Abstract The programme of the DoC-WILs is an init iat ive of the Department of Communicat ions in collaborat ion with Telkom, established through the Human Resources Fund to enable human resources development at historically disadvantaged learning institut ions. The Telecommunicat ions Act No 103 of 1996 establishes a Human Resources Fund to promote the provision of adequately skilled human resources at all levels of the telecommunicat ions sector in numbers suf f icient for the telecommunicat ions needs of the count ry. The DoC-WILs emphasise skills development through the use of ICTs in areas such as network management , creat ing Web sites, use of E-mail and the World Wide Web, mult imedia applicat ions and Int ranet development . It is however not known under what contextual circumstances this kind of ICT-usage will lead to interact ive learning benef its and how the DoC-WILs should go about achieving them. This art icle therefore at tempts to shed some light on the condit ions under which ICT usage could impact on educat ional outcomes desired by the DoCWILs and on how these DoC-WILs could best go about taking appropriate act ions to improve the possibility of achieving desired interact ive learning benef its. It is argue that the ability of the DoC-WILs to successfully achieve desired benef its is crucially dependent on contextual conditions, policies or processes that apply to the DoC-WILs or their users. This is in line with the social shaping of technology approach that local circumstances surrounding the deployment of ICTs in different sectors of society are more important in shaping the consequence of ICTs than technological variable.

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Cette recherche se limite aux régions du Darfour et du Kordofan te tente de faire un état de la question à partir des quelques rapports de fouilles publiés et de l'analyse des objets conservés dans les réserves des musées soudanais. Cette partie du Soudan manque de recherches et de travaux archéologiques, une grande partie vide dans l'histoire couverte par plusieurs siècles. L'étude des sites et des objets a été réalisée sur plusieurs plans : étude chronologique, analyse des productions et de leur évolution technique, distribution du matériel, identification des occupations humaines. Le cadre chronologique pris en compte dans notre étude s'étend du paléolithique jusqu'aux périodes islamiques, et porte sur les sites archéologiques et le matériel. Selon cette étude, les deux régions montrent des cultures très riches et de développement différent et parallèle à celui de la vallée du Nil dans presque toutes les périodes historiques. L'objectif de cette recherche est donc de faire le point sur, et de compléter nos connaissances sur l'antiquité et l'histoire ancienne du Darfour et du Nord Kordofan, qui pourront être utiles pour des travaux futurs / This search is limited to areas of Darfur and Kordofan and tries to make a state of affairs from the few published reports of excavations and analysis of objects preserved in the museum storage Sudan. This part of Sudan is lack of research and archaeological work, a largely empty in the history covered by several centuries. The study of these sites and objects has been done in several ways : chronological study, analysis of production and their technical evolution, distribution of materials, identification of human occupations. The limit time considered in this study extends from the Paleotlthic to the Islamic period, and focuses on the archaeological sites and materials, according to this, the two regions show rich cultures and different development which parallel to the Nile Valley in almost all historical periods. The objective of this research is to shed a light to the antiquity and ancient history of Darfur and North Kordofan, which will be useful for future work

Yip Tak Kei Oskar. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / 2 pages printed on 1 side of leaf only. / Buddha & Bodhi Tree --- p.3-26 / "Previous Studio Work_Master 2nd Semester, 2007 Jan-Apr" / Appreciating Nature from Structure to Space --- p.27-64 / "Submitted Design Project_Master 3rd & 4th Semester, 2007-08 Sep-Apr" / Collective Images --- p.65-78 / "Informal Record_Submitted Design Project_Master 3rd & 4th Semester, 2007-08 Sep-Apr"

To date, hypertext and hypermedia research has principally studied the influence of separate features of hypermedia texts on information retrieval. By contrast, this thesis explores the meanings of hypermedia texts and the effects of these meanings on free website exploration. In particular, the study focuses on those meanings which can reveal how information is organised in websites and on the construal of such meanings through the interplay of hyperlinks, visual, verbal, audio and kinetic resources in generically hybrid hypermedia texts. This focus is motivated by research showing that understanding how information is organised in hypermedia texts is crucial for users' successful orientation within them. To achieve its aim, this research studies six websites for children and the navigation paths of fourteen children through one of them, and draws on interviews with the websites' producers and the children. The thesis connects the professional field of hypermedia design with systemic functional theory and systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF MDA). As a result, it offers two tools for hypermedia discourse analysis, which are based on and illustrated through the analyses of five of the websites. The first is the system of HYPERTEXTUAL DISTANCE. Designed to analyse the potential of hyperlinks to reveal, obscure or transcend the textual organisation of a website, this system is built by reconceptualising from a SF MDA perspective a central principle for organising information in websites - website hierarchy. The second tool is the framework for analysing logicosemantic relations in hypermedia. Its categories describe the ideational relations that hold together information presented on the same webpage or on different webpages, which may or may not be hyperlinked with each other. Through the analyses of the sixth website and the navigation paths through it, the thesis exemplifies how both tools, independently and together, can be employed to explore the interdependence of website design and navigation. The discussion of selected results from these analyses, supported by the views of the research participants, identifies ways in which the tools proposed in this thesis can be applied in hypermedia design, evaluation and literacy education and complemented with other tools for hypermedia discourse analysis.

This thesis investigates the visual aesthetic performance of Web sites. An experiment was conducted in which a Web site, designed with three controlled levels of 'visual enrichment', was evaluated on a number of measures by two subject groups. The measures used represent facets of the Categorical-Motivation model of aesthetics, plus others directly related to the performance of Web sites. The results of the experiment indicate that the drivers of site evaluation were primarily exploratory variables that represent 'novelty', 'interest' and 'fun'. This supports the argument that an important question to consider when designing a Web site is not merely 'can the site's audience use the Web site?', but also 'does the site's audience want to use the Web site?' Visual, audio and interactive appeal are, as the findings show, very important design considerations. This research adds to a body of knowledge that seeks to understand aesthetic phenomena and develops a theoretical framework that will prove useful for the investigation of visual interfaces.