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communications, representative says.
♦ Europe will have 31 million more Internet users than the
United States by 2004 as Web use increases worldwide.
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Unlike a laptop, the user can write on the Tablet
PC, simplifying taking notes or annotating a
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Sherwood said the Tablet PC may replace text-
books and will be widely used by students.
Other new items include "Stinger," the next
lution of cell phones.
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Network connections
make Internet use faster
Technology adds to teachers’ loads,
representative tells Expo attendees
"It's not anything new," he said.
The classroom contained Internet
devices, handheld and portable devices,
such as Palm Pilots, and workstations.
Teachers need to be the facilitators of the
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with other students but with people from
around the world via the Internet.
Cowie said wireless communication,
strategies such as laptops, allows classes to meet any-
where.
For example, instead of an English class
meeting in a computer lab where talking
and interacting with other students is limit-
ed, with laptops they could meet in the
classroom with more freedom to do so.
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teachers and professors," Cowie said.
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to prevent any personal misuse of a credit
Entertainment products, including video games,
are changing rapidly, too, Sherwood said.
He said consumers will be looking at the X-Box
The three "A's" can be applied to the
alpha classroom, a diagram Cowie
Teachers need more time to prepare and described as "common sense," which is
review material to take advantage of new
CIS competition
Several members of the San Antonio College
Chapter of the Association of Information
Technology Professionals are in Chicago to partic-
ipate in the sixth annual National Collegiate
Conference.
The event continues through Saturday.
The teams will be competing in Cobalt, C++,
visual basic, analysis and design, and the newly-
added networking design competitions.
Katherine Kelley, president of this college's
chapter, said, "The SAC teams have always done
well at these competitions, with the C++ team tak-
ing the first three years in a row and honorable
mention last year."
She said the visual basic and analysis and
design teams have also done well in the past
because the analysis and design team is one of the
few teams that uses an object approach to solving
their problems.
"The networking design team can be com-
mended for their efforts in hosting two contests in
December and February of this year, as the Powerpoint.
National Conference is basing their competition TTnhVe a 1
on these contest formats," Kelley added.
Along with the competitions, the conference
will offer informative sessions on technology
trends, and recruiters from some of the foremost
companies in the nation's IT industry will be at
the career fair.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three
contest teams, and the AITP Student Chapter
Adviser of the Year for 1999-2000 will be
announced at the closing awards banquet.
Student Government election
Applications for executive office positions for
the Student Government Association are being
accepted until AprU 12, the SGA vice president
said Monday.
International relations sophomore Kara
Millhench said Student Government will begin
posting fliers around campus to advertise the
positions.
Applications for executive office positions can
be picked up in the SGA office in Room 256 of
Loftin Student Center.
The deadline for applications is April 12, but
SGA recommends having the applications sub-
mitted by April 9.
Executive office candidate qualifications
include a minimum 2.0 grade-point average, a
six-hour or more course load and 100 signatures.
Millhench said announcements of nominations
for the positions of president, vice president, sec-
retary, treasurer and sergeant-at-arms are tenta-
tively scheduled for next week.
Millhench and President Lydia Roberts will not
attend this college in the fall. Treasurer Larry
Osbourne said he will attend but will not seek re-
election.
Sergeant-at-arms John Heard said he will
return in the fall semester but will wait to
announce his nomination until next week.
The week of April 16 is scheduled for candi-
date campaigning, which is tentatively scheduled
to take place in the cafeteria area of Loftin.
Voting is open to all students and will take
place April 23-26 in Loftin.
Student Government also is seeking senators
for the fall semester. The requirements and dead-
line are the same as executive officers, but senator
candidates need only 50 signatures.
Election results will be announced during the
April 30 meeting.
Currently, four executive officers and seven
senators compose student government. The secre-
tary position is vacant.
Drop date approaching
The last day to drop a class and receive a letter
grade of W is April 6, Rosemarie Hoopes, director
of admissions and records, said.
Hoopes said students who want to drop their
classes need to turn in a drop slip with the
instructor's signature to admissions and records
in Room 216 of Fletcher Administration Center
before 5 p.m.
