Daily Digest for 94-07-04
Happy Independence Day, America!!!
Happy and peace to you!!
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-04 July 94 New Russian Language Course Material
#02-04 July 94 Global Lecture Hall "Friends and Partners" demonstration
(and plea for help!)
#03-04 July 94 New "Resume / Jobs Wanted" service available now
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-04 July 94 Sender: Tony Byrne - IREX (tbyrne@access.digex.net)
Subject: RTAP deadline extended
#02-04 July 94 Sender: eaig164@orion.oac.uci.edu (Stephen J. Schilt)
Subject: Business opportunities
#03-04 July 94 Sender: Paula Lytle (lytle@lclark.edu)
Subject: Marketing Texts
#04-04 July 94 From: jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith)
Subject: Conference
#05-04 July 94 Sender: Mark Mounts (MMOUNTS@lib.auburn.edu)
Subject: Coping skills w/o subject background
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Please visit the "Language" page and check out Natasha's new
"Course of Russian Language in Picture" in which elements of
a Russian schoolroom are described with pictures and with
associated audio examples of pronunciation (provided by Natasha).
This is the first step towards establishing what we will hope
will someday become a comprehensive Russian language server.
We invite participation by anyone who would like to help develop
this Russian language server (and an English language variation designed
to help our non-English speaking friends learn the language).
* Global Lecture Hall demonstration of "Friends and Partners" . .
Dear Friends,
On this Thursday, July 7, Natasha and I will be making a presentation on
"Friends and Partners" at the Global Lecture Hall videoconference
which is being broadcast via satellite and via the Internet to most
countries of the world.
Natasha will be taking part in this presentation from Moscow and I will be
taking part from Knoxville.
We will have 20 minutes to explain the significance and the technical=
aspects of what we are trying to do with the Friends and Partners project -=
building a virtual community using the existing "global information=
infrastructure" (Internet). The presentation we are preparing is itself a=
World Wide Web server and will be accessible to everyone on the Internet=
the day the presentation is made (July 7).
One of the main points we hope to make with the presentation is the
cooperation and sense of community that can result from the use of
communication networks such as the Internet. We want to stress the
participation of the members of this listserver in what we are trying to
do with F&P -- and would like to invite your help in assisting us
prepare some information for the presentation. If you can contribute in
the following areas in any one or several of the following areas, it will
be most appreciated!
1) We are producing a world map showing the location of all subscribers of
the 'friends' listserver. While we can sometimes tell general location
from the e-mail address, often times this is not possible. We would
appreciate it if you could send to us a 1-line email message giving us the
city, state (if applicable) and country of your location (and please feel
free to list either your current location or what you consider to be your
home).
If you could send this information to mapinfo@solar.rtd.utk.edu, we will
compile this information into what should be a very interesting map.
2) We would like to include any comments of our subscribers into the
presentation. We are particularly interested in what people think about
global information infrastrucutre and about the prospects of it being used
to build 'virtual community' -- and, particularly, between the nations of
the United States and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Anything
that you would like to say about this topic in general or about "Friends
and Partners" specifically will be included in a special page on this
World Wide Web server which we will then show to the participants in this
Global Lecture Hall conference.
Please send any comments to gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu or
natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su.
3) A few of our subscribers who have developed their own World Wide Web
servers as a part of the F&P effort will be asked if they might provide a
20 second "sound bite" talking about their work which we can "show"
(broadcast) when we visit their material.
4) There is a possibility that we will try to establish during the time of
the conference an Internet Relay Chat session in which we could have
subscribers from all over the world interactively talking using the IRC
facility. We are curious to know how many of our subscribers know about
IRC and how many might be willing to participate in a brief IRC session
which we could then use to demonstrate to the audience the benefits of
such conferencing utilities on the Internet. If there is interest, we
could establish a "public" IRC client account on our computer in Knoxville
which folks could "telnet" to and participate from.
