Greetings Cybersociologists,

I wanted to let you all know about this upcoming online event that is
happening next week. Please feel free to forward this announcement along
to your friends and colleagues.

See you there,

Susan

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Announcing TechSoup.org's latest International online event on Online
Learning and Collaboration.
Join us the week of April 18-22, 2005 in TechSoup's Community at
<_www.techsoup.org/_
<http://www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning>_onlinelearning
<http://www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning>_>

What are the issues and challenges involved in using online learning? What
does it mean to collaborate and learn online? How can you and your
organization use online learning and collaboration to achieve your
organizational mission? This week-long event will answer those questions
and demystify online collaboration tools. Join us as we discuss
collaborative approaches for online learning communities, conferences, as
well as classes and workshops. We will introduce you to the free tools
available on the Web for online collaboration. We will also examine (and
demonstrate) software and platforms in addition to best practice examples
from the Tutor/Mentor Connection and Knowplace. The Tutor/Mentor Connection
(T/MC), based in Chicago , uses the Internet as a resource library and
meeting place for people interested in helping inner city youth. Knowplace
is a customized International learning community that helps organizations
and individuals move into the online world quickly and efficiently.

Drop in on the event and share your own examples, ideas and questions and
test these new, free technologies that will help your organization with its
educational goals.

Topics include
* An overview of ideas and practices integral to online learning and
collaboration.
* Best-practice examples of learning community meetings and conferences.
* A live demo of a synchronous session.
* Free or inexpensive tools for teaching, training , and building an online
learning community.
* The steps it takes to go from in-person to online learning.

This event will be hosted at <http//www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning> and
moderated by Janet Salmons, Vision2Lead, Inc. (_www.Vision2Lead._
<http://www.vision2lead.com/>_com <http://www.vision2lead.com/>_); Dan
Bassill, Tutor/Mentor Connection (http//www.tutormentorconnection.org/tmc/
); and Carole Cotton and Frances Long, Knowplace (http//knowplace.ca/).
See you the week of April 18 at <_www.techsoup.org/_
<http://www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning>_onlinelearning
<http://www.techsoup.org/onlinelearning>_>
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Susan Tenby, Online Community Manager, TechSoup.org.
CompuMentor
435 Brannan Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107-1234
Voice: 415.633.9333
Fax: 415.512.9629
Email: susan@...
http://www.compumentor.org
http://www.techsoup.org
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