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Campus Portals

• Dave Eisler's Portal Home Page -- David Eisler of Weber State University has created this site with extensive links to information on campus portals.

• uPortal: A Common Portal Reference Framework ­ An article by Bernard W. Gleason describing how "top universities dedicated to Java applications in education works toward a common infrastructure for building shareable components."

• Learning from Experience: Points to Ponder about Portals --An article by William Wilson and Michael Martys on what they "learned about developing and deploying a campus portal at Gettysburg College."

• Portal Development -- An article from August 2000 by Steven W. Gilbert of the TLT Group on how portal development demands collaboration.

• Preparing for Campus Portals -- A March 2000 transcript from the Corporation for Research & Educational Networking's TechTalk panel on Preparing for Campus Portals.

• Portals in Higher Education -- An article by Michael Looney and Peter Lyman, Portals in Higher Education, from the July/August 2000 issue of the Educause Review

Web-based Student Services

• "Anytime, Anyplace Services for the 21st Century Student"-- A report by The Southern Regional Education Board Distance Learning Policy Laboratory

• Creating Web-based Student Services -- The Western Interstate commissin for Higher Education's web page for "Beyond the Administrative Core: Creating Web-based Student Services for Online Learners."

• Web-Enabled Student Services -- Gary Kleemann, Director, e-learning@ASU East, Arizona State University East has organized a number of his PowerPoint presentations on Web-Enabled Student Services into this one site.

• "Really Serving Students at a Distance" ­ An article by Sally M. Johnstone on how institutions can approach putting services online.
• Online Student Services in Australia ­ An online initiative for Australian institution of higher education. Includes a literature review with helpful references and resources.

Reports on Internet Usage

• Pew Internet & American Life study -- The Internet Goes to College: How Students are Living in the Future with Today's Technology (September 15, 2002)

• The 2001 UCLA Internet Report -- "Surveying the Digital Future" (November 2001)

• Campus Computing Survey -- Summaries from the annual Campus Computing Survey, "which focuses on campus planning and policy affecting the role of information technology in teaching, learning, and scholarship."

• Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? -- A September 1998 research study from the American Psychological which examined the effects of the Internet on social involvement and psychological well-being.

Community in Cyberspace

• Face-to-Face with Virtual Communities -- "Arising from the university digital landscape are outcroppings of virtual communities, what Howard Rheingold has called social aggregations, personal relationships in cyberspace. Here, Rheingold explores the implications of virtual communities on campus."

• "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" -- Adapted from Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle.

• "Communities in Cyberspace" --The introductory chapter of Peter Kollock and Marc Smith's book, "Communities in Cyberspace," discuss the 'kinds of interactions and institutions that are emerging in cyberspace,' focusing on online communication system structures. They also briefly examine the implications of online interaction in terms of a key concept such as identity, social order and control, community structure and dynamics, and collective and collective

• "Design Principles for Online Communities" -- A presentation from Peter Kollock from the 1996 Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society

• "The Postmodern Desert: Solitude and Community in Cyberspace" -- An article by Elisha Emery Obl.OSB Cam

Wireless Technology

• Campus-Wide Wireless: Mobility and Convergence: An Interview with Lawrence M. Levine "Many institutions have wireless overlays on portions of their campus networks. A few, like Dartmouth College, offer wireless access throughout campus. Syllabus interviewed Dartmouth¹s director of computing to find out how wireless is used by the campus community‹especially when there is a choice to use it anywhere‹and for his insights on implementing and maintaining campus-wide wireless access."

• The Brave New World of Wireless Technologies: A Primer for Educators -- What do educators need to know about the basics of wireless technology? Here, Gerald Boerner provides a primer on wireless computing in higher education environments.

• Handheld Devices: Toward a More Mobile Campus -- Hundreds of colleges and universities are experimenting with how to enhance learning with mobile devices, hoping to leverage the coming convergence of wireless networks, Web services, and enterprise applications. While handheld initiatives on college campuses percolate, educators and IT experts debate whether handhelds will supplement or supplant laptop computers.

• Implementing PDAs in a College Course: One Professor's Perspective -- After a year of implementing a full-scale PDA program at the University of South Dakota, one professor shares his experience of how handheld devices can be better integrated into college teaching and learning. The bottom line? PDAs are only a tool; if used inappropriately they can be a source of frustration, but if used correctly they can be a tremendous asset.

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