vra> Scout Report - February 17, 1995 (fwd)

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NOTE:  Apologies for the absence of the Scout Report the last two weeks.
Due to changes in the InterNIC and to provide better performance, the
InterNIC mailing lists -- net-happenings and scout-report -- have been
transitioned to new host servers. We are continuing to pursue additional
ways the delivery of these two very popular services can be improved. In
the meantime, and until stated otherwise, all addresses listed here for
comments and contributions are valid.

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                  Scout Report:  February 17, 1995

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new
on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of
interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,
however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated
fees.

The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and
WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources of
interest. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick reference,
and you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the items reported in
all previous issues.  The Scout Report is also distributed in an HTML
version for use on your own host, providing fast local access for
yourself and other users at your site.

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher   is.internic.net   choose   Information Services/Scout Report

Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net.

See the end of the report for additional information and detailed access
and subscription instructions.

Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  The Omnivore: a daily news and information service.
*  The New York State Senate now has gopher access.
*  BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
*  IGCC: California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
*  Combe d'Arc cave paintings now on-line.

### Note ###

As many of you might have noticed, there was an error in mailing out the Scout
Report last week.  In short, we mailed out the wrong file.  We regret any
confusion this might have caused our subscribers and apologize for the
inconvenience.

World Wide Web
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is pleased to
announce the DPI InfoWeb.  This Internet-based information service
utilizes the World Wide Web to provide essential information about
education to the teachers, administrators, and citizens of North
Carolina -- and all else who wish to browse.
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us

The ESL Jobs Locator Page offers up-to-date information on jobs outside the
United States in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language. ESLJL
also provides valuable advice for beginning ESL instructors, including:
what prospective employers are looking for in a teacher; how to get some
degree of ESL training as an undergraduate in college to improve your chances
of teaching with just a bachelor's degree; what sort of questions you should
ask a prospective employer; what to expect on your first job teaching English
as a Second Language; tips on teaching materials you should bring to your
overseas job; and a reference list of books to get you started in ESL
methodology, English grammar, pronunciation, and inter-cultural communication.
http://141.211.36.80/esl.html

The University of Puerto Rico WWW Server is now available. This WWW server
includes information about UPR's academic and research resources as well as
links to other WWW servers in Puerto Rico and Latin America.
http://www.upr.clu.edu/home.html

HNSource, the Central Information Source for Historians at the
University of Kansas, presents the Omnivore.  The Omnivore is a menu of
pointers to sources of daily news and information.  It is organized in
a way to make getting the day's news quick, accurate, and up-to-date,
while allowing easy access to background information to whatever depth
the reader desires.  This is a non-commercial service, free to all end-users.
http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/news_main.html

In March 1995, more than 90 world leaders will meet in Copenhagen
at the World Summit for Social Development.  The United Nations invites
young people around the world to contribute their ideas on major social
issues by visiting "Voices of Youth". At the "Social Summit", the comments
of youth will be available for all to read. Others can visit this site at
<URL:http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/un/feedback.html> to read what young
people have written about poverty, unemployment and social conflict.
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/un/youth.html

CLP is an on-going educational research effort at the University of
California at Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school
science instruction.  Supported by the National Science Foundation and
affiliated with the Instructional Technology Program on campus, the
project involves a decade-long collaborative partnership of educational
and cognitive researchers, natural scientists, middle school teachers,
and technology experts.  CLP research has created and refined a
semester-long thermodynamics, light, and sound curriculum for achieving
integrated science understanding that involves the innovative use of
computers in the classroom.  Our web site describes these efforts and
provides a resource for science teachers, policy makers, and educational
researchers.
http://www.clp.berkeley.edu/CLP.html

The Psychology Department at UC San Diego has just posted their Web server.
It contains a large list of Psychology related Web servers from around
the world plus the research interests of the department.
http://psy.ucsd.edu/

The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy is pleased to announce
the Federal Web Locator service.  This is a World Wide Web page for
accessing over 210 different World Wide Web servers with federal government
information.  The Federal Web Locator is intended to be a one-stop kiosk for
jumping off to federal sites.
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html

Gopher
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The New York State Senate just announced that they have public Internet
access.
gopher to: gopher.senate.state.ny.us

Oregon State has also just announced its Oregon Legislative
Gopher (OLG) Server.  It contains information about legislators,
legislative hearings and sessions, and the legislative process.
gopher to: gopher.leg.state.or.us

A good medical collection can be found at the Medical College of Georgia.
gopher to: gopher.mcg.edu  choose  Health Sciences Resources

