Welcome to the Resource Page
Here are links to materials developed for this site and to other sites on the world wide web.
Case Studies are interactive deconstructions of some basic principles and/or research efforts.
Leopardy is a familiar-looking game here intended to review conceptual vocabulary.
Double Leopardy is a familiar-looking game here intended to review taxonomic vocabulary.
Whaddayaknow? is a knowledge probe intended to distinguish for you some frequently held misconceptions that even you might be burdened with.
Tips
on Succeeding in College were assembled by my colleague,
Jeff Westfall at Skyline College, partly
from students who have learned the hard way.
WebReady Plus is designed to assist you to become more effective in using the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Acrobat Reader is the free computer application available for (probably) all operating systems; it allows one to read files saved as PDF documents even one doesn't have the application in which the file was written.
Don't have an e-mail account?
If you don't have your own e-mail account but do have access to an Internet browser (Safari, Netscape Navigator, AOL, Firefox, etc.), you can get a free account from a variety of different sources. Most of the "free" e-mail accounts come at the cost of viewing ads on the same page where you read and write e-mail messages. They may also add a tag line to your outgoing messages inviting others to sign up for a free account with them.
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they are not dependent on your being at your own computer, so you could pick up your mail anywhere you could get on-line (e.g. a library in a city you are visiting); |
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they aren't dependent on your keeping the same job, school affiliation, or Internet Service Provider; |
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they are easily abandoned if you happen to get on a "spam" list and start receiving a lot of unwanted e-mail at that address. |
Some possibilities, assuming you already have Internet access:
gmail.com This one had been by invitation only. If an invitation is still needed, ask me. Google's Gmail provides lots of storage area; you could attach a written assignment or pictures to an e-mail message to yourself as a way of having a backup copy you could download from anywhere.
Yahoo Mail Yahoo has also expanded its storage capacity.
Hotmail (Caveat emptor: now owned by Microsoft)
If you don't have access to the Internet but do have a computer and a modem, the least expensive ISP (Internet Service Provider) compatible with both Mac and PC may still be:
QwickConnect.net which offers a 30-day free trial then $6.95 a month for unlimited hours and two e-mail addresses. Using a computer at a library, you can go to this site, sign up, get the access numbers and then connect to the Internet from home. You will need to enter their telephone access numbers into your computer.) I have never used QwickConnect and this is not an endorsement of this service.