Aloha

portal portal

C1 Portals, Virtual Portals and Information Clumps: technologies, issues and trends, Sally- Anne Leigh, in Information Oline 2001 cites the genric portal Traffick - the PORTAL Portal at http://www.traffick.com as well as some specific implementations.

Good examples of university wide portals include:

• Monash University at http://my.monash.edu.au
• University of Minnesota at http://onestop.umn.edu
• California Institute of Technology at http://my.caltech.edu/portals
• University of Michigan at http://www.umich.edu/gateway.html
• UCLA at http://my.ucla.edu.

Good examples of Library wide portals include:

• University of Washington - "My Gateway" at http://www.lib.washington.edu
• University of Melbourne - "Buddy" at http://xena.lib.unimelb.edu.au/bud/div/budhome.html
• University of Arizona - "SABIO" at http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/
• Also see the Special Issue: User-Customizable Library Portals of Information Technology and Libraries (v19 n4, December 2000) at http://www.lita.org/ital/ital1904.html

webct rationale

webct experience at ucla : webct was adopted as the ucla college of arts and sciences college wide online solution. a site was build for every course by a cadre of graduate students.

• Top Ten Reasons for Selecting WebCT, Institute for Instrructional Technology, University of Missouri (circa 1999)
• English 495 - Teaching Literature and Writing with Technology, TA Coorinator's Office, Department of English, UCLA.
• The Design Of Multi-Modal Online Teacher Education Courses: Preparing Candidates For Work With Learners With Severe Disabilities, A. Sandy Parsons, Professor of Special Education and Assistive Technologies, CSU San Marcos (2001)
• UCLA Slavic Department: General Survey of Views on Technology in InstructionSlavic TAC, Slavic Department, College of Arts and Sciences, UCLA. (10998)
• Faculty Support Models for Instructional Technology, Lynne O'Brien, Computer and Information Technology Intensive Environment, Duke University, July 16, 2001, Version 1.0 (First Draft)
• Developing a Quasi-Online Course, James Hitt, International Online Conference on Teaching in Higher Education, 2000.

whatever happened to push technology

• The Future of Online Games, Greg Costikyan. ""The Future of Online Games" is the definitive no-hype guide to successful online game development, authored by no-nonsense game expert Greg Costikyan. The report contains case studies of five online game operations: Blizzard's Battle.net, nineCo's Gamesville, Verant's EverQuest, Simutronics's Play.net, and GameSpy." $495.
• Our Favorite Tech-Flops, Charles Cooper, ZDNet News, February 12, 2001. "PointCast and Push Technology"
• Security Concerns Miss the P2P Point, Jon Orwant, OpenP2P, 03/27/2001. "But P2P is really just an umbrella covering five areas: file sharing, distributed computing, web services, messaging, and gaming. P2P is not a technology; it is a mindset.
• Surfing the internet - Push technology is one of the newest killer apps ... by Frank Vaughan, Computer Bits, October 1997.

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• MadMonkey.Net - Independent Game Network

psychology of cyberspace

The purpose of this online hypertext book is to explore the psychological dimensions of environments created by computers and online networks. It is intended as an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the various psychological components of cyberspace and how people react to and behave within it. This framework is the basis for my ongoing research on what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." I hope it will serve as a useful framework for other researchers as well. Continually being revised and expanded, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. ... John Suler

• The Psychology of Avatars and Graphical Space in Multimedia Chat Communities, John Suler, Department of Psychology, Rider University
• The Psychology of Cyberspace, John Suler, Department of Psychology, Rider University.

who own's information?

To prepare for the seminar, folks should browse these sites with an eye to identifying the key issues and the positions that are taken by various participants:

• The Electronic Freedom Foundation, http://www.eff.org/
• The Digital Millennium Copyrght Law, http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
• The Recording Industries of America Association, http://www.riaa.org/
• The Microsoft .NET Initiative, http://www.microsoft.com/net/
• The Open Knowledge Initiative, http://www.mit.edu/oki/
• Computer Scientists for Social Responsibility, http://www.cpsr.org/

Notes for this session will appear at http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/cs292 and ongoing links will be collected at http://lemming.uvm.edu/~blogger/

plagarism - big and small

Doris Kearns Goodwin, "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys", 1987

• Historian Says Publisher Quickly Settled Copying Dispute, David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, January 23, 2002. The publisher made an undisclosed payment to the author of the book from which the material was lifted, Lynne McTaggart. ("Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Her Times" (Dell Publishing, 1983).)

