patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) (09/22/87)
~~Connect Ed Fall 87 Lecture Series~~
5 sessions. Beginning Oct 19. $150. Single ticket $40.
Coordinator: Paul Levinson
Bring leading social commentators and scholars into your homes
or places of business via personal computer and modem. Lecturers
place essays in our specially designed "electronic campus" situated
right here on EIES. You access the system through your
personal computer on weekday evenings and weekends. After reading
the lecture, you're invited to engage the lecturer and members of the
electronic audience in questions and answers and dialogue -- again,
completely through your personal computer and modem. Each lecture
and dialogue session is conducted for seven days, during which time
you're welcome to access the electronic campus as often as you like
during the posted hours. You gain first-hand experience in the
exciting new educational and business technique of computer
teleconferencing. Admission fee includes all computer connect costs,
with exception of local call to data network.
Oct 19-25: MIKE WEINER, developer of Wordfinder(TM) (Electronic
Thesaurus), Rochester, NY, "Computer Software & the
Entrepreneur"
Nov 2-8: PHIL ROMANO, Lieutenant, New York City Police Dept,
"Computers and Community Relations"
Nov 16-22: AL LEE, Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology,
"A New Look at the JFK Assassination"
Nov 30-Dec 6: KATHY DYHR, Administrative Director, Space Biosphere
Ventures, Oracle, Arizona, "Earth Environments and
Outer Space"
Dec 7-13: CARL HODGES, Director, Environmental Research Lab,
Tuscon, Arizona, "Human Ecology and the 21st Century"
For registration and further information, call
(212) 548-0435 or 549-6509, or write Connected
Education, 92 Van Cortlandt Park South - 6F,
Bronx, NY 10463.
Connect Ed - New School Fall 87 on-line courses
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October 1 - November 31
Director: Paul Levinson
Associate Director: Tina Vozick
Each course carries three graduate or undergraduate credits. Graduate
credits applicable to New School MA in Media Studies Degree upon
matriculation; awarding of graduate credit assumes possession of
earned bachelor's degree and completion of New School registration.
Undergraduate credit is general New School Adult Division credit.
Tuition: $286 per credit ($858 per course) graduate, $268 per credit
($798 per course) undergrad and non-credit. Registration fees: $60
graduate, $20 undergrad and non-credit. These fees include all
necessary connect time for courses with exception of local call to
data packet network.
Applications in Telecommunications (Tom Hargadon)
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A practical survey of new electronic communications media and
their social impact on the world today: computer networks, satellite
communications, teleconferencing, telecommuting, data bases,
electronic banking. What are these new forms of communication and
why are they so important? Will they change society in the future as
drastically as television and radio have changed society in the past?
If so, how? What do you need to know about these new media to
understand and succeed in the strange new world of electronic
communications coming into being before our very eyes?
Telelaw: Legal Issues in Telecommunications (Brock N. Meeks)
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This course examines the issue of legislation (at both state and
federal levels) as it affects telecommunications. A double- edged
sword, legislation could take away the "free speech" aspect of
telecommunications, by imposing laws and regulations, or provide
online communication the same protections afforded the spoken and
printed word. The course examines topics such as ownership of online
information; electronic pornography; right to electronic privacy.
Specific pieces of state and federal legislation are considered.
Electronic Publishing (Harvey Wheeler)
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This course examines the practice and issues involved in the
editing, publishing, and dissemination of news items, reference
materials, and scholarly and professional journals via electronic
means. Topics include historical survey of dissemination of texts,
economics of print as opposed to electronic publishing,
entrepreneurial electronic "presses" and "desktop" publishing, and
the impact of electronic publishing upon public information and
scientific knowledge. The course includes practical training in such
areas as inauguration of electronic journals, manuscript recruitment,
editing, and publicity.
Desktop Publishing (Richard Dalton)
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This course covers the new potential that low cost desktop
publishing systems have, both for existing large organizations and
for smaller enterprises. The emphasis here is on the use of personal
computing and printing equipment for the production of finished
hard-copy -- interchangable with the products of traditional printing
houses. Major hardware and software options and costs are explored
for IBM, Macintosh and Atari ST-based systems along with relative
ease of use and which kinds of applications are best suited to each.
Focus on the use of desktop technologies for the preparation and
publication of reports, pamphlets, in-house newsletters and catalogs,
and government materials.
Computer Networks and Professional Writing (Sharon Lerch)
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This course examines the ways that computer networks can assist
the process and placement of writing. Issues such as the individual
author in a group process and the roles of criticism and direction in
writing are explored through discussion and writing of fiction and
nonfiction in an on-line environment. Participants are expected to
interact generously with one another, reading each other's work
carefully and giving thoughtful, constructive comments with the
guidance and participation of the instructor. The role of computer
network "contacts" in placement and publication of works is explored,
with special attention to submission and editing of manuscripts
on-line.
