A Brief Summary of Some of the Presentations

MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1995

Introduction and Welcome to Conference (Nancy Parsons Heath)

Greetings from Education and Community Leaders (Introduced by David Quick)

SchoolNet: Placing Canada on the Educational Networking Map (Douglas Hull)

STEM~Net: Empowering the teachers and students of Newfoundland and Labrador (Jaap Tuinman)

Break

SchoolNet RINGS (Harvey Weir and Douglas Hull)

Demonstration of sample RINGS projects:
1. Project Groundhog (Wendy King and William Jameson)
2. Project Rivers (Nancy Parsons Heath and Gilbert Bennett)

Lunch

WIER: Writers in Electronic Residence (Trevor Owen)

Networking in British Columbia: SITP and other activities (Lucio Telas)

Networking in New Brunswick: Every school, every teacher and every student, ASAP (Arnold McPherson)

Break

The Canadian Educational Network Coalition and Its Telecommunications Initiatives (Harvey Weir)

Forum on Networking and Distance Education
1. Open Learning and Distance Education in British Columbia (Lucio Teles)
2. HRDA and Distance Education, Newfoundland and Labrador (Elizabeth Montgomery)
3. Secondary School Distance Education in Newfoundland and Labrador (Wilbert Boone)
4. Post-secondary Distance Education for Teachers: Research & Development at Memorial University (Terry Piper)
5. College Distance Education (Cyril Organ)
6. The Role of NLnet and STEM~Net in Distance Education (Wilfred Bussey)

Logistics (Nancy Parsons Heath and David Quick)

Dinner: Marble Mountain Lodge (Speaker: Trevor Owen "Educational HIGHS on the Information HIGHway") Entertainment: The Sharecroppers

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1995

Logistics (Nancy Parsons Heath and David Quick)

Canadian Community Access Project: The Big Picture (Patricia Williams)

The Community Access Pilot in Newfoundland and Labrador (David Gale)

Public Interest Networks (Yvonne Bradbury Wiseman)

Break

Networking Students: The STEM~Net Class Project Network (Nancy Parsons Heath)

Networking Commmunities and Schools: The Cable Atlantic STELLAR Schools Project (Gilbert Bennett)

Networking a School Using SLIP: Presentation Junior High

Lunch

TILE: Technology in a Learning Environment (Leon Cooper and Alex Hickey)

Using STEM~Net as a Research Tool: One Graduate Student's Experience (Edith Lynch)

Using STEM~Net as a Science Fairs' Resource (John Barron)

Break

Parallel Session A: Overview Technical Sessions
1. Developing World-Wide-Web Home Pages (Dale Fraser)
2. Windows NT: Cost-effective Server and Router (Rick Collins)
3. LINUX: Very Cost-effective Server and Router (Leo Harlick)
Parallel Session B: STEM~Net as a Professional and Community Resource
1. Developing a RINGS project (Nancy Parsons Heath)
2. Professional Development for Teachers (Frank Shapleigh)
3. Community Access and Library Resources Online (Bill Jameson)

STEM~Net: Its Future (Open Forum, Chaired by David Quick)

MONDAY AND TUESDAY - KIDS' NET CAMP - REGINA HIGH SCHOOL (next to Presentation Junior High)

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