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Congratulations to Andrew Priest for making the Scout Report for AcctInfoPlus
http://www.bs.ac.cowan.edu.au/acctinfoplus/

AcctInfoPlus is an accounting resource metacenter developed for the academic and professional community. Author Andrew Priest of Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia draws on postings from Rutgers Accounting Web (discussed in the <A HREF="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-960920.html#5">Septemb er 20, 1996 _Scout Report_</A>-- ), the Summa Project, and the Nordic Accounting Network, among others, to link users with the latest Internet resources and conferences in accounting. Links are organized into a multi-faceted but easy-to-follow system with general topics covering academic, regulation, and professional interests.

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Also congratulations to Jagdish for making the Scout Report.

Two Accounting Courses from SUNY Albany:

ACC 681: Analysis & Design of Accounting Systems
http://www.albany.edu/acc/courses/acc681.fall98/

ACC 682: Analysis & Design of Accounting Databases
http://www.albany.edu/acc/courses/acc682.fall98/
Jagdish S. Gangolly, School of Business, SUNY Albany, introduces students to the analysis, design, and implementation of accounting systems in ACC 681 and the theoretical foundations of database management systems in ACC 682. Syllabi and calendars are provided for both courses in addition to selected lecture notes

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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A Strategic Focus by Ansari Bell Klammer Lawrence (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1997)

Quite a lot of matrerial (including PowerPoint slides) can be downloaded from the web site at http://www.mhhe.com/business/accounting/modules. The first module in the series, Strategy and Management Accounting is available as a free download or as a hard copy on request. Phone 1/888 GO MODUL(ES) or 1/800 634-3963, ext. 5337 or e-mail tracey_douglas@mcgraw-hill.com.

The above series has a new module entitled , The Theory of Constraints and Throughput Accounting by Monte Swain and Jan Bell.

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The following working papers along with others can be downloaded from Georgetown University at http://www.gsb.georgetown.edu/dept/facserv/work

"The Precision Effect and Information Content of SFAS No. 95 Disclosures" by J. Scott Whisenant and G. Lee Willinger

Does Fundamental Analysis Produce More Value-Relevant Summary Measures? by J. Scott Whisenant

Restating Financial Statement for Alternative and Non-GAAPs: Worth the Effort (revisited)? by J. Scott Whisenant

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Professor Jensen,

First a word of introduction. I’m a former Trinity grad now working in the publishing industry. Specifically, I manage the web development group within Simon & Schuster’s higher education group. You may have seen web based content for some of our imprints—Prentice Hall, or Allyn & Bacon, or Macmillan publishers.

You can see a sample of this to determine your interest in reviewing it at the following urls:

Thanks in advance---and go Tigers:-)

Ray Henderson
VP, Product Technology Group
Simon & Schuster Higher Education Group
ray_henderson@prenhall.com

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Links to references on culture in business (an excellent listing)
http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/gsia/jh38/refs.html

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PALLADIAN NOW AVAILABLE

The Fall 1998 issue of the Associated Colleges of the South’s newsletter, *The Palladian*, is now in print and has been sent to all member institutions for distribution. It is also available on line—point your browsers to http://www.colleges.org/palladian/palladian_f98.html .

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I recently shared a platform with David Boldt at an education technology conference at Bentley College. David has a great web site for economists, particularly in the area of macroeconomics. His materials are listed at http://www.westga.edu/~dboldt

For some great web links in economics click on his Bentley College presentation. Among other things, David's links will take you to some highly innovative web sites of economic educators.

Also, an excellent set of economics lecture notes is available from Roland Buck of Morehead State University
ECON 600: Survey of Economics
http://dl1.morehead-st.edu/courses/ECON600/

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Internet Detective (Web site TQM)
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

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CAL Learning Strategies Database
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/database.html

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Business Week Enterprise
http://enterprise.businessweek.com/

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Social Security Online:
http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html

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Ethics in Busness (from the UK)
_Fusi@n Business Magazine_
http://www.memegroup.co.uk/

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SADD - Students Against Driving Drunk
http://www.saddonline.com/

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Go for it Rudy
Physics of just about everything
http://www.kent.wednet.edu/staff/trobinso/physicspages/PhysicsOf.html

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What happens when you join both halves of the brain? Mathematics + Art
http://library.advanced.org/16661

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The famous Rodin in French or English
http://www.musee-rodin.fr

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I know that it is in the Paid Advertisement section of Application Development Trends, September 1998, but I found the article entitled "The Visual Basic Community: Strength in Numbers" to be a well-written summary of the history of Visual Basic and the tremendous leaps this developers' language has taken with the latest version 6.0

Among other things, the above article integrates the extremely confusing array of Microsoft packages such as SQL Query Designer (allows visual creation of database queries without having to write the SQL code), ActiveX Control, Data Environment Designer, Data Environment (a drag and drop tool), Data Report Designer, Visual Studio, and others.

I could not find this article among the other online articles of this issue of ADT at http://www.adtmag.com That is probably because the article is in the Paid Advertising section of the hard copy version.

However, two Microsoft web sites of general interest in this area include the following:

Of course there is a problem in that Microsoft is still fighting the CORBA standard. See http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245glosf.htm#CORBA

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From The Internet Search Advantage

GovBot

If you spend lots of time searching for government Web sites, you may just want to forget the major search engines. The GovBot Web site is an index of more than 840,000 U.S. government and military Web sites. This search engine indexes only sites with .gov and .mil domain name suffixes so you won’t get back any non-government Web pages. The GovBot search engine is built on the INQUERY information retrieval system, which was developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts. This is the same search engine used in THOMAS, the U.S.

Legislative database. INQUERY employs a relevance-ranking algorithm for searching, and displays search results with the most-relevant items appearing first on the results list. INQUERY also lets you search with Boolean operators to override the relevance-ranking default. GovBot is located at
http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/

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From the Scout Report
The History of Education Site
http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/index.html

The History of Education Site categorizes and annotates international resources concerning education history, childhood history, and the history of education research. This frequently updated, easily navigated metasite—initiated and maintained by Henk van Setten, Associate Professor of the Philosophy and History of Education at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands—indexes online bibliographies, pedagogical texts, specialized archives, discussion lists, educational statistics, and research organizations, in addition to numerous sites devoted to the history of education, the history of childhood, and the lives and works of important educators from the past. Each brief annotation in the index is accompanied by an icon that visually represents the site’s content type, quantity, quality, relevance, and usability. The entire metasite is searchable; furthermore, helpful tips are provided on how to locate additional history of education resources on the Web.

