INFOBITS 012 (June 1994)
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IAT INFOBITS	June 1994		No. 12		ISSN 1071-5223

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of the Institute for Academic 
Technology's Information Resources Group. Each month we monitor and
select from a number of information technology and instruction
technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes
for electronic dissemination to college and university educators.

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NEW OFFICIAL IAT GOPHER SITE

The IAT, in conjunction with the University of Washington's Center for
Information Systems Optimization, is now making this newsletter and
other IAT publications available on IKE (the IBM Kiosk for Education)
gopher server. Although many of our publications are available on other
gopher servers, IKE is the only gopher site that we work with directly.
On IKE you can be assured of getting our latest events calendar or the
most current revisions of our technical papers, resource guides, and
newsletter articles.

To connect to IKE, point your gopher client to: ike.engr.washington.edu
and follow the menu path: Academic Technology Services/Institute for
Academic Technology (IAT)

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ON THE HORIZON NEWSLETTER AND EMAIL LIST

ON THE HORIZON, the Environmental Scanning Newsletter for Leaders in
Education, is a newsletter that keeps a weather eye out for the trends
and events that will affect the future of education. Editorial board
members look for changes in the Social, Technological, Economic,
Environmental, and Political (STEEP) environments; report that
information; point readers to sources of supporting information; and
discuss the implications for the future of education. Articles in the
April/May 1994 issue include: "The Information Revolution," "Coming
Soon: Your Own Knowledge Robot," and "Assessing the Case for Paradigm
Shifts."

On the Horizon is published five times a year by the Institute for
Academic and Professional Leadership, School of Education, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Subscriptions are $24.50/year
(personal), $49.50/year (organizational), and $124.50/year
(organizational with site license which allows unlimited duplication
rights within an organization). Postage and handling for non-USA
subscribers: $8.50/year (Canada and Mexico) and $18.50/year (all other
countries). For a free sample issue, please contact the editor:
Professor James L. Morrison, CB# 3500 Peabody Hall, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; tel: 919-962-2517; fax:
919-962-1533; email: Morrison@unc.edu.

Although On the Horizon is not available in electronic form, email
users can subscribe to the Horizon (E-mail) List. The purpose of this
list is to encourage discussion about environmental scanning and issue
management. Much of the discussion will center on articles that have
appeared in the On the Horizon newsletter and on ideas for articles
that should be published in future issues of the newsletter. Coverage
may include K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities
world-wide.

To subscribe, send email to listserv@gibbs.oit.unc.edu with the message
"subscribe horizon your_firstname your_lastname" To post to the list,
send email to: horizon@gibbs.oit.unc.edu. If you have questions,
contact Ruby Sinreich by email: rubyji@gibbs.oit.unc.edu or tel:
919-962-2517.

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INFORMATION HIGHWAYMEN

Feeling uneasy as you travel through cyberspace? You aren't the only
one. For a technically-accessible overview of security and privacy
issues on the Internet read "Wire Pirates" by Paul Wallich [Scientific
American, vol. 270, no. 3, March 1994, pp. 90-94, 98-101]. Wallich
outlines the hazards and risks awaiting users and provides information
on data encryption, firewalls, other fixes.

Scientific American is published monthly by Scientific American, Inc.,
415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-1111, USA. For reprints write to
the above address or send a fax to: 212-355-0408. Subscriptions are
$36/year (USA and possessions), $47/year (all other countries). Send
subscription inquiries to Scientific American, Box 3187, Harlan, IA
51537, USA; tel: 800-333-1199 (USA and Canada); or tel: 515-247-7631
(other countries).

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GUIDES FOR CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES

The prevalence of electronic-only versions of publications can create a
problem when trying to cite these publications in articles, footnotes,
and bibliographies. Here are some sources of guidelines for handling
these citations.

Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information
by Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane
Westport: Meckler, 1993
ISBN: 0-88736-909-X
More complete than The Chicago Manual of Style.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
ISBN: 0-226-10389-7
Contains a section on citing electronic resources.

Bibliographic References for Computer Files in the Social Sciences: A
Discussion Paper
by Sue A. Dodd
Chapel Hill, NC: Institute for Research in Social Science, University
of North Carolina, 1990
Available by anonymous ftp from host: ftp.msstate.edu;
directory: /pub/docs/history/netuse; filename: electronic.biblio.cite

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LIFE AFTER TELEVISION

In his little book, Life after Television, George Gilder charts the
rise and predicts the fall of television from its exalted position in
cultural, economic and technological arenas. The age of television
would be replaced by the age of the telecomputer--computers joined to
telecommunications systems. Since the original printing of this book
was in 1990, Gilder's hypothesis is hardly astonishing to today's
reader. However, the book does provide some history on the changes in
the U.S. telephone and computer industries that brought telecomputing
to its current state. He also shows how close some industries came to
adopting dead-end technology that would have delayed the progress that
we have come to take for granted as we travel the Internet.

Life after Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American
Life, by George Gilder. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992. 126pp. ISBN
0-393-03385-6.

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READINGS ON USER INTERFACE DESIGN

In conjunction with our multimedia authoring workshops at the IAT, we
have a new document, "User Interface Design: Bibliography." This
publication provides pointers to readings on screen design and
interface building for anyone involved in creating multimedia classroom
presentations or designing courseware applications. Copies of this
bibliography are available (1) by anonymous ftp on host:
gandalf.iat.unc.edu; directory: guides; filename: irg-05.txt and (2) by
gopher on host: ike.engr.washington.edu; menu path: Academic Technology
Services/Institute for Academic Technology/Resource Guides and
Bibliographies/User Interface Design: Bibliography.

For more information on IAT multimedia authoring workshops and other
events, get our events catalog (1) by sending email to:
info.iat@mhs.unc.edu with subject: workshops (2) by anonymous ftp on
host: gandalf.iat.unc.edu; directory: events; filename: course.gde or
(3) by gopher on host: ike.engr.washington.edu; menu path: Academic
Technology Services/Institute for Academic Technology/IAT Guide to
Courses and Services.

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