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Wandering Web Watchers - Online

Volume 1, Number 7

Archives   2/01, 3/01, 4/01 , 5/01, 6/01, 8/01, 9/01, 10/01,11/01, 12/01

September, 2001

Editor's Corner 

 

Take a look at what is going on in the field of information design. I suspect it will have an increasing impact upon the presentation of teaching materials.

 

Cheers,

 

Bruce

 

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us

 

 

Faculty View

 

Technology, Schools and the Decentralization of Culture

 

Student View

Students' Poetry Web Site Showcases Hypertext Verse

Through the Looking Glass: Student Perceptions of Online Learning

Assessment

The Technology Source

Classroom Assessment Techniques in Asynchronous Learning Networks

Faculty Resources

 

Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership

Association of American Colleges and Universities

Visible Knowledge Project

VARK  - A Guide to Learning Styles

American Association of Museums (AAM)

Tutorials

 

TrainingCafe.com

 

K-12  

 

Computers and K-12 Education: A Different View

Distributed Education

 

New Virtual University in Virginia Would Let Students Create Their Own Curriculums

*Senate Passes a Bill Extending Copyright Exemption to Online Courses

Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001 (Reported in the Senate) Scroll past changes to get to final wording of bill.

Teaching with Technology 

Transformative Assessment of Educational Uses of Technology. Early Glimpses 

Stanford Learning Lab

Learning Objects

CEDARlearning.com

The Instructional Use of Learning Objects

Web Page Design

Web Developer's Virtual Library

e-Books

Electronic Literature Organization

Eastgate

Forecasts of an E-Book Era Were, It Seems, Premature

4 Publishers Agree to Sale of E-Books on Yahoo

e-Learning 

HorizonLive.com

  • *Clients  Scroll down to the end of the page to see what one of our competitors, Strayer University, is doing.

Universitas 21 Moves Forward With Plans for Online University

Trends?  

Software

Pendulum Swings to Microsoft, but How Far?

Windows XP: Microsoft's New Look for Fall, in Size XXL

 

Hardware

Intel Selling Two-Gigahertz Chips

Internet  

Census finds dramatic increase in PC, Net use

First Monday

*Exploring Users' Experiences on the Web

Media 

Is Hollywood Net-Ready?

Console war heats up with Xbox game network

Wireless 

Software could soup up mobile phone options

Handhelds

Keeping Up in Class With Software for a Hand-Held

Take-Home Test: Adding PC's to Book Bags

Planet PDA Magazine -- http://www.planetpdamag.com

Pocket PC Magazine -- http://www.pocketpcmag.com

Handheld Computing -- http://www.hhcmag.com

PDA Verticals -- http://www.pdaverticals.com

Impact?

**INFORMATION DESIGN

InfoDesign

Seven Deadly Sins of Information Design

*MIT Media Laboratory Aesthetics + Computation Group

Information: Organized

InformationDesign.org

Diagrammatic Reasoning