E-LEARNING STANDARDS
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COOKING UP A SCORM - A SCORM 1.2 CONTENT COOKBOOK FOR DEVELOPERS
A "cookbook" for developers of SCORM content, with HTML and JavaScript examples to illustrate various aspects of SCO to API communication. Includes samples of single-page and multiple page SCOs, simple method to "wrap" a dumb resource into a SCO, using suspend and resume, tracking SCO objectives, playing a SCO in a full screen window, etc. Also shows a simple packaging manifest example and briefly describes an implementation strategy to keep SCORM 1.2 content relevant when the final SCORM 1.3 specification is released some time in 2003. Claude Ostyn, December 9, 2002 -- current version: Draft 0.6.2
http://home.click2learn.com/standardswork/
 
5 STEP GUIDE TO BECOMING A CONTENT PROVIDER IN THE JISC INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
The main focus of the technical architecture is on the standards and protocols needed to support machine to machine (m2m) interaction in order to deliver resource discovery services. Most content providers will already offer a Web site through which end-users can access their content. To be a part of the JISC- IE, content providers also need to support machine oriented interfaces to their resources. It should be noted that this is very much in line with the general trend towards supporting 'Web services' [8] (although some of the protocols and standards in the JISC-IE technical architecture may not be considered as true 'Web service' standards currently) and is compatible with the specifications being developed by the IMS Digital Repositories working group.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/info-environment/
 

EDUCATION NEWS
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WEB-BASED EDUCATOR IS A STUDY IN SUCCESS
The University of Phoenix Online is just one of 40 campuses under Apollo Group Inc.'s main subsidiary, the University of Phoenix. But by many measures, the virtual campus stands at the head of the class. For one thing, it's growing at a much faster pace than its bricks-and-mortar counterpart. With nearly 50,000 students and $327.5 million in revenue last fiscal year, Phoenix Online generated more than a third of Apollo's total. That was up from 23.5% the year before.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/021223/newamer_1.html
 
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: SEEKING PARADIGMS FOR COLLABORATION
Learning Management Systems (LMSes), called Virtual Learning Environments by our European colleagues, are no longer the purview of individual faculty developers. While there are some pioneers who continue to develop flexible learning software as part of their disciplinary work, the tide is definitely turning. Learning Management Systems are becoming enterprise-class software systems.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7096
 
DESIGNING FOR LEARNING: THE PURSUIT OF WELL-STRUCTURED CONTENT
How do you make course content really accessible to your students? Just as being an expert in your discipline is not by itself a guarantee of good pedagogy, your best-laid technology plans might miss the mark if they are not fine-tuned to the content you wish to present. And the best technology strategies benefit from semantically clear, structured content. Here, Judith Boettcher takes a look at the characteristics of "well-structured content" as it relates to the design of instructional technology resources.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7092
 
ELECTRONIC GRADING: WHEN THE TABLET IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN
Technological advances often seem to introduce as many obstacles as improvements. For instance, people seem to spend more time reading and writing electronic mail than they ever did with regular mail. Likewise, VCR use is sufficiently formidable to have inspired folk humor about how to program one. And so it is with grading assignments that have been submitted electronically. Electronic submissions of student assignments certainly provide many advantages for the faculty member and graders.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7094
 
XML AND THE FUTURE OF E-LEARNING
You've probably heard of XML but may not know what it is or why you should care about it. Well, here’s why: The promise of e-learning is the ability  to develop content (about learners or for the actual course) that’s reusable anytime, anywhere, any way you want. Unfortunately, that just isn't possible…yet. Enter XML, which according to many geeks—our own Answer Geeks included—has the potential for revolutionizing the Web.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/dec2002/shank.htm
 
FAST BUCK ARTISTRY
Think about it... learning object = book (or more precisely, book chapter, or journal article) learning object repository = shelf metadata repository = card catalogue metadata = card (in a card catalogue) learning management system (LMS) = reading room (or classroom, depending on the LMS) learning content management system (LCMS) = librarian (or some other means of locating content) I could go on, but I think that the analogy is clear. So I ask: who could object to the use of learning objects in education?
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1039643254
 
LMS AND LCMS:  WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
If you’re confused about the differences between a learning management system (LMS) and a learning content management system (LCMS), you’re not alone. Not only are the names similar, some suppliers are positioning LCMSs as the new wave of LMSs. In fact, an LMS and an LCMS are complementary but very different systems that serve different masters and address unique business challenges.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/dec2002/greenberg.htm
 
