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Subject:animation replaces paper manuals (Edupage) From:Debbie Campbell <dcamp -at- CS -dot- RICE -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 28 Oct 1994 10:46:19 -0600
Hello All,
I got this from "Edupage 10/17/94" (subscription instructions follow). If
you're familiar with Bill Horton's work on visual literacy, it should ring
a bell.
>DO YOU HATE TO READ COMPUTER MANUALS?
>Pacific Animated Imaging has a solution for those who cringe at the thought
>of actually having to read a manual -- they create custom software, accessed
>by touching the screen, that produces animated graphics to explain how the
>machine operates. (Wall Street Journal 10/27/94 A1)
>EDUPAGE is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: send
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>subscribe edupage Ludwig Wittgenstein (assuming that your name is Ludwig
>Wittgenstein; if it isn't, substitute your own name) ...
>Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided
>three times each week as a service by Educom -- a consortium of leading
>colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of
>information technology.
