GEN Update October 9, 2000

[Sylvia Currie <currie@idmail.com>]

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Register Now: Our Next GEN Seminar Begins Today!

Our "Teaching to Learn" seminar responds to feedback from GEN members 
for more practical topics geared to novice online instructors. The 
seminar faciliators, Deborah Kerr, Walter Greyvenstein, Frances Long, 
and Claudio Orea will share what they have learned through their 
first-time experiences "teaching to learn" online.

We're also delighted to be able to respond to requests for more 
participation on an international level. Walter joins us from South 
Africa, and Claudio from Mexico. In fact, Claudio has already been 
busy translating the seminar welcome message for the benefit of our 
Spanish speaking members.

Whether you're new to online teaching and learning, or experienced in 
the field, please join us to share your personal challenges and 
practical advice!

Register at:
http://www.vu.vlei.com/vu/tlnce/PublicReg

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Wrapping Up Our ThoughtShare Seminar

Our imaginations took us to new levels during our ThoughtShare 
seminar! We were introduced to the ideas behind this new visual 
thinking technology and explored the possibilities for enhancing our 
online experiences. Plus we learned a whole new vocabulary. We look 
forward to the future when GEN members will be sharing buzpaks!

There is a window of opportunity to download the first release of 
PlanBee. Visit the ThoughtShare web site for details: 
http://www.thoughtshare.com

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

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Mark Your Calendars!

November 13th is the launch of our "Supporting Students Online" 
seminar, led by Rick Nigol, Steve Scadding, and Linda Gibson of 
University of Guelph. Mark your calendars and plan to join us to 
discuss this important topic.

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Special welcome to our "Design Teams"!

Two groups of students enrolled in Dr. Ellen Balka's "Communication 
and Social Issues in Design" at Simon Fraser University have selected 
the Global Educators' Network as their design project for the Fall 
semester. Larry Jung, Michelle Daly, Jonathan Gallina, Shawna 
Reibling, Michelle Petrusevich, and Eric Chow have been busy behind 
the scenes looking further into members' participation in the Global 
Educators' Network and proposing solutions to help make our community 
a better place.

The Design Teams may be calling on you for support and feedback, 
either through e-mail or in the GEN Research Special Interest Group: 
http://www.vu.vlei.com/vu/tlnce/cgi-bin/VG/VF_dspcnf.cgi?ci=51

Welcome and thank you very much for your contribution to the Global 
Educators' Network!

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Thanks For the Feedback!

We received thoughtful responses and excellent suggestions from the 
50 respondents to our GEN Member Questionnaire and we are already 
taking many steps to improve GEN format, content, and interface, 
based on this feedback. Most importantly, we are pleased that so many 
members reported that they are benefiting from the Global Educators' 
Network!

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Tip for GEN members

As more and more GEN seminars are scheduled, the VGroups conference 
list continues to grow. You can make the list more manageable by 
following these steps:

[1] Open conference list at 
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[2] Unjoin past conferences by selecting "Unjoin Conference" from the 
top middle drop-down menu. Click "Do" then indicate which conferences 
on the list you would like to remove. Click the "Unjoin" button.

[3] Display only joined conferences by selecting "All Joined 
Conferences" from the top left drop-down menu.

Now your conference list will only display your active conferences. 
You can easily make them appear again by joining conferences again, 
and by choosing different display options from the conference list 
pull-down menu.

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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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