E-LEARNING SHOWS NEW WAYS MINDS MEET
Three Ontario universities, working closely with IBM Canada and the National Research Council, have just completed the first leg of an interactive-learning experiment that could challenge the concept of the traditional classroom. Using video-conferencing technology and high-speed interactive links to the Internet, more than two dozen students, scattered between the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, York University and IBM Canada's headquarters, have spent the past three months in a graduate course on Web data management, held simultaneously at four locations.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035775345208&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
 
MOVING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM WITH EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
In April, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard brought leading experts on education together at the Adult Learning Workshop to answer this fundamental question: To what extent should the traditional face-to-face classroom experience serve as the model for online programs? Participants included MIT Senior Lecturer Peter Senge, a Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation; and Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Using materials from the workshop and an interview and working papers provided by Leonard, this report explores issues such as mentoring, coaching, distance learning and other components confronting the modern learning organization.
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3217&sid=0&pid=0&t=innovation
 
NEW PREMISE IN SCIENCE: GET THE WORD OUT QUICKLY, ONLINE
A group of prominent scientists is mounting an electronic challenge to the leading scientific journals, accusing them of holding back the progress of science by restricting online access to their articles so they can reap higher profits. Supported by a $9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the scientists say that this week they will announce the creation of two peer-reviewed online journals on biology and medicine, with the goal of cornering the best scientific papers and immediately depositing them in the public domain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html
 
RICE UNIVERSITY'S CONNEXIONS
As described in one of the many documents Baraniuk and the team he leads have used to raise funding, it's "an experimental, open-source/open content project . . . that gives a learner . . . free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suite her individual learning style. . . . The free software tools also foster the development, manipulation, and continuous refinement of educational material by diverse communities of authors and teachers."
http://creativecommons.org/learn/features/connexions
 
ED PUSHES FOR NATIONAL DIGITAL FILE FORMAT FOR TEXTBOOKS
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is spending nearly $200,000 to create a single “national file format” that will be used to make textbooks accessible to blind or disabled students. Adopting the standard will be voluntary, which is contrary to legislation introduced last spring that would have required textbook publishers to submit electronic files of all textbooks sold to schools nationwide according to a universal standard. That bill, dubbed the Instructional Materials Accessibility Act of 2002 (H.R. 4582 and S. 2246), has been held up in committee. In the meantime, ED is taking the initiative to create a voluntary standard to coordinate the efforts of publishers and educators.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=4130
 
CAMPUS COMPUTING LOOKS AHEAD: TRACKING THE DIGITAL PUCK
A continuing source of information about the direction of information technology in higher education is the 12-year-old Campus Computing Project (www.campuscomputing.net), the largest continuing study of information technology on American campuses. Data from the Project's 2002 Campus Computing Survey provide interesting insights into where information technology has been in sectors of higher education, and also where it is going. More than 630 two-year and four-year public and private colleges and universities participated in the 2002 survey. The typical survey respondent is a campus chief information or chief technology officer.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6986
 
UNIVERSITY DUMPS APPLE FOR IT COURSES
Early adopter says Mac hardware costs are too high. One of the first Australian universities to adopt Apple computers for its courses has dropped them because the hardware is too expensive. The University of Western Australia (UWA), which began teaching IT courses on Macs in the mid-1980s, claimed that the hardware is just too costly to justify. According to the Australian IT newspaper, the university explained that Apple hardware was going to cost around two-and-a-half times the cost of a PC per seat.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137616
 
 
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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TEN TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH IN 2003
Robots, cars, power and light—-these are just some of the sectors that are expected to see action next year.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-978930.html
 
MICROSOFT PLOTS MACROMEDIA COUP AGAINST JAVA
Microsoft Corp is believed to have trained its acquisition crosshairs on Macromedia Inc, lining up a deal that would throw enterprise Java into a spin, Gavin Clarke writes. Industry and analyst sources believe Microsoft covets San Francisco, California-based Macromedia's Flash vector graphics design tool and player, which was radically updated this year.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
 
MICROSOFT ORDERED TO CARRY JAVA
A U.S. district court judge ordered Microsoft to include Sun Microsystems' version of Java with the Windows operating system, citing the software giant's history of undermining the platform-neutral programming language.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978786.html
 
MCNEALY: SUN WON'T GO DOWN ON HIS COMPANY
McNealy, who co-founded the company, says Sun will be a leader in building computers and software for the super-efficient networks of the future. But while McNealy looks to a grand future, industry analysts say Sun is in danger of becoming an also-ran. "Sun is far from dead, but it looks pretty sick," says analyst Rob Enderle of tech consulting firm Giga Information Group. Perhaps no high-tech company benefited—and suffered—more from the tech boom and bust than Sun, underscoring how rapidly a company's fortunes can change in volatile industries.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2002-12-29-sun_x.htm
 
