__ __ __ __ __ __ web's eye view 09-18-97 | | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / / alan levine | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction |__/ |__/ |__/|__/ |__/|__/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/ ..............New bag of URLs.......http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/ ============================================================================== WebDev is coming soon! October 24, GCC is the date and place for webDec III, a gathering of webdevelopers and waana bes from the entire Maricopa District. Look for an All A1 soon or keep your browser pointed to: http://www.maricopa.edu/webdev/ Help Us Build Webs We know you are out there! Maricopa faculty that are doing some great tyhings in using the web with your students. Why not share it in our ever growing collection of Teaching and Learning on the WWW: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/ where all 500+ entries can be listed by acadmic subject or keyword searched. Follow the link for SUBMIT to add your own. It's painless, fun, and will take a scant 3 minutes max to do! And while you are still reading this... it's hard to know al or even some of the ways Maricopans are using the web. If you send us a short note, we'd love to pass it on in future releases of web's eye view Learn FrontPage! GateWay Community College is offering a course (CIS298AA) in MicroSoft FrontPage 97. See the class schedule at: http://gwinfo.gwc.maricopa.edu/sch/ Learn about Lotus LearningSpace From a brochure: "Join ImageSoft for a few hours discussio on the benefits of distance learning as well as the difference between distance and distributive learnig. See a demonstration of the most dynamic learning tool available, made possible by Domino technology" LearningSpace provides an easy to construct environment that runs under Lotus Notes. Domino is a server technology that allows LearningSpace to be accessed via a web browser. It has been embraced by a large number of corporations (IBM) as well as a number of colleges and universities. October 8, 1997 IBM Customer Center 2929 North Central Avenue Phoenix Register: 1-800-270-1123 Intranet / Internet / Extranet / ?? The latest jargan surpasses internal networks (intranets) to even hearing of beasts like "extranets". Alertbox, is a semi-monthly column on "Current Issues in Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen, SunSoft Distinguished Engineer. The September 15 issue "The Difference Between Intranet and Internet Design" provdes a nice distinction: "Your intranet and your public website on the open Internet are two different information spaces and should have two different user interface designs. It is tempting to try to save design resources by reusing a single design, but it is a bad idea to do so because the two types of site differ along several dimensions." http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9709b.html Webmaster: the Novel Directly from my inbox to yours... Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:19:07 -0400 From: John Milam I have tried to capture the spirit of the World Wide Web and changing technologies in a new FREE spy/conspiracy book called "Webmaster: The Novel." "Webmaster: The Novel" is the spy/conspiracy story about a novice webmaster who creates a homepage to help out his neighborhood during an oil crisis. The web site becomes an overnight success - the center of a resistance movement using email, chat rooms, web servers, and Cold Fusion to distribute food, set up an alternative economic system, and keep America going. The book is designed both to entertain readers and to teach them about the bleeding edge of technology on the World Wide Web. The entire novel may be read online with links for FREE (at the URL http://webmaster-novel.com) or purchased in an inexpensive $2 tabloid printed copy through a secure online order form. The novel's a fun read and as a web enthusiast I think you'll enjoy it. Web Course Case Study: SUNY Using Course Management (CM) System (CMS) Software to Develop Modularized Courses (ULMs) for a Distributed Distance Teaching-Learning Approach William D. Graziadei, Ph.D., Professor of Biology Office of Educational Technology/Biological Sciences State University of New York (SUNY) http://137.142.42.95/umd/casestudy.html SUNY Course Management and Course Management Systems Course Management (CM) is the process of developing, managing, and delivering information related to a specific course. Course/Classroom Management Systems (CMS) are platforms, applications, processes, and their requisite infrastructure designed to facilitate Course Management. Assumptions: Course Management is usable in asynchronous and/or synchronous delivery systems and includes capabilities beyond the mere presentation of instructional material, such as the ability to organize, monitor, and evaluate instructional information, manage learning (classroom) environment, and to enable communication among and between students and instructors. http://topclass1.itec.suny.edu/west/sunycms/ Who's Link is it anyhow? (from EDUPAGE) DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO HYPERLINK World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee says he's disturbed by the recent lawsuit between Microsoft and Ticketmaster regarding Microsoft's unauthorized hyperlink to Ticketmaster's Web site. "The question, 'May I have permission to link to your site?' has got me really upset,'' he says. The freedom to like from one site to another should be a given: "You and I have a right to discuss something,'' he