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Technology

Digital Divide

LINCT Coalition
"Bridging the educational and digital divides. Watch a video in Windows Media to see LINCT in action. Then check out test scores documenting results. We're built on three key precepts."
The Digital Beat v.1 no.13, 8/6/99
A magazine issue with special coverage of the digital divide.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
"The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the executive branch agency principally responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policies. In this role, NTIA frequently works with other Executive Branch agencies to develop and present the Administration's position on these issues. Since its creation in 1978, NTIA has been at the cutting edge of critical issues."
National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent: Introduction
"As the nation strives to improve its schools, the concerns of students with outstanding talents must not be ignored. International tests comparing American students with those in other countries show that students at all levels of achievement are not performing as well as students in many other countries."
NCREL Monograph: Developing Resilience in Urban Youth
"Although it is appropriate to recognize the desperate social and economic conditions that affect young people, it is also critical to study and understand how some youth succeed despite the overwhelming odds against them. Understanding the concept of resilience provides information that can help administrators, teachers, and policymakers design more effective school environments and intervention models."
Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications
"E-mail has swept the communications and information world, providing near-instantaneous global information and data exchange. However, this revolution primarily benefits an information elite: those with access to and knowledge about computers and e-mail. The diverging trends in access based on income and education are placing significant groups of current and next-generation U.S. citizens at a serious disadvantage."
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Computers at Home

Computers 4 Kids
"Computers 4 Kids helps students of all ages acquire the technology and technology skills they need to succeed in the future by providing equitable access to technology resources in homes, schools and communities. C4K has reached over 50,000 children."
Computers for Learning
"The CFL program evolved as a guide for implementing Executive Order 12999, Educational Technology: Ensuring Opportunity for all Children in the Next Century. The Executive Order encourages agencies, to the extent permitted by law, to transfer computers and related peripheral equipment excess to their needs directly to schools and some educational nonprofit organizations. The CFL program specifically matches the computer needs of schools and educational nonprofit organization with excess equipment in Federal agencies."
WHYY: The Education Connection Project
"To improve education by working with high school students who help to place low-cost computer and Internet technologies into the homes of middle school students while improving their academic performance."
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Technology Centers

Center for Neighborhood Technology
"CNT is a creative think-and-do tank that combines rigorous research with effective solutions. ... Over the years, CNT’s work, especially in the areas of climate, energy, natural resources, transportation and community development, has paid off by fueling a generation of community development and learning institutions, earning CNT a reputation as an economic innovator and leader in the field of creative sustainable development."
Plugged In
"Plugged In connects individuals and cultivates minds by creating the opportunity to produce, express, and contribute using technology. Our vision is a community in which opportunities abound for people to contribute and innovate. Plugged In's primary medium is Internet and computer technology and we would like to use television and radio as time, resources, and opportunities allow."
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Computer Recycling

LINCT
Learning and Information Networking for Communities via Technology. "We're built on three key precepts: (1) Learn and earn. Successful trainees earn the computers they use to develop literacy in English and technology. (2) Time dollars. LINCT trainees can earn Time Dollars to exchange for other services or goods such as computers and printers. (3) eLearningSpace. We're using the Web to improve home and school learning in a cost-effective way."
The Surplus Exchange
"Kansas City's link between industry, charity, and the environment. The Surplus Exchange has been recycling electronics and finding a new home for your gently used office equipment from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM on Tuesdays through Saturdays for over 25 years."
Computer Recycling Center
San Francisco area. "Computer Recycling Center™ promotes the highest and best re-use of computer and electronic equipment, and recycles unusable items to keep them out of landfills. CRC donates computers to Computers & Education™ for use in public charity and community programs."
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Computer and Internet How-To Materials

Learn2.com e-Learning Online Superstore
"Learn2 specializes in the training of Microsoft Office & Windows software, business skills, sales training, communication, writing techniques, Defensive Driving, Human Resource topics and much more."
Glossary of Internet Terms
By Matisse Enzer.
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Web Tools

Elements in a Nonprofit Home Page System
"Brochure Format ... Additional Contact Material ... Program Information ... Program Support ... Program Collaboration ..."
The New WWW FAQs
"Questions About Popular Sites, Creating Websites, Web Browser Questions, Privacy, Security, and Viruses FAQs about the FAQ, Miscellaneous Questions, History, Definitions".
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
"The Bare Bones Guide to HTML lists every official HTML tag in common usage, plus Netscape and Microsoft extensions. Version 4.0 of the Guide is designed to conform to the HTML 4.0 specification."
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Internet

