While the technologies are in place for students and faculty to select and download Topic Packs for all four Online IST courses, the policy issues surrounding its use are still being finalized. The terms and conditions for download are being completed by the legal team representing PSU and the intellectual property office. We hope to have all of the terms and conditions finished and the Print Library fully available very soon. Look for an announcement from us in the coming days and thank you for your patience.

The region that shows the most interest will be where we will hold the focus group sessions. We are anxious to get your thoughts and feedback so we can begin to move to a more streamlined set of materials that more closely meet the needs of our primary stakeholders. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Soloway is affiliated with the University of Michigan Digital Library and the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education. His research interests are the use of technology in education and developing software that takes into consideration the unique needs of learners. Soloway is a principal investigator of the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools grant, which has been created with four partners: Detroit Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. The focus of the center's activities is the creation of strategies for embedding and sustaining the use of computing and communications technologies in the science curriculum at the middle school level. The center has a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

November has been a classroom teacher, director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and college lecturer. Among his list of accomplishments, November is co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology, Classroom Computer Learning Magazine named him one of the nation's 15 most influential thinkers of the decade in K-12 technology, and he is most proud of being named one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.

We are currently accepting proposals for presentations at this year's conference. If you are interested, check out the Call for Proposals at http://pafaculty.org/proposals.html. Questions regarding the conference or proposals can be directed to the Program Director, Malena K. Moore, Ph.D., mmoore@ist.psu.edu.

Online IST Courses - Online IST 110, 210, 220, and 250 are all available online, in addition to Online IST SAN, which deals with Storage Area Networks and Fibre Channel Technologies. All 5 courses can be accessed via the Solutions Exchange

Course Content Interface - The Course Content Interface for all courses has been updated. Changes include:

• Module 0 is now part of the "Topics" tab
• In the "Resources" tab, each course has Online IST General Resources and course specific resources
• Navigation directions are now provided in the lower left corner of the interface regardless of where the user is in the course
• The lower left portion of the interface now contains links to Communication Space (ANGEL) and to a Quick Help guide
• Links to the Problems have been removed from the interface; Problems can now be accessed through the Online IST Problems Library

Online IST Labs and Problems Library - All Online IST Labs now reside in the Online IST Labs Library and all Online IST Problems now reside in the Online IST Problems Library. Each library is sorted by course.

SBL Live - Solutions-Based Learning(SBL) Live provides students and faculty the ability to view presentations by industry experts that have been captured digitally by the Solutions Institute. In addition to viewing the presentations, several discussion activities have been developed that correlate to Online IST courses based on specific presentations.

NetDB2 Accounts - If you are teaching a section of Online IST 210 this semester, you can utilize a web interface to IBM's DB2 to enhance your student's learning experience. To obtain NetDB2 accounts, please contact Bart Pursel.

Registering Your Section - Each semester, we ask that all instructors utilizing Online IST courses and course components to register your section. You can register your section by going to Edison's Toolbox. By registering your section, you will have access to the most up-to-date materials for the current semester. As we continue to make updates to Online IST, it is imperative that instructors register their section each semester to have access to the materials that have links to the current content interface and other essential resources.