1998-99 LPP (Learning
Productivity Projects) MISCELLANEOUS:
September 8, 1998 Through May 10, 1999
Dr. Charles F. Urbanowicz / Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology / California State University, Chico
Chico, California 95929-0400
e-mail:
curbanowicz@csuchico.edu
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/
(530-898-6220; 530-898-6192; FAX: 530-898-6824)
10 May 1999 [1]
[This page printed from
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/1998-99LPP.html]
The Final Update To This Page Was Made on:
Over the period from September 8, 1999 to
May 10, 1999, a total of 274 items were placed
on these pages (75 in Fall 1998 and 199 in
Spring 1999). Of all the items below, Charlie's Favorites
are:
"Time makes more converts than reason." Thomas
Paine (1737-1809)
and / but
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its
pupils." Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
(May 10, 1999 Posting.)
"Technological change is neither additive nor
subtractive. It is ecological. I mean 'ecological' in
the same sense as the word used by environmental scientists.
... A new technology does not add or subtract something.
It changes everything [stress added]." Neil
Postman, 1992, Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To
Technology (NY: Vintage), page 18. (March 29, 1999
Posting.)
For the comparable favorites for September 8,
1998 to December 7, 1998, please click
here.
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On May 10, the final 3 items were added to this
page:
"Time makes more converts than reason." Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
and / but
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
A NEW LOW-TECH SOLUTION: This item describes the new
Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device,
popularly known by its acronym BOOK. BOOK is a
breakthrough in technology, requiring no wires, no electric switches,
no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on (although
sufficient illumination is needed and strongly recommended). Compact
and portable, BOOK can be used anywhere, yet it is powerful
enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM. BOOK,
constructed of sequentially-numbered sheets of paper, is capable of
holding thousands of bits of information. The sheets of a BOOK
are held together with a device called a binding, keeping the sheets
in correct order. Opaque Paper Technology allows manufacturers to use
both sides of each sheet, doubling the information density! While
using the BOOK, each sheet is optically scanned by the user,
registering information directly into the brain. After scanning a
single sheet, a simple flick of the finger brings up the next sheet
of information. BOOK never crashes or needs rebooting (as with
certain other information technologies) although it can be damaged
should liquids be spilled on it (as with other technologies) and
BOOK is not impervious to fire (although Fahrenheit 212 has
been determined to be the point of combustion). The "browse" feature
of BOOK allows the user to move virtually instantaneously to
to any Bio-Optic-Sheet, forward or backward, and many BOOKs
come with "index" or "topic" features, allowing the user, or any
other user of BOOK, to pinpoint exact locations of an
information item for instant retrieval. An optional "bookmark"
accessory allows users to open BOOK to the last sheet used in
previous sessions and bookmarks fit universal-design standards:
amazingly, a single bookmark can be used with BOOKs produced
by totally incompatible manufacturers. (Perhaps even more unique,
multiple types of bookmarks may be used on a single BOOK,
incorporating technologies from metal, paper, and string
distributors.) Market analysts believe that BOOK has a bright
future in an increasingly complex and technology-driven world.
Incidentally, a recent BOOK publication has pointed out that
one Johannes Gutenberg (1394-1468) should be credited with being the
most important individual of the current millennium:
"If not for Gutenberg, Columbus...might never
have set sail, Shakespeare's.... genius could have died with him, and
Martin Luther's...Ninety-five Theses would have hung on that door
unheeded. In fact, without mass quantities of books to burn, the
Inquisition could have fallen flat on its face. The printing press,
developed by Gutenberg in the 1430s, helped spread truth, beauty,
and yes, heresy throughout the world. We know the Chinese had
movable type for centuries before Gutenberg, but they used it for
silk printing, not books. Gutenberg, however, always had publishing
in mind. Copies of his first major project, the Bible, survive today.
He worked for years to perfect his system of movable type and a press
that could mass-produce books, leaflets, and propaganda. What little
is known about Gutenberg comes from the many lawsuits filed against
him for the rights to the invention. But no one successfully
challenged Gutenberg's place as the Western inventor of movable type
and the printing press. Because his press unharnessed the power of
ideas on the world, we rank him ahead of the people whose
ideas found an audience through printing [stress
added]." Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bower, Brent
Bowers, 1998, 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women
Who Shaped the Millennium (NY: Kodansha International), page 2).
(The above is roughly based on an item which
appeared in a companion item to BOOK, namely the
NEWSLETTER [which I have interpreted as: Nascent
Educational Words Shared Locally,
Eventually Transforming Thinking,
Enabling Refreshment ] entitled Chico Carrel,
from The Chico Friends of The Library, March 1999, which, in turn,
was based on a item from the Internet.)
On May 3, 1999, the following 9 items were added
to this page:
http://www.einsteinsdreams.com
[Einstein's Dream Machine]
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/bigthinkers
[Big Thinkers!]
http://www.russianart.com
[Russian artworks by Andre Ruzhnikov]
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/oliphant
[Pulitzer Prizer Winner Pat Oliphant]
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
[Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory - Brenda
Dunne]
http://www.pff.org [Progress &
Freedom Foundation, Esther Dyson, Cyberspace And The American Dream:
A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age]
http://www.geom.umn.edu/java/triangle-area/
[Java Gallery: Hyperbolic Triangles = from the University of
Minnesota "Geometry Center" at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/]
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_alphabetical.htm
[History of Science, Technology, and Medicine]
On April 26, 1999, the following 9 items were
added to this page:
http://www.hamsterdance.com
[Have a look!]
http://www.accessexcellence.org/21st/TL/
[Classrooms in the 21st Century]
http://www.NY-taxi.com [NYC Taxi
Web Cam!]