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Also from the Scout Report

Dead Sociologists Index
http://www.runet.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML

The Dead Sociologists Index compiles brief biographies of sixteen famous sociologists, summarizes their important contributions to sociology, and provides excerpts of their original work. Some of the expired sociological theorists included in the index are Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Thorstein Veblen. Larry R. Ridener, the creator of the index, intends to expand this site, include more dead sociologists, and develop a small digital library of sociological resources.

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Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Culture_ [RealPlayer] A New Online Journal http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/hum/as/intersections/

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Dear Robert Jensen,

As a valued Adobe ® customer, we wanted to you to be among the first to hear about our newest Web graphics products—Adobe ImageStyler ™!

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Next-generation middleware.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/online/jini.html

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Bob
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
Voice: 210-736-7347 Fax: 210-736-8134  Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu

Some of you that subscribe to the aecm may not be aware of the web site URL at
http://pacioli.loyola.edu

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Microsoft Excel has inconsistencies in formula inputs (especially financial function formula inputs) that are very confusing to students. A particular problem arises about knowing when and how to use array designators. I have a tutorial file called FUNCLONG.xls that shows what will work and what will not work for various types of functions. This file is available free to educators and practitioners. However, in order to keep the answers out of the hands of students, you must send me an email message requesting the secret link to this tutorial file. My email address is rjensen@trinity.edu

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This is a terrific art history site

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Two of the Internet’s largest search engines provide special features for finding sound files. Lycos (http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html) has a special search feature that lets you search for only sound files. This search engine allows you to use radio buttons to search for sound-related sites. You can also access the sound search engine via a dropdown box from Lycos’ main page. HotBot’s (http://www.hotbot.com/) advanced search provides a similar feature.

Filez Sounds and Music page (http://www.filez.com/Win/Sounds_Music) At the Filez FTP index, you can search directly for sound files to download. The Filez FTP index scans more than 5,000 FTP servers, indexes an incredible 75 million files. You can search for sounds in the Sound and Music section on the Filez main page or use the Search For dropdown box and query sound files by the categories like Real Audio, Karoke, Midi, and Wav.

The Sound Ring (http://sound-ring.com/)

(http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/Sound) is another great Internet resources for finding sound related Web sites.

alt.binaries.sounds.*  Newsgroups have always been great resources for sound files. You can find a good list of sound-related newsgroups under alt.biniaries.sounds.*

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Hi Professor Jensen,

I’m a lowly Tech Support employee at CyberFlix Inc. I was cruising the web and noticed your lists. You may wish to check out http://www.cyberflix.com/dream.html as a possible addition to your high-end CD authoring list. DreamFactory is non-linear, where fixed movies show the same sequence, our movies can include props/actors/hotspots on the fly. These objects can move in movie space, too. Actors can have tons of dialog (with subtitles). Bill Appleton also wrote WorldBuilder which led to CourseBuilder. It’s not sold, rather licensed to assemble a CD.Clients are Disney and the like. An individual might not have the business proposal to start things.

Just thought you would like to know,

Mark Frizzell

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Good work Barry
Leading the class into the 21^st century
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/jun98/cytron.htm

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Hi Bob

We are rapidly approaching the date of the IBM Global Campus meeting planned for October 5/6 in Stuttgart, Germany. Many people (mostly from Europe) have registered and I wanted to write again to you now to give you one last chance to attend that meeting since the response to my last note regarding having a second meeting in Orlando has not evoked sufficient response to justify two meetings. I have attached the agenda below in both .lwp and .htm formats for you to see the exciting topics we plan to cover in the two days. You may still register by sending an e-mail to Julie Cooper (julie_cooper@uk.ibm.com). Julie will also help you with hotel registrations and other logistical information.

Many of you have written to me requesting an ID and password to the IBM Global Campus community - our on-line private intranet for customers using IBM Global Campus products and services to deliver learning in their institutions. If you have visited it recently, you have seen the news about the European Schoolnet conference as well as new articles on asynchronous learning from one of our most advanced NA customers. If you haven’t yet applied, just send me an e-mail. The agenda for our meetings are posted there under ‘Discussions/Upcoming Events’. We plan to post content from that meeting in the community afterwards. Note that our community is being featured in LotusSphere, Europe which is being held next week in Berlin, Germany.

So please don’t lose out on a great opportunity to learn the latest developments in and around IBM Global Campus- register now by sending an e-mail to julie_cooper@uk.ibm.com - but, If I don’t see you in Stuttgart on October 5^th, I hope to meet you on the IBM Global Campus community.

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Thank you Chrein.com LLC <Lloyd@CHREIN.COM>

Was the Navy Defrauded? You be the Judge! See http://www.california.com/~rhelbig/coopfraud.html

What is the real relationship between certain senior naval officials and their retired counterparts working for Coopers and Lybrand? Was it innocent as Department of Defense Inspector General Audit Report 94-113 claims, or was it really criminal?  Ten million dollars was spent to employ them, but even the Inspector General found no measurable value in the resultant product

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Thank you Richard
Microsoft Agent streaming animation demo
http://www.real.com/products/tools/agent7

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Yahoo! Local Events
http://localevents.yahoo.com/

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Yahoo! Auctions
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Placido Domingo - Three Tenors - Two
http://www.PlacidoDomingo.com/

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LSAT - no lawyer jokes please

Concord University School of Law - earn your law degree online
Graduates of the School of Law become eligible to sit for the California Bar Examination. Upon successfully completing that exam, graduates can become members of the State Bar of California eligible to practice in Federal and California courts.

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Art Faux Fine Art Gallery
http://www.pcmagic.net/cpinckney/

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New York Times Learning Network for kids in grades 6-12 and those of us who can't keep up
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

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It's a wonder that Andy survived.
Playing the Piano: Playing with Fire?
http://artemis.centrum.is/~sen/

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A real-time virtual safari webcam.
http://www.africam.com/

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Fireworks. Dreamweaver. The Required Tools. Web Designers are depending on these professional design tools to build compelling web sites better and faster than ever before. Use Fireworks to create, optimize, animate, and slice graphics to produce banners, buttons, and menu designs. Then integrate your designs into your favorite HTML Editor, Dreamweaver, where Roundtrip HTML, Behaviors, and visual layouts make building sites with advanced features like DHTML and JavaScript a breeze. Fireworks and Dreamweaver were developed to dramatically streamline the web design work flow together, so integration between the two tools is seamless—you can even launch and edit Fireworks right from within Dreamweaver.

