FCN News 16 July 96

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

Contents:

• Upcoming Events
• Summer Internet Curriculum Workshops
• New Faculty Orientation
• Using the Web in Mathematics Education
• Conferences and Workshops, Real and Virtual
• The Lighter Side -- Top Ten Ways to Pose as a Jaded Net Vet
• Administrativa

Upcoming Events

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Local events of particular interest to FCN members (see also upcoming conferences and Summer Internet Curriculum below):

• Faculty Workshop in Instructional Technology, Aug 19-30. Invitational workshop for junior faculty presenting an in depth look at instructional technology at UO. For details, contact Georgeanne Cooper, <mailto:gcooper@oregon>.

Summer Internet Curriculum Workshops

For more details on the UO Library Internet Curriculum see <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/libhome/instruct/internet.htm>, or call 346-3047. Workshops during the next 3 weeks include:

World Wide Web/Netscape for the Computer Novice

Wed     July 24         1:00 - 2:30 pm          Hawk, Smith
 

Introduction to the World Wide Web

Wed     July 17         11:00 am - 12:30 pm     Robare, Stave
Wed     July 24         3:00 - 4:30 pm          Cawthorne, Crumb
Thu     July 25         1:00 - 2:30  pm         Crumb, Slight-Gibney
 

Beyond Just Surfing: How To Find What You Really Want on the Net

Thu     July 18         3:00 - 4:30 pm          Cawthorne, Jenkins
 

Intermediate Web Publishing: Selected Topics in Web Publishing

Images on Web Pages

Knight Library, Room 144 (for PC users)

Thu     July 18         10:00 - 11:30 am        Johnson, Yi

ITC Classroom (for MAC users)

Wed     July 17         10:00 - 11:30 am        Johnson, Klassen

HTML Editors and Converters

Knight Library, Room 144 (for PC users)

Thu     July 25         10:00 -11:30 am         Brownmiller

ITC Classroom (for MAC users)

Wed     July 24         10:00 - 11:30 am        Klassen

PDF and Director

Knight Library, Room 144 (for PC and MAC users)

Wed     July 31         10:00 - 11:30 am        Johnson, Klassen

Forms and CGI Scripts

Knight Library, Room 144 (for PC and MAC users)

Wed     Aug 7           10:00 - 11:30 am        Johnson

Journal Table of Contents via the Internet

Tue     July 23         1:00 - 2:30 pm          Slight-Gibney

New Faculty Orientation

This year's orientation program for new faculty will be Sept. 20, 1996. As we did last year, I'm hoping to organize a special session during the afternoon introducing the new faculty to instructional technology and to colleagues who use it at UO. One of the most successful parts of last year's program was the chance for entering faculty to meet other junior faculty in their areas and talk about issues surrounding educational technology usage.

If you are interested in participating in the new faculty technology orientation this year, please let me know, <mailto:jqj@darkwing>!

Using the Web in Mathematics Education

The Web has become a hotbed for mathematics education. Among the more interesting sites I've run across recently are the following:

The Mathematics Archives. <http://archives.math.utk.edu>. This mathematics archive at the University of Tennessee contains links to most other major math sites in cyberspace.

Syllabus Magazine, April 1996: Mathematics and Quantitative Tools. <http://www.syllabus.com/april96mag.html>. A full issue of Syllabus devoted to ways Mathematics software is enhancing all levels of graduate and undergraduate instruction within college and university classrooms.

Visual Calculus. <http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus> is a collection of notes which give some ideas from one instructor on how computer technology can be used in teaching calculus. Detailed instructions on implementing these ideas with various public domain, shareware and commercial software packages are provided.

Organic Mathematics. <http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/>. Designed by a group of research mathematicians with the Telelearning Research Network at Simon Fraser University, this site explores how users react to viewing traditionally printed material. The site contains online tools and proceedings from an organic mathematics workshop that was held at SFU. Users at the site can click on a printed document, make notes in the margins, and experiment with equations by changing numbers to test the result. The notes that people write in the margins are archived and can be read by other visitors to the site. In addition, video clips of each author presenting abstracts of their paper are also included.

Gallery of Interactive Geometry. <http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html>. College-level geometry concepts. When I was in college we played foos-ball when we weren't studying for the geometry quizes. Now you can play Orbifold Pinball.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Mathematics Education. <http://www.ericse.org/>. Another omnibus site with lots of materials.