It has been our intention for some time now to begin a series of
periodic meetings in which we could have subscribers discuss topics of
interest in "real time" with other subscribers from around the world.
This session may be our first step in establishing such a series of
meetings.
We have included below a complete program announcement for this conference
and certainly welcome anyone who can 'look in' to do so. We feel that all
of the sessions that will be presented during the Global Lecture Hall will
be interesting and signficant in the context of global distance education
and "virtual community" building. Natasha and I are very excited (and
more than a little anxious!) about this presentation on Thursday. We
invite your comments and suggestions.
We'll probably be a little silent over the next several days as we
finalize plans for the presentation (although we will continue to send out=
the "digest" listing all email sent to the list). We will be back in 'full=
swing' on development of "Friends and Partners" on July 8.
"Global Lecture Hall" (GLH) (TM)
(multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconference)
for
"COMPARE AND EVALUATE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES: LEARNING THROUGH USING"
at the occasion of
The First International Conference on Distance Education in Russia
"DISTANCE LEARNING AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION"
Convention Center, Russian Academy of Science
Moscow, Russia
Thursday, July 7, 1994
9:00 am to 12:00 noon (Eastern Daylight Time/U.S.A.)
DELIVERY AND RANGE:
(a) U.S. Domsat (Ku-band): North America
(b) INTELSAT (C-band): Central and South America (in arrangement)
(c) INTELSAT-K (Ku-band): Western, Central and Eastern Europe;
Scandinavia; Baltic; Ukraine, Western Russia,
Mediterranean, etc.
(d) Internet: Around the world with CU-SeeMe and MBONE
(e) 64 Kbps phone line: Around the world with VTEL and PictureTel, etc=
..
(in arrangement)
SCHEDULES:
8:30 to 9:00 Testing
9:00 to 9:05 Opening remark by Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, President of Global
University/USA
9:05 to 9:10 Greetings by Mr. Alexander N. Tikhonov, President of The
Association for International Education (from Moscow)
9:10 to 9:15 Greetings by Mr. Colin N. Power, Assistant
Director-General for Education, UNESCO (Video)
9:15 to 9:20 Greetings by President Joseph E. Johnson, The University
of Tennessee (Video)
9:20 to 9:40 Demonstration of "Friends and Partners" World Wide Web
(WWW) Server:
By Mr. Greg Cole, The U. of TN and Ms. Natasha Bulashova, Institute
of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Pushchino, Russia, -- mixed media (text, graphics, image,
audio, and video) information exchange via Internet, as integrating
information from all of the best Internet-based tools and utilities
-- Listservers, Gophers, WAIS databases, FTP archives, etc. -- a
forerunner of asynchronous, "Just-In-Time," individualized education.
9:40 to 9:45 Greetings by Chancellor William T. Snyder, The
University of Tennessee
9:45 to 10:05 Demonstration of CU-SeeMe via Internet:
By Mr. Richard Cogger of Cornell University, Apple/Moscow, Prof. Jose
Brenes of the U. of Costa Rica, and others, -- a black and white
video (10 to 15 frame per second [fps]) with Macintosh and IBM compati=
ble
machines -- may also include audio conferencing with MAVEN via
Internet.
10:05 to 10:10 Greetings by Dr. Glen Hall, Dean of the College of
Agriculture, The University of Tennessee (Video)
10:10 to 10:30 Demonstration of MBONE via Internet:
By Messrs Mike McCann, Donald Paul Brutzman, and Mike Macedonia of the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard,
audio, and video (1 to 3 fps) via 200 Kbps bandwidth -- with scientifi=
c
visualizations of a global circulation model for ocean currents.
10:30 to 10:35 Intermission
10:35 to 10:40 Greetings by Dr. Michael G. Moore, Editor of The American
Journal of Distance Education (from Moscow)
10:40 to 11:00 Demonstration of ShowMe via Internet:
By Messrs Jeff Arnst and Bob Kloak of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in Califo=
r-
nia and Moscow (and possible participation from Sidney, Australia,
too) -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard, audio, and video (10 to 15
fps).
