[PN] Information Society (8 Nov. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Preview of TESOL's 38th Annual Convention

TESOL 2004 conference information
March 31 - April 3, 2004, Long Beach, California hotels
http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2004/pp/index.html
Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest Section webpages:
http://www.tesol.org/isaffil/intsec/f-call.html

* Reference Websites

Interesting Things for ESL Students
http://www.manythings.org/
Thanks to Malika Lyon, Applied English Center, University of Kansas
http://www.aec.ku.edu/leo

* Periodical articles for information literacy

JALT 2003 / Minister gives English needed push
Daily Yomiuri, Nov. 4, 2003
[Japan mulls requiring English in elementary schools,
concerned about lagging behind South Korea and China - Ed.]
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20031104wob2.htm

U.N. to look at IT big-picture
By David Kirkpatrick, FORTUNE.COM, CNN, November 6, 2003
[More than a telecom conference, the UN/ITU "World Summit
on the Information Society, which takes place in Geneva
December 10-12 and will be the first time the U.N. has attempted
a big-picture look at the global importance of information technology."
It's also less than a conference, because it's open to VIPs only - Ed.]
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/06/fortune.ff.united.nations/index.html

Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War
By JAMES RISEN, New York Times, Nov. 6, 2003
[Iraq was practically begging to avert war and to show that they had no
WMDs, but the Bush administration would not negotiate with them and soon
attacked Iraq regardless of their white flag. Will the CIA or underlings
take the fall, or can the White House stonewall on this issue too until
media coverage ceases and voters forget? - Ed.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/politics/06INTE.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (WAOE)
Latest newsletter: http://waoe.org/communication/webframe5-october.htm
WAOE blog "Intercultural Literacy": http://waoe.blogspot.com
E-mail: steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp