NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 2 May 2000 - Special issue (#2000-246)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. MISC> [DUC] INFO/NYT: Negotiations Toward Settlement of the Copyright
Infringement Case Being Sought be MP3 and Record Companies
2. K12> [netsites] Help4School
3. MISC> [netsites] Med in Web
4. RESOUR> [netsites] The Supreme Court
5. MISC> Knoxville Iowa | Business
6. K12> Problem w/ Tech Gap Starts With Shortage of Skilled Teachers
7. K12> T2T> Teacher Appreciation Week Story on Education World
8. CORRECT> [DUC] CORRECTION: INTERNET SEARCH TOOL: SourceBank: A Search
Engine for Computer Science, Database Technology....
9. MISC> [DUC] RESOURCE: DIRECTORY: TRADE PERIODICALS: TradePub.com: A
Dirctory of Free Internet Based Trade and Profesional Periodicals and
Publications
10. MISC> A large list of links to state universities
11. RESOUR> [DUC] RESOURCE: LAW: From Legal Documents in American History to
the Frontiers of Cyberlaw With a Word From Our Sponsor
12. K12> Corel donation of WordPerfect and Linux to Dallas schools
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:32:48 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [DUC] INFO/NYT: Negotiations Toward Settlement of the Copyright
Infringement Case Being Sought be MP3 and Record Companies
From: "David P. Dillard" <jw...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: "Diversity University Collaboratory" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:49 AM
Subject: [DUC] INFO/NYT: Negotiations Toward Settlement of the Copyright
Infringement Case Being Sought be MP3 and Record Companies
REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:
MP3 and the record companies involved in the lawsuit
against MP3 are negotiating an out of court settlement in the copyright
violation case against MP3.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584
jw...@astro.temple.edu
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: REUTERS
Title: Mood Thaws Between MP3.com and Record Labels
Source Date: May 1, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: MP3, Copyright Violations, Court Decision, Out of
Court Settlement, Negotiations
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
(Free Registration Required by the New York Times)
May 1, 2000
Mood Thaws Between MP3.com and
Record Labels
By REUTERS
NEW YORK -- Shares of MP3.com rebounded on Monday as the world's
largest record companies said they were stepping up efforts to settle
their dispute with the online music company after a federal judge's ruling
on Friday that MP3.com violated copyright law.
The shares were up 18 percent, or 1-1/4, at 8-1/4, amid heavy trading.
They reached as high as 9-1/4 in intraday trading, after plummeting 40
percent on Friday. On the day the stock made its debut in July, it traded
as high as 105.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:32:54 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Help4School
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:51 AM
Subject: [netsites] Help4School
Help4School - A place for your educational needs
http://www.help4school.com/
"Help for school: math, science, social studies, english and more. We
have tutoring services available, as well as homework help and other
help for academic needs. We help children help themselves."
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://www.ashlists.org/
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:32:59 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Med in Web
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <ASHa...@MASTNET.net>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:57 AM
Subject: [netsites] Med in Web
http://www.medinweb.com/web/home.php
Health and Medicine vortal with news, resources, forums, message
boards, editorial articles, services, store, and more...
Alan
ASHa...@MASTNET.net
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:33:05 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] The Supreme Court
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <asha...@ashlists.org>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:07 AM
Subject: [netsites] The Supreme Court
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
Learn all about the Supreme Court; find docket information; research
past and present cases, opinions and orders; get visiter and public
information; calendar and schedules, and more... Site is searchable;
contains extensive site map.
Alan
asha...@ashlists.org
http://netsites.ashlists.org/
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 07:55:03 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Knoxville Iowa | Business
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:19 AM
From: wingk...@yahoo.com
http://www.knoxvilleia.net/start.htm
Knoxvilles best web directory. Classifieds, humane society, jobs, parks.
