Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/13/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1036. Monday, 12 Feb 1990. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 16:04:49 GMT From: Donald Spaeth 041 339-8855 x6336 <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK> Subject: Call for information on history teaching software The UK Centre for History and Computing (CTICH) was established in 1989 to serve as a clearinghouse for information on the use of computers in higher education. Similar centres were set up in other humanities subjects, including Literature, Modern Languages, Music and the Humanities in general. (A longer description of the Centre's activities has been provided for the Listserver.) CTICH is now collecting information about historical software, teaching datasets and computer-based teaching materials, which will serve as the basis for a 'Guide to Software' for the entire historical community. The first edition of the Guide, to be published this spring, will simply be a handlist of materials which have come to our attention, but subsequent editions will include reviews, focusing particularly on the suitability of software for teaching history. If you have written, are using or know of software or other materials for computer-based history teaching, we would very much appreciate it if you could draw these to our attention. Software may either be either commercial or educational, general purpose or devoted specifically to history/humanities teaching. We are particularly interested in hearing of software developed outside the UK, e.g. in Europe or North America. Types of software of interest include database, spreadsheet, text retrieval/analysis, hypertexts, simulations and teaching datasets. A brief form describing the kind of information we need follows. The first 3 questions are the most important; if you don't know complete details, please just send what information you have. SURVEY OF SOFTWARE FOR COMPUTER-BASED HISTORY TEACHING 1. Name of software/material 2. Computer (and operating system) it runs under 3. Name and address of author, publisher, distributor or other contact (also telephone number and email address, if known) 4. Cost 5. Minimum technical requirements (e.g. hard disk, 512K RAM, EGA graphics) 6. Brief description (4-6 lines), with comments if you've used it 7. Would you be willing to write us a longer review of the package? Many thanks for your assistance. Please send details of software to the following address. Donald Spaeth Research Officer Centre for History and Computing email: ctich @ uk.ac.glasgow.vme (from JANET sites) ctich @ vme.glasgow.ac.uk (from BITNET/EARN sites) postal address: History Computing Laboratory 2 University of Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ UK [A longer document on The Computers in Teaching Initiative, Centre for History and Computing (CTICH) is now available on the file-server, s.v. HISTORY CTICH. A copy may be obtained by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@UToronto and *not* to Humanist. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO GET filename filetype HUMANIST; to submit a batch-job, send mail to ListServ@UToronto with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see your "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.]