Friday, September 26, 2003

The Artist's Toolkit | Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The description of this site says it is geared toward early ES students, but I think it could be used in art classes of all ages.
American Rhetoric: The Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century

Fascinating site. Thre is something very powerful about hearing these speeches and not just reading the transcripts. The "audio on demand" site is a good example of maximizing unique features of the web.

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

E-Examples Index

Note: check this math site out later.

also look at:

Cyberchase  
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/index.html

Colorful and funky, Cyberchase is a daily animated adventure television
series and multimedia project for children ages 8-11. Cyberchase helps
kids discover that math is fun. On a daily basis, the site is updated to
provide content specific to the day‚??s broadcast episode. On a weekly
basis, kids can participate in online polls and send each other e-cards.
On a monthly basis, an Original Adventure will be added to the site.
There is also permanent content. Lesson Plans and additional information
can be found in the For Parents & Teachers section. Produced by PBS
Kids. (added 9/15/03, reviewed 9/15/03)

Monday, September 15, 2003

UWEC'S ITM Online Help Collection

I have been searching for ready to use documentation for Office XP. Surpisingly, the Microsoft site has some interesting stuff geared for education, but much of it uses features that don't work in our current network environment and they won't allow you to edit the documents.

I stumbled across a well done set of documentation from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. They were nice enough to give permission to use the documentation for training, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel in re-creating docs for common Office XP tasks. This should be a real time saver.



Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more

This is a great resource for free books online. I was surprised to find so many titles that were useful - esp. writing reference materials.
Jim Collins.com

JimCollins.com - resources related to the book "Good to Great".
Good to Great

Article summarizing the book "Good to Great".

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Google Mac

When searching for Macintosh specific websites, I usually start my search at the Google Mac search engine.
Glen Echo Park - Spanish Ballroom - Dances

The newly renovated Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo is my favorite spot to go to for dancing. There are regular contra, waltz, and swing dances there featuring live music.