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A Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering

Do you realize that nearly everything around you that makes your life easier and more fun, nearly everything that makes our economy go, has been created by an engineer? So when you take a trip – either around your neck of the woods or around the country – you’ll find countless sights that help tell […]

A WEB SITE at Stanford University relates the history of the

When Steve Jobs asked him to design a mouse prototype for the Macintosh computer, Dean Hovey went to a local Walgreen’s and bought a few butter dishes and all the roll-on deodorant he could find. He used a ball from one of the deodorant packages and a butter dish to fabricate a model for the […]

Two New NASA Educational Products Available

Two new NASA educational products are available on NASA Spacelink. A Key to Discovery Poster is an educational poster featuring areas of research and technology that will be performed on the International Space Station. Build It With Spacewalks Poster is dedicated to NASA spacesuits and is packed full of classroom activities to teach students about […]

Course Technology Launches Internet Version of SAM 2000™

Worldwide leader in computing education offers Internet deployment of their popular skills assessment software

First Monday

Volume 6, Number 2 – February 5th 2001 Content is Not King by Andrew Odlyzko Recruitment by Extremist Groups on the Internet by Beverly Ray and George E. Marsh A Tool for Multipurpose Use of Online Flora and Fauna: The Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE) by P. Bryan Heidorn JIME: An Interactive Journal for Interactive […]

Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology: PT3 Projects at TECSCU Institutions

CATALISE-the Consortium for the Application of Technology and Learning Innovations in Schools of Education-will broadcast “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology: PT3 Projects at TECSCU Institutions” on Wednesday, February 14 from 12 Noon to 1:30 p.m. CT.

HorizonLive.com Desktop Lecture Series

“Introduction to C++” Presented by: Stan Lippman, IT Program Chair of You-niversity.com Date: February 7, 2001 Time: 3:00 PM EST

Professors Further E-Commerce Studies

Want to know what people are really doing on e-commerce websites? The upcoming eLab Infrastructure Project aims to offer researchers a scholarly and long-term view of what folks are up to when they visit their favorite e-tailer.

“Bloodborne Pathogens,” a computer-based training (CBT) course package

The U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) is making “Bloodborne Pathogens,” a computer-based training (CBT) course package, available to businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, non-profits, consultants, students, and citizens at no cost to recipients. This CBT course performs the following: Discusses the most serious bloodborne pathogens, such as the Hepatitis B virus and […]

NASA On-Line Educational Resources Brochure

The 2001 editions of the NASA brochures “NASA On-Line Educational Resources” and “Liftoff to Learning Educational Videotape Series” are available on NASA Spacelink. The “NASA On-Line Educational Resources” brochure contains information about the NASA Education Home Page, NASA Spacelink, the Learning Technologies Project, and NASA Television. The “Liftoff to Learning” brochure lists 16 NASA educational […]