[PN] "You've Got Mail" (11 Nov. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for Journal Submissions

Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal:
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian
Submissions for Winter 2004 issue --  deadline December 1, 2003.
Responses also sought on the Article by Dr. Alan Foley:
Integrating Accessible Design into the Educational Web Design Process
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/sum2003/living.html
Questions, comments, or submissions to: meridian_mail@ncsu.edu
Sent by Rebecca R. Reed, Ed.D., North Carolina State University

* Reference Websites

Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
(APACALL) [membership is free - Ed.]
http://www.apacall.org/index.html
Newsletters, downloadable in pdf format, and links to Member Web Pages:
http://www.apacall.org/members/members.html

* Periodical articles

Love, Internet Style
By DAVID BROOKS, New York Times, November 8, 2003
"40 million Americans look at online dating sites each month,
and we are seeing a revolution in the way people meet and court
one another... Online dating puts structure back into courtship
...  Each member at a dating site creates his or her own Web page.
The most important feature on the page is the photo; studies show
that looks are twice as powerful as income in attracting mates.
But there are also autobiographical essays. ... Whatever else has
changed, men are more likely to be predators looking for sex,
while women try to hold back... Internet relationships are at least
as powerful as relationships that begin face to face. Many people
are better at revealing their true selves through the keyboard
than through conversation. And couples who slow down and prolong
the e-mail phase have a better chance of seeing their relationships
last... the heart, even in this commercial age, finds a way."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/08/opinion/08BROO.html

Meeting Online: But Will You Really Click? (4 Letters)
[Letters to the editor about the above article, mostly disagreeing,
but they seem to divide into f2f or in-person types (for whom
out of sight may be out of mind?) and those who like to write.
Clients of distance education might also divide similarly - Ed.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/opinion/L11DATI.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
Home Page: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/presence.html
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E-mail (including items for Papyrus News): steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp