From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@listserv.ou.edu'" <it-fyi@lists.ou.edu>
Subject: it-fyi: CIT INFOBITS -- March 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:14:37 -0600
CIT INFOBITS March 1999 No. 9 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's
Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of
information technology and instructional technology sources that come to
her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.
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The Wired Professor
Video Conferencing Cookbook
Journal of Statistics Education Available Online
Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
Elementary and Early Childhood Education Journal Debuts
Papers on Museums and the Web
The New Age of the Book
Images of Physicists Online
Recommended Reading
Editor's Note
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THE WIRED PROFESSOR
THE WIRED PROFESSOR: A GUIDE TO INCORPORATING THE WORLD WIDE WEB IN
COLLEGE INSTRUCTION [New York: NYU Press, 1999; ISBN: 0814747256)], is
intended as a "hands-on guide on how to build and manage
instruction-based web pages and sites" for teachers with limited
experience on the Internet. The book is written by Anne B. Keating,
Curriculum Coordinator for Instructional Technology for the School of
Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University, and Joseph
Hargitai, instructional technology specialist at the Innovation Center
of the Academic Computing Facility, New York University.
In conjunction with the book, the authors are providing a Web site, "The
Wired Professor: Book Companion Web Site," which includes excerpts from
the book, examples of "outstanding" faculty Web sites, HTML and
multimedia tips, and links to distance education resources.
The Wired Professor companion site is available at
http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/professor.html/
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VIDEO CONFERENCING COOKBOOK
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Video
Development Initiative has published the "Video Conferencing Cookbook,"
an online manual providing detailed information and suggestions to help
institutions select video hardware and software, create videoconference
spaces, and conduct videoconferences. The authors include faculty and
staff from the Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The manual is available on the
World-Wide Web at http://sunsite.utk.edu/video_cookbook/
SURA, a consortium of forty-four U.S. universities in thirteen
southeastern states and the District of Columbia, was established in
1980 as a nonprofit corporation "through which colleges, universities,
and other organizations may cooperate with one another and with
government and other organizations in acquiring, developing, and using
laboratories, machines, and other research facilities and in furthering
knowledge in the physical, biological, and other natural sciences and
engineering." For more information about SURA, contact: SURA, 1200 New
York Avenue, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20005-3298 USA; tel:
202-408-7872; fax: 202-408-8250; email: surahq@sura.org; Web:
http://www.sura.org/
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JOURNAL OF STATISTICS EDUCATION AVAILABLE ONLINE
The JOURNAL OF STATISTICS EDUCATION (JSE), a refereed publication
sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA), seeks to
improve "statistics education at all levels, including primary,
secondary, post-secondary, postgraduate, continuing, and workplace
education. . . . The intended audience includes anyone who teaches
statistics, as well as those interested in research on statistical and
probabilistic reasoning." Issues published from 1993-1998 are available
free to the public on the Web at
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/index.html
Access to issues published in 1999 will require a subscription; the
annual subscription price is $10 (US). To subscribe to JSE, fill out the
online form at https://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/JSEForm.htm
For more information about the ASA, contact: American Statistical
Association, 1429 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314-3402 USA; tel:
888-231-3473; fax: 703-684-2037; email: asainfo@amstat.org; Web:
http://www.amstat.org/
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LITERATURE ON ELECTRONIC SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Marian Dworaczek's "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A
Bibliography" have been updated this month. The documents "deal with all
aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print
materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in
collected works. Approximately 680 items were identified and indexed in
great detail for this project." The Index is available at
http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The Bibliography is
available at http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM
For more information, contact: Marian Dworaczek, Head, Acquisitions
Department and Head, Technical Services, University of Saskatchewan
Libraries, Room 24, Main Library/Murray Building, 3 Campus Drive,
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4 Canada; tel: 306-966-6016; fax: 306-966-5919;
email: dworaczek@sklib.usask.ca; Web: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze
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ELEMENTARY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION JOURNAL DEBUTS
In February the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced the publication
of the first peer-reviewed, Internet-only journal in the field of early
childhood education.
EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH & PRACTICE (ECRP) contains "articles,
commentaries, reviews, and important announcements that address the
entire range of current, practice-related issues. The journal emphasizes
articles on research and development related to children and parents,
such as early childhood curriculum, parent participation, teacher and
caregiver development and education, and policy."
Two issues are planned for 1999; the journal will become a quarterly
publication in 2000. The first issue of ECRP is available at
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/
ERIC/EECE is one of sixteen clearinghouses in the ERIC system, which is
part of the National Library of Education and is funded by the Office of
Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of
Education. ERIC/EECE contributes to the ERIC database in the areas of
child development, the education and care of children from birth through
early adolescence, the teaching of young children, and parenting and
family life. The clearinghouse also operates the Parents AskERIC
question-answering service, which is part of the AskERIC systemwide
project to provide electronic information services over the Internet.
