FCN News 17 Aug 95

Note: read the hypertext version of this newsletter: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/news/fcn-news-9500817.html>.

Contents

  1. Upcoming Events
  2. Electronic Classrooms
  3. Departmental Computing Mailing List
  4. Upcoming Conference Opportunities
  5. Online Journals
  6. Administrativa

Upcoming Events

         August 1995             September 1995
       S  M Tu  W Th  F  S      S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
             1  2  3  4  5                     1  2
       6  7  8  9 10 11 12      3  4  5  6  7  8  9
      13 14 15 16 17 18 19     10 11 12 13 14 15 16
      20 21 22 23 24 25 26     17 18 19 20 21 22 23
      27 28 29 30 31           24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Events on campus of particualar interest to FCN members:

Electronic Classrooms

Greg Bothun has taken the initiative to put together specific plans for equipping more classrooms with computer projection equipment for Fall '95. He reports in <http://zebu.uoregon.edu/edtech/memo1.html> that he hopes to have 6 classrooms equipped by fall term:

  1. Lawrence 177
  2. Lawrence 115
  3. Condon 260
  4. Chiles 128
  5. Straub 146
  6. Deady 106
Contact him for more details, <mailto:nuts@moo.uoregon.edu>.

Departmental Computing Mailing List

The Departmental Computing group is an informal group of faculty, students, and computing support staff. In addition to irredularly scheduled meetings, the group maintains a mailing list for sharing information and concerns, and welcomes new members. From a recent posting by Dan Albrich <mailto:dalbrich@oregon> describing the group:

The purpose of the group is to communicate between departments about computing related concerns. In many cases one of the departments on this campus has already solved a problem that your group experiences. Sharing our problems and solutions with each other keeps us from having to reinvent the wheel. There are many other purposes including discussing and educating ourselves on new technology and information about centrally provided services like dial-up connections provided by the Computing Center. We are departmental computing and lab support staff, interested faculty, directors of programs, and others. There are many levels of involvement. Some just subscribe to this mailing list for information, others attend all the meetings.
Any message sent to <mailto:deptcomp@oregon> gets sent to all subscribed members. Anyone with email access can subscribe to the list: Send mail to <mailto:mailserv@oregon>. In the body of the message include the single line: "subscribe deptcomp".

Upcoming Conference Opportunities

This is an abbreviated list of upcoming conferences relevant to ed tech. For a more extensive list, see the Educom calendar, <http://educom.edu/conf.semi/events.calendar>.

Online Journals

One well-established referreed electronic journal is the Journal of Biological Chemistry, <http://www-jbc.stanford.edu/jbc/>.

Anyone interested in the future of electronic journals should take a look at last week's Science. The editorial in the 4 Aug 1995 issue, p. 615, titled "'Wired' Science or Whither the Printed Page" offers an important perspective on the future of scholarly publishing.

Administrativa

The UO Faculty Consultants Network Newsletter is published (approximately) twice a month. If you have materials for inclusion in the newsletter you can send them to <mailto:jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>. This newsletter (as well as other FCN-related material) is available on line in <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/>.


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