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Education for Sustainable Development Online A collection of websites offering educational resources on sustainable development. Provided by UNESCO. From EdNA Online on June 21, 2005 at 10:30 p.m..


Australians' use of and satisfaction with e-government services This report has been developed with the cooperation of all Australian governments. It provides valuable data for governments so that services can continue to meet the needs of individuals, business and the community. Governments at all levels have responsibility for service delivery and can learn from this survey’s findings to help identify priorities and deliver more responsive services for all citizens. From EdNA Online on June 21, 2005 at 10:30 p.m..


Computer-Aided Reading Promotion: Accelerated Reading - Silent Sustained Reading Camouflaged in a Computer Program? This paper provides an overview of recent research findings and papers, the majority culled from ERIC, regarding Accelerated Reader (AR), a system of computerised testing and record-keeping and its implications for reading instruction and school libraries. Accelerated Reader is used in many schools and centres on guided reading practice for students. From EdNA Online on June 21, 2005 at 8:30 p.m..


Wireless Security Software Wi-Fries Hapless Laptop Thieves Locate lost laptops using Wi-Fi tracker security software, from Cyberangel and Skyhook Wireless. From Read laptop reviews and notebook news at the laptops weblog - Laptopical on June 21, 2005 at 8:30 p.m..


Botany Photo Of The Day This gorgeous image of a Alangium platanifolium was posted by Daniel Mosquin as the Botany Photo Of The Day here. The website hosting the daily feature is the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research located in Vancouver, Canada. The website is an outstanding source for information and a “garden of science and beauty.” [...] From Golden Swamp on June 21, 2005 at 6:30 p.m..


Congress in the Classroom Online This material is meant to help faculty understand US Congress and suggest ways to teach about it. The self-paced workshop is organized around the twin responsibilities of Congress members: representation and lawmaking. There are more than a dozen individual units on such topics as What Makes for Effective Members of Congress? or How Representative is the Membership of Congress? and Lawmaking: Understanding the Basics. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Another Blog Story Posted By Vekris Antoine on Dec 19th 7:39AM: La blogosphère vue par OldCola. Une vue autre que celle servie par le Blog Story publié chez Eyrolles. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Other Lives: the short fiction of Meredith L. Patterson Posted By Meredith L. Patterson on Dec 18th 11:39PM: The short stories in this collection were published in various science fiction, fantasy and horror anthologies and magazines between 2000 and 2003. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


0=0 - d7gn - ms007n Posted By pete leuenberger on Dec 18th 5:45PM: is name is frederick clifford brummer. he is a canadian musician/artist living in japan. found a macintosh computer in the trash. has been making visual art with it. performing electronic music in tokyo. live in a shoebox... ...and his music isn't about progressing or regressing, and one hesitates to refer to such a strong, enjoyable listen as a holding pattern. the sort of slight seismic shift that may take millions of years to have its say. he understands what classical composers knew: the next symphony wonâàFrom Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Compagny Patrick Ehrhard Posted By Yoann Ehrhard on Dec 18th 3:54PM: Compagny of contemporary dance in Paris. [French] From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Galerie Patrick Ehrhard Posted By Yoann Ehrhard on Dec 18th 3:51PM: Oil paintings by Patrick Ehrhard. [French] From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Fuoco e legna Posted By Piero Bosio on Dec 18th 12:09PM: This site is about wood stoves, chimney, fireplaces, wood boilers, ovens, technical issues and it's written in italian language. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


vialetrastevere Posted By Emilia De Simoni on Dec 18th 7:20AM: Poesia, antropologia, psicoanalisi; libri consigliati; contributi di poeti e studiosi italiani e stranieri. Webmaster: Emilia De Simoni. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Indeedy! Posted By Walter Flaat on Dec 17th 2:08PM: Personal weblog, by Walter Flaat.. Not that it will contain much personal items.. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Copacetix desktop background wallpaper collection Posted By jtk on Dec 17th 9:21AM: Copacetix has licensed our desktop background wallpaper collection under the creative commons license. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Official NGC 992 Web Pages Posted By NGC992 on Dec 16th 10:30PM: Music by NGC-992 From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Fonogeno Sounds Library Posted By Giuseppe Mangione on Dec 15th 2:56PM: A big collection of audio samples, FX, loops, mini-tracks. A powerful selection of Breakbeat, Abstract Beats, Nu-Skool Breaks, Big Beats. An elegant choise of Electro Dub, Trip Hop, Abstract Beats. Noisy, sharp and minimal digital Electro Beats From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 p.m..


