Putting the Web to Work       1997 Spring CUE Conference David D. Thornburg, Sara Armstrong, Lynell Burmark mail to: dthornburg@aol.com web site: http://www.tcpd.org       _____________

This list some compelling web sites and books that may be mentioned during
the workshop. (Note that the selectors of these sites will endeavor to keep
them up to date, and this list will be updated from time to time.)

General information on web and interesting technologies

• Cocoa (http://cocoa.apple.com)
• Hotsauce (http://mcf.research.apple.com/ProjectX)
• Info on Web growth (CyberAtlas) (http://www.cyberatlas.com)
• Intercasting (http://www.intercast.org)
• Network Computers (http://www.nc.ihost.com)
• RealAudio (http://www.realaudio.com)
• Tales from the Electronic Frontier (http://www.wested.org/tales)
• Technical news (http://www.news.com)
• The Palace (http://www.thepalace.com)

Browsing vs. Searching -- and how do you know it's true?

• AltaVista (http://altavista.digital.com)
• Infoseek (http://www.infoseek.com)
• Lycos (http://www.lycos.com)
• Search.com (http://www.search.com)
• The Onion (use with care) (http://www.theonion.com)
• WebCrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com)
• Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)

Finding Shareware and Free Software

• Download.com (http://www.download.com)
• Jumbo (http://www.jumbo.com)
• Shareware.com (http://www.shareware.com)

Keeping track and whacking sites

• Net Ninja (http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/utility.html)
• Netscape Navigator Gold (http://www.netscape.com)
• WebWhacker (http://www.ffg.com)

Educational Sites

• American Memory Project
  (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html)
• ARC, Associates: (http://www.arc99.com)
• AskERIC (http://ericir.syr.edu)
• Blue Web'n: (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluwebn/rubric.html)
• California State Department of Education technology study
  (http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/WWW/ccc_task/ccc.htm)
• Carnegie-Mellon on-line book list
  (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html)
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (http://www.enc.org)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)
• Encyclopaedia Brittanica (http://www.eb.com)
• Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu)
• Global School Net (http://www.gsn.org)
• GreatKids: (http://www.GreatKids.com)
• John Pilgrim's Web site:
  (http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/webschool/authoring/Web_R
  ubric.html)
• NASA (http://www.nasa.gov)
• National Archives (http://www.nara.gov)
• NetDay (http://www.netday96.com)
• SENDIT (http://www.sendit.nodak.edu)
• Smithsonian Institution (http://www.si.edu)
• Smithsonian Institution educators page (http://educate.si.edu/intro.html)
• ThinkQuest: (http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest)
• Web 66 (http://web66.coled.umn.edu)
• Web Museum (http://www.emf.net/louvre)
• WGBH Nova episodes
  (http://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/nova/novahometxt.html)
• Windows to the Universe (http://www.windows.umich.edu)

Making your own pages

• Netscape Navigator and Netscape Navigator Gold
  (http://home.netscape.com)
• AOLPress (http://www.aolpress.com)

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Books:

• Tara Calishain, Netscape Guide to Internet Research, Ventana, 1997.
• Ferdi Serim and Melissa Koch, NetLearning: Why Teachers Use the
  Internet, O'Reilly, 1996.
• David Thornburg, Putting the Web to Work, Starsong, 1996.
• Jennifer Niederst and Edie Freedman, Designing for the Web, O'Reilly, 1996.
• Reva Basch, Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, Pemberton Press, 1996.
• Lynda Weinman, Deconstructing Web Graphics, New Riders, 1996.
• Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers, Brave New Schools, St. Martins Press,