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"Eager for intellectual and aesthetic excitement, learning to examine old ideas in" strikingly new contexts as an imperative?
Me too. So, do browse this site and read enough to feed your curiosity.
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Sierra snow above Lake Tahoe with lone pine. JVS, Jan. 1996. |
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| By 2004, nearly three quarters of all middle and high school students used the internet as their initial source for research, according to a recent Newsweek, analysis. * |  PC: the personal computer. |
About searching on the internet. Below are listed five leading Internet search engines for you to use, or book mark. In addition there are web sites you can trust and should use when writing papers. How to cite web sources. |
This PC device substantially altered how people learn and work to produce documents, images and mixed media.
These "engines of inquiry" differ depending on their approach to information. They have different kinds and numbers of sites in their reference.
They rank "hits" differently and they retrieve information at different speeds:
Google searches over six billion web pages, discussion groups, & images.
Ask Jeeves not as good with common names.
Yahoo when searching for specific phrases or names use quotation marks: "Tamil Tigers."
MSN Search compared to what Microsoft has done, this remains a less than optimal performer.
Topix.net searches 4,000 on-line news sources.Etymological Dictionary.
Citing web sources correctly.
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Research and reliability of sources. Encyclopedia of information: Wiki and encyclopedia = Wikipedia "More people use Wikipedia than Amazon or e-Bay . . . because it has 2.2 million articles." "It was constructed in less than eight years, by strangers who disagreed about all kinds of things but who were drawn to a shared, not-for-profit purpose." Nicholson Baker, The Charms of Wikipedia, The New York Review of Books, 55:4, [3-20-08] page 6. |
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Short essays on this web site as examples for your assignments.Service Learning opportunitiesGeneral class goals.Site at a glanceWhat was new as of 12-2-06? |
Rollins College Campus is the oldest four year, private college in Florida, 1885. [ J. Siry, 1989] |
* "Next Frontiers," Newsweek, March 29, 2004, p. 54.
Vocabulary one of many pages devoted to
words you need to know for success in the class.
Metaphors are crucial to use and interpret in your writing.
Body of knowledge, such as: ecology, history, bio-history, biology, economics, science.
Methods are the means we have to test our assumptions.
A new grammar for our experiences may be necessary to develop?What is social justice and how is it important to us all?
Carbon as a new currency for our post-industrial world?
ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
The United States Bureau of the Census.
USDA, Plants database of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Washington Post Writer's group.
Environmental News Service.
Technology as politics.
Earth Encyclopedia.Democracy Now.
Quotations.
Museums.
Grist.Authors: a partial listing of with links to authorities used, quoted, and sited on this web site.
When writing: always consider | Writing Criteria: listed as a form | Free writing | Writing from texts
- Earth Island Institute
- National Council for Science and the Environment
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Sierra Club
- National Audubon Society
- Wilderness Society
- National Wildlife Federation
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US)
- Save the Manatee Club
- Environmental Defense (ED)
- Florida Defenders of the Environment ( FDE)
- Conservation International
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
- Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
- National Environmental Trust (NET)
- National Parks, and Conservation Association (NPCA)
- North American Association for Environmental Education
- Greenpeace
- Isaac Walton League
- Defenders of Wildlife
- American Littoral Society
- Environmental Working Group
- ICLEI: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
- The Durrell Wildlife Trust
- Green social media & networking
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, AAAS: Atlas.
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Boston Athenaeum
Foreign Press a small sampling.
Inside the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.
US Geological Survey, USGS.
University of California, Library.
University of Texas, Library.
National Public Radio, NPR.
Research Facilities in Museums on the web.
Environmental topics portal for the web.
Environmental Media Services, EMS, daily update of news.
MET Office: Hadley Climate Centre in UK has recent press releases.
US Census Bureau (decennial census data)
The Thoreau Reader web site
White paper (example)
World Resources Institute, WRI
Guide to some reliable internet sites.
Overseas, or Foreign Press a sampling.
Environmental links: topical matters
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Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River divides Zimbabwe and Zambia, in southern Africa. |
Where next? | Research sites | nature home | technology home | Non Governmental Organizations
I wish I had said that one goal of continuing education is to motivate "the interior lives of young people" whom Andrew Delbanco suggests are "eager for intellectual and aesthetic excitement, learning to examine old ideas in light of new imperatives." To me, learning requires as much passion as it does a dedication to correct our errors, revise our biases and reinvent the world to the extent our imaginations grow to appreciate the paradoxes, tragedies, and unexpected discoveries of learning new ideas in old frames. |
Andrew Delbanco, "Scandals of Higher Education." The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2007,pp. 42-47. Quoted on p. 46. |
Authors: a partial listing of with links to authorities used, quoted, and sited on this web site.
Search the Internet an easy way
These buttons below work as navigational aids.
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Created 03/19/2003, adjusted November 19, 2007. Last Updated on July 28, 2008.
