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This way, it will refer that ¡°it is decided to reform the home

page of the Web establishing a more immediate and more

comfortable starting point for the navigation. The links will

lead to different parts of the text and in the page, and to

another pages. The virtual campus will be ordered the way it is

possible so see at first sight the group of the existing elements

as the Secretary, the Library, the Kiosk, the Announcement Board,

the Tutorship Office, the Intercultural Auditorium of the World

Artistic Manifestations and Current Events Conferences, the

Chat Club of the UNESCO Eskola and the Information Center. The

virtual city, itself, will be ordered like the campus using the

space with the current elements, which, for the time being, are:

the UNESCO Leaders Associations Information Center, the UNESCO

Leader¡¯s Professional Exchanges Office, the Development

Agency, the Public Square and the News Mailbox3

In the virtual campus of the Florida, the students of the CDFAUN

can find their tutor that advises them, helps them and guides

them in the study process; also they can find their consultants

that guide them in the Course exercises. In this virtual campus

the students have access to the United Nations Observatory

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electronic magazine as well as other magazines. They can receive

all sort of addresses that enable them to obtain information on

the activities of the Center, libraries, activities or

information on the United Nations system. So the UNESCO Training

Center - Florida Eskola offers the opportunity to study the

CDFAUN to people that don't want or they cannot move. The virtual

campus allows to overcome barriers of time and space and it

facilitates the individualised contact and interactivity among

students, professors and administration personnel. The UNESCO

Leader receives personalised attention at home, they have access

to multiple services, they can work a virtual debate forum and

they can get in contact with the scientific and cultural

community of the world.

Particularly, the United Nations Observatory electronic

magazine is maintaining its first issue news. Its number 63,

dated on February 1999, titled ¡°The electronic magazine.

United Nations Observatory ¡±, reads: ¡°Starting from this

number 63, in the UNITED NATIONS OBSERVATORY magazine there will

be a lot of words printed in boldface letters -in the traditional

printed edition - or in colour -in the Internet edition -. This

is because the documents and articles are formed by a combination

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of texts and graphic images that include ¡®links'. These

¡®links' are shown in the screen as highlight words and

sentences in different colours or framed graphic images. The

¡®links' can be recognised by the pointer of the mouse changes

its form when it is on one of them, acquiring the aspect of a

hand with its extended forefinger.

The ¡®links' or highline word-sentence-images are references

to other documents or resources in Internet. Placing the arrow

of the mouse on the word and clicking on it activates them.

Immediately, you have on your screen a new document, an image,

a sound or a videotape sequence.

Therefore, the ¡®links' are access roads to other resources in

Internet that can be in any part of the world. The UNITED NATIONS

OBSERVATORY offers documents that include links to establish

connections with multimedia objects -pictures, sounds, etc. -.

The users of the magazine don't have to worry about addresses,

protocols or resources types; all that they need to make is a

mouse click on the ¡®link.

SUMMARY

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