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| EdSurfDigest ~ Online Education and Training Resource for Adult Students Volume 1 Issue 1 EdSurf ~ Where Surfing to Learn Begins ~ Welcome to the first edition of EdSurfDigest. I hope you will find it worthy of your time, worth the price... and just a little fun. In this issue: ~ EdNews Surf EDNEWS SURF Steps and considerations needed for building online learning systems. http://www.microsoft.com/train_cert/OLIC/training.htm Lessons in Launching Web-based Graduate Courses http://www.thejournal.com/98/may/598feat4.htm Supporting Virtual Learning for Adult Students http://www.thejournal.com/98/current/698feat1.html Clinton To Fight For E-Rate Funding Of Internet Education http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?47140/topstories U. of Washington Professors Denounce Governor's Embrace of On-Line Education http://chronicle.com/free/98/06/98060801t.shtml Learning Co. buys Broderbund FREE TO LEARN Our torch shines on Scholars.com 2 free trial introductory online courses with certificates on completion. ~ Introducing NetWare 4.11 Surf by at: http://www.scholars.com Also at Free~to~Learn new Cybercourse listings for Doing Business on the Net, Year 2000 Transition: A Business Challenge, self improvement through Ch'iGenics ( no I'm not sure what that is ) and more. EDUCATIONAL FREEWARE Tired of that expensive, complex, resource hogging word processor? Want to dash off a quick note, document or school report with ease? Yeah Write is for you! Clean simple colourful* file cabinet interface with powerful features such as built in templates for Notes, Letters, Journals and more. Spellchecker, Search and Replace and Formatting options by the pail full. All this and it fits on a single floppy disk. Also available in a commercial version with additional templates, email documents directly and more features for a bargain $20 US. Unbelievably cheap educational license too! Yeah Write receives the EdSeal of Approval. QUICK SURFEY This months Quick Surfey Question: Have you ever taken an Online course? http://www.edsurf.net/surfey/edshack.html Results of last months Quick Surfey Question: Do you like the background music on the web site? Yes: 24 Comments included: love it! keep it on here, please. NO. NO. NO!!!!! it's very appropriate. It'a really nice. Thanks. Should be a different type! Motzart is very nice for an educational forum. Bach would probably be too strange
though. LOL The guy in the next cubicle probably doesn't like it either! Bravo!! My Boston acustics loved the stimulation. My ears rejoiced in the tickling of the ivories. Thankyou. :) it's relaxing Provide a way to turn it off at least! cheerful. Energetic. A wakeup call! It's fun for one time, but it gets annoying the way it continues over and over again. Stop already ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to all who participated! Your comments are appreciated and will be taken under advisement in our new web site design. EdSurf UPDATE ~ Free~to~Learn updated listings Coming next month our brand new EdSurf web site. Stay tuned for updates on new features. EDQUOTE I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. Thank you for reading this far. If you would like to share a comment on this issue or to offer suggestions, a contribution for a future issue or just want to say hi! Contact EdSurfDigest via: Email: edsurfdigest@edsurf.net WWW: http://www.edsurf.net/connect/ Till EdSurfDigest catches the next wave your way... ~John EdSurf ~ Where Surfing to Learn Begins ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have received EdSurfDigest from a friend... hint hint... and would like to subscribe... send an email to: subscribe@edsurf.net . If you *really* would like to unsubscribe... send an email to: unsubscribe@edsurf.net * We're Canadian eh! Copyright 1998 EdSurf
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