GWETC 2002 - Register now for the Tenth Annual Governor's Wisconsin Educational
Technology Conference (GWETC 2002) to be held October 8-10 in Madison, WI at
the Alliant Energy Center. The conference includes more than 150 workshops, and concurrent
and spotlight sessions, along with over 110 vendor booths. Two outstanding keynote speakers
have been selected for this year's conference: David Warlick, principal consultant of The
Landmark Project, a professional development and Web design firm in Raleigh North Carolina
and Bernjean Porter, author of Grappling with Accountability: Resource Tools for Organizing
and Assessing Technology for Student Results and Evaluating Student Computer-based
Products. GWETC is designed for K-higher education, government agencies, non-profits, and
business. For complete information and registration go to: http://www.gwetc.org

INTERNET2 AND WISCONSIN - Internet2 is a collaborative effort among the nation's
leading research universities, teamed with government and industry partners. This high-
speed network focuses on education and research. Until recently only a few select
universities that were willing to pay substantial membership fees could participate. UW-
Madison and UW-Milwaukee were the only members of Internet2 in Wisconsin. However,
a new category of participation, "sponsored education groups" opens Internet2 use to more
organizations. UW-Extension, other UW System campuses, K-12 schools, museums,
libraries, and other organizations that are WiscNet members will now be able to participate.
Internet2 is an asset to educational organizations because it provides an "express lane that
bypasses the (Internet) congestion." Its advantages include access to programs and
applications developed at major research universities, the support of combinations of real-
time audio and video, and quick delivery of large databases or multimedia presentations.
For more information see: http://www.internet2.olrg and http://www.wiscnet.net
(Extension News and Ideas, Sept 02)

EFFECTIVE PRACTICES PUBLICATION/WEB SITE - Instructional Communications
Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension will publish Using Distance Education
Technology: Effective Practices in October of 2002. The book includes contributions from
UW faculty, K-12 teachers, and staff from government and non-profit agencies who have
used a variety of technologies to teach, train, collaborate, disseminate information, and share
resources at a distance. A companion Web site, is a component part of the book and will
contain summaries of the practices included in the publication. Additional and complete
effective practices will be added to the Web site after the book publication. For more
information contact: lehman@ics.uwex.edu