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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 14:09:04 -0800 (PST) From: mriel@weber.ucsd.edu (Margaret Riel) Subject: Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96
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Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96
We are looking for your help to bridge the distances....
This is an open invitation to each of you to join us in creating Tel*Ed & Multimedia '96. Together we can create an innovative educational experience, different from what has existed in the past. We envision a conference where communication technology is used to create learning experiences for the participants. We envision a conference where participants show, not tell, how telecommunication can bridge distances, a conference where guided learning excursions replace the succession of sages on the stage.
Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96 will be held simultaneously in two sites, Tampa Florida, and Monterrey Mexico on Dec. 5-8th. A central message conveyed at education and telecommunication conferences is that technology conquers distances and creates global partnerships. Our goal is to work toward creating an annual conference that SHOWS how telecommunication conquers distance and creates partnerships.
Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96 (our fifth conference) is our first effort at a multi-year experiment to recreate conferences in a technology rich environment.
In the years that follow we hope to add more sites making Tel*Ed/Multimedia
into a conference that is held simultaneously worldwide in both
regional gatherings and on the Internet. (An example of an online
conference is the Governor's Conference for the Arts VII: The Role
of the Artist in the Digital Age
We want all of you to help us find ways to bridge distances so that participants in Tampa Florida and Monterrey Mexico will share the experience of being at Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96.
The call for participation
Education Bridges World Wide Web Tours People linking Across Projects Talk of the Net Net Results Workshops
We hope that you will find these session descriptions helpful in formulating your plans for creating these learning excursions.
Educational Bridges /-------------------\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Ideas both possible and ambitious are part of the dialog. However trans- lating these plans to actions will require nothing short of the creative energy of the whole education community. We need the partnership of those who have technology products to demonstrate, those that have services to offer, and those who have the expertise to connect technology to future designs for learning, teachers and learners. If you want to help transform these ideas into actions for either this year, or future years please join us!
"Educational Bridges" sessions are open in terms of design. We want and need your ideas and help. Here are some ideas that we have discussed:
Electronic Travel: Take the conference participants on an adventure. Instead of a description of how electronic travel can make students feel they have left the classroom, transport the conference participants to Antarctica, or a rain forest, or Mars. Guide conference participants in the same way that you hope they will guide students.
Shared Keynotes: Who is on-stage and who is on camera? Can we do as well as the McNeal Lehrer Newshour in bringing people who are physically in two different locations into the same discussion space? Please share your ideas for how we might use the keynote whole group sessions in two sites to accomplish our goals.
Virtual Reality: Can we see the other site at the end of an Internet tunnel. Can we have a large group meeting mediated by the Internet? What would such a meeting look like? How would you organize it? What is shared networking space and what are the ways we demonstrate it?
Bridging the U.S. and Mexico Conference Sites /----------------------------------------------\ /\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/
We speak different languages and have many different cultural and political realities, but we share a interest in putting our more creative tools to work in our schools. And this conference is a partnership that evolves from this shared interest. We want the participants at both sites to be a part of a growing global community focused in teaching and learning in the 21st century. What can we do to foster the sense of partnership? Here again we turn to you for help. These are some rough ideas of what might be possible but many of you will have your own visions and we hope you will work to share them with us.
Shared Space: At the Monterrey site, we want to have a "Tampa Room" and at the Tampa site, a "Monterrey Room." Ideally these rooms will be connected by a range of technology so that being in the room at either site would feel like being in the same space.
Through the Looking Glass: One wall could be a mirror reflection with live video of the people across the shared space. You would see and perhaps hear the people in the linked rooms.
Let's Chat: Video conferencing stations could be reserved for individual and small group meetings with people at the other conference. You might schedule a meeting at multimedia station 5 at 10:30 for a 15 minute chat with a colleague at Tel*Ed.
Milling Around: Another large wall at each site could project video pictures (live or recorded and transmitted) of people as they wonder through the public spaces of the distant site. This would be a visual reminder of who is "here" and "there."
Message Me!: An email conferencing system could link two group so that you could easily reach someone who you saw wandering around at either site.
Without your help, none of these ideas will make it off this page. Remember:
Conferences are the collective expression of a community.
Read the "Call for Participation" carefully and then please take an active role in creating Tel*Ed/Multimedia '96. We are eager to hear from you!
International Society for Technology in Education & ISTE Special Interest Group for Telecommunications
Margaret Riel ISTE SIG/Tel Conference Co-Chair mriel@iearn.org
Jorge Ortega ISTE Program Co-Chair ortegaJ@mail.firn.edu
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Secretaria de Educacion de Nuevo Leon
Lillian Kravzov Appel SENL Conference Co-Chair lkravzov@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx
Jorge Gutierrez SENL Program Co-Chair jgtz@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx
Tampa, Florida, USA - Florida Association for Computers in Education
J. Troy Robinson FACE Conference Co-Chair robinst@mail.firn.edu
Cliff Granger FACE Program Co-Chair grangeC@mail.firn.edu
For registration or conference information:
http://isteonline.uoregon.edu
or send email to:
Lori Novak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Margaret Riel, Ph.D.
InterLearn
943 San Dieguito Drive
Encinitas, CA 92024
619 943-1314
619 943 1314 ext 23 (fax)
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