History Computer Review articles from September 2001

History Computer Review archives from September 2001

The lessons of war. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... How will future historians describe the full impact of the events of September 11, 2001> The physical devastation was the least of it. The loss of so many lives -- of people innocent of any hostile motive against Islam, men and women and...

Digitized history. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... One of the great themes in this digital age is the dream of perfect reproducibility, the ability to create generation after generation of digital copies with no loss of information. Binary code has also become the Esperanto of equivalence,...

Gutenberg blew it. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... If only Johann had been more astute, had developed a sound business plan before he distributed product and others stole his technological secrets, he could have founded a corporate dynasty that would rival Microsoft. Every book he distributed...

I Powerpoint, therefore I am. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Ian Parker, in "Absolute PowerPoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts?" (The New Yorker, May 28, 2001, 76-87), proposes that this software, rather than a "tool," is "more like a suit of clothes, or a car, or plastic surgery.... You are...

Editor's note. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... This makes four mini-essays in a row in which Microsoft comes off as the baddy. I suspect they are not worried. Disclosure statement: I probably own stock in the company through an IRA account or my pension plan. And I am writing this on WORD...

Whither online u? (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Rocked by the shuttering of dozens of dot.com companies, the loss of billions in paper wealth for entrepreneurs, employees, and investors in these digital dreams turned nightmares, economic doldrums made far worse by the infamy of September 11,...

Virtual U. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Running a university is simple, right? Any chowderhead could do it? Should you harbor a secret desire to take over, there's a simulation for you. Called VIRTUAL U (developed at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;...

:Cue cat anyone? (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Have you received your :Cue Cat barcode reader? Have you used it? Do you still use it? This cat-shaped scanner can effect a weblink to an advertiser, news story, or whatever. Now Harcourt College Publishers has adopted this idea to provide...

Judgment call. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Writing in Syllabus ("Teaching to an Unfamiliar Student Norm," December 2000, 22), David G. Brown, Vice President and Dean of the International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning at Wake Forest University, held up the case of "students...

Wave of the future. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Benjamin E. Hermalen (Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and co-founder of the Berkeley Electronic Press) suggests that print scholarly journals are...

State of the art. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Thinking that serving as a judge for entries in the NAWeb Award website competition would provide intelligence about cutting-edge web-based learning, I agreed to participate in evaluating entries for this year's competition . Divided into...

What were they thinking? (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... 1500 [pound sterling] buys a single CD-ROM containing the forty volumes of The Calendar of State Papers: Colonial: North America and the West Indies, 1574-1739. Rest assured that the searching and index are peerless, and some new material has...

A nation of immigrants. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Sifting through more than 3500 rolls of microfilmed records, thousands of volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have produced a database containing 22 million records of immigrant arrivals through the harbor of New...

Equal time. (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Apparently preferring websites and print, historians seem to be devoting little attention to CD-ROM publication. The two noted above -- and the newest WHO BUILT AMERICA? CD -- are exceptions. This versatile, capacious medium of expression is,...

Free CD! (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... You've seen the print and television ads for instructional CDs from the "Video Professor" -- learn to use Windows and the like -- entirely "free" of charge... except you'll need to add $6.95 for "shipping and handling." How much do you think...

Online roundup. (News And Notes).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... The following Internet resources promise information useful for both students and teachers. American Political History -- Richard Jensen has compiled a chronological/topical and annotated listing of links covering this subject from the...

History Computer Review is pleased to announce the appointment of Marjorie L. McLellan as the new net survey editor.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Dr. McLellan is now Director of the Public History Program in the History Department at Wright State University and has taught American history and American studies for over ten years. McLellan is the author of Six Generations Here: A Farm...

The executive secretary of History Computer Review.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Executive Secretary of History Computer Review, Debbie Venturella, was recently selected as the Outstanding Academic Employee of the year for 2001. Without her hard work (she catches lots of errors and potential problems that I miss, and...

The full monty: locating resources, creating, and presenting a web-enhanced history course. (Cover Story).
September 22, 2001... History teaching invites web-based applications because of the rich textual and graphic resources available in digital format. Thanks to modern, high-resolution LCD projectors, web pages and DVD presentations are easily visible in all but the...

Online history textbooks: breaking the mold. (Cover Story).
September 22, 2001... A decade ago ancillary CDs were in. Gotta have one to stay with the pack, print publishers believed. The CDs they sponsored were both predictable (the text plus: THE ENDURING VISION (1)) and unique (short multimedia essays and learning...

Net survey -- using oral histories on the internet. (Cover Story).
September 22, 2001... The attractions and obstacles to doing oral history projects with students have been written about extensively. For those who would like to embark on such projects, the Oral History Association has just published a new pamphlet, Oral History...

May 4, 1970, oral history project, Kent State University. (Cover Story).
September 22, 2001... When the University Archives at Kent State University began its website in 1994, it was with the hope that it would help to stem the flow of requests from students and media about the events of May 1970 on our campus. Alas, what we have all...

Alphasmart 3000. (Hardware).
September 22, 2001... Reviewer: David M. Fahey, Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056; faheydm@muohio.edu. Manufacturer: AlphaSmart, Inc., 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 300, Cupertino, California 95014; Customer Service and Sales,...

Writerstools smartapplet (version 1.0 for the Applesmart 3000). (Software).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Reviewer: David M. Fahey, Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056; faheydm@muohio.edu. Manufacturer: SmartInput, Inc., 1460 Pittman Avenue, Sparks, Nevada 89431. Tel. 775-358-5553; Fax 775-358-9675; sales 1-800-366-8323;...

Home office computing. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by Jack W. Traylor, Department of History, Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee 37321. Software: Grevstad, Eric. "ASP Versus PC," Home Office Computing (March 2001), 56-60. Discussion of pros and cons of using software...

MacAddict. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by Walter A. Sutton, Department of History, P. O. Box 10048, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710. Software: Anzovin, Steven. "PHOTOSHOP 6.0," MacAddict (January 2001), 45-49. Anzovin reviews the premier image editor. He...

MacHome. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by David L. Dykstra, 16914 Hillard Street, Poolesville, Maryland 20837; dykstradl@aol.com. Software, CDs: Blackburn, Carolyn. "The Complete NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 111 Years," MacHome (January 2001), 54. The entire NATIONAL...

MacWorld. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by Peter V. Meyers, The Honors Program, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411. Software, CDs: Blatner, David. "PHOTOSHOP's New Frontier," MacWorld (January 2001), 48-54....

PC Magazine. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by D. Antonio Cantu, Department of History, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 47306; dcantu@gw.bsu.edu. Software, CDs: Alvarez, Ignacio. "Give Tests over the Internet," PC Magazine (March 6, 2001), 115. Those PC users who...

PC World. (Literature Survey).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Reviewed by John E. Weakland, Department of History, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 47306. Software: Johnston, Stuart. "PC Pest Control," PC World (March 2001), 121-30 passim. This article explains how to cope with bugs in...