Take advantage of Macromedia’s Web Essentials to start updating your web site today

Since you already own Dreamweaver, you can get Fireworks for just $199 --

that’s a $100 savings!

Just call (800) 457-1774 in North America and mention source code #103 to get this special offer.

Buy before September 30^th and get a FREE book! The first 100 responses to this offer will also get the new "Visual Quickstart Guide—Fireworks for Windows and Macintosh" by Sandee Cohen. This handy book uses pictures rather than wordy explanations so you can teach yourself Fireworks quickly and easily.

Visit http://special.macromedia.com/webessentials/ for more details now!

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From InformationWeek Online September 15, 1998

The 1998 Computer Virus Prevalence Survey, released yesterday, found that although almost 100% of the organizations surveyed have antivirus software, the rate of infection is 48% higher than reported in 1997. The study interviewed technology professionals at 300 businesses and government organizations across the United States.

The most prevalent viruses striking companies, according to the survey, are macroviruses. Although diskettes are still the most common route of infection, infection via E-mail attachments is rapidly growing.

The Internet is also contributing to increase in virus infections, and adding a new threat in the form of malicious Java applets or ActiveX controls, according to Peter Tippett, president of ICSA. And even though 83% of the survey respondents said the Internet was either mission-critical or important to their organizations, and 72% said the threat from executable code is either high or moderate, only 27% of the respondents have policies in place on the use of Java or Active X.

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From Internet Search Advantage

Even the largest keyword indexes don’t contain all the information on the Internet, and many tend to specialize in certain types of information. Using a meta search tool is one good way of making sure your search is comprehensive. Meta search tools let you access several databases at once.

There are many pseudo meta search tools, such as All 4 One Search Machine, Metasearch, and FindIt!, which are really search link stations that embed multiple search engines on a single page so that you can access them one at a time. These search link stations can prove useful if they’re well-designed. For example, the Research-It! Web site at

is a great link station for searching dictionary, thesaurus, language translation, and other reference databases. But true meta search engines, like the ones shown below query multiple search engines simultaneously from one search query and then return the results organized by search engine or combined into one set of returns. Meta search engines can give you more complete search results, but there’s a cost. Meta search engines tend to be slow precisely because they query more than one search engine at a time. Conducting a search with a meta search engine can take a minute or more, as opposed to the 5 or 10 seconds it takes using other search tools. And meta search engines won’t let you specify search parameters for individual search engines (most meta search engines allow only simple Boolean operators), so you’ll have more results to sift through.

SuperSeek http://w3.superseek.com/superseek/too many frames!

Personal Compass http://www.personalcompass.com/

Inference Fine http://www.inference.com/ifind/

Mother Load http://www.cosmix.com/motherload/insane/

DigiSearch http://www.digiway.com/digisearch/

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Limiting search results with NOT operators (seltzer) The key to any good search query is to construct it in such a way as to limit search results to only the subject you’re interested in. With most searches, limiting the query is not extremely difficult, but when searching popular or ambiguous subjects, narrowing search results can prove extremely frustrating. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Boolean NOT operator to keep unwanted hits out of your search results.

Advice about AltaVista advanced (seltzer) by Richard Seltzer

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Most people who use Advanced Search at AltaVista presume that it’s really the same as Simple Search—that while it uses different syntax for the queries (with Boolean operators), it should provide the same results for equivalent queries. This misconception can lead to confusion, and divert you from taking full advantage of the power of this alternative search mode. In this article, I’ll take a closer look at AltaVista’s Advanced
Search.

Surfing with ZurfRider (search sites) If you’ve ever thought you’d like to see greater speed and flexibility in your Web searches, you’ll want to check out ZurfRider, from Zurf, Inc. In addition to impressive speed, this utility includes features that can organize similar sites into folders and allow you to refine your searches and save the results.

Searching the THOMAS legislative database (search sites) Keeping track of changing federal legislation in the U.S. Congress is a monumental task. Each Congress proposes and passes hundreds of bills which it debates vigorously. Fortunately, the THOMAS (dedicated to Thomas Jefferson) Web site makes the full Congressional Record and bill text

available for searching in one place. In this article we’ll take a close look at the THOMAS legislative database and give you some pointers for searching the site.

Finding Web site contact information with WHOIS (techniques) The Internet consist of about 30 million Internet hosts which serve as gateways to well over 100 million documents. Searching for information in Web pages is hard enough, but tracking down basic contact information from a Web site can often prove extremely difficult. Some Webmasters simply

overlook including contact information about their Web site or bury such information on an obscure page. In other cases the site administrator might purposely avoid including contact information - for example, for a site that is illegally publishing copyrighted material - in which case contacting the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is often the next logical step. But tracking down contact information for the ISP is also often difficult. In this article, we’ll explain how to use Whois databases to obtain basic Web site contact information.
http://www.zdjournals.com/isa/s_isa/989/isa9896.htm

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Go for it Rita
Bushido Martial Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.bushido.ch/

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Do-It-Yourself Congressional Investigation Kit --- where's the PAC money come from and go to?
http://www.crp.org/diykit/

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Thanks Barb --- it may be too much to ask religious and political factions to do this, but for us academic combatants it's great to be puppies!

Of course, two pups may squabble over a bone.
But soon you will find it left all alone,
While the former combatants snuggle close, sound asleep.
Secure in the knowledge that their treasure will keep. Warmth and closeness mean so much more to them, Even though the battle will probably begin again. It is more playful than serious, this game of tug, And will end again with them both asleep, close on the rug.

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

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I added some new shells to my courseware summary (Convene, CourseInfor, Intrakal, MentorWare, and WebMentor) in addition to the shells that were already there. Most have chat room capabilities along with course design and course management features.