SINGLE STANDARDS LOSING OUT TO DUAL-BAND
Behind headlines trumpeting unexpectedly strong demand for Wi-Fi chips is a potentially troubling trend. The bedrock of wireless networking, plus its presumed successor, may quickly be on the way out. "802.11a has reached a dead end," says Will Strauss, analyst for the Tempe, AZ-based Forward Concepts research firm. While WLAN shipments in general have seen a 100 percent jump in 2002, Strauss says fewer than 100,000 802.11a-specific chipsets shipped in the same year.
http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article.php/1563671
 
IDC: CYBERTERROR AND OTHER PROPHECIES
Among one technology research firm's predictions for 2003 is this sobering thought: A major cyberterrorism event will disrupt the economy and bring the Internet to its knees for a day or two. The event could take the form of a denial-of-service attack, a network intrusion or even a physical attack on key network assets, IDC said Thursday, during a presentation in which it laid out its annual forecast of technology developments for the coming year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-977780.html
 
INTEL FORGES NEXT-GEN CHIP
As innovation drives the convergence of computing and communications devices, Intel is building momentum around its mobile strategy and its forthcoming Manitoba chip. Intel's strategy is unfolding at a time when analysts predict the shift in mainstream cell phone usage from voice-only handsets to units with voice and data capabilities--near the end of 2003.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/12/09/021209plintel.xml
 
TWO CPUS IN ONE?
The latest Pentium 4 processor not only passes another megahertz milestone by running at 3.06 GHz, it also introduces Intel's new hyperthreading technology to the desktop. Hyperthreading enables one processor to act like two. As a result, it can simultaneously tackle multiple applications (or a single application that has multiple threads), put idle CPU cycles to use, and boost system performance by up to 25 percent--all without requiring specially written applications, according to Intel.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107492,00.asp
 
SOFTWARE REBEL: MARC BENIOFF'S RADICAL BUSINESS MODEL IS WINNING CONVERTS
Marc Benioff celebrated the end of the software industry at his holiday party. The former Oracle salesman drank a farewell toast to the multimillion-dollar deal. And he raised his glass to a future where companies like his--an online outfit called Salesforce.com--sell software for $65 a month. The days of mega-sales that once fueled the growth of the $41 billion enterprise software industry are gone, Benioff said. In the new era, software programs will be sold in mass quantities for low prices like any other commodity. ``My personal goal is to demonstrate this is the next wave,'' Benioff said. The way he sees it, the software industry has long abused its customers, forcing them to hire expensive consultants to customize the code and install the programs on in-house computer systems in order to gain an edge over their competitors.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4700073.htm
 
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS DIGITALLY DELIVERED TO A KIOSK NEAR YOU
PEPC Worldwide, a European company based in the Netherlands, has developed an interactive Newspaper Kiosk that digitally prints the latest editions of publisher's newspapers on customer's demand. These International Newspaper Kiosks are installed at high traffic international venues such as hotel lobbies, airport concourses and convention centers. "Imagine waking up in the Hilton Hotel in Auckland or the Sheraton in Amsterdam and have breakfast with the hardcopy same-day edition of the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Philadelphia Inquirer or any other newspaper-of- choice," says Rob Dorpmans. CEO of PEPC Worldwide.
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=14064
 
FASTEST COMPUTER SPAWNS HIGH-TECH RACE
It's a machine so fast it performs more computations per second than there are stars in our galaxy. It's so large it's housed in a building the size of an aircraft hangar. Running 35.6 trillion calculations per second, the Earth Simulator is the fastest supercomputer in the world, almost five times faster than the next best one and as fast as the top 5 U.S. supercomputers combined. For the Japanese scientists using the $350 million computer, it means climate research, with its complex simulations and diverse mix of variables, is more accurate than ever before. For the competition, however, it is a shrill wake-up call. Even the U.S. government admits its March activation signaled an end to American dominance of this high-profile field.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021217/ap_on_hi_te/japan_supercomputer_1
 
