New trend?!? Where have you been the last four years? Harry Potter, Golden Eye, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, LotR trilogy... just to name a few off the top of my head. New trend my butt...
If you want a site which has done all the leg work for you in terms of finding educational material (including other websites) use enc.org. It is a clearinghouse of information for science and math teachers but it is also an incredibly useful search engine.
Here's an example of a search return using the terms "physics" and "java". It returns 7 quality sites as opposed to the crap you get off google.
All the resources have been screened for educational value and factual accuracy. How do I know? I work there, of course.:)
I wish the universities that train future teachers involved information like yours into their curriculum.
Some universities do, most don't. Science and Math teachers are so underprepared nowadays it is downright frightening. They know how to use the Internet just fine. But using it to get useful information is beyond most of them. Then, you have the teachers that have been around forever and don't know how to 'double-click' or even what a mouse is. Demoing the site to a group of in-service teachers is a trying experience. Change is slow in the area of eductaion.
I attended the conference this past weekend, as one of the exhibitors. However, instead of hocking prohibitively expensive pieces of tech, I was letting teachers know about a free online service that has cataloged over 19,000 resources for science and match teachers to use in the classroom.
The interesting thing about it all is, instead of teachers flocking to the FREE stuff they got cuaght up in all the glamour of CNN and TI booths. I will admit, once they stopped by our little 10 by 20 booth, they were surprised that what we offered was free. Moreover, about 10% of the resources we have cataloged are online and have free lesson plans and activities (as well as really cool pictures and virtual tours!).
My.org has been around for over 8 years now. We give away a free magazine and our online service is free of charge. Out of the 10,000 attendees at the conference, only 1/10th had heard of us, at best.
I liken the whole experience to open source v. Windows. People simply didn't know about their options and how to best utilize them.
I see your point. The clarification helps. and the question about Mozilla is right on the money... I know people who know people and should really ask, if for no other reason than to badger the hell out of the Netscape higher-ups...:)
Actually XSLT is a subset of XSL. XSLT deals with transformations of documents. XSL, while not a standard like XSLT, was designed to encompass ALL issues of style, not just transformation from one document type to another.
You are right on the important part though. Microsoft is implementing XSLT. (I'm just being nitt-picky about the semantics, no offense:)
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New trend?!? Where have you been the last four years? Harry Potter, Golden Eye, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, LotR trilogy... just to name a few off the top of my head. New trend my butt...
If you want a site which has done all the leg work for you in terms of finding educational material (including other websites) use enc.org. It is a clearinghouse of information for science and math teachers but it is also an incredibly useful search engine.
Here's an example of a search return using the terms "physics" and "java". It returns 7 quality sites as opposed to the crap you get off google.
All the resources have been screened for educational value and factual accuracy. How do I know? I work there, of course. :)
I wish the universities that train future teachers involved information like yours into their curriculum.
Some universities do, most don't. Science and Math teachers are so underprepared nowadays it is downright frightening. They know how to use the Internet just fine. But using it to get useful information is beyond most of them. Then, you have the teachers that have been around forever and don't know how to 'double-click' or even what a mouse is. Demoing the site to a group of in-service teachers is a trying experience. Change is slow in the area of eductaion.
I attended the conference this past weekend, as one of the exhibitors. However, instead of hocking prohibitively expensive pieces of tech, I was letting teachers know about a free online service that has cataloged over 19,000 resources for science and match teachers to use in the classroom.
The interesting thing about it all is, instead of teachers flocking to the FREE stuff they got cuaght up in all the glamour of CNN and TI booths. I will admit, once they stopped by our little 10 by 20 booth, they were surprised that what we offered was free. Moreover, about 10% of the resources we have cataloged are online and have free lesson plans and activities (as well as really cool pictures and virtual tours!).
My .org has been around for over 8 years now. We give away a free magazine and our online service is free of charge. Out of the 10,000 attendees at the conference, only 1/10th had heard of us, at best.
I liken the whole experience to open source v. Windows. People simply didn't know about their options and how to best utilize them.
I see your point. The clarification helps. and the question about Mozilla is right on the money... I know people who know people and should really ask, if for no other reason than to badger the hell out of the Netscape higher-ups... :)
Actually XSLT is a subset of XSL. XSLT deals with transformations of documents. XSL, while not a standard like XSLT, was designed to encompass ALL issues of style, not just transformation from one document type to another. You are right on the important part though. Microsoft is implementing XSLT. (I'm just being nitt-picky about the semantics, no offense :)
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