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Acknowledgements
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The author of this evolving Web Compendium owes a tremendous debt to a variety of persons (and, in many cases, associated organizations) who helped and prodded this effort along. I hope it will not be considered premature or presumptuous that these kudos are awarded at this early stage. I simply did not want to let more years pass, before those friends are acknowledged who helped my start and/or kept me on track since early 1994:

  • Charles Hendricksen, without whom my fascination for educational communications technology would probably never have come about. Charlie functioned first as an incredibly patient teacher, then increasingly as 'co-conspirator'. Both he and his boundlessly Web enthusiastic and proficient wife made many early-morning or home-bound bus trips on the #276 the source of new ideas and inspiration. Thanks Charlie and Laura!

  • Bernice (Bunny) Laden and the remainder of the always accessible UWired team (among others) Mo Falkner, Brennon Martin, Gabriel Chrisman and Mark Donnovan) for technical help, moral support und the use of first-class computer classroom facilities in the Undergraduate Library. At a time when there was little interest in educational Internet uses among our immediate colleagues and departments, UWired found us scattered all over campus, assured us that we were not nerds, provided the setting for exchanging technological know-how and pedagogic ideas and, as importantly, demonstrated that there was institutional and financial backing after all.

  • Anne Zald (first among many other incredible librarians) for her tireless involvement in my Web experiments at the grass-roots in my classes - providing indispensable help with introducing our appreciative students to the wonders of the highly diverse resources on the Internet.

  • Tim Nyerges (another rider on the "276") who was the spiritus rector behind our NSF proposal and implementation of our Collaboratory. His sense for finding practical solutions, his ability to find the right and $-persuasive "words" for funding proposals and his enthusiasm for educational collaboration, all helped tremendously and in different ways to connect the new technology to my own teaching style and models.

  • Rick Ells (and others at Computing and Communications) whose computer classes and friendly hints filled in many of the gaps in my wanting technology background.

  • The University "Friends of Access Fund" [Office of Undergraduate Education] which financed a work-study assistant and some special educational Web work during the 1997-98 academic year.

  • The College of A&S granting a sabbatical leave for 1998.

  • My selfless volunteer learning assistants who made it possible to turn the computer lab sessions with 60 students into an almost one-on-one experience or who volunteered for one of my other projects, incl. Service Learning, the Drop-in Clinics in the Geography Collaboratory or the fledgling 'Adopt-a-Prof' program. These students' feedback has helped immensely in making my Web system more user-friendly and me hopefully a better learning facilitator. The most important lesson I learned from these comrades-in-arms was that of the importance of the concept of "selective hiding" and a staggered release of Web content to students who, at times, seemed overwhelmed by too much information. May I be forgiven for any omission of a helpful soul:

    • Manik Ahuja,
    • Wayne Brewer,
    • Bruce Carr,
    • Ryan Countryman,
    • Fred Dent,
    • Roland Holland,
    • Brent Kroon,
    • Bill Laine,
    • Shaun McMullin,
    • Nick Slepko,
    • Nisha Thirumurthy,
    • David Shim, and
    • Duc M. Vo,

  • The countless students in my classes and labs whose anxieties, tolerance for frustrations and outright enthusiasm for a Web-based, active and participatory learning environment appear to have dramatically improved motivation and learning outcomes.

  • My son Lars who taught me how to walk (through a computer store and many a cyber region without embarrassing myself). I would not be surprised if a survey would reveal the importance of the off-spring behind most Web faculty above the age of 45.

  • Undoubtedly, the heaviest burden is still carried by my wife Ursel who from the beginning and without interruptions and complaints has had to put up with my hypertextual gobbledygook, the incredible time commitment on top of my normal 70+ hour work week, the financial subsidization of the project from the family budget, and the continuous demand of moral support.

The fact that I have to take exclusive responsibility for all inappropriate and incomprehensible content, broken links, less than perfect HTML code, too hasty proof-reading and all other shortcomings shall not diminish the enormous contribution made by this team.

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