History Computer Review articles from March 2000

History Computer Review archives from March 2000

NEWS AND NOTES.
March 22, 2000... NIGHTMARE SCENARIO? It finally happens. A group of impetuous young scholars collaborates on creating a respectable-quality survey of American history. Then they post it on the web. Free of charge. Use it online or download it. Add to it if you...

BUILDING A BETTER "MOUSE" TRAP: SCHICK'S TAXONOMY OF INTERACTIVITY.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT: To stimulate development of software with features that are truly interactive, Schick proposes a taxonomy of different means this interactivity could employ to stimulate critical thinking about the past. He offers two alternative ways...

BLACKBOARD COURSEINFO: SUPPLEMENTING IN-CLASS TEACHING WITH THE INTERNET.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT: Fahey discusses a gradualist approach to web-based instruction going on at Miami University in Ohio using BlackBoard's COURSEINFO software. While there are problems associated with the current version of the software, not only would...

LOOKING FORWARD, 2000 TO 2015.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT: Historians with many years experience in teaching and computing suggest what might lie ahead in the next fifteen years. FORECAST Degree of likelihood constitutes the chief difference between prediction and forecast. Forecasting...

NET SURVEY: "TOP TEN MISTAKES" IN ACADEMIC WEB DESIGN.
March 22, 2000... Faculty usually make their first foray into integrating technology into their teaching by putting their syllabus on the web. An online syllabus increases its accessibility to students and colleagues, provides good advertising for an...

Internet Culture.(Review)
March 22, 2000... David Porter, editor, Internet Culture (New York: Routledge Publishing, 1996). $75.00 Cloth (0-415-91683-6); $20.99 Paperback (0-415-91684-4). With the exception of Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community (Addison-Wesley, 1993) and Sherry...

AMERICAN JOURNEY: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL CD-ROM.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... AMERICAN JOURNEY: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL CD-ROM Publisher: Primary Source Media, 12 Lunar Dr., Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525. info@psmedia.cam; www.psmedia.com Published: 1998. Materials included: CD-ROM, manual on...

@HISTORY: AN INTERACTIVE AMERICAN HISTORY SOURCE.
March 22, 2000... Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116; college_history@hmco.com. 800-733-1717. Fax: 800-733-1810. www.hmco.com Published: 1999. Materials included: One CD-ROM disk, which also includes...

MICROGRADE.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Publisher: Chariot Software Group, 123 Camino De La Reina, San Diego, California 92108; sales@chariot.com. http://www.chariot.com Published: 1999. Materials included: Two 3.5-inch computer disks, program manual, and good technical...

THINKWAVE EDUCATOR 2.0.(education administration software)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Publisher: Thinkwave, 475 Gate Five Road, Suite 120, Salsalito, California 94965. Published: 1999. Materials included: One CD-ROM and Quickstart handout. Price: Free for Download version, $24.95 for the CD version with manual. ...

WORLD HISTORY CD-ROM (including World History I, II, III, and IV).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Publisher: WorldView Software, 76 North Broadway, Suite 4009, Hicksville, New York 11801. 1 -80034STUDY. history@worldviewsoftware.com Published: 1998. Materials included: CD-ROM and manual. Price: Individual student set, $249.95;...

LITERATURE SURVEY.
March 22, 2000... In this issue HCR surveys the July through December 1999 contents of the following computer periodicals for articles that may be of interest to historians: Home Office Computing, MacAddict, MacHome, PC/Computing, PC Magazine, and PCWorld. ...

Home Office Computing.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Software, CDs: Broida, Rick. "Operating System Showdown," Home Office Computing (September 1999), 87-91. Comparisons of the Apple MACINTOSH OS 8.6, Caldera Systems OPENLINUX 2.2, Microsoft WINDOWS 98, and Microsoft WINDOWS 2000...

MacAddict.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Software, CDs: Anzovin, Steven, and Raf Anzovin. "QUICKTIME 4.0 Gets in Gear," MacAddict (August 1999), 36-43. QUICKTIME is one of Apple's unabashed successes. The latest version adds new powers to what is arguably the most important...

MacHome.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Software, CDs: Battersby, Jeff. "Clash of the Titans: Adobe's INDESIGN vs. QUARKXPRESS, MacHome (December 1999), 42-43. A comparison of the two high-end desktop publishing giants ends in a draw. If you are using QUARKXPRESS, continue to do...

PC/Computing.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... NOTE: The titles given are the ones at the beginning of each article. The ones in the table of contents sometime differ. Most issues contain an "A-List," brief ratings of hardware, software, and Internet items. Software, CDs: Bott,...

PC Magazine.
March 22, 2000... Software, CDs: Alwang, Greg, et al. "Speech Recognition," PC Magazine (December 1, 1999), 167-88 passim. Current speech recognition software boasts a 98 percent accuracy rate, up from 80-90 percent just a year ago. Four of the latest...

PC World.
March 22, 2000... Software: Heffernan, Cameron and Dan Miller, eds. "The Fix Is In: Top Windows Utilities," PC World (August, 1999), 152-70 passim. The editors note that WINDOWS 98 has its own built-in set of utilities, but you can do better. The editors...