Students who are withdrawing from remedial
courses must take the signed slip to the TASP
advising office in Room 208 of Fletcher.
She recommends that students speak to their
instructors before considering dropping a class.
A W grade does not hurt a student's grade-
point average.
technological advances being placed in the cessfully integrated into traditional classes,
classroom, the director of education sales
for the Gateway Corp, said Tuesday.
John Cowie spoke to an audience of
about 60 in the auditorium of McAllister
Fine Arts Center about the integration of
technology and education and its impact new technology, and there must be active
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Computer chips part of a balanced meal?
It is a possibility with the fast pace of technology
development, a representative of the Microsoft Corp,
said Tuesday during a presentation to a group of
high school students.
"It borders on science fiction, but it is science real-
ity," Brian Sherwood, senior principal technology
specialist, said.
Sherwood's lecture was part of the Technology
Exposition celebrating this college's 75th anniver-
sary.
Sherwood said according to "Moore's Laws,"
named after Gordon Mdore, chairman emeritus of
the board of Intel Corp, and co-founder of Intel, the
number of transistors the industry places on a com-
puter chip could double about every 18 months.
Sherwood said because of "Moore's laws," future
consumer items — except food — costing more than
$25 will have an integrated computer.
However, Sherwood said he has spoken with doc-
tors and nutritionists who support having computer
chips in food to keep track of a patient's diet.
Sherwood said technology has removed the barri-
ers from a device's functions. For example, he said
five years ago, no one would have thought cell
phones would have video games or Internet access.
Technology also has unified communications.
Seven years ago, computers usually were used
only for word processing and playing video games,
he said. Now people can e-mail each other halfway
around the world in minutes, he added.
Sherwood said many products, such as the Tablet
PC, will eliminate physical work.
The Tablet PC is the size of a handwriting tablet
and is lighter than a laptop. It works like a regular PC
with applications such as T‘\ ',
College representatives
Representatives from four local universities
will visit the campus to speak with students look-
ing to transfer.
The representatives in Loftin Student Center
will be available to speak with all students.
The representatives in the transfer center on
the first floor of Moody Learning Center will
require an appointment to meet with students.
A representative from Our Lady of the Lake
University will be here from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in
Loftin and from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Tuesday
in the transfer center.
The University of Texas at San Antonio will
have a representative on campus from 9 a.m. to
noon in Loftin and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the transfer center.
A representative from the University of the
Incarnate Word will be available from 9 a.m. to
noon in Loftin and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday in the transfer center.
A representative from Southwest Texas State
University will be on campus from 9 a.m. to noon
in Loftin and from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday in
the transfer center.
A Southwest Texas State University representa-
tive will also be on campus from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday in the trans-
fer center.
For more information or to schedule an
appointment, call the transfer center at 733-2099.
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Disability Support Services computer specialist Bhathiya Aluwihare demonstrates the
Aladdin Genie computer tool Tuesday during the Technology Exposition to Lecturer
Ralph Cherry. The Aladdin Genie magnifies text for the vision-impaired.______________
student participation, he said.
Cowie also said allocating
funds for technology-based edu-
cation is important.
For example, if more laptops
are needed in a classroom and
computer workstations are in
excess, the funds are misappro-
priated.
"Put more money where it
should be used and allow more
money to invest somewhere
else," he said.
Technology exists for adaptation and to
will be expected to know in the job market, apply to cultural diversity, he said.
He said technology has shrunk the
world.
Cowie said the majority of students who ability to not only learn and communicate
use computers use them to search the
Internet, and few use it for a word process-
ing document or spreadsheet assignment.
Learning is lifelong, and new
need to be developed, he added.
"We need to move away from the three
'R's' and get into critical-thinking skills,"
he said.
Instead, Cowie said, using the three
"A's" applies better to technology: access,
analysis and application in addition to
reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Brian Sherwood explains how Microsoft is accommodating the changing world of communication technology.
For example, Sherwood said a consumer interest- gons per second.
