Volume #4, Issue #9
Volume #4, Issue #9
Date: May 1992
Editor:
Jason Ohler, Director
Educational Technology Program
University of Alaska Southeast
ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION
In the industrial age, we go to school. In the information age, school can come to us. This is the message implicit in the media and movement of distance education.
Volume #4, Issue #9
Date: May 1992
Editor:
Jason OhlerTechnical Coordinator
Educational Technology Program Director
University of Alaska Southeast
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-789-4538
BITNET USERID: JFJBO@ALASKA
Paul J. Coffin
716 Taschereau
Ste-Therese, Quebec
J7E 4E1
Phone: 514-430-0995
The bears and the tourists have returned to Juneau which must mean that the academic year is over and that this is the last issue of the Online Chronicle until Fall, 1992. And so it is. A quick assessment of the Chronicle's state of affairs is that readership continues to grow, response continues to be very positive, and articles continue to arrive from all over the world. Your response during the past year ensures that the Chronicle will be back for another season.
On a more personal note, I recommend readers find some time to de-technologize this summer (winter for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere). For me this will mean sitting in the sun for the three months of the year we receive it here, trying not to think too much about the inevitable fusion of networking and multi-media. Not thinking about it will be most difficult, but I am going to try.
See you next Fall.
The editor.
ITEM
1.
Kingston, April 8 (ips) The University of the West Indies (UWI) has
received funds from the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to improve
its distance training (UWIDITE) programme, it was announced here
Wednesday.
The IDB approved a 56 million US dollar loan to assist UWI in carrying out
infrastructural development in the areas of science, agriculture and
distance teaching at its annual meeting in Santo Domingo on Tuesday.
The grant will go towards improving the UWIDITE programme in Caribbean
countries which do not have campuses of the regional university, UWI's Pro-
vice Chancellor for Alumni Affairs, Professor Edward Green, told Caribbean
journalists Wednesday.
Green's announcement was made simultaneously via the UWIDITE system in
Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad, the countries where the university's three
campuses are located. He said details of the agreement would be given
later this week.
The UWIDITE system has been in operation since 1982.
It enables students in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and another six
countries which have facilities for the system to follow regular
university courses on audio-visual telecommunication channels.
Fourteen countries of the English-speaking Caribbean finance the Regional
University, which was established 44 years ago. Graduates of the
university will mark the 45th anniversary of its creation with a convention on April 14 to 18, 1993.
The convention is slated to bring UWI graduates together with Caribbean
graduates of other recognized universities from across the world for
discussions on the theme of "unlocking the potential of a region,"
participants in Wednesday's regional link-up were told.
According to UWI Guild of Graduates' Jamaican representative, Beverly
Pereira, the convention will seek to evaluate where the organisation should go f
rom here.
"I'm very excited at the prospects of focussing on the university's five-
year plan and seeing how graduates can assist in getting it to work," Pereira sa
id.
The convention will serve as a forum for an exchange of ideas with
undergraduates on the role the institution has to play in the future of
the Caribbean region.
"The region can no longer depend on (its) governments and on multilateral
organisations to determine the path of the Caribbean," Green said. He
added that there is a need for the region's target groups, such as the
private sector, non-governmental organisations, and graduates of the UWI
to aim at finding solutions for the Caribbean's problems.
by Howard Fredeick @ IGC NewsDesk, newsdesk@IGC.ORG
| BIG-DAYS | Information of the KIDS-92 Celebration May 18-19 |
| SITEINFO | KIDS-92 Master Site Info (will be updated as with new sites on an increasing frequent basis up to the BIG DAYS) |
| HAMSITES | Amateur Radio sites |
| VIDEOCON | About how to participate in the video conference |
| CHATIRC | How to chat using Internet's IRC |
| CHATBIT | How to chat using BITNET Relay |
Information about how to get these files is given in item 6 below.
4. Around KIDS-92 So far, kids from 40 countries have been involved in the KIDLINK projects. Their responses to the four questions have come from Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Roumania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Suriname, Taiwan, Ukrain, and USA.
Maria Chermnykh, an English teacher at the Protvino Lyceum in Russia, sent us a long letter explaining her experiences with KIDLINK (abridged):
"I teach mostly 7th and 8th grades. It wasn't easy to involve students into the project at first. Some of them after answering 4 questions were waiting for the answers and when the answers didn't come, they were disappointed and didn't want to write any more."But as time passed and they saw that those who were active and persistently wrote letters, got the answers, they began to work. And now we've established communication with many schools in different countries. Some students, such as Nadin Zakamskaya, Lena Rykova, Ann Mukhina, Maxim Svyato, Kirill Lugovsky have got about 50 mails.
"We receive many letters every day. As you know the USSR was a rather closed country and we didn't know much about life in other countries. And now it's like reading an interesting book. Kids from the US, France, Germany, Norwegia, Japan, Italy, write us about their schools, their hobbies and even give recipes of their national cuisine. When we studied the theme Christmas (for the first time), this year, we could see all the traditions and the way of celebrating it in the letters of American children. That was very useful.
"Two weeks ago on our local Moscow TV program there was a film about our lyceum, where our kids shared there impressions and spoke about there correspondence, read some interesting letters and said they were very glad to take part in KIDS-92. They said many kind words about it.
"The next very important reason why we greet this project is an opportunity for our students to practice their English. And we see such a great success due to our corresponding. Now our students are able to write letters without teachers help. We often do it at the lessons. They even try to speak English and that's very important for us. I think our teaching foreign languages never used it during there life. But today everything changes in our country. And we seem not to live separately from the world any more. And it's great.
With best wishes.
Maria Chermnykh"
The 11 year old Denis Pshelkin lives in Protvino, Russia. One of his graphical contributions to the KIDLINK Gallery of Computer Art was used on the front cover of The Co-op Spirit (TechAlliance), March 1992, with credit to the artist given on page 3. This picture is available from the KIDLINK Gallery as ART016.
There was a two-page article on KIDLINK in the British magazine COMMUNICATIONS MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA volume 2 number 3 March 1992, and an article in Agderposten (Norway). The British magazine "Radio Communication", April 1992, brought a nice announcement of the KIDS-92 Celebration (pp 20 and 21).
Thanks to support from Arendal Naeringsraad, Arendal, Norway, we now have a menu-driven desktop PC slideshow presenting KIDLINK. It contains over 130 pictures to be viewed on a VGA color screen. (The text pictures can be viewed on CGA, EGA, and Hercules color displays as well.) We offer this presentation to ANYONE in the world on the following terms:
5. Sponsors
Arendal Naeringsraad (Norway) has sponsored the development of a PC-based KIDLINK-presentation with NOK 22.000 (appr. US$3,400). Further, they have ordered a feasibility study of a possible local KIDLINK Center. Value approximately US$3,800.
Norsk Faglitteraere Forfatterforening (Oslo, Norway) has given Odd de Presno a grant of NOK 47,620 (appr. US$ 7,300) to write a book about KIDLINK. The work will start after the Celebration in May. Others will also be involved in the work. Royalties earned by sales of this English language book will go in full to KIDLINK's global activities. (Mail opresno@ulrik.uio.no for more information or to get involved.)
The Canadian Secretary of State's office has agreed to sponsor a pilot project to involve Canadian youth throughout the country in KIDLINK and KIDS FROM KANATA, an initiative modeled after KIDLINK to engage Canadian youth in dialog about the critical issues facing their country and the world today. The initial grant was $60,000 (Canadian).
6. New Documents and Files
These are some new or updated files that are available by e-mail from the KIDS-92 archives:
General information:Information for teachers:
GENERAL What is KIDS-92? GENERALG Was ist KIDS-92 (Deutch) QUESTION The four KIDLINK questions explained MASTER KidLink Document Descriptions INDEXHLP How to use the INDEX and INDEXW services LIBRARY How to use the KIDLINK archives GEO-DAT Data files for GeoClock (KIDS-92 by April 1, 1992) KIDMAP Map of KIDLINK KIDMAPIT Map of Kidlink (Italian) CONTACTS People to contact about KIDS-92 PROJECTS KIDLINK Project Overview SLIDES KIDLINK presentation in Oslo LOGO-UGF KIDLINK Logo GIF/UUEncoded LOGO-UPX KIDLINK Logo PCX/UUEncoded LOGO2BGF KIDLINK Logo GIF/UU 640x200 NEWS4-92 newsletter #4 NEWS492G KIDS-92 Newsletter #4 (German) TIPS Practical tips about using KIDLINK KIDSHOW The KIDLINK Slideshow offer
REPORT KIDS-92 in the Classroom NOMAIL When your students get no mail in KIDCAFE KIDS-92 Project Information:
ENVIRON Youth Environment Forum
To get a list of all available files in the KIDS-92 archives, send a message to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu. In the TEXT of your message, write the command:
INDEX KIDS-92To get one of the files from the list above, write the command:
GET KIDS-92as in "GET KIDS-92 GENERAL". If you have problems downloading files, please e-mail Odd de Presno (opresno@ulrik.uio.no).
7. About KIDS-92
On May 18th and 19th,1992, the children will be invited to "chat" with each other in a global electronic dialog. Exhibitions of selected contributions to the KIDS-92 Creative Challenge and parts of the responses will be sent back to the world for the children to see and enjoy.
Our global online discussion forums, KIDS-92, KIDPROJ, KIDPLAN, and KIDPLAN2, are meeting places for teachers, parents and other persons involved with the KIDS-92 project. KINDEX and KIDNEXW are special services set up to help coordinators cope with the volume of messages. KINDEX covers KIDCAFE, while KINDEXW covers the rest.
The project operates the following forums for the children themselves:
The command should be in the BODY of the text. The discussion forums are also available through several conferencing system and mail exploders around the world. Write us for more information.
All discussion forums are open for everybody, but only kids between 10 - 15 may write messages in KIDCAFE and KIDS-ACT.
The KIDS-92 newsletter is an information bulletin for teachers, participants, sponsors, mediators, promoters, and others. Suggestions and contributions are invited. But please don't wait until the next issue to plan activities in your community! And be sure to write us if you want to get on the mailing list for KIDS-92!! Onward!
Editor/Project director: Odd de Presno
Mail address: Saltrod, Norway (Europe)
Fax: +47 41 27111
Online addresses:
Internet: opresno@ulrik.uio.no
UUCP/EUnet: uunet!ulrik.uio.no!opresno
DASnet: [DEZNDP]opresno
S.H.S. BBS: SYSOP (Phone: +47 41 31378)
If you want to help out with KIDS-92, or participate, contact the editor, or one of the following persons:
Daniel D. Wheeler:
Bitnet: wheeler@ucbeh
Internet: Dan.Wheeler@UC.Edu
Nancy Stefanik:
MetaNet=stefanik
PeaceNet=nstefanik
AppleLink=x0447, TCN=tcn145
Internet: stefanik@tmn.com
UUCP/EUnet: tmn!stefanik@uunet.uu.net
You can also write to
KIDLINK, 4815 Saltrod, Norway
or just sign up
.
ITEM 4.
Not much is known about the distance education concept by the average
person in the street. But there have been some serious efforts to bring
distance education about in Saudi Arabia, some of which have worked.
For example, IBM helped create a computer network to link academic
institutions in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, called Gulfnet.
Gulfnet currently has 9 nodes, seven in Saudi Arabia and two in Kuwait.
The initial investment was made by IBM. Participating institutions pay
annual fees to keep the network running. The network is a WAN which uses
the store-and-forward method. It is called PRE_SNA. In late 1989 Gulfnet
was linked to BITNET to allow wider access to the largest number of nodes.
It has been running smoothly ever since.
This network contributes greatly to distance education efforts through its
support of electronic newsletters and journals, and especially because
university professors and consultants use it for teaching. Although it is
used primarily for computer-mediated communication (CMC), it is well
suited to serve as a distance education platform.
The ultimate solution to meet our distance educations needs is, in my
opinion, satellite-delivered programming. Over the past few years
communication satellites have become more prevalent and more economical to
manufacture and put into orbit. Satellite TV is the solution to reach
remote areas of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the globe.
Television by itself is an excellent medium to deliver information and
knowledge. Although it is passive and not interactive, it makes up for
that in its ability to deliver live images in full color with audio,
computer generated graphics, and animation, which further enhance the
process of learning and make education more appealing to those who may
have been turned off by the conventional "chalk and talk" classroom
experience. We all know the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words."
Well I would say "A motion picture is worth a million words." I feel
satellite TV could be the mechanism to provide a fully workable distance
education system as more and more people jump on the band wagon and join
the team of knowledge seekers. CMC can then be used to make up for the
missing part of satellite TV, interactivity, to acknowledge the reception
and comprehension of ideas and information which have earlier been
transmitted. Even though satellite TV may entail a huge investment of
resources, it returns solid, sound, exciting, and memorable learning
experiences that would last a life time.
One other property that TV has over other tools is that it can communicate
to wide audiences. A large number of students may be engaged in a
programme without ever leaving the comfort of their homes, so the
investment that would otherwise be put into chairs, blackboards, and
school buildings, can be used to rent satellite transponders to carry
programming and production costs.
I see satellite TV as a viable solution to meet the distance education
needs of Saudi Arabia and beyond. Unfortunately, entertainment and news
currently dominate the satellite TV industry. Let us hope that in the
near future this will change and distance education will become a reality.
Ahmed Sayegh, Systems Supervisor
ITEM 5.
