We are a research and outreach program under development by the Center for Advanced Technology in Education of the University of Oregon College of Education. The Center will engage in research and outreach related to the safe, responsible, legal, and ethical use of the Internet and other information technologies. The initial principal focus of the Center will be on the use of technologies by young people in schools and complimentary home-based programs. The Change Agency Network is an electronic network that focuses on policies and practices in education. The Network consists of two related components The Change Agency Listserver and The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning .
Students can enter text and graphic notes into the database on any topic their teacher has created.
All students on the network can read the notes and students may build on, or comment on, each others' ideas. Authors are notified when comments have been made or when changes in the database have occurred. Various note formats and supports have been designed to enhance the potential of the communal database for collaborative knowledge-building. This page is a growing compilation of direct links to the search interfaces of resources that are not easily searchable from general search tools such as Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general search tools are essential for information retrieval of Internet materials many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not searchable via these tools.