These new additions are reviewed in Syllabus, September 1998, beginning on Page 18. Also see the online version is not available at the time of this writing, but eventually it will be available at http://www.syllabus.com

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Company Annual Reports Online (CAROL)
http://www.carol.co.uk/

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ISBN Search (the search engine works better than so-called search engines of Amazon and Barnes and Noble)
http://www.isbn.nu

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Please add your courses NOW! I added my courses to the database.

The American Accounting Association's Accounting Coursepage Exchange (ACE)

The AAA requests that you enter information about your coursepage to become part of a searchable database that will allow accounting and business educators worldwide to share information about curriculum, teaching approaches, tools to stimulate learning, useful links to additional web resources and specific course schedules, policies and plans.

This searchable database is designed to make it possible for faculty to both share educational materials and find useful ideas to support the development of their accounting courses.

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ABC Resources

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) Resources is provided by the Economics Division of the US Secretary of the Air Force Financial Management & Comptroller (SAF/FMC) departmental site. This succinct page of reference materials contains links to key professional organizations and periodicals, a dictionary of terms, and a lengthy annotated bibliography of ABC and Activity-Based Management (ABM) books and articles. From the September 10 Scout Report

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From InformationWeek Online on September 10, 1998

Ernst & Young Touts Service For Building E-Commerce Apps__ Consulting firm Ernst & Young aims to help customers quickly build custom electronic-commerce applications with new templates based on Microsoft technology.

Ernst & Young’s eCommerce RapidStart, built around Microsoft’s Visual Studio suite and Windows DNA application architecture, promises to let customers develop an E-commerce application pilot within 30 days. In addition to the time savings, the company claims that RapidStart applications will work better with other applications than typical custom apps because they’re built on top of commodity Microsoft software.

The service starts with Ernst & Young components for E-business activities such as buying, selling, and procurement. The components can tie into a company’s existing enterprise applications.

Ernst & Young consultants help companies establish an implementation road map that takes into account relationships with clients and trading partners. They then move the projects into an Ernst & Young lab. The finished application can be "palletized," essentially configured to drop directly into a site.

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From Information Week Online on September 9, 1998

T-Bill Trading Goes Electronic

Electronic trading of U.S. Treasury bond futures will begin today at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities Corp., which received regulatory approval to create the electronic exchange last week. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued its approval following a comprehensive examination and testing of Cantor Fitzgerald’s information systems, as well as economic and market factors. The automated exchange will cut trading costs by 50%, according to Howard Lutnick, president and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Most futures contracts are still traded on exchange floors using the traditional "open outcry" method of trade matching. Trading on the Cantor Financial Futures Exchange, jointly operated by Cantor and the New York Board of Trade, will rely upon Cantor Fitzgerald’s existing system for trading in the U.S. Treasury cash market. Terminal operators and administrative overseers enter and check phoned-in orders using Windows NT workstations connected by two Windows NT servers to the trade-matching host system, a cluster of five DEC Alpha servers that passes trading data to a Sybase database supported by two Sun Microsystems servers and to three Vax servers used for data distribution.

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Dear Educator:

I am a member of the AICPA MCS Member Development and Communications SubCommittee. One of the primary goals of our Subcommittee is to improve the communication with educators who are Campus Champions interested in the development and education of students who may be focused on a career in consulting.

The Institute’s Vision 2000 project has identified consulting services to be one of the five key components of the accounting profession in the future.

Our Subcommittee is available to assist you and your educational institution to make students aware of the career opportunities available in consulting.

We can assist you by:

1. Arranging speakers for accounting clubs or other groups on campus.

2. Providing handouts and other literature to students or items for bulletin boards.

3. Acting as a clearinghouse for any successful speaker programs, questions which you or the students may have regarding consulting, etc. The data we collect will be sent to all educators on our mailing list.

We would appreciate your input on the level of awareness of students on your campus regarding consulting, whether your institution has focused on specific education courses on consulting, and, if so, what they may be.

We anticipate sharing feedback with you from over 400 educators along with other consulting literature in early November of this year.

Please contact Monte Kaplan at the AICPA MCS Division if you have any questions or comments regarding this project.

Telephone # (212) 596-6021
Fax (212) 596-6025
E-Mail: Mkaplan@aicpa.org

Sincerely,
Richard B. Donahue, CPA

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Congratualations Mike: Mike Kearl is featured in the September 8, 1998 Scout Report for the Social Sciences

Sociology of Death and Dying in the Number 9 slot:
http://WWW.Trinity.Edu/~mkearl/death.html

According to Professor Michael C. Kearl, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University, death is "the central dynamism underlying the life, vitality, and structure of the social order. . .[and] reveals the most central social processes and cultural values." To explain and explore the social and cultural implications of death, Kearl created this extensive guide to sociological thanatology. The guide consists of a series of hypertextual essays divided into nine major sections, including Death and the Social Order, Bids for Symbolic Immortality and Longevity, and How We Die. Throughout the site, numerous links to relevant thanatological resources are provided.

Mike also appears in the Number 10 slot with the message below:

Voices of Youth—UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/voy/
UNICEF’s Voices of Youth teaches young people about current global issues and fosters discussion of these issues among children  worldwide. Comprised of three educational forums: The Meeting

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Other selected items from the Scout Report:

Foreign Policy In Focus
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/index.html

Index Morganagus
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/index.html
Developed by Eric Lease Morgan, a Systems Librarian for the North Carolina State University Libraries, the eponymous Index Morganagus is a full-text index that collects, organizes, and disseminates articles from over 80 library-related electronic serials

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Newsweek November 14, Page 12 did a piece on the Scour.net search engine

It is more focused upon searches for multimedia, sound clips, video clips, entertainment features, etc.
http://www2.scour.net

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How Stuff Works (now you don't have to buy the CD to find out how many things work)
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

You can also ask Yahoo about ingredients and how stuff works
http://howto.yahoo.com/ask/main.html

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An Online Synagogue is featured in Newsweek, September 14, 1998, Page 16
This article provides a link to forums of various religions at
http://forums.msn.com/Religion

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Cancer Care
http://www.cancercare.org/

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Leonardo's Codex Leicester
http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Codex/index.html

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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art --- The Glory of Byzantium
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/education/byzantium/byzhome.html

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

I have updated my free SFAS 133 tutorials on accounting for financial instruments derivatives and hedging activities. In SFAS 133, Examples 2 and 5 are especially troublesome since the FASB did not provide the swap curves. Nor did the FASB explain yield or swap curve derivation in the entire SFAS 133 booklet. In my tutorials, I have explained how to derive swap curves for Examples 2 and 5 along with explanations on how to derive quarterly amortizations and interest accruals.

