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>Any suggestions? Ideas?
>Linnda
>
On October 12 (this coming Sunday) a global teleconference is
taking place, "live", linking an extraordinary array of
countries/students/educators to celebrate "learning" globally. I am posting
here the info for two reasons
which may be of use to your inquiries about "reproducing" certain
technollgical assumptions (for instance, read carefully the language
practices of the annoucnement, where, for instance, there is a comparison
between linking Guam to the teleconference (for the first time) and
Columbus discovering Maerica - uh, can u say COLONIZATION?
also, though, I think it will be an opportunity for you to perhaps
connect with telecommunications communities in and outside the US, to explo=
re
engineering and science cyberprograms already in place.
The name of this conference, (L.E.A.R.N. Day) is about as inspired
as the trumpeting of colonization as a metaphor for global communication...
ain't it all so inneresting?
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:27:41 GMT
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>Sender: "AERA-K Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education"
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>From: Andrew Kenyon <10042660 who-is-at MAIL.EHCHE.AC.UK>
>Organization: Edge Hill University College
>Subject: LEARN DAY - Free Online Distance Learning Conference
>To: AERA-K who-is-at ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
>
>Dear List,
>I am the list director for LEARN DAY. As the conference draws nearer,
>I am sending a copy of the press announcement. If you have any
>questions about the following Conference, please don't hesitate to
>contact me. Please feel free to send the conference details on to any
>lists or people you think might be interested. Please visit
>http://www.bfranklin.edu to register or contact the Conference Manager
>Al Lepine From: <Lepine who-is-at IBM.net>
>
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>
>Andrew Kenyon
>Edutech
>LEARN DAY LAUNCH TEAM
>http://www.jokak.demon.co.uk/database.html
>
>
>
> Netscape's Martin Haeberli,
> London Open University's Richard Lewis,
> and Pacific Bell's Richard Normington among
> keynoters at
>
> L.E.A.R.N. DAY Oct. 12
>
> Roger Boston, Rockwell Chair and instructor for
> technical
>innovations for the Houston
> Community College System; Martin Haeberli, director of
>education technology at Netscape
> Communications Corp.; Dr. Richard Lewis, pro
> chancellor,
>Open University, London; Dr.
> Ricardo Lorden, president and Founder of Interamerican
>Business Group of Mexico; Richard
> Normington, area vice president for Education Market
> Group
>at Pacific Bell; and U.S. Senator
> from Maine Olympia Snowe will keynote L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9
> on
>October 12, 1997.
>
> This unique, round-the-world exhibition will showcase
> more
>than 30,000 courses from
> hundreds of universities and colleges, worldwide,
> which
>offer single courses, undergraduate,
> master's, and doctorate degrees, all delivered via the
> Internet.
>
> The purpose of L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9 is to hold a convincing
>demonstration that "Students in
> Bombay can take courses in Boston," according to John
>Hibbs, founder of The Benjamin
> Franklin Institute of Global Education, host for
> L.E.A.R.N.
>DAY=A9. Hibbs said the event will
> demonstrate that the Internet is not a fancy telephone
> for
>the privileged, but a powerful
> electronic truck which can deliver the priceless cargo
> of
>higher education anywhere on the
> planet.
>
> L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9 will also launch the opportunities of
>membership in The Franklin
> Knowledge Corps, modeled after President Kennedy's
> Peace
>Corps, but with a focus on the
> most resourceful English language teachers in the
> world
>today. Hibbs said this call to action
> promotes American academics abroad through highly
> motivated
>Americans taking their first
> steps into the international arena through overseas
>teaching assignments. Inside their
> classrooms will be found the Leadership Crew of the
> Third
>Millennium. All of this framed by
> history's foremost knowledge distributor, Ben
> Franklin, in
>a path brightly lit by his "Way to
> Wealth."
>
> L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9 will begin on Guam at noon Guam time,
>Sunday, October 12
> (mid-afternoon Saturday, October 11, in North America;
> late
>Saturday evening, October 11, in
> Europe; and early Sunday morning, October 12, in East
>Asia/New Zealand/Australia).
> Following opening ceremonies in Guam, the event will
> move
>each hour to a new showcased
> city, following this route: Japan, China, New Zealand,
>Australia, Singapore, India, United
> Arab Emirates, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, Ukraine,
>Russia, Poland, Germany, France,
> United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico,
> Canada,
>and the United States. At each
> stop, a live, interactive conversation will occur
> between
>professors, educators, and others
> involved in distance learning in North America and
>Celebrants in the various global locations.
>
> The discussions will be broadcast in real time,
> worldwide,
>over the Internet. In some cases
> they will also be on video in real time. In all cases,
> the
>conversations will be available to those
> with audio capability. All conversations will be
>transcribed and simultaneously posted to the
> Franklin web site (www.bfranklin.edu). Also see
><www.bfranklin.edu/agenda.html>.
>
> The exhibition/conference will end in San Diego, where
> the
>closing ceremonies and press
> conference will be broadcast live over television and
>"streamed" over the Internet. The
> broadcast will be made by E.N.E.N., a subsidiary of
>Marshall Industries, a billion-dollar
> high-technology California company.
>
> Topics of discussion will include distance courses,
>Web-based instruction, electronic
> textbooks, English as a second language, course
> conversion
>techniques, and distance
> technology philosophy, methods, and evaluation.
>
> Guam was chosen as the opening site because, according
> to
>Hibbs, "the planet begins the new
> day in Guam. Columbus Day was chosen because, like
>Columbus, we will 'open' brand new
> territories in what we predict will be a landmark
> event in
>education and Internet history."
>
> Hibbs added that L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9 will separate itself
> from
>previous Net Days by a
> convincing demonstration that very desirable, very
>tangible, and very valuable 'things'--college
> courses and college degrees--are as accessible to
> those in
>Bombay as to those in Boston.
> Virtually anyone with access to a computer will have
> some
>interest in learning more about the
> thousands of courses offered.
>
> L.E.A.R.N. DAY=A9 is copyrighted by the Benjamin
> Franklin
>Institute of Global Education,
> and is both an acronym for Long Distance Education
> from
>America and a symbol that
> knowledge can be brilliantly transferred from anyplace
> to
>anywhere..
>
SO...get on board those "powerful electronic TRUCKS!!!" hoo-boy.
diane, who sometimes doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
(Ani Difranco)
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diane celia hodges
faculty of graduate studies
centre for the study of curriculum and instruction
university of british columbia,
vancouver, british columbia, canada V6T 1Z4
(604) 253-4807
dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca