TTT - Teaching with Technology Today can be found at CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/ Articles in this issue:

• UW System to Provide Education and Career Support to Migrant Workers and their Families by Jennifer Smith. Reach Out, a new UW System program that will receive major funding from the U.S. Dept. of Education, aims to raise the educational achievement and academic and employment horizons of migrant farm workers and their families in Wisconsin. Read about this innovative program that will combine distance-learning and face-to-face elements to further extend the scope of the Wisconsin Idea. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/reachout.htm

• Making Sense of Alphabet Soup: On Current Efforts for Sharing Instructional Resources by Hal Schlais. Do you think you might be suffering from a case of TAO, or Tech Acronym Overload? Have no fear! Hal Schlais sorts out the alphabet soup of SCORM, IMS, MERLOT and more to explain what these pesky acronyms have to do with realizing the vision of easily shareable educational resources. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/shareres.htm

• Computing, Composing, Communicating: A Conversation with Peter Sands by Jennifer Smith. Peter Sands, Asst. Prof. of English at UW-Milwaukee, reflects on how computers can be used effectively in the teaching of writing and how the computer revolution has - or hasn't - changed the act of writing. Sands offers an optimistic, engaged, and measured view, urging us all to be critical users of technology. CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/sands.htm (Jennifer Smith Editor, Teaching with Technology Today - TTT)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Submit a proposal to present at the Scholarship: Learning, Discovery and Engagement Conference, cosponsored by UW-Extension, Ohio State University and The Pennsylvania State University. Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2000. The conference will be held Oct. 14-16, 2001, Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, State College, PA. For more information about the conference, CLICK: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/OutreachScholarship2001/