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CIT INFOBITS February 2006 No. 92 ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning'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.

You can read this issue on the Web at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitfeb06.html.

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The Evolution of an Online Course
Tips for Using Laptops in the Classroom
Scholarly Journal on Plagiarism
Some Non-English-Language Resources
Open Access and Libraries
Recommended Reading

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THE EVOLUTION OF AN ONLINE COURSE

"Like all learners, new online instructors need hands-on experience,
feedback, and ongoing support to become comfortable and proficient in
the virtual classroom. It is unrealistic to expect even the most
self-motivated, creatively pedagogical, and technically inclined
instructor to fly solo after just a few hours of training." In "Uniting
Technology and Pedagogy: The Evolution of an Online Teaching
Certification Course" (EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006),
Bonnie Riedinger and Paul Rosenberg explain how and why a certification
course for online teaching was moved out of the classroom and into an
online environment. The authors note from this experience that the
online environment presents an "opportunity for instructors to examine
their pedagogical habits." The complete article is available online at
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0616.asp?bhcp=1.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly, The IT Practitioner's Journal [ISSN 1528-5324] is
published by EDUCAUSE, 4772 Walnut Street, Suite 206, Boulder, CO
80301-2538 USA. Current and past issues are available online at
http://www.educause.edu/eq/.

See also:

"The Myth about Online Course Development: 'A Faculty Member Can
Individually Develop and Deliver an Effective Online Course'"
by Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 1, January/February 2006
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0617.asp

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TIPS FOR USING LAPTOPS IN THE CLASSROOM

For tips on how to make your students' laptop computers part of their
learning activities, see "14 Good Ideas from Liesel Knaack for Using
Laptops in the Classroom" (SIDEBARS, January 2006). Knaack is a
professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where
every student gets an IBM Thinkpad on their first day of class to use
throughout their studies at the University. The article is online at
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/06january/on-the-side-1.htm.

SideBars [ISSN 1718-3685] is published by the Learning Resources Unit
of the British Columbia Institute of Technology
[http://www.lru.bcit.ca/]. "Founded in December 2001, SideBars provides
useful information and news items for instructors, course developers,
educational technologists, and anyone else who has an interest in
distributed learning in its various manifestations." Current and back
issues are available at http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/. Email
subscriptions are available at no cost at
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html.

Editor's note: My thanks to the editors of SideBars for designating CIT
Infobits as one of the "Friends of sidebars" on their website.

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SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON PLAGIARISM

In January the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office
launched a refereed online journal, PLAGIARY. The purpose of the
journal is "to bring together the various strands of scholarship which
already exist on the subject, and to create a forum for discussion
across disciplinary boundaries." Papers in the first issues include:

-- "The Google Library Project: Both Sides of the Story"

-- "Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier
in Art"

-- "A Million Little Pieces of Shame"

Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and
Falsification [ISSN 1559-3096] is available free of charge as an Open
Access journal on the Internet at http://www.plagiary.org/. For more
information contact: John P. Lesko, Editor, Department of English,
Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI 48710 USA; tel:
989-964-2067; fax: 989-790-7638; email: jplesko_at_svsu.edu.

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SOME NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Since Infobits reaches subscribers all over the world, we welcome
information about resources in other languages besides English. This
month, we present these:

USE
http://munin.bui.haw-hamburg.de/amoll/use/
"USE: Usability Engineering fur E-Learning" is an online document
produced by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Department of
Information. The document, written in German, shows how to involve
students when planning and designing an e-learning website.

STICEF
http://sticef.univ-lemans.fr/
"STICEF: Sciences and Technologies Information and Communication for
Education and Training" presents research "undertaken in the field of
communication and information technologies in the service of human
training." Papers are in French, but English abstracts are available.
Recent papers include:

-- "Reusing Available (educational) Software developed by CAL (Computer
Assisted Learning) Researchers?"

-- "Effet d'un feedback informatif sur la prise de notes dans un
environnement d'apprentissage informatise'"

Editor's note: Machine translation certainly has its limitations;
however, in order to decide if the text is relevant to your needs,
sometimes you need a "quick and dirty" translation of a web page into
your preferred language. In these cases, try Google's translation tools
at http://www.google.com/language_tools. A 2005 evaluation of machine
translation systems conducted by the US National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) rated Google's tool best overall. The NIST report
is online at
http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/mt05eval_official_results_release_20050801_v3.html.

For more on machine translation see Seb Schmoller's June 2005
FORTNIGHTLY MAILING article, "Combining human with machine
translation."
http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/20050612.shtml#1

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OPEN ACCESS AND LIBRARIES

"Open Access and Libraries," by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., compiler of the
"Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography"
[http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html], will appear this year in
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES LIBRARIANS: THE HUMAN ELEMENT OF THE DIGITAL
INFORMATION AGE (edited by Mark Jacobs; Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press,
2006). According to Bailey, the paper "takes an in-depth look at the
open access movement with special attention to the perceived meaning of
the term 'open access' within it, the use of Creative Commons Licenses,
and real-world access distinctions between different types of open
access materials." The preprint, which does not reflect any editorial
changes that may be made, is available at
http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/OALibraries2.pdf.

For more information about Creative Commons licenses, see
http://creativecommons.org/.

Another recent paper on libraries:

"Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual
Destination"
by Jerry D. Campbell

"For most people, including academicians, the library--in its most
basic function as a source of information--has become overwhelmingly a
virtual destination."

EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 1, January/February 2006, p. 16ff.
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp

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