SenseiOnline's 1st Benkyou kai is on the February 24th (Thursday), 2000 at 4pm US Pacific ( 2pm Hawaii, 7pm US Eastern; 25th Friday, Midnight GST, 9am Japan, 11am Sydney, if this calculation is correct).
Professor Steve McCarty, our member and the president of WAOE, is an invited speaker. This is how it goes. We will use one of his articles for reference. You will be interacting with the speaker and other participants using chat program.
"Cultural Liberation: East-West Biculturalism for a New Century"
University of Virginia Multicultural Pavilion International Project
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/papers/mccarty.html
This event is hosted by World Without Borders and sponsored by Apple Computers, Inc. Higher Education. The Meeting Place is the place to come for ideas, product info, to discuss the issues, to air concerns. This weekly educator's roundtable, sponsored by The Apple Learning Community Connection, is the place to find out how Apple products and technologies can help institutions enhance learning opportunities and advance educational innovation. Educators of all platforms are welcome. "If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime."
To participate in Web chat you need Netscape or Internet Explorer versions 3.0 or above with java enabled. The computer itself also needs enough CPU power and available RAM memory. Yet those at institutions behind firewalls may also find that Web chat access is blocked.
The World Without Borders Web chat site is somewhat of a portal to the Web. To prepare for the Web chat events or to find out if you can access Web chat in real time, visit World Without Borders at URL http://worldwithoutborders.com. More specifically, at URL http://WWBChat.com you set your user name and password. Then you click "Register" and fill in a little more information. After the first time you need not register anymore, provided you remember to use exactly the same passwords. From the second time just input your passwords and click "Login" to enter a chat room. Before and during the event on February 24/25 there should be an icon to click on to enter the correct chat room, since there are several. This one is sponsored by Apple Computer. Plus, there is always a TV Guide-style schedule of upcoming World Without Borders events at URL: http://worldwithoutborders.com/calendar/wwbcalendara.shtml
This Web chat provider can "push" URLs from within a chat room, automatically opening another browser window when you click on an address starting with http://, so you can chat while viewing Web pages corresponding to the session. Some rooms have options below the chat window such as choosing the color of your words. WWB Chat staff members are always on hand at sessions to help you.
To summarize, please read the online paper for the theme at: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/papers/mccarty.html If you can make it on February 24/25, prepare questions if you like and then enter the Web chat site, following the above directions.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Manager of SenseiOnline, Keiko Schneider at kschnei@sabotenweb.com
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