Genealogy on the Internet MOO & Web-Based Workshop
Diane K. Kovacs
diane at kovacs.com
Thu Jun 4 16:01:54 EDT 1998
Genealogy on the Internet MOO & Web-Based Workshop
Tuesday August 4 & Thursday August 6 7:00-9:00 pm, EDT
In this MOO and Web-based workshop, participants will learn how to use
Genealogical research tools on the World Wide Web Using a hands-on
approach, obtain knowledge you need to conduct genealogical research on the
Internet. The scope of coverage of resources will be international.
International and State-wide coverage will be based on participant's
countries and states of origin.
The course will involve Web based activities performed by participants
outside of class hours, as well as 4 hours of Diversity University
classroom contact.
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.
Syllabus of course is available at:
http://www.kovacs.com/DU/genonline.html
Registration Information
Deadline August 1, 1998
Registration
http://www.kovacs.com/DU/mooclassreg.html
or
Contact Diane K. Kovacs diane at kovacs.com
330-273-5032
This is a non-credit workshop
Tuition: $55
Payable by Check or Purchase Order
Instructors: Diane K. Kovacs diane at kovacs.com and Isabel Danforth
danforth at tiac.net
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 1997. She 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.
Additional Summer 1998 workshops:
For Credit:
BA3636 Business Resources on the Internet
Tuesday July 7 and Thursday July 9 1:00p.m.-4:00p.m. EDT.
http://www.kovacs.com/akronu/onlineclassreg.html
BA3635 Health and Medicine on the Internet
Tuesday August 4 & Thursday August 6 1:00 - 4:00 pm, EDT
http://www.kovacs.com/akronu/onlineclassreg.html
Fall 1998 Workshops:
For Credit:
BA3636 Business Resources on the Internet
Tuesday Sept. 22, 29 & Oct. 6, 1998 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. EDT
http://www.kovacs.com/akronu/onlineclassreg.html
BA3635 Health and Medicine on the Internet
Thursday October 15, 22, 29, 1998 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. EDT.
http://www.kovacs.com/akronu/onlineclassreg.html
Editor-Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS or http://www.arl.org
________________________________________________________________________
Diane K. Kovacs | http://www.kovacs.com
Kovacs Consulting - | fax: (330)225-0083
Internet & World Wide Web Training | phone: (330)273-5032
________________________________________________________________________
Kovacs, Diane K. (1997). _The Internet Trainer's Total Solution Guide_
Van Nostrand Reinhold:New York.
ISBN 0-442-0253305
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471288322/002-1693589-5325203
________________________________________________________________________
Kovacs, Diane K. and Kovacs, Michael J. (1997). _Cybrarians Guide to
Successful Internet Programs and Services_ Neal-Schuman Publishers: New
York.
ISBN 1-555-702872 http://www.neal-schuman.com
________________________________________________________________________
Kovacs, Diane K. and Carlson, Ann L. (forthcoming summer 1998) _Health and
Medicine on the Internet_ Library Solutions Press: Berkeley.
ISBN: 1-882-208277
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1882208277/002-2591380-2197814
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