Education
on the Internet
is published by Spartacus
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of websites and articles on using ICT in the classroom. Members of
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involved in using the Internet in education. Currently there are 26,363
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Internet
Use in Europe:
Germany has the highest number of Internet users in Europe, according
to the latest research from NetValue. At the end of March, there were
16.3 million Internet users in Germany, compared to 15.9 million in
the UK, 11.4 million in France, and 7.8 million in Italy. Men continue
to outnumber women on the Net in Europe particularly in Spain and
Italy where men are almost twice as likely to be online than women.
According to the study, the Spanish go online more than their European
counterparts. Spanish Internet users connect on average 11.8 days
per month. French and Danish Internet users go online 11.4 days per
month.
Online
Learning Magazine is the leading information source for readers
who need quick, targeted, relevant information about e-learning and
its impact on business. Through a combination of case studies, product
comparisons, trend coverage and industry news, Online Learning Magazine
helps readers make sense of an industry that's growing at Internet
speed. Stories are written in a lively, interesting, concise manner
and covers all the ways technology can be used to help people learn,
including online courses, virtual collaboration, knowledge management,
and performance support.
World
& I Online Archive: The producers of this website claim that
it is the ultimate knowledge centre for avid readers. It offers access
to more than 12,000 in-depth articles that have appeared in TheWorld & I magazine since 1986. Each month, magazine offers
thought-provoking articles about current issues, culture, modern thought,
natural science, literature, the arts, and modern life. From the mysteries
of the human genome to UN reform, from the legacy of Grandma Moses
to Muslim feminism, the magazine delivers a global view of people,
places and ideas. Other features include Worldwide Folktales, a compilation
of myths and legends from around the world, and Millennial Moments,
a 16-part series that re-evaluates the most critical events of the
past millennium.
Internet
Services
Google
Toolbar: The new Google Toolbar increases your ability to find
information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install.
When the Google Toolbar is installed, it automatically appears along
with the Internet Explorer toolbar. This means you can quickly and
easily use Google to search from any website location, without returning
to the Google home page to begin another search. The Google Toolbar
is available free of charge and includes several great features: Google
Search (access Google's search technology from any web page); Search
Site (search only the pages of the site you're visiting); PageRank
(see Google's ranking of the current page) Page Info (access more
information about a page including similar pages, pages that link
back to that page, as well as a cached snapshot); Word Find: (find
your search terms wherever they appear on the page).
LNDN
Webmail: This free service lets you check your existing email
account using a standard web browser. You can use it to keep in touch
from anywhere with access to the Internet. You can read any messages
waiting for you, send replies, and delete unwanted items from your
Inbox. The only thing you need to use the service is an active POP3
email account. This includes virtually all email accounts provided
by internet service providers, schools and universities.
Free
Internet Services: A new report from Jupiter Media Metrix indicates
that more than two-thirds of Americans are unwilling to pay for services
on the Internet. Approximately
69 percent of US consumers say they do not want to pay for services
such as email, instant messaging, or file-sharing capabilities. According
to Jupiter, consumer resistance to paying for online services is six
percent higher than resistance to paying for online content. Eight
percent of consumers would pay to access recruitment and job sites,
while six percent would pay for enhanced instant messaging and file-sharing
capabilities. However, only two percent would pay for personals and
dating services. Jupiter analysts suggest that companies should consider
offering bundled online services and price them at less that $30 per
year if they want to encourage users to pay.
History
Navajo
Code Talkers: Early
in 1942 Philip Johnson, met Major
General Clayton B. Vogel, the commanding general of Amphibious Corps,
Pacific Fleet, and suggested
that the U.S.
Marines used
the Navajo language as a secret code. Johnson,
who had grown up on an Navajo Reservation, argued that because
it of its complex syntax, tonal qualities and dialect, the Japanese
cryptographers would find it impossible to decipher. He also pointed
out that Navajo was not a written language and less than 30
non-Navajos understood
it. Vogel
was convinced by Johnson's arguments and it was decided to establish
a Navajo code programme at Camp Pendleton at Oceanside, California.
