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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:17:52 -0600
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: CAMPUS WATCH 16 January 1998
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CAMPUS WATCH
January 16, 1998
An electronic newsletter published by CAUSE to share news concerning
effective management and use of higher education information
resources---information, technology, and services
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IN THIS ISSUE:
--- Western Australia provides e-mail mentoring for prospective students
with disabilities
--- Faculty-student technology teams at UT Austin
--- U of Michigan instructional tool helps students learn to teach
--- U of Arizona library project aids circulation of historical texts
--- AACC/NETWORK workforce database now on Web
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS
--- Attaching documents to Web forms
--- Central computing system using both AFS and LFS
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA PROVIDES E-MAIL MENTORING FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
WITH DISABILITIES
To encourage students who have a disability to consider university
study, staff from the Faculty of Science and Student Support Services at
the University of Western Australia have won funds to set up UNILINK, an
e-mail mentoring system throughout the vast state of Western Australia.
UNILINK will connect prospective students who have disabilities with
university student mentors who may or may not have disabilities. Once
this system is established, the group hopes to extend the program to
allow university students with disabilities to be mentored by graduates
in the workforce. Contact: hsmith@science.uwa.edu.au
FACULTY-STUDENT TECHNOLOGY TEAMS AT UT AUSTIN
The Center for Instructional Technologies (CIT) at the University of
Texas/Austin has launched a pilot program that will use 20 to 25
students with specialized instructional and computer skills to help
faculty members develop innovative instructional technologies. Students
will have the option of receiving course credit, and will receive some
financial compensation. The program (Faculty And Student Teams for
TECHnology, or ~FAST Tex), which will run through August, focuses on
multimedia production applications and development of Web materials. It
is supported in part by Apple Computer and Compaq Computer corporations.
CIT is a part of the University's Academic Computing and Instructional
Technology Services. See http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit/
U OF MICHIGAN INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL HELPS STUDENTS LEARN TO TEACH
A new instructional tool developed at the University of Michigan helps
education students analyze and learn more about teaching elementary
mathematics. SLATE (Space for Learning and Teaching Exploration) is a
learning and teaching environment built around a database of diverse
multimedia information, including digital video and transcripts of
classroom sessions and copies of children's classwork and teachers'
notes. Classroom information came from a third-grade class taught by
Professor of Education Deborah Ball and a fifth-grade class taught by
Magdalene Lampert. SLATE, based on a combination of commercial and
custom applications, was co-developed by the School or Education and the
Information Technology Division as part of their ongoing partnership.
[U-M Information Technology Digest, Nov 1997]
U OF ARIZONA LIBRARY PROJECT AIDS CIRCULATION OF HISTORICAL TEXTS
The University of Arizona Library's newest digital publishing
project--Electronic Texts--concentrates on documents important to the
history of the region. An electronic text version of Borderman: the
Memoirs of Jose Maria Ronstadt represents the original manuscript
transcription (more complete than the published book) and links to
related information on the Internet; other files make accessible
important histories which are no longer readily available in print. See
http://www.library.arizona.edu:8000/e-texts.html
AACC/NETWORK WORKFORCE DATABASE NOW ON WEB
The National Community College Workforce Development Database, a tool
designed by NETWORK Consortium and the American Association of Community
Colleges, has moved to the Web. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor,
it provides access to a wide variety of workforce development
information, covering more than 800 colleges and about 5,000 public- and
private-sector training programs. See http://www.ttrc.doleta.gov/network
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CAMPUS CONNECTIONS
ATTACHING DOCUMENTS TO WEB FORMS
The University of Virginia is looking for a dynamic, user-controlled
mechanism for attaching scanned (or faxed) documents to Web forms--for
example, attaching receipts to a travel reimbursement request. Anyone
with experience to share in this area is invited to contact Mike Jewell
at 804-982-2175, mlj3u@virginia.edu.
CENTRAL COMPUTING SYSTEM USING BOTH AFS AND LSF
The University of North Carolina at Chapen Hill is trying to locate
other institutions who have implemented a central computing system using
both the Andrews File System and Load Sharing Facility. Please contact
judd_knott@unc.edu or sally_muller@unc.edu.
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