Here are some annotated
links to places I have visited and sometimes re-visit. Some are fun, or
just interesting to me. Others are important bookmarks in my browser connecting
me to work related resources. Sort of an academic and technological support
system of consultants and resources, all free. May be a little nerdy
here and there. This is a work in progress; I have many more resources
yet to be included. I welcome your suggestions to resources students
might find useful. Please alert me to any broken or outdated links (use
the mailto link at the bottom).
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NOTE! NOTE! A lot of links are dead and haven't been updated. |
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The brilliant scientist
who championed the theory of black holes in the universe. He is now
onward to "the theory of Everything"  |
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| This outstanding essay is
the basis for Netscape going public with it's source code. It speaks
volumes about leadership and organizations and pertains to dissertations
too. If you can't see it, well... |
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| especially the Martyred
One, when you are feeling old or lonely. I grew up here, my anchors
are here...and so are theirs. |
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| built in 1918, is now a
jr. high school. Scroll to see how I saw it as a kid. Delightful
things happened (not reported here, of course). After being
temporarily defunct until they caught up with the teacher on sabbatical
who absconded with the page files, they have at least put up some pictures
from the local museum. |
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| Diary excerpts from Jamie
Zawinski of the incredible work life of the programmer hacking out Navigator.
Insights into the inner workings of software development & this bright
young man himself |
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| In my opinion, no American
should be allowed to proceed through life without having read and reflected
on Huckleberry Finn, Brown
vs Board of Education and MLK's masterpiece
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| Are you a lover of nature?
Indifferent? |
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Beowulf
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Do you prefer the original
or a translation?
Carlton Laird, a scholar of Old English, used to read this stuff to us aloud
in its origninal after being energized by frequent trips to the British
Museum where ancient manuscripts and fragemnts were laying around in boxes
uncatlalogued by librarians and unseen by scholars. |
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| How to start your barbecue
grill in less than three seconds. You have to scroll down a bit, but
you could get lost getting there if you have any interest in science or
engineering |
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| has dazzling graphics, midi's
and fantasy for children & adults, and a great card shop. You
need a tuned-up browser with plug ins & speakers. Need graphics??
She has them. She is lately offline preparing a new site, I dunno why.
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| ...as great Icons fade.
Check out The Pad, man |
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| Speaks for itself |
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| the ultra secret base in
the Nevada desert very much on the minds of UFO fringe wackos. Actually,
part of a serious UFO site. Top Gun and testing of the Stealth aircraft
were moved to this vicinity, once known as the Atomic Proving Ground (A-bombs,
ya' know?). I did population studies and school facilities surveys there
and it was an interesting time with the military playing secret games while
the locals knew fairly well what was going on. |
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| My daughter at Oregon State
(class of '99) told me about this. State bureaucrats to the rescue!!
Actual footage and Dave Barry's
famous story |
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| The '57 Chevy-Pontiac GTO
days. Webmasster of the first order has digitized 20,000 tunes, DOO
WOP Heaven, a "Bud" counter, interactive juke box, Teresa Brewer....he's
a friend of Pegasus
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| DDA, the terminal stage
of which is Dissertation Dementia, a new clinical entity for the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, DDA conveniently described
at Dr. Lacey's web site |
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| Incredible! Words
fail. The Duct Tape Jesus has received world wide aclaim. Extensive exhibit
of duct tape creations by (then) an Oberlin College student (don't
tell his parents). You've got to see Willie withstand a nuclear blast
at .../tape/archive1b.html. |
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| Spectacular virtual gallery
of the world's fine art. Also a superb example of web page design.
There was a mirror site at the University
of Michigan ( (a world class academic experience), but it's been moved.
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| Access the world's great
art and a network of museums |
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Some could go in the
art category, but they are sites by graphic artists working with technology
who also put up their work. These are my internet consultants and
sources for images, all free |
| is both a journal devoted
to technology and teaching and a site for related resources...an online
center for pedagogy. |
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DLL files
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...some applications will
not run without the right dynamic linking library files (.dll) and they
often are not supplied by software vendors. This guy has an archive
of current .dll files |
| Al Dawson's tutorials
on electronic painting, pixel-by-pixel. He has galleries of his paintings,
called digitoils, here too |
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| If you frequently download
software or large files of any kind, you may get stalled, sluggish or faulty
downloads. Getright is an aggressive, speedy tool to manage & resume
broken downloads. I highly recommend it. It's not free. GoZilla is free,
but it can cause browser crashes (Kernell32.dll faults) because it installs
a file called Advert.dll. If you see that file anywhere near your computer,
kill it. |
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| is a utility for transfering
files to and from servers over the internet. This is a basic webmaster tool
for managing your site. When I edit or build web pages I use FTP Voyager
to send them to the server. You can see files and folders on your drive
and the server at the same time. The drag-and-drop capability makes it simple
and fast. Add, delete, move and create files on the remote server. The interface
is just like Windows Explorer. |
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| The education law page.
Has links to other databases as well. |
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| This is a great site, but
it's commercial, meaning a subscription is needed. However, last time I
used it, I got a one week freebie by just giving them my email address.
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| Doing a search here can
get you state level cases and statutes. They also have U.S.Supreme &
Circuit Court databases. |
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| All sorts of great stuff,
and of course it's designed for students and I suppose their alumni out
there who are now making the big bucks |
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| and graduate research. This
is an excellent essay on the legalities of "borrowing" from the works of
others for use in your own research. Helps clarify the murky 4-part test
for fair use versus infringement in theses and dissertations.
