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  • 1.  Innovate URL

    Posted 10-08-2004 14:13
    Professor Jones, I appreciate your note and apologize for the confusion.

    The correct URL is in the announcement below. Please forward this
    announcement to your colleagues, not the original.

    Thanks!

    Jim
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    James L. Morrison
    Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
    http://www.innovateonline.info
    Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
    UNC-Chapel Hill
    http://horizon.unc.edu

    The inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed bimonthly e-journal
    featuring cutting-edge research and practice in using information technology
    to enhance education is now available at http://www.innovateonline.info



    We invite you to do more than simply read. Use our one-button features to
    comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and
    participate in webcasts with authors in our Innovate-Live forums. Join us in
    exploring the best uses of this technology to improve the ways we think,
    learn, and live.



    Chris Dede starts us on that journey with expert commentary on the
    ever-expanding field of learning technology tools. Multi-user virtual
    environments and ubiquitous computing promise to do away with limits on how
    and where students learn; Dede translates this vision into concrete terms.
    Joel Foreman joins him with a focus on video game studies as both a growing
    academic field of study and as an open arena for pedagogical reform. Donald
    Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere consider how new technologies change not
    only on the way we access knowledge, but also the way in which we experience
    it.



    These articles are followed by four descriptions of how information
    technology tools are being used now to enhance educational processes.
    Gilbert Valdez, Kathleen Fulton, Robert Blomeyer, Allen Glenn, and Nicole
    Wimmer share the results from a study that compared six different teacher
    education programs, focusing on how each school used technology to prepare
    trainees for work in high-poverty districts. Robert Wood explains how a
    coordinated effort in his department to offer students a variety of rich
    technological resources resulted in greater cohesion within the curriculum
    itself. Jonathan Maybaum describes a Web-authoring system that gives users
    the ultimate control over their sites, yet remains elegantly utile. Diane
    Harley, Jonathan Henke, and Michael Maher describe the benefits of online
    technology for large lecture courses.



    When you access your first article, we will ask for your name and e-mail
    address. You will not have to provide this information again to access
    additional articles as long as Innovate remains a free journal. We are
    actively searching for sponsors, but we need your help to secure their
    support. To that end, we also ask for demographic questions designed to
    establish a professional profile of Innovate readers. This information will
    be used only to compile data for potential sponsors; it will not be sold or
    otherwise disseminated. If you prefer not to receive promotions and
    announcements from potential sponsors, please check the designated box.



    Once again, welcome to the Innovate community. Read, learn, share. Help us
    define the future of education.



    Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to
    colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work.



    Many thanks.



    Jim



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    James L. Morrison

    Editor-in-Chief, Innovate

    http://www.innovateonline.info

    Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership

    UNC-Chapel Hill

    http://horizon.unc.edu