Sunday, October 10, participate in the Third Global Learn Day, a 24 hour nonstop webcast that begins in the South Pacific and ends in Hawaii, after stops in 40 countries where about one hundred speakers will participate. GLD organizers would like to compile 3-5 minute stories to "spice" each hour. Stories can be telephone recorded with their 24/7/365 voice-alert system, or you can be telephoned in real time on the day of the event. Simultaneously, they will "push" web pages appropriate to the geography and the topic. For more information see the event map at: http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld3/eventmap.html

Register now for GWETC '99 - The 1999 Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference - 1999, scheduled for October 12-14, at the Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Over 230 presentations, 23 workshops and labs, poster sessions, more than 200 exhibit booths, electronic classrooms, Internet cafes, six technology tours and more - plus - three national Keynote Speakers: Alan Chute, Director of the Center for Excellence in Distance Learning, Lucent Technologies; Rick Inatome, Chairman of Inacom Corporation and Janice Gordon, Team Leader of the Laptop Programme. For complete information on the conference visit the Web site at: http://www.gwetc.org. To receive a printed brochure call: 608-264-9689. Include your postal address.

The Euro-Med Conference on Technology in Learning Environments: The Learning Citizen, a Conference of The Open University of Israel, in cooperation with the European Commission is scheduled for October 25-27, 1999 in Israel. Euro-Med will focus on dialogue and interaction on active projects in the field of integrating technology in learning and will promote collaboration between countries towards advancing this important area in the 21st millennium. Take part in this enlightening event and enjoy a taste of the historic Holy Land towards the year 2000. Visit the website and continue to follow updates: http://www.openu.ac.il/Tele99.

The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications will hold its 11th annual meeting in Portland, OR, November 3-6. Organized around the theme "Distance Learning in Higher Education: New Policies, Partnerships and Practices", the meeting will feature more than 100 speakers representing the best practitioners and thinkers in the field. In addition, there will be twenty-eight panel discussions, 4 workshops and approximately 30 showcase sessions-focusing on the three tracks in the theme. For more information and to register see: http://www.wiche.edu/telecom/events/annualmeeting.

TELELEARNING '99 Wizardry and Wisdom: Connecting the History and the Future of Online Education will be held November 6th to 9th at the Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal. Online registration for TeleLearning '99 is now available at: http://www.telelearn.ca/conference. Register before October 4th to qualify for the early bird draw for $200 gift certificate for the Restaurant Bonaparte.

The Seventh Annual Distance Education Conference DEC2000 will be held in Austin, Texas January 25-28, 2000. DEC2000 emphasizes the importance of virtual communication for exchanging ideas, experiences and strategies in the field of distance education. For more information see: www.cdlr.tamu.edu

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) an International Conference is scheduled for Feb. 8-12, 2000 in San Diego, California at the San Diego Marriott-Mission Valley. The conference is hosted by San Diego State University and sponsored by Sponsored by SITE and the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). For more information see: http://www.aace.org.

Call for Proposals for Computers and Writing 2K "Evolution, Revolution and Implementation: Computers and Writing for Global Change" May 25-28, 2000 Fort Worth, TX Proposals are due: October 15, 1999. The conference is hosted by Texas Woman's University. For more information, visit the website at http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2K/bridge.html