In case you were having too much fun at the MCN Conference in Las Vegas and missed the original announcement: TODAY AT 3 PM EST www.clevelandart.org/digitalpromise OR <<...OLE_Obj...>> www.webcastgroup.com/webcast/index.asp?WebcastID=894 It's a long announcement, but worth it. I promise ---len steinbach A Special Program of Importance to the Museum Education Community Broadcast Live on the Internet Thursday Nov 13 3pm EST The world of museum-based education and object has the potential to be tranformed profoundly through legislation currently receiving bi-partisan support. It is called DOIT, the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust. The DOIT legislation is endorsed by the American Association of Museums DON'T MISS THIS PROGRAM ! The Cleveland Museum of Art,Case Western Reserve University and The Webcast Group Present A Digital Gift to the Nation Lawrence K. Grossman Co-Chairman, The Digital Promise Project, and former president of NBC News and PBS Discussing the impact, importance and potential of DOIT: A Digital Gift to the Nation Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:00 pm (sharp) at The Cleveland Museum of Art CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR CONNECTION, CONNECTION TESTING, AND TECH SUPPORT www.clevelandart.org/digitalpromise <<...OLE_Obj...>> www.webcastgroup.com/webcast/index.asp?WebcastID=894 with additional panelists discussing DOIT's prospective impact on education, economic development, and cultural Institutions: Maxwell L. Anderson, Leadership Fellow, Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Yale School of Management,and Past President, Association of Art Museum Directors Dr. Robert Ballard, Founder & Chief Scientist, The JASON Foundation for Education, President, Institute for Exploration [on videotape] Anne G. Murphy, Digital Promise Project Director Leonard Steinbach, Chief Information Officer, The Cleveland Museum of Art Others The Digital Promise is a proposal to establish a major educational trust fund that will help transform education, training and lifelong learning to meet the needs of the nation's new knowledge-based economy. The educational trust fund (the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust, or "DO IT") would be financed by billions of dollars in revenue from auctions of unused, publicly-owned telecommunications spectrum, as mandated by Congress. The project proposes to do for education in the U.S. what the National Science Foundation does for science, the National Institutes of Health do for health, and DARPA does for defense. It also recommends regional digital resource centers to support cultural institutions and help in the digitization of documents and other artifacts. DO IT would enable the nation's schools, universities, libraries and museums to reach outside their walls to millions of people in the U.S. and throughout the world. It would support research and development of new educational models and prototypes, taking full advantage of the Internet and other new digital telecommunications technologies. This proposal is in the spirit of the great American educational innovations of previous centuries such as the GI Bill of 1948 and the Land Grant Colleges Act of 1862 that helped transform the nation's economy and strengthen its democracy. For more information about DOIT including their recent report to Congress, go to www.digitalpromise.org. Be sure to attend the session on Digital Promise at the AAM Annual Conference 2004. Contact: Leonard Steinbach lsteinb...@clevelandart.org 216 707 2642 The Webcast Group is an interactive broadcasting corporation focusing on corporate communications, continuing education and vertical market content delivery. www.webcastgroup.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com