http://teleeducation.nb.ca/
[TéléÉducation New Brunswick]
and see the 12,626 courses listed beginning @:
http://apsis.telecampus.edu/
http://www.operabase.com
[Opera Listings & Reviews]
http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/faculty/bader/aim/
[Theory of Atoms In Molecules]
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements
[Visual Interpretation} Royal Society of Chemistry]
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather
[Weather]
On April 19, 1999, the following 12 items were
added to this page:
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/97/47/stuff/hits56.ram
[For a version of "Streaming Video" by Wendy Owens from 1997, using
pictures - and "click" on the prcture and you get connected to the
web sites) dealing with this northern California project); also
see:
http://www.hits.org/ [Humboldt
Institute for Technological Studies] as well as:
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/97/47/index1a.html
[for a 1996 tutorial on "Image Mapping]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/canyon
[Virtual Grand Canyon]
http://www.sfopera.com [San
Francisco Opera + Virtual Reality Tour]
Continuing on the FYI From Last Week} "Sex has
always sold--in any medium and in every era. Yet the Internet has
been the virtual Viagra for the adult industry, with 1998 online
earnings topping $1 billion, according to Forrester Research, up
about 30% from 1997. Lately, the only things selling better than sex
on the Net are Net companies' initial ublic offerings. Entrepreneurs
are seeking to combine the trend by taking their online porn
companies public." (Karl Taro Greenfeld, Taking Stock In Smut.
Time, April 19, 1999, page 43)
"When the commercial history of the Internet is written,
whose names will appear among the chief catalysts? Beyond
cybervisionaries such as America Online founder Steve Case, you could
make a powerful argument for including Pamela Anderson Lee, chronic
centerfold and star of what is now perhaps the world's best-known
home movie. ... of all the famous names, none has been
appropriated--or misappropriated--more than Ms. Lee's. This, by a Web
culture that, beyond its sex-obsessed nature, often gleefully flouts
copyright laws and annoints its stars based on a shifting index of
raw public interest rather any particular talent." (Thomas E. Weber,
Who Rules The Web? The Wall Street Journal, April 13, 1999,
pages 1 and A8, page 1).
On April 12, 1999, the following 7 items
were added to this page:
"Technology does not necessarily change simply because it
would be good for the consumer." (Ben H. Bagdikian, 1971, The
Information Machines: Their Impact On Men And The Media, page
xix).
http://www.ita.doc.gov/industry/otea/utde/index.html
[The Digital Economy]
Just an FYI} "In fact, it's not even clear that
digital technology would be the social and economic phenomenon it is
today if it weren't for the kinkier purposes that millions of people
are putting it to. Cybersmut, digital porn, the final frontier of
erotic entertainment--whatever you want to call it, the prurient use
of the new media like computers, the Internet and DVD is among the
most powerful forces driving these techniques into our lives. And
with every new digital innovation, porn is being reshaped,
transformed into something that may not seem as futuristic as a
cybersex bodysuit but in many ways represents a far more significant
break with the past. Not that there's anything novel about the cozy
relationship between pornography and new communications technologies.
... Adult websites are a nearly $1 billion-a-year business. That's
close to a tenth of the size of the sex industry as a whole, and with
current annual growth rates of 20% to 30% showing no signs of
abating, it will soon claim the lion's share." (Julian Dibbell, The
Body Electric. Time Digital
[http://www.timedigital.com],
April 12, 1999, pages 24-27.
"What measures 1 cubic inch, runs Linux, and
processes 500 percent faster than a PalmPilot (and contains four
times more memory)? The world's smallest Web server. Created by
Stanford computer science professor Vaughan Pratt, the
matchbox-sized computer can theoretically crunch spreadsheets,
manage databases, and serve Web sites, all from a road warrior's
wrist. Pratt built the server as a demonstration of high processing
power in a tiny form factor (his how-to info is at
wearables.stanford.edu). As for the small server's big-time
potential, he won't make any predictions. 'In this market, a product
will succeed if, and only if, the gods smile on it,' Pratt says. 'But
it's certainly worth thinking about [stress added].'" by David
Pescovitz, Wired [7.05], May 1999, page 41.) [AND
please see:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/february10/webserver210.html]
http://www.feminist.com/fairpay.htm
[National Committee on Pay Equity]
http://www.aflcio.org/women
[Working Women Together]
http://www.edsoasis.org/ [K-12
Teacher Resources & Opportunities & Terrie Gray of Chico, CA]
On April 5, 1999, the following 24 items
were added to this page:
http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com
[The "Official" Peeps Web Site!]
http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/peep/
[On Peeps!]
On March 29, 1999, the following 36 items
were added to this page:
http://search.eb.com
[Encyclopedia Britannica Online 99]
http://www.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/1998book.html
[Project Censored from Sonoma State University]
"Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive.
It is ecological. I mean 'ecological' in the same sense as the
word used by environmental scientists. ... A new technology does not
add or subtract something. It changes everything
[stress added]." Neil Postman, 1992, Technopoly: The
Surrender Of Culture To Technology (NY: Vintage), page 18.
"Real Cheap PCs. It doesn't seem that long ago that
a good deal on a computer meant a new PC that sold for under a grand.
