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Hapy Reading for today: From the Scout Report

<Karen>

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National Children's Folksong Repository Project

Adults and Kids are invited to participate:
An historic electronic online archive of children's folk songs.
A public folklore project built by the citizens of the United States
and territories. Watch the streaming video.
Pick up the Phone and SING OR CHANT (SAY) YOUR SONG.

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==   Index for May 9, 2008        ==
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1.  C-Span: Lincoln 200 Years [Real Player]
http://www.c-span.org/lincoln200years/

2.  Utah State OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/

3.  Eco-towns: Living a greener future [pdf]
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/ecotownsgreenerfuture

4.  International Poverty Centre [pdf]
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/

5.  Frontline: Growing Up Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

6.  Urban Archives [pdf]
http://www.urbanarchives.org/

7.  Profiles in Science: The Alan Gregg Papers
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/FS/

8.  The Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

9.  Global Power Barometer
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/drg/index.html

10. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php

11. Leonardo da Vinci's Geometric Sketches
http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1717

12. Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/index.php

13. Chinese Rubbings Collection
http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=rubbings

14. Old Sturbridge Village: Collections
http://www.osv.org/collections/index.html

15. Marine Mammal Commission [pdf]
http://www.mmc.gov/

16. Alison Watt: Phantom
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/alisonwatt/

17. After 66 years, the University of Washington will confer honorary
degrees upon Japanese Americans whose studies were interrupted by time in
internment camps
For WWII internees, UW degrees come after 66-year wait
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004391397_uwjapanesemain04m.html


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The Advantages of using DIGITAL Online Curriculum instead of books.

The horror of science book errors.
Twelve of the most popular science textbooks used at middle schools
nationwide are riddled with errors.
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==   Index for May 2, 2008        ==
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1.  The Speculum Romanae Magnifcientiae Digital Collection
http://speculum.lib.uchicago.edu/

2.  Analysis of Sidewalk Fractures
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure04/activities/3860.html

3.  Radiology Anatomy Teaching Modules
http://www.rad.washington.edu/academics/academic-sections/msk/teaching-
materials/radiology-anatomy-teaching-modules

4.  Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

5.  JourneyNorth: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration [pdf]
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

6.  Innovation Management [pdf]
http://www.innocentive.com/

7.  Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection: The Daily Illini
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/idnc/Default/Skins/UIUC/Client.asp?skin=UIUC&enter=true&AW=1209163217786&AppName=2

8.  Introduction to Psychology
http://www.intropsych.com/

9.  Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/florida/

10. The Jean Thomas Collection
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/jthom/

11. Urban Design Compendium [pdf]
http://www.urbandesigncompendium.co.uk/

12. U.S. Census Bureau: History [pdf]
http://www.census.gov/history/

13. Wetlands International [pdf]
http://www.wetlands.org/

14. Surviving: The Body of Evidence [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/survivingexhibit/index.html

15. Desalination: A National Perspective
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12184

16. Tate Britain: Peter Doig [Adobe Flash Player]
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/peterdoig/


17. 40 years later, France debates, dissects, and disagrees about the legacy
of student protest
May 1968, France's fast-forward revolution
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bhistoryb-france-is-still-torn-over-its-
revolution-forty-years-on/2008/04/28/1209234751594.html


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Assessment / Retention - Who Will Benefit?

Assessment / Testing / Retention And Social Promotion
Graduation Rates, Resources and Advice For New Teachers
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==   Index for April 25, 2008     ==
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1.  The National Institute for Conservation [pdf]
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/

2.  A First Course in Linear Algebra
http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

3.  Center for Academic Integrity [pdf]
http://www.academicintegrity.org/

4.  The International Year of the Potato
http://www.potato2008.org/en/index.html

5.  Math Gateway of the Mathematical Association of America [pdf]
http://mathgateway.maa.org/do/Home

6.  Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: The 2008 Report
[pdf]
http://www.who.int/entity/pmnch/Countdownto2015FINALREPORT-apr7.pdf

7.  A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage [Macromedia Flash
Player]
http://www.commonwealth.pl/

8.  Fuel Economy [pdf] (Last reviewed in the Scout Report on October 8,
1999)
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/

9.  Arkansas in the Civil War
http://www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com/Activities/Arkansas/Arkansas.asp

10. Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.livehopelove.com/

11. Riding the Storm: Landslide Danger in the San Francisco Bay Area [Quick
Time]
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2007/48/

12. Science: Embryos and stem cells
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/stemcells

13. University of Alabama Digital Collections
http://content.lib.ua.edu/cdm4/about.php

14. Hampton Dunn Postcards Collection
http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=HamptonDunnPostcardsCollection

15. Gustave Courbet
http://www.metmuseum.org/Special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B13F483EC-3584-
41B6-913A-1FE9D6181CBB%7D

16. As part of NASA's 50th anniversary, Stephen Hawking offers his latest
thoughts on the universe
NASA 'should follow Columbus'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7361037.stm


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