[PN] Definitions (23 Oct. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Conference notice

The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
November 14-16, 2003 - Orlando, Florida.
"The Power of Online Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning."
Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with The
University of Central Florida, The Pennsylvania State University, SCOLE,
and ADEC. For more information and to register please visit:
http://www.aln.ucf.edu

* Reference Websites

Web Links | LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics
and Area Studies, University of Southampton, UK
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/links.aspx
Topics by keyword
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/keywordlist.aspx

Incidentally, Google has a new linguistic feature of finding
definitions. Just go to: http://www.google.com/ and run a search on
define: word/phrase. If Google doesn't have a definition for something
uncommon, a search on a term in the same field may turn up a glossary
that has the definition you seek. For example, define: distributed
education turns up nothing, but define e-learning turns up some sources
where distributed education is also defined.

World Association for Online Education
WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB), VOL 3, NO 5 (October 2003)
[Many conferences are listed, so perhaps they need not be repeated here.
The President's Corner is an interactive lesson for understanding online
education concepts, with e-mail feedback appreciated - Ed.]
http://waoe.org/communication/webframe5-october.htm
Archives of past WEB issues:
http://www.waoe.org/communication/archives.htm

* Periodical articles on technology and culture

Net lifeline for African doctors
BBC News | Technology, October 22, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3211844.stm

Playing into the radicals' hands
By BONNIE ERBE, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST, October 22, 2003
[Evangelical crusader General Boykin, who has been promoted in the Bush
administration, not rebuked thus far by the Department of Defense - Ed.]
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/144852_erbe22.html
[See also] American Jihad
By Farai Chideya, AlterNet, October 21, 2003
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17002

Does MLB [U.S. Major League Baseball] want to hear the truth?
By Don Wade, gomemphis.com, October 22, 2003
[Steriods in baseball and other sports: good-bye level playing field.
>From the late 60s through the conservative era, who would have guessed
that the biggest drug abusers would turn out to be athletes? With the
globalization of vanity technologies such as breast implants and
plastic surgery, along with the cheating by sports heroes, the natural
beauty and virtues of people are being supplanted by the artificial and
the immoral. The trend will probably worsen so long as artificiality
pays off. What can educators do on behalf of nature and fairness? - Ed.]
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/baseball/article/0,1426,MCA_464_2366140,00.html

"And if all the HIPPIES / cut their hair / I don't care" - Jimi Hendrix

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
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