REGISTER ONLINE FOR GWETC 2000! - You can now register online for the 8th Annual Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference 2000 (GWETC 2000). Brochures are at the printer and will be mailed out the third week in August. This year, GWETC 2000 will be held at the Dane County Expo/Alliant Energy Center and Sheraton Hotel, Madison, WI, October 10-12. Choose from more than 160 concurrent sessions, 20 poster sessions and 18 labs and workshops. Keynote speakers include: Ed Barlow, President of Creating the Future, Inc.; Jim Schnitz, Education Strategy Executive-IBM and Mary Moen-Media Consultant with the Discovery Channel.

This year the conference will also include a scheduled tour of the new distance education and conference center - The Pyle Center. GWETC supports teaching and learning via technology and is cosponsored by: University of Wisconsn-Extension; The Department of Public Instruction; the Educational Communications Board; TEACH, Wisconsin; the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Wisconsin Technical College System. For complete information CLICK: http://www.gwetc.org. To receive a printed brochure, email: gwetc@ecb.state.wi.us or call: 608-264-9730. Include postal address.

UW CATALOG OF DISTANCE LEARNING RECEIVES AWARD - The UW Catalog of Distance Learning online has been awarded the Key Resource award in the Degree Programs area by the Links2Go web site. Links2Go is an online search and directory service. Links2Go automatically compiles and prioritizes links to the most relevant Internet content on tens of thousands of topics spanning tens of millions of web pages. Find out more about the Links2Go Key Resource award CLICK: http://www.uwex.edu/ics/news/july00/cataward.htm.

UW DE CLEARINGHOUSE RECOGNIZED BY RESEARCH JOURNAL - The Distance Education Clearinghouse has been reviewed by the prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and as a result, is now included in their well respected collection of scholarly, high quality web sites. Read the story CLICK: http://www.uwex.edu/ICS/news/july00/journal.htm.