Welcome to Liz H-Ks Eclectic Home Page

Last revised on June 2, 1997

This picture has a place of honour on this page because it was the first multimedia email message I received. The picture was recorded on video during a SCOET meeting, by Mike Quinlan who then digitized it on a computer, superimposed it on a Mosaic (shows you how old the picture is) WEB page, added transparency to part of the background, made into a GIF file and emailed to me as an attachment.  If you are NOT seeing this in frames, try my new index. This will bring up this page plus a table of contents to most of my key pages in a frame view. (Netscape 2 Frames capability needed)

Here are some starting points to electric eclectic:  Notes for the keynote presentation Technology and Change - Making Sense of It" for Connections '98 Some of the links might not work (ie: Site Mapper and Hot Sauce) and the multimedia CD Rom presentation isn't available for the Web yet. Resources for UBC Instructional and Information Design for New Media course Spring/Summer 97.  These resources are for students taking this course, however faculty will find these resources very useful in helping to think about designing educational materials for on-line instruction or multimedia.    SEEDS - Great resource for faculty in BC interested in learning more about multimedia, CMC or videoconferencing.  Practical advice, applications, how-to's and examples of how these technologies are being used in B.C.  Eclectic Educational Technology sites from around the Province.  Anyone interested in educational technology should check the Standing Committee on Educational TEchnology (SCOET)  Instructional Design On-line. Resources for faculty wanting to know about on-line instruction, design, etc.  Education Technologies Issues and Strategies A collection of papers discussing change that is taking place at educational institutions, what some of issues are, how technology seems to be driving the change and strategies that might help in dealing with change.  Media 113   Media 113 - Emerging Communications is a three credit course that was held in Nanaimo and Powell River via videoconferencing in the Spring 1996. We think it is the first course in BC that was taught using Desktop videoconferencing. This means the students in Powell River will be able to see us, talk to us and share applications and documents over the phone line. It was taught by myself and Marshall Soules. This link will take you to the home page for the course which inlcudes the course outline and resources for the course.  Distance Education Resources  Agencies, archives, and resources dealing with Distance Education.  Adventure Playground  If you find your mind is succumbing to video terminal blur, wake yourself up by playing in here.  Mind Changing Technology  An area covering cognitive theory, human computer interface, and generally resources focusing on learning and technology. There are also some pointers to Instructional Design, and some excellent examples of how faculty are using WWW (and other technologies) in instruction.  Media Resources  Resources dealing with media.  Technology   Resources dealing with technology and governement related policy.  New Media Tools for Writing and Publishing  Tools for creating WWW documents and research about new media tools. This page is under construction, preparing for a SHAW Cable TV series on WEB Page Development to air late May 1996. It will contain information on how to create WEB pages, applications to assist in making pages, automated page making links, best of the WEB sites in terms of functionality and design, and of course the Worst of the WEB. This page will evolve in the next few months to reflect the changes.  Virtual Reality  Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Markup Language is growing on the Internet. This page has links to VR and VRML sites and examples of how they can be used in education.  THe EcLeTiC Collection  A varied and interesting collection for those with an urge to learn something new...  VAX User Manual Still under construction, this is the electronic version of all the VAX handouts we could find.

lizhk@mala.bc.ca