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MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching  Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2007  105  Virtual Labs in the Online Biology Course: Student Perceptions of Effectiveness and Usability  Tracey A. Stuckey­Mickell Department of Educational Technology, Research & Assessment Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115   USA   Bridget D. Stuckey­Danner Department of Natural Sciences Olive­Harvey College Chicago, IL 60628  USA   Abstract The purpose of  this study was  to  investigate student perceptions of virtual biology  labs used  in  two  online  introductory  biology  courses.  Students  completed  an  online  survey, containing Likert­type and open­ended  items, about perceptions of  the CD­ROM­based virtual biology laboratories and face­to­face (F2F) laboratories they completed during the courses.    Findings  indicated  that  though  most  students  (86.9%)  perceived  the  F2F laboratories as more effective than the virtual laboratories across several criteria, many of them (60.8% on one criterion) perceived the virtual laboratories as effective as well.

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• Theory
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• Publié par: thoen0
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Publisher's Preface
This book is a facsimile reprint from a 1903 edition of Knights of
the Golden Circle, Treason History, Sons of Liberty, 1864. The
author was an agent of the United States Secret Service and the
primary undercover investigator of this wide spread conspiracy.
The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) or its derivative
organizations operated from before the Civil War and for many
years thereafter.
Today few people know of the KGC and even fewer know about
the purpose for which it existed. The purpose of this publication
is to assure that this important historical event is not completely
lost in archives and obscure libraries.
Mr. Stanley Vickery located a copy of this rare book and brought
it to the attention of Dogwood Press. It is through his
encouragement and support that it is hereby published.
United States Government Secret Service Agent.
Grand Secretary of State Order of Sons of Liberty,
State of Kentucky, 1864.
Author of Treason History, Order of Sons of Liberty,
Knights of the Golden Circle, or American Knights, 1864, INDEX, RITUALS, AND SECRET WORK,
FOR INDEX,
See Headings of Each Chapter for Gontents of Chapter.
FOR RITUALS AND SECRET WORK,
(Secret Work Never Before Published.)
Order of Sons of Liberty, and Address of Grand Com-
mander Harrison H. Dood at Indianapolis,
SEE APPENDIX.
FOR REPORT OF HON. JOSEPH HOLT,
On the Order of Sons of Liberty,
See SUB-APPENDIX, End of Volume.
TO THE READERS OF THIS HISTORY.
Whilethis is one of the Most Thrilling Works Ever Writ-
ten in the Secret Service the Author wishes it Distinctly
Remembered that there is Not One Word of Fiction in it,
but every word contained in this book is the Actual Oc-
currences as related, and all the important claims are ver-
ified and Substantiated by Official Reports and Official
Records of the Civil War of 1861 to 1865, as referred to
in this volume, to be found in all public libraries.
The Author.
The Following are Extracts from Three Letters recently
received by me from General Henry B. Carrington.
In a letter from General Henry B. Carrington dated,
"Hyde Park. Mass., February 20th. 1903." he says; "I
read until midnight your paper. The fiction of no Detect-
ive is more thrilling than your History of the Facts."
In another letter from same place of April 5th, 1905.
General Carrington says: "One fact I know, that we had
the whole conspiracy so fully within our knowledge that
we could have handled it if I had remained in Gommand
of the District. Authority was given me to have Bullitt 4. TREASON HISTORY,- SONS OF
LIBERTY.
arrested in Kentucky and certainly his arrest, the data
for which was procured from no other source but yourself
in the first instance, ended all hope for Kentucky's joint
action with the traitors in Indiana."
In another letter from General Carrington dated April
10th, 1905, he says: "I took such interest, holding that
by your knowledge of the whole field we could hold in
check any open violence without the excitement of any
overt act on the part of the disloyal element. Morton
believed in your statements fully. To utilize your evi-
dence and hard labor became necessary to conviction of
the chief conspirators. The State (Indiana,) Detectives
operating with Morton and myself disclosed desertions.
gatherings, and meetings, etc., but none of them gave the
clew to documents, ritual, etc. Why, there are people
now who say there was no conspiracy, and your authentic
record of things which evon you did not need to disclose
before, now becomes the only surviving material as to its
full purpose, and its end."
