Archives: August 2003
Tue Aug 26, 2003
BBC to Make Archives Freely Available Online
BBC Opens Archives"...everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet.
The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to everyone, as long as they were not intending to use the material for commercial purposes..."
Webquest on Understanding Controversial Viewpoints
What are their Viewpoints? Examining Multiple Views on a Controversial Issue
A WebQuest for College Writers (ENG101 First Year Composition)
Designed by Marla DeSoto
Groups select one issue from a Argumentative Topics page and write a report about the viewpoints that contribute to creating the controversy. The report includes a brief statement describing the issue, background information explaining the issue and the controversy surrounding it, and an explanation for at least three differing viewpoints about the issue.? It also includes a list of websites that contain relevant information for each of the viewpoints.? Finally, groups orally present for the class the multiple views examined about their controversial issue.
Lots of RSS Feeds for Law
How can you find weblogs and RSS feeds related to law? You might start with the section of The Virtual Chase's Legal Research Guide entitled RSS News Feeds for Law. RSS, or rich site summary, is simply a method for delivering current information. You will find both blog and RSS/XML addresses here.
Thu Aug 14, 2003
Online Tutoring Skills (OTiS) Project Website
The OTiS project website focuses on developing and supporting on-line tutors. The aim of the OTiS Workshop in 2000 that this site supports was to prepare staff in Scottish HEIs to act as tutors in the growing and competitive global education economy and to exploit current good practice that already exists. The online tutor E-book is at the center of the service... More...
Tue Aug 12, 2003
NPR News Briefs available in digital Audio Format
Hear the latest News by New Public Radio, and get updates via RSS if you want to browse what's new in your news reader. To search for individual segments, go the NPR audio archives search page at http://www.npr.org/archives/index.html The link for the RSS 9.1 feed (provided by NewsisFree) is http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/49/2449.xml
You'll need RealPlayer or Windows Media Player to listen!
Mon Aug 11, 2003
Google adds Email News Alerts
Google has added a new feature that allows you to do an advanced search on their news and then have matching results emailed to you daily or as news breaks. The Google News Alerts tool is in beta at http://www.google.com/newsalerts
The advanced search page on Google News provides a number of ways to fine tune a search to eliminate unwanted results. You can incorporate these techniques in your Google news alert settings by selecting the conditions you want on the Google News advanced search page, then clicking the "Google Search" button. When the results page appears, copy the text that appears in the search box on that page and paste it into the box on the Google News Alerts home page labeled "News search."
I'm currently using the following (without quotes) for one of my alerts, and it has proved an interesting way to monitor campus conflict news. My search terms "campus conflict OR dispute OR mediation OR conciliation location:usa"
Check it out...
Creative Problem Solving Webquest
As some folks know, I have been interested in using Webquests to help build conflict skills and knowledge for some time now. My best example is found at (see http://www.campus-adr.org/webquest/ )
Yesterday I came across this rather good looking college-level Webquest designed for English as a Second Language students. The topic is quite germaine to the Conflict Resolution field, and it is nicely constructed. Perhaps you'll find it interesting as well.
Creative Problem Solving?: A WebQuest for Advanced ESL students
Designed by Farida Pawan,
Indiana University Bloomington