Now the cheapest PC practically pays for itself. The $299 Webzter Jr.
desktop from Microworkz Computer Corp. packs a surprisingly powerful
punch with its 300-MHz Cyrix processor, 32 megabytes of memory and a
3.2-gigabyte hard drive. Like every other sub-$1,000 PC, it comes
without a monitor, but it does give you one year of free Internet
service from Earthlink, a $240 value." Time, March 29, 1999,
page 228.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/techgap/welcome.html
[Reinventing the Schools]
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/ancient.html
[A Walk Through Time: Ancient Calendars]
http:www.art-ww1.com [World War I
Art]
http://www.edsitement.neh.gov
[EDSITEment]
http://www.exxonvaldez.org
[Exxon Valdez]
http://www.metagrid.com [Search
Engine for Newspapers & Magazines]
http://www.christdesert.org
[Monastery of Christ in the Desert]
http://library.advanced.org/10170
[Visual Physics by secondary students]
http://adage.com/news_and_features/special_reports/commercials
[1946 to 1996 commercials]
http://www.rand.org/HOT/index.html
[RAND Futures]
http://www.sydney.olympic.org/
[Sydney Year 200 Olympic Site]
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
[Albert Einstein]
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-faq/TOC.html
[Robotics]
http://www.androidworld.com
[Androids]
http://www.fmnh.org/sue/def_home.htm
[Field Museum T. Rex]
http://cybereditions.com/aldaily
[Arts & Letters]
"Laptops Grow Legs. Portable computers prove easy to steal
and easier to sell. ... That's why 309,000 laptops were stolen in
1997, up from 265,000 laptops the previous year, according to
Safeware, a specialist in computer insurance [stress added]." (Maggie
Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle, March 10, 1999, page E2)
[Please note: with 309,000/8766, this works out to 35.24
laptops stolen per hour in 1997!]
http://www.evoyage.com/Whatis.html
[Evolutionary Psychology]
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160sp98/03_darwin.html
[Darwin and Evolution]
On March 15, 1999, the following 15 items
were added to this page:
http://www.nf.sympatico.ca/Features/StPatrick/stphistory.html
AND
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/irish/
[20th Century Irish Paintings]
"Scientists have invented a device that shoots streams of
atoms in any direction the same way a laser sends out beams of light.
The breakthrough...could lead to a revolutionary new tool for making
extremely small computer chips....A report on the work appears today
in the journal Science." (Paul Reuter, 1999, "Invention of an
Atom Laser Reported." San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1999,
page A3).
"Project Oxygen May Blow Away Web Speeds. ...
Crisscrossing the globe, the 37 year old telecommunications expert
[Neil Tagare] is proposing what many consider unfathomable: A $10
billion, 100,000-mile worldwide network that he claims will be up
to 5.5 million times faster than the World Wide Web. Project
Oxygen...Launched in mid-1997...will undergo several phases before
it is completed in early 2003. ... Oxygen will 'allow
anyone-large corporation, cable provider-to participate in the
world's fastest Internet service,' Tagare said. 'It is not an
exclusive club for universities and selected companies.' The subtle
dig is at Internet2 [please see March 8, 1999 in these pages]
a coalition of universities and high-tech companies formed in late
1996. Last month it flipped the switch on a key segment of its
private research network that connects 70 college campuses. The
nonprofit organization includes Stanford University, the University
of California at Berkeley and Harvard University, as well as major
corporate sponsors Cisco Systems, IBM, Qwest Communications and
Nortel. The 13,000-mile Internet2 network is 45,000 times faster
than the commercial Web, but it is not available to the public.
Only researchers and employees at the colleges and corporate sponsors
can use it. Consumers eventually will be able to use cutting-edge
applications created on Internet2 but only after they have been
developed and sold by Internet2 members for commercial purposes
[stress added]." (Jon Swartz, March 12, 1999, San Francisco
Chronicle, page B1 + B7; and see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/03/15/BU89773.DTL
as well as
http://www.oxygen.org]
Re Y2K:
all direct quotations from Time, March 15, 1999,
page 26.
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"TELEPHONE: The millenium bug will not
disrupt world phone services (International
Telecommunications Union)
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TELEPHONE: There's a 50% to 60% chance
each major carrier will suffer at least one failure
of a mission-critical system (Gartner Group,
premier Y2K consultants)
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FOOD: There's no need to go around
stockpiling and buying large quantities of food
(Senator Christopher Dodd on PBS's Newshour)
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FOOD: Stockpiling extra food and water
may be advisable (Y2K report co-authord by Dodd)
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DURATION: 90% of Y2K problems will be
solved within 72 hours (Gartner Group)
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DURATION: Be prepared for three months
of electrical outages, food shortages (programmer
Scott Olmstead)
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AIR TRAVEL: Thorough testing indicates
there will be no impact on Jan. 1 (Federal Aviation
Authority)
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AIR TRAVEL: Flight rationing is 'highly
possible' (Senate report)
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OUTTA HERE? Only 1% of people concerned
about Y2K will relocate from the cities; most would
have done it already (Edward Yourdon, co-author of
Timebomb 2000)
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OUTTA HERE? Cities my be paralyzed by
balky security systems, elevators, heaters, traffic
lights and commuter trains. This could lead to a
mass exodus to the countryside
(Computerworld)
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"Virtual University Receives Real Accreditation.
Jones International University, an on-line institution based near
Denver, has become the first U.S. university operating entirely on
line to earn accreditation, the school is announcing today. Jones
International, established in 1995, was accredited Friday by the
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of six
regional accrediting bodies." (Mary Beth Marklein, USAToday,
March 10, 1999, page 1D) [and see
http://www.jonesinternational.edu/]
On March 8, 1999, the following 7 items were
added to this page:
"New technology designed to boost productivity is
leaving many workers fuming over wasted time and communication
frustrations. Americans spend more than 30 minutes daily managing the
deluge of messages they receive.... And that's just when the
technology is working right [stress added]."Stephanie
Armour, 1999, "You Have (Too Much) e-mail" in USA Today, March
2, page 3B).
"A Glimpse into the numbers nightmare....When he was 21
[years old],...got his first pager. ... [Now aged 33] Ever since, the
San Lorenzo resident who owns an electronics security business, has
had a love-hate relationship with his digital leashes. He's
got two cell phones, pager, backup pager, two
fax numbers, three phone lines at home. Not long ago, he
was horrified to find himself on the freeway talking in both of his
cell phones at the same time [stress added]." (Elizabeth
Fernandez, 1999, "Numerical Overload Has Folks Counting To 10" in
San Francisco Examiner, March 7, pages 1 and A-14, page A-14).