You name it and Knoxville has it.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:17:35 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Problem w/ Tech Gap Starts With Shortage of Skilled Teachers
From: "Andy Carvin" <aca...@globalschoolhouse.com>
To: <WWW...@LISTS.LIGHTSPAN.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:06 AM
Subject: Problem w/ Tech Gap Starts With Shortage of Skilled Teachers (fwd)
Reposted with permission from the LA Times.... -ac
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:38:27 -0600
To: cha...@lists.cc.utexas.edu
From: Gary Chapman <gary.c...@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: L.A. Times column, 5/1/00
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DIGITAL NATION
Monday, May 1, 2000
Problem of Technology Gap Starts With Shortage of Skilled Teachers
By Gary Chapman
Copyright 2000, The Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved
President Clinton has put the "digital divide" at the top of his deck
this past month, pushing the issue into headlines and editorials all
over the country. But there is still a great deal of confusion,
contradiction and muddled thinking in how politicians and the
technology industry are talking about bringing more Americans into
the "new economy."
The president convened a White House summit on the new economy in
April that was attended by 125 national leaders and experts. He
followed that with his national digital-divide tour. He visited both
East Palo Alto, the persistent and by-now-familiar symbol of the
digital divide, and a Navajo Indian reservation. Then he urged
executives at an industry convention in Chicago to do something about
the technology gap.
Clinton announced $2.25 billion in proposed federal programs and tax
breaks to expand technology access and skills in low-income
communities. A dozen or so high-tech companies pledged an additional
$200 million in programs aimed at employing more minorities, women
and disabled workers.
The White House has tied the issue of the digital divide to the
high-tech industry's growing anxiety about the nationwide shortage of
skilled technology workers. In East Palo Alto, the president held up
a copy of a local newspaper's classified ads section and said there
were 10,000 jobs in it that could be filled by local residents if
they had the right training.
This is a predictable, if limited, approach to the problem of the
digital divide. It helps focus the technology industry's attention by
attempting to link the industry's No. 1 problem -- the shortage of
workers and the resultant high salaries for technical talent -- to
the employment deficits in low-income neighborhoods.
In other words, the president is trying to show an otherwise
preoccupied industry that its self-interest is attached to closing
the digital divide.
But both the White House and the technology industry need to grapple
with some significant holes in their thinking.
Before we can start to turn out more skilled technology workers, for
example, we need more people who can train those workers.
Barbara Simons, president of the Assn. for Computing Machinery, told
the participants at the White House summit last month that when
teachers acquire advanced technology training, they often leave
teaching for higher-paying jobs in the industry itself. This was
confirmed recently in a report by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley
organization.
"Systems administrators can get starting salaries of $80,000 per year
in the valley now," Simons said. "And many of these people have no
degree in computer science." That figure is often double or more the
salary of public school teachers, and there's far more money to be
made after just a few years in the private sector.
The lack of qualified teachers in high-tech subjects is reaching
crisis proportions in schools, from K-12 to top-tier university
research programs. Some experts refer to this as the "seed corn"
problem. That is, if we eat our seed corn -- meaning the people who
will train the future generation of technologists -- we may stifle
economic growth altogether.
There are many obstacles to a solution. Teachers unions, for example,
have opposed salary differentials for teachers in public schools. But
the most fundamental obstacle is that most schools and universities
simply can't pay salaries competitive with the private sector.
This problem is compounded by the technology industry's campaign to
keep the Internet a tax-free zone. If e-commerce grows as expected
and remains tax-free, public revenues will decline and the prospect
of improving schools and raising teacher salaries will become even
more remote.
The technology industry is sending mixed signals about the kinds of
workers it needs. Top-level managers consistently say they want
workers with generic skills such as problem-solving, communication,
ability for teamwork and independent initiative.
But the classified ads tell a different story: There, employers say
they want people with specific technical skills and experience. The
employment ads are a blizzard of technical acronyms and jargon that
must be discouraging to young job-seekers.
Technical workers also know they are largely self-taught. Young
computer experts even complain that school programs get in the way of
what they need and want to know.
Judith Lambrecht, a business professor at the University of
Minnesota, agrees that most formal training programs are not very
helpful. "Students who just get the basics, and that's all, never
really link it to real-world problems. This is what people have when
they're self-taught," she said.
The best training programs get students into internships, real-world
exercises and problem-solving and foster students' ability to tinker
with software and hardware, she said.
But for most schools, there's an imperative pointing to "efficiency,
credits and serving lots of students at once," Lambrecht says.
