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News 8 Jan 1998FCN
News 8 Jan 1998Don't read this by e-mail! Instead, read the hypertext version of this newsletter: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/fcn/news/current.html>. Contents:
Local and online events of particular interest to FCN members (see
also upcoming conferences and IT
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Projection upgrade in Gilbert 138 and Allen 221. Gilbert 138 now has a high-resolution LCD projector for use with A/V equipment in that room. Although there is no computer permanently located in that room, the setup makes it easy for users will bring their own (or their department's) laptiop if they want to use computer projection. In addition, a laptop is available for loan from the IMC for use in lectures in that room. Allen 221 also has a new high-resolution LCD projector.
IT Curriculum. The winter IT Curriculum is available at <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/it/>. Call your students' attention to the introductory classes offered, especially during the first 3 weeks of the term.
Tech
FairWe're planning this year's instructional technology fair, "Techniques for Teaching with Technology," April 17, in the Knight Library. We need FCN members to talk about their use of technology on campus! If you have ideas for sessions, or are interested in assisting with the fair, in making a presentation, or in doing a demonstration or "poster session," contact JQ Johnson, <mailto:jqj@darkwing>. If you know of any vendors of instructional technology products who might be interested in participating, we'd be most interested in contacting them too.
New Chalk. The December 1997 issue of the online instructional technology newsletter from UNC Chapel Hill, New Chalk, focuses on Internet access issues from both faculty and student perspectives. <http://www.unc.edu/courses/newchalk>
Syllabus Magazine looks at classroom projection. The January, 1998, issue of Syllabus Magazine focuses on video and presentation in the classroom, including articles, a buyer's guide to video and presentation products for the classroom, columns on multimedia and distance learning, and more. See <http://www.syllabus.com/>.
Web Publishing for Accessibility. Two draft proposals from the W3 Consortium of interest are Page Author Guidelines, <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/pgau_v8.htm>, and Page Author Check List, <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/cl2level.htm>.
School Uses of TV and Video. A 1997 Corporation for Public Broadcasting study looks at use of TV, video, and computer technology in the K-12 classroom. surveys teachers and finds substantial use and positive impact of all three technologies. One interesting observation: although teachers report rapidly growing use of computers in the classroom, they also report that "When asked about the effect of computer technology on their TV and video use, most teachers say that computers have not changed their classroom use of TV and video, and nearly one quarter find that their use of TV and video has actually increased." For a summary of the CPB study, see <http://www.cpb.org/library/schoolusestudy/> and <http://www.cpb.org/edtech/>.
DU Forums. Diversity University has expanded their educational offerings. In addition to an educational MOO, they now offer an extensive Web-based bulletin board system (using HyperNews) for questions, answers, and discussion about online educational technology and MOOs in particular. Visit <http://www.du.org/hn/forums/forums_home.html>.
Computer-Based Education Resources in the Humanities. EDSITEment, a project of NEH, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI, and the National Trust for the Humanities, includes links to the top sites in history, social studies, English, language arts, foreign languages, and art history. It also lists learning guides and other resources for the classroom. <http://edsitement.neh.fed.us>.
Arts and Humanities Data Service Newsletter. An interesting newsletter on digitized humanities. <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newslind.html>.
A Web of Online Dictionaries. Robert Beard, Director of the Russian and Linguistics Programs at Bucknell University, maintains this dictionary meta-site, a site that contains pointers to dictionaries in over 130 languages, many of them bilingual (English and the language of the dictionary). <http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/educat2.htm>
Many people these days have multiple e-mail accounts. For example, perhaps you have an account on both darkwing and oregon, plus AOL and Eugene Freenet accounts. If so, you may want to keep your accounts separate; you might want to tell students to send you email at your darkwing account and everyone else to use your oregon account. However, checking multiple email accounts can be a hassle, so you might instead want to set things up so that you only have to check mail in one place.
To do this, you set up "mail forwarding" from one account to another (but be very careful not to create a loop where mail is forwarded from A to B and also from B to A, since if you do you'll never receive any mail!).
Oregon. To set up mail forwarding from an oregon account to some other mailbox, you'll need to log in to oregon using telnet and run the VMS MAIL program (even if you usually read email using Eudora or Pine):
$ MAIL MAIL> set forward _Address: in%"username@domain" MAIL> exit
Replace "username@domain" with the email addres you want to forward to. Note that this syntax is new; prior to December 1997 you needed to type more quotation marks.
Darkwing. To set up mail forwarding from darkwing, you need to create a file named ".forward" in your darkwing home directory. That file should contain a single line with the address you want to forward to. So once again you need to log in using telnet. Then run your favorite text editor to create the file:
% pico .forward
Type the address (username@domain) then exit from pico by pressing CTRL-X.
Darkwing users will note that .forward is also the file to change if you want your email sent to the vacation program or to procmail. You can combine functions in complex ways, e.g. generating a vacation message and also forwarding the incoming mail. Try the Unix "man forward" command for details.
An 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/web/calendar/calendarHome.html> and <http://cause-www.colorado.edu/information-resources/events.html>, contain a more extensive list of mainstream conferences. Virtual conferences and tutorials:
Traditional conferences and workshops:
Repeated:
Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.
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Dearest creature in creation, |
Refer does not rhyme with deafer. |
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