James L Morrison wrote:
>
> The Technology Source (TS) is a free webzine that focuses on integrating
> information technology in higher education. Below is a summary of the
> contents of the February issue, concluding with information as to how you
> can subscribe to TS and with information about how you can contribute to
> the publication.
>
> --
> James L. Morrison
morrison@unc.edu
> Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall
> Microsoft Scholar The University of North Carolina at
> Editor, On the Horizon Chapel Hill
>
http://sunsite.unc.edu/horizon Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500
> Editor, The Technology Source Phone: 919 962-2517
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed Fax: 919 962-1693
>
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> February 1, 1998
> The Technology Source for Higher Education
>
> Welcome to our February issue! Our Vision article
> for this month deals with defining a pace for the adoption of instructional
> technology into collegiate curricula that corresponds with the realities of
> student experience, interest, and need. Derek Maus discusses the problems he
> finds with current strategies, which he claims are largely derived from
> technology product marketing, and also proposes some solutions that can
> rectify the disparities among students in the three aforementioned areas.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/vision.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/vision.htm>
>
> Commentary this month continues our ongoing debate
> concerning the pros and cons of integrating technology into the classroom.
> Picking up the topic where we left off in November's issue
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/news/november/seminar.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/news/november/seminar.htm> >, Peter
> Havholm responds with a further elucidation of his concerns regarding the
> requirement of technological proficiency in higher education. Then, Ed Neal
> offers an alternative viewpoint
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm#mediation
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm#mediation> > by
> suggesting that technology in the classroom is neither a cure-all nor a bane
> to established educational practice. Instead, he argues that instructional
> technology can be a highly useful tool for assistance and enhancement of
> teaching, but it cannot ever fully replace the existing concepts of
> student-teacher interaction.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/comment.htm>
>
> Barbara Horgan provides our Case Studies article
> this month, expanding on her Vision article from January, which dealt with
> general principles for the adoption of information technology into a higher
> education curriculum. This article examines the ways in which several
> business schools, both public and private, have approached the process of
> incorporating technology into their educational framework and briefly
> compares the relative effectiveness of these various strategies.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/action.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/action.htm>
>
> Our Featured Product for February is FrontPage, a
> tool that helps us bring you this publication each month. David Gowler and
> Carol Taylor from Chowan College describe their use of FrontPage97 in
> creating web pages for a pair of undergraduate courses at that institution.
> Their article highlights not only the ways in which they used the software
> to assist in the creation of these pages, but also discusses the results
> they achieved through the addition of this technology to their established
> pedagogy. With the recent release of the expanded and improved FrontPage98,
> this article provides a head-start on thinking about ways to utilize this
> product in designing courses.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/products.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/products.htm>
>
> February's Site of the Month is the Minority On-Line
> Information Service (MOLIS), a unique online database of over 220 minority
> institutions. This service is beneficial not only to the growing number of
> educational institutions that are included in its listings, but also to the
> government agencies, corporations, and other organizations that use it to
> facilitate the development of partnerships with minority institutions. As
> their mission statement indicates, "MOLIS is a one-stop source of in-depth
> information about the research and educational capabilities of participating
> Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities,
> Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities, Tribally Controlled Colleges
> and Universities, and other Minority Institutions.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/site.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/site.htm>
>
> We have an additional three new items on our site
> this month that you might find of interest. We've redesigned our Case Study
> Library <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/cssearch.asp
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/cssearch.asp> > to make it much
> easier to find the information you're looking for.
>
> In addition we have added a page dedicated to
> Community Colleges <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/ccpage.htm
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/ccpage.htm> >. There are elements of
> interest here for everyone, but especially for those who deal with the
> special concerns of Community Colleges.
>
> Also, a neat tool for those students interested in
> pursuing a career in the Information Technology industry: The Microsoft
> Skills 2000 Information Technology Aptitude Tool! This tool assists the
> student in determining what high technology career paths to consider. You
> can find the link to this tool in the For Students section
> <http://www.microsoft.com/education/hed/students/
>
> Note: if you would like to subscribe to TS, please go to
>
http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/personalinfo.asp
> and complete the registration information. Subscribers receive a content
> summary like the one above the first of each month.
>
> If you would like to submit an article for publication in TS (which
> currently has slightly over 134,000 subscribers), please
> review the call for manuscripts in the projects section of the Horizon Web
> site (http://horizon.unc.edu) and send your manuscript to James L.
> Morrison (
morrison@unc.edu).
Just a thought: Should you not explicitly advise the members of this
list, whom you are addressing, that you are inviting them to read and
to submit articles to a publication that unambiguously exists to foster
the point of view and the welfare of Microsoft, with higher education
benefiting only when that benefit is consistent with Microsoft's? Such
a caution is necessary in this era of the commercialization of
education, even when the sponsor's purposes turn out to be truly
consonant with those of education -- without belaboring the point -- for
reasons that should be obvious.