Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id FAA21553 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 05:46:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id HAA28793; Tue, 27 May 1997 07:44:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:44:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , asascan Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Thought some of you might be interested in this item from Edupage. - Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cassell Institute for Research in Social Science e-mail: cassell@irss.unc.edu University of North Carolina Ph: 919/962-0782 Fx: 919/962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 18:22:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Edupage Editors To: EDUCOM Edupage Mailing List Subject: Edupage, 25 May 1997 ************************************************************ Edupage, 25 May 1997. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ************************************************************ RESOURCE CENTER FOR CYBERCULTURE A University of Maryland graduate student has developed a Web site that serves as a networking center for academics dealing with cybercultural issues. The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies has a variety of areas for teachers to explore, including an area where they can post information on their classes or areas of study. Professors from other institutions have found the site useful: "It's a good filter. The stuff I've seen there is helpful," says a professor at the University of Virginia. "One of the big challenges here is fighting link rot," he adds. (Wired News 14 May 97) http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs Edupage is written by John Gehl & Suzanne Douglas . Voice: 404-371-1853, Fax: 404-371-8057. Technical support is provided by Information Technology Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ************************************************************ Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage William Shakespeare (if your name is William Shakespeare; otherwise, substitute your own name). To unsubscribe send a message to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: unsubscribe edupage. (If you have subscription problems, send mail to manager@educom.unc.edu.) Educom Review ... is our bimonthly print magazine on information technology and education ... Subscriptions are $18 a year in the U.S.; send mail to offer@educom.edu. When you do, we'll ring a little bell, because we'll be so happy! Choice of bell is yours: a small dome with a button, like the one on the counter at the dry cleaners with the sign "Ring bell for service"; or a small hand bell; or a cathedral bell; or a door bell; or a chime; or a glockenspiel. Your choice. But ring it! Educom Update ... is our twice-a-month electronic summary of organizational news and events. To subscribe, send mail to: listproc@educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe update Edward de Vere (if your name is J. Edward de Vere; otherwise, substitute your own name). Archives & Translations ... Edupage is translated into Chinese, Estonian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak and Spanish. Send mail to translations@educom.unc.edu for info on subscribing to any of these translations. Today's Honorary Subscribers are William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the nobleman Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1550-1604). Shakespeare is, of course, renowned as the author of "Hamlet," "King Lear," "The Tempest," and other great plays, yet those plays may have really been written by Oxford -- courtier, poet, athlete, scholar, theater patron, and dandy -- rather than by Shakespeare. Why did Oxford hide behind Shakespeare -- a member of Oxford's acting company -- rather than use his own identity? In the new book "Alias Shakespeare: Solving The Greatest Literary Mystery Of All Time," Joseph Sobran explains: "As Oxford was a nobleman of high rank and ancient lineage, it would have been scandalous if he had been known to be slumming in the theater -- not the sort of news that would have been fit to print." ************************************************************ Educom -- Transforming Education Through Information Technology ************************************************************