DIGIPENS SEARCH FOR WRITE MARKET
In Scandinavia, TeliaSonera is touting Sony Ericsson "Chatpens" that can wirelessly send e-mail and faxes. Telecom Italia rolled out Chatpens in Italy earlier this month. A new Chinese company, backed by $24 million in venture capital, plans to build the Chinese market for Anoto pens. In the United States, FranklinCovey customers equipped with digital pens made by Logitech will be able to scribble notes into both their day planners and computers starting in January. MediMedia, a medical publisher, will start selling digital pens and forms early next year to doctors who want to electronically gather information on their patients.
http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0%2C1452%2C56951%2C00.html
 
DMCA CRITICS SAY REFORM STILL NEEDED
Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who in October proposed rescinding part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), said the law remains a problem even though a jury ruled a software maker ElcomSoft was not guilty of willfully violating it. "As far as the bill going forward is concerned, the need for the legislation is as great as ever," Boucher said in an interview. "While this jury reached a commendable decision, another jury in a future case that involves similar facts could well convict. The law clearly contemplates conviction in circumstances where no infringement occurs, but the technology facilitates bypassing a technological protection measure."
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978296.html
 
SONY, MATSUSHITA TO DEVELOP LINUX SYSTEM
Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said they will jointly develop an operating system based on Linux technology for their digital consumer electronics products. The two Japanese consumer electronics giants plan to develop the operating system by next March, Matsushita spokeswoman Yoko Fukusaki said.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021218/D7O09AEG2.html
 
SHARP'S 3D MONITORS: LOOK, NO GLASSES
Consumer-electronics giant Sharp next year plans to sell notebooks and flat-screen LCD monitors that can show three-dimensional images. The monitors will let people see high-resolution 3D images or run 3D programs without using special glasses or additional software. For example, bodies and bullets appear to fly all over the place in a version of the popular game "Quake" that has been adjusted to work on Sharp's 3D monitors.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-978499.html
 
MACROMEDIA PATCHES FLASH SECURITY FLAW
A security vulnerability in the widely used Macromedia Flash player can allow an attacker to gain control over a user's PC, eEye Digital Security warned Monday. A specially formatted Flash file can cause a header overflow in the Flash software, potentially giving an attacker control over a PC, eEye said in a security advisory. Exploiting an overflow flaw generally allows attackers to load malicious code onto a victim's system and to run that code. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker has to hand-edit the Flash file with a binary editor as the Flash authoring tool does not produce files that contain the vulnerability on its own, Macromedia said in a separate bulletin on its Web site.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108033,00.asp
 
 
INTERNET RELATED NEWS
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YAHOO! TO BUY INKTOMI FOR $235 MILLION
Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. said it will buy fast-fading software maker Inktomi Corp. for $235 million in a deal that sets the stage for a shake-up in online search engines. The $1.65-per-share acquisition, expected to close before April, punctuates a brutal fall for Inktomi, a former dot-com darling that had a market value of $25 billion in early 2000 when its stock price peaked at $231.63.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021224/D7O3V3J80.html
 
THE INTERNET MARKS ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
On Jan. 1, 1983, the Internet Protocol that we use today became the only approved way to move data on the young Internet. This important milestone set the stage for a global peer-to-peer network, where every computer was equally able to exchange information with any other computer. Higher-level protocols for transferring files, logging into remote computers, and exchanging mail, all followed the same philosophy. Had the Internet accepted multiple incompatible protocols, today's World Wide Web likely would not exist.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb021230-1.htm
 
MICROSOFT SET TO TEST SELLING SOFTWARE ONLINE
Microsoft's Plus Digital Media Edition, an XP add-on pack, will be the first commercial product the software monopolist will offer punters online. And retailers in Microsoft's channel will be eyeing the development uneasily, as the "photo, music and movie enhancement pack for Windows" goes on sale next week.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7022
 
'FIRSTGOV FOR SCIENCE' OPENS
A 10-agency alliance announced the launch of science.gov, a Web portal that provides free access to science-related reports, databases and other information from the federal government. Billing itself as "FirstGov for Science," the site links to information from more than 14 federal science and technology organizations. It is intended primarily for the education and library communities, but can also be helpful for businesses, scientists and the general public.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1209/web-science-12-10-02.asp
 
PIRACY IS PROGRESSIVE TAXATION, AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF ONLINE DISTRIBUTION
The continuing controversy over online file sharing sparks me to offer a few thoughts as an author and publisher. To be sure, I write and publish neither movies nor music, but books. But I think that some of the lessons of my experience still apply.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html
 
COURT RULES INTERNET DEFAMATION CASE CAN BE HEARD IN AUSTRALIA
Australia's highest court ruled that a defamation case sparked by a story on a U.S Web site could be heard in Australia, opening a legal minefield for web publishers over which libel laws they must follow. The landmark ruling that an article published by Dow Jones & Co was subject to Australian law--because it was downloaded in Australia--is being watched by media firms as it could set a precedent for other cases.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4703935.htm
 