"Only a few years ago, computers were as big as
refrigerators. Now, Frigidaire Home Products has unveilved a
fridge that containts one. The computer has a touch-screen
monitor and a bar code scanner mounted on the freezer door.
There's even a jack for Internet connection. After empyting a
carton of milk or eating a frozen dinner, you could swipe the package
past the bar-code scanner, tap a couple of buttons on the screen,
and the fridge would order replacements from an online grocery
store. Since many bills now carry bar codes as well, you could
even swipe them by the door and let the freezer do the paying.
Frigidaire hasn't nailed down plans to market the concept, but its
parent, Electrolux of Sweden, is working on that with ICL, a British
computer maker [stress added]." Business Week, March
15, 1999, page 103.
http://www.discovery.com/exp/epidemic/epidemic.html
[Epidemic!]
http://www.ifwtwa.org/airlink.htm
[Comprehensive listing of airline links]
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
[National Weather Center]
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/innovat/resource.htm
[Innovations and WWW Resources]
On March 1, 1999, the following 7 items were
added to this page
"About 70 percent of the cost of owning a PC in the
corporate world [including the Educational Community?] is for
support, estimated GartnerGroup, a technology research and
analysis firm in Stamford, Conn. People didn't want to believe
it when the figure came out, according to Gartner's Marilyn
Truglio. It means that when a company buys a $2,100 PC, it will spend
an additional $4,900 during the three-year life of the machine to
help users use it [stress added]" (Elizabeth Weise, 1999, Tech
Slaves. The Sacramento Bee, February 24, 1999, pages D1 &
D3, page D3)
"Being able to talk easily to computers has been a dream
since before the days of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space
Odyssey. Now, thanks to Intel Corp.'s new Pentium III processor,
talking to PCs could soon be quick, simple, and commonplace. How so?
The Pentium III can zoom through the complex math used in speech
recognition. With older chips, some users had to spend almost a
half-hour 'training' their software to understand them. On Pentium
III PCS, the processor takes less than five minutes. ... could ignite
the market for speech software. And even better chips are in the
offing. On Feb 23 [1999], Intel previewed a Pentium III running at 1
gigahertz, twice its current rate and the fastest chip speed ever
shown. Commercial versions could be on the market by the end of
2000 [stress added]." Andy Reinhardt, "Say What?" in
Business Week, March 8, 1999, page 6.
http://www.co.calstate.edu/aa/itl/
[Institute for Teaching And Learning from the CSU]
http://www.msbet.com/channel/blackhistory99
[Black History Month]
http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot/index.html
[Museum of Tolerance]
http://www.rug.nl/rugcis/rc/ftp/origami/programs/TreeMaker/
["Origami of Species"!]
http://etip.unco.edu/lesser/home.htm
[Resources for Teaching Statistics Courses]
On February 22, 1999, the following 7 items
were added to this page:
"...was not a solitary pursuit but a social activity, a
moveable feast. One of the great mathematical discoveries of the
twentieth century was the simple equation that two heads are better
than one." Bruce Schechter, 1998, My Brain is Open: The
Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös, page 14.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
[Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement]
wysiwyg://104/http://education.ucdavis.edu/new/stc/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm
[The Underground Railroad Site]
http://ren.dm.net/compendium/home.html
[Elizabethan England: 1558-1603]
http://www.photographymuseum.com/
[The American Museum of Photography "jumping off" page]
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/
["Art on the Web" - interesting!]
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/
[DNA from the Beginning]
On February 15, 1999, the following 7 items were
added to this page:
Did everyone catch the following on February 9,
1999: "Backers of Internet2 -- a faster, more powerful
sequel to the Internet -- are launching the online system
nationwide this month. A coalition of universities and high-tech
companies yesterday announced that a key technological piece of the
private research network -- dubbed the Abilene project -- will
connect 70 college campuses, including Stanford University, the
University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University, as well
as major corporate sponsors Cisco Systems, Qwest Communications and
Nortel. When operational on February 24, the 13,000-mile, 2.4
gigabits-per- second network will be 100 to 1,000 times faster than
the commercial Web. But it will be available to far fewer people:
Only researchers and employees at the colleges and corporate sponsors
can use it and it will not be offered to consumers. Some 140
universities that have financially contributed to Internet2 should
have access to the new network by 2000. Consumers will eventually be
able to use cutting-edge applications developed on Internet2, but
only after they have been developed and sold by Internet2 members for
commercial purposes. ... Engineers in different states could
design products together in 3-D environments. Hospitals would be
able to collaborate on diagnosing diseases by using
computer-generated images broadcast over the Net. And college
professors and students could mine vast databases of information from
'digital libraries' at more than 100 universities nationwide.
