From: mkennedy@shentel.net (Marilyn Kennedy)
Subject: Removing Biases
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:54:06 -0400
This weekend as part of our inservice course assignment, teachers were asked to compare the different search engines and of course write a paper on our results. The topic I choose was Mars and I was quite surprised by the results and as a result I had to do some rethinking...... Until this assignment I favored Yahoo for various reasons including familiarity and favorable results for great sites!!! Well, surprise surprise!! It was the Magellan search engine that came out with the best sites including Magellan Kid Zone re: Magellan Kid Zone If you have not checked this site out, do so. There are some wonderful sites for Kids and teachers too!! Under the heading "space" I found some great pages including Lift off! re: Shuttle Tracking and Latitude and longitude with a wonderful map!! Tim were you looking for this info....This is a great site with a wonderful map and with a graphic showing the location of the shuttle http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov:81/temp/sts_loc.html And it was under the Magellan Kid Zone-space-mars that LFS, LHST, and Live from Mars was finally mentioned. Using the other engines I got some strange combinations including a Mars cake recipe!! In fact, this topic of the Best Search Engines came under discusion on CNN Computer Connection which featured a Search Engine Contest taking place at a computer show. This program is being repeated on Sunday 4am EDT, 1am PT. re:Awesome Skies Last night there were crisp clear skies and I had the opportunity to go sky watching with a friend who owned a telescope!! We went up into the Blue Ridge Mountains and set up the telescope!! I am hooked!!! I got to see the craters of the moon for the very first time.....the thrill of discovering these craters for yourself rather than looking in a book or on the www. We also looked at Jupiter and various constellations. So now, I am sitting here with the issues of Sky/Telescope and Astronomy dreaming of a future purchase. Have a great weekend...rain is in our forecast!!! Growing moss between my toes Marilyn Wall here in the Shenandoah Valley