Professional Management in the Information Age (Joseph Martino)
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This course examines the management of professionals as a
problem in information and knowledge channelling, and focuses on the
challenges and difficulties of supervising experts whose access to
information often gives them more knowledge about aspects of the work
than the manager. Issues include: How to foster autonomy and
creativity in professional workers without surrendering control? How
to minimize technical obsolescence and "burnout" among professionals
-- how to keep workers current with new information technologies
after they are hired? Should new information technologies be
integrated into work in a way that preserves traditional hierarchies,
or should new technologies form the basis of more fluid,
free-wheeling social structures? Emphasis on new management
strategies made possible by new technologies.
The Languages of Documentary Film (Gene Searchinger)
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This courses studies the ways that literal and symbolic meanings
are conveyed through the juxtaposition and counterpoint of images and
sounds on film. The theory and practice of montage is traced from
Soviet filmmakers to the present, with special attention given to the
use of montage in documentaries and non-fictional film. The
possibilities and problems of sound tracks are considered, with
attention of the advantages of sound tracks that contrast with rather
than replicate the visual message. Film and video are compared and
contrasted, and the intrinsic strengths and weaknesses of each are
discussed. The philosophical question of external reality versus the
filmmaker's vision in documentaries is explored. Screening of
selected films on the student's VCR is required.
Science Fiction and Media (Sylvia Engdahl)
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This course examines the transformation of science fiction from
a small-audience cult phenomenon in literature in the 1950s, to a
mass-audience mythology in TV and motion pictures in the 1970s and
1980s. Consideration given to the relationship between science
fiction and its realization in reality, as in the Space Age. Focus
on the role and development of mythology in oral, written, and
electronic media, as evidenced in supernatural stories and science
fiction. Discussion of such science fiction movie phenomena as the
Star Wars trilogy (space), Bladerunner (artificial intelligence), and
Back to the Future (time travel). Access to a VCR recommended.
Ethics in The Technological World (Paul Levinson)
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The human being holds unprecedented powers of communication,
bio-engineering, food production, medicine, and weaponry at the close
of the 20th century. This course examines to what extent traditional
ethical guidelines, hammered out through thousands of years of
philosophy, can help us navigate these potent technological currents.
Issues include: what is the proper role of mass media in bringing
these questions to the public's attention; in what ways do new media
require new standards of ethical conduct and etiquette; how can the
communications revolution give citizens greater control over
technological decisions. Current cases of media coverage are
considered in artificial heart medicine, genetic engineering, and
public health.
Connect Ed Spring 87 On-Line Lecture Series
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Feb 16-22 MIKE GREENLY, author of _Chronicle: The Human
Side of AIDS_, New York City, "Journalism by
Computer"
Mar 9-15 DONALD B. STRAUS, former Pres., American Arbitration
Association, New York City, "Computers and the
Democratic Process,"
Mar 23-29 WALTER ORR ROBERTS, co-author of _The Nuclear Winter_,
Boulder, Colorado, "Private Property in Space"
Apr 6-12 TEERI MCLUHAN, producer of "The Shadow Catcher," author of
_Dream Tracks_, New York City, "Film and Culture"
Apr 13-19 PHIL LEMMONS, editor-in-chief, BYTE Magazine,
Peterborough, New Hampshire, "Computers in the 1990s"
Electronic lectures conducted on the Connect Ed
Electronic Campus on EIES. Fees, including all
connect costs, are: $30 per lecture; $125 for series of 5.
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In article <1352@dasys1.UUCP>, patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes: > ~~Connect Ed Fall 87 Lecture Series~~ > > 5 sessions. Beginning Oct 19. $150. Single ticket $40. > > Coordinator: Paul Levinson > > Bring leading social commentators and scholars into your homes > or places of business via personal computer and modem. Lecturers > place essays in our specially designed "electronic campus" situated > right here on EIES. .................................. ^^^^ > > [stuff deleted] No explaination of EIES was given in this article, so I'll attempt to do so. EIES stands for the Electronic Information Exchange System. EIES is a Computer Conferencing System operated by the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center (CCCC) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), located in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Murray Turoff of NJIT and Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz of Upsala College are the principle people behind this system. EIES has been operational since 1977 (I believe) and is one of the first (if not the first) such system made publicly available. Dr.'s Turoff and Hiltz are the authors of numerous papers on the sociological impacts of this form of communications and other related topics. They have also written a book: "The Network Nation", 1978, Addison-Wesley. Anyway, one of the uses of this system that has been studied over the past couple of years is as a medium for educational purposes. Connected Ed is only one of the several efforts. Connected Ed is affiliated with the NYU New School for Social Research. NJIT and Upsala also offer a limited number of courses via this system, known as the Virtual Classroom. For further information call (201) 596-EIES. Until my recent departure from Bellcore, NJIT and New Jersey for the Florida sunshine, I had been a user of EIES for the past three years. USENET is far more encompasing, both in terms of the breadth of topics discussed and the number of participants than EIES. The current generation system is a centralized one, while the next generation (soon????) will be decentralized. EIES offers much more functionality than USENET does and concentrates on aiding the human communication effort. -- George W. Leach Paradyne Corporation {gatech,codas,ucf-cs}!usfvax2!pdn!reggie Mail stop LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 Largo, FL 34649-2826