Information/Education Technology Activities

K. Stewart (MUSPIN 10/5/95)

  • http://www.nas.edu/nap/online/techgap/welcome.html
    The National Academy of Sciences convened a meeting to address strategies to decrease the "technology gap" in schools. These materials were recently made available on the Web.

  • http://www.gatech.edu/infovis.html
    Visualization '95 looks to be a gathering of current activities in Information Visualization. Couple this information with recent WWW Conferences and the developing tools for visualizing the Web look very promising:

  • http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html
    The Coalition for Networked Information promotes the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity.

  • Scout Report Archive
    The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plan text or HTML) or visit the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server: rs.internic.net/scout_report-index.html. [taken from leading paragraph of August 25, 1995 Scout Report]

  • Net Happenings Archive
    Net-happenings is a service of InterNIC Directory & Database Services and the list moderator, Gleason Sackman of North Dakota's SENDIT Network for K-12 educators. The purpose of the list is to distribute to the Internet community announcements of interest to network staffers and end users. [taken from leading paragraph of Net-Happenings web site archive 9/14/95]
  • There are many more programs and other panelists can point you to their URLs.