__ __ __ __ __ __ web's eye view (September 9, 1998) | | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / / alan levine | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction |__/ |__/ |__/|__/ |__/|__/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/ =========================================================================== The freshest bag of URLs is ready for pickup at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html Got a hot URL? Just drop it in our bag: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/drop.html Just What is a WebMaster? ------------------------- This online article from CIO Magazine provides anecdotal descriptions | There are many definitions of just what a webmaster is, what they | do, who they work for, and how much they should be paid. We are | seeing that the position of Webmaster is becoming seen as a more | senior-level position, with the person being responsible for | managing the evolution and well-being of the web work, as well as | the more tradional HTML and other technical work. In some | organizations the Webmaster has a senior level position (e.g. | VP/Webmaster), which we expect will become more commonplace as | the web becomes critical to the success of a company's | information environment. | http://www.cio.com/forums/careers/job.html Have They Missed the Paradigm Shift? ------------------------------------ This annoucement is from EDUPAGE. Note the emphasis is lecture, lecture, lecture.... | Classroom 2000 Project Underway at Several Georgia Schools | | Developed at Georgia Tech, Classroom 2000 is a system that allows | students to review the audio and written portions of a | professor's lecture via the World Wide Web. Notes a professor | ordinarily writes on a blackboard instead are entered with a | pen into a computer that displays the professor's | handwriting. The computer then posts the notes on the Web, | along with the professor's recorded voice. Clicking on any | portion of the class notes brings up a recording of the | professor's voice, beginning at that point in the lecture. | Depending on the equipment needs of the university or | institution, costs range from $10,000 to renovate one | classroom, up to $100,000 to renovate a lecture hall or | several classroom. Several schools in Georgia currently are | using Classroom 2000, including Kennesaw State University, | Georgia State University, and Darton College. For more | information Classroom 2000 access http://www.gatech.edu But Who is On The Football Team? -------------------------------- | Western Governors University (WGU), one of the most comprehensive | distance learning initiatives ever undertaken, announced today | that the school is now open for full enrollment and that students | can begin signing up for classes immediately through the | University Web site at http://www.wgu.edu. Upon opening, WGU is | offering more than 180 college-level distance learning courses, | along with 140 individual classes through the University's | exclusive SmartCatalog -- an on-line, interactive course catalog | and student profiling system. So Just What is Inside Intel? ----------------------------- | INTEL CATCHES FLAK FOR WEB ADVERTISING TACTICS | EduPage 8/18/98 | In an effort to sell higher-power computer chips, Intel is | sponsoring an "Intel Inside Optimized Content" program that | encourages Web sites to use dense, complicated graphics that slow | down a computer's processor when the pages are downloading from | the Internet. An accompanying message tells the user that a | Pentium II microprocessor would speed up the process. Intel | normally reimburses PC makers 50% of their Web-based advertising | costs if the ad sports an "Intel Inside" logo, but ups its | contribution to 75% if the site uses complicated graphics and | includes wording that says the page could be better viewed using | a Pentium II processor. "It's a hell of an incentive," says one | Web editor. "PC companies are going to advertise on sites where | they pay only 25% of the costs, as opposed to sites where they | have to pay for half of the ad." But the innovative tactic has | raised the ire of some Web site owners: "What they're asking us | to do is turn our sites into a demonstration of their products," | says a senior VP at IDG, publisher of Computerworld magazine. | "We're going to optimize our content for our readers, not for | Intel." (Tampa Tribune 17 Aug 98) Is This Proof of Technology's Impact? ------------------------------------ | Online students fare better | By Jane Black Staff, | CNET NEWS.COM | January 17, 1997, 6:30 p.m. PT | | A surprising new study at the California State University at | Northridge shows that students learning in a virtual classroom | tested 20 percent better across the board than their counterparts | who learned in a traditional classroom. | | In his applied statistics course last year, Jerald Schutte, a | professor at Northridge, randomly selected half of his students | to be taught through traditional in-class lectures and | pen-and-paper homework assignments while the rest learned through | text posted online, email and newsgroups, real-time chat with | their classmates, and electronic homework assignments. | | The students in the virtual-learning group were given two | in-class lectures to explain the technology they would be using | and then came to class again only for the midterm and the final | exam. | | There were no statistically significant differences between the | sex, age, computer experience, or attitude toward the subject | material of the two groups, Schutte said. Both were given | identical tests that they took under the same conditions. | | The results of the groundbreaking study, obtained by CNET this | evening, provide the first quantitative data to be collected on | virtual education--a field that until now has largely subsisted | on anecdotal data, despite huge amounts of money that | universities are spending to establish themselves as leaders in | online education. | | | http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,7147,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel