__     __ __     __ __     __  web's eye view (January 11, 2000)
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /  alan levine
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /   Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
|__/ |__/ |__/|__/  |__/|__/    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/
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The year may have rolled over to 2000, but we are ready for almost 3k
URLs in our bag (2953 to date). The newest load is ready for pickup at

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html

AlertBox
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> The Alertbox for January 9 is now online at:
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000109.html
>
> Web users go straight for content and ignore navigation areas. Limited
> structural navigation and local navigation still help, but general
> navigation should be avoided and generic links minimized to the truly
> useful.
>

Two from EDUPAGE
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> THE LEADING ISSUES OF '99? WIRED SCHOOLS AND ACCREDITATION
> The New York Times education column went to some of the sources
> it quoted in 1999 and asked them, "What were the most important
> or interesting developments in the world of education and
> technology in 1999?"  Consortium for School Networking Executive
> Director Keith R. Krueger said the biggest event of the year was
> 50 percent of U.S. classrooms getting access to the Internet.
> This raises questions about the best uses of technology in
> education, how to make sure teachers are able to use the
> technology, and how to pay for it all.  University of Texas in
> Austin 21st Century Project director Gary Chapman pointed to the
> emergence of such organizations as the Alliance for Childhood,
> which balances the debate on schools' computer use by asking
> questions about the necessity and content of computer use.
> Concord University School of Law dean Jack R. Goetz pointed to
> the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools' decision
> to accredit the online Jones International University; Goetz' law
> school is also solely online.  Meanwhile, American Association of
> University Professors Committee on Accreditation Chairman James
> E. Perley pointed to his association's request that the
> accreditation lauded by Goetz be reconsidered.  Lehigh University
> President Gregory C. Farrington mentioned the increased offering
> of online higher education from traditional institutions and the
> threat that it poses to for-profit education outfits.
> (New York Times Online 29 Dec 1999)

> WIRED CLASSROOMS JOT DOWN THE NOTES
> Georgia Tech University professor Gregory Abowd and a team of
> researchers are working on Classroom 2000, a project that aims to
> eliminate the need for students to take notes during a lecture,
> freeing them to participate in class discussions.  The project
> uses such existing technology as whiteboards, the Web, and audio
> and visual files.  Instead of writing on a blackboard, the
> professor writes on a whiteboard, which projects the information
> on a screen for the class to see and also records the information
> to a computer.  All the information provided during the class is
> stored on a computer and used to create a series of Web pages
> indexed to the syllabus for students to access over the Web.  Two
> Classroom 2000-ready rooms have been set up at Georgia Tech,
> while Brown University, Kennesaw State, McGill University, and
> Georgia State also now have similar classrooms.  Although it cost
> Georgia Tech about $200,000 for its classroom, Kennesaw spent
> about $15,000 since it already had some of the technology.
> (Washington Times, 10 Jan 2000)