CONTENTS

UPFRONT - Strengthening the Fabric of Learning Technologies

FOCUS - UW Learning Technology Development Council and the Institutional Learning
Technology Centers: A Fine Persian Tapestry? by Hal Schlais

UW - ASL Signs in the Palm of Your Hand, TTT

LINES - April News Highlights

ED - EduCause Review Announces New e-Content Column, Software Quandry: Buy or
Lease? Shopping Online for Scholarships, What K-12 Teachers Can Teach Us, K-12
Math Web site

BIZ/GOV/ED - e-Learning Consortium Report, Is GovNet a Solution to Electronic
Threats? Businesses Find Time and Money Savings with Linux

ACCESSIBILITY - A Hearing Impaired Solution, New April 1 FCC Rules Assist Vision
Impaired

TRENDS - CMS Prices Soar and OKI Provides an Alternative

TECH/TOOLS - Wireless Tech Extends PDA Usage in Classroom, Smaller and Smaller

READS/RESOURCES - On the Internet: Thinking in Action, Technology and Student
Success

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Events, Conferences

ENDNOTE - A Short History of Linux
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MAY DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS ARTICLE - In next month's FOCUS article Nishikant
Sonwalkar of MIT, principal educational architect at MIT's Educational Media Creation
Center, will discuss reinventing pedagogy for the new interface of education with
technology.

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