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FAQs & Info

• BEST Bio Software Review
  Reviews of biology education software by the Biology Education Software Taskforce of the University of Washington.

• A Biologist’s Guide to Internet Resources

• EduHound
  "We are a prescreened database directory of more than 30,000 K-12 Educational Links.  We’re a great starting point to find all the very best educational web sites, resources, lesson plans, libraries, webquests, reference materials, adult continuing education, and much more!"

• Geospiza, Inc. Education
  " Biology is at heart an information science, thus biology depends on informatics and understanding informatics furthers the advancement of biology."

• Internet FAQ Consortium
  "This archive contains Usenet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) postings in Hypertext format and in FTP archive textual format."

• Internet Resources for Science and Mathematics Education
  ". . . one of the most comprehensive and well-annotated guides to educational resources on the Internet."

• List archives at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU
  Includes archives and information for:  BIOPI-L, ENTOMOLOGY-L, ENVIRON-L, WILDLIFE-L, etc.

• Teaching and Learning Academy Tech Tutorials

Software

• Adobe Acrobat Reader download page

• Brown Bag Press
  "Brown Bag Press publishes ebooks for teachers who are using computers in limited resource situations such as one-computer classrooms, limited web access, little or no computer lab time, low-budget and so on.  In other words, we publish ebooks for about 80% of the K-12 population in the United States."

• Microsoft File Converters and Viewers download page

• RasMol download page

• TeleFinder User download page

• Tucows
  "The Tucows site offers over 30,000 software titles in libraries located around the world, providing users with a fast local download."