Conferences and workshops, real and virtual

This is a selected and somewhat idiosyncratic list of upcoming conferences relevant to educational tech., both "virtual" (online) and traditional. For conferences that require physical travel, my emphasis is on conferences in the Northwest and on those I find personally interesting. The Educom and CAUSE calendars, <http://educom.edu/../events.calendar> and <http://cause-www.colorado.edu/information-resources/events.html>, contain a more extensive list of mainstream conferences.

Virtual conferences:

Traditional conferences and workshops:

• Syllabus '96, July 20-24, Sonoma CA. See <http://www.syllabus.com/> for more information and for the call for papers and presentations.
• "Art in the Streets: Capturing Live Events on the Web," July 24-26, University of Michgan. See <http://www.si.umich.edu/hp/ai/institute.html>. This workshop will use the Ann Arbor summer art fairs as its backdrop to teach participants how to capture images and sounds from the fairs and place them on the World Wide Web.
• "Building Partnerships: Collaborative Technologies for Libraries," Aug 1-2, University of Michgan. See <http://www.si.umich.edu/hp/ai/institute.html>. This workshop combines theory and practice to provide the rationale, foundation, and vision for collaborative programs among libraries. It includes a panel discussion at and a tour of the new U-M Media Union.
• "Snowmass", Aug 2-7, 1996, Snowmass, CO. "27th Annual Seminars on Academic Computing." For details, see <http://www.orst.edu/groups/sac/index.html>.
• Distance Teaching and Learning, Aug 7-9, Madison WI. For information, lt;http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html >.
• "Virtual Reference Desk and Collection Development at the Internet Public Library," Aug 14-16, University of Michgan. See <http://www.si.umich.edu/hp/ai/institute.html>. The program for librarians and information professionals focuses on using Internet-based information resources to better serve users and integrating these resources more easily into the current environment.
• MacSummit, Aug 14-17, U. C. Santa Barbara (CA). Conference organized by Guy Kawasaki and UCSB Extension focuses on hands-on high end education digital imaging. See <http://www.xlrn.ucsb.edu>.
• Internet Law Symposium, 1996, Sept 9-10, Seattle WA. <http:// www.internetlaw.org/>.
• Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace, Sept 12-13, Roanoke, VA. This conference will address the impact of technology in higher education, particularly new opportunities being created by emergeng network technology. <http://cause-www.colorado.edu/conference/regional/r96v/r96-va.html>.
• netWORKS: Connecting Learners Across the Curriculum, Oct 4-5, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA. Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. <http://www.phil.vt.edu/MAACW/>.
• Educom '96, Oct 8-11, Phildelphia, PA. "Information Technology: Transcending Traditional Boundaries." <http://educom.edu/web/confsem.html>.
• 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>.
• Computers in Literature and Languages, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain MLA, October 24-26, 1996, Albuquerque, NM. For information, e-mail <mailto:bngg@psuorvm.cc.pdx.edu>.
• Electronic Publishing of Data Sets on the World Wide Web, Oct 28-30, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. < http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html>.
• Attending to Technology: Directions for Humanities Teaching and Research, Nov 7-9, 1996, College Park MD. See <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/misc/humteach.html>.

The Lighter side

Seen on USEnet news:

TOP TEN WAYS TO POSE AS A JADED NET VET
The Web makes outsiders of us all--or at least we all feel that way from time to time. It's that darn lingo. What's blase to say, what's not? Is "cool" cool? Is "hot" not? Here's our lexicon to the terms o' the day. Clip and save...

10. When referring to browsers, use the preferred spellings "Netscrape" and "Internet Exploder." (You, of course, use Lynx.)
9. You're male? Call yourself d00d. Female? Grrl.
8. Refer to online services only when you absolutely have to, and when you do, use these preferred spellings: America OnHold, Plodigy, Compu$erve, and Microsoft Notwork.
7. If you use the term "digerati," make it clear you are being ironic.
6. Change your sig to read "I have Neiman-Marcus cookie recipies."
5. Change your alternative sig to read: "Of course, Mondo 2000 did it first."
4. Want to change your sig? Never use one you've seen somewhere else.
3. Spell the word "cool" k-e-w-l.
2. Spell the word "kewl" k-0-0-l with two zeroes.
1. Avoid discussions about the relative merits of the MacOS, Windows, and OS/2. Just mention casually that if it doesn't grep, it's not a real computer.

Remember: you don't need to understand any of this. Nobody else will either. After all, just like a nightclub, the Net is full of poseurs.

Administrativa

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