I have also added the yield.xls workbook tutorials on yield curves, single-period forward rates, and multi-period forward rates. These explain derivations and provide the Excel formulas for these derivations.

Since I do not want the answer files to get in the hands of my students, educators and practitioners must send me an email to get the URL for the secret document that links to all these tutorials. The few parts that are available to my students at the moment are at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/default3.htm

TracerLock is a Web robot (web bot) that sends search queries to the AltaVista search engine. To setup a search, first go to the TracerLock Web site, which is located at

To establish an account, you’ll need to provide a name, password, and your email address. Then enter your search on your TracerLock User Profile Page. TrackerLock lets you enter up to five search terms for both Web based and USENET AltaVista searches. You can use AND, OR, and NOT Boolean operators, quotes for searching by phrase, case sensitivity, and other AltaVista search features

Thank you Aaron
Britannica editors do their level best to organize the chaos of the Web. Pick a subject—any subject
http://www.eblast.com

AIET News
http://webprofessor.org/AIETnews

Where Dick Bartels can find his favorite movies reviewed --- those rotten tomatoes
http://www.rotten-tomatoes.com

Custom Searches are A Snap
http://www.snap.com

The Frick Art Reference Library - includes a virtual tour with 360-degree panoramic views.
http://www.frick.org/

Security Service - official site of the UK security intelligence agency commonly known as MI5. Where’s James Bond?
http://www.mi5.gov.uk/

Mathematician Trading Cards --- Who needs baseball?
http://www.bulletproof.org/math/

Garden of Origami --- lessons on paper folding
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/

Yahoo! Calendar --- a clever tool (it’s free) Bob Jensen subscribed to this. The advantage is that you can view and edit your personal calendar from anybody’s computer anywhere in the world as long as you remember your password. Others (like a spouse or child) can also see your calendar if you choose to disclose your password. You might have multiple calendars for multiple purposes --- but can you remember all those passwords?
http://calendar.yahoo.com

Other nice links at Yahoo are as follows:

Do you want a search engine for your own site --- to create your own site scroll down my search site at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/search01.htm

CD Streamer lets you store music CDs in highly compressed CD-quality RealAudio on your hard drive. It automatically retrieves the album title and song names from the Internet, and allows you to create customized playlists for playback via CD Streamer.

Now your entire music library is instantly available on your computer.

CD Streamer won ZDNet Editors’ Pick with a 5-star rating.

"Leave your CDs at home and try CD Streamer"—ZD Net

For a limited time, we’re offering CD Streamer for only $19.95 (reg. $34.95), a savings of $15!

To take advantage of this offer by ordering now, simply click on:

ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com/

Microsoft Weekly (free)
You can preview the HTML edition at:
http://www.microsoft.com/misc/mstw/

Then, if want to switch your subscription format to HTML, visit the Personal Information Center at:
http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/forms/Pic.asp

ZNet - "a community of people concerned about social change."
http://www.lbbs.org/

Some personality psychologists compare everyday life to a play in which we put on different faces or play different roles for different audiences. In fact, the word personality comes from the Latin root persona, meaning "mask." The impression we make on others—or the mask we present to the world—determines how people feel about us.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/personality

An exhibition from the National Gallery of Art in Washington
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html

The Household Cyclopedia
http://members.xoom.com/mspong/

What do you want to know about cloning
http://library.advanced.org/24355

Nutrition and exercise --- at the bottom of my list!
http://www.dietwatch.com/

Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

Updated: Courseware Shells, Chat Rooms, Collaborative Software, RealAudio/Video, and High-End Authoring

Instructors who want a specially configured server (e.g., to set up chat rooms), have no server space available, or otherwise want server space off campus may be interested in my new CyberClass information and links. For as low a $12 per student, it is possible to put an entire course online in CyberClass without having to bother the computer center on your own campus or use any campus servers. It is possible to require students purchase a CyberClass password in much the same manner as it is possible to require a book for a course. If you know of any other vendors like CyberClass, please let me know at rjensen@trinity.edu

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Accounting Glossaries Online

I would appreciate readers to inform me about accounting, auditing, tax, and related glossaries that are online. Some that I know about are as follows:

Bob Jensen's SFAS 133 Glossary and links to other glossaries http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/133glosf.htm

Bob Jensen's Technology Glossaries http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/#Glossary1

CPATeam Links (a great listing) http://www.cpateam.com/investment-glossaries.htm

DFIN Links http://www.dfin.com/glossar2.htm

Quicken: http://quicken.macleans.ca/eng/help/glossary/htmlist.htm

Utah Association of CPAs http://www.uacpa.org/glossary/s.htm

AIS http://www.ais-cpa.com/glosa.html

Murphy Green http://www.mcn.org/A/MGCO/glossary.htm

KPMG Due Diligence http://www.kpmg.ca/dd/dd_glos.htm

Various Dictionaries http://www.internedweb.com/searchDictionaries.htm

WCSU http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/finance/research/dictionary.html

Global Investing http://www.global-investing.com/glossary.html

Loan Terms http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/icm/loan-glossary.html

Yahoo http://biz.yahoo.com/f/g/bfgloso.html

Idea Café http://ideacafe.com/getmoney/finWords.html

ACT http://actg.canberra.edu.au/ofm/accpol/95apglos.htm

Insurance http://www.jcpenneyinsurancegroup.com/glossary.html

Insurance http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Publications/Life/stce.htm

UBS Multiple Language Euro Glossary http://www.ubs.com/e/pcc/euro/euro_facts/glossary.html

Investments and Taxes http://www.jhancock.com/basics/glossary/index.html

OMB Governmental Accounting http://www.co.mo.md.us/government/omb/fy98cip/glossary.htm

Governmental and Tax in the UK, Ireland, and Germany http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Government/Taxes/Glossaries

Australia and New Zealand Tax and Accounting Glossaries http://www.yahoo.com.au/Government/Taxes/Glossaries

FIS Governmental Accounting http://www.fis.umd.umich.edu/adguide/Glossary.htm

Investments http://www.comstockbank.com/glossary/words_n.htm

Concept of Capital http://www.showtower.com.tw/~gunning/subjecti/workpape/aucaploa.htm

