GWETC 2000 - Register Online at CLICK: http://www.gwetc.org.

Only 10 more days to register for GWETC 2000!! The Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference 2000 (GWETC 2000) will take place October 10-12, 2000 at Madison's Alliant Energy Center (formerly the Dane County Expo Center) and Sheraton Hotel. This eighth annual GWETC provides a comprehensive look at today's technology and tomorrow's vision for advancing the application of technology in all of our PreK-12 and postsecondary educational systems.

Each day of the conference will offer an emphasis on educational levels. Day One has a Postsecondary emphasis, Day Two has an All Levels emphasis and Day Three has a PreK-12 emphasis.

Hear keynote speakers: Edward D. Barlow of Creating the Future, Inc.; James E. Schnitz, Education Strategy Executive of IBM and Mary Moen award winning teacher and Discovery Channel consultant. Tour the University of Wisconsin- Extension's state-of-the-art Pyle Center. Participate in a number of the nearly 200 concurrent breakout and poster sessions; more than 150 technology and software exhibit booth areas featuring innovative projects, training resources and tools for teaching and learning; 15 hands-on workshops and labs providing practical experience in new ways of using technology in education; and networking opportunities.

GWETC is cosponsored by TEACH Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin- Extension, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Wisconsin Technical College System. For additional information about the conference or to register, CLICK: http://www.gwetc.org or call the conference manager at: 608-264-9730.

TTT - Teaching with Technology Today's first fall issue is now online. It's a theme issue devoted to academic libraries and electronic resources. TTT is the online educational technology publication of the UW System. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/. The new issue includes:

• Electronic Resources, Academic Libraries and Scholarly Publishing: Who's Affected and How? CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/library.htm

• Increasing Access and Managing Challenges: UW-Madison Librarians Discuss Academic Libraries Today. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/libinter.htm

• Educating Librarians for the New Academic Library by Louise Robbins, Director, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/robbins.htm

• Anticipate or Accommodate: Library Assistive Technology by Lelah Lugo, Electronic Resource Access/Reference Librarian, UW-Stout. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/lugo.htm

• Developing Library Services for the Distance Education Student by Cleo J. Powers and Jill S. Markgraf, UW-Eau Claire. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/powers.htm

• Incorporating Technology into Academic Libraries: New Developments on the Madison Campus by Nolan Pope, Assoc. Director for Technology, General Library System, UW-Madison. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/pope.htm

• Web-based and Traditional Instruction: A Systematic Study of Student and Instructor Perceptions from a Graduate MLIS Program by E. Buchanan, M. Brown, J. Casanova, D. Wolfram, and H. Xie, School of Library and Information Science, UW-Milwaukee. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/tsf.htm