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Moving Learning Online
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Over Our Heads
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Disaster struck the new Electronic Lecture Center B1 in early October.
A combination of failed plumbing and old sump pumps produced some six feet
of standing water and considerable damage to the room and equipment.
It was not as large as the Great Chicago Flood, but it did put a crimp
in our plans of using computer technology to improve learning. However,
repairs are under way, and new equipment is on order. Lecture Center E1
is still intact and serving classes, and plans are being made to renovate
the other lecture centers and to equip them with proper computer equipment.
In the meanwhile, the Computer Center operates several public microcomputer
labs that can be reserved for classes. We also have a few LCD projection
screens (the type that allow a computer screen to be displayed with an
overhead projector) for an occasional loan. And, of course, the InfoTech
Arcade in the Library is open, with lots of equipment for preparing instructional
materials. So if you are interested in multimedia or computer-aided instruction,
you don't have to wait until Spring Semester for B1 to reopen. Give us
a call at 413-0003 or send a note to consult@uic.edu
or to the InfoTech Arcade's new email address lib-sys@uic.edu.
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Departments Go Online
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The ease of posting information through Gopher or the World Wide Web has
gotten many departments thinking about reaching out electronically. Chemistry,
for example, now runs their own Gopher server. (You can reach it from the
UIC
Gopher main menu under "The Campus" -> "UIC Chemistry Department".)
The College of Dentistry has had information on Gopher for some time. And
other departments are developing their own World Wide Web home pages. There
are lots of ways to "go online," from the short and easy to the expansive.
If your department is interested, contact your department's REACH person,
or send a note to consult@uic.edu
for more info.
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New Optical Fiber on the East Side of Campus
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A computer without a network is like a fish without a lake. So, as part
of our plans to bring computers into the classroom, we are installing new
optical fiber to the renovated Lecture Centers and to several other buildings
on the east side of campus. This will enable adequate network services
to be used during lectures, including multimedia from remote servers, remote
preparation and loading of instructional software, and even real-time Internet
access during class.
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Network Entrez for Public Use
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Those of you interested in genes and proteins might have noticed the icon
for Entrez on the personal computers in the Computer Center's public labs.
Network Entrez is a network client able to search sequences from various
databases (GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, PIR, SWISS-PROT, PRF, PDB), and for related
articles from Medline. The maintenance of the online data, and development
of the client software, is provided by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information. The manual and the client program (for UNIX, Macintosh and
MS Windows) are available by anonymous ftp: at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov,
in /entrez/docs and /entrez/network , respectively. Please
direct questions about Network Entrez to bobg@uic.edu
rather than to the NCBI. The government has made this free to our campus
because we've promised to shield them from an avalanche of questions! |
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