Education
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News
and Articles
myEUROPE:
The myEUROPE project is a European Schoolnet initiative at the disposal
of all the teachers who wish to involve their pupils, colleagues
and schools in European issues and values around three main thematic
areas: European Citizenship, Cultural Diversity and Young Mobility.
It provides news, services, tools, activities, projects and resources.
Teachers can either use the resources we provide or contribute,
participate in pedagogical activities or set up cross-European collaborative
projects.
NetSense:
A new report on Internet usage in India indicates that cyber cafes
are the dominant access point for school users. According to the
NetSense study, over 48 percent of school going Indians access the
Internet at Cyber Cafes. However, the research also indicates that
home access is a driver of early net access, with a dominant proportion
of net users under the age of 10 having Internet access at home.
The study indicates that entertainment and sport sites are the most
popular sites for young Indian Internet users.
Online
College Survey: The 360 Youth/Harris Interactive College ExplorerTM
Outlook Study is an online college survey. The study covers a variety
of topics about the 18-30 year old college market, from market power
and influence, technology adoption and attitudes, to category penetration
and spending. The study is conducted online twice yearly (fall and
spring semesters) completing a minimum of 6,000 interviews annually
with both college students and 18-24 year-olds not enrolled in college.
The latest survey shows that technology plays a central role in
the lives of college students. With 93% accessing the Internet,
college students are the most connected segment of the population.
Ninety-two percent (92%) own a computer, and 13% say they plan to
buy one in the next year. Cell phone ownership is at 69%, with 18%
of students planning to buy one in the next year.
History
Assassination
of Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as America's
16th President just before the Civil War began. His life was ended
by an assassin's bullet five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered.
This website, produced by Carole Bos, provides a clear account of
the story. Chapter titles include: Assassination Plots, Warnings
and Omens, Dreams of Death, To Kidnap a President, The Worst, Where
were the Bodyguards?, No Hope, A Foiled Plot, Multiple Funerals,
Booth's Capture and Death, Conspiracy Trial, Execution, Rest of
the Story and the Last Word.
The
Medieval World:
An organic
encyclopedia on Britain in the Middle Ages. Each
entry contains a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The
text within each entry is hypertexted to other relevant pages in
the encyclopedia. In this way it is possible to research individual
people and events in great detail. So far there are sections on
Anglo
Saxons, Normans, Medieval Warfare, Medieval Farming, Monarchs and
Medieval Literature.
English
ClassicReader:
At ClassicReader you can read, search, and annotate great works
of literature by authors such as Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, William
Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hardy, and many others. The collection
currently contains 651 books and 906 short stories by 196 authors.
This includes 96 books for children. New works are added to the
collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers.
The works are split into seven categories which may be accessed
via the links at the left of every page.
Elizabeth
Gaskell: This website, created by Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Japan,
is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Gaskell. 'Mary
Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life' was published in 1848. With its
cast of working-class characters and its attempt to address key
social issues such as urban poverty, Chartism and the emerging trade
union movement, Gaskell's novel deeply shocked Victorian society.
In her books Gaskell
expressed a deep sympathy for the poor and suggested the need for
large-scale social reform. As well as Mary
Barton the website includes E-texts of Cranford (1851), Ruth (1853),
North and South (1855), Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Lovers
(1866).
