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In April 1997 we present the following new materials:

During March Dr Charles Glassick, Interim President of The Carnegie Foundation, visited Australia to present a series of workshops and lectures. During his visit to RMIT, Dr Glassick talked with ultiBASE:

...you know what really is significant to me here? To come to Australia and find out just how dedicated you are about teaching and how far ahead of our country you are on that... This has been a real revelation to me. You work very hard. You're not doing it perfectly, and you wouldn't say you were, but you are really working harder at teaching and at a reward for teaching than we have.

Our suite of information inspired by Glassick's visit also comprises an extensive review by Michael Jackson of Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate by Ernest L. Boyer. This 'intelligent and humane' reflection was published in 1990 by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of University Teaching.

Finally, a bibliography by or about Dr Lee Shulman, incoming President of The Carnegie Foundation, is presented.

Our Resources section has been significantly restructured to accommodate substantial growth. New areas include:

• New Titles: includes lists of books, journals and software.
• Faculty Forum: a facility for sharing information from universities worldwide. It is designed to publicise proceedings from intra-university forums and seminars.
• Online University Teaching and Learning: a series of World Wide Web based resources.

Other specific additions to Resources are two new book reviews:

• Asleep at the wheel: Australia on the Superhighway. John Nieuwenhuizen's recent and topical book is reviewed by Michael Pryor.
• Teaching for learning at university: Theory and practice by Denise Chalmers and Richard Fuller is reviewed by Petrina Quinn.

Choice Clicks this month has been augmented by a new selection of sites recommended by Craig Ashdown, Editor of Education Review, an Australian monthly newspaper for teachers. Each of his choices is hotlinked for easy browsing.

This month we feature a special event listed on our Events page.

Putting you in the picture: A workshop to help you to work with images

The one and a half day workshop will be held at the University of Newcastle on Tuesday July 15 and Wednesday July 16 and is being hosted by UniServe Health. Keynote speakers from a wide range of disciplines are being invited to give lecture demonstrations. The purpose is to present practical demonstrations of innovative ways of finding, handling and manipulating images to stimulate teachers to enhance their teaching materials. A fee of $75 will be charged to help cover some of the costs of the workshop. This will include the production of a paper-based proceedings which will be posted out to all participants. Limited assistance towards travel expenses is being offered. The Workshop WWW page supplies all details.

Tell us about your planned Events - we will be happy to list them on your behalf.

After a period languishing unlinked from our ultiBASE home page we are delighted to announce the complete revivification of our Exchange discussion page. Directions for using this service are available with Exchange. Its main virtue is that all discussion takes place on ultiBASE so you can view it when you choose. Of course some discussion must actually occur for the page to be worth viewing! This is another avenue for you to contact colleagues and raise issues related to teaching and learning.

The best news is last! ultiBASE now has its own Search Engine. This allows fast seaching of our Resources, Articles, Workshop and Choice Clicks pages either separately or together. Search results are presented with hotlinks to the (mostly full-text) material retrieved. Refinements to our seaching capacity will continue during subsequent months.