Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 449.
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[1] From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu> (192)
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2000
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (7)
dortmund.de>
Subject: Review of "Engineering Cyborg Ideology" by N.
[3] From: Eve Trager <etrager@umich.edu> (43)
Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:26:10 +0000
From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2000
CIT INFOBITS February 2000 No. 20 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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Students' Distress with a Web-Based Distance Education Course
Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
Short Online Course on Web Searching
Learning Technology Publication
Building Websites for Science Literacy
Cambridge History of English and American Literature Online
Recommended Reading
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STUDENTS' DISTRESS WITH A WEB-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE
Rob Kling, professor of information systems and information science at
Indiana University at Bloomington School of Library and Information
Science's Center for Social Informatics, studies the social aspect of
computerization. Kling and Noriko Hara (doctoral candidate, Indiana
University Bloomington School of Education) have published a case study
of the problems that arose in a distance-education course. In
"Students' Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course" Hara
and Kling describe two areas that caused frustrations for the students:
technological problems, compounded by no access to technical support;
and the course content and the instructor's practices in managing her
communications with her students. "Unfortunately, a large percentage of
the popular and practitioner articles about computer-mediated distance
education emphasize the potentials of new technology, and understate
the extent to which instructors may need to develop new pedagogies as
well as different approaches to communication practices in their
on-line courses." The authors believe that educators "have much to
learn about the conditions that create the good, the bad, and the ugly
in Internet-enabled text-based distance education," and they offer some
suggestions for how new pedagogies and practices can be implemented to
improve these conditions.
"Students' Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course" is
available on the Web at http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/wp00-01.html
An interview with Rob Kling (THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION,
February 21, 2000) is available at
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/02/2000022101u.htm
Related article: "As Distance Education Comes of Age, the Challenge Is
Keeping the Students," by Sarah Carr, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION, February 11, 2000, p. A39. Online at
http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i23/23a00101.htm
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LOTS OF COPIES KEEPS STUFF SAFE
While the Web can be a far more effective medium for scholarly
communication than paper, so far it lacks the essential property of
permanence. The Stanford Libraries LOCKSS project (Lots of Copies Keeps
Stuff Safe) will provide "persistent access" to online works that is
closely modeled on the paper system. Freely-distributed LOCKSS
software, running on small, cheap microcomputers, will allow libraries
to preserve Web-published academic material. The prototype is currently
being tested at Stanford University, the University of California
Berkeley, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
For more information about LOCKSS, go to http://lockss.stanford.edu/ or
contact Vicky Reich, Assistant Director HighWire Press, Stanford
University Library; email: vreich@stanford.edu
Also of interest: "Digital Preservation: Everything Old is New Again,"
by Andrew K. Pace, COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES, vol. 20, no. 2, February
2000, p. 55. Online at http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb00/pace.htm
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SHORT ONLINE COURSE ON WEB SEARCHING
"So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search
queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it,
like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, 'help' screens to
find out how to improve your searching techniques." With "Bare Bones
101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web," users can improve their
Web searching with a minimum investment of time and effort. The
tutorial was created by Ellen Chamberlain, head librarian at the
University of South Carolina at Beaufort, for professors and students
who just want a quick overview to get them started. Lessons include
basic search tips, creating a search strategy, evaluating Web pages,
and overviews of several popular search engines.
"Bare Bones 101" is on the Web at
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
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LEARNING TECHNOLOGY PUBLICATION
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY reports on the activities of the IEEE Computer
Society Learning Technology Task Force, including various
announcements, work in progress, projects, and participation
opportunities. Recent issues included the following articles:
"Teaching Virtual Reality Using Internet Distance Delivery," by
Veronica S. Pantelidis and Lawrence Auld, Co-Directors, Virtual Reality
and Education Laboratory, School of Education, East Carolina University
"Features of Online Discourse for Education," by Anita Pincas, Lecturer
in Education, Institute of Education, London University
"Educational Technologies: A Mythic Quest Beyond Megabytes," by Alan
Altany, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Marshall
University
Learning Technology [ISSN 1438-0625] is published quarterly by the IEEE
Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force (LTTF). It is available
at no cost in HTML and PDF formats at http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/
LTTF has been founded on the premise that emerging technology has the
potential to dramatically improve learning. The purpose of this task
force is to contribute to the field of Learning Technology and to serve
the needs of professionals working in this field. For more information,
link to http://lttf.ieee.org/
The IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] promotes
the "engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing,
and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies
and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession." For more
information, link to http://www.ieee.org/
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BUILDING WEBSITES FOR SCIENCE LITERACY
In "Building Websites for Science Literacy" [ISSUES IN SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP, no. 25, Winter 2000] Victoria Welborn and
Bryn Kanar (Science Library, University of California, Santa Cruz)
provide guidelines for evaluating Websites and organizing
"webliographies" on scientific topics. The authors' guidelines are
developed from "definitions of science literacy and science information
literacy and illustrated by a sample webliography and a sample search
strategy on the topic of acoustical oceanography." Although targeted
towards reference librarians, the article is of interest to others who
are creating resource guides in the sciences. The article is available
on the Web at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article2.html
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship [ISSN: 1092-1206] is a
quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section of ACRL
(Association of College and Research Libraries). The journal is
available on the Web at no charge at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/
ACRL, a division of the American Library Association, is a professional
association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It
is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and
information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher
education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.
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CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE ONLINE
Bartleby.com publishes classics of literature, nonfiction, and
reference free of charge for the classroom and home use. They recently
announced the online publication of all eighteen volumes of the
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. "Originally
published in 1907-1921, the volumes include 303 chapters and more than
11,000 pages, edited and written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading
scholars and thinkers of the early twentieth century." The English
literature chapters begin with Old English poetry and end with the late
Victorian era. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and
revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century.
The Cambridge History is on the Web at
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Link to http://www.bartleby.com/ for access to other online literary
works.
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RECOMMENDED READING
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Greetings Lists,
Prof. Hayles has written a review OF the book "Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric", written by Diane Greco Eastgate Systems, 134 Main St., Watertown, MA 02172; Mac and Windows, $49.95
The review can be read at: <http://WWW.ALTX.COM/EBR/HAYLES.HTM>
Sincerely Arun Tripathi
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TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US
Having survived Y2K with barely a glitch, we are not pushing our luck. We know that the next problem date is 02/29/00, which would be our next publication date. Rather than take a chance on your missing an issue, we are publishing well in advance of that very first leap day in a century year.
So here is the March 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
In this issue our JEP authors give us insight into how others see us, our profession, and our Web sites.
BioOne: Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/alexander.html Adrian Alexander and Marilu Goodyear report on the short history and long future of BioOne, a library challenge to traditional publishing.
Keeping Your Head in a Revolution http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/friend.html Frederick J. Friend, the resident futurist at University College London, explores new developments in information services and the untoward results of trying to avoid the current revolution.
Old Wine in New Bottles: Formatting Documents with Editorial Notes http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/jaffe.html Lee David Jaffe tries to put himself in the shoes of the visitors to his Gulliver's Travels World Wide Web site in deciding how to present an essay by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Beyond Hits and Page Views http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/peterson.html Ivars Peterson, online editor at Science News, tells how the publication uses its Web logs to decide what belongs on the Web site.
Reprint: PubMed Central: A Good Idea http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/turner0503.html A look at the National Institutes of Health's program to provide a barrier-free repository of life-sciences research reports.
If you have some thoughts about how we are -- or should be -- viewed, share them in Potpourri. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/potpourri.html
Enjoy!
Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463
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