General Carrington's Report made to the Adjutant
General of Indiana from Reno Station, Powder River,
Dakota, July 2nd, 1866; page 273, Volume I, '"Indiana
in the War," says: '"About January 1st, 1864, the 'Kni-
ghts of the Golden Circle,' under the title of the 'Order of
American Knights,' changing soon after (February 22nd,
1864.) to the'Order of Sons of Liberty,'their system was
perfected, and their military organization assumed form
and substance."
"Indiana in the War." Volume I, Page 307: "What are
called the 'secrets' of the Order, its oaths, signs, and pass-
words, were all discovered as fast as they were changed,
but no discovery of the schemes (and real intentions,) of
the Order was made public until (learned by Stidger, and)
revealed at the trial of Dodd and his associates."
In the "Life of Oliver P. Morton," by Judge Foulke,
Volume I, Page 406. Judge Foulke says: "Stidger was
the most valuable of all the Government Detectives. He
was a Kentuckian who went to Carrington in May 1864." PREFACE.
IN the reading of this History it may seem to some
that there is a good-deal of the "I" set forth through-
out the work. To such parties I will say; Remem-
ber, This is just what it purports to be, a History of the
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES of the Author, and the
occupation of itself being so hazardous, he was of neces-
sity compelled to have no confidants outside of those with
whom his position in the Government service brought him
in contact.
In the Gity of Louisville and State of Kentucky, where
I was raised and well known by thousands of the citizens,
both of the loyal and disloyal element, there were but five
persons that knew the actual business in which I was en-
gaged. First of these was Miss Josephine M. McGill, of
Louisville, a young lady whom I had known for eight years,
and to whom I was engaged to be married, and although
every one of her family were the bitterest enemies of the
Government I fully advised her of every move I made, and
everything 1 did, haying full confidence in her—which
confidence she proved herself worthy of—and at the end
of my work for the Government she became my wife.
The next was my brother, John H. Stidger, who acted as
my first confidential assistant in making my reports in
Louisville; Captain Stephen E. Jones, Provost Marshal
General of the Military District of Kentucky, who first
engaged me for this duty, afterward turning me over to
Colonel Thomas B. Fairleigh, 26th Kentucky Veteran
Volunteer Infantry, who was in Command of the Post of
Louisville, to whom I made all my reports after the first
one, which was made to Captain Jones; and James Pren-
tice, a detailed soldier from a Michigan regiment, who was
furnished to me by Brigadier General Henry B. Garring-
ton, as a confidential assistant; and in Indianapolis I re- 6 TREASON HISTORY/ SONS OF LIBERTY.
ported to General Carrington and Governor Oliver P. Mor-
ton. These seven persons were the only ones that knew
the business in which I was actually engaged, and it was
to this limited number that I owed the success that I ac-
complished, for it is as Benjamin Franklin aptly stated,
"The only way for two or more persons to keep a secret
is for all but one of them to be dead.7' These seven were
all personally and vitally interested in my making the suc-
cess that 1 accomplished.
I begin with the history of my early childhood, to show
the disadvantages under which I had been brought up nat-
urally unfitting me for the unprecedentedly important
services I was called upon to perform in my dealings with
this gigantic secret enemy of our Government.
There have been put before the public what purport to
be "History's" of "daring officers of the United States
Government Secret Service," who profess to be the break-
ers up of this gigantic conspiracy, by "the only living
man," (or men,") that could give the facts of this perilous
service. It seems somewhat strange to me that I, the
only man in the employ of the United States Government
that ever obtained the position of a High Officer in that
treasonable organization never even heard of any one of
these men until twenty years or more after the end of the
Civil War; and that not a one of them was called upon to
testify in any of the trials of these conspirators, while the
Judge Advocate of the Military Commission that tried
these conspirators publicly stated that, if I was not willing
to go on the witness stand and personally identify the
leaders to be tried that they would have to be released, as
the Government had not been able to obtain a witness
that could, or would identify any one of the prisoners;
and the statements of these ''historians" are mostly so
much at variance with the actual occurrences that they
are of little or no reliance as to actual facts. I have also
seen it stated by these "historians" that a majority of the
high officers, generals, and leaders of the conspirators
were foreigners. 1 cannot state personally of what they KNIGHTS OK THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, 1864. 7.
might have been in other States than Kentucky and In-
diana, but as the Order was not organized for military pur-
poses except in Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Missouri, and
Ohio, and