News from Virginia.

For a presentation to The Shock of the Old 4, Oxford, England. April '04.

Recent Articles of Interest from UVa Faculty and Staff

Ayers, Edward. Doing Scholarship on the Web; 10 Years of Triumphs and a Disappointment. Chronicle of Higher Education. January 30, 2004.

Ayers, Edward and Grisham, Charlie. Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet). Educause Review. Nov/Dec, 2003.

Saury, Rachel and Alexander, John. "Story & Healing in Action: New Methods for Fostering Heart to Heart Dialogue about Race." Multicultural Education , Winter 2003.

Thomas, Will and Ayers, Edward. The Difference Slavery Made; A Close Analysis of Two Communities. American Historical Review. vol. 108, no. 5, December 2003, pp. 1299-1307.

Thomas, Will and Ayers, Edward. The Difference Slavery Made. The digital archive that accompanies the above cited article.

Unsworth, John. The Next Wave: Liberation Technology. Chronicle of Higher Education. January 30, 2004.

New Projects @ UVa

Sakai. [http://sakaiproject.org/]

uPortal. [http://uportal.org/]

UVa Instructional Toolkit. [http://toolkit.virginia.edu/]

UVa Online Course Evaluation. [http://toolkit.virginia.edu/]

eFolio. [http://nmc.itc.virginia.edu/E-folio/]

eClass. [http://ayesha.phys.virginia.edu/%7Ebryan/projects/eclass/]

Pertinent Recent Reports @ UVa

Impact of TTI (word doc. 12/4/03)

Digital Services Planning Team Final Report (pdf document 02/13/04)

Report of the Professional Development Working Group (word doc. 02/09/04)

Emerging Collaborations @ UVa

Brainstorming Group. [word doc]

Draft Charge for Envisioning the Future. [word doc]

Draft Charge for Professional Development Committee. [word doc]

Last Word @ Irony

MIT's OpenCourseware initiative, which they implemented using Microsoft's Content Management System, Microsoft CMS 2002. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/technology.htm.

as of 3/31/04