FCN News 12 Nov 95

Note: read the hypertext version of this newsletter: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/news/fcn-news-951112.html>.

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Upcoming Events

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Events on campus of particular interest to FCN members (see also the list of fall workshops below):

Computer Conferencing: Alternatives to Lectures, Nov 13, 10am-12:45pm, IMC Studio A (Knight Library). A satellite broadcast by the Institute for Academic Technology, UNC. For information, see <http://www.iat.unc.edu/>. This should be a pariticularly interesting presentation on instructional use of asynchronous communications tools ranging from e-mail to Lotus Notesreg..
Collisions on the Information Superhighway, John Frohnmayer, Nov 14, 9-10:30am, Gerlinger Lounge. Part of a lecture series, "A Nation of Chickens: Our Forgotten First Amendment". Contact Linda Ettinger, <mailto:lindae@aaa>, for further information.
Leading Effective Discussions, Nov 14, 15, 16, 3:30-5:00 pm, Room A of the Faculty Club. Michael Sweet and Georgeanne Cooper of the Teaching Effectiveness Program will discuss interactive strategies which lead to productive class discussions. See <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~als/tep/fall95.html> for more information.
Educational Technology Committee meeting, Nov 16, 8:30-9:45am, Willamette 350. Contact Greg Bothun, <mailto:nuts@moo2>, or see <http://zebu.uoregon.edu/edtech/>.
Web Planning Committee meeting, Nov 29, 10:00-11:00am, Knight Librarian's Conference Room. Brodie Remington will discuss use of WWW to present UO's public image. Contact JQ Johnson, <mailto:jqj@darkwing>.

UO Library Internet Curriculum

The Library's Internet Curriculum is designed to introduce students, faculty, and staff to networked information resources. For full fall program information, see <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/uo/libhome/instruct/internet.htm>. These workshops are given in Knight Library Room 144 (Electronic Classroom) unless otherwise indicated. No preregistration is required.

INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET

Wed     November 15     6:00 - 7:30 pm          Stirling, Sundt
Mon     November 20     2:00 - 3:30 pm          Hawk, Jones

WORLD WIDE WEB/NETSCAPE

Tue     November 14     6:00 - 7:30 pm          Crumb, Stirling
Tue     November 21     12:00 - 1:30 pm         Brinkerhoff, Klos

USENET DISCUSSION GROUPS [new]

Thur    November 16     3:00 - 4:30 pm          Klassen

INTRODUCTION TO WEB PUBLISHING

Knight Library Room 144 (for PC users)

Fri     November 17     2:00 - 4:00 pm          Brownmiller, Smith

ITC Classroom (for MAC users)

Mon     November 20     1:00 - 3:00 pm          Johnson, Yi

INTERMEDIATE WEB PUBLISHING: IMAGES [new]

Knight Library Room 144 (for PC users)

Thu     November 16     11:00 am - 12 noon      Johnson, Yi

ITC Classroom (for MAC users)

Wed     November 15     1:00 - 2:00 pm          Johnson, Yi

INTRODUCTION TO WEB PUBLISHING: FORMS AND CGI [new]

Knight Library Room 144 (for PC users)

Wed     November 29     11:00 am - 12 noon      Johnson

ITC Classroom (for MAC users)

Thu     November 30     1:00 - 2:00 pm          Johnson

MUSIC RESOURCES ON THE WWW

Thu     November 16     1:00 - 2:30 pm  Bennett

Connect-a-Colleague

The "Connect-a-Colleague" experiment announced in the last newsletter, <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/news/fcn-news-951027.html>, seems to be working. Several FCN participants have reported that they have met with colleagues to assist them in beginning to use the World Wide Web. I hope all FCN members will have a chance to do the exercise in the next few weeks!

Faculty Computing Environments

Greg Bothun, <mailto:nuts@moo2>, recently completed a survey of the desktop (i.e. in office) resources available to UO faculty. He received a total of 693 responses -- a very high response rate. Some of the results include:

What type of Computer is on the desktop:

None: 46 (6.6%)
Dumb Terminal: 5 (0.8 %)
PC: 264 (38%)
Mac: 351 (50%)
Unix: 27 (4%)

In addition, he notes that about 70% of the faculty PCs and 45% of faculty Macs are of types that he would describe as "reasonably modern," and 56% have had the computer on the desktop for less than 2 years.

Upcoming Conference Opportunities

This is a selected and somewhat idiosyncratic list of upcoming conferences relevant to ed tech, with an emphasis on conferences in the NorthWest. The Educom calendar, <http://educom.edu/../events.calendar>, contains a more extensive list of mainstream conferences.

Oregon Datafication Conference, Dec 15-16, Oregon State University, Corvallis. See <http://www.sce.ojgse.edu/nero/odc/> for information.
Distance Education Conference, March 3-6, 1996, Portland, OR. "Sharing the Experience III:Beyond the Rhetoric". For additional information contact Lisa Farquharson, ORST, <mailto:Distance@ccmail.orst.edu>.
Digital Libraries '96, Bethesda MD, Mar 20-23,1996. An international conference devoted to advancing the state-of-the-art in digital libraries, sponsored by ACM. The meeting will be co-located with, and will immediately follow, Hypertext '96. For further information see <http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/>.
Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mar 31-Apr 2, 1996. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn. See <http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/>.
etaCOM-96, May 7-10, 1996, Portland OR. First Annual Conference on Emerging Technologies and Applications in Communications, sponsored by IEEE. <mailto:tomcan@sequent.com> for information.
Connections '96, May 9-11, 1996, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. "Linking Teaching, Learning & Technology." Contact Amanda Harby, <mailto:harby@camosun.bc.ca> for details.
IASSIST 1996, May 15-18, 1996, Minneapolis, MN. "Weaving the Web of Social Science Research, Data and Support." See <http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/iassist96/>.
NECC '96, June 11-13, 1996. National Education Computing Conference, "Call of the North". For information, <mailto:necc96@ties.K12.mn.us>.
Syllabus '96, July 20-24, 1996, Sonoma CA. See <http://www.syllabus.com/> for more information and for the call for papers and presentations.
World Conference of the Web Society, Oct 16-19, 1996, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by The Web Society and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. For information, <http://AACE.virginia.edu/AACE/conf>.

Online Journals

CICnet, the network serving the Big Ten schools in the midwest, is developing a prototype electronic journal collection. Their initial goal is to put together the largest collection of public domain e-journals in the world, in the process addressing issues of user interface, bibliographic access, archiving, and distribution. For access to their prototype, see <http://ejournals.cic.net/>.

Administrativa

This issue of the FCN news is somewhat abbreviated since many regular contributors to the news were attending Educom during the first week of November. Expect a report on the Educom conference in the next issue of this newsletter.

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