In this series, we've looked at a variety of Effective Practices. The series began with Odd Haddal's UW-Platteville article on the effective use of the Southwest Rural Telecommunications network. Odd also wrote about Platteville's successful Extended Degree Program now on the Internet and about a ten-week Engineering refresher course being taught via compressed video. This was followed by Dave Wolover 's article on the UW-Colleges 14-site videoconferencing system planning and development. This month focuses on a model for training K-12 teachers in technology integration, the Wisconsin Technology Leadership Academy and Technology Institutes for Educators, by Debbi King, UW-Eau Claire. We'll end the Effective Practices series next month with an article on holding effective electronic meetings. In June, we'll begin a new series on the critical, and vastly underestimated importance of distance education support: technical support, faculty support, special resources support and special needs support. (Rosemary Lehman)

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