UW-MADISON - UW-Madison faculty have an opportunity each fall to submit proposals for Web Grants, a 3-year old program run by the Department of Information Technology (DoIT)'s Learning Technology and Distance Education group. Winners participate in Web skills training that includes HTML basic and advanced, FrontPage basic, Macromedia and forms. The winners can also participate in a WebCT pilot. WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of web-based educational environments (see January issue of DESIEN.) It provides course server space and a wide variety of tools and features that can be added to a course. For more information about the Web Grant program check: http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/grants/webgrnts.htm

Internet2 - UW Madison now has a connection to Internet2 and the national backbone network. To increase awareness of "the next generation Internet and encourage its use," the Chancellor's Office and DoIT will host Internet2 Day on Tuesday, March 30 at 1610 Engineering. The program is limited to interested faculty and research staff. Several UW-Madison faculty have been invited to discuss how they plan to use the new Internet2. Work on Internet2 began in October 1996 with 34 universities participating. Now, more than 135 universities belong to the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID). For more information see: http://www.internet2.edu

Position Opening - The University of Wisconsin-Madison is announcing a full-time academic staff position for a Director of the Office of Education Outreach, with a start date of July 15, 1999. Characteristics of the position, the qualifications and application procedures are detailed at: http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/outreach/ Deadline for receiving applications is April 1, 1999.