Internet2 and a similar project, the government-backed Next
Generation Internet, are modeled after the original Internet --
except they'll use fiber-optic circuits instead of standard telephone
lines and more sophisticated software. Both projects plan only
limited links to the Internet [stress added]." (Jon Swartz,
San Francisco Chronicle, February 9, 1999, page B1; also
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/09/BU98824.DTL]
http://www.tcfg.com [Too
Cool for Grownups]
http://isfahan.anglia.ac.uk:8200/isfahan0.html
[Islamic Architecture]
http://www.loc.gov [Library of
Congress "Jumping Off" Point]
"Computers are spawning a genuine revolution in human
culture. As with any revolution, the long-term cultural and ethical
ramifications remain unclear. We have no definitive sense of where we
are going; we know simply that we are going there quickly. The sheer
pace of change often keeps us from digging below the surface and
developing the resources we need to make sense of computers on any
deep, personal level. The most common response to the rapid change
and uncertainty that computation has engendered is to fall on one
side of an extreme--either elevate computers to the role of saviors
or become neo-Luddites and cite them as the main source of our
contemporary woes. In light of the ways in which computers are
saturating our reality, these views are naïve, maybe even
dangerous." Jennifer Cobb, 1998, Cybergrace: The Search For God In
The Digital World, page 19.
http://hyperion.advanced.org/10007
[Celebrations Around The World]
http://www.thebluehighway.com/bhistory.html
[TBH, Black history month]
On February 8, 1999, the following 9 items were
added to this page:
NOTE: "[Children] Born during a baby bulge that
demographers locate between 1979 and 1994, they are as young as
five and as old as 20, with the largest slice still a decade away
from adolescence. And at 60 million strong, more than three times
the size of Generation X, they're the biggest thing to hit the
American scene since the 72 million baby boomers. Still too young to
have forged a name for themselves, they go by a host of taglines:
Generation Y, Echo Boomers, or Millennium Generation. ... Most
important though, is the rise of the Internet, which has sped up
the fashion life cycle by letting kids everywhere find out about even
the most obscure trends as they emerge. It is the Gen Y medium of
choice, just as network TV was for boomers. 'Television drives
homogeneity,' says Mary Slayton, global director for consumer
insights for Nike. 'The Interet drives diversity
[stress added].'" Ellen Newborne et al., 1999,
"Generation Y" in Business Week, February 15, 1999, pages
80-88, page 82-83.
http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/maketitlepage
[Books on-line]
http://www.dfilm.com/new_site/travel_index.html
[Digital Film Festival]
http://www.netgrocer.com
[Groceries on the Internet]
http://store.us.levi.com:80/store/home.asp
[Semester-on-Line} Allana Blanco Activities]
http://www.I-channel.com/features/ellis
[Ellis Island]
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_alphabetical.htm
[History of Science, Technology, and Medicine]
http://www.longnow.org/ [The
Long Now Foundation - about "time"]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education
[Modern World history]
On February 1, 1999, the following 10 items
were added to this page:
"Nothing was ever invented, however, which did not bring
some immediate--if temporary--misery to some, though it might
eventually be a blessing to all." Brian Bailey, 1998, The Luddite
Rebellion (NY: NYU Press), page 3.
http://www.glef.org
[George Lucas Educational Foundation] and be sure and go to
http://www.glef.org/learnlive/film/film.html
and the "streaming video" of Learn & Live]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
[Edison Motion Picture & Sound Recordings]
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/fatm/fatm.html
["Artificial Life" by Thomas S. Ray]
http://adage.com/news_and_features/special_reports/commercials/
[Advertising Age's 50 best commercials from the 1940s to the
1990s]
http://www.wfs.org/index.htm#outlook
[Ten "predictions" for 1999 from The World Future Society]
http://www.media.mit.edu/~adriana/projects/EF/
[Interesting "Expert Finder" item from MIT in 1998]
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/index.htm
[Museum of the History of Science/Oxford]
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And From the California Virtual
University:
"The University of California Irvine, Department of
Education, and UCI Extension are opening their
doors...virtually! Mark your calendar for Thursday, February
4th, 1999, from 6pm to 8pm Pacific Standard Time (1800 -
2000 hrs.) to test drive two online courses for beginning
through veteran teachers and for anyone concerned about our
nation's public schools. On February 4, point your browser
to
http://www.gse.uci.edu/voh
From that site, you can: Join a chat room conversation about
the nature and benefits of online education and professional
development; Send specific questions to our education
experts; Take a virtual tour of our award-winning online
classes; Register for the classes via the Web."
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On January 25, 1999, the following 37 items
were added to this page:
"In a time of drastic change, the learners will inherit
the future." Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
In case you missed them over the break, please consider
the following:
"It's a puzzlement. U.S. companies announced a record
678,000 job cuts in 1998, but the unemployment rate dropped to 4.3%
in December, a 28-year low. ...what keeps driving the U.S. economy?
It's the new economy, plain and simple. ... For example, the
information industries broadly defined, have for the first time
become the biggest job creators in the economy. Over the past
year, more than 37% of new jobs have come from information-related
service industries, such as communications, education, software,
consulting, and financial services.... [stress added]."
(Michael J. Mandel, 1999, Cracking This Crazy Economy. Business
Week, January 25, 1999, pp. 39-40, page 39)
"Information age isn't yet history. The Declaration if
Independence, written two centuries ago, can be read by a child. The
Dead Sea Scrolls are a bit tougher, but scholars can still decode
words written on parchment two millenia ago. But if you were to dig
up a computer disk formatted on a PC just two decades ago [1978!],
you'd be hard-pressed to read it. Even if the magnetically coded
information is undisturbed, the 5 1/4-inch floppy won't read it and
any computer that could is probably in a museum. In an era
when technological innovations are old by the time they make it to
market, the world is faced with a paradox: We can create and
distribute information faster and more easily than ever, but it has
become harder to store and retrieve" [stress added]."
Carlos Alcalá, Information age isn't yet history. The
Sacramento Bee, December 26, 1998, pages 1 and page A21, Page 1.
"The future is already here. It's just not evenly
distributed." (William Gibson; as cited in Jeffrey Papow, 1998,
Enterprise.com: Market Leadership in the Information Age, page
123) [ps: Dr. Papow is President and CEO of Lotus Development
Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/K12Visuals98.htm
[Update of K-12 activities; see/similar to
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/k12visuals.html
[some K-12 "visuals"] of September 21, 1998 below.
http://rce.csuchico.edu/rv/Darwin.html
[Darwin "streaming video" = Not too sure how long this will remain on
the WWW without a password]
"Internet savvy Allana Blanco knows she can find living
essential in cyberspace, but the 23-year-old's challenge is to make
it through a Chico State University semester without setting foot in
any store. When in want, it'll be her job to go online and find it."
(Chico Enterprise-Record, December 30, 1998, page 6A). (And
see
http://www.levi.com/us/semester/
as well as
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~ablanco/)
"The fact is, each time society made an abrupt leap to a
new level of production, there were losers and winners. It may well
be that the computer revolution will exacerbate the existing fault
lines of society, creating new 'information ghettos.'" Michio Kaku,
1997, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize The 21st
Century, page 126.
http://www.ala.org/bbooks
[Banned Books: Note in 1999, it will be the week of September
25-October 2, 1999]
http://tucows.tierranet.com/
[Tucows various software]
http://www.vangoghgallery.com
[~800 Van Gogh paintings]
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/
[Architectural History: Italy]
http://www.christusrex.org
[Vatican/Sistine Chapel Images]
http://www.euronet.nl/users/artnv/Japart.index.html
[Japanese Art & Western Influence]
http://www.exploringedo.com
[The Japanese City of Edo]
http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/wm
[Paris Web Museum]
http://www.connectedpc.com/cpc/explore/stonehenge
[Virtual Stonehenge = PC Only!]
http://www.freerun.com/napavalley/toc.html
[Napa Valley "Virtual Tour"]
http://vif27.icair.iac.org.nz
[Amazon Adventure]
http://www.usgs.gov/education
[U.S. Geological Survey]
http://www.mobot.org [Missouri
Botanical Garden]
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium
[Duke University Digital Scriptorium]
http://infocomp.csuchico.edu/metis/
[METIS = Mastering Essential Techniques
For The Information Superhighway]
http://www.csuchico.edu/inf/Year2000.html
[for a "countdown" to the Year 2000]
Over the
period from September 8, 1998 to December 7,
1998, a total of 75 items were placed on these
pages [to return to the beginning of these pages, please
click here.]
Of the Fall 1998 items below, Charlie's
Favorites are:
"When this circuit learns your job,
what are you going to do?" In Marshall McLuhan & Quentin
Fiore (1967), The Medium Is The Massage (NY: Bantam),
page 20. (November 30, 1998)
"Indeed, there are already shadows in the bright
dawn of this new educational approach. Some professors
are grousing that electronic courses consume a startling
huge chunk of time in responding to students' e-mail
queries--far more time, they suggest, than similar queries
raised in a [traditional] classroom, where an answer to one
student may satisfy several others as well. To some, such
complaints are just one example of why the Internet
won't displace brick-and-mortar universities
[stress added]." (Robert Cwiklik, 1998, A Different
Course.The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 1998,
pages R31 and R34). (November 30, 1998)
http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi
[Need to find "images" on the WWW?] (November 2,
1998)
"Efficient search is what
intelligence is all about." George B. Dyson, 1997, Darwin
Among The Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
(Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. Inc.), page 115. (October 19,
1998)
http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html
[6 Billion Human Beings] (September 14, 1998)
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On December 7, 1998, the following 8 items
were added to this page:
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
[Nobel Prize Intenet Archives]
http://www.ta.doc.gov/go4it/
[U.S. Department of Commerce} " A Resource for Building America's
Information Technology Work Force"]
http://www.chs.chico.k.12.ca.us/lib/webres/helpful.htm
[something local!]
http://www.ent.iastate.edu
[Iowa State University Department of Entomology - insects]
http://www.cancon.bc.ca/darwin.large.off.html
[Can*Con! Java Applet simulating Charles Darwin's Evolution Theory
(large)]
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums.html
[WWW Virtual Library: Museums]
http://www.leeca.esu.k12.oh.us/Telecommunity/conferences/Workshop2a.html
[Electronic Field trips - list]
http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/hug_top.html
[DOE Human Genome Project]
On November 30, 1998, the following 13 items
were added to this page:
"When this circuit learns your job, what are
you going to do?" In Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore (1967),
The Medium Is The Massage (NY: Bantam), page 20.
"On-line college classes get high marks among students.
Cyber courses handy but more work for teacher. Universities
across the country are rushing to put their classes on line, but the
trend won't lead to lower tuition costs any time soon, officials say.
College classes offered on the Internet cost as much or more than
traditional on-campus classes. That's because it's more labor
intensive to teach an on-line class than it is a regular
chalk-and-talk class, officials say. And students are willing to
pay a premium for the convenience of learning on line] stress
added]." Faith Bremmer, USAToday, November 16, 1998, page 16E)
"Indeed, there are already shadows in the bright dawn of
this new educational approach. Some professors are grousing that
electronic courses consume a startling huge chunk of time in
responding to students' e-mail queries--far more time, they suggest,
than similar queries raised in a [traditional] classroom, where an
answer to one student may satisfy several others as well. To some,
such complaints are just one example of why the Internet won't
displace brick-and-mortar universities [stress added]."
(Robert Cwiklik, 1998, A Different Course.The Wall Street
Journal, November 16, 1998, pages R31 and R34).
"A decade from now, personal computers will cost
less than $300 and will pack 64 times the muscle of today's models.