Over
the next three years over 400 Navajos agents were trained to use the
code and around 300 saw action in the field. Speaking Navajo and using
an additional code within that, they were able to convey information
and orders among Marine units and Navy warships and aircraft. This
website provides an overview of the subject plus links to other related
resources including a
Navajo Code Talker Lesson, a Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary, a Navajo
Code Cipher Simulation and the Windtalkers film.
Wall
Street Crash Simulation: The Wall Street Crash led to a World
Depression which was partly responsible for the rise of aggressive
dictatorships in Europe. In this interactive simulation, lasting about
30 minutes, students are invited to "play the stock market"
and in this way learn about how a crash can occur. Students are presented
with a variety of situations and have to decide whether each one will
lead to share prices rising or to share prices falling.
War,
Media and Propaganda: In 1939 Joseph Goebbels remarked: "We
cannot be satisfied with just telling the people what we want. We
have to keep hammering on at them until they become addicted to us."
This statement is included in the Flanders Field Museum's online exhibition
on war, the media and propaganda in the 20th century. The exhibition
starts with stories from Belgium in 1914 about nuns were being raped
by German soldiers to the claims that Kuwaiti babies were being snatched
from hospital incubators by occupying Iraqi troops in 1991.
Art
Feast
of the Gods: Around 1512, the Duke of Ferrara commissioned Giovanni
Bellini to paint the Feast of the Gods. Dosso Dossi subsequently decorated
a gallery for the Duke, and, in 1522, painted over half of Bellini's
canvas. Seven years later, Titian repainted the Feast of the Gods
again. What did the earlier versions look like? How much of each artist's
work do we see today? What motivated these unprecedented changes?
For centuries these questions remained unanswered. In the last fifty
years, technical innovations in conservation science have enabled
specialists at the National Gallery to obtain X-ray, infrared and
cross-section data. This information has proved crucial in dispelling
the mystery surrounding this painting. This website provides a highly
interactive examination of this painting.
Rodin-Web
is the world´s largest Website on Rodin, with an overview of
220 Museum collections containing Rodin´s work; an Image Database
with over 100 historical photos; biographical links, extensive book
list, email network, etc. Rodin-Web is run by Hans de Roos from Germany
and is a not-for-profit, academic initiative.
Book
Section
ISBN
0 00 274095 8
One of
the most prolific and thought-provoking writers of the 20th
century, Hilaire Belloc
(1870-1953) still has a lasting effect on Britain. Well known
for his literary collaboration and friendship with C K Chesterton,
Belloc continues to fascinate, both as a social commentator
and a master of finely crafted prose and verse. Joseph
Pearce's biography provides a fresh look at this key Christian
writer. The book contains previously unpublished material,
including letters and photographs, and is based on current
interviews with Belloc's family.
Author:
Joseph Pearce
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Price:
£20.00
ISBN 0 00 713744 3
Five of C. S. Lewis's
best known spiritual and inspirational works are gathered
together in a new, single, paperback. No longer available
separately, these five books are presented in a highly readable
and accessible way. The five books are: The Pilgrim's Regress
(1933), The Abolition of Man (1944), Till We Have Faces (1956),
Reflections of the Psalms (1958) and Letters to Malcolm (1964).
This volume contains some of the most outstanding literary
achievements of our time - this is a unique celebration of
a truly brilliant man and an exceptional author.
Author:
C. S. Lewis
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Price:
£9.99
ISBN 1 86207 534 4
The year
2000 was the wettest since accurate records began in the middle
of the eighteenth century. Britain is a country devoted to
the study of rain. No other nation in the world has kept such
extensive accounts of its patterns for so long. What has it
done for the British character? Why has there been so much
more of it? And how will it change us? In this book Brian
Cathcart explores the extraordinary human consequences of
the abstraction called climate change.
Author:
Brian Cathcart
Publisher:
Granta
Price:
£5.99
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