Colleagues, Edee Norman Wiziecki (NCSA) and I (BU) are the co-leads for a new "Virtual Institute" that will be meeting to discuss Access Grid in Education. This is intended to be a forum for discussion of AG in any/all aspects and levels of teaching and learning, including (but not limited to!) both K-12 and higher education. We welcome participation from educators, technologists, and everybody in between.
This Institute is part of the NSF-funded "Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure" project; more information about EPIC is available at http://www.eotepic.org/ . Our Virtual Institute will involve discussions both asynchronous (via a Moodle web site), and synchronous (via monthly AG meetings). The first of these meetings will be held Tuesday, September 13, at 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC); an invitation to this meeting is copied below my signature. If you are interested in joining us, please drop a note to Edee and myself (ed...@ncsa.uiuc.edu and j...@bu.edu). We'll be glad to have you join us on the AG, or on the Moodle, or both! Cheers, Jennifer *********************** Welcome to the Access Grid in Education Virtual Institute This message serves as an invitation to join the first meeting of the Virtual Institute on using Access Grid technology for teaching and learning. It will be held on September 13, 2005 beginning at 3:30 PM CDT (4:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PDT). (We are scheduled to be in the Schoolhouse venue in the NCSA Lobby for those of you who can navigate there). Please share this message with others. A reminder and more information on how to join the VI will be sent nearer the date, but should you have any questions now please feel free to contact us. We are happy to assist you and/or give you more information about Access Grid technology for the classroom. We hope to see you there, as we explore ways to bring the world into classrooms every where! Jennifer Teig von Hoffman Edee Norman Wiziecki Boston University NCSA j...@bu.edu ed...@ncsa.uiuc.edu
