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>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?
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How about an interactive multimedia CD-ROM?

Judy

At 05:14 PM 2/13/03 -0500, you wrote:
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> >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