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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:53:24 EDT
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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