--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:55:56 -0500 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7038 software or program? >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ How about an interactive multimedia CD-ROM? Judy At 05:14 PM 2/13/03 -0500, you wrote: >--- Forwarded Message from Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:02:41 -0500 > >To: [log in to unmask] > >From: Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: software or program? > >Greetings, colleagues, > >Here's a little conundrum for this slow time: > >A colleague is currently developing a "THING" that will help students >learn idioms. It works on a computer. It is interactive and is >multi-media based. It will be stored on a CD-ROM. What shall the >colleague call this thing? Is it software or is it a program? >Dictionaries seem to make no distinction. > >(Later on, when this colleague is up for tenure, what kind of >publication would this be called?) > >Thanks in advance for what I hope will be an interesting discussion. >-- >Ursula Williams > >Director, Language Resource Center >http://www.nd.edu/~lrc >201 O'Shaughnessy Hall >University of Notre Dame >Notre Dame, In 46556 >574.631.5881