Web Pages :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** International Conference on Distance Education (ICDE '95) During the latter part of June 1995 and the early part of July 1995, the International Conference on Distance Education was held. The conference concluded with a face to face conference in Birmingham, England during the first week in July. The three weeks preceding the conference were electronic conferences, leading up to the face to face conference. Access archives of the electronic proceedings at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~tanderso/icde95 :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Discovery Channel On-Line Discovery Channel On-Line: The Discovery Channel On-Line will provide users with original non-fiction stories that will be dynamic in nature with daily updates, including pictures, personal letters, etc. :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Houghton Mifflin/GNA Site http://gnn.com/edu/ Provides an online magazine along with resources and theme-based cross-curricular activities for teachers in grades K-12. :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Kid Safe Sites-List Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 15:13:00 EDT From: Liz Tompkins To: Multiple recipients of list BESTWEB Subject: KID SAFE SITES-LIST Someone (forgive me for not being able to pull up their name at the moment) requested Kid-Safe areas for children ages 6-10 to go to on the Internet. As I think this is an incredibly important request, I am posting my listing of sites totally suitable for children from 6-11 and have to inform all of you...they're a lot more educational than what your children maybe watching on TV at the moment :) Enjoy to all my Best Web Buddies !!! KIDS SAFE SURFING: http://ppc.westview.NYBE.North-York.ON.CA/WWW/wcss.html http://mack.rt66.com/kidsclub/home.htm http://www.ccnet.com/pegpoker/ http://www.klsc.com/children/ http://rdz.stjohns.edu/kidopedia/ http://www.freenet.ufl.edu/~afn15301/drsuess.html http://www.portal.com/~rkoster http://I-site.on.ca/Isite/Education/Bk_report/ http://www.netnanny.com/netnanny/ http://www.eden.com/~greg/cb/index.htm http://ppc.westview.NYBE.North-York.ON.CA/WWW/wcss.html http://www.ucalgary.ca/~darmstro/kid_links.html http://fox.nstn.ca/~puppets/activity.html http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/ http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~carlosp/color/ http://www.pd.astro.it/local-cgi-bin/kids.cgi/forms http://www.safesurf.com/wave/sskwave.html http://www.primenet.com/~sburr/index.html http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/StoryHour/ http://www.wln.com/~deltapac/ocean_od.html Liz Tompkins of MA Multi-Faceted Net Extraordinaire!!! email: liz@kersur.net 2nd email: designs@ix.netcom.com web pick o'the day: http://www.telescan.com/hdesign.html (Home Design) :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Preparing Your Child for College It's so popular we can't keep it in stock. But "Preparing Your Child for College" is now available in our Online Library. This booklet is mainly a planning guide for parents, to help make sure that children will have the option of going to college. Guidance counselors & teachers may also find it useful, for it offers suggestions on questions such as: What types of colleges exist? ^^^^^ What kinds of jobs are available to college graduates? ^^^^ What can my child do to prepare for college, both academically & outside the classroom?^^^^^^^ How can my child go about choosing a college? ^^^^^^^^ How much does it cost, & how can I afford it? ^^^^ What are the most common sources of financial aid, & is my child eligible? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Are there ways to keep costs down? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How can I set up a long-range plan? ^^^^ Where can I get more information about preparing for college? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A *course planner* & college preparation checklist for students -- plus a financial preparation checklist for parents -- are offered in this 49-page booklet. "Preparing Your Child for College" was written by the Office of the Under Secretary. The full text is available at our Web & gopher sites: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Prepare/ gopher.ed.gov --> U.S. Department of Education/OERI Publications/ --> ED/OERI Publications - Full Text/ --> Preparing Your Child for College/ To download an ASCII version, FTP: ftp://ftp.ed.gov/www/ZipDocs/Prepare.zip  Kirk Winters Office of the Under Secretary U.S. Department of Education kwinters@inet.ed.gov :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** PAL: Peer Assisted Learning From: Keith Topping Subject: PEER ASSISTED LEARNING - listserver/electronic journal PEER ASSISTED LEARNING LISTSERVER FORUM and ELECTRONIC JOURNAL Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) is an Internet listserver forum and electronic journal. It is open to anyone. It is hosted by the Centre for Paired Learning, Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Scotland. FOCUS It covers various FORMS of peer assisted learning: Peer Tutoring (pt) Mentoring (m) Peer Education (pe) Peer Monitoring (pm) Peer Assessment (pa) Student Tutoring (st) (see OTHER LISTS below) in various SECTORS of education/learning: 1 Primary/Elementary Schools 2 Secondary/High Schools 3 Higher & Further Education (universities & colleges) 4 the Workplace JOINING The address of the LISTSERVER (the software which manages the list, handles subscriptions, etc) is: maiser@psychology.dundee.ac.uk The address of the LIST itself is: PAL@dundee.ac.uk Please make sure you keep this distinction clear. To join the list, send to the LISTSERVER address maiser@psychology.dundee.ac.uk a command message saying only: subscribe PAL Leave the subject line blank. If your system usually automatically appends signatures to messages, ensure a blank line is left at the end of the command message or use any available option to omit the signature on this occasion. Your acceptance will be confirmed. Thereafter, send text messages to the LIST to PAL@dundee.ac.uk CONTENT In addition to informal discussion and news items, substantive reports on new developments and research are welcomed. However, abstracts or summaries are preferred to the whole report. Please ensure any references are given in full. The list will have high volume traffic and everyone's time is precious. Messages to the list should have a clear and informative subject line to help users. Please prefix message subject lines with a code indicating to which FORM of peer assisted learning and which SECTOR of operation the message relates. For example, a message about peer tutoring within high schools would have the subject line prefix pt2. Where the message relates to more than one form or sector, prefix codes can be combined. For example, a message about mentoring by workplace professionals to university students would have the subject line prefix m3+4. The list can also be extended to related areas on request, eg co-operative learning (cl), peer counselling (pc), peer mediated behaviour change (pbc), peer modelling (pmod), so long as adequate focus is retained. Keith Topping Director: Centre for Paired Learning & MSc Educational Psychology Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Scotland DD1 4HN tel (01382) 223181 ext 4628 or direct 344628 fax (01382) 229993 email k.j.topping@dundee.ac.uk :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Teaching with Technology FROM: Robert N. Barger, Computer Applications Faculty, University of Notre Dame, G127 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame IN 46556 e-mail: barger.2@nd.edu web homepage: http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger office phone: (219) 631-7459 fax: (219) 631-8700 The above URL will take you to a collection of links I am constructing related to teaching with technology. I am primarily interested in humanities education (at all levels) but intend to include a wider variety of examples of ways technology, especially WWW and the Internet, is being used in in classrooms. I would appreciate suggestions and additional sites to include on this developing page. :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** What Should I Know about ED Grants? A new online publication is available, thanks to Vice Preside Al Gore's National Performance Review, which is designed to educate the public about the grant process with the Department of Education and includes tips for completing grant applications. The publication may be retrieved from: WWW: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowAbtGrants Gopher: gopher.ed.gov U.S. Department of Education Programs - General Information Grant-Related Information - Publications and Notices What Should I Know about ED Grants? :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: ** Interactive Guide for Developing Web Pages For assistance in developing your web pages, from a decision model, connect to: Web Page Design. Results of the questionaire are returned to users via email. 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