Stephen E. Ambrose, "The Wild Blue"

• Many on Campuses Disdain Historian's Practice, Diana Jean Schemo, January 15, 2002. Some historians are refusing to use Stephen Ambrose's books as texts and debates on campus play out the delimma.
• As Historian's Fame Grows, So Do Questions on Methods, David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, January 11, 2002.
• Historian Broke the Rules, but Is That So Bad? - Plagiarism is not synonymous with inaccuracy, Stuart P. Creen, Los Angeles Times, Commentary, January 13 2002
• Ambrose's 'Custer' Comes Under Attack, Associated Press, in the Los Angeles Times, January 9 2002

distributed computing - the evolution of internet intelligence

parasitic computing

• Parasitic Computing - the web page from the University of Notre Dame's Parasitic Computing Team. Team members include Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Jay Brockman, Hawoong Jeong and Vincent Freeh
• Parasitic Computing, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Vincent Freeh, Hawoong Jeong, Jay Brockman, Nature 412, p. 894 - 897, 30 August 2001. (412894a0_fs.html from Nature, password required.
• Parasite corrals computer power, John Whitefield, Nature, Science Update, 30 August 2001.

distributed computing

• PCs tapped to help fight anthrax, CNN News, January 22, 2002 Posted: 12:16 PM EST (1716 GMT). Source: AP
• Use your PC to fight cancer, hunt aliens and more, Kevin McKean and Richard Baguley, CNN News, May 21, 2001 Posted: 10:39 a.m. EDT (1439 GMT). Includes links to
  • Distributed.net: Testing different types of encryption by trying to decrypt messages
  • Entropia: Various projects, including finding a cure for AIDS and predicting the stock market
  • Folding@home: Solving how proteins are manufactured
  • Genome@home: Creating new proteins and genes that may lead to new cures for diseases
  • GIMPS: Trying to find the next largest prime number
  • Golem@home: Testing new robot designs by creating computer-generated robots that evolve
  • Popular Power: Testing new flu vaccines to find a cure
  • SETI@home: Searching for signs of life in outer space

seti results

• 23 - results from DJay of Seti23, check for Schroedinger the kitten.
• 23 - more Seti23 results
• poll - results from a Seti@home poll
• Where are they? - Maybe we are alone in the galazy after all, Ian Crawford, Scientific American, July 2000.
• SETI@home Hacked - Space.Com, May 24, 2000.

seti sites

• Bambi Project - build your own seti telescope.
• Seti Station - a home seti observatory

is there intelligent life in cyberspace

• Intelligent Life - from the Guggenheim Cyberatlas project

my.college.edu

a sampling of student portal systems, basically in order of "completeness" - the fast and useful to the complet and personalized. though called "my", "my" is more of a direction than a place.

• my.colorado.edu - thin service, fronts for next level of service.
• my.ucdavis.edu - thinner service
• my.ucla.edu - fuller service, requires login

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• my.excite.com

wiki

wiki is short for wikiwikiweb, a collaborative web authoring system. see below.

• c2.com - ward cunningham's original wiki.
• EmacsWiki - a wiki for emacs, based on UseModWiki. This is nice because the implementation language is lisp.
• UseModWiki - the source of the EmacsWiki
• MeatballWiki - seeking to be a community of communities.
• wikipedia - a community encyclopedia based on wiki

Online Learning Acronyms

SCORM - (Sharable Content Object Reference Model )- reusable learning objects. SCORM is a Defense Department software specification that sets guidelines for developing online course material.

• DOD plugs e-learning standard,Greg Langlois, Federal Computer Week, April 30, 2001
• Advanced Distributed Learning Net

RLO - Reusable Learning Objects - the modular building block that allows such a dynamic approach to managing e-learning content.

• Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab - University of Wisconsin System

I have a powerpoint

Although that particlar paper doesn't readily appear, what does appear is the large number of student powerpoint presentations on Martin Luther King.

• Friends don't let friends use powerpoint - Thomas A. Stewart, Fortune,Monday, February 5, 2001
• How to present a seminar - Department of Chemistry, Duke University
• On the internet, nobody know's you're a dog (or a boy) - linked from LibrarySmarts Information Literacy Project, from "Faking it", Michael Lewis, New York Times Magazine, New York, July 15, 2001. "Marcus Arnold was the No. I rated legal expert on the AskMe Web site. Marcus Arnold was 15. Therein lies the real nature of the Internet revolution.

BlogDex

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