__     __ __     __ __     __      web's eye view                    12-04-97
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /      alan levine                          
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /       Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
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Are You on the list yet?
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If you've gotten this message on A1, look out because after the end of the year,
we'll only be sending announcements out via our internet mailing list. You can
get in on the action now by travelling over to:

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/list.html
   
and signing up for the webs-eye listserv. This is not a chatty listserv, in
fact, there is no chat at all since it is only an outgoing mailing list.

This Web is a MESS!
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Read our latest tirade at:

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/curr.html
     
It's been more than a year since we posted a web side page for this site! We're
doing an early resolution to write more. In a few weeks, we'll present an
argument against the senseless waste of bandwidth on pictures of text.

Web Bulletin Boards
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We've experimented this past year with WWWBoard, a collection of server CGI
scripts from Matt's Script Archive, a nice collection of perl scripts at:

  http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/
  
I think I've seen it also used at Mesa, South Mountain, and Chandler-Gilbert,
for web discussion areas. We found it workable, but the implementation was
clumsy and limited.

But we've found a better solution in a free package of scripts called "WebBBS",
from:

  http://awsd.com/scripts/webbbs/
  
a site that contains a set of very well written perl programs. WebBBS is easier
to set up, offers many more features and configurable options. It can use
client-side cookies to display an update of what's new since your last visit or
to congiure the layout on the viewer's side. There is even a script to convert
WWWBoard messages to WebBBS!

But try it yourself from our test site:

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/bbs/test1.pl
  
Peek In at MCLI
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We've migrated our Apple Public file server to AppleShare IP 5.0 which allows us
to run it also as a web server... which allows us to play with hooking up a
QuickCam (like we've seen done at the EMC InfoCommons). So you can take a peek
at MCLI, an image is update every 30 seconds on our JadeCam at:

  http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/
  
Information Literacy?
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Are you concerned about the quality of information? Does this make sense?

"The Internet, that sprawling computer world of Web sites and chat rooms on
everything from aardvarks to zombies, has known only boom times since a British
scientist created it nine years ago."

Huh?

But this information is not from a questionable web site, it appeared in the
technology section of The Scottsdale Tribune.

Reader Emptor!

He Looked Good on TV
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Vernon Smith (RIO) was panelist on PBS videoconference "Putting Your Course
online". Vernon has been using the web in his Spanish courses.

The Best Authoring Software (?)
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To determine how and how well vendors are implementing this technology, PC Week,
in conjunction with Wisconsin Technical College System Labs, a PC Week Corporate
Partner, invited vendors of multimedia courseware authoring systems to produce a
training module on-site.         

   http://www.pcweek.com/reviews/ibt.html

In a related corner, there is now an Interactive Multimedia Master's Program at
Southern Illinois University:

   http://www.siu.edu/~imm
   
And, the University of British Columbia is offering a Post-graduate Certificate
in Technology-Based Distributed Learning  delivered ONLINE

   http://itesm.cstudies.ubc.ca/info/
   
Something Useful In Java?
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World Population is  a java applet with a dynamic (odometer-like) reading of the
estimated world's population. You can also pull up estimates from other time
periods.
    http://sunsite.unc.edu/lunarbin/worldpop