BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

The City University of New York

WORLD WIDE WEB SURVEY     Developing Inquiry Activities

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Step two (20 minutes)  When you've completed your review, working either as an individual or with your partner, outline an activity using one (or more if you choose) resource.   Before you start, consider the following questions:

• How would this assignment support key learning skills, methods, or mode of thinking?
• How would the electronic materials suit the assignment's intended pedagogy or methodological goals? What, if any, difference do the electronic materials make in construction of the activity (as compared to print materials)?
• How would this assignment be contextualized in your classroom?  How might you follow it up?

Step three (10 minutes)  Post your activity on the Blackboard Discussion Board

Step four (10 minutes)  Review as many of the posted activities (on the Blackboard Discussion Board) as time permits.

Break (10 Minutes)

Step four (40 minutes)  In a large group, share, explain and discuss:

• Your assessment of the web site(s) you drew upon for your activity.
• Your activity.

Digital Atlas of New York City
http://130.166.124.2/NYpage1.html

The Blackout History Project: New York City 1965/1977 http://blackout.gmu.edu/ 

The Victorian Web
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html

The Great Chicago Fire and Web of Memory  http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro

Remembering Nagasaki
www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki

Literature and Culture in the American 1950s
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

The Digital Dante http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/ 

American Verse Project http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

Poet at Work: The Recovered Notebooks of Walt Whitman            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/

Electronic Policy Network
http://epn.org/

Politics.Com  http://www.politics.com/ 

National Election Studies  http://www.umich.edu/~nes/ 

The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard-MIT Data Center) http://data.fas.harvard.edu/ROAD/ 

FEDstats  http://www.fedstats.gov/

U.S. Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov 

The Dismal Scientist http://www.economy.com/dismal/ 

Inc.com http://www.inc.com/home/index.html 

Strategy+Business http://www.strategy-business.com/ 

BUDGETnet http://www.financenet.gov/budget.htm

Interbiznet,com  http://www.interbiznet.com/

America's Job Bank  http://www.ajb.dni.us/ 

Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Dept. Of Labor) http://www.bls.gov/oco/ 

International Association of Administrative Professionals http://www.iaap-hq.org/

New York Times Learning Network  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Bangkok Post Educational Services  http://www.bangkokpost.com/education/home.htm

CNN Learning Resources  http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/

CUNY WriteSite  http://writesite.cuny.edu/ieindex.html

TESOL Online (ESL) http://www.tesol.edu/

Dave's ESL Cafe  http://www.eslcafe.com/

Countway Web Resources (Harvard)  http://www.countway.harvard.edu/web_resources/

Fat (Frontline)  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fat/ 

Organ Farm  (Frontline)  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/organfarm/ 

Science NetLinks  http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ 

CNN.com.health http://cnn.com/HEALTH/index.html

The Great Big Respiratory Link Page http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/herpmed/respi.htm

NY Health Information Management Association http://www.nyhima.org/ 

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations  http://www.jcaho.org/ 

US/UK Collaborative Initiative on Racial and Ethnic Health http://www.omhrc.gov/us-uk/index.htm

WebElementsTM periodic Table http://www.webelements.com/ 

BioChemNet  http://biochemlinks.com/bclinks/bclinks.cfm 

Chemist's Art Gallery  http://www.csc.fi/chem/gallery.phtml 

Case Studies Compiled by UCLA Statistics Department  http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cases/

The Math Forum  http://mathforum.org/

Math Archives  http://archives.math.utk.edu/index.html

Visual Calculus  http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/title3.html

Animation Projects  http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/animation.html

The Puzzle Archive  http://rec-puzzles.org/ 

World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/ 

Internet.com  http://www.internet.com/sections/linux.html 

Java and JavaScript Programming Resources http://www.phrantic.com/scoop/toc.htm

HTML Goodies http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/

OO Programming Languages Page http://www.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp/~suzuki/object/language.html

Turing Machine Applet http://math.hws.edu/TMCM/java/xTuringMachine/index.html

Learning Logo http://library.thinkquest.org/18446/

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