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- From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Subject: Distance Education Conference (fwd)
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- > Date: Mon Jul 20 12:08:49 1992
- > From: ssn00075@llpptn.linknet.COM (Gary Morford)
- > Subject: Distance Education Conference
- >
- > AUDIOGRAPHICS: THE HIDDEN GIANT
- > Conference Announcement
- >
- > Audiographics: The Hidden Giant is the first national
- > audiographics conference and will be hosted by the Pennsylvania
- > Teleteaching Project. Audiographics is the simultaneous delivery
- > of voice and computer graphics via telecommunications and is
- > growing in popularity for the delivery of educational programs to
- > rural
- > locations at low cost.
- >
- > WHEN: August 20 and 21, 1992
- >
- > WHERE: Keller Conference Center
- > Penn State Univeristy
- > University Park, PA
- >
- > CONTACT: Dorothy Hajdu
- > Director, PA Teleteaching Project
- > Riverview Intermediate Unit
- > RD 2, Greencrest Drive
- > Shippenville, PA 16254
- > 1-800-672-7123
- >
- > Call for additional registration information.
- >
- >
- > Adgenda
- >
- > August 20: Experience the Giant
- >
- > The first day of the conference will open with an address by
- > Ron Powell, Chairman of the House Education Committee. The day
- > will feature vendors who will offer real time, online demos of
- > audiographic technology including software, computers,
- > communications
- > methods, modems, projection devices, input devices, and multimedia.
- > The vendors will go online with model sites across the country and
- > you
- > will be able to actively participate. Vendors include TSN Systems,
- > Colorado Video, Haverford, IIS, Virginia Ostendorf, Broadband
- > Networks, Optel, AT Products, and Databeam. They will be making
- > connections to the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois,
- > the ATT Teletraining Center, Louisiana State University, and Centro
- > Internacional de Idiomas in Mexico.
- >
- > KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Distance Education Opportunities "Down Under"
- > Christopher Lamb, Australian Ambassador, will
- > talk about the development of distance education
- > opportunities in Australia.
- >
- >
- > August 21: Learn the Giant's Secrets
- >
- > The second day will be devoted to pedagogical issues in
- > distance education. There will educatonal administrators,
- > teachers, university personnel, and representatives from business
- > and government to conduct panel discussions on distance education
- > issues including:
- >
- > Fiber Optics Bell Labs
- > Interactive Audiographic Networks Louisiana State University
- > Staff Development Indiana State University
- > Ontario Ministry of Education Contact North
- > Personnel Questions and Policy Virginia Ostendorf, Inc.
- >
- > There will also be 2 keynote addresses:
- >
- > 1. The Audiographic Niche in Education, Business, and the Military
- > Dr. Thomas Cyrs, University of New Mexico
- >
- > 2. Restructuring - Technology - Telecommunications
- > Dr. Kyle Peck, Penn State University
- >
- >
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