"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen

NW Summer by Gabriel Guzmán

Up Front NW
By Gary Ferrington

In 1993 I was using Gopher to develop a collection of online information about the field of media literacy. In 1994 my routine changed with the introduction of the Mosaic web browser that was quickly followed by Netscape's. Nothing has been the same since the introduction of the World Wide Web.
    According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, less than one in five Americans were online in 1995. Today, the majority of Americans are using the Web, exchanging e-mail, downloading music, reading bank statements or the news, listening to radio from around the world, and checking the weather. Two out of every three Americans now spend time online.
     The Web has even changed how we learn as many classes and academic programs are now taught on line.
     When I first started to transferring information to a server I could upload only text. Then came photographs, followed by sound and then moving image. The Web has become, for many, an opportunity to teach and learn in a multimedia classroom environment.
     The feature article this month takes a look in the rearview mirror at an "old school" technology, the 8mm film loop. It suggests that the basic educational reasons for using short motion picture sequences back then is even more relevant today with an emphasis of teaching and learning through web based multimedia environments.

This month:

Feature Article: The once popular use of short film loops used to illustrate rules, process, or techniques through moving images, again holds promise as web based instruction and training develops. The technology has changed making a once promising pedagogical use of the moving image more practical today than ever.

Random Links: Computer geeks have found an interesting way to combine Google Maps® with statistical databases to create new online resources that allow the tracking of sexual predators in Florida,finding the cheapest gas on a drive across town or the country, or identifying safe and unsafe neighborhood locations in Chicago.

Site Visit: "This Is Broken" is a project to make businesses more aware of their customer difficulties with web sites and other information and how to fix it.

Lighter Side: Challenge Darth Vader to read your mind in this fun Sinth Sense site, produced for kids of all ages by Burger King. A good example of corporate tie-in with feature film production.

On The Desktop: News from world sources about film, video, and multimedia.

From Our Readers.

T.K. of Eugene suggests that if you like humorous flash movies that you check out Store Wars. A site where battle between organic (good) and processed foods (evil) rages across the screen. Familiar characters such as Cuke Skywalker, Obi Wan Canoli, and Princess Lettuce, star in this short work.

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