*parenthetical part of the title by the editor
Editor's note: It seems what we need these days is information about
information. With all of the places "to go" online, where does one start?
There are several different lists of lists available:
There are also a couple mailing lists which can help you get started on
the network or to help you find lists of interest:
Other sources like NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU (NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.Bitnet) and
NETMONTH (from BITLIB@YALEVM) publish announcements of new lists. To
subscribe to NEW-LIST:
SRI NIC Maintained Interest-Groups List of Lists
The SRI NIC list-of-lists is now available via electronic mail.
Send a message to mail-server@nisc.sri.com with the following line in
the message body:
The global list can also be searched online. For details send LISTSERV
the command INFO DATABASE. The global lists is called the "LISTS" database
and is available at some of the major backbone LISTSERVs.
For example, to search of both these databases for lists on "bicycles"
you would send the statements:
The following files are also available via anonymous FTP from
VM1.NoDak.EDU in the "BITINFO" directory. Once connected enter CD
BITINFO. These may not be the most current versions of these files but
may be more accessible to folks on NSFNET.
The files can be obtained by anonymous FTP from DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU
<129.170.16.19> in directory SIGLISTS.
ITEM 6.
The JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, launched three years ago as a
refereed scholarly print journal, has initiated simultaneous publication
of an electronic edition with its first issue of 1992. The new
publication includes graphics -- one of the first electronic scholarly
journals to do so.
The current issue of the journal, which is published twice a year by the
Technology Education Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, is now available in electronic form without charge via Bitnet
and the Internet. The text of the journal's articles are offered in ASCII
format, which is traditional for many on-line electronic journals sent via
Bitnet and the Internet, while a single graphic illustration of one of the
articles is available as a separate Postscript file. The journal is one of
the first electronic scholarly journals, if not the first, of its kind to
be offered with graphics over Bitnet and the Internet.
JTE, as the journal is known, is co-sponsored by the International
Technology Education Association and the Council on Technology Teacher
Education. The electronic version is published with the cooperation of
Virginia Tech's Scholarly Communications Project, which earlier this year
initiated the publication of an electronic version of the 20-year-old
print journal CATALYST.
Mark Sanders, Associate Professor of Vocational and Technical Education at
Virginia Tech and founding editor, said the journal was offered
electronically to reach a larger and more diversified readership. "It
also seemed appropriate," he said, "to try out a high tech distribution
system with a journal on technology education."
Offering the journal electronically without charge poses little threat to
the financial base of the journal, Sanders said, because of the low cost
and better appearance of the print version. Subscriptions to the two
printed issues per year is $8.00 for individuals and $15.00 for
institutions in the U.S., somewhat more outside the U.S. The print
journal is circulated to about 500 teacher educators at colleges and
universities in the field of Technology Education.
To become an electronic subscriber of the JTE, send the following e-mail
message to LISTSERV @ VTVM1 (Bitnet) or to LISTSERV@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
(Internet):
Future issues will no doubt have more than one graphic, Sanders said.
Consideration also is being given to placing the journal's back issues on
line, accessible to electronic subscribers. The journal hopes to stay on
the cutting edge of electronic publication, improving the quality of the
electronic version as technology allows.
For further information, contact
B. Resource- Bibliography of Library Distance Ed Resources & Services
Access to library resources and services continues to be a perplexing and
challenging area of distance education. There is a recent annotated
bibliography which provides a wealth of information on this area.
Some of the major topics covered in this bibliography are:
The reference to the bibliography is:
Latham, Sheila, Alexander Slade, and Carol Budnick. LIBRARY SERVICES FOR
OFF-CAMPUS AND DISTANCE EDUCATION: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1991. 249pp.
Contains 535 annotated entries.
In the United States, order from:
In Canada, order from:
In the United Kingdom, order from:
Submitted by:
C. Resource- Directory of E-journals, Newsletters, Lists
ARL Issues Revised and Expanded Directory of Electronic Publications
Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be accessed
free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated academic networks,
it is not always a simple chore to find out what is available. The
Directory is a compilation of entries for 769 scholarly lists, 36
journals, 80 newsletters, and 17 "other" titles including some newsletter-
digests -- an increase in size of close to 50% since the first edition of
July 1992. The directory provides specific instructions for electronic
access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in
finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he
or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems.
The frontmatter includes a reprint of scientist Stevan Harnad's visionary
description of "scholarly skywriting" originally published in the
electronic journal Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2 (1), as "Post-
Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of
Knowledge."