For more information about ERIC/EECE and its other publications and
services, contact: The ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early
Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE), University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Children's Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign,
IL 61820-7469 USA; tel: 800-583-4135; fax: 217-333-3767; email:
ericeece@uiuc.edu; Web: http://ericeece.org/
For more information on ERIC and its sponsoring organizations, go to the
ERIC Web site at http://www.accesseric.org:81/
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PAPERS ON MUSEUMS AND THE WEB
"Museums and the Web 1999," an international conference devoted to the
impact of the Web on museums and museology, was held in New Orleans this
month. Over fifty presentation and demonstration papers from the
conference are available on the Web. Many of the papers cover areas of
interest to humanities scholars, librarians, and others involved in
creating digital collections of research materials. Conference sessions
included "Enabling Scholarly Research on the Web," "Tools for Teachers,"
"Large-Scale, High-Precision Web Retrieval," and "Academic Users of
Museum Web Sites." To access the papers, link to
http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/
"Museums and the Web" conferences are sponsored by Archives & Museum
Informatics (A&MI), a firm that provides consulting for archives,
museums, libraries and cultural heritage networks. For more information
about A&MI, see http://www.archimuse.com/
A&MI provides management services for the Art Museum Image Consortium
(AMICO), a not-for-profit association of institutions with collections
of art, that have come together to enable educational use of the digital
documentation of their collections by building a joint digital library
documenting their collections. This library will be available to all
levels of the educational community. For more information about AMICO,
visit their Web site at http://www.amico.net/
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THE NEW AGE OF THE BOOK
"If the future brings newspapers without news, journals without pages,
and libraries without walls, what will become of the traditional book?
Will electronic publishing wipe it out?" Robert Darnton, professor of
history at Princeton University and the president of the American
Historical Association, asks these questions in his article "The New
Age of the Book" (THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, March 18, 1999). Darnton
believes that the traditional scholarly book could survive by being
transformed into or supplemented by the electronic monograph. His
article is available online at
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?19990318005F
Other articles from The New York Review of Books are available online at
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html
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IMAGES OF PHYSICISTS ONLINE
The American Institute for Physics (AIP) has a searchable collection of
more than 1,500 images and biographical information available online.
These images are part of the 25,000 historical photographs, slides,
lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials that make up the
Emilio Segre Visual Archives, which is part of the Niels Bohr Library of
the Center for History of Physics at the AIP. The collection focuses on
American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but
includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields
related to physics, and in earlier times. The collection is located at
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
For more information about the AIP and its other collections and
activities, contact: American Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse,
College Park, MD 20740-3843 USA; tel: 301-209-3100; fax: 301-209-0843;
email: aipinfo@aip.org; Web: http://www.aip.org/
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists books that have been recommended to me or
that I have found particularly interesting and/or useful. Send your
recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu
AVATARS OF THE WORD: FROM PAPYRUS TO CYBERSPACE by James Joseph
O'Donnell
Harvard University Press, 1998; ISBN: 0-674-05545-4
"This book is for people who read books and use computers and wonder
what the two have to do with each other. . . . This book is an attempt
to think about how we rework some of the connections among speaking and
writing and reading today."
For links to the book's supplementary materials and more about O'Donnell
and his other publications, see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/jod.html
TECHGNOSIS: MYTH, MAGIC, + MYSTICISM IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION by Erik
Davis
Harmony Books, 1998; ISBN: 0-517-70415-3
"Davis marshals an impressive, even exhausting, amount of evidence from
Eastern and Western literature, history, philosophy, scripture and
popular culture to support his sometimes opaque position on the matter
of technology's impact on human spirituality and vice versa."
(PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY review)
For an excerpt from the book, see
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=051770415
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These books were recommended by Paul Gilster, in his keynote speech at
the Special Libraries Association South Atlantic Regional Conference
held in March in Charleston, SC. Gilster is the author of DIGITAL
LITERACY [John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0-471-24952-1], and a columnist and
correspondent for the Raleigh, NC NEWS AND OBSERVER who specializes in
information technology. You can read Gilster's columns at
http://news-observer.com/biz/columns/gilster/
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Ever wanted to start your own electronic newsletter? On March 11, 1999,
Carolyn Kotlas, Editor of CIT INFOBITS, shared her experiences in
"Self-Publishing Electronic Newsletters," a presentation given at the
first Special Libraries Association South Atlantic Regional Conference
in Charleston, SC. Notes and references from Carolyn's talk are
available online at http://www.unc.edu/~kotlas/sarc99.html
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