Presenter: Robert
Cailliau Presenter: Assoc.
Professor Carmel McNaught Presenter:
Bebo White Presenter: Steve
Chazin, Apple University Consortium Manager for North
America Presenter: Associate
Professor A Lee Gilbert,
"Use and reuse of learning resources for
the Web in Australian universities"
"The Evolving Role of the
Webmaster"
"Technology, Lies, and the W3:
Working out What's Going on in the World of
e.Commerce"
Presenter: Robert
Cailliau
Brief description:
For the last 10 years the Web has been the focus of most of my professional and directed much of my personal life. As most of you will already know Tim Berners-Lee and I collaborated on the original work that gave birth to the Web. Indeed the term World Wide Web was coined in the CERN cafeteria in May 1990. Since that time I have attended and spoken at well over 100 major meetings and conferences around the world. My talk will not be technical but will instead focus on the people that I have met and worked with over the last 10 years and some of the more memorable and funny experiences that I have enjoyed.
Biographical note:
Robert has been at CERN since 1974. He created the Web Office and has been its foundation Head until this year. He is currently moving to help set up CERN's new Division for Technology Transfer and Public Communications. CERN is currently supporting him in the writing of a book on the first 10 years of the Web. It is scheduled to be published end 1999 by Oxford University Press. Robert is Chair of the IW3C2 the organisation that conducts the International WWW conference series.
Contact details:
CERN Web Communications
Directory Services Unit
C E R N, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CH - 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
http://www.cern.ch/
Robert.Cailliau@www.cern.ch
Title: Use and reuse of learning resources for the Web in Australian universities
Presenter: Assoc. Professor Carmel McNaught
Brief description:
The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) has obtained a grant funded by the Department of Employment, Education and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) to look at the use of computer-facilitated learning (CFL) materials in Australian universities in order to determine some overall trends. The project will focus on issues relating to online learning and how Web-based resources can be disseminated and shared across the higher education sector. The project will also investigate how an updated national inventory of such materials might be developed in the context of developing a strategy which could lead to a greater adoption of CFL materials, especially in online environments, in Australian higher education.
The methodology of the project includes a survey of all Australian universities and in-depth case studies in several universities in five states of Australia: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
The final report will be presented to DEETYA in March 1999 and the talk will present the key findings of the project in relation to Web-based learning.
Contact details:
Learning Technologies Unit
EPI Group, RMIT University, Bldg 15
GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001
Australia
phone: + 61 3 9925 3543
fax: + 61 3 9925 4520
email: carmel.mcnaught@rmit.edu.au
Title: "The Evolving Role of the Webmaster"
Presenter: Bebo White
Brief Description:
Being a Webmaster is very much a 90's occupation. The role has developed rapidly from humble beginnings, from a techie who could get up a Webserver, to a complex role in charge as the team leader/manager of a multidisciplinary group with major institutional or corporate responsibilities. In his talk Bebo will anecdotally reflect upon Webmastering for the past eight years, how the Webmaster role has matured and how it might continue to evolve in the future.
Bebo was instrumental in setting up the first Website in the United States in Sept 1991 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the high energy physics laboratory at Stanford University. Because of SLAC's collaboration with CERN (the birthplace of the Web), Bebo has been involved with the development of the Web since its conception.
Contact details:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC)
P.O. Box 4349, MailStop 97
Stanford, California 94117 USA
Telephone: +1 650-926-2907
Fax: +1 650-926-3329
E-Mail: bebo@slac.stanford.edu
URL: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~bebo/
Title: "Technology, Lies, and the W3: Working out What's Going on in the World of e.Commerce"
Presenter: Associate
Professor A Lee Gilbert, IMARC
Nanyang Business School, Singapore
Brief Description:
This talk addresses three key issues for stakeholders in the phenomenal growth of Web-enabled business:
Biographical note:
Lee Gilbert began his international career as a consultant for SRI International, and later served the Institute of Systems Science as Deputy Director, Harvard Business School as Future Information Systems faculty Fellow, the United Nations Secretariat as Regional Adviser for Technology Transfer and Development, and Nanyang Business School as Director of its MBA (Management of I.T.) and (International Business) programmes. As an IT practitioner, he assisted varied private and public sector clients throughout the world to acquire and implement effective computing and telecommunications solutions to business problems.
Dr. Gilbert's research and publication addresses technology policy and the evolution of electronic commerce. He has worked in Bangladesh, China, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. He leads two MBA subjects: International Electronic Commerce, and Managing International Transfers of Capital and Technology.
Contact details:
Dr. A Lee Gilbert
Nanyang Business School (NTU)
Singapore 639798
algilbert@ntu.edu.sg
Presenter: Steve M. Chazin
Brief Description:
Apple's Quicktime technology is the leading cross-platform technology format used for delivery of digital media and as such will increasingly underlie the delivery of digital media for Education Without Boundaries.
Today's students learn on a multitude of levels - some are visual learners, others aural while others learn by association. Today's educators must be prepared to deliver their messages through a variety of media or "multimedia". The session will introduce the audience to the current state of the art in creating, producing, and delivering this new form of educational curricula and will help to show how to equip teachers and educators with the appropriate digital tools for the emerging new age of learners.
The session will showcase how Quicktime, the leading cross-platform digital media format, will allow the audience to quickly turn ideas into compelling digital forms, without worrying about complex application, document, or operating system issues.
Quicktime has become the defacto standard for digital media on and off the Web and makes it possible for educators to capture, produce, and publish digital media for any computer. The session will show how digital media can be incorporated into curricula, presentations, demonstrations as well as the web. There will also be demonstrations of how the new generation of digital video cameras and FireWire equipped computers bring the power of a TV studio to desktop computers for the first time.
In short this presentation will show how real world tools can create and deploy compelling digital content.
Biographical note:
Steve M. Chazin is the Apple Uni Consortium manager for North America.