Capital Equipment http://www.vpad.uab.edu/finance/Equpactn/gloss.htm

Roughneck http://www.dpliv.com/roughnec/Glossary.htm

SEC http://idt.net/~reach/Lance/Plain_English.html

Utilities and Environment http://www.santeecooper.com/whoweare/glossary.html

Government Contracting http://www.kcilink.com/govcon/contractor/gcterms.html

Legislative Glossaries http://usis.intnet.mu/ref/legis/NA27.htm#glossary

Investments http://www.freeadvice.com/law/604us.htm

A Four Language Glossary on Derivative Instruments http://finance.wat.ch/termFinance

Howard County Junior College listing http://www.hc.cc.tx.us/library/busdict.htm

Financial Regulations http://www.e-analytics.com/glossdir.htm

Bentley College's Listing of Glossaries http://bnet.bentley.edu/dept/fi/finance/resource.htm#Glossaries

ABC Costing Bibliography http://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/SAFFM/FMC/ABC/bibliography.htm

Not Just Accounting:

A long listing (including wines) in English, French or Italian http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c613/termlogy/lspgloss.html

Study Web http://www.studyweb.com/toc2.htm

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Origins and meanings of the word "capital" (from the Austrian School)

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Thank You Brian L. Dos Santos

Electronic Commerce Course Syllabi

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I found this to be extremely clever research. Did the Babylonians discover the Pythagorian theorem thousands of years before Pythagoras? What is interesting is the exercise in following Harvey Brudner's line of analysis. The article appears in hard copy in T.H.E. Journal, August 1998, 8-9. The online version is at

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"Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences" by W.R. Klemm

The article appears in hard copy in T.H.E. Journal, August 1998, 82-83. The online version is at
http://www.thejournal.com/98/current/feature4.html

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I am sorry that I do not have a link to the note on Page 10 of Educom Review, September/October 1998, Page 10. That note reports on CIA Director George Tenet's warnings for the Senate about scary information warfare advances in China and several other nations. I have some links about information warfare at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/260wp/260wp.htm

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Do you want to track over 100 pending Internet bills in the U.S. legislature (or other pending legislation)? You can also get contact information at this site sponsored by IBM:

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Hi Bob,

It was a pleasure to meet you in New Orleans. I came specifically to see your presentations (I returned to Rhode Island on Monday AM) and to see Diane Van Bakel from South-Western. Both the session and my meeting were very enjoyable.

I have two sets of bookmarks. The first is located at my Web site http://web.bryant.edu/~nhannon and the second was recently developed for South-Western College Publishing. SWCP is currently verifying the bookmarks and will have the links live for September. I will let you know when they are live.

My organization of the SWCP links break into two main areas. The first group, Accounting super sites, is meant to showcase comprehensive resource sites that keep information both relevant and current. Your site is listed in the first group. The second group is organized according to generic headings such as tax, financial accounting, managerial, not-for-profit, etc.

My Web site will contain most of the links listed by SWCP but the SWCP site will be easier to navigate.

By the way, I downloaded Catch the Web yesterday and found that it does a credible job of creating presentations of material captured from Internet sites. http://www.catchtheweb.com will get you to the 30 trial download site.

Thanks again and I let you know asap when the SWCP Web site is live.

Neal

Note from Jensen: Neal also has a great book entitled The Business of the Internet at http://course.com/downloads/mis/biznet

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Yahoo! Calendar --- a clever tool (it's free) Bob Jensen subscribed to this. The advantage is that you can view and edit your personal calendar from anybody's computer anywhere in the world as long as you remember your password. Others (like a spouse or child) can also see your calendar if you choose to disclose your password. In theory this can be a bulletin board of sorts. You might have multiple calendars for multiple purposes --- but can you remember all those passwords?

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Thanks for the CD updates Connie

CD burners are finally cheap and easy enough for the average person to use. So what’s the difference between CD-R and CD-RW? Will DVD eventually replace CD-ROMs? CNET.com helps you slog through the alphabet soup and tells you how to burn your own CDs, cheap:

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Profit versus non-profit universities
http://www.trainingsupersite.com/tss_link/trainset.htm

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Search the www by category at Beaucoup!
http://www.beaucoup.com/engines.html

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Thanks Roger
Issues and Opportunities in ‘E-Publishing’" by Edna Reid in THE STAR ONLINE, August 11, 1998. http://thestar.com.my/intech/980811/edna11.html This column from a Malaysian newspaper provides a global perspective

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Navigating the Health Care System

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HealthScout

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CollegeWeb - where students can publish

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Amuse or impress your friends --- Download a variety answering machine messages with English accents.

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A great site to visit if you are interested in Internet privacy and other technology information.

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Resources for the Future (RFF)

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Index Funds Online

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Hey Paula,

The American Psychological Association (APA) developed PsychCrawler—a local area search engine—to provide rapid access to high quality psychological information. This search engine currently indexes five organizational sites that have "substantial authoritative content in the area of psychology." PsychCrawler searches the Websites of the APA, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Mental Health Services, and the APA Help Center. The extensive documentation in the Online User’s Guide explains the functions of PsychCrawler and instructs users in the art of searching large text databases. From the Scout Report.

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Hey Curtis, (from the Scout Report)

US Mirror Site:

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Bob,

Jim Groff informed me that you told him that you are trying to get some feedback on computer based materials in Governmental Accounting courses. I sent him some such that is included with my Omnis Mus software package. It is a computer practice set, the program is called Omnis II.

You can get an overview from

follow the link to Omnis II.

I used it last year, Fall and Spring. I cover governmental in advanced accounting, and I wanted to be able to use my software. The computer forces an exactness that is omitted / sloppy in textbook problems. I do not see how anybody justify or rationalize having students hand-write journal entries when PRE-school kids now use computers.

Most important, the extensive online line help makes doing the problem(s) ACTIVE LEARNING.

I have sent copies to several people over the summer. So far no one has informed me of their intent to use it.

