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ICS/UW-EXTENSION - ICS recently worked with UW-Colleges personnel in a fun and instructive two-day April workshop. The first morning began with a technical session for the Colleges support personnel. A number of these personnel remained for the afternoon session and for the following day as faculty/staff met to focus on learning about the videoconferencing environment, hearing from other videoconferencing instructors, looking at videoconferencing media tools and adapting courses for the technology. During the last part of the workshop, teams of faculty/staff/technical support personnel worked together to develop and present some excellent short instructional sequences. ICS and the Colleges are now working together to plan follow-up sessions to meet more specific needs.

UW-COLLEGES - The University of Wisconsin - Marathon County, along with the 12 other University of Wisconsin Colleges, will be installing compressed video equipment for distance education this spring and summer. At UWMC, compressed video will be used this fall to broadcast courses in anthropology and accounting to other two-year and four-year campuses. In the summer, the system will be used to offer business classes as part of a collaborative degree program offered jointly by UW-Stevens Point, UW-Marathon County and UW-Marshfield/Wood County. Beyond these initial course offerings, UW-Marathon County is also looking at using its distance education resources in partnerships with other educational institutions. To coordinate distance education at UWMC and provide training & support to faculty and staff, Bob O'Donnell was recently hired as an instructional technology specialist.
(Bob O'Donnell Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Wisconsin - Marathon County)

UW-STOUT - UW-Stout is one of 50 colleges nationwide that has participated in a pilot distance learning course that teaches internet literacy to students by using the internet as part of its delivery. UW-Stout will now offer the course during the summer session of 1998 from June 15-August 6. The course includes: an introduction to the Internet and its impact around the world; the logistics of getting connected; how to communicate online by using Email, listservs and newsgroups; how to use search engines and conduct research online and how to create a Web page and establish an Internet presence. It shows students how to use multimedia on the Internet, as well as how to use the internet to keep abreast of online developments and new products.

The course carries three undergraduate or graduate credits. Students access course material through the Web site and communicate with the instructor and each other via Email. A CD-ROM contains Multimedia tutorial videos that can be used in conjunction with the Web site or alone. For enrollment information call: UW-Stout at 715-232-2639 or see: http://www.pbs.org/learn/als/netliteracy/netliteracy.htm.
(TeleLink, May 1998, Vol. 11, # 9, p. 1)