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CIT INFOBITS October 2004 No. 76 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
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at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.
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Meet the Millennials
Rewarding Faculty Who Use TET Tools
Little Evidence of Use of Creative Commons Licenses in Academe
Gleason Sackmann Retires
New Newsletter on IT in Higher Ed
Halloween Link: Gothic Literature
Recommended Reading
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MEET THE MILLENNIALS
The Millennials have arrived on our campuses. Who are the these
students? "Millennials are those born in 1982 or later. They expect to
have access to the same technology they have now -- computers, cell
phones, pagers, and PDAs. This group likes to be connected. They also
prefer the interactive to the passive, hence their preference for the
Internet over television. The biggest difference between this current
generation and previous ones is the type of technology they know
intimately. This generation is the digital group -- the technology they
grew up with is the technology we are getting used to as adults."
"Meeting the Millennials" is the theme of the collection of articles in
the October issue of SIDEBARS. Read about them and how to reach and
teach them at http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/04september/index.htm.
SideBars is distributed by email and on the Web at no cost and is
published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia
Institute of Technology [http://www.lru.bcit.ca/] "to support and
recognize innovative practice in distributed learning at BCIT, and in
the greater educational community." For more information, contact the
editors at email: sidebars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscription information:
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html.
For more information on the Millennials, see
MILLENNIALS GO TO COLLEGE: STRATEGIES FOR A NEW GENERATION ON CAMPUS
by William Strauss
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 2003
ISBN: 1578580331
"What are the traits exhibited by the new generation of college
students? How can colleges and universities tailor their strategic
enrollment management efforts to best cater to the needs and desires of
this new generation? Millennials Go to College outlines the seven core
traits of the Millennials and provides practical recommendations for
the recruitment and retention of students."
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REWARDING FACULTY WHO USE TET TOOLS
"[T]o get tenured, spend more time on real scholarship and teaching,
and don't waste time on this technology fad." The rewards for using
technology-enabled teaching (TET) tools are still elusive at many
institutions. In "Faculty & Technology: Rewarding TET" (CAMPUS
TECHNOLOGY, October 2004), David Starrett, Southeast Missouri State
University, outlines the concerns not-yet-tenured faculty have in using
TET tools. Drawing on his own institution's situation, he describes the
undervaluing of TET tools usage in promotion-and-tenure reviews and
provides some suggestions for changing the current situation. The
article is available online at
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=10067.
As of the October 2004 issue, Syllabus has changed its name to Campus
Technology. It is published monthly by 101communications, LLC, 9121
Oakdale Avenue, Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 USA; tel: 818-734-1520;
fax: 818-734-1522; email: info@xxxxxxxxxx; Web: http://www.101com.com/.
Annual subscriptions are free to individuals who work in colleges,
universities, vocational and technical schools, and other higher
education facilities in the U.S.; non-U.S. subscriptions are available
for a fee. Go to http://subscribe.101com.com/cam/ for more information.
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LITTLE EVIDENCE OF USE OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES IN ACADEME
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization founded in 2001 on the
notion that some people would prefer to share their creative works (and
the power to copy, modify, and distribute their works) instead of
exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law. According to a
recent article in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ("Alternative
License for the Arts Fails to Catch on in Academe" by Andrea L. Foster,
vol. 51, issue 6, October 1, 2004, p. A34), "only a few college
programs regularly use the group's licenses to grant access to online
works. And few faculty members and scholars have independently chosen
to use a Creative Commons license for their works." One reason may be
because many academic publishers routinely request that scholars give
copyrights to the publisher, and the scholars, in turn, don't insist on
retaining their rights, thereby limiting the distribution of their work
to a wider audience. Another reason, suggested by Lawrence Lessig,
Stanford University law professor who founded Creative Commons, is that
"the group was never geared toward academe. . . . Only recently has the
group made an appeal to scholars."
Link to http://www.creativecommons.org/ for more information about
Creative Commons.
The article is available online to Chronicle subscribers at
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i06/06a03401.htm.
The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly
by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street,
NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033;
Web: http://chronicle.com/.
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GLEASON SACKMANN RETIRES
After a long career in education, Gleason Sackmann retired this year.
In 1998, he was awarded the SIG/Tel Educational Telecomputing
Outstanding Service Award, and in 1996, he was rated #10 on NEWSWEEK's
prestigious List of "50 People Who Matter." Over the years, Sackmann
moderated several important newsletters for educators: K12 NEWSLETTERS,
NETWORK NEWSLETTERS, and NEW-LIST. From 1993 to 2004, he published
NET-HAPPENINGS. Net-Happenings covers conference announcements, calls
for papers, network resource announcements, newsletters, and network
tool updates. Over 9,000 individuals currently subscribe, with many
more readers through the website and mail redistribution.
Net-Happenings will continue publication under the direction of Karen
Ellis, founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround website. As one who
has benefited from Gleason Sackmann's work over the years (including
his distribution of Infobits in his publications), I would like to
express my appreciation for his tremendous contribution to the
educational and Internet communities.
For more information about Gleason Sackmann, see
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/gmanbio.html.
For more about Net-Happenings or to subscribe, see
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html.
For more about CyberPlayGround and its other publications and services,
see http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/index.html.
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NEW NEWSLETTER ON IT IN HIGHER ED
THE WIRED CAMPUS is a new daily email newsletter available to
subscribers of THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The newsletter
provides links to education news from The Chronicle and elsewhere
online. Chronicle subscribers can sign up at
http://chronicle.com/infotech/newsletter/.
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HALLOWEEN LINK: GOTHIC LITERATURE
This year our annual Halloween link revisits "The Literary Gothic"
website, which was our 1999 Halloween feature. The site is the creation
of Jack Voller, Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at
Edwardsville, where he teaches courses on Gothic and other forms of
popular literature. The Literary Gothic is a guide to "all things
concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories,
'classic' Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related
pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to
the mid-C20. The goals of this site are two-fold: to collect in one
place all links pertaining to the Gothic novel, Gothic fiction, and all
other forms of literary Gothicism and subsequent traditions, and to
make available etexts of important and overlooked early works of Gothic
or supernatural interest."
Visit The Literary Gothic at http://www.litgothic.com/.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@xxxxxxx for
possible inclusion in this column.
Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age
by Michael Bugeja
Oxford University Press, November 2004
ISBN: 0195173392 paperback $19.95 (US)
Interpersonal Divide "documents how long-standing media
theories--including ones by Marshall McLuhan--may no longer hold in the
wake of new media and intrusive technology. Bugeja investigates the
impact and motives of media ecosystems that have polluted the Internet
and other digital devices with marketing ploys, delivering to consumers
a global mall rather than a global village. Interpersonal Divide
informs readers how to use media and technology wisely so that they
enhance rather than replace community."
-- Oxford University Press book description
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Communication/SpeechCommunication/InterpersonalCommunication/?view=usa&ci=0195173392
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