Author/compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Michael
Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa and Diane
Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries created the scholarly
discussion lists and interest groups section. The printed ARL directory
is derived from widely accessible networked files maintained by
Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory points to these files as the
principal, continuously updated, and free-of-charge sources for accessing
such materials.
The publication is available to ARL member libraries for $12.50 and to non-
members for $25.00. These charges include domestic postage and handling.
NOTE: ALL COUNTRIES OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA PAY ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. PLEASE
APPLY FOR RATES. The Directory is produced in 8 1/2 by 11S paper-bound
format; it is 260 pages long; scholarly lists are grouped by broad
subject areas, and journals and newsletters in alphabetical order. It is
also available in either DOS or MAC 3.5" diskette form. All orders must
be PREPAID and sent to the Association of Research Libraries.
The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization
representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its
mission is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of
research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL
programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of
recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and
community service. These programs include annual statistical
publications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing
access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications,
collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control.
For instructions about how to retrieve the electronic files on which the
print directory is based, please message the following electronic address.
We can also supply an order blank electronically:
Christine Klein/ARL Directory
First, type: FTP KSUVXA.KENT.EDU at your dollar sign prompt (VAX)
or ready screen (IBM). If you are on another kind of system consult with
your computer services people to find out the proper procedure for FTPing.
Then, when prompted for 'USERID,' type ANONYMOUS. Your password will be
your actual userid on your local machine.
Type: cd library
You may type RdirS to review the files in that directory. To get the
files, type:
GET
FTPing causes files to be directly sent to your filelist or directory so
there is no need to 'receive' them into your account space.
How to receive files sent to you by the LISTSERV into your e-mail reader: This
command will put the file into your directory. You can then type "TYPE
file_name" to read the file. If your e- mail address is on an IBM VM CMS
machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the
file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file.
If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using
Profs or a similar mailing system....try the above commands. If they do
not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES manual for your mailing system
commands.
Please report any corrections or updates to:
F. Conference- Conference Promoting the Establishment of A Consortium To
Sponsor Computer Network Publication of Refereed Journals
First Advance Notice May 1992
The University of Manitoba has received funding commitments to organize
and hold an international conference to promote the establishment of a
consortium of universities and learned societies to sponsor computer
network publication of refereed journals. The consortium would be a
non-profit publishing cooperative intended to make use of the Internet as
an important medium for the publication of scholarly research in any
discipline. Since the summer of 1991, an ad hoc group at the University of
Manitoba has been developing the idea of the conference and the proposed
consortium, and has been working on funding proposals since the Autumn of
1991. The conference is now tentatively slated for the Autumn of 1993 and
will be held at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. We hope to
enlist the interest and cooperation of major research universities and
learned societies across North America and elsewhere.
Over the next year or so, we will be communicating the vision behind the
conference and consortium to the academic community. This is the first
advance notice, and we plan to provide updates with more specific
information on the conference details as plans for it develop.
As an analogy of sorts for the proposed consortium, in the traditional
publishing of books and paper journals, Scholars Press (Atlanta, Georgia)
is a unique example of such a cooperative, operating under several major
U.S. learned societies (e.g., American Academy of Religion, Society of
Biblical Literature, American Philological Society), with a number of
universities in the U.S. and Canada as sponsors of particular publication
projects such as major monograph series. It is an example of groups in the
academic community taking collective responsibility to see that worthy
scholarship gets published, without commercial considerations determining
the question.
The Internet is the major new medium for dissemination of research, and it
is vital that the scholarly community, through its major institutions of
universities and learned societies, become acquainted with the enormous
potential of the Internet for scholarship. Commercial companies are
already devoting attention to developing computer network publication
projects. It is imperative that the scholarly community not leave this
major medium to be developed solely by commercial interests.
The basic aims are
Our initial objective at this point is to inform as many in the
scholarly community as possible of the conference and the consortium
proposal, and to solicit interest in these plans. Please contact us for
more information, and to be kept informed on the progress in our
planning. We also sincerely invite you to offer your ideas on things to be
included in the conference, key people to inform and possibly invite to
the conference, and any other matters relevant to the conference and
consortium proposal.
For more information, and to express your interests in the conference and
consortium, contact the convenor of the University of Manitoba ad hoc
Committee on Electronic Journals
G. Conference- International Conference of Investigation in Distance Ed
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INVESTIGATION IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
16 - 17 - 18 MARCH 1993
In the year of its 15th anniversary, the State Distance University of
Costa Rica has the pleasure to invite you to the International Conference
of Investigation in Distance Education.
Some of the objectives of this conference are to:
Important Information
The inscription fee will be $50 US.
For more information, send E-mail to: valvarad@ucrvm2.bitnet
VIGNY ALVARADO CASTILLO ( VALVARAD AT UCRVM2.BITNET)
UNA NUEVA VISION EN ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS
H. Conference- ICDECC - International Council for Distance Education -
Computer Conference
What is ICDECC?:
The human Porters will insure that topics are relevant to the existing
system or list membership. Some lists may only carry one or a few of the
topical discussions.
I. Looking for- Conference Presenters for Computer Engineering Conference
We are Computer Systems Engineering students at ITESO University, in
Guadalajara, Mexico. Each year a symposium related to our field is
organized by students from the field, supported by our University,
Corporations, and Institutes (like IEEE of Mexico). This year it is our
turn to organize the conference.
We are using this media to ask people for some help and/or support in
contacting conferencists or people that can make presentations and lead
tutorials. The topics of most interest to us are :
This event will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico from September 21 to 25
of this year. If you want to help us or you know someone else who might,
please contact us.
Thank you in advance for your help and cooperation.
J. Looking For- Online Courses
I am a junior majoring in Business Management, Human Resource Development,
and would like any information on colleges or universities that offer
credit via bitnet, internet, or modem. My desire is to find classes in
the areas of ethics, mediation, arbitration, and to find courses that
focus on familial influences in the workplace. Any information on who is
offering programs or courses, how to sign up, costs, and logistics would
be greatly appreciated. I will be available at my bitnet address for at
least the next 12 months, hopefully 24 months.
Thank you,
K. Looking for- Information About Using Internet in Distance Ed
This query has been posted to CREAD, DEOS-L, and DISTED: please forgive
duplication, etc. The subject in each case is Query: Distance Education
and the Internet.
I am researching a paper on the use of the Internet, particularly the e-
mail, telnet, and FTP utilities, to support distance education. If you
are a distance educator and use the above utilities (or Internet resources
in any way) to facilitate the project, I would greatly appreciate a note
from you describing what you are doing. I would also be pleased to hear
from you if you plan such a project, or, in fact, if you have any thoughts
on the matter.
Please respond to me directly, and, if anyone expresses interest I will
summarize the responses.
Thank you.
L. Looking For- Discussion of Dual Mode Cost Effectiveness
I am looking forward to connecting with anyone who is interested in
discussing cost effectiveness in dual mode institutions (face-to-face and
at-a-distance delivery), especially in relation to current research that
is being conducted in one's own dual mode institution. Besides being
interested in the quantitative aspects, I am also interested in the
qualitative aspects, especially the human concerns that are difficult to
measure.
Richard Wah
M. Looking for- Satellite Broadcasts of Earth Summit
Can anyone tell me where I can find information on satellite broadcasts
of UNCED Earth Summit from Rio de Janeiro in June?
Thanks for your help.
by Ahmed Sayegh, F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET
P.O. BOX 25716
Riyadh, Postal Code 11476
Saudi Arabia
F60C038@SAKSU00.BITNET
-Updated 08/22/91
Compiled by Marty Hoag, nu021172@vm1.nodak.edu
Marty's "Lists of Lists" is a good place to begin. Think of it as
a directory of directories that shows you where to go to find out
where to go.
If you have access to the Internet via TCP/IP the Interest Groups
List of lists is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com
(192.33.33.22). FTP as user anonymous and CD to "netinfo" then GET
interest-groups. The file is available as one large file at this time
(over 500,000 characters).
BITNET LISTSERV Servers Global List of Public LISTSERV Lists
Send netinfo/interest-groups
and you should be returned the file in moderate sized pieces. Further
information on the server itself is available with the command
Send help
On BITNET the LISTSERV servers keep a composite list of their lists online. To
get a simple "one line per list" list of all lists (about 1600 lines at the moment) you can send LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU mail with the command:
Network Accessible Database Server
LIST GLOBAL
in the TEXT or BODY of the mail. NOTE: LISTSERV wants the commands in
the text of the mail and you can supply more than one - one per line.
The Subject: field is NOT used for commands (you can put anything there).
We have also added the Internet Interest-Groups list in a format that can
be searched (called the INTGROUP database). This is only available on the
LISTSERV at NDSUVM1 (or VM1.NoDak.EDU).
Usenet NEWS Lists of Groups and Mailing Lists
//DBlook JOB Echo=No
in the text/body of the mail to LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU or on BITNET just
LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
Select bicycle in lists
index
Select bicycle in intgroup
index
Select bicycle in new-list
index
These statements would search the global LISTSERV list
of lists ("in lists"), and the local copy of the SRI-NIC Interest Groups
("in intgroup"), and the archives of the "new-list" list ("in new-list").
