Group items tagged

THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include the features and content listed below. * Bills, Resolutions * Activity in Congress * Congressional Record * Schedules, Calendars * Committee Information * Presidential Nominations * Treaties * Government Resources * For Teachers * Help and Contact

"In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress." You can track current activity on the House and Senate Floors, find out what has passed Congress and has been sent to the President, etc.

In this recording, I am sharing my thoughts on different ways to use Web 2.0 tools to keep engineering students uptodate about new information resources, with Elsevier's Engineering Information Marketing Manager, Alicia Burns. I am also highlighting the new tagging feature in Engineering Village that is aimed at helping students to share their citations related to their projects with the other members of their group.

Provides teachers with some ideas for using "Google Earth" in the classroom.

SO cool it's ICE COLD! This tool makes it easier to truncate a URL for any website. This is especially useful when going to a website LIVE in your classroom that's very long or complex. If you are logged into your Passaic Google account before you use this, you can save all your websites and record usage information on those links.