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see article below on designing accessible web pages...
CIT INFOBITS June 1999 No. 12 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information technology and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.
Report on Supply of IT Workers in the U.S.
Study on Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education
Online Course on Online Courses
Designing Web Pages For Sight Impaired Users
Currents in Electronic Literacy
Journal on Markup Languages
Online Education News Scanning Service
Editor's Note
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DESIGNING WEB PAGES FOR SIGHT IMPAIRED USERS
If you are involved in making Web pages accessible for users with sight
impairments, check out "Disabled Accessibility: The Pragmatic
Approach," by Jakob Nielsen ("The Alertbox," June 13, 1999 issue).
Nielsen includes a link to the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
1.0, the W3's prioritized list of design rules, and a very useful
checklist for Web page designers. The article is available at
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990613.html
"The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability" is a biweekly column by
Dr. Jakob Nielsen, of the Nielsen Norman Group. Back issues are
available on the Web at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
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CURRENTS IN ELECTRONIC LITERACY
The Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL) of the Division of
Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin is
publishing a new, free electronic journal, CURRENTS IN ELECTRONIC
LITERACY. Currents is a "scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to
electronic literacy . . .addressing the use of electronic texts and
technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in . . .
literature, rhetoric and composition, languages, communications, media
studies, and education." The focus of the first issue (Spring 1999) is
"Electronic Pedagogy in Literature Classes." You can read Currents at
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/
Currents [ISSN 1524-6493] is published two times a year, in the spring
and fall. For more information, contact John Slatin, General Editor, or
David Barndollar, Coordinating Editor, c/o Computer Writing and
Research Lab, Parlin 3, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
USA; email: ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu
CWRL also provides links to the online edition of Computers and
Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing
(published by Ablex Publishing Corporation). For more information about
CWRL, see their Website at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/
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JOURNAL ON MARKUP LANGUAGES
MARKUP LANGUAGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE is a new peer-reviewed technical
journal "devoted to research, development, and practical applications
of text markup for computer processing, management, manipulation, and
display." The journal is published by MIT Press. Some sample articles
are available at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=10996621
Markup Languages: Theory and Practice [ISSN 1099-6621] is published
quarterly. Annual subscriptions are available for $50 (individual) and
$145 (institutional). To subscribe, contact: Circulation Department,
MIT Press Journals, Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1407
USA; tel: 617-253-2889; fax: 617-577-1545;
email: journals-orders@mit.edu;
Web: http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-ordering-options.tcl?issn=10996621
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ONLINE EDUCATION NEWS SCANNING SERVICE
eduprise.com, in partnership with NewsScan, is publishing "Need to
Know," a biweekly report on technology, education, and training in
today's learning organizations. Articles in recent issues include: "The
Limitations of Online Education," "Electronic Ed Paves Way for New
Collaborations," and "Who Owns an Online Course?"
"Need-To-Know" is available free by email. To subscribe to
"Need-To-Know," send a blank message to:
join-need-to-know@news.eduprise.com
eduprise.com provides services to colleges and universities to "enable
rapid transition to Internet-empowered education, training, and
management of knowledge resources." For more information about the
company, see their Website at http://www.eduprise.com/
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EDITOR'S NOTE
The UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology announces a new
publication. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic
newsletter featuring technology-related news of interest to UNC-CH
faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them.
Each issue of CITations will include announcements of CIT activities
and services, other campus instructional and research technology
information, and news about off-campus workshops, conferences, and
speakers.
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Please note that although the content of CITations is of primary
interest to the UNC-CH community, subscriptions are open to anyone.
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