11:00 to 11:05 Greetings by Dr. Peter T. Knight, Economic Development
Institute, The World Bank
11:05 to 11:25 Demonstration of ShareView via ordinary telephone and
INMARSAT satellite:
By Mr. Jim Miller of SYNECTICS -- text, graphics, image, whiteboard,
audio, and video (10 to 15 fps) via 9.6 Kbps bandwidth. ShareView wit=
h
a portable dish antenna of Mobile Telesystems Inc. (MTI) at Moscow
conference site will be connected with a ShareView at the U. of TN via
INMARSAT, and next with the World Bank which will be relayed to the U.
of TN via PictureTel.
11:25 to 11:30 Greetings by Professor David A. Johnson, Former President =
of
Fulbright Association, The University of Tennessee
11:30 to 11:50 Demonstration of "Multimedia of America (MMOA)" (TM) (tent=
a-
tive):
Interconnection of two ShareView units via audio subchannels of a
satellite will also be demonstrated by Dr. Mel Muchnik of Governors
State University and Mr. Timothy Cook of Nebraska Educational TV. Eac=
h
of them will uplink analog signals which will be downlinked at the U. =
of
TN to produce two split screens side-by-side, so that how to teach
Japanese Kanji brush stroke sequences to students at GSU can be shown =
on
whiteboard of ShareView unit.
These demonstrations are toward a one-to-many receive-only ShareView
system via inexpensive narrow-band channel of satellite (i.e., our MMO=
A
project), for those students in rural and remote areas where there is =
no
Internet node. Video of instructor, handwriting in color on an elec-
tronic whiteboard, image/graphic with annotation, dynamic graphic
presentation by real-time execution of an application program/simulati=
on
model, etc., can be seen in windows on computer screen at students'
sites. Yet these experiences can include high levels of interaction a=
nd
feedback (via email, fax, etc.) amongst students and instructors.
11:50 to 11:55 General questions
11:55 to 12:00 Closing remarks by Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, President of Global
University/USA
PARTICIPATION:
The computer screen will be uplinked for worldwide broadcast. If you
have a satellite downlink facility and our satellite foot-prints cover your
area, you can receive our satellite signal. You can also participate with
your personal computer and/or workstation which are directly connected to
TCP/IP oriented Internet without use of satellite nor dish antenna.
Other than participation fee, all participants have to be responsible
for the costs of (1) down/uplinking from/to satellites; (2) telephone call t=
o
a videoconference center at the U. of TN for Q&A; and (3) sending fax to the
center for backstage coordination.
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* New "Resume / Jobs Wanted" service
We are pleased to announce a new "Resume / Jobs Wanted" service on the
"Friends & Partners" World Wide Web server. We have had many requests over
the last several months from people who would like to post jobs wanted and
resumes related to work between our countries.
As you can imagine, this could become a time intensive service to maintain=
and thus, we have had to try to devise a completely automated mechanism in=
which people can post their interests and their offers via email -- and=
requiring little or no human intervention.
John Gerber, in our office, has developed a very good mechanism for
accommodating the automatic posting of material to our server via email.
We have this mechanism in place now to accommodate the posting of positions
wanted / resumes and would like to offer that to you. Material will be
posted under the services page under a new option you will find there
called "Resumes and Positions Wanted". To post your information to this
new service, please use the following instructions:
1. Send your email message to "autopost@solar.rtd.utk.edu".
2. The subject of your email message must be one of the following:
new resume
replace resume
delete resume
A subject other one these three will, unfortunately, result in your mail
being returned to you.
3. Please use the following form for posting your information. Please
copy this form and use it exactly as is, providing your information
directly underneath each of the lines provided below.
