Has anyone taken a look at buying Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop CS2? If you're starting from scratch it's pretty pricey. The best I've seen is about $467 total for the educational versions of both. Has anyone found better?

Kurt

The first is from my friends at the Science Museum
and the second is site on Winston Churchill

Debbie

Here's a website I'll be using next semester in my Western Civ class: Casebook: Jack the Ripper. This is an "enthusiast" site founded by a guy named Stephen Ryder who, by his own admission, began this project just because he was interested in the Jack the Ripper case and wanted to start collecting resources online. The site has mushroomed into a huge project with thousands of primary sources, a message board with something like 70,000 posts on it, etc., etc. For our purposes, it also has a "then and now" page that shows you the look of four prior versions of the site's homepage.

If you can get past the incredibly annoying flashing ad in the left hand margin, it is quite the resource. And it is an example of how a digital history project can take on a life of its own.

See you in a bit.

Mills

Check it here.

Thomas McKenney Visits the Western Tribes

"Chase said he didn't know the free Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool."

It certainly doesn't inspire much confidence regardless of the other article we read examining its accuracy.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/11/wikipedia.ap/index.html

Kurt

I also reworked my homepage, see if you can identify the guy in the photo.

I appreciate everyones' comments and suggestions, and special thanks to Tai! (Us midwesterners have to stick together!)

Scott

Clicky: http://mason.gmu.edu/~mhobbs/hist696/proposal/museummain.css

Bear in mind that this WILL launch Dreamweaver if you have associated .css file extensions with that program.

I have learned a lot in this course; much of which (here’s a nice, ironic surprise) I did not anticipate learning, as both a student and as an instructor. I am equally excited and afraid for the future of education, specifically for the basic education of our young people in public schools. Too many classrooms are in effect run by administrators who don’t understand student’s needs or how students learn and retain information. Many primary and secondary teachers are overworked, underpaid, and ill prepared to engage youngsters and encourage them to learn to build academic skills on their own. As more multiple choice tests are given to expedite the process of testing, students are left with fewer literacy skills to support their academic careers later in life. We need to find a way to bridge the gap between rapid and effective teaching, to pay more attention to how students learn today and put aside old outdated modes of instruction. Society is dynamic; therefore education should not be static. An unexamined course of education is not worth following.