Using Diversity University Moo for Distance Education: Bibliographic Instruction and other Topics? MOO & Web-Based Workshop

Thu Jun 4 16:05:39 EDT 1998

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:

Tuesdays, 7-9 pm, EDT - August 18, 25, and September 1, 1998

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.

Syllabus of course is available at:
	http://www.kovacs.com/DU/mooclass.html

Registration Information
Deadline August 15, 1998

Registration
http://www.kovacs.com/DU/mooclassreg.html
or
Contact Diane K. Kovacs diane at kovacs.com
330-273-5032

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