"That's why teaching devolves into such systematic, mindless
learning," she says, exactly the opposite of what attracts or
prepares students.
Finally, there's a spectacular gulf between how people learn
technology skills and the current enthusiasm for standardized tests.
Both Al Gore and George W. Bush have endorsed standardized tests for
school accountability. Bush has staked his reputation for educational
improvement in Texas on the state's public school exam.
But there is little or no connection between such tests and acquiring
technology skills. Indeed, some Texas schools have de-emphasized
computer use because the technology is a distraction from preparing
their students for the state test.
Lambrecht says the best practices for technology training and
standardized testing "are diametrically opposed."
"It's hard to do project-based learning and get predictable
outcomes," she says.
Standardized testing turns out students who are more or less the
same, shaped by the questions on the test, whereas the tech industry
wants innovators, tinkerers and people who think "outside the box."
Controversies about educational philosophies and approaches are not
new in the U.S. and probably will never go away. But it's certainly
time for the technology industry and politicians to get beyond empty,
uninformed and contradictory placebos and photo ops with poor people,
and to start to engage the hard problems we need to solve.
Gary Chapman is director of the 21st Century Project at the
University of Texas at Austin. He can be reached at
gary.c...@mail.utexas.edu.
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The Benton Foundation
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:20:17 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> T2T> Teacher Appreciation Week Story on Education World
From: <Bul...@aol.com>
To: <t...@teachnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:05 AM
Subject: T2T> Teacher Appreciation Week Story on Education World
"Twenty-Five Ways to Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week" is online at
http://www.Education-World.com.
Thanks to all for your participation. Hope you enjoy it!
Best,
Leslie Bulion
mailto:Bul...@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:13:05 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: CORRECT> [DUC] CORRECTION: INTERNET SEARCH TOOL: SourceBank: A Search
Engine for Computer Science, Database Technology....
From: "David P. Dillard" <jw...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: "Diversity University Collaboratory" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:05 AM
Subject: [DUC] CORRECTION: RESOURCE: INTERNET SEARCH TOOL: SUBJECT
SPECIFIC: SourceBank: A Search Engine for Computer Science, Database
Technology, Web Design, Multimedia, Applications and More: WEB ADDRESS
INCLUDED
Everyone who uses the internet a significant amount is aware of
search engine and internet directories such as Yahoo, Excite and Alta
Vista to name three of very many general internet search tools. Less
people are probably aware of specialized search engines that focus on a
specific field or geographic area. There are very many of these also.
One useful tool in the area of computer programing and computer programs
is the search tool "Sourcebank: the Search Engine for Developers. This
tool is both a web directory in its fields of coverage and a search engine
as well.
Sourcebank
http://www.sourcebank.com/scripts/
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<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html>
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:29:43 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [DUC] RESOURCE: DIRECTORY: TRADE PERIODICALS: TradePub.com: A
Dirctory of Free Internet Based Trade and Profesional Periodicals and
Publications
From: "David P. Dillard" <jw...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: "Diversity University Collaboratory" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: [DUC] RESOURCE: DIRECTORY: TRADE PERIODICALS: TradePub.com: A
Dirctory of Free Internet Based Trade and Profesional Periodicals and
Publications
TradePub.com
http://www.tradepub.com/
This resource lists trade and professional periodicals that are
made available free to qualified professional people working in relevant
fields for the publication's providers. The main list of categories
includes these listings:
Business/Finance
Computers
Engineering Design
Government & Military
Graphic Arts
Internet
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Mechanical, Machine and Construction
Multimedia Design
Network/Communications
Retail/Distribution
Sales & Marketing/CRM
Telecommunications
Transportation
I hope that this resource will be useful to some of the readers of
this discussion group.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584
jw...@astro.temple.edu
Check My Articles on Database Searching
http://www.Edu-CyberPG.com/
Click on Ringleaders and Then Reference
Diversity University Collaboratory Mailing List (DUC)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html
MSNBC.com AND USA TODAY HOT SITE PICK AWARDS
The Educational CyberPlayGround <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
Diversity University Collaboratory Listserv [DUC]
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html>
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:05:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> A large list of links to state universities
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:53 AM
From: t...@mccustomdesign.com
http://www.mccustomdesign.com/MainDbSchoDisp1.asp
A large list of links to state universities in the USA
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:08:40 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [DUC] RESOURCE: LAW: From Legal Documents in American History
to the Frontiers of Cyberlaw With a Word From Our Sponsor
From: "David P. Dillard" <jw...@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: "Diversity University Collaboratory" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: [DUC] RESOURCE: LAW: From Legal Documents in American History to
the Frontiers of Cyberlaw With a Word From Our Sponsor
Pardon the length of this title but there are some excellent
quality and well designed websites covering a diversity of legal topics to
justify the expansive title. First of all there is a website that
includes the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, the
Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence,
along with a number of other documents related to the legal history of the
United States. The "word from our sponsor" is a fine and substantial
discussion of the issue of attorney advertisement on the World Wide Web.