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on the phone and the seller could identify the con- fall and did not know the price tag, but he said it will
sumer to prevent any personal misuse of a credit be a marketable product.
carcp He told students interested in a technology career
they will have a wide range of areas to chose from.
He added it takes deep thinking and imagination.
"We are seeing what we saw in science fiction 10
docu- video game. years ago is coming true today," he said.
Features of the X-Box include Ethernet and broad- As extra advice, he told students to make them-
board support, the capability to create custom game selves marketable in the field and seize opportunities
soundtracks with the use of music CDs and the abil- like internships.
ity to download MP3 files. "As a life lesson, be passionate about everything
The X-box is able to deliver 125 million raw poly- you do," he said.
The Internet is growing as a foundation for education as its use
grows exponentially worldwide, a Dell Computer Corp, executive said.
Gary Enzor, Dell's general manager for higher education and busi-
ness, spoke at this college's 75th anniversary Technology Exposition
Wednesday in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center.
Enzor said the U.S. education
market is worth $747 billion, and
Internet use is growing world-
wide.
Enzor's figures predicted the
percentage of growth of the
Internet in Asia and Europe to
outpace the use in the United
States by 2004.
He said the number of users in
Japan reached 19 million in 1999
and predicted they will reach 67 million in 2004.
Europe's users will number 241 million to the United States' 210 mil-
lion by 2004, according to Dell's projections.
He said India will show the most growth, increasing 230 percent
from 1 million in 1999 to 23 million users in 2004.
Enzor stressed the biggest problem with use worldwide is the speed
at which computers can connect to the Internet.
He said personal area networks (PAN), local area networks (LAN)
and wide area networks (WAN) are growing and have different appli-
cations.
Personal area networks, Enzor said, are growing in number because
they are wireless, effectively ending the need for cables for a home or
small office computer network.
Enzor spoke about a new Dell product called Bluetooth, which is a
hub for a PAN.
He said these networks can handle speeds up to 1 million bytes per
second (bps) of information, compared to a WAN, such as a connection
to America Online or MSN, the Microsoft Corp, network, via telephone
wire, which only handles 56,000 bps.
He said LANs used in large offices and universities, such as the
University of the Incarnate Word, are the fastest at 11 million bps and,
when wireless, have ranges from 100 to 400 meters.
Enzor said colleges and universities all over the United States are
using the Internet to teach their students.
"College content will be available everywhere," he said.
Enzor said all of the University of Michigan's business schools are
now wired to the Internet, and Oklahoma State University's wireless
library will be online this summer.
"They will have 30 computers hooked up to one device that will give
access to the Internet," he said.
Enzor also said the United States is shifting to a "connected econo-
my" because the amount of information available to everyone is
increasing.
Meanwhile, he said productivity time and costs to obtain informa-
tion are decreasing, and organizational boundaries for information are
disappearing.
"Life is so much easier for you guys," Enzor said to the audience of
mostly high school students. "It took days to find a picture of something
to add to a term paper or research paper, then copy it or look for a scan-
ner to add.it to your papers when I was going to school in 1980. It takes
you guys only five minutes."
Enzor said the shift of higher education is also turning from a four-
year degree to a 40-year degree.
"If you stop learning, you're going to fall behind," Enzor said.
"Training is now the No. 1 source of having an advantage over your
competitors."
Enzor was asked by a member of the audience if the availability and
increasing usage of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port will outgrow the
wireless PAN.
Enzor said companies here will begin to offer more wireless services.
"USB technology is common and inexpensive, but in Europe, com-
panies are offering wireless services more often," he said.
"Computers are getting cheaper," Enzor said. "A lot of the 'Star Wars'
type of stuff you see will be here, and it will impact your life and
future."
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on teachers.
"It's more work for them, not
less," he said.
Gateway, founded in 1985,
has its roots in the consumer
community, Cowie said.
"Today, we are in the
Information Age," he said. "But
it's not just about processing
and having a quicker speed; it's
also about communication."
More pressure is being placed qow j q
on educational staff, he said,
and students are being taught what they
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