Send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE for more information.
The Usenet News list of groups and mailing lists is available on hosts
which run Usenet News or NETNEWS servers and/or clients in newsgroups
news.announce.newusers and news.lists.
Dartmouth Merged List
Name on vm1.nodak.edu Source
INTEREST.GROUPS Recent Interest-Groups from ftp.nisc.sri.com
NETNEWS.MAILLIST Usenet News Mailing Lists from news.lists
NETNEWS.GRPLIST Usenet Groups from news.lists NETNEWS.ALTERNAT Usenet Alternate Groups from news.lists
Dartmouth maintains a merged list of the LISTSERV lists on Bitnet and the
Interest Group lists on the Internet. It is a single file with one line
for each mailing list. They provide a Macintosh Hypercard application
that presents the list in a nice format. Other applications could easily
be developed to provide a user interface to these data that is appropriate
for a site's local situation.
Marty Hoag
They can also be obtained (except
the large data stack) via Bitnet from LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 using the command
SEND fn ft.
To obtain a list of the files via LISTSERV send mail to
LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 (LISTSERV@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU) with the command:
INDEX SIGLISTS
in the body of the mail.
For more information contact David Avery
DAVID@DARTCMS1.BITNET
or
david@dartcms1.dartmouth.edu.
nu021172@vm1.nodak.edu
A. New Journal- Electronic Journal of Technology Education Among First to Offer Graphic Capabilities
If your e-mail address is on a VAX VMS machine, when you get a message
that a file has arrived at your e-mail address....type "RECE *".
Contact: Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
MSANDERS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU SUBSCRIBE JTE-L Firstname Lastname.
Subscribers will receive
information about how to access articles and how to remove their names
from the electronic subscription list.
Mark Sanders
Technology Education
144 Smyth Hall, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0432
telephone:
703/231-8173
E-mail to: MSANDERS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Internet)
or
MSANDERS@VTVM1 (Bitnet).
Contact: Sandy Slade, University of Victoria,
LIBEXT@UVVM.UVic.CA
The issues addressed provide critical direction for those dealing with the
rapid changes and technological innovations brought about by this growing
field. The bibliography is a valuable acquisition for anyone interested in
how libraries and librarians can support the educational goals of distance
learning. The coverage is international with the majority of the
references originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and
Australia.
American Library Association
Publishing Services
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
cost: $40
Canadian Library Association
200 Elgin Street, Suite 602
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 1L5
cost: $48.80 (incl. tax)
Library Association Publishing Ltd.
7 Ridgmount Street
London WC1E 7AE
inquire about cost in the U.K.
Alexander (Sandy) Slade
University of Victoria
Canada
Contact: Christine Klein/ARL
Office of Scientific & Academic
Publishing
ARLHQ@umdc.umd.edu
ARLHQ@UMDC, or ARLHQ@umdc.umd.edu
To send your prepaid order, or to inquire for an order form that
contains rates outside North America, please contact:
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
Association of Research Libraries
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Fax inquiries: 202-462-7849
How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or via anonymous FTP from
KSUVXA.KENT.EDUFilename File type
ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory) ACADLIST FILE1 (anthropology - education) ACADLIST FILE2 (futurology - Latin American studies) ACADLIST FILE3 (library and information sciences - music) ACADLIST FILE4 (political science - writing) ACADLIST FILE5 (biological sciences) ACADLIST FILE6 (physical sciences) ACADLIST FILE7 (business and general academia) ACADWHOL HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word
4.0 document of all 7 directories) ACADSOCH HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word
4.0 document of the Social Science and Humanities files 1-4) ACADLIST CHANGES (all the major additions, deletions and alterations)
GET
Diane K. Kovacs
Instructor, Reference Librarian for the Humanities
Kent State University Libraries
Bitnet: DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms
Internet: DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu
or
LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu
Contact: Larry W. Hurtado
Univ. of Manitoba
hurtado@ccu.UManitoba.CA
Professor Larry W. Hurtado,
Institute
for the Humanities,
108 Isbister Bldg.,
University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg,
Manitoba, R3T 2N2.
Phone: (204) 474-9114.
FAX (204) 275-5781.
E-mail:
hurtado@ccu.umanitoba.ca.
Contact: Vigny Alvarado Castillo,
State Distance University
Costa
Rica
VALVARAD@UCRVM2.BITNET
STATE DISTANCE UNIVERSITY, COSTA RICA
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
The participation fee will be $200 US.
