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1. Setting the tone (so to speak). This site enables you to download classical music as a tool to help communicate that research is an art as well as a science and it can be conducted with style.
http://www.prs.net/
http://www.prs.net/scarlatt.html (for Scarlatti)
(use MacZilla plugin (http://maczilla.com/) to hear it for Macs - go to above site for Windows MidiGate plugin (http://www.prs.net/midigate.html)
2. CENSUS (for census data)
http://www.census.gov
3. LookUp (this site enables you to find individuals and directions to their homes - it is particularly useful when you have incomplete or inaccurate program participant lists and you are trying to conduct follow-up interviews).
http://www.lookupusa.com
Zip Yellow Pages is also useful within this context
http://www.Zip2.com/
4. Word (or any wordprocessor to record notes and annotations - Word is capable of adding voice annotations to the written page)
5. MicNote Pad Lite (computer software turns your computer into a tape recorder/transcriber)
http://moof.com/nirvana/
(FREE mac)
6. Traditional database programs
- Claris
- Excel
- Eudora
- SchoolNet (statistics software program - FREE mac)
Sort and analysis requires context and interpretation. Interpretation of high and low frequency requires context and interpretation, e.g. USF evaluation and Empowerment Evaluation book correspondence.
7. Database programs for qualitative research specifically:
See: Weitzman, E.A. and M.B. Miles (1995). Computer Programs for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Software Sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
8. Web Searchers
Altavista
http://altavista.digital.com
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com
9. Reference Pages
Explore
http://www.xplore.com/xplore500/medium/reference.html
(also education.html)
Research It
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
10. Videoconferencing on the net (used to conduct follow-up interviews and to study videoconferencing subculture)
http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu
IP addresses:
NASA
128.2.230.10
Global School House
192.215.2.250
Univ. North Carolina
152.1.57.56
Cornell
132.236.91.204
Amy - Meyer Library
36.97.0.141
David F.
36.99.0.179
Extras: SchoolNet (quantitative stat software highlighted earlier - FREE)
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/archives.html#Macintosh
scroll down to quantitative and select school-stat-107.hqx(792k)
Windows software also available at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/archives.html
Additional sites of interest:If you are interested in random camera views around the world I would recommend:
Random Camera Views: http://www.xmission.com/~bill/randcamera.html#l
Earth Cam at http://www.earthcam.com
The Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
San Francisco Bay Area (travel, restaurants etc.)
http://www.sfbayarea.com/
Planet 9 - virtual cities online - Denver, San Francisco, New York, Austin, and New Orleans
http://www.planet9.com