Ambienti Tribali Posted By Giuseppe Mangione on Dec 5th 5:48PM: Incursion into the freedom of rhythms. In this project, cyclicity and rhythm are particularly revealing as formal elements of tribal music. Inspired by its many forms, I have linked its inherent rituality to the contemporary world--a world in which the “the new tribal individual” lives and creates within an entirely virtual environment. Each rhythmic pattern constitutes a single composite element, sliced and immersed within the environment only to later intersect with others. Extreme exploitation of technology reveals the weakness of " From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Harold W. Olsen Artwork Posted By Alarik Myrin on Dec 5th 3:54PM: Harold W. Olsen (b. 1912) has been creating landscapes, still-lifes, abstract nudes, and scultpures for more than 70 years. After reading Free Culture, he decided to make it all available under a Creative Commons license. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Winston's Lot Posted By Shoo Rayner on Dec 12th 10:21AM: Online Literacy Project for primary aged children. Winston is a character that children can draw and write about. I want the children to feel ownership of the character to help inspire their creative work From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Media-activism.be Posted By bruno on Dec 11th 12:23PM: Website of our media-activist manual. Contains analysis of the current state of the media, guides and howto's on how to make your own media, and practical tech tools 'n tips for daily use. Updated with new articles/pictures/interviews, ... regularly. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Fluxx.be Posted By bruno on Dec 11th 12:16PM: Portfolio, blog, links collection, digital playground From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


nore #003 neurotron - Dub Mission EP Posted By no-response on Dec 11th 9:30AM: the sound of neurotron and this release at no-response stands for techdub at its best. some of you may already know neurotron as head of the label night-drive-music or by their numerous releases at several digital netlabels. we are really glad to present you this warm, groovy sound! From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Seven cycles Posted By Kurt Nimmo on Dec 10th 7:08PM: Ambient groove w/book of revelations in French. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


WorkingWeek.Org Posted By Mike Edwards on Dec 10th 2:55PM: WorkingWeek Productions is a small studio dedicated to producing free media under Creative Commons licenses. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Drowbane's jukebox Posted By Michael Y Suchan on Dec 9th 11:15AM: Assorted ramblings from the universe . From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Gaigetyouth Posted By Gaigetyouth on Dec 8th 4:32PM: The seeking of sentimentalism in humoristic delirium without academic pretention. La recherche du sentimentalisme à travers le délire humoristiqiue sans prétention académique. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


viral-meme.info Posted By Derek on Dec 8th 9:49AM: A meme (rhymes with "dream", but comes from memetic and memory) is a unit of information that replicates from brains or retention systems, such as books, to other brains or retention systems. In more specific terms, a meme is a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution, analogous to the gene (the unit of genetics). The term was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his controversial bestselling book The Selfish Gene. Memes can represent parts of ideas, languages, tunes, designs, skills, moral and aesthetic values and anything else that is commonly learned a From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Explode Blog Traffic Posted By Dony Peter Chacko on Dec 6th 11:09PM: A great blog for everything blog. Helping bloggers increase traffic to their blogs, optimise blogs for search engines and finally get return visitors From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Artist Kevin Flanagan Posted By Kevin Flanagan on Dec 6th 6:21PM: Documentation of performances video and sound work and lots of images. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


CITYchromosomes - story of a city Posted By Stefan Kolgen on Dec 14th 5:36AM: With Antwerp named as World Book City in 2004, residents and visitors were being invited to create a biography of the city by SMS. On the 19th September, a selection of the submitted impressions have been compiled in a booklet combined with the focus on the different text points and giving an alternative view on Antwerp and its districts. The booklet is available for download in PDF, plain text and a special version for iPods and is the first printed publication in Belgium released under cc license. From Common Content: Newest Items on June 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m..


Computer Science Department at Central Connecticut State University This computer science department web page contains links to resources written or assembled by the faculty for their courses and includes materials such as lecture notes, tutorials, demos, and compilations of web resources. Also provided are details of faculty staff with links to their homepages and information on courses offered by the department. From EEVL New Learning Materials on June 21, 2005 at 1:30 p.m..


Dan Hirschberg Homepage This homepage from Dan Hirschberg includes details of his teaching and research activities in the theory of design and analysis of algorithms. Some publications are available online. Teaching material available includes course notes, references, and links. Dan Hirschberg is a professor in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Irvine. The site also makes available some of his software for free. From EEVL New Learning Materials on June 21, 2005 at 12:30 p.m..


Godfried T. Toussaint Homepage This homepage from G. Toussaint includes details of his research projects, teaching activities, course descriptions, and publications available electronically in the areas of pattern recognition, computer vision, computational geometry, data structures and algorithms. Godfried Toussaint is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. There are also links to related resources and details of workshops. From EEVL New Learning Materials on June 21, 2005 at 10:30 a.m..


Kinross Primary School Kinross Primary School is a Western Australian government school established in 1995 and located 5 kilometres north of the City of Joondalup, within the West Coast Education District. It offers Kindergarten to Year 5 enrolment, and is a feeder school to Kinross College. The website includes examples of the school strategic plan, policies for Before School Supervision, Behaviour Management, Dress Code, Electronic Photograph Permission, Student Absence and Leave Pass, Multi Aged Grouping, Local Intake, Communicable Diseases, Head Lice, Car Park and Parents and Citizens Association information.EdNA Online on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 a.m..


Propulsion Web Tools (jet engine simulation and learning) An Interactive h-s Diagram allows the user to see the effect of parameter changes on the enthalpy-entropy diagram for the Brayton cycle for ramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engines. An Integrated Propulsion Calculator allows the user to calculate the performance, temperature, and pressure values, given appropriate inputs. An Engine Characteristics Plotter shows how an output is affected by an input parameter, for example the effect of Mach No. on Specific Thrust. A Tutorial Mode allows the user to learn how to predict engine performance changes, based on use of an h-s diagram. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on June 21, 2005 at 3:30 a.m..


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