Name: (last, first middle)
Expiration Date: (when resume should be deleted)
Brief description of position wanted: (10 words or less)
Longer description of position wanted: (as long as you wish)
Resume:
4. Please make sure that your name is entered last, first middle.
5. As soon as your information is received (if the subject line is correct
and if the form provided is correct) it will immediately be posted to the se=
rver.
6. If you later decide you would like to change something about your
resume, just send a new form to autopost@solar.rtd.utk.edu with the subject
"replace resume". (You will have to send this from the same email account
from which you posted your original resume.)
7. Finally, if you wish to delete your resume, please send an email
message to autopost@solar.rtd.utk.edu with the subject line "delete resume"
and your name. For example:
Subject: delete resume
Name: (last, first middle)
Doe, John
We are very happy to be able to offer this service and hope that it will be
useful to the many who have requested. Obviously, this is just a "first=
step". We'll have to wait and see how this will develop . . . Our only=
request is that material posted here should be at least somewhat related to=
the objectives of this service (supporting cooperation / friendship between=
the people of the US and former Soviet Union) and, thus, obviously, this=
cannot become a general purpose "jobs" service.
We regret that we cannot verify the validity of information that people may=
provide. This is strictly a "bulletin board" service which we hope people=
will find beneficial.
If this is successful and if there is continued interest, we will soon offer=
a corresponding "Jobs/Positions Offered" listing in which companies and=
organizations can post announcements of open positions.
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: Tony Byrne - IREX (tbyrne@access.digex.net)
Subject: RTAP deadline extended
**DEADLINE EXTENDED**DEADLINE EXTENDED**DEADLINE EXTENDED**
RUSSIAN TEACHING ASSISTANTS PROGRAM
***** DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1994 *****
To request an application form or receive additional
information about the program, please contact Susan Pelton:
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD
1616 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 628-8188 Fax: (202) 628-8189
E-mail: irex@gwuvm.gwu.edu
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) has
administered academic exchanges with the former Soviet Union
and Central and Eastern Europe since 1968, and promotes
innovative formats for scholarly and policy cooperation with
the region. IREX is pleased to introduce the Russian
Teaching Assistants Program (RTAP), a new program sponsored
by the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch of the United
States Information Agency, which will pair 60 Russian
participants with U.S. universities to serve as teaching
assistants during the 1994-95 academic year.
The program will provide participants with the
opportunity to take an active part in the teaching process
at U.S. academic institutions and to become familiar with
the most up-to-date U.S. teaching methods, aids, curricula
and technology at both the secondary and post-secondary
levels. Participants will also enroll in two or three
courses per semester to broaden their understanding of their
fields of specialization and/or American culture and
society. Teaching assistants may also serve as resource
persons in departments of Russian language and culture,
either as occasional lecturers in courses related to the
Russian language, society, and culture, or via other
innovative formats.
APPLICATION AND PLACEMENT PROCESS
The RTAP program will invite 60 Russian participants to
come to the U.S., with 50 participants awarded 10-month (2
semester) programs, and 10 participants awarded 6-month (1
semester) programs. The initial review of Russian
applicants will be carried out in Moscow by a selection
panel of U.S. education specialists.
U.S. two- and four-year colleges, universities and
technical schools will submit completed applications to host
Russian participants to IREX by THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1994. A
selection committee consisting of four U.S. post-secondary
educators will determine the best matchings between Russian
participants and U.S. institutions. Committee members
reviewing U.S. institution applications to place Russian
candidates will make recommendations based on:
1) disciplinary interests and strengths of each applicant
and host institution;
2) availability and appropriateness of courses in which
participants can enroll while working as teaching
assistants;
3) host institution's ability to provide cost sharing;
4) strength and appropriateness of the host institution's
plan to utilize participants in a teaching capacity and
as resource persons outside the department affiliation;
and
5) overall distribution of teaching assistants at
institutions, including geographic distribution and
placement.
