GEN Update April 30, 2000

[Sylvia Currie <currie@idmail.com>]

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Register Now For Our May Seminar

1 May 2000 - 31 May 2000
Facilitated by :  Curtis Bonk

How can we use the web to best support educators in generating and 
sharing knowledge related to teaching and learning? As promised, we 
are taking our April seminar, Course Design Exchange, to a new level 
with Part II of our Faculty Sharing and Collaboration series: 
Experiences on the Web. We will explore models and best practices for 
faculty collaboration and sharing of resources.

Curtis is joined by three instructional designers and educators from 
Instructional Systems Technology department at Indiana University: 
Jamie Kirkley, Noriko Hara, and Vanessa Dennen. They will share their 
online design and teaching experiences and expertise, and will help 
us to develop a framework for faculty sharing and collaboration.

We welcome and encourage participation from all educators, trainers, 
instructional designers, students, administrators and researchers.

To register for and access this seminar go to:
http://www.vu.vlei.com/vu/tlnce/PublicReg

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What a Fabulous Three Weeks!

We are beginning to wrap up our April seminar: Course Design 
Exchange, facilitated by Jennifer Lieberman and Stanley Shapiro. It 
has been an extremely productive month! The good news is that the 
conference will remain open for you to revisit and reflect. Also, 
feel free to continue to post your course designs and provide 
feedback to GEN members throughout the month of May while we 
participate in Part 2 of the Faculty Sharing and Collaboration 
series: Experiences on the Web.

A summary of the April seminar has been posted at:
http://www.vu.vlei.com/vu/tlnce/cgi-bin/VG/VF_dspmsg.cgi?ci=40&mi=244

All past GEN seminars are archived at:
http://www.vu.vlei.com/tlnce

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Special Welcome to our Students from Australia!

As part of an assignment on "learning networks" for an university 
education course, students from Australia specializing in computer 
education will be participating in our May seminar. They also 
conducted an "e-mail interview" to learn more about GEN. This is a 
great example of an authentic and innovative online learning 
experience!

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Let's Hear From You

In addition to hosting monthly seminars, the Global Educators' 
Network is committed to helping educators form online communities 
based on common interests and goals. We encourage you to introduce 
yourself in the "Self Introductions" conference 
http://www.vu.vlei.com/vu/tlnce/cgi-bin/VG/VF_dspcnf.cgi?ci=30  and 
to contact us (currie@idmail.com) with your ideas for seminar topics 
and special interest groups.

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GEN update is prepared by:

Sylvia Currie, Coordinator
Global Educators' Network
currie@idmail.com
http://www.vu.vlei.com/GEN

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