Thank You

George Bodnar

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Deal Consulting

Jack Deal created the Deal Consulting Website in 1997 to display his business strategies and provide a forum for business discussion. The resulting product is a lengthy list of articles with financial, operational, and managerial advice and anecdotes. In addition to browsing Deal Consulting opinions, users may subscribe to the Deal mailing list, make comments, or submit their own business world experiences to this ongoing compendium of ideas From the Scout Report

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Don't forget the Cybertext site for information systems and AIS materials

I like the online textbooks at this site and will adopt one of them for Spring Semester. Students who generally weep and moan over my materials online had mostly good things to say about their online assignments from the good guys --- Murthy and Groomer. The materials include quizzes that are graded online by Cybertext.

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Probably the least understood and least used resource by must of us is Usenet (as opposed to the popular www). A nice article appears in "A Network for the World" by Richard Koreto in the Journal of Accountancy, August 1998, 33-35.

There are a variety of search engines that specialize in newsgroup searching, but few offer original content - most pull information from the DejaNews index. Tile.net at http://www.tile.net , however, provides special functions you won’t find in standard search engines and that can prove very useful in resear ching newsgroup information. Tile.net is a Web site designed to make USENET newsgroups easy to find. Tile.net’s advantage over other newsgroup indexes is that it helps you search for newsgroups rather than individual messages. Tile.net also provides statistics and other information about newsgroups and provides a link directly to each newsgroup, which will launch your Web browser newsreaders. Newsgroups in Tile.net are organized by index, description, and newsgroup hierarchy. Tile.net also provides information about listservs, FTP sites, and computer product vendors.

One of the more frequently posted questions is "How can I create a new newsgroup?" Briefly, creating a new newsgroup in the comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc or talk hierarchies involves first proposing the newsgroup in news.announce.newgroups, then conducting a "vote" among those Usenet readers who have an opinion on the proposed group. The entire process can take up to three months. For additional details see http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8211/newgroup.html

Also see the U terms in http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/245gloss.htm

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From INFOBITS

"Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial" http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html Excellent introduction to Web searching basics; materials come from the University of California, Berkeley Teaching Library’s Internet Workshops series.

"Search Engine Showdown" by Greg Notess, Reference Librarian & Associate Professor, Montana State University-Bozeman library http://www.imt.net/~notess/search/ Summarizes, reviews, and compares the search features and database scope of Web search engines and finding aids.

"Search Tools Chart" http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/src/chart.html Summarizes search options used in some of the most popular Web search sites.

"Search Engine Reviews Chart"

Compares how search engines have scored in various reviews. Published

on Danny Sullivan’s "Search Engine Watch" Web site, which contains

"Web Search Services in 1998: Trends and Challenges" by Susan Feldman http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun/story2.htm Comparison of several major search engines shows that "you must use more than one Web search engine if you need a comprehensive search." (Reprinted from SEARCHER, vol. 6, no. 6, June 1998, pp. 29ff.)

PUBLIST.COM—ELECTRONIC YELLOW PAGES FOR PERIODICALS

In June 1998, Bowes & Associates, Inc., published PubList.com, a free, online directory of information on over 150,000 journals and newspapers. Users can search for publication information by title, subject, ISSN, publisher, or keyword. The service (using definitive sources such as ULRICH’S INTERNATIONAL PERIODICALS DIRECTORY) includes publisher’s name and address, price, Web address, and how to get copies of articles.

Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

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The new requirement for all courses to have web pages at UCLA and the online connectivity of students to grades, registration, bookstore purchasing, etc. is really quite controversial and should be tracked by virtually all educators.

You can read about one well-known professor's reactions in Appendix 4 at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm

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Syllabits is a index of Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Risk, and Insurance syllabi sponsored by the educational publisher Digital Springs, Inc. Syllabi from a variety of American public and private institutions are browsable by subject, and course contents are listed by instructor name with easily discernable codes indicating the educational level of each link. Interested parties may also submit their own course URLs for future inclusion in this ongoing compilation. From the Scout Report.

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Richard B. Donahue, CPA

The AmosWorld Reading Room

Orley Amos, Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University, has recently added The AmosWorld Reading Room as a metapage short cut to his growing universe of online publications. Links to the layman’s guide to basic economic concepts, _A Pedestrian’s Guide to the Economy_, the fictional classroom supplement _Extra Credit_, and the socio-economic analysis _Growth Pole Cycles_ are provided with detailed and engaging annotations. In addition, links to the AmosWorld Encyclopedia Glossary and The Best of Ask Mister Economy (both reviewed in the November 21, 1997 Scout Report—http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-971121.html#12) are provided as reference material for the inquisitive AmosWorld reader. From the Scout Report.

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To join the IBM Global Campus network, contact

IBM Learning Technologies Solutions

Education Industry EMEA / Europe

tel: 33(0)140015035 / mobile: 33(0)609697889 / fax: 33(0)140015600

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SEC ESTABLISHES OFFICE OF INTERNET ENFORCEMENT

On 28 July the SEC established an Office of Internet Enforcement. The release notes in part ""While the Internet has many benefits, a small group of thieves is trying to hijack unsuspecting investors on the information superhighway," said Richard H. Walker, the SEC’s Director of the Division of Enforcement. The SEC has already brought more than 30 cases involving Internet-related securities fraud that have involved virtually every type of investment scam, including phony offerings, market manipulations, affinity frauds (e.g., frauds that target a particular ethnic or religious group), and pyramid and ponzi schemes."

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If your Web site changes locations, you’d probably like a way to move users from the old URL to the new one. Doing so is very easy. In FrontPage Editor, pen Default.htm at the old URL, then click the HTML tab to switch to HTML view. Just above the </head> tag, add the following line:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=http://www.newurl.com">

where 10 is the number of seconds and http://www.newurl.com is the page to jump to.

You should also include a regular hyperlink on the same page for those users who don’t want to wait 10 seconds.

Thanks ZDTips.

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Flat Screens

<http://www.cnet.com/Content/Gadgets/Techno/Flatscreen/?dd.cn>

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Wireless Technologies

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Need a Lawyer (I found this after you sent your note Ceil)

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Global Warming - is this for real Fred/

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Women’s Studies and Women in Classical Antiquity (from the Scout Report):

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Dear ROBERT E JENSEN:

This message is to alert you that the limited-edition NewMedia 500 poster is currently on sale. Profiled in the July issue of NewMedia magazine, this poster is the definitive guide to the key alliances, acquisitions, and investments among the most influential companies in the digital marketplace. No other resource gives you this type of in-depth information all in one place.

