18.625 new on WWW: Ubiquity 6.8

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 625.
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         Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:14:18 +0000
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         Subject: ACM Ubiquity - New Issue Alert

This Week in Ubiquity:

Volume 6, Issue 8
(March 8 - 15, 2005)

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Just Right: Rethinking the How and Why of Technology Instruction
Mary Burns says: "Instruction should go well beyond a skill focus to one
that connects technology use with the actual aims of curriculum and learning
outcomes"

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Science and Engineering of Large-Scale Complex Systems
A short note by Kemal Delic on the science of hybrid systems

Book Excerpt
An Excerpt from the new book "Rapid Contextual Design" by Karen Holtzblatt,
Jessamyn Burns Wendell, and Shelly Woods
"Today companies want to infuse more user data into their processes. But if
we analyze the =B3right=B2 way to do customer-centered design for any=
  project we
may be dismayed at the time and resources it takes. And, companies are also
resistant to changing their own development processes. So what to do?"
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