Linking Thinking - Self-directed Learning in the Digital Age Prepared by Professor Phil Candy under the DEST Research Fellowship scheme, this report examines the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the fields of education and training, particularly on the self-directed learning of adults. It analyses the six major conditions that must be met in order for people to be able to participate in the digital world and presents a six-part model of online learning. From EdNA Online on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) An Australian government economic research agency noted for its professionally independent research and analysis. ABARE publishes applied economic research and uses the latest innovative modelling techniques. From EdNA Online on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Working With Diversity This website comprises a series of three resources that have been created for registered training organisations (RTOs) in order to provide information about equity and the Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF). The three resources are: A Guide to Equity and the AQTF; Quality Training for People with a Disability; and Quality Training for Indigenous Australians. A list of acronyms and a link to a glossary are also provided. From EdNA Online on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
International Library and Information Science Research: a Comparison of National Trends (IFLA Professional Reports, Nr. 82) This Professional Report of the IFLA Section of Library Theory and Research compares national trends in library and information science (LIS) research, especially topics for research and the research methods used. The aim of the publication is to present a summary of findings from previous studies. The authors compare most popular topics, subtopics and methods in the national LIS studies and the findings for Finland from the joint Scandinavian studies, and relate them to the international trends reflected in the study by Järvelin and Vakkari (1990). The countries include Finland, Spain, Turke From EdNA Online on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Ethics Case Studies and Videos on the Web I found this incredible collection of videos of speakers on various ethical topics. It appears to be up to date and very relevant. Most of the videos play with the Real Player, but some have the Windows Media option as well. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Planetfinder An on-line learning module in which students can learn interactively how astronomers detect and measure the properties of extra-solar planets. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Galactic Communication A visualization/simulation of the "Drake equation" and more. Demonstrates how the probabilities of contacting and communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations depend on the birth rate of civilizations and their mean lifetimes. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
George Orwell resources George Orwell Resources is a bibliography of primary and secondary resources relating to the English author George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950) best known for his novels "1984" and "Animal Farm". The compiler claims that the primary bibliography is comprehensive, whilst the secondary bibliography is selective but annotated. There is a brief summary of Orwell's life, and some reproductions of photographs. Links are provided to online Orwell texts, quotations, and biographies, and also to online secondary essays and other web sites. The bibliographic annotations are brief but usefu From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Girl's own paper index The Girl's Own Paper was a weekly magazine published for young ladies between 1880 and 1941. There was also an annual special edition prepared for the Christmas market. The paper featured a mixture of fiction, improving articles, poetry, music, coloured illustrations, and 'answers to correspondents'. This web site describes the history of the paper and provides indexes to its fiction and non-fiction content, listed by author name and title. It does not provide the full texts of the original articles. There are, however, some sample illustrations from the paper, selected respons From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Giorgio Vasari - Le Vite Le Vite provides an online version of the Giorgio Vasari's text on the history of Italian art, The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors. The document is drawn from what are presumably two Italian printed editions of the book, one being the Edizione Giuntina, the other being the Edizione Torrentiniana. This seems to be one of the most comprehensive versions of Le Vite available on the Internet, with all six volumes of Vasari's work being available, including many of the biographies of lesser artists that are left out in other transcriptions of the From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Emigration ship lists and resources This web site is published as part of a wider collection of genealogy resources, and on it users will find passenger lists for various immigrant ships and other related material. There are over 100 links on the site, some linking to passenger lists transcribed by the web site author and others to separate web sites. Users will find resources on immigration from Europe to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century. Amongst the groups of immigrants specifically mentioned are Jewish, German and Irish passengers. This i From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
British women's novels : a reading list, 1775-1818 This web site provides a chronological list of some of the more interesting novels by British women published between 1775 and 1818. A synopsis is provided for each novel, along with hyperlinks to portraits of the author and pages of historical and cultural background. The link from Frances Burney's "Cecilia" takes the user to an online study guide written by the list's compiler, Cathy Decker. Several of the date links take the user to pages on contemporary women's fashions. Unfortunately, some of the other links merely jump to the relevant Amazon.com bookseller's page. Man From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
The dark This extraordinary web site has been developed by the multimedia team Braunarts for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's web site Culture Online. It is an educational resource that explores Britain's role in the slave trade during the eighteenth century. It is based on the lives of radical Liverpudlian poet Edward Rushton, reformed slave ship captain John Newton, and an enslaved African named Quamina. The site is highly unusual because it is entirely audio, the only visual part being the introduction. The main part of the site is comprised of interactive audio scenes that ex From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
SoPNE : Sense of place North East Sense of Place North East (SoPNE) is an online gateway to a collection of projects concerned with the history, people and culture of the North East of England. It is a collaborative project published jointly by Gateshead Council, Newcastle City Council, Northumberland County Council and Tyne and Wear Museums. Four different learning resources and projects can be accessed through the portal, Folk Archive Resource North East (FARNE), Images Museums And Galleries In the North East (IMAGINE), Northumberland Communities and Tyneside Life and Times. SoPNE also provides a selection of links to other From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Litweb : an online companion to the Norton introduction to literature This online companion to the Norton Introduction to Literature provides an excellent suite of study workshops to poems, fiction, and drama by thirty-six different authors. The site has been designed for students learning the techniques of literary criticism, and for teachers encouraging such learning in a class environment. The workshops are all structured in a similar manner: first, they provide the primary text that is to be read, along with some simple questions to help students formulate their first impressions of the text; next, students are asked to reread the text and consider some more From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
Selected authors of supernatural fiction Selected Authors of Supernatural Fiction (with portraits, brief biographies, bibliographies, and online links) is a web site devoted to ten influential novelists and poets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The featured authors are: Ambrose Bierce; H. P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allen Poe; Algernon Blackwood; Arthur Machen; M. P. Shiel; Lord Dunsany; Fitz-James O'Brien; Clark Ashton Smith; and William Hope Hodgson. Each individual author page includes a photograph, a short biography, a selective bibliography, links to online texts, and, in some instances, secondary essays. There a From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
National John Steinbeck center The National John Steinbeck Center is a museum and visitor centre devoted to the American novelist, best known for "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men". The Centre is located in the Salinas Valley, California, where Steinbeck was born and where much of his writing is situated. It boasts the largest collection of Steinbeck archives in the United States and seeks to provide a world-class facility for scholarship. The Centre's web site does not provide access to the materials held therein, but rather concentrates on publicising exhibitions and holdings of interest to the more general From New Humbul Resources on August 17, 2004 at 10:44 p.m..
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