Newspapers won't exist in their current form, and most books will be
read from electronic, hand-held machines. Nearly everything will be
hooked into the Internet, allowing light fixtures to report
burned-out bulbs and voyagers to instantly check stock prices from
remotest New Guinea on a pocket-size device. Maybe. These are
just a few of the prognostications by prominent futurists, whose job
it is to peer into our collective destiny to sdiscern where
technology might be taking the human race. Will they all come
true? Doubtful. Are they fun to imagine? Definitely
[stress added]." (William M. Bulkeley, The Wall Street
Journal, November 16, 1998, page R4)
NOTE: The International Electron Devices Meeting
(IEDM) will be meeting in San Francsico, CA, Dec 6-9,1998. According
to Business Week, November 30, 1998, they will have (at least)
the following: "While most of the chipmaking methods to be discussed
at the IEDM will focus on shrinking transistors to around the 0.1
micron widths needed after [the year] 2005, the researchers at Lucent
Technologies Inc.'s Bell Laboratories will look at what it'll take to
trim them to 0.01 micron. That's just 20 silicon atoms across. If
0.01 micron transistors become feasible--a feat that is not
anticipated before [the year] 2025--then one memory chip will be able
to store 25,000 sets of the Britannica." (Business
Week, November 30, 1998, page 99)
NOTE: "By 2050, the United States population will
grow to 394 million, some 50 percent more than at present [AND
SEE
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock
for the latest USA figures of ~271,000,000+], the Census Bureau
projects in a new population profile. And this population will be
older, on average, than now and will contain a larger share of
minorities. ... California is expected to continue rapid growth,
adding 17.7 million people between 1995 and 2025, the agency said.
[INCIDENTALLY, California's estimated population in 1998 was
~32,000,000]." Chico Enterprise-Record, November 20, 1998,
page 11A).
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/outpost
[Paleoanthropology]
http://www.virtual-shropshire.co.uk/
[Interesting "Virtual Tour" of Shropshire, UK]
http://www.diarioelpais.com/muva2/
[Uruguay Virtual Museum of Arts]
http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/QTVR/QTVR.html
[Geo-Images Virtual Reality Panoramas]
http://www.foodwine.com/food/wineday/
[WineDay: An All-Pro Pinot]
http://pubwww.srce.hr/botanic/cisb/doc/flora/bot-new.html
[What Is New in Botany} URL list]
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/arth/
[History of Art Department of U of Pennsylvania]
On November 16, 1998, the following 5 items
were added to this page:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/political.htm
[Great map site!]
http://www.dogpile.com/ [Don't
let the "title" of this "Search Engine" site turn you off!]
http://www.cnn.com/index.htm
[CNN site]
http://www.alx.org or
http://www.pbs.org/learn/als
[for information on "Home Study"]
On November 9, 1998, the following 6 items
were added to this page:
http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/fotocoll.html
[Photography Collection - Special Collections MLIB]
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/
[Explore! from The Annenberg/CPB Project]
http://www.nea.org/goodscho/webboard.html
[Schools in cyberspace]
http://www.mcrel.org/connect/tech/prodev.html
[Technology & Teacher Education]
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
[K-12 schools on the WWW]
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools/US/California.html
[California schools]
On November 2, 1998, the following 6 items
were added to this page:
http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi
[Need to find "images" on the WWW?]
http://www.pbs.org/cgi-bin/saf/gi.pl
[December 6-13, 1998 "field trip" to the Galapagos Islands]
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource
[Various teaching activities]
http://shuttle.nasa.gov/index.html/
[NASA and the Shuttle]
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/euroquiz.html
[Europe Map quiz]
"Are you [we] gathering the skills necessary to really be
at home in your calling's next iteration of achievement? Education,
however, defined, will be accessible anywhere and in ever more
modular form. Electronic education in its present stage of
development has two particularly promising applications: enhancing
the transfer of specifics, highly organized presentations of maps,
mathematical relationships, molecular structures, metabolic pathways,
trade relationships, etc., and representing unfolding processes (for
instance, illuminating how we think and imagine our way through
problems). Schoolteachers dread the possibility that star educators
will take over their pupils' attention via educational networks,
software, CDs, and Internet group tutorials, leaving them to serve as
mere classroom monitors and paperwork checkers. Density of
experience is what counts, however, and on-screen excitement calls
for comparable quality in flesh-and-blood teaching [stress
added]. The more students see Virgil or selection theory, the more
responsive interest they acquire. Most of us never knew how much we
needed English teachers until we actually saw Anthony and Cleopatra
and were left bursting with unanswered questions. The great
electronic educators will almost certainly leave plenty of
tantalizing questions open, knowing that a good argument after a
lecture fixes ideas and stretches mental muscles more than the most
rapt passive attention." Derek Leebaert, 1998, "Present At The
Creation," pages 1-33, pages 23-24; in The Future of the
Electronic Marketplace, edited by Derek Leebaert (MIT Press).
On October 26, 1998, the following 4 items
were added to this page:
"You are only what you are when no one is looking."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The Human Genome Project intends to catalog our entire
genome by 2005. A newer, privately funded venture lend by former
project director Craig Venter plans to complete the task in a mere
three years. But Harvard cell biologist Daniel Branton and UC Santa
Cruz biophysicist David Deamer are perfecting a technique that could
do the job in a day." (Wired, November 1998, page 84) PS:
that is roughly going from 2,557 days to 1,096 days
to a single day!
http://www.nobelprizes.com
[Nobel Prizes]
http://www.edweek.org
[Education Week]
On October 19, 1998, the following 8 items were
added to this page:
"Efficient search is what intelligence is all about."
George B. Dyson, 1997, Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution of
Global Intelligence (Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. Inc.), page 115.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance
[interesting!]
http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/
[AT&T Learning Network]
http://www.thejournal.com
[T.H.E. Journal] and see their:
http://www.thejournal.com/features/rdmap/
[Roadmap to the Internet] and URLs like:
http://library.advanced.org/11922/
[The Virtual Zoo]
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/
[Physics 2000]
"Machines On The March. As we automate our lives,
swallowed in a bottomless maw of voice-mail, it's hard not to heed
that little voice telling us to listen. ... As we give in to the
encroachment of an ever more machine-dominated world, I have come to
believe that we are slowly losing the fabric of human contact." Susan
Sward, The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner,
October 18, 1998, page 8.
