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Content Spotlight: Use Your Subhead

Content Spotlight: Use Your Subhead
In Web writing, we serve our readers poorly if we don't give them some way to grasp the whole document while making it easy to find and understand particular sections. Enter the subhead.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001

The Chronicle: With National e-University,

The Chronicle: With National e-University, Britain Gets in the Online-Education Game Although only a few universities will offer courses through the e-University when it puts its first materials online next year, the government plan calls for all higher-education institutions in Britain to be members of the holding company that owns and administers the project. The e-University will not award degrees on its own, but the participating programs will be marketed jointly and will share some technological infrastructure. The effort will be financed by a combination of government and private money.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate

Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate Class Goes Online: Challenges and Successes In this column, I want to share what online learning looks like in my context, the problems I have encountered, and what I have found out along the way about providing effective online learning for the teachers in my university-level courses. Clearly the use of technology as a tool for learning is something that most school educators are dealing with in their classrooms. Indeed, in Australia this has been written into school policies and curricula. However, with respect to teacher education -- be it at the preservice, inservice, or graduate level -- we are only just beginning to realize the potential that technology has for learners.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001

MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online

MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online Work
Ray Ozzie: From the personal perspective, "online collaboration," or knowledge work with others toward a common objective, facilitated by technology, is becoming the rule as opposed to the exception. We pick our tools based upon our human needs. When we need to communicate simple messages, we choose e-mail. When we need to visually mark up an image, we oftentimes choose fax. When we need to communicate an emotion, such as a sense of urgency or happiness, we frequently choose the phone. Humans are multimedia creatures by nature, and we choose the tool that meets the need..."

Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Web Review: Communities and Commerce:

Web Review: Communities and Commerce: Beyond the Bulletin Board
Now that the Internet economy has been rationalized, so to speak, community is once again the buzzword du jour. But this time, "community" isn't just a tacked-on benefit�a front door tool or a chat box feature added as an afterthought�it's the core of the online initiative. Communities are now being leveraged as feedback mechanisms that tie directly into a company's operations, and they're becoming the linchpin on which commerce efforts are built. Just as products and services have an impact on the community, the hope is that these communities will have a formative impact on products and services.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Silicon.com: Knowledge management: It’s about

Silicon.com: Knowledge management: It's about people too
The term 'knowledge management' is outdated and confusing and should be scrapped, according to David Snowden, director of IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, EMEA... According to Snowden, his analysis is based on a move towards studying culture as an anthropologist, not a consultant. Management consultants go into companies with pre-conceived ideas, argued Snowden, which is why they are unable to understand the knowledge management requirements within that company.

Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001

SF Gate: Leaping ahead of

SF Gate: Leaping ahead of the competition: Some big stars in the Knowledge Universe
What do ex-junk bond king Michael Milken, Oracle Corp.'s flamboyant Chairman Larry Ellison and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz have in common?... All three are involved with Knowledge Universe, a low-profile Menlo Park company that intends to boost education not just for kids, but also for adults and corporations.

Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001

Fast Company: How the PC

Fast Company: How the PC Really Got Started
The personal computer celebrates its 20th birthday this month. At a gala party in Silicon Valley, the PC's original developers, including Bill Gates and Andy Grove, swapped tales of those wild and wacky days on the frontier of the computer revolution.

Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001

Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging:

Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging: Another kind of website
Lloyd Nebres works for UC Berkeley's Academic Talent Development Program. For several years he has taught a summer course for high school students called The Internet Classroom... For his summer 2000 course Lloyd decided to introduce weblogging using Userland's Editthispage as weblog host. Little did Lloyd know that this would turn into a thriving community of 20-some regularly blogging high school students beyond the summer and throughout the past school year, with students introducing other friends to blogging, gradually leading to the involvement of peers, relatives, siblings, friends, and other adults. Since May 2000 Lloyd has flipped his blog daily, referring to and commenting on student blogs, posing questions and writing prompts, weaving together themes from various weblogs, and carefully pushing and pulling at the students to foster critical thinking and thoughtful writing.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

TechTV: Top Five Tips for

TechTV: Top Five Tips for Online Community
Got a website? Thinking of adding community features such as Web boards and chat rooms to let your users talk back? Here are a few tips for happy community building online from Derek Powazek, whose book on the subject, Design for Community, comes out on August 15.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a

Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a problem consumers don't have
The publishing world's attempts to turn electronic fiction and non-fiction into a lucrative revenue stream have yielded only a trickle of customers. Flaccid sales aside, publishers face even bigger challenges. Digitizing the printed page has put the very nature of books up for grabs, unleashing heated battles among writers, readers, librarians and technologists over who should control electronic books.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

New Scientist: New language could

New Scientist: New language could speed up the web
The new language is Curl. Its creators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that the fledgling technology can speed up the delivery of applications over the web by up to 10 times. It is said to combine the simplicity of web typesetting tools such as HTML with complex web programming languages such as Java.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

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Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

eLearn Magazine: The Global Gamble

eLearn Magazine: The Global Gamble
When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in April that it plans to place materials for all its courses online at no cost, many were puzzled. At a time when most colleges and universities are trying to figure out how to make money on the Web�and when intellectual property concerns reign�why on earth would MIT give the goods away?

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

eLearn Magazine: Back to the

eLearn Magazine: Back to the Future: What�s Next After Learning Objects
But learning objects only allow for one-way transmission of knowledge�from instructor to learner. They are built on the premise that somebody high up on the corporate food chain knows more than the workers do. These days, organizations are slowly realizing that this premise is false. As business conditions change at an ever-accelerating pace, the front-line workers are increasingly the ones who see the changes coming and figure out how to deal with them first. The entire industry of knowledge management was born out of this realization, and it is growing fast. Yet at the very moment when organizations are realizing that they have to learn from their workers, training departments shutting down one major potential avenue for knowledge to flow upward by taking all social interaction out of their educational programs.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

Fortune: Cool Supplies Attention, class.

Fortune: Cool Supplies
Attention, class. School hasn't even started yet, and already you have to answer some tough questions when it comes to technology. Yes, you need a computer at college, but which one? Windows or Macintosh? Desktop or laptop? Do you scrimp on the budget, knowing the low-end machine will almost certainly flunk out before graduation, or spend more for a machine in the hope that it won't be the class clown four years from now? And what other gizmos do you need in the dorm room? On the following pages we've created a cheat sheet of cool gadgets--a mix of electives and requirements--that can make campus life more productive and fun, not necessarily in that order.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its

SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its link to the Internet
Back in 1998, Robert Kraut, a professor of social psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, released a study, HomeNet, that found the Net was dangerous to one's social and psychological well-being... Now, Kraut and colleagues are back with another report, Internet Paradox Revisited, due to be published next spring in the Journal of Social Issues. In re-interviewing the subjects of the first study, the researchers found depression significantly declined with Internet use and social isolation was not associated with high Internet use.

Journal of Online Behavior: Reformulating the Internet Paradox: Social Cognitive Explanations of Internet Use and Depression

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend $100-Million on Distance Programs for Developing Countries
Tens of thousands of teachers, students, and officials in developing countries will receive training in specific skills over the Internet, becoming "virtual students" in Australian universities. Younger students will undertake Net-based school programs devised in Australia.