It's not the technology; it's what you do with it. What's New At FutureU?
 In This Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2002 
•   Book Reviews
 
•   Bargain Hunter's Guide To
Building Your Course Web Site
•   Featured Vendor:
Hot Potatoes Quiz Generator
•   Vendor Reprise: PageSeeder
•   Vendor Update: Prometheus

•   Hot Tip: Clip Art for Teachers
•   And the Winner Is!
(5 Easy Questions)


•   New Survey: We need your help!
•   A Personal Note from Gail and Claude
 Book Reviews
Ready to learn some fancy HTML? If you've already made your way through FutureU's "Tenderfoot's Guide to HTML" or "All You Need to Know About HTML" (both available for free in the FutureU.Net virtual community) and you are hungry for taking that next step on your way to becoming HTML proficient, the following two books provide great snacks. (The titles are hotlinked to Amazon.Com if you'd like to make a purchase.)

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 Bargain Hunter's Guide To Building Your Course Web Site
FutureU has identified and tested dozens of links to free or low-cost web hosting packages, HTML editors, online calendars, grade books, quiz generators, and much, much more. Now we've collected the best to share with you. Get your copy of the Bargain Hunter's Guide today, for only $10.00.

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 Featured Vendor: Hot Potatoes Quiz Generator

Submitted by Claude Whitmyer, FutureU CIO

From Canada...

Hot Potatoes from the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre is a suite that includes six applications. With it, you can create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercises for the Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the Web. Other users must pay for a license.

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 Vendor Reprise: PageSeeder

Submitted by Claude Whitmyer, FutureU CIO

From Austrailia...

In December 2000 (Volume 1, Number 3), we told you about PageSeeder, a great discussion tool, which lets you embed a threaded discussion anywhere in an HTML document. Now, PageSeeder has extended its functionality to let you embed a discussion in an Adobe Acrobat portable document format file (PDF).

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 Vendor Update: Prometheus
In September 2001 (Volume 2, Number 1), we told you about the Prometheus course management software platform. Blackboard gobbled them up, but all is not lost...

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 Hot Tip: Clip Art for Teachers
There's always a need for good, on topic clip art. This site offers quite a collection. You don't need to join to get the free graphics but members get more! Members can access thousands of curriculum based graphics for $29.95 a year. If you visit this site or join, let us know what you think. (http://www.clipartforteachers.com/)

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 And the Winner Is!
Five Easy Questions Survey

This quarter's winner of FutureU's "Five Easy Questions" survey is Sandra Smith, an instructor at New Mexico State University. Sandra wins a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Thank you to all who participated. Want another chance to win? We pick a winner every quarter. Answer the five easy questions at http://www.futureu.com/5easyquestions/

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 New Survey: We need your help!
Another chance at a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.Com...

What do you want in an email/online newsletter?

As educators, it seems that every day brings new email or postcard solicitations to subscribe to yet another newsletter about distance and/or online learning. It's hard to tell them apart and little information is given to help decide which to subscribe to. We at FutureU decided it is time to do something about this. But we need your help. Answer the email/online newsletter survey at http://www.futureu.com/newsletter_survey/. It will take less than 5 minutes, you'll qualify for another chance at a $50 gift certificate from Amazon.Com, and we'll all benefit from the results.

Newsletter Survey
 A Personal Note from Gail and Claude
We want to thank all the readers of our newsletter for hanging in there with us and we look forward to many more years together as e-learning and virtual communications enter the second phase of thier growth to maturity.

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