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Subject: TOURBUS -- 24 DECEMBER 1998 -- THE NEW YORK TIMES (AGAIN)
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| BREAKTHROUGH SHOPPING ADVANCEMENT! / | \
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| Adventure into a "realistic dimensional" shopping |//////| |
| environment. Sidescroll thru doorways, stores and |//////| |
| aisles. Merchandise items pop up from shelves. A small |//////| |
| shopping basket follows you thru the mall. |//////| |
| Three levels and 12 stores to shop from. |//////| |
| WorldWide Store - The Internet Place to Shop. |//////| |
| http://www.worldwidestore.com |//////| |
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\___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
The New York Times (again)
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/siteindex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/home/
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/
Howdy, y'all (and happy holidays)!
I want to thank the folks at "World Wide Store," "Intel," and "Z
Media" for bringing today's holiday journey of our little bus of
Internet happiness to you. Please take a moment to visit today's
sponsors and thank them for keeping TOURBUS on the road!
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On with the show ...
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The New York Times (again)
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We first visited the New York Times Web site back in January of 1996.
Unfortunately, for the first couple of years the site was online, the
Times had a subscription policy that could only be described as
jingoistic: US citizens could access the site for free, but everyone
else was required to pay a subscription fee. Well, the folks at the
Times must have recognized the silliness of this policy, because the
New York Times Web site is now available free of charge to visitors
worldwide.
You can find the New York Times Web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/ .
The Times does require you to fill out a brief registration form
before you can begin to explore their site. To access this form, just
click on any article link on the main homepage.
The registration form is pretty standard. It asks you to choose a
subscriber ID and password, enter your email address, select your
country, and answer questions about your gender, age, and income (the
income part is optional). After you complete this registration form,
you are free to browse around the entire New York Times Web site!
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EdTech Stuff
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Since I speak at educational technology conferences around the world,
it is no surprise that one of my favorite sections of the Times site
is the CyberTimes Education Index at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexeducation.html .
The Education Index is a collection of weekly articles about
educational technology, and their articles cover both the good and the
bad. If you are interested in learning more about the successes and
failures associated with putting computers in the classroom, you really should
check out the Education Index every week.
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Learning Network
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Since a vast majority of our TOURBUS passengers are either educators
or parents, I am also happy to announce that The Times offers a
WONDERFUL news service for students, educators, and parents called
"The New York Times Learning Network." The Learning Network is a
free, daily news service that provides news summaries, quizzes, and
even daily lesson plans.
You can find The New York Times Learning Network online at
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ .
The Learning Network also offers a "vocabulary helper" and a
"geography helper." The vocabulary helper lets you look up news
summary words in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and the
geography helper lets you read more about news summary countries in
the Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia. [This is a GREAT idea --
I only wish this service was available in other newspapers.]
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All The News That's Fittin'
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Like the print edition of the Sunday New York Times, The Times Web
site is absolutely huge! Fortunately, the folks at The Times have
created a very thorough Web site index at
http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/siteindex.html .
Of course, you can also find the The New York Times Book Section at
http://www.nytimes.com/books/home/
and The Times editorial page at
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/ .
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A Personal Request
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Does anyone know where I can find a CD copy of Stan Kenton's 1961
album "A Merry Christmas" (Capitol Records, CDP 7 94451 2)? I have
checked every single online music store I can think of, and no one
carries the Kenton Christmas album on CD anymore. :(
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
The New York Times (again)
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/siteindex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/home/
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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DAWFINS (Noun). An aquatic mammal.
Usage: "Bubba, ju see dem dauphins at Sea World?"
[Special thanks to Noah Kristoffer for today's wurd]
You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day at
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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