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Volume 1, Number 8

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

October, 2001

Editor's Corner 


Several of the links in this issue deal with present and predicted future change.  Most commentators agree that change is accelerating. How do we prepare our students and ourselves for the dramatic changes predicted to occur in the next 10 to 20 years?  

 

Cheers,

 

Bruce

 

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

 

 

Faculty View

 

What if J. Alfred Prufrock had been a Computer Science Professor?An Essay on the Overwhelming Question of Technical Obsolescence

 

Student View

 

Study Skills Online

 

Assessment

 

American Psychological Association

Faculty Resources

 

*The Internet Scout Report

 

ITS Office of Instructional Technology - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Academy for the Art of Teaching - Florida International University

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) 

The National Institute for Literacy

 

 

 Tutorials

 

Progress Report - Microsoft Office 2000 - Lynchburg College Tutorials

 

K-12  

 

National Writing Project

 

Project 2061

 

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

 

Harvard Project Zero

Apex Learning

 

 

Distributed Education

 

Scholar Calls for Governments to Take a Realistic View Toward Distance Education

 

  *Andrological and Pedagogical Training Differences for Online Instructors

 

Teaching with Technology 

Wired colleges block in-class Net browsing  "Two colleges on the cutting edge of Internet technology are now pioneering solutions to a rapidly growing problem: students who pay more attention to their computers than to their professors."

ASCUE 2001 Conference Proceedings

Web Page Design

*Flashers Unite  "The only successful Web technology that has truly been developed with designers in mind is Flash"

**Editor's Note:  For examples of what can be done with Flash see the listings for Flash at the CALT Examples web page.  Recent examples added to the CALT site illustrating the linkage of Flash to databases can be found under Flash 5 and ASP  and Flash 5 And Microsoft Access . A new CALT Teaching Template, ImageQuiz, that provides an easy method for carrying out identification exercises or quizzes on 2-D objects (maps, circuit diagrams, images, sentences, musical scores, equations, graphs, slides, etc) can be found at CALT Teaching Templates .

Learn

Trends?  

Software

Groupware Out Of The Box

Talk SOAP

Groups: XP furthers Microsoft's monopoly

Hardware

The 20th Anniversary of the PC

Are we preparing students to deal with the changes described in the above articles?

Internet  

Internet Policy Institute

Internet2 Project Plans Major Upgrades for Its Network Backbone

Media 

What's cooking in Hellz Kitchen? How Kerb brought Flash to TV

Pandromedia

Wireless 

*FOMA, Rising In The East?

Impact?

Learning Styles

Learning Styles Network

Index of Learning Styles

Learning to Learn

Mind Maps

Inspiration Software