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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:25:32 +0100

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         Subject: Hypermedia Joyce Studies

[2] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu> (162)
Subject: CIT Infobits -- July 2005

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         Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:18:09 +0100
         From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Hypermedia Joyce Studies

Announcing the latest issue of HJS!

Hypermedia Joyce Studies vol. 6 no. 1 (2005)
www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce
www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/masthead
www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contents

CONTENTS:

A Eumaean Return to Style
Sam Slote

Aurality and Adaptation: Radioplay in Ulysses
Jane A. Lewty

Mind Factory: From Artifice to Intelligence
Louis Armand

Finnegans Wake III.3 and the Third Millennium: The Ghost of
Modernisms Yet to Come
John Marvin

Gat-toothed Alysoun, Gaptoothed Kathleen: Sovereignty and Dentition
William Sayers

NB. the next issue of HJS (December/January) will be the 10th
anniversary issue.

HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES
www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce

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         Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:18:54 +0100
         From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
         Subject: CIT Infobits -- July 2005

CIT INFOBITS July 2005 No. 85 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 and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.

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Creating Learning Space
Scholarly Web Searching
New Journal of Online Learning
Games Children Play
Spreadsheets in Education
Internet Literacy Test
Recommended Reading

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CREATING LEARNING SPACE

"Designers have traditionally studied courtyards, plazas, and hallways
for usage and flow patterns. Learning space designers must now consider
the instructional implications of these spaces." The theme for the
latest issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW (vol. 40, no. 4, July/August 2005) is
learning space design. In addition to the articles, readers with Web
connection can access an online-only section that includes "photos of
various learning space design projects and podcast interviews with four
learning space design experts." The complete issue is available online
at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm054.asp.

EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that
explores developments in information technology and education, is
published by EDUCAUSE, 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 1010, Washington, DC
20036 USA; tel: 202-872-4200; fax: 202-872-4318; email:
info@educause.edu; Web: http://www.educause.edu/. Articles from current
and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/.

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SCHOLARLY WEB SEARCHING

"Google Scholar" -- a Google service for scholars that allows searches
to be limited to academic materials (including peer-reviewed papers,
theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports) -- is not
the only game in town. In "Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and
Scirus" (ONLINE, vol. 29, no. 4, July/August 2005), Greg R. Notess
provides an overview of Google Scholar and Elsevier's Scirus, another
searching resource for scholars. Unlike Google Scholar, Scirus includes
regular web pages as well as journal articles. Using some sample
searches, he compares the two services' search capabilities and
limitations, as well as the advantages of each to scholarly
researchers. The article is available online at no charge at
http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml.

Online [ISSN:0009-2258] is published bimonthly by Information Today,
Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055-8750 USA; tel:
609-654-6266; fax: 609-654-4309; email: custserv_at_infotoday.com; Web:
http://www.infotoday.com/online/. A limited number of articles are
freely available online to non-subscribers.

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NEW JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING

MERLOT has launched the JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING (JOLT),
a free, peer-reviewed, online journal designed to address the scholarly
use of multimedia resources in education. Papers in the first issue
(July 2005) include:

"The Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Enhancing Student Learning through
Online Faculty Development" by Jon Mueller

"Physlets and Open Source Physics for Quantum Mechanics: Visualizing
Quantum-mechanical Revivals" by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang
Christian

"Learning Objects in Use: 'Lite' Assessment for Field Studies" by
Vivian Schoner, Dawn Buzza, Kevin Harrigan, and Katrina
Strampel

"Beyond the Valley of the Shadow: Taking Stock of the Virginia Center
for Digital History" by Elsa A. Nystrom and Justin A. Nystrom

JOLT is available at http://jolt.merlot.org/.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching) is a free and open resource and community designed primarily
for faculty and students of higher education. Community members
contribute online learning materials and peer reviews. Membership is
free. For more information, go to http://www.merlot.org/.

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GAMES CHILDREN PLAY

Computer games as learning tools is emerging as a highly-debated topic.
Here's a roundup of recent articles and resources that explore
children's use of computer games and speculation of how games will
"play out" in as educational tools.

"Meet the Gamers"
By Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler
Library Journal.com, April 15, 2005
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/ca516033.html
          "In the past, librarians have often been perceived as
          gatekeepers, arbiters of access to information. The digital
          cultures now emerging (with the help of technologies such as
          games) suggest that the days for such an institutional role are
          numbered."

"Gaming for Librarians: An Introduction"
By Heather Wilson
VOYA, February 2005
http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200502YA101.pdf
          "[P]eople lament the fact that teens are playing video games
          and not reading. They are missing the point. Gaming often
          requires reading, problem-solving, and critical thinking."

"The Games Children Play"
30-minute video produced by School Matters
http://www.teachers.tv/strandProgramme.do?strandId=6&transmissionProgrammeId=155402&r=47043
          Video advocating the use of games in education, featuring
          interviews with Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media
          studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jim
          Gee, professor of education at the University of
          Wisconsin-Madison.

"Video Games and the Future of Learning"
By David Williamson Shaffer, Kurt R. Squire, Richard Halverson, and
          James P. Gee
December 2004
http://www.academiccolab.org/resources/gappspaper1.pdf
          "[W]e describe an approach to the design of learning
          environments that builds on the educational properties of
          games, but deeply grounds them within a theory of learning
          appropriate for an age marked by the power of new technologies.
          We argue that to understand the future of learning, we have to
          look beyond schools to the emerging arena of video games."

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SPREADSHEETS IN EDUCATION

Instructors have often used the spreadsheet as a educational tool since
these software packages' inception. The free, online journal,
SPREADSHEETS IN EDUCATION (eJSiE), provides a forum for a more formal
exploration of use of the tool in instruction, with peer-reviewed
papers that advance "understanding of the role that spreadsheets can
play in constructivist educational contexts."

In addition to the journal, the eJSiE website includes a section, "In
the Classroom," that provides practical classroom activity resources,
including downloadable spreadsheet models. The journal and other
resources is available at http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/.

Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE) [ISSN 1448-6156] is published by the
Faculty of Information Technology at Bond University, Queensland,
Australia. For more information, contact: Dr Steve Sugden, eJSiE
Editor-in-Chief, Bond University, Gold Coast Q 4229, Australia; tel:
(07) 55953325; international tel: +617 55953325; email:
ssugden_at_staff.bond.edu.au.

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INTERNET LITERACY TEST

Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit organization
responsible for the SAT, GRE, GMAT, and other standardized tests, has
announced a new test, the Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
Literacy Assessment. Using a series of scenarios and tasks, the ICT
Literacy Assessment is designed to measure a student's "ability to use
critical-thinking skills to solve problems within a technological
environment." For more information go to
http://www.ets.org/ictliteracy/index.html.