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<tt><font size=+2>World Association for Online Education</font></tt> <br>
<b><tt><font size=+2>W E B</font></tt></b> <br>
<tt><font size=+1>WAOE Electronic Bulletin</font></tt> <br>
<tt>Volume 2, No. 2</tt> <br>
<tt>February 29, 2000</tt>
<p><a name="Contents"></a><b><tt><font size=+2>Contents</font></tt></b>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/#FromEditor">From the Web Editor</a></font></tt></b>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Editor1">Leaping onwards and upwards!!</a>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Special3">Haiku for Hour-Wasting Errors??</a>
<p><b><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Write">Members Write ...</a></font></b>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Write1">Carolyn Louper-Morris wants to
generate discussion</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Write2">Mary Ellen Nourse needs your input
...</a>
<p><b><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Special">Special Items</a></font></b>
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<a href="#Special#3">Appointment of WAOE Officers</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Special1">WAOE Bulletin Board - Access
and Archives</a>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/#New">Welcome to New Members</a></font></tt></b>
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<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Orientation">Orientation Course</a></tt>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Profile">Memberâs Profile</a></font></tt></b>
<br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Member">Carolyn Louper-Morris</a></tt>
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<b><i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#About_Profile">About Member's
Profile</a></tt></i></b>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Conference">Conference
(Re)Call</a></font></tt></b> <br>
<b><i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Reports">Reports:</a></tt></i></b>
<br>
<a href="#Reports#1">Collaborate Discussion List</a> <br>
<a href="#Reports#2">Distance Learning 2000</a> <br>
<a href="#Reports#3">CanLearn Interactive</a> <br>
<b><i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Coming">Coming Events:</a></tt></i></b>
<br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol2no2/index.htm#Events1">TCC Online Conference 2000</a></tt>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol2no2/index.htm#Events2">The New England Regional Computing Program</a>
<br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol2no2/index.htm#Events3">EUNIS 2000 Congress</a></tt> <br>
<b><i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Feature">About Conference (Re)Call</a></tt></i></b>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#New_Links">New Links</a></font></tt></b>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Link1">Online Pedagogy Connected Distance
Learning Portal</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Link2">Computer-Mediated Communication
Sites</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Link3">Virtual Universities</a>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Ideas">Web Ideas and
Issues</a></font></tt></b> <br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Ideas1">Online Learning Costs More ...
Or Does It?</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Ideas2">New Web-based Education Regulations
Unlikely</a> <br>
<b><i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#What">About Web Ideas and Issues</a></tt></i></b>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol2no3/index.htm#Briefs">News Briefs</a></font></tt></b>
<br>
<a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#News1">Call for Papers : Technology &
Society Special Issue</a> <br>
<a href="/web/vol1no10/index.htm#News2">Free Instruction in Online Course
Design</a>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Policies">WAOE Policies
and Procedures</a></font></tt></b> <br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Release">Release of Personal Information</a></tt>
<br>
<tt>Waiver of Membership Fees/Dues - <a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Waiver1">Policy
</a>and <a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Waiver2">Procedure</a></tt> <br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Change">Notifying Change of Email
Address</a></tt> <br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Resign">How to unsubscribe or resign</a></tt>
<br>
<i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#About_Policies">About Waoe
Policies and Procedures</a></tt></i>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Forth">Forthcoming
Meetings</a></font></tt></b> <br>
<tt>No items for this issue.</tt> <br>
<i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#this">About this Section</a></tt></i>
<br>
<i><tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Time">Time Conversion Site</a></tt></i>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#About">About WEB</a></font></tt></b>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#WAOE">About WAOE</a></font></tt></b>
<br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Aims">WAOE's Objectives</a></tt>
<br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Meaning">The Meaning and Exercise
of Membership in WAOE</a></tt> <br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#System">WAOE's Communications and
Discussion System</a></tt> <br>
<tt><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#WAOE_Committees">WAOE Committees
and OCREWs</a></tt>
<p><b><tt><font size=+1><a href="/web/vol1no12/index.htm#Links">WAOE Links</a></font></tt></b>
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<p><a name="FromEditor"></a><b><font size=+2>From the WEB Editor</font></b>
<p><a name="Editor1"></a><b><font size=+1>Leaping onwards and upwards!</font></b>
<p>I've deliberately held back a little on getting this issue of WEB ready to
publish, to give myself the (admittedly infantile) pleasure of legitimately
applying the date that comes only once every four years. Although WAOE
business and related activities have been somewhat hectic for the Directors
and members of the Coordinating Ring in the past few days and weeks - as various
items in this issue will show - publication delay has nothing to do with problems
in pulling material together (!). [Any more than usual, that is.]
<p>On the contrary, I'm delighted at the responsiveness of members to calls for
profiles, feedback and other input to the Bulletin. Thanks for that.
But I must refrain from saying any more, lest you all become complacent and
begin leaving it to others to sustain the publication.
<p><a href="mailto:dwyatt@camtech.net.au">David Wyatt</a>, WAOE Membership Officer
and WEB Editor
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<p><a name="Special3"></a><b><font size=+1>Haiku for Hour-Wasting Errors??</font></b>
<p>I just had to share with you the haiku-style error messages being developed
by the Sony Company in Japan. Nick Bowskill spread word of them in a news
item forwarded to the Coordinating RIng, but they surely deserve a much wider
audience. Some of them are positively beautiful!
<blockquote>Tokyo, Japan, November 20: <br>
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its hot
new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the cryptic error
messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows and DOS systems, Sony's chairman
Asai Tawara said:
<p>"We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on
what has been until now an operating system that reflects Western cultural
hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry. The haiku messages
are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough
that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen".
<p>The chairman went on to give examples of the error messages:
<blockquote>
<blockquote> A file that big? <br>
It might be very useful. <br>
But now it is gone.
<p> You seek a Web site. <br>
It cannot be located. <br>
Countless more exist.
<p> Chaos reigns within. <br>
Stop, reflect, and reboot. <br>
Order shall return.
<p> ABORTED effort: <br>
Close all that you have worked on. <br>
You ask way too much.
<p> Yesterday it worked <br>
Today it is not working <br>
Windows is like that.
<p> First snow, then silence. <br>
This thousand dollar screen dies <br>
So beautifully.
<p> With searching comes loss. <br>
The presence of absence. <br>
"June Sales.doc" not found.
<p> The Tao that is seen <br>
Is not the true Tao <br>
Until you bring fresh toner.
<p> Windows NT ]]>