North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) library reference room.
gopher to: gopher.noble.mass.edu

Ryder is the Internet server maintained by the National
Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, to provide public access
to museum research and educational materials including the museum's
calendar of events, hours, and exhibitions. The server also contains
images and multimedia software. Images are accessible by category,
artist, and title. Users principally interested in multimedia are
provided access to image viewing software and interactives that can
be downloaded. The museum shop is also online and with various museum
products such as publications, curriculum packets, gifts, and subscriptions.
gopher to: ryder.si.edu

IGCC contains a system-wide information about or published by the University
of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. A multicampus
research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence Livermore and Los
Alamos National Laboratories, it includes information on international
relations,
environmental, security, and economics studies in the Middle East, Asian-
Pacific region, and Latin America.
gopher to: irpsserv26.ucsd.edu

Email
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If you are interested in reading news directly from Central Europe, then
this is
the publication for you.  Central Europe Today is a daily English language radio
news magazine syndicated throughout Central Europe.
To subscribe, send a message to: majordomo at eunet.cz
In the body of the message type: subscribe cet-online YourName <Your at Address>

The latest issue of "BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and
Acronyms" is now available.
To subscribe, send a message to: listserv at vm.temple.edu
In the body of the message type: GET BABEL95A TXT

STARnet (Students At-Risk Network) brings together people, ideas, and
information to cooperatively promote educational and support services for
at-risk youth in order to enhance youth's self-esteem, as well as their
academic, social, and personal growth. STARnet is an open, unmoderated
discussion list.  Topics of discussion might include: the exchange of ideas
about
programs, activities, and resources for at-risk youth; innovations in
the area of at-risk services and education; appropriate legislation
involving at-risk youth; the promotion of equity and opportunities for
all youth, especially those at-risk; and, networking local, state, national
and international resources for needy youth.
To subscribe, send a message to: listproc at services.dese.state.mo.us
In the body of the message type: Subscribe STARnet Yourfirstname Yourlastname

Weekend Scouting
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France's Ministry of Culture has placed four high-resolution pictures of
last month's newly-discovered Combe d'Arc cave paintings on-line. They are
truly exquisite and this may be the only place where you can catch
a peek at them.
http://www.culture.fr/gvpda.htm

>From the people who brought you "Spider's Pick of the Day"
comes the "Kid's Page."  This site has extensive links to volcanoes,
puzzles, legos, Barbie, Star Trek, and almost every other
imaginable and interesting place on the Web for kids.
http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/kids.html

About the Scout Report
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  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC
Information Services to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way
to stay informed about network activities. Its purpose is to combine in
one place the highlights of new (and newly-discovered) online resources
and other announcements seen on the Internet during the preceding week.

  A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community.  Each resource has been verified
for substantial content and accessibility within a day of the release of
the Report.

  The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- electronic mail,
gopher, World Wide Web, and now HTML. The gopher and World Wide Web
versions of the Report include links to all listed resources. The report
is released every weekend.

  In addition to the ASCII version, the Scout Report is distributed in
HTML format via a separate mailing list. This allows sites to easily add
the Scout Report to their local WorldWideWeb servers each week, providing
fast access for local users. Subscription information for the
scout-report-html mailing list is included below. Note that permission
statements appear on both versions of the Scout Report, and we ask that
these be included in any re-posting or re-distributing of the report.

  If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now
is the time. Spread the news by word-of-net. Join thousands of your
colleagues already using the Scout Report as a painless tool for tracking
what's new on the 'Net!

Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net

-- InterNIC  Info Scout (SM)

Scout Report Access Methods
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**  To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client
to:

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html

>> Gopher users can tunnel to:

is.internic.net

select:  Information Services/Scout Report.

Resource Addressing Conventions
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After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.

The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP.  Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.

After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available through multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:

World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS

A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two
backslashes. For example:

http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt

To access the resource through the WWW you will need a WWW client
installed on your host computer. Clients are available for all major
computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW
client on your computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the
Internet, either through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP
connection. See the InfoGuide for additional information about the World
Wide Web and for sites which archive WWW clients.

gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/email/

Gopher to: is.internic.net
  Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/

Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
  In the body of the message type: send INDEX

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Copyright 1995 General Atomics.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout
Report provided the copyright notice, this permission notice, and the two
paragraphs below are preserved on all copies.

The InterNIC provides information about the Internet and the resources on
the Internet to the US research and education community under the
National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218749. The
Government has certain rights in this material.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, General Atomics,
AT&T, or Network Solutions, Inc.

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