[PN] Gods and Evils (13 Feb. 2004)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for papers: eLit2004

The 3rd International Conference on eLiteracy
2nd - 4th June 2004 at St John's University, New York, USA
"'eLit' has a unique focus: eLiteracy, the whole range of skills and
intellectual abilities needed to use the new technologies underpinning
learning and life in the modern world... Help us define what eLiteracy
represents and encompasses - including computer literacy, information
literacy, media literacy, thinking skills and learning skills."
For further details, go to http://www.elit-conf.org/elit2004/index.html
Proposals for papers can be submitted at:
http://www.elit-conf.org/elit2004/papers.html
eLit Steering Committee
http://www.elit-conf.org/contactus.html

* Reference Website

DistanceLearn Database
[find courses available online, mostly U.S., by field of study - Ed.]
http://distancelearn.excelsior.edu

* Periodical articles

Smoking 'kills up to 5,000 foetuses a year' (in the UK)
David Derbyshire, Science Correspondent, The Telegraph, 12 Feb. 2004
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/12/nsmok12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/12/ixnewstop.html

The Journalist and the Whistle-Blower
Geneva Overholser, New York Times, February 6, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/opinion/06OVER.html

Our Children in Iraq (2 Letters)
New York Times, February 12, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/opinion/L12FRIE.htm

My God Is Your God
John Kearney, New York Times, January 28, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/opinion/28KEAR.html

[I'm going to the national University of Tsukuba Graduate School
of Education near Tokyo to teach a week-long course on
Online Education. See you again after February 21st. - Ed.]

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