On October 12, 1998, the following 3 items
were added to this page [and, please, is there a
"trend" here?]:
"Readers the world over say high-tech designers better get
customer-friendly fast. ... the computer industry has a lot of
baffled, frustrated, and unhappy customers. That is a much graver
threat to the long-term health of the high-tech sector than the Asian
crisis, the Year 2000 bug, or just about anything else. ... There's
one thing missing from this outpouring. I've heard from engineers,
programmers, and usability gurus. But the product planners and
marketeers who make the key hardware and software design decisions
have been conspicuously silent. You folks have a lot of angry
customers out there. How are you going to respond?" (Stephen H.
Wildstrom, "They're Mad As Hell Out There." Business Week,
October 19, 1998, page 32)
"It wasn't so long ago that people were actually afraid of
computers, as if they would steal our souls while we sat in front of
the monitor. Today we chuckle at such naive thinking. Computers are
not evil--it is the people who make and sell them. As you have heard
now is the time to buy a new computer. They are practically giving
them away in boxes of cereal. The question is, do you need one? ...
The answer is always the same--you need a new computer." (C.W.
Nevius, "Gigabyte Sticker-Shock." The Sunday San Francisco
Chronicle & Examiner, October 11, 1998, page 5)
"The personal computer remains the only common possession
that makes smart people feel stupid and requires the constant
ministrations of a priesthood of experts. Unless you own a really
lousy car, it's likely that your PC is the least dependable device in
your home or office. Unlike the telephone, television or fax machine,
it requires constant 'upgrades' and behaves erratically, introducing
a new hassle or two for ever one it supposedly eliminates." (Walter
S. Mosberg, "Computing Got Easier Last Year, But It Still Has A Long
Way To Go." The Wall Street Journal, Thursday October 8, 1998,
page B1)
On September 28, 1998, the following 5 items
were added to this page:
http://bio.biologie.de/Power/Power.html
[Power of Nations - interesting one re POLS or GEOP]
http://www.sover.net/~manx/necker.html
[Animated "Necker Cube" = perception/interesting]
http://www.e-cards.com
[Electronic Greeting Cards!]
http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/owl/
[On-Line Writing Center]
PLEASE NOTE: "Even today, as we hurtle toward what
some sadists describe as an all-electronic future of CD-ROMs,
interactive video, distance learning, and the Internet, the
traditional format of printed words on paper bound between two covers
somehow retains substantial power to attract, fascinate, and
satisfy." J. Kevin Graffagnino, 1996, Only In Books: Writers,
Readers, & Bibliophiles on Their Passion, page vii.
On September 21, 1998, the following 3 items
were added to this page:
NOTE Some Web Statistics: "Some of Alexa's
additional recent findings, announced August 31, 1998: A current
snapshot of the Web is 3 terabytes, or 3 million megabytes; The Web
doubles in size every 8 months; There are approximately 20 million
Web content areas; 90% of all Web traffic is spread over 100,000
different host machines; 50% of all traffic goes to the top 900 Web
sites currently available. from:
http://www.alexa.com/company/inthenews/starreport.html
SO: if the total amount of "information" on
the web right now is "X" then on May 21, 1999 (eight months from
now), there will be 2X.
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/k12visuals.html
[some K-12 "visuals"] and also see:
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/Jan'98_Millennium_Paper.html
[January 1998 Urbanowicz paper]
On September 15, 1998, the following 5 items
were added to this page:
www.convergemag.com
[Converge Magazine]
http://www.thejournal.com/features/rdmap/
[URLs from T.H.E. Journal]
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html
[Culture]
http://www.tfaoi.com/resourc.htm
[American Art On-line]
http://www.innerbody.com/indexbody.html
[Human Anatomy On-Line]
On September 14, 1998, the following 4 items
were added to this page:
http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html
[6 Billion Human Beings]
http://www.cdl.edu/EvolveIt/
[Gálapagos Islands Evolution Simulation]
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nktg/wintro/
[Archaeology: An Introduction by Kevin Greene]
http://www.myna.com/~mccollam/geoquiz/afrquiz.html
[Africa Map Quiz]
On September 8, 1998, the following 5 items
were added to this page:
merlot
[Multimedia Educational Repository for
Learning and Online Teaching]
http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/
[Technology and Learning Program]
http://www.csuchico.edu/~donald/syllabi/SYL_GEOG235.htm
[Don Holtgreive's GEOG 235]
http://infocomp.csuchico.edu/
[UNIV-001C "Beginning" Page]
http://rce.csuchico.edu/sen/SEN_Infovideo.htm
[SEN = Satellite Education Network Information
Video featuring RealVideo]
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"He [or she] who fights the future has a
dangerous enemy. The future is not, it borrows its strength
from the man [or individual] himself, and when it has
tricked him [or her!] out of this, then it appears outside
of him as the enemy he must meet." Sören Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)
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[1] © These pages were
researched, composed, and posted on the WWW over the days of
September 8, 1998 through May 10, 1999, as a result of a Learning
Productivity Award of .20 "release time" for the 1998-1999 Academic
Year from
CELT
[Center for Excellence in Learning and
Teaching], from the Office of the Provost, to act as
consultant to the faculty working on the various Learning
Productivity Projects throughout the year. At the time of the first
posting on September 8, 1998, readers were told that they could
bookmark the page (to inform them when changes have occurred) by
subscribing to a "robot" like
http://www.netmind.com/html/url-minder.html
which would alert them when there were changes in these pages. To see
the companion report to be submitted to Provost Scott McNall on May
14, 1999, please see
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/1998-1999LPPFinRept.html.
To return to the top of the page, please click
here.
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