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NOTE: This is being distributed to several groups involved with science
education which means that you may see it more than once. Sorry about the
possible redundancy.  Please share this with your colleagues but check with
me before posting in a list or newsgroup (I may have done it already).

This is a call for volunteers as well as an announcement of a new WWW site.

GOAL: Build a set of navigation tools to allow access to all science
education materials on Internet and make it simple to add new materials
when they are developed.

This currently can be done most easily using a WWW client such as Mosaic. I
have begun construction of a set of navigation pages with the criteria that
the materials referenced improve science instruction/learning or simplify
the process in some way. There will also be pointers to general reference
tools, catalogs of images, shareware, discussion groups, etc. Pointers
to-date include web sites with hypertext documents, shareware science
programs, works-in-progress, journal abstracts, virtual museum exhibits,
and many others. Becuase the net is so large I have not had a chance to
explore every niche. As any of you who have browsed the net know there are
a lot of promising leads that turn into dead-ends.

If you know of an ftp, gopher, telnet, etc. site which is not listed below
and you think it should be please mail me the address complete with
comments which can be used to help someone decide if that particular sites
is worth investigating. If the document is already in HTML format that
would be nice but it is not a requirement.

If you have curriculum materials you would like to add but haven't had a
place to put them then now is your chance to be electronically published!
Let's consider this a work-in-progress so the materials don't have to be
completely polished. A long range dream is that a new science teacher or
curious student could log on to the server and find a complete set of plans
to teach/learn a particular subject. Needless to say these would only act
as a map NOT the actual science.

To see the beginning of this navigation tool point your favorite WWW client to:

http://www.halcyon.com/cairns/science.html

Once the pages are established on the Wide World Web I will write a text
based document with necessary pointers for those who don't have complete
Internet access.

I encourage your comments via e-mail or listserv (if public discussion is
appropriate for the list) but I won't have much time to reply until after I
hand in grades in 3 weeks.


Alan Cairns                                  |   Physics and Chemistry Teacher
                                             |   Newport High School
                                             |   4333 128th Ave SE
acairns@belnet.bellevue.k12.wa.us (days)     |   Bellevue, Washington 98006
acairns@halcyon.com (the rest of the time)   |   206-455-6136