Last date of inscription : 30 November 1992.
or at the below post-mail address.
UNIVERSIDAD ESTATAL A DISTANCIA
TEL :(506)532121
FAX :(506)534990
SAN JOSE, COSTA
Contact: Terry Anderson,
Univ. of Calgary
ANDERSON@ACS.UCALGARY.CA
An experimental computer supported forum designed to encourage discourse and deb
ate amongst distance educators from around the globe, coinciding with the XVI Wo
rld Congress of the ICDE to be held in Bangkok Thailand, Nov 1992.
How Does It work?:
ICDECC has 2 components an on site CMC conference operating for Congress
participants in Bangkok and a global electronic forum operating across a
variety of computer networks and stand alone systems. ICDECC will
distribute a series of 6 facilitated discussions, lead by world renowned
scholars on current and evolving issues in distance education (see speaker
list below). Each forum will run for approx. 2 weeks. The first forum
begins on Oct 15, 3 weeks before the World Congress. Initial materials by
speakers as well as responses, queries and personal reflections will be
ported to distributions lists, networks and stand alone systems. During
the Congress, delegates from Bangkok can participate as well.
What is a Porter?:
Volunteer Porters will filter and move items which they feel are of
interest to their networked community, to systems and lists to which they
subscribe. The Porters will insure that information is relevant, and in a
format that is appropriate to their network. They will also relay local
comments back to the central ICDE list for distribution throughout ICDECC.
IS ICDECC pronounceable?
Yes, in English it sounds like ICE DECK ;-)
Why not set up a New ICDECC Mail List?
ICDECC is designed as a temporary service, which encourages development
and exposure to existing educational networks and lists. ICDECC does not
require participants to join new lists or networks or dial onto new
computer systems.
How Much does it Cost?:
Like most educational lists and electronic mail, ICDECC will primarily be
distributed at no charge via the INTERNET. Individual porters or system
operators may subsidize costs by distribution over alternate existing
networks. Cost to individual participants should be no more then the
normal costs (if any) of accessing network based electronic mail systems.
Who are the First Speakers and What are they Discussing?:
Can I get involved?
YES, ICDECC is currently recruiting Porters - unsung heros of the
electronic community - to serve as the crucial link between existing
networks, electronic communities, lists and ICDECC. To our knowledge this
type of project has never been tried before, thus we are interested in
talking to you if you have ideas which would enhance the project. If you
would like to be placed on a distribution list planning this project or
more important, are willing to help by Porting please contact:
Can you Draw me a Picture? -in ASCI
Terry Anderson
ph: (403) 284-0922
Anderson@ACS.UCALGARY.CA
mail: 1103 Casson Green NW
Calgary, AB. T3B-2VG
Canada
Note: The boxes are only representative of the variety of electronic
mailing lists, stand alone conferencing systems, public and private
networks which could receive feeds from ICDECC.
Who is Sponsoring ICDECC?
Softwords of Victoria BC is providing a CoSy Computer Conferencing System
and promotional assistance, IBM Thailand is providing terminals in
Bangkok, STO University if hosting the Congress and a community of
volunteers from around the globe is making it happen!
Terry Anderson
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Educational Psychology
Ph 403-284-0922
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB. Canada T2N 1N4
InterNet ANDERSON@ACS.UCALGARY.CA
Contact: Jose M., Rodarte M.
ITESO Univ., Guadalajara, Mexico,
SISC92@Iteso.Bitnet
Sincerely,
Jose M., Rodarte M., Conference Committee
ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico
SISC92@Iteso.Bitnet
SISC92@Itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx
Contact: Richard A. Ames
avtames@idbsu.edu
Richard A. Ames, avtames@idbsu.edu
Contact: Steve Rafferty
Towson State Univ.
E7L8RAF@TOWSONVX.BITNET
Steve Rafferty, Towson State University,
E7L8RAF@TOWSONVX.BITNET
or E7L8RAF@TOE.TOWSON.EDU (Internet)
Contact: Richard Wah
Univ. of the South Pacific
WAH_RT@usp.ac.nz
Head of Distance Education, Univ. of the South Pacific,
WAH_RT@usp.ac.nz
Contact: Marjorie Ropp
MROPP@VAX.CLARKU.EDU
Will there be satellite
broadcasts and how can we access them?
We are a museum with the mission of
environmental education. We have a satellite dish to receive both C and Ku
band broadcasts. Where can I get information on broadcasts and get permission
to receive them?
Marjorie Ropp
New England Science Center
Worcester, MA 01604
Internet: MROPP@VAX.CLARKU.EDU
Phone: 508-791-9211