Using DU for Distance Education

[Isabel Danforth]

			  Online Workshop
	    Using Diversity University Moo for Distance Education:  
		 Bibliographic Instruction and other Topics?


This will be a series of three 2 hour classes in 
Diversity University MOO, learning how to use the 
MOO environment to enhance teaching of Distance 
Education Students.  In the course of this class, 
you will become familiar with many basic moo 
commands, become a builder on DU MOO, create an 
office there as well as at least one basic teaching 
tool.  Upon successful completion of the course, 
you will be given the ability to create your own 
group of students and have them come into DU.

 
Dates and time for online attendance: 
       Thursdays, noon to 2 pm, EDT -  May 14,21, and 28
				or
	Tuesdays, 7-9 pm, EDT - May  19, 26, and June 2
Registration Information 
       Deadline May 9, 1998
       Include email address with registration information.
Registration Contact
 	Diane Kovacs  diane at kovacs.com
	http://www.kovacs.com/DU/mooclassreg.html	
      Registration fees may be paid by check (U.S. Dollars 
   only), purchase order, or money order.

Tuition:  $55
        
Instructors:  Diane Kovacs and Isabel Danforth 

Course Syllabus:  http://www.kovacs.com/DU/mooclass.html
 
Format:  MOO based course.

	Students will be given characters on DU MOO 
and will attend sessions there.  In MOO homework 
time will be necessary to complete projects for the 
course.  Assistance will be available between class 
sessions.
	
 
About the Instructors

Diane K. Kovacs is President of Kovacs Consulting -
Internet & World Wide Web Training & Consulting and is
the editor-in-chief of the Directory of Scholarly and
Professional  Electronic Conferences. She has more than 6
years of experience as an Internet Trainer and
Consultant.

Diane's first book The Internet Trainer's Guide, was
published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1995. The 2nd
Edition:  Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide was
published by VNR in 1997.  She has also co-authored with
her husband Michael Kovacs, Cybrarians Guide to
Successful Internet Programs and Services  which was
published by Neal-Schuman in 1997She is co-authoring
with  Ann Carlson a forthcoming book Health and Medicine
on the Internet from Library Solutions Press

She was the recipient  of the Apple Corporation Library's,
Internet Citizen Award for 1992 and was the University of
Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Alumni Association's first recipient of the Young Leadership
Award in 1996.

Diane received an M.S. in Library and Information Science
from the University of Illinois in 1989 and an M.Ed. in
Instructional Technology from Kent State University in
1993.

Isabel L. Danforth is currently a reference librarian in the 
Wethersfield, Ct. Public Library, and is active in issues 
dealing with technology in the library.  She has also worked in 
the fields of business data processing and education.  Besides 
her MLS degree from Southern Connecticut State University, 
she holds an MS in Geology from the U. of Michigan, and a 
BS in mathematics and geology from Tufts University. She is 
active in bringing the Internet into her public library, and 
serves on the committees to design and implement web pages 
for both the Town of Wethersfield, and the Wethersfield 
Public Library.  

Isabel walks through the MOO world as Ringer, serving as an 
administrator on several MOOs. She is co-founder and 
director of Librarians' On-line Support Team, an organization 
which reaches out to librarians around the world, providing 
moo-based workshops and mentoring to librarians who have 
been thrust onto the Internet.  Isabel has been active in the 
online library world since 1993.  She has been cited for her 
work with L.O.S.T. several times in Karen Schneider's 
Internet Librarian column in American Libraries.  She has 
taught online in DU since 1997.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Isabel L. Danforth   Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth at tiac.net       http://www.wethersfieldlibrary.org
		     Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
		        http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/ 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~