e-Clippings 9.5.01
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-Confucius

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
-William Hazlitt

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
-Don Herold

**Yes, I did miss a week. My laptop is still inhabited by small
demons and the holy water doesn't seem to be helping. !!**
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Cool Site(s):
So you're sitting there griping about Windows or Office of
something and it inevitably ends up at "but what else can I
use?" StarOffice from Sun is one alternative that just seems to
keep getting better. StarOffice has a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation, email and browser program (I'm probably forgetting
something else too..). It's Web site states that it does
integrate and interoperate with MS products and get this…it's
free! That's right, v5.2 is downloadable free of charge from the
Sun site. You can $$ to buy it in a store but why would you? Anyway,
its gotten great reviews and seems (by some unofficial measures) to
hold about 15% of the office suite market.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/index.html

Radio VH-1:
Great channels and easy on the system resources.
http://www.vh1.com/sounds.visions/vh1atwork/?mswmp
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Conference Announcements:

Advanced Distributed Learning and Job Performance Technologies
Conference and Exhibit
September 26, 2001 - September 27, 2001
Hilton Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia
www.adlnet.org

and

22nd - 26th July 2002, Working Conference in Dortmund, Germany
"Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT" - SECIII
http://ddi.cs.uni-dortmund.de/dortmund2002/index_html

and

25th - 30th of August 2002, Open Conference as part of WCC'2002 in
Montreal,
Canada INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY for our Times:
IDEAS, RESEARCH and APPLICATION IN AN INCLUSIVE WORLD
Stream of the TC-3 :"TelE-Learning"
http://www.wcc2002.org/en/index.html

and

SITE 2002
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
International Conference
March 18-23, 2002 * Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville Convention Center
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - DEADLINE: OCT. 19, 2001
Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University
Organized by Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
(SITE) www.aace.org/site
And Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
www.aace.org
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NEWS

HP to Buy Compaq for $25B
PC maker's potential dominance in stores raises antitrust concerns.
http://www.washtech.com/news/software/12292-1.html

**Bargain Alert**
Handspring giving away VisorPhone
In an apparent move to clear out inventory, Handspring this
week began giving away its VisorPhone cell phone module
with the purchase of a Visor handheld.
http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?134058:9649913

Learning Circuits: LCMS ROUNDUP
More important, as LCMSs develop, so may their influence on e-
learning instructional design. Because an LCMS's strength is its
ability to modularize and manipulate content, developers can begin
exploring new learning techniques. For instance, LCMSs are poised to
address adaptive learning. "An inherent capability of LCMSs is
adapting content to fit a learner's personal profile, not just by
delivery mode but learning styles."
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2001/aug2001/ttools.html

BBC: SURGERY ON THE WEB
A new cyber medical college has been set up in the UK to educate
doctors, nurses and other health professionals. From Monday, health
workers anywhere in the world will be able to log-on to the internet
to learn how to carry out surgical operations or the latest medical
procedure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/glasgow_2001/n
ewsid_1522000/1522086.stm

Young Gandhi's Crusade Is Dot-In (Culture 2:00 a.m. PDT)
Mahatma Gandhi fought for the freedom of his country. Now his great-
grandson is fighting to convince Indians to rally around its
country's Internet suffix. Manu Joseph reports from Mumbai.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46339,00.html?tw=wn20010903

DEFENSE IT PROJECTS MAY BE STALLED IN 2002
Political maneuvering over the Defense Department budget for fiscal
2002 is likely to hold up new IT projects, a senior Pentagon official
said.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/17077-1.html

PENTAGON CIO EYES NETWORK-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURES
The Department of Defense will pursue network-centric technologies,
according to its new chief information officer, John Stenbit.
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/17066-1.html

Fast Company: CLICK U
Virtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students
of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time
zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy.
http://www.fastcompany.com/launch/launch_feature/clicku.html


TRENDS SECTION

IT-Training: TEN PENNIES FOR E-LEARNING'S WISHING WELL
Elliott Masie: One of the perks of being an analyst in the learning
and training field is that I get to dream out loud about what is
needed in our industry. And this is my wish list...I also want the
character that Martin Sheen plays on West Wing to enrol in an e-
learning course – let's get millions of viewers seeing that e-
learning is a real and normal component of the human learning
process. What better way to do that than through TV and film models...
http://www.train-net.co.uk/columnists/columnist_article.asp?NewsID=473

CNET: INTERNET REPLACING LIBRARIES FOR HOMEWORK
Thanks to the Internet, research projects and other school
assignments are being completed at home, on-line, replacing last-
minute trips to the library, according to a study released Saturday.
Seventy-one percent of middle school and high school students with
Internet access said they relied on the electronic technology the
most in completing a project, according to a survey conducted by the
Pew Internet and American Life Project.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7039672.html?tag=mn_hd

