Teaching Resources

J. Peterman, retail catalog-maker extraordinaire, celebrated Mark Twain’s birthday a few days ago by devoting his blog this week to Mark Twain.  His blog discussion posts always give great links to interesting information.  This week, for instance, we find out that the Twain home/museum again faces foreclosure, that Clint Eastwood is set to play Twain in an upcoming movie, and that someone re-created the Swiss leg of Twain’s “A Tramp Abroad” journey.

(I wish that I could figure out what template he’s using to blog on, but it was probably created just for the site.  It looks like Movable Type formatting anyway though and WordPress is my friend.)

Parts of the email forwarded by Steven Clift to the DoWire list this morning.

Alert for Political Bloggers Covering the Republican National Convention

For a highly interactive locals’ view check out the following local online Issues Forums:

St. Paul - http://e-democracy.org/stpaul
Minneapolis - http://e-democracy.org/mpls
Minnesota Politics - http://e-democracy.org/mn-politics

http://stevenclift.com
http://publicus.net/articles.html

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org

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Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift’s blog posts by e-mail:
http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire

Newswire - Steven Clift’s blog posts by e-mail is hosted by
Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.

From Site of the Day at RefDesk today, a link to a page listing all
of Yahoo’s services.

I often use Yahoo Directory in my classes to talk about the
differences between directories and searches. (It’s right there under
“D” for “Directory.”)

Everything Yahoo!
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/

Links to all the services and speciality sites Yahoo! offers.

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This site searches by journal titles or has a directory of disciplinary categories listed. It might help to start with a journal title or to check titles that you find useful, as College Composition and Communication is listed in the Linguistics: Misc category; Rhetoric Review is in both Humanities and Philosophy; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is in Social Sciences: Communication category.

But each linked title then links to current website (but be wary: it says that Karios does not have a website! nor apparently a category designation on the Seek site) and organizational affiliation.  Also says that full-text articles are available online when you have to have the subscription to see them, so work cautiously.

Genamics JournalSeek - A Searchable Database of Online Scholarly Journals

From RefDesk’s Site of the Day: a free medical resources site. Articles, email alerts, information. This is the site that doctors use; consequently, access to some materials is restricted. But you can’t beat it for finding article citation info about particular topics.

MerckMedicus
http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/hcp_home.jsp

Welcome to MerckMedicus, one of the most innovative and comprehensive medical resources on the Internet. This advertising-free medical portal for today’s healthcare professional combines breaking medical news, a wide variety of online learning resources, cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and even the patient’s perspective on the world of medicine.

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