Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Reflections on Feelings and Knowing Here are some thoughts about using feelings to sort through information. 3:34:27 PM    COMMENT []

Site Profile: the Scout Report Archives "The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over seven years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 13820 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists." This is often the first place where I would send instructors looking for discipline-specific resources; the categorization of the Scout Archives follows the Library of Congress Classification Scheme and the Dublin Core Metadata Standard. The search engine is easy to use but does provide alternate search strategies. The results of a search in the Scout Archives will yield broadly defined "learning resources" not more narrowly defined, reusable "learning objects," consequently, instructors will need to choose and evalutate those site pointers that best fit their purposes--but that is always true in supplementing courses, designing courses, or re-designing courses. "The Internet Scout Project is located in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide timely information to the education community about valuable Internet resources." 10:46:53 AM    COMMENT []