******* MOVING TOGETHER #13 *******
This is the Web version of a free e-mail based sporadic publication of technology related items for professional Kinesiologists.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Life is not a spectator sport. The man in the arena will know the greatest victory and the learning experience of defeat. The male person on the couch will never know either. I choose the arena."
-author unknown

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KEN'S NOTE: A new and very important Web Site for Sport Scientists has come online. You can find it at http://www.sportsci.org/ This site is devoted to research on human physical performance.

I am one of the Web site's founding team so I am more than a little biased. One thing you can find there are all the back issues of MOVING TOGETHER in hypertext format. This is a must see site!!!

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HIGHER EDUCATION
Subject: Using a Web Page as a resource
The Office of Health and Physical Education, Baltimore County Public
Schools in Maryland is using the Web as a resource for physical
education, health and dance teachers. We are running at least 2
training sessions per month for our teachers to show them how to use
the internet. Our goal is to help teachers utilize technology as a
resource to extend, refine and improve their instruction.
We are developing a web site for our teachers. It changes constantly
as we learn how to make it more effective for our teachers.
Visit our Web page (http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~squinn/) and continue
to encourage educators to use technology. Good Luck
Sarajane Quinn

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 9 February 1997

FIRST TECHNOLOGY LITERACY GRANTS RELEASED
President Clinton released yesterday the first installment of a $200-million
grant program to put computers and Internet connections in schools, and to
provide teachers Internet training. The initial $14.3-million went to
Illinois, Mississippi and New Mexico. In Clinton's weekly radio address, he
cited statistics showing that 65% of schools were connected to the Internet
as of last fall, compared with 35% in 1994. "That's how we must prepare our
children for the 21st century -- with the full promise of the Information
Age at their fingertips," he said. (St. Petersburg Times 9 Feb 97)

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HIGHER EDUCATION
Subject: Free Reference List Update

Dear List Members:

Pleased to announce another major upgrade of our Free Reference Lists. We've
also added Sport Tourism (#25) and Sport and Religion/Ritual (#26). Shortly
we shall be adding some more areas. Please keep checking back.

The Free Reference Lists may be accessed from the main page of the
Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport at:

http://yoda.ucc.uconn.edu/users/yiannakisa/mylab.html

Sincerely,
Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Laboratory for Leisure, Tourism & Sport
University of Connecticut
U-110, Storrs, CT 06268, USA
Phone: 1-860-486-1117/Fax: 1-860-486-1123
Email: Yian=AT=ix.netcom.com
Yian=AT=uconnvm.uconn.edu

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 14 Feb 1997 to 16 Feb 1997 - Special issue

Subject: K12> Internet Filters for school libraries

Anyone interested in Internet filters might want to check a new page we
recently created at the School District of Philadelphia. It is called:

Filtering the Internet in K-12 Schools and Libraries

Address: http://www.libertynet.org/~lion/filtering.html

This page is part of LION (Librarians Information Online Network),
our Web site for school librarians located at:

http://www.libertynet.org/~lion/
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Ken Garland
School District of Philadelphia
garlandk=AT=libertynet.org

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 17 Feb 1997 to 18 Feb 1997 - Special issue

Subject: K12> National Center for Health Education : NCHE
http://www.nche.org

The National Center for Health Education (NCHE) is a nonprofit health
education organization. We designed Growing Healthy, America's first
comprehensive school health education curriculum. Growing Healthy provides
teachers of school health education with the tools needed to effectively
teach health education.

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HIGHER EDUCATION
Edupage, 18 February 1997

EXPERIMENT SHOWS STUDENTS DO BETTER ONLINE
A sociology professor at California State University at Northridge conducted
his own experiment to test online learning, randomly dividing his statistics
class in half, and teaching one half by lecture and the other half by Web
assignments, online discussion groups and e-mail. The students who'd been
banned from the physical classroom scored an average of 20% higher than
those who'd attended in-person. "The motivation for doing this was to
provide some hard, experimental evidence that didn't seem to exist
anywhere," says the prof, who plans to expand his research to determine
whether the online students performed better because they spent more time
collaborating with their classmates, or because of the online format of the
class. (Chronicle of Higher Education 21 Feb 97)

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 23 Feb 1997

Subject: SOFT> educational freeware and shareware
http://members.aol.com/RMacLemale/CoolClassroom.html

Download cool educational freeware and shareware at
http://members.aol.com/RMacLemale/CoolClassroom.html. All of my software is
classroom-tested and kid approved!