Beautifully produced and colorful, the 39"x26" NewMedia 500 poster is printed on glossy, high-quality stock. Framed or unframed, it’s sure to become the visual focal point of your office.

Note from Bob Jensen; NewMedia is my favorite source for update information on new hardware and software in multimedia. The NewMedia magazine is free in hardcopy, and most articles are also available free online.The main web site is at http://www.newmedia.com

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When you buy S-PLUS before September 30^th you will receive a complimentary copy of the book "Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS" by William Venables and Brian Ripley—a $59.95 value. This book is an invaluable resource when working with S-PLUS.

S-PLUS is an easy-to-use tool with over 80 graph types and an incredible array of statistical techniques including resampling and bootstrap methods

I received the above message from Statistics [ stats@towhee.towhee.com ]

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I was wondering if you would mind visit my page:

It is a site about free internet resources. We could exchange a link. If you’re intrested, let me know where you want your link placed and give me a brief description on each URL.

Hope to read you soon. Best regards.

Distribuzione Interattiva

Geom. Federico Mercatali - di@biosys.net

Voice +39 55 620153 - Firenze, Italy

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An aboriginal art gallery.

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Helping children who have been forced into prostitution or pornography.

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Yahoo! Parks

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Make your own post cards from great photographs

Corbis Picture Experience

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A different kind of art web site

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Kinda scary Connie

Your mission: to obtain images, record confidential conversations, and track bad guys. Your tools: hidden cameras, microphones, night-vision goggles, and other gadgets culled from the best spy sites on the Net. Are you up for the challenge? Plus, devilish downloads that will help you keep tabs on your employees, track what your kids are doing on your computer, and set up your own Web cam:

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Take advantage of Shopper.com before you go back to school. Check out special academic pricing for hundreds of computer products:

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Bob Jensen's Index Page

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks

New Bookmark Archives

I receive quite a few private messages from aecm subscribers every week. I am not being rude if I do not respond quickly over the next few months. I am conducting some technology workshops and doing some research on sabbatical leave. I probably will only answer messages when I return to campus. I plan to be too busy to fool with email on the road.

Those of you with technical questions should contact the propeller heads on the aecm who are much smarter than Bob Jensen. These include Roger, Barry, Skip, Richard, Dan, Ceil, Amy, Jim, and various others who actively send helpful messages to the aecm.

If you really do need to contact me when I am on the road, my phone numbers are as follows:

505-295-3243  August 05-10 (Iowa)
504-861-0500  August 14-20 (New Orleans at http://www.craig.csufresno.edu/dprtmnt/conasia.htm   )
781-891-9543  September 17-20 (Boston at http://www.bentley.edu/itecon   )
908-949-4321  October 03-06 (Honolulu)
email Speer Derek [d.speer@auckland.ac.nz] (Aukland) October 07-22
808-879-1922  October 23-27 (Maui at http://www.craig.csufresno.edu/dprtmnt/conasia.htm   )

If you are looking for an excuse to go to Maui, Roger, Skip, and I are conducting a public "Ocean Spanning" workshop at the Aston Wailea Resort on October 25. Roger set up a web page describing the workshop at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/adebreceny/maui/index.htm

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I have added Bob Anthony's fundamental questions for distance education debate in Appendix 3 (The Emperor's Naked as He Can Be) of http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm You would be doing Bob and me a great favor if you emailed answers or more questions to ponder to Bob at the email address given in Appendix 3. Please send me copies of your messages to Bob Anthony.

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I have added some shell updates and a summary of some forthcoming team authoring (collaboration) software at

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Have you considered adding Royalty Free Photos at http://www.RoyaltyFreePhotos.com to you list of links?

Thank you,

Bill Erfurth

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Spam must die

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One location where you should *never* place a call:

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Paula Hertel's (at Trinity University) learned friend (from UCLA) and expert on metacognitive learning and metamemory sent me the following message with respect to my paper at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/265wp.htm I think you will find his update comments helpful if you are curious about metacognitive implications in learning.

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Hi Bob,

I read your online article with great interest. You do an excellent job of making concrete some very important points in your article, including, of course, some of the points I tried to emphasize in my 1994 article.

The other important thing that comes through in your article is that computer-based individualized learning technologies, for all of their potential, are not something magical: They are tools that can be used in counterproductive and ill-advised ways as well as in innovative and productive ways. Starting last year, for example, there was an initiative at UCLA to have an internet site for every course at UCLA. That initiative—well meaning, in my own opinion—has raised cries of alarm from certain professors about infringement of intellectual property. Those concerns are legitimate in a few cases, I think, but I (and I alone, I sometimes think) have been concerned about the kind of issues you address in your article—namely, the potential for such "hi-tech" resources to be used in ways that impede, rather than promote, learning. Instructors now get day-to-day pressures from students to put most everything on the web—overheads, outlines, lecture notes, etc. The web site then becomes a kind of remedial device. Students decide that they can skip the lecture, or, when they do attend, that they don’t need to take good notes, understand the lecture, or ask questions when things are confusing, because they can (hopefully) get a repetition on the course site.

There are, of course, creative ways to use a course site—ways that make the learner an active participant in the learning process, but such exercises/materials to enrich a course demand the professor’s time and energies and will not necessarily be used or appreciated by students, who are prone to view such enriching exercises as an additional course burden.

When I teach the graduate course on learning and memory this fall term, I would like to consider using your article as one of the packet of course readings. I printed a copy from the web site, but that copy is not one that would lend itself to being reproduced for the course. Would you be willing to either send me a hard word-processing copy or attach one to an email message?

A couple related articles of my own that appeared after the Bjork "Memory and Metamemory Considerations" article are:

Bjork, R.A. Institutional impediments to effective training. (1994). In D. Druckman and R.A.Bjork (Eds.), Learning, remembering, believing:

Enhancing human performance (pp.295-306). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Bjork, R. A. (in press). Assessing our own competence: Heuristics and illusions. In D. Gopher and A. Koriat (Eds.), Attention and Peformance XVII. Cognitive Regulation of Performance: Interaction of Theory and Application. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (41 pages)

I’ll have my assistant send copies of those articles to you.

Thanks again for making me aware of your article (and please say hi to Paula Hertel from me).

Best regards,

RAB

Robert A. Bjork, Editor

PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
Department of Psychology
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
(310-825-7028; fax 310-206-5895)