Darwin: FIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT... ONLINE COMMUNITIES
Amy Jo Kim: There's a useful three-element process that you can
think about when building a community. First, we're creating a
fertile habitat where people will thrive. That involves not just the
platform we choose, the technology we choose, but the energy that
flows into it. Just like a biological ecosystem needs energy,
communities need energy, particularly at the beginning. They need
either money or funding. They need startup energy. They need
people's
energy to get the thing going.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/thoughts/column.html?ArticleID=157

Stephen Hawking predicts cyborg ascendancy
Let's re-engineer our genes to compete
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21414.html

Online Learning Magazine: CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
Two years ago, learning portals popped up across the Internet's
landscape. Today, many are buried in the dot-com rubble. What
happened?
http://www.onlinelearningmag.com/new/sept01/cover.htm

Online Learning Magazine: LAND OF CONFUSION
Six pieces of advice on how to evaluate a learning management system.
http://www.onlinelearningmag.com/new/sept01/feature2.htm

EMERGING TECH SECTION

HP Intros Color Pocket PCs Based on New OS
Hewlett Packard plans this week to introduce two Pocket PC handheld
computers based on the new Pocket PC 2002 Premium Edition operating
system from Microsoft. The Jornada 565, with 32 MB of RAM, and the
Jornada 568, with 64 MB RAM, will be available in stores Oct. 4.
The units have a removable 14-hour rechargable lithium-polymer
battery, 8 MB FlashROM for backup, and CompactFlash Type I extended
slot for adding memory cards and accessories such as wireless
modems. --Mitch Wagner Get the whole story:
http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eESZ0B48tK0V30RtX0Ab

MIT Technology Review: VIRTUAL WORLDS GET REAL
Some 35,000 movie makers, gamers, graphics artists, hardware
developers and researchers gathered earlier this month at SIGGRAPH
2001 in Los Angeles to demonstrate just how good they're getting at
modeling the physical world—and then at going it one better.
http://www.techreview.com/web/hogan/hogan082901.asp

IBM SCIENTISTS PRESENT TINY COMPUTER CIRCUIT
(Source: IDG.net) Taking another step toward post-silicon
semiconductors, IBM scientists on Sunday presented a computer
circuit made from a carbon nanotube, a tube-shaped molecule of carbon
atoms that is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaadb2aaQioca9nkbob/


INTEL LAUNCHES 2-GHZ PENTIUM 4
(Source: PCWorld.com) Gateway, Dell, Compaq, and HP are among
vendors now shipping systems running on the milestone CPU.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaadb2aaQioda9nkbob/

RESEARCHERS PLAY WITH PARASITIC COMPUTING
Why use your own computer when you can make use of other people's
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana have
demonstrated "parasitic" computing -- using other people's servers to
do your own processing, they said in an article in this week's Nature
magazine.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaadaXaaQh4oa9nkbob/

SECURITY SECTION

NEW VIRUS TARGETS AND ENCRYPTS .EXE FILES
Source: Computerworld) Antivirus vendor Central Command has
detected a new worm that, disguised as a warning from Microsoft, mass
e-mails itself to users and, once launched, encrypts all executable
files, rendering them unuseable.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaadb2aaQin8a9nkbob/

PROGRAMMER BREAKS MS E-BOOK CODE
(Source: IDG.net) An anonymous programmer has found a way to
decrypt Microsoft Reader e-books, according to an article on the Web
site of an MIT magazine. His announcement has brought renewed focus
to the debate on digital rights management and the future of e-book
technology.
http://click.idg.email-publisher.com/maaadb2aaQin9a9nkbob/

Information Security: Code Red, Code Red II, and SirCam Attacks
Highlight Need for Proactive Measures, by Keith Rhodes, chief
technologist, before the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency,
Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations, House
Committee on Government Reform. GAO-01-1073T, August 29.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1073t

HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION

The Mirage of Continuity : Reconfiguring Academic Information
Resources for the 21st Century
by Brian L. Hawkins (Editor), Patricia Battin (Editor),

Program Hopping
"If you're like me, you often have several applications open
at once and are hopping back and forth among various
applications all the time. Application hopping is
unavoidable when you're working on a presentation that will
feature a spreadsheet for figures, a document for the
outline of your presentation, and a Web site or two with
research information.

It gets hectic after a while if you must minimize, then
maximize, then go to the task bar and click on the
application's icon. A faster way (at least for me) is to
hold down the Alt key and press the Tab key. Let go of the
Tab key while still holding down Alt, then press the Tab
key to scroll through each application. When the box
surrounds the application you want, let go of the Alt key
and boom, there you are!"

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