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 27 February 1997

DRUCKER SAYS "UNIVERSITIES WON'T SURVIVE"
Renowned management consultant and author Peter Drucker says: "Thirty years
from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't
survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do
you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost
of health care? ... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any
visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means
that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep
crisis... Already we are beginning to deliver more lectures and classes off
campus via satellite or two-way video at a fraction of the cost. The
college won't survive as a residential institution. " (Forbes 10 Mar 97)

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HIGHER EDUCATION
FROM: Edupage, 27 February 1997

SCHOLARS PROPOSE STRENGTHENING PEER REVIEW ELECTRONICALLY
An editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association and an adjunct
professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco have
recommended an electronic peer-review system that would allow researchers to
have ready access to all comments related to a particular paper through a
consolidated database. Editors could review readers' comments, request
responses from authors, and update the database on a quarterly basis.
Journals could make publishing a work conditional upon such participation,
and people who submit comments would be required to disclose any conflicts
of interest or affiliations that might affect their response. (Chronicle of
Higher Education 28 Feb 97)

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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 29 Jan 1997 - Special issue

Subject: EMAG> Sport Business Magazine
http://www.sportbusiness.com

Sport Business is a magazine for the international business of sport. It
has regular sections on news, media, sponsors, adminisatration, politics,
bidding cities, legal, technology

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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
Subject: CORRECT> RESOUR> 600+ Search engines

The correct url is:
http://www.nb.net/~mnk/sengines.htm

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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 5 Feb 1997

Subject: FREE Internet Glossary
The Sevloid Internet Glossary was created to bring meaning to the whole
new vocabulary of technical jargon and bewildering acronyms that come
with the Internet. Bookmark this site and when you come upon an unknown
or confusing term, drop by here and find out what it means. Find it at
http://www.powerup.com.au/~sevloid/webtips/glossary.htm

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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 17 Feb 1997 to 18 Feb 1997 - Special issue

Subject: NEW: hiker - Eastern Trail Hikers Ezine

hiker via hiker=AT=TheBranchOffice.com

Announcing a new ezine for Hikers on the East Coast.

After moving away from the beautiful mountains in the Adirondacks, our
family has become homesick!

To help solve our problem and to give us an opportunity to share in the
adventures offered by this area, "Eastern Trail Hikers" ezine has been
born.

This ezine will be delivered to anyone interested FREE of charge via
e-mail (beginning in March 1997).

If you or someone you know would like to contribute articles, tips,
suggestions, trip schedules etc. please send them to:
hiker=AT=TheBranchOffice.com

If you or someone you know would like to receive "Eastern Trail Hikers"
free of charge, please send your request to: hiker=AT=TheBranchOffice.com
subject: subscribe ETH

Happy Trails!

Owner: Julie Hewett jkhewett=AT=TheBranchOffice.com

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INTERNET TOOLS AND SITES
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 11 Feb 1997 to 12 Feb 1997 - Special issue

Subject: EMAG> Rock & Groove Online Climbing Magazine
http://www.thesharpend.com

A serious monthly climbing magazine featuring the latest in news,
interviews, technique, nutrition, training, chat rooms, and climbing areas.
Everything for the addicted, afflicted, and vertically gifted.

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM Edupage: 4 February 1997

CULTURE CLASHES ON THE INTERNET
At a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the issue of
censorship on the Internet was debated from East/West perspectives, with the
Eastern view represented by such countries as Singapore, Iran, and Egypt.
Denmark foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen said, "Whenever you want to
stop the free flow of information, you must ask yourself what is possible.
The usual answer from politicians is we need international rules. I say,
forget it. It won't happen." Iranian mathematics professor Mohammed
Lasijani countered: "In the west, the issue is sometimes how to globalise
liberalism: how to export an ideology. I am not a liberal, and I do not
believe liberalism is the only way to a decent life." (Financial Times 4
Feb 97)

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM Edupage: 4 February 1997

THE EYES HAVE HAD IT
Tenax Software Engineering has come up with a new tool for managing
information overload -- its Cornix Java applet allows you to read Web pages
with "ease and comfort at speeds of up to 1,000 words per minute." The
Cornix applet displays the text of a Web page one word at a time in
100-point type (almost 1-1/2 inches high), eliminating the side-to-side eye
scanning that can cause eye fatigue. Tenax reports that most people double
their reading speed almost as soon as they start using Cornix, with average
person, reading about 240 words per minute, increasing to nearly 500 wpm.
Tenax claims some enthusiastic readers have even reached "warp" speeds of
8,000 or so wpm. (Information Week 27 Jan 97)

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: Edupage, 11 February 1997

ORACLE DEVICE CAN FINGER HACKERS
Oracle is marketing a palm-sized biometric security device that compares a
user's finger prints to sets stored in a central database before allowing
access to a computer. The $500 unit, made by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based
Identix, "is the ultimate in security, because it doesn't depend on what you
know, but what you are," says Identix's CEO. The device can discern a real
finger from a wax model, or from a glove with someone else's print on it,
because a collection of sensors track blood flow, blood pressure and other
signals as part of the identification process. (Wall Street Journal 10 Feb 97)

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
Subject: FREE Software

I've written a sports selection program for DOS/Windows
machines.

Anyone interested in it can download it from:

http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~larryroa/

and clicking on the "Pondex" link.

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
FROM: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Feb 1997 - Special issue

Subject: A Brief History of the Internet

The Internet Society has put out a new paper entitled "A Brief History
of the Internet" It can be accessed at
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/

Thought it might be interesting to some of you.

-Robert Cannon

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TECHNOLOGY / COMMUNICATION
Edupage, 18 February 1997

SPEEDING UP OF HTTP PROTOCOL
The World Wide Web Consortium in Cambridge, Mass., an industry
standards-setting group, says that a redesign of the http protocol that has
been the basis of the Web since 1990 will speed up downloads by two to eight
times. Browsers supporting the new H.T.T.P./1.1 protocol will be available
in the spring. (New York Times 17 Feb 97)

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