Jean B.Gasen More Needles in the Haystack One of the great challenges - and joys - of teaching takes place outside the classroom. Whether on Saturday or Sunday, in the heat of August or chill of early January, class preparation plays a major role in developing the best possible learning environment for students. Access to current resources is paramount. For H C I educators, the World Wide Web is becoming an essential link to such information. motion on both what to teach and how to teach it. Clayton Lewis and John Rieman's (1993) HCI book, "Task Centered User Interface Design" also provided ftp access to an online resource for HCI educators (available via the Web at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ - perlman/uidesign.html). Other teaching resources, including bibliographies and course syllabi descriptions have been made available through reports such as the ACM SIGCHI Curriculum Report (Hewett et al., 1992, available electronically at ftp:// archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub.hic/ CDG) and the NSF Report New Directions in HCI Education, Research and Practice (Strong et at., 1994, available electronically at http:// www.sei.cmu.edu/arpa/hci). Most recently, Saul Greenberg has provided an outstanding resource for HCI educators - a complete Web site description of CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction. What makes this site particularly helpful to HCI educators is the inclusion of teaching preparation and resource materials. For example, the site includes descriptions of each topic with associated readings, relevant videos, teacher preparation resources, details on assignments, handouts, overheads etc. The article that follows provides an overview of the course and the rationale for its development. The H C I community must continue to take mmauve m building an accessible and organized web of electronic resources for research and education. Web sites developed and maintained by individuals such as Keith Instone's H C I Launching Pad (http:// www.cs.bgsu.edu/HCI), Gary Perlman's HCI Resources Page (http:// www.cis.ohio-s tate.edu/-perlman/ resources.html), Hans de Graaff's HCI Index (http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/hci/) and Mikael Ericsson's HCI Resource Page (http ://www.ida.liu.se/labs/ aslab/ groups/um/hci/), go a long way in proSIGCHI Bulletin viding these much needed resources. Additionally, projects such as those being organized by the British HCI Education group to develop a Web site of HCI teaching resources (see "Should we be sharing educational materials?" in the HCI '95 Conference Panel Report on page 30 of this issue for more information), are helping to build a critical information base for H C I educators. In developing the description of CPSC 481: Foundations and Principles of Human Computer Interaction for the Web, Saul Greenberg has provided a model for sharing H C I teaching resources. I applaud this and similar efforts to create Web sites that are useful for all HCI professionals. So, although the haystack is growing ever higher, the number and quality of needles continues to make the searching worthwhile! © As a frequent searcher for HCI resources, I am amazed at the amount of information already available on the Web. What was once a small set offtp locations in 1993 has blossomed into scores of Web sites in 1996. While the number of sites is increasing, HCI educators still must find ways of applying and integrating these resources into an organized framework (Gasen, 1995). Additionally, ancillary teaching resources are still somewhat lacking both on the Web and in print. These materials represent the "hows" of teaching for an H C I educator., e.g. relevant videos and software, suggestions for projects and exercises, additional reading material, overhead transparencies, material and criteria for evaluating student progress, etc. Case studies, or concrete illustrations, of how others integrate the wide variety of materials into HCI courses can be excellent resources. One of the earliest electronic examples was Gary Perlman's SEI Module on User Interface Development (ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/ hci/SEI, 1989) which included infor4 April 1996

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