says, regardless of whether that something wants to be discussed. "You don't have to ask someone's permission to talk about them.'' (Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10 Sep 97) From our latest bag of URLs --------------------------- A Web of On-line Dictionaries (thanks to Anne Halverson) links to over 350 dictionaries in more than 100 languages http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html Foreign Language Resources for Teachers and Students includes sample lessons that can be adapted for classroom use; also contains homework help links, a chat area, ICQ users' list as well as many language related sites for French, Spanish and German. http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/1506 Presenters University sponsored by Proxima, this site offers tips, tools, and training for making effective multimedia presentations. http://www.presentersuniversity.com/ Free On Line QuizMaker Creating interactive quizzes on the Internet has now been made easy. In a simple three-step process, QuizMaker 2.0 takes your quiz information, and your questions and answers, and then uses them to compile a quiz file and answer key file which are stored on the server. No knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is necessary. Features include: Online and mail-in quiz correction methods Support for multiple choice, short answer, true-false, and/or essay questions Display of inline graphics and reference links with textual descriptions Randomization of multiple choice quizzes Handling of short answer questions with several possible answers This tool is available as a free service for teachers involved in distance education and Internet instruction. If you are interested in applying for a QuizCenter account, visit the Ed Tech Tools web site at: http://www.motted.hawaii.edu/ Educational Object Economy (EOE) launched by Apple Computer, this site includes teaching resources that incorporate Java applets for Web-based learning. The goal of the project is to build an online community for sharing information and teaching resources for classroom use and for research. http://trp.research.apple.com/ Instructional Management System (IMS) consists of a partnership of educational organizations and companies working under the auspices of Educom's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII).Overall, the IMS project attempts to address three obstacles for providing effective online materials and learning environments: (1) Lack of standards for locating and operating interactive platform-independent materials; (2) Lack of support for the collaborative and dynamic nature of learning; and (3)Lack of incentives and structure for developing and sharing content. What is needed to address the obstacles described above is a specific set of higher-order standards and tools that enable teachers, learners, software developers, content providers, and other parties involved in the learning process to create, manage and access the use of online learning materials and environments. The IMS is this set of standards and tools. http://www.IMSProject.org/ PhinisheD is a disucssion and support group for people who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/phinished/ Share Carolina- Instructional Web Tools Share Carolina is an initiative sponsored by Academic Technology and Networks (ATN) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to share its instructional Internet development tools with other academic institutions and non-profit organizations. http://www.unc.edu/courses/ssp/share/ The Faculty Connection is designed to assist faculty of post-secondary institutions to become familiar with issues, examples and discussion topics associated with using emerging technologies in teaching and learning. http://faculty.creativeanalytics.org/ Learner Online Exhibits Collection extends the original Multimedia Collection from the videos in the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection. The goal is to provide high quality interactive learning experiences across the many subjects. Each month a new exhibit will be addded, featuring exhibits on science, art, writing, literature, psychology, geology, and many more subjects. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/ Nursing Education Online connects to Nursing School pages in the U.S. and foreign countries. http://www.lib.umich.edu/hw/nursing/education.html John Lye's Course and Source Page John Ley teaches at Brock University in Canada and provides course information for the Communications and English courses that he teaches, as well as some excellent materials on critical Reading, the problem of meaning in literature, and a handout on ideology. http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/index.html Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources From current issue of the Public-Access Computing Systems Review, this article, by Alistair G. Smith of the School of Communications and Information Management, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, reviews available Internet resource evaluation criteria in print and on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/cont8n3.html Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques a workshop by Ross Tyner, Okanagan University College Library. http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm All4one Search Machine-Free Meta-Search Tool allows simultaneous searching of four major search engines with a single click. Results are displayed in side by side re-sizable frames, and it is much faster than other meta-searches. http://www.all4one.com/