The Scout Report - February 17, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community Provided by the InterNIC
The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by the Info Scout and InterNIC Information Services to provide a
sampling of the best of newly announced Internet resources. See the end of each report for additional information and
complete access methods through gopher, WWW, and mailing lists for both plain text and HTML versions. Comments and
contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout@internic.net.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
As many of you might have noticed, there was an error in mailing out the Scout
Report last week. In short, we mailed out the wrong file. We regret any
confusion this might have caused our subscribers and apologize for the
inconvenience.
World Wide Web
- The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is pleased to
announce the DPI InfoWeb. This Internet-based information service
utilizes the World Wide Web to provide essential information about
education to the teachers, administrators, and citizens of North
Carolina -- and all else who wish to browse.
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us
- The ESL Jobs Locator Page offers up-to-date information on jobs outside the
United States in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language. ESLJL
also provides valuable advice for beginning ESL instructors, including:
what prospective employers are looking for in a teacher; how to get some
degree of ESL training as an undergraduate in college to improve your chances
of teaching with just a bachelor's degree; what sort of questions you should
ask a prospective employer; what to expect on your first job teaching English
as a Second Language; tips on teaching materials you should bring to your
overseas job; and a reference list of books to get you started in ESL
methodology, English grammar, pronunciation, and inter-cultural communication.
http://141.211.36.80/esl.html
- The University of Puerto Rico WWW Server is now available. This WWW server
includes information about UPR's academic and research resources as well as
links to other WWW servers in Puerto Rico and Latin America.
http://www.upr.clu.edu/home.html
- HNSource, the Central Information Source for Historians at the
University of Kansas, presents the Omnivore. The Omnivore is a menu of
pointers to sources of daily news and information. It is organized in
a way to make getting the day's news quick, accurate, and up-to-date,
while allowing easy access to background information to whatever depth
the reader desires. This is a non-commercial service, free to all end-users.
http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/news_main.html
- In March 1995, more than 90 world leaders will meet in Copenhagen
at the World Summit for Social Development. The United Nations invites
young people around the world to contribute their ideas on major social
issues by visiting "Voices of Youth". At the "Social Summit", the comments
of youth will be available for all to read. Others can visit this site at
to read what young
people have written about poverty, unemployment and social conflict.
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/un/youth.html
- CLP is an on-going educational research effort at the University of
California at Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school
science instruction. Supported by the National Science Foundation and
affiliated with the Instructional Technology Program on campus, the
project involves a decade-long collaborative partnership of educational
and cognitive researchers, natural scientists, middle school teachers,
and technology experts. CLP research has created and refined a
semester-long thermodynamics, light, and sound curriculum for achieving
integrated science understanding that involves the innovative use of
computers in the classroom. Our web site describes these efforts and
provides a resource for science teachers, policy makers, and educational
researchers.
http://www.clp.berkeley.edu/CLP.html
- The Psychology Department at UC San Diego has just posted their Web server.
It contains a large list of Psychology related Web servers from around
the world plus the research interests of the department.
http://psy.ucsd.edu/
- The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy is pleased to announce
the Federal Web Locator service. This is a World Wide Web page for
accessing over 210 different World Wide Web servers with federal government
information. The Federal Web Locator is intended to be a one-stop kiosk for
jumping off to federal sites.
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html
Gopher
- The New York State Senate just announced that they have public Internet
access.
gopher to: gopher.senate.state.ny.us
- Oregon State has also just announced its Oregon Legislative
Gopher (OLG) Server. It contains information about legislators,
legislative hearings and sessions, and the legislative process.
gopher to: gopher.leg.state.or.us
- A good medical collection can be found at the Medical College of Georgia.
gopher to: gopher.mcg.edu choose Health Sciences Resources
- North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) library reference room.
gopher to: gopher.noble.mass.edu
- Ryder is the Internet server maintained by the National
Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, to provide public access
to museum research and educational materials including the museum's
calendar of events, hours, and exhibitions. The server also contains
images and multimedia software. Images are accessible by category,
artist, and title. Users principally interested in multimedia are
provided access to image viewing software and interactives that can
be downloaded. The museum shop is also online and with various museum
products such as publications, curriculum packets, gifts, and subscriptions.
gopher to: ryder.si.edu
- IGCC contains a system-wide information about or published by the University
of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. A multicampus
research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence Livermore and Los
Alamos National Laboratories, it includes information on international
relations,
environmental, security, and economics studies in the Middle East, Asian-
Pacific region, and Latin America.
gopher to: irpsserv26.ucsd.edu
Email
- If you are interested in reading news directly from Central Europe, then
this is
the publication for you. Central Europe Today is a daily English language radio
news magazine syndicated throughout Central Europe.
To subscribe, send a message to: majordomo@eunet.cz
In the body of the message type: subscribe cet-online YourName <Your@Address>
- The latest issue of "BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and
Acronyms" is now available.
To subscribe, send a message to: listserv@vm.temple.edu
In the body of the message type: GET BABEL95A TXT
- STARnet (Students At-Risk Network) brings together people, ideas, and
information to cooperatively promote educational and support services for
at-risk youth in order to enhance youth's self-esteem, as well as their
academic, social, and personal growth. STARnet is an open, unmoderated
discussion list. Topics of discussion might include: the exchange of ideas
about
programs, activities, and resources for at-risk youth; innovations in
the area of at-risk services and education; appropriate legislation
involving at-risk youth; the promotion of equity and opportunities for
all youth, especially those at-risk; and, networking local, state, national
and international resources for needy youth.
To subscribe, send a message to: listproc@services.dese.state.mo.us
In the body of the message type: Subscribe STARnet Yourfirstname Yourlastname
Weekend Scouting
- France's Ministry of Culture has placed four high-resolution pictures of
last month's newly-discovered Combe d'Arc cave paintings on-line. They are
truly exquisite and this may be the only place where you can catch
a peek at them.
http://www.culture.fr/gvpda.htm
- From the people who brought you "Spider's Pick of the Day"
comes the "Kid's Page." This site has extensive links to volcanoes,
puzzles, legos, Barbie, Star Trek, and almost every other
imaginable and interesting place on the Web for kids.
http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/kids.html
About the Scout Report
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by the InterNIC to the
Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed about
network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place selected new
(and newly-discovered) Internet resources.
A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community. Each resource has been verified
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-- Susan Calcari
InterNIC Info Scout
Scout Report Access Methods
Resource Addressing Conventions
After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available using multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- Gopher
- FTP
- Email
- Telnet
- WAIS
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two forward
slashes. For example:
http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you can use a WWW browser
installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on
your local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all
major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with
your local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more
information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or
for your desktop computer.
Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
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