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* Wednesday, February 3rd, from 3:00 to 3:45 EDT, Dr. Lorraine Sherry, University of Colorado at Denver and will host a chat on "Technology and At-Risk Students." Dr. Sherry has worked with the Boulder Valley Internet Project, The WEB Project and the Annenberg/CPB Math & Science Project. She will address issues with students in high poverty rural and urban areas. For more background see: http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/jan_1999 To access the chat, go to The Wellspring at: http://wellspring.isinj.com and click on the Seminar Sessions button.

Another February event will take place on - Wednesday, the 24th, 3:00 to 3:45 EDT, when Rory McGreal, Executive Director of the TeleEducation New Brunswick Virtual Campus will discuss "9,000 Online Courses: What Does it Mean?" Web site: http://database.telecampus.com

* MultiMediaCom, the 1999 Conference on Multimedia Communications and Collaboration will be held in San Jose, California at the San Jose Convention Center, March 8-11. Keynote speaker will be Mark Cuban, President and Chairman of the Board broadcast.com. Three tracks have been designated: Distance Education, Tele-Health and Corporate/Government.

* April 9-10, 1999 are the dates for The Distance Learning Workshop for Your Creative Teleteaching. The Conference will be at the Sheraton Uptown Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will focus on Essential Skills for quality World Wide Web and Interactive Television Programs and Courses. For more information visit: http://www.nmsu.edu/~ced/wkshp.htm

* Corporate University Xchange will sponsor the first very 1999 Corporate University Excellence Awards Dinner on April 27, at the National Press Club. Five top corporate universities will be honored for demonstrating innovative practices in anytime, anywhere learning. John Authers, education correspondent for the Financial Times, will give the keynote speech and present the awards. Winners will be recognized in the Financial Times. The event will be part of the Corporate University Xchange's upcoming symposium and expo, "Designing a Virtual Corporate University"at the Washington Hilton and Towers in Washington, DC, April 26-28, 1999. Register by March 12 for Early Bird Savings! For a brochure, visit: http://www.corpu.com or call (800) 946-1210.

* NUTN `99 - The Digital Millennium: Collaboration, Integration, Education, scheduled for June 27-29, 1999 in Seattle, Washington, is issuing A CALL FOR PAPERS. A special category for papers is Action Research that Assesses the Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning. For more information visit: http://www.odu.edu/~nutn

* WEBNET 99 - The World Conference of the WWW and Internet is scheduled for Oct. 25-30, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort. The conference is issuing a CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, with a submission deadline of Feb. 25, 1999. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawaii and organized by AACE-Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education in cooperation WWW/Internet businesses and industry. For further information see: http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet

 




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