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READINGS: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Technology A definitive source of information concerning issues in Higher Education. Read "Better be Webbed". About AskERIC AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. ZDTV | MIT Computer Lab: Break into the Future This site has a wide variety of information about the world-famous MIT lab. Watch "The Future of Software", the keynote address by Bill Gates for MIT lab's 35th anniversary. It's a lengthy video...about an hour...so get comfortable and enjoy. Also watch The Future of the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, this also runs about 50 minutes. CampusTours: Virtual College Tours! Everything you always wanted to know about going to college. Tour selected campuses and make sure you don't miss the Web-Cam's! A Perspective on Technology in Higher Education: An Interview with John Harrison by James Morrison. John Harrison is the Vice President for High Performance Computing at MCNC, has been centrally involved with coordinating networking, telecommunications, and computing for the University of North Carolina system, with establishing the North Carolina Supercomputer Center, and in his current position, with providing high performance computing services to all of the state universities in North Carolina. Introduction to The Nine Planets An incredibly detailed multimedia presentation on the Solar System created by Bill Arnett. This is an excellent example of the type of programs that can be created with multimedia. ACTIVITY 1
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