Yahoo Groups
iCab
"iCab is an alternative web browser for the Apple Macintosh with numerous useful features not found in other browsers. You can download the current release from the download page. iCab is shareware and costs $20 / 15 EUR, but it can be also used for free with a small limitation."
How to Use HTML META Tags
"Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all."
NetZero
"NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, owner of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services."
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Vendor Tech Support

FileMaker Customer Support
"Get free online help. Search the Knowledge Base for technical, product and pricing information. Get software updates, trial software, technical resources and more. Get help in resolving issues, ask questions and receive tips and advice from other end users. Get information on training, certification, DevCon, and developer programs. Access standard and priority phone support, find consultants."
HP Support & Drivers
"Select a task and enter a product name/number. Or select a product category."
HP Customer Care
"24/7 Online support for HP's Home and Home Office Products".
Apple Computer
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us
"TidBITS, begun in 1990, is an online newsletter and Web site, devoted to the person behind the most personal of personal computers, the Macintosh. TidBITS relates events and products to real life uses and concerns."
Asante.com: High-Speed Gigabit Ethernet Switches
"Network switches are ideal for connecting high-performance workstations, servers and other networks. Compared to hubs, a switch provides dedicated bandwidth for each network port or segment."
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Operating Systems

Executor
"Executor is for anyone who wants to run Macintosh programs on non-Macintoshes."
FreeDOS
"FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project."
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Hardware New and Used

Allied Electronics
"Allied Electronics is a small order, high service level distributor of electronic components and electromechanical products with 55 sales branches across the United States and in Canada. Originally established as the radio parts distribution arm of Columbia Radio Corporation in 1928."
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Mac Info

Sustainable Softworks
"Sustainable Softworks is a Macintosh software developer inspired by building tools to make technology more accessible and improve the Mac user experience."
Blazing Dawn Software
Software for Mac and Windows by Bruce Pokras.
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Education and Learning

Education and Learning

NCREL Urban Education Monographs
"Academic Achievement, Culture, and Literacy: An Introduction", "Raising Expectations to Improve Student Learning", "Cultural Diversity and Academic Achievement", "A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education", "Building Collaborative Cultures: Seeking Ways to Reshape Urban Schools", etc.
Forging Links: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives on African American Children
Contributors, chapter titles, and brief chapter descriptions from the 1999 Kent Psychology Forum.
Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative
"The Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative was funded between 1994 and 1999 by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to promote the use of learning technology and computer based learning materials in Scottish Higer Education. The LTDI web site will continue to provide free access to the resources and publications that LTDI created."
Walden Testing
"Since 1977, Walden tests have helped thousands of organizations understand more about the real abilities of their job applicants, incumbents and trainees. Walden has a different, job-related test for just about every position, and can design and validate any test for any purpose."
International Society for Performance Improvement
"Founded in 1962, the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) is the leading international association dedicated to improving productivity and performance in the workplace. ISPI represents performance improvement professionals throughout the United States, Canada, and 40 other countries. ISPI's mission is to develop and recognize the proficiency of our members and advocate the use of Human Performance Technology."
McGraw-Hill Teaching Methods/Subject Area Resources
"A resource link that enables you to go immediately to the best Internet sites pertaining to Teaching Methods and Subject Areas."
RBS Publications
"Research for Better Schools has been publishing products based on its own R&D work and that of others since 1988. The purpose is to provide educators with resources that are useful for school improvement, are available at a low cost, and that they might not otherwise encounter. This section of the RBS website presents the current RBS Publications offerings."
Tutor/Mentor Connection
"The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of comprehensive, long-term, volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in high-poverty areas of the Chicago region and other large US cities through an ongoing, dynamic exchange of ideas. Whether you are already part of a program or you are interested in finding more about tutor/mentor programs, we invite you to explore the many resources and discussion forums available to you on this Web site."
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Educational Material

