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The main categories for navigating this web site are listed
at the top of each page; they are: About WISR, Catalogue/Enrollment,
Newsletter, Bulletin Board, Academic Guidance, Publications, How
to Help WISR, Learning Resources, and this one, Navigation. A detailed
content outline of what is covered on each of these sections can
be found by consulting the Site Map.
Here, we discuss some of the highlights. The web pages under, About
WISR, are likely to be of special interest and use to prospective
students and others who are trying to learn about WISR (except that
the web page on "Official Documents" has detailed information which
is likely to be useful only to those who are actively involved at
WISR). The web pages under Catalogue/Enrollment,
provide official programmatic information and admissions and tuition/financial
information of special interest to current students and those seriously
considering enrollment. The Newsletter
section provides monthly announcements of upcoming seminars and
activities at WISR as well as periodic updates of news about members
of the WISR community, including alumni. The Bulletin
Board is still in development, but eventually it should become
of great ongoing interest to active members of the WISR community,
and of interest to others who share some of our concerns about educational
innovation, community improvement, social change, multiculturality
and action-inquiry. The web pages under Academic
Guidance provide current WISR students with specific suggestions
for learning at WISR, although of course, many of the suggestions
will be potentially helpful to others. The web pages under Publications
may be of interest to many, since they provide direct access to
articles written by WISR faculty, students and former students on
a variety of topics, as well as information about books written
by members of the WISR community. Members of the WISR community
and others wishing to support WISR can find suggestions at How
to Help WISR, so we can continue our efforts to provide high
quality education for people involved in community improvement and
social change. The web pages under Learning
Resources will continue to be expanded, and they may be of considerable
assistance to members of the WISR community and others, by identifying
potentially noteworthy web sites, community and national organizations,
upcoming events, and readings.
Supplemental categories for navigating this web site are the
thematic areas of individualized
education, multiculturality,
social change, community
improvement, educational innovation,
marriage and family therapy,
and action-research.
Each of these web pages may be visited for suggestions on how
to link to certain parts of this web site that are related to these
themes, which are important to WISR's mission, purposes and ongoing
learning activities. Currently, these thematic navigation links
are still in the early stages of development. They will be added
to over time, for people who have special interests in one of our
themes, such as "multiculturality," for example.
We have made conscious efforts to design this web site to
be accessible to a variety of users. Nevertheless, we expect
that there are further improvements that will make our web site
more accessible, and make navigating it more pleasant and comfortable
for users with different needs, different Internet browsers, and
different levels of technical experience. We welcome suggestions
on how we can improve our web site. Suggestions should be sent
to webmaster@wisr.edu and
we will seriously consider these suggestions as we continue to make
improvements in this web site.
For those who wish to download a more up to date Internet browser,
one may use the following links to get the latest version of
Mozilla Firefox (an alternative to Internet Explorer), Internet
Explorer 6 or 5, or even try some other
browser. There are of course, other browsers that are designed
for users with special needs, and we don't presume to know enough
to evaluate and recommend specific browsers. However, through TechSoup,
The Technology Place for Nonprofits, we have become aware of
the free browser, Simply
Web 2000, which is an speech friendly, speech enabled accessible
web browser with advance features that allow easy navigation of
complex pages by visually impaired users.
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