STUDY REFUTES E-MAIL MYTH AT WORK
If you're feeling inundated by e-mail at work and think the annoyance must be universal, you're wrong. A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that overwhelming levels of e-mail are quite atypical, an outcome that surprised even the researchers. "All of the anecdotal evidence you hear from people out there is, 'I'm so overwhelmed by the volume of e-mail,'" said Deborah Fallows, a senior research fellow at Pew. "The perception comes from the people who are talking most loudly about it, those few who are most overwhelmed." In fact 60 percent of Americans who use e-mail at work receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day, the study found. Only 6 percent receive more than 50.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021208/D7NPSN680.html
 
MICROSOFT UPGRADES IE FLAW TO CRITICAL
Microsoft raised the risk rating on a security flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) to "critical" after criticism prompted it to reexamine the issue, the company said. Earlier, Microsoft issued a patch to fix a flaw in IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 that it said only posed a "moderate" risk to users. Security experts, however, said the issue should be rated critical as it could be exploited to take over a user's machine.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/09/021209hnieflaw.xml
 
INTERNET FILTERS BLOCK MANY USEFUL SITES, STUDY FINDS
Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information as part of their "wired generation" birthright are blocked from many useful sites by antipornography filters that federal law requires in school and library computers, a new study has found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/technology/11FILT.html
 
2002 YEAR-END GOOGLE ZEITGEIST
2002 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted over the past year by Google users from around the world. Whether you are tracking the global progression of the "Las Ketchup" craze or finding out who really is the queen of the Internet, the 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist enables you to look at the past year through the collective eyes of the world on the Internet. Track the course of the past 12 months on the timeline and graphs plotting the most popular search terms as they occurred throughout 2002. Check out the year's top gaining and declining search terms as well as the most popular brands, music, movies and women on the web as seen by Google users.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
 
CREATIVE TYPES: A LOT IN COMMON
On Monday, Creative Commons will release its collection of free, machine-readable licenses. The idea is to give copyright holders another way to get the word out that their works are free for copying and other uses under specific conditions. "Many of the authors, musicians, developers and other content creators we have spoken to want to be able to communicate to their potential customers that the customer can do more with their content than standard copyright law allows," said Bob Young, CEO of Lulu Press.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56704,00.html
 
EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE AWARDS 2002
In Web Tools Newsletter, we look at some of the best of this year's award-winning educational Websites.
http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/Websites2002.htm
 
PROMOTING WEB ACCESS FOR THE DISABLED
The World Wide Web Consortium issued guidelines intended to make Web browsers and multimedia players more accessible to disabled persons. The W3C's User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 is a formal W3C Recommendation, meaning it is "essentially an Internet standard for browser and media player design," said Judy Brewer, director of Web accessibility at W3C. "The accessibility [effort is about] making sure that regardless of what kind of disability, people can still get the information from a Web site," she said.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108069,00.asp
 
 
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[NOTE: The selections above are from the Academic ADL Co-Lab News Report, a limited-distribution, weekly executive summary of trends, strategies, and innovations influencing the future of learning and technology in higher education. It is prepared by the University of Wisconsin System Office of Learning and Information Technology (OLIT) in coordination with the Co-Lab. Collegebuys.org is using these selections with permission. The selections from the weekly summaries were selected and edited by David Stuart of collegebuys.org.]
 
[NOTE: This information is provided for information purposes only. Mention or discussion of a product, company, or person does not represent any official endorsement or criticism of the same. All authors and organizations retain complete copyright.]
 
[SOURCE MATERIAL: The reference as specific as possible is provided to a source for each summary. When using an online link, ensure the URL has not been broken with a carriage return.]
 
[ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Judy Brown is the Emerging Technology Analyst for the University of Wisconsin System, OLIT. Brown conducts research and consults for the 15-institution UW System. She is Director of the Academic ADL Co-Laboratory at The Pyle Center in Madison, WI. Until recently she coordinated the WTCS Hardware and Software Purchasing Consortium and other statewide technology initiatives for 16 technical college districts comprised of 47 campuses. Brown was named one of the Top 100 women in computing by McGraw Hill's Open Computing magazine (December 1994). She writes a business technology column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and is the coordinator of eWEEK's Corporate Partner Program.]
 
[COMMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS: If you want to offer material, or if you want to comment on the contents, contact Judy Brown at judy@academiccolab.org