[YL] Online event: Online Learning & Collaboration

[Dan Bassill]

(excerpt from periodic Tutor/Mentor Report--  You can read this and past
newsletters in the NEWS section of http://www.tutormentorexchange.net)

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
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.com); Dan
Bassill, Tutor/Mentor Connection
(http//www.tutormentorconnection.org/tmc/ ); and Carole Cotton and Frances
Long, Knowplace (http//knowplace.ca/).