Adventure

• Paul's Hot Tub, experiments with Analog to Digital Convertors, live over the Internet.
• Hillside Elementary School,, sixth grade students in Minnesota using a Mac LC as server, created the First Elementary School Web on March 16, 1994.
• JASON Project, to educate and excite students about science and technology.
• Paris, tours of the city of lights. Tres bon!

  WebLouvre, North Carolina Server

  Currently hosting a French medieval art demonstration, a tour around Paris, the Eiffel Tower and more. Over 800 pictures. (WebLouvre, Paris Server; go here if NC is busy but generally the French site is the busiest and the NC site is faster and a clone of the French site.)

  Home and Family Computing Supershow, First national "Hands-on" technology tour: see, touch, test drive and purchase. Check to see when the tour will next be closest to where you live.

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  Art Boutique and Images
  

  Kaleidospace, art boutique

  Cirque de la Mama, art boutique

  Reiff II, a museum in Europe accepting artwork for online exhibition

  Washington U. Image Archive Need a picture? Here's a large set of possibilities but it can be very busy.

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  Educational Play
  

  Lego, Legoland for digitalholics. Lego's lawyers take down a great Web site.

  The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits.

  Remote Robot Arm

  Remote tele-excavation, Mecury site users tele-operate a robot arm over the Net. A pneumatic system allows users to direct short burst of compressed air into the sand at selected points. Couldn't you use the same concept to keep students in touch with an environmental center site?

  The Internet Hunt Collection Race with others to find answers on the net. Old hunt questions available for practice. An example of an Internet Hunt used in course context.

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  Games/Simulations
  

  MicroMuse at MIT login as guest, then enter tt, then enter connect guest.

  MUSE stands for Multi-User Simulation Environment. It is a text based system using a format common before the arrival of image ridden Web pages.

  "Players connect to the host computer, adopt a character and personality of their choosing, and enter into the synthetic world, consisting of a web of connected rooms and movable props. Everything (rooms, movable objects, connecting passageways, and players) has a description (typically a few lines of text) which are displayed when a player looks at it."

  "Actions such as picking up or dropping an object, and exiting to an adjacent room also generate a short message appropriate to the action."

  "At MIT's AI Lab, MicroMuse features explorations, adventures, and puzzles with redeeming social, cultural, and educational content. The MicroMuse Science Center offers an Exploratorium and Mathematica Exhibit complete with interactive exhibits drawn from experience with Science Museums around the country. The Mission to Mars includes an elaborate tour of the red planet with accurate descriptions rivaling those found in National Geographic."

  "Elsewhere on MicroMuse, one can find an outstanding adventure based on the children's classic Narnia; a recreation of the Wizard of Oz adventure built by a gifted 8-year old; a challenging Logic Quest; and a living model of the science fiction genre 'The DragonRiders of Pern' by author Anne McCaffrey."

  Interactive Frog Dissection from the Curry School of Education, Virginia. Integrates text, 60 in-line color images, 17 quicktime movies illustrating organs and procedures, and numerous clickable image maps.

  Interactive Frog Dissection from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Imaging and Distributed Computing Group.

  Games Domain

  LambdaMOO courtesy of Xerox's great thinktank at PARC. This is a VERY busy place so do not be surprised if you do not connect. Background Information on LambdaMOO

  The Internet Chess Server, choose your level of skill and have a chess board handy to visualize the game. If that link does not work, try via the Number Server.

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  Science
  

  Space Shuttle - Live, when one is up. Many other useful links as well.

  Shoemaker-Levy comet, a wide range of shots from the comet vs. the Jupiter event. Other planetary NASA projects can be found at National Space Science Data Center. NASA Commercial Technology Network.

  Best Images from NASA Welcome to the planets!

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• Pizza Hut, can you get an order in?
• Suck, pair of HotWired employees moonlighting at muckraking.
• Starwave, Paul Allen's (microsoft co-founder) multi-million dollar web site.

• The RouLette Wheel of Web Sites Potluck: randomly picks from a database of Internet site addresses (URLs). Closes your eyes, click your heels, oops, your mouse, and you're there!

• Best of the Newest Sites, published on the Web twice a month.
• Key Education and North Carolina Sites This is an educationally focused page by Dr. Houghton.
• Down Town Digital, a best web site rated by Internet World magazine.
• Internet Service List by Yanoff. This has been a famous list for years of useful and interesting sites.
• Gopher Jewels, gopher format then follow the path: /Other Gophers and Information Resources/Gopher-Jewels/ ; Gopher Jewels, WWW format, highly rated gopher sites (different in navigation but like Mosaic in mission but text only) by subject area.