eLearningSpace
"eLearningspace is a safe, noncommercial space on the Web where 3rd to 12th graders can earn things of value by learning things of value. They can do this when they voluntarily use a computer outside of school in order to do better in school."
Edison National Historical Park
"Imagine your day ending at sunset. Life without music, motion pictures, radio. Life without light itself. Our modern lives began at the turn of the century in West Orange, New Jersey. The Laboratory and home of Thomas Edison, stopped in time, continue to teach a new generation."
EDUCAUSE
"EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology."
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
"The Gateway is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.
The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items. Materials that are purposed for use in the classroom are appropriate for inclusion in The Gateway."
OSE Global Simulation Workshop
"o.s.Earth's Global Simulation Workshop is an exciting and innovative learning tool for academic, community, and professional organizations. A direct descendant of Buckminster Fuller’s famous World Game™, the Global Simulation Workshop is an interactive game that builds critical skills, social bonds, and global awareness."
Bellingham Public Schools
In the state of Washington.
Global SchoolNet
"Global SchoolNet's mission is to support 21st century learning and improve academic performance through content driven collaboration. We engage teachers and K-12 students in meaningful project learning exchanges worldwide to develop science, math, literacy and communication skills, foster teamwork, civic responsibility and collaboration, encourage workforce preparedness and create multi-cultural understanding."
Writing the Information Superhighway
"The purpose of this course is to explore and learn, through writing, the literacies of the various networks available to UM students for research and correspondence. Through a series of computer-mediated writing activities that encourage them to learn about and from the information superhighway, students will enter electronic discourse communities within the class, across the university, and across the nation."
Children's Literature Web Guide
"Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults"
The Children's Literature Resource
"Children's literature is a field of writing intended to be enjoyed by children up into their early teens and which may have existed since as far back as the 1400's. As with any genre of literature there are various sub-genres including fantasy stories, picture books, realistic fiction, biographies, non-fiction, etc. Many children's stories feature pictures to accompany the tales. The resources provided here can be used to immerse yourself in the world of children's literature where you can learn about the authors, learn where to go to begin writing your own children's stories, and much more."
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Community Education

Community Learning and Partnerships Team
"The DPI [Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction] Community Learning and Partnerships team brings together staff and programs that focus on helping to build strong communities. The core team includes staff in community education, early childhood education, nutrition education, service-learning, and family-school-community partnerships. Over time, the team has significantly increased interdepartmental and other state connections on partnerships."
Harlem LIVE
"The Web Magazine and TV Show by Teens in NYC. HarlemLive is a Journalism program with the mission to empower a diverse group of youth towards leadership using experience and exposure to media and technology."
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Adult Literacy

Literacy Information and Communication System
"LINCS is a national dissemination and professional development system, providing information on literacy research, practice, and resources."
Mayor's Commission on Literacy
"Formed in 1983, the Mayor's Commission on Literacy was the first literacy agency in the country to be established by a local governing body. ... The MCOL was established to ensure that quality education is available to equip all adults in Philadelphia with the literacy skills necessary for the workforce, parenting, and community life."
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Scholarly Material

The Scientist
"The Scientist is the magazine for life science professionals. For 20 years we have informed and entertained life scientists everywhere."
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"This is a collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Its purpose is to help facilitate a person’s liberal arts education. 'Big ideas don’t fit on a mobile.'"
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Intellectual Interests

Leafpile
Links page by H Woods and Kathleen. "When we met, we both knew we wanted to see the wider world. The two years leading up to our marriage were full of open-ended plans. Kathleen began studying for her Masters in Photography and Henry changed jobs at work. Then we got the opportunity to move to the New York City area and make enough money to fund our European tour."
Knowledge Ecology: Knowledge Ecosystems for Business Education and Training
"This paper proposes a knowledge ecology framework for organizational learning and knowledge management. This framework is applied to the business education and training industry. The paper describes the Socrates Program, as an example of a knowledge ecosystem for business education."
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Anti-Intellectualism

An Urban Ethnography of Latino Street Gangs in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
"Most of the literature reviewed here is limited to Latino gang members[.] ... Latino youths, whether first or fourth generation, are swayed in one way or another by a different culture, one that functions unlike the other two in its philosophy and general ties to family. Therefore, there are definite aspects of Hispanic street gangs that distinguish the members from their African-American and Asian counterparts. Curiously enough, this rings true even in the perpetration of their most grisly deeds."
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