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| Here you should be able
to find Arkansas Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions. They are posted
in both HTML (web page) and Word Perfect 5.1 format. Decisions are posted
each Wednesday. The search engine is a little clunky, so it would be helpful
to know the case number (such as 99-30), especially the date issued.
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| Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. This is the
umbrella agency for children and adults with disabilities. Grant programs,
research, statutory & regulatory information. |
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| The federal agency in charge of IDEA enforcement,
numerous grant programs, and anything to do with handicapped children not
covered by § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. You can access all the
laws and regulations from this page. I spent about 3 years of my life here.
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| Civil rights, anti-discrimination statutes &
regualations and other resources |
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| The Office of Civil Rights home page. If you click
on disability discrimination, you can access OCR policy statements on disability
issues for children and adults. |
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General
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| at Purdue Univeristy. A
wealth of resources for becoming a better writer. |
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| This is the home page with links to many agencies and resources
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| The most readable, straightforward rundown of principles of research
design, analysis, measurement and reporting I have ever found in any one
place. |
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| Journals of the American Psychological Association |
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| University Microfilms International
(a Bell & Howell cmpany). These are the folks at Ann arbor who
publish Dissertation Abstracts (and a ton of other stuff, including the
ProQuest database). This is where you submit your thesis or dissertation
for publication. |
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| These are links
to scholarly journals that actually distribute full text of articles, rather
than being merely ads for fee-based paper journals. |
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| The online journals published by the American Educational Research
Association |
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| The American Evaluation Association home page. Possibly the most useful
aspect of this site is their links lists. But it's something of an Easter
egg hunt. |
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| is a successful blend of
empirical knowledge and practitioner oriented commentary. This journal
and other fine resources published by the Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
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| PDK magazine speaks for
itself as the highly respected source of authoritative commentary on matters
of importance in education |
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| Education Review is a journal of book reviews
on a wide range of topics in education. It is searchable. |
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| from the APA manual; includes
format for citing Internet references found on the Web
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| It's here because PK-12
researchers might connect to something useful |
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| I consider this to be a
premier web site for social research. Students should consult the
knowledge
base. I have borrowed extensively from Bill's site, which he has
been building for over three years |
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| statistics and research
text at No. Carolina State. Click on Statsnotes to get there. He also has
a good links page at Websites |
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Logistic regression site (a statistical procedure for predicting group
membership from a set of IV's). He explains this complex but powerful
procedure. |
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| In case you missed it, Bill
Trochim has put up an interactive decision tree for selecting the right
statistical procedure |
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| There are numerous ways to determine required sample size. There are
power analysis tables in books that can be consulted (Cohen, for example).
The link at the left points to an online calculator at a UCLA web site that
will do it for you. Jeremy Miles has written a brief introduction on the
topic of power analysis
and sample size. |
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| A biostatistician at Childrens
Mercy Hospital (Kansas City) has an excellent site on statistical analysis
which he uses in teaching statistics. Professor Mean has answers for questions
about statistics |
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| This is a great site with lots of links to vaulable
info on stats and research methods. Lot's on doing searches, including the
MEDLINE data base plus stuff on scholarly writing. |
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| One of the first online
journals and one of the great ones. Created & edited by Gene Glass
(Arizona State), the father of meta analysis. |
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| at the University of Michigan.
Rensis Likert helped make this place famous. A great source for how the
pros do surveys, like their national election studies, for example.
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| at Princeton University.
Has links to a treasure trove of survey research centers and other resources
for survey research. |
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| The Digest of Educational Statistics is finally online. An awful lot
of data, tables, etc. Includes higher education stats. Great for building
a sampling matrix. |
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| Cornell's Institute for
Social & Economic Research |
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| at Arkansas State University.
They've done a nice job upgrading the page with valuable online resources
and links for research. |
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| State of Arkansas library has many online databases,
for state employees only. It may be possible to access them through any
state computer, including local school districts where the server recognizes
the IP address as originating from a school's network whose IP addresses
are issued by the state. |
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Terrie Sypolt, formerly ASU head reference librarian now at the King
College library, has a fantastic subjects guide page. The subject guides,
covering just about every discipline and topic of interest, are filled
with databases and links to research resources. Try the education subject
guide. |
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| Basically, the mall of higher
education. Links to just about everything including tons of publications,
higher education research centers, course syllabi, journals, directories,
etc. |
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| This is a study of the quality of search strategies
of users of the ERIC databses (professors, researchers, etc.). A good place
to learn how to do better searches. |
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| This is a great access point
for on-line ERIC searches. Includes all the ERIC clearing houses.
Page by Southwest Missouri State's library staff. |
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| ERIC Higher Education Clearinghouse.
Includes their library of hundreds of publications & bibliographies
on virtually every topic of interest in higher education.
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| This is the U.S. Department
of Education's page for searching the clearinghouses and the adjunct and
affiliated clearinghouses including such specialized databases as educational
facilities planning or service learning |
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| This has several databases
in addition to ERIC. You need an authorization code and password which students
can get from me. Doc students can access dissertation abstracts through
here (you need ASU's log on and passcode; see me). |
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| The clearinghouse on information
and technology at Syracuse has put up a comprehensive set of links to ERIC
& ERIC Digest access points. Another slant on ERIC , some not on other
sites. Handy in case other sites are down or too busy
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| ERIC test locator is here
from the clearinghouse on assessment and evaluation. A gold mine for
10,000 surveys and clinical devices. We have many of these on microfiche
in the ASU library, part of the ETS/Boros collection.
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