UPFRONT - Copyright and Fair Use - at the Top of Many Agendas

FOCUS - "The Ever Changing Nature of Copyright and Fair Use: Where Are We Today?" by Lisa Livingston, UW-Madison

UW NEWS - New ICS 7 Keys VC Book, PK-16 Initiative RFP, TTT

LINES - May News Highlights

ED - Some Online Educators Turn to Bite-sized Instruction, The Senate Moves Closer to a Floor Debate on the Education Bill, Europe Votes $13.3 Billion to Challenge US Supremacy in eLearning, Education/Tech Leaders Join to Set IT Standards

BIZ/GOV/ED - eLearning Concern: Quality Impatience, Ubiquitous Connectivity from Cisco? Industry/Government/Academia to Join Forces, Virtual Classroom is the Future, LMS Customer Satisfaction Management Results

TECH/TOOLS - Teleporting, the Next Step? Adobe eBook and Higher Ed, Computer Runs at Quantum Light Speed, Playstream EasyLink, Grads Develop Embedded Systems

READS/RESOURCES - Authoring Tools Report Now Available, Report Examines Technology Spending, Online Education Vol. 2, Education Resource Organizations Directory, Locating Conference Proceedings Made Easier

ISSUES/CHALLENGES - Bridging a Digital Gap, Finding Free Internet Access for Those Without, Accessible Web Pages

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Events, Conferences

ENDNOTE - Creator of the World Wide Web is Still Creating!

CREATOR OF THE WWW IS STILL CREATING!

Remember Tim Berners-Lee? Tim was the creator of the World Wide Web. According to Tim, the next big thing will be called "The Semantic Web," an extension or enhancement of the Web to provide more "intelligent" responses. He talks more about this interesting concept in a fascinating article in Scientific American. You can find the article at CLICK: http://www.TeachingOntheNet.org/redirect.cfm?site=9

When Tim created the Web ten years ago, he worked for a nonprofit organization. At the time, he had two choices: 1) he could charge for the Web and become a billionaire, but not everyone would have access to the Web; or 2) he could make the Web free, not become rich, but everyone would have access to it. He chose to make it free. To find out more about Tim, read his book, Weaving the Web. This book is available at: http://www.TeachingOntheNet.org/redirect.cfm?site=11

Tim Berners-Lee and others at the World Wide Web Consortium are also working on a variation of XML for math symbols. Check this out at CLICK: http://www.TeachingOntheNet.org/redirect.cfm?site=10 (TeachingOntheNet, 24 May 01, elern@lern.org)

Tim continues to create!

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