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The British Film Institute (bfi) recently announced they published Moving Images in the Classroom – a Secondary Teachers’ Guide to Using Film and Television as part of its plans for increasing the use of the moving image in classrooms and creating a more informed and cine-literate population. The bfi’s publication of this Guide coincides with […]
Featured speaker, Anai Suzuko, BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, Fukuoka University, Japan MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, UK Member of British Association of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. The paper and slide presentations was prepared for the 3rd BATJ conference, Birmingham 3rd September 2000. What is Going to Happen? First read the paper […]
The arts and humanities in Cambridge University are being given new facilities of the standard that science departments have expected for many years.
Celebrate National Neighborhood Networks Week October 14-22. Our theme is: Conquering the Digital Divide: Delivering the Promise of Technology to Americas Families.
Until relatively recently, the media guru Marshall McLuhan, with his gnomic pronouncements about “acoustic space” and “cool” media and “square” people, appeared to be a dated artifact of 1960’s culture destined to go the way of tie-dyed shirts, Peter Max posters and Timothy Leary. “Once exalted as oracular, Marshall McLuhan’s theories now seem laughably inadequate […]
WASHINGTON – Residents of more than 200 HUD-assisted and public housing complexes in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico today launched the first-ever celebration of “National Neighborhood Networks Week” from October 14 through October 22, 2000. Neighborhood Network Centers enable residents of HUD housing to acquire computer skills, enroll in distance […]
Colleges And Universities Select WebCT Because It Is User-Friendly, Enhances Interaction Between Students and Faculty, And Offers Quality Course Material Nashville, TN, EDUCAUSE 2000, October 11, 2000 — WebCT today announced that its user base in higher education has nearly doubled in size during the past year. Between last years and this years annual EDUCAUSE […]
Microsoft’s Office 2001 for the Macintosh–“Office:mac 2001” in marketing-ese–has a lot of sizzle, but its steak is surprisingly good, too. It appears Microsoft’s designers have finally taken into consideration the unique attributes of the Macintosh platform when creating their software.
Walking what is perhaps one of the finest lines in the high tech industry, Kevin Browne works at Microsoft, where he lives and breathes the Macintosh. Browne, who has worked for Microsoft for 10 years, was named head of Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) in late 1999. Today at the CompUSA store in San Francisco, […]
With World Food Day just a few days away on October 16, a coalition of international and national organizations, including the World Bank, on Thursday launched a new curriculum: Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger. The curriculum we are releasing today is the first in a series to introduce children all over the world to the problem […]