UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATERS

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE PAGES

• The World Lecture Hall: a source of course material from around the country.
• Purdue University has an Online Writing Lab [OWL]
• The Tech Classics: contains over 150 works by classical authors (in translation) plus links to a wide variety of other texts. Worth exploring.
• Computer Mediated Communication Magazine: an online magazine with a variety of well written, well thought-out articles many of which address educational issues. Index to back issues.

DOING IT YOUSELF

• Spinning the Web:A reference manual from Virginia Tech.
  For other sources check Yahoo - Computers - World-Wide-Web - HTML
• How to Design a WWW Document: A tutorial on what makes effective design.
• Writing HTML: a tutorial for creating WWW pages. Can be downloaded to your computer for convenience and faster response. Available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX operating systems.

SOME OTHER STARTING POINTS

• Yahoo - A Guide to WWW: a topical index with some ability to search, easy to follow. If you're looking for it, you can probably find it (or a link to it) here.
• The Awesome List
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalog
• Starting Points for Internet Exploration
• Virtual Tourist - North America: a map on which you can point and click to find all sorts of places (e.g. If you want to find the home page for Northwestern University, click USA, then Illinois, then Chicago, then Northwestern U.
• For really serious searching try the LYCOS Home page at Carnegie Mellon University

A FEW PERSONAL FAVORITES

• Britannica's Birthday Calendar: find out who was born any day of the year, or in any year. A fun way to make cheap birthday cards or gifts.
• Bill Arnett's Home Page: contains some amazing astronomy documents. This is worth an afternoon.
• The Internet edition of the New York Times: eight pages each day, including the crossword puzzle. You have to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to get this, but the nice folks at the NYT have arranged for you to download it for free.

AND, OF COURSE,

AU Home Page