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May 18, 2010
Remembering Mount St. Helens
Thirty years ago today the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State took 57 lives and transformed modern understanding of volcanoes. Volcanologist Glyn Williams-Jones, an earth sciences professor, can offer an expert bird’s eye view of what the tempestuous volcano south of Vancouver has taught us. He has been there several times.
Glyn Williams-Jones, 778.240.3306 (cell), 778.782.3306 (w); glynwj@sfu.ca
E-book expansion arouses caution
Two education professors are cautiously optimistic about the B.C. public and school library systems’ testing of consumer taste for online reading by making books available online in the coming year. While software education expert Phil Winne and multi-media learning expert John Nesbit are all for the expansion of electronic publishing they caution it must be done using the right business and delivery model in a public school and library setting.
Nesbit says, “Libraries won’t be able to work out exactly how to fulfill their role in the digital age until the big picture consisting of copyright laws, business models and e-reader technologies become more settled.”
Winne adds, “I strongly favor their shift to electronic publishing on the condition that software tools evolve in ways that help people do more with information than has been plausible when all information was on paper. E-book publishing costs must also reflect savings in paper, ink, shipping, etc.”
John Nesbit, 778.782.7123; nesbit@sfu.ca
Phil Winne, 778.782.4858; winne@sfu.ca
Thirty years ago today the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State took 57 lives and transformed modern understanding of volcanoes. Volcanologist Glyn Williams-Jones, an earth sciences professor, can offer an expert bird’s eye view of what the tempestuous volcano south of Vancouver has taught us. He has been there several times.
Glyn Williams-Jones, 778.240.3306 (cell), 778.782.3306 (w); glynwj@sfu.ca
E-book expansion arouses caution
Two education professors are cautiously optimistic about the B.C. public and school library systems’ testing of consumer taste for online reading by making books available online in the coming year. While software education expert Phil Winne and multi-media learning expert John Nesbit are all for the expansion of electronic publishing they caution it must be done using the right business and delivery model in a public school and library setting.
Nesbit says, “Libraries won’t be able to work out exactly how to fulfill their role in the digital age until the big picture consisting of copyright laws, business models and e-reader technologies become more settled.”
Winne adds, “I strongly favor their shift to electronic publishing on the condition that software tools evolve in ways that help people do more with information than has been plausible when all information was on paper. E-book publishing costs must also reflect savings in paper, ink, shipping, etc.”
John Nesbit, 778.782.7123; nesbit@sfu.ca
Phil Winne, 778.782.4858; winne@sfu.ca