THE NEXT WELLSPRING WORKSHOPS - 1) July 7 to 16, "Teaching My First Online Course: What Worked and What Didn't" - Danielle Kaplan, Ph.D. candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University; 2) July 21 to 31, "Creating Graphics for the Web" - Franklin Westbrook, Instructional Systems Inc. For more information call: 800-314-8861 or email: rob@isinj.com.

 

A NEW EASI-SEM ONLINE COURSE BEGINS - Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI), a non-profit organization, will offer an online course beginning July 6. It will focus on the barriers faced by students with disabilities and the accommodations and strategies that will help these students work and study in the technical fields. The material is aimed at service providers, teachers, administrators and parents and provides the latest information on hardware and software solutions to help K-college students get access to science, math and technology. Expanded to four weeks, the 3 CEU course includes three videotapes and the book "Information Access and Adaptive Technology" for $195. The course, offered via email, will incorporate class discussion with colleagues nationwide and one-on-one with the instructor. For a Syllabus and Registration see: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops/semsyl.html or email: nrcgsh@rit.edu.

 

CONNECTIONS 98 - Call for Papers. University of Western Ontario Faculty of Information and Media Studies is hosting the fourth annual Connections conference in London, Ontario, Canada, October 24 and 25. This conference will provide a forum for the exchange of research among doctoral students from all library and information science related fields on reports of research in progress as well as recently completed studies. Accepted presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, including discussion. Accepted Abstracts will be printed in a proceedings and posted on the Connections 98 Web site. Deadline for submission is July 31. For further information contact: connect@julian.uwo.ca.

 

WORLD CONFERENCE OF THE WWW, INTERNET AND INTRANET - Web Net 98 will take place Nov. 7-12, 1998 in Orlando, Florida at the Holiday Inn International Drive Resort. Submission Deadline for participation is July 23. The conference is organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) in cooperation with WWW/Internet businesses and industry. WebNet 98 serves as a multi-disciplinary, international forum for the exchange of information on the development, applications and research of all topics related to the Web and Internet. This encompasses the use, applications, societal and legal aspects of the Internet in its broadest sense. To submit see: http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/finalsubmit or call: 804-973-3987.

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LEARNING SCIENCES - (ICLS-98) is set for December 17-19, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Georgia Tech University and sponsored by the EduTech Institute. The conference focuses on the process of human cognition and computing technologies and the application of this research in three integrated areas: Design, Cognition and Social Context and will feature examples of new applications and pedagogical frameworks. Of particular interest this year are issues pertaining to the learning of knowledge and skills for real-world problem-solving: reasoning skills, communication skills, design skills, explanation skills and debugging skills. See URL at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/conferences/icl s98.