The length of the title is mild compared to the extensive list
of law review journal web pages that are included in the list that is
linked below. The "other legal links" page in the series of page links
below includes resources such as the United States Code, Fedlaw, Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, and links to the
Legal Research Center and to GILS, a search engine of Federal Government
Resources. The Cyberlaw section includes links to twenty resources that
are either devoted to Cyberlaw or contain Cyberlaw content. The websitie
links for all of this are listed below.
Speaking of useful websites, I just posted to the Diversity
University Collaboratory (DUC) discussion group, for which a website link
is given below, two useful resource postings, one a directory of trade and
professional periodicals that relevant professionals can subscribe to at
no cost and the other a search engine that indexes computer science and
computer programming materials on the internet.
Legal Website Links Described Above:
Internet Resources Resources for Cyberlaw Research and Review
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/internet_resources.htm
Case Law
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/case_law.htm
Internet CyberLaw Sites
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/cyberlaw_sites.htm
Law Reviews Online Law Reviews
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/law_reviews.htm
Other Law Related Web Sites
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/law_materials.htm
Cyberlaw Cite Review [ This Page For Students of Cyberlaw Courses ]
http://www.bodi.com/papers/cyberlaw/cite_review.htm
Legal News Link [ Findlaw ]
http://legalnews.findlaw.com/
Findlaw Search Site Link
http://www.findlaw.com/
Attorney Advertising on the Internet
http://www.bodi.com/papers/advertising/TOC.htm
The Federalist Papers And other documents
http://www.the-federalist-society.org/Documents/federalist.htm
I hope that these resources will prove useful to the members of
this discussion group. Beside the obvious value of these sites to legal
professionals, much of this material will, I am certain, be of use
to undergraduate students doing research on legal issues on the internet
or on the structure of government. Some of this material, such as the
document collection, will also be helpful for secondary school students as
well.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584
jw...@astro.temple.edu
Check My Articles on Database Searching
http://www.Edu-CyberPG.com/
Click on Ringleaders and Then Reference
Diversity University Collaboratory Mailing List (DUC)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html
MSNBC.com AND USA TODAY HOT SITE PICK AWARDS
The Educational CyberPlayGround <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
Diversity University Collaboratory Listserv [DUC]
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html>
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:10:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Corel donation of WordPerfect and Linux to Dallas schools
From: "EDTECH Editor-Eiffert" <edad...@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
To: <EDT...@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:05 AM
Subject: Corel donation of WordPerfect and Linux to Dallas schools
From: Randy Edwards <redw...@golgotha.net>
There's a news story out today that Corel donated a couple of thousand
copies of its PerfectOffice 2000 office suite and Corel Linux operating
system to the Connect a Student to Technology (CAST) program of the Dallas
public school system.
You can read more about it at
<http://www.newsalert.com/bin/clipstry?StoryId=Coq0bqdCbmdy2tG>.
This brings one to wonder, is Corel going to start a donation/grant program
similar to what some other companies have done?
Regards,
.
Randy
--
"If the current stylistic distinctions between open-source and commercial
software persist, an open-software revolution could lead to yet another
divide between haves and have-nots: those with the skills and connections
to make use of free software, and those who must pay high prices for
increasingly dated commercial offerings." -- Scientific American
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LIST...@H-NET.MSU.EDU.
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