THE RUSSIAN PARTICIPANT
Russian participants will be initially tested, screened
and selected by qualified educators and USIA personnel
in Moscow, and further screened in Washington by IREX
personnel in cooperation with USIA program staff.
Participants will:
1) currently be in graduate programs or recently graduated
from pedagogical institutions;
2) have a sufficient command of English to perform teaching
assistant tasks; and
3) be primarily specialists in the field of English as a
second language, although a limited number may be in the
social sciences and business education.
FINANCES
USIA provides the following financial support for the
participants' stay in the United States:
TRAVEL: ROUND-TRIP INTERNATIONAL AIRFARE TO HOST
INSTITUTION
STIPEND: MODEST MONTHLY STIPEND
GENERAL: BOOK, COMPUTER, AND "SETTLING IN" ALLOWANCE
INSURANCE: FULL MEDICAL INSURANCE WITH MAXIMUM $50,000
COVERAGE
Host institutions are requested to fully waive tuition
and fees for two or three courses per semester, and are
highly encouraged to provide cost-sharing for room, board,
scholarships, and other contributions. U.S. hosts are
asked to provide access to libraries, archives, department
events and university activities. USIA funding is not
designed to cover the full cost of the participants'
program.
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Sender: eaig164@orion.oac.uci.edu (Stephen J. Schilt)
Subject: Business opportunities
I noted with interest that you are receiving inquiries from the Ukraine
regarding business opportunities. I am an importer and would like very
much to make some new contacts in the former Soviet Union. My major areas
of interest are toys, garments and fashion accessories. However I am
interested in any thing that can be profitable for both parties. I would
appreciate it if you would post this letter so that concerned parties could
contact me through e-mail.
Many thanks.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
x Stephen J. Schilt Tel: (714)836-4344 x
x eaig164@orion.oac.uci.edu Fax: (714)836-8308 x
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sender: Paula Lytle (lytle@lclark.edu)
Subject: Marketing Texts
A group of Russian entrepreneurs recently spent about 5 weeks here in
Portland, OR under a USIA grant. They combined internships with some
classroom instructions, as well as a mini-trade show showcasing the
various companies. Of the 25 at least 2 have already established
partnerships with American hosts that have specific plans to continue
after the return to Russia. Frankly, this whole experience was one of
the most upbeat things I have seen out of Russia in a while.
A somewhat surprising source of frustration is that there was a
rather serious lack of communication on the subject of distribution of
products. There were aspects of the wholesale/retail chain and channels
of distribution marketing. In retrospect, it becomes obvious that the
American instructors and course materials worked on the basic assumption
that the goods exist and need to be channelled, while the Russian
businesspeople worked on the assumption of chronic shortage.
Does anyone know of a good marketing text that explains this
well? Availability in Russian is ideal but not neccessary.
Thanks for your help.
Michael Segal
(P.S. I am on a pine server. Does anyone know how to place my name,
rather than my wife's in the "from" line?)
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=46rom: jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith)
Subject: Conference
I am a Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University and have
been asked to be on the organizing committee for the Parallel
Computing Technologies (PaCT) conference in Russia in 1996.
Past conferences in this series have been first-rate --- roughly
comparable to the IEEE conferences on parallel processing, so it is a
real pleasure to be on the organizing committee. I am concerned about
the possibility of finding funding/sponsorship for this conference. I
would very much appreciate any pointers people might have to possible
sources of funding. These could be government programs, corporate
sponsors, etc.
Thank you!
--
______________________________________________________________________
|
Time blows wildly against my door | Justin R. Smith
Stirring discarded sorrows | Department of Mathematics and
Like dead leaves of summers past | Computer Science
Memories of forgotten lore | Drexel University
Making way for new tomorrows | Philadelphia, PA 19104
New hopes, new fears, |
and new ways that last | Office: (215) 895-1847
|
c Justin R. Smith, March 14, 1994 | Fax: (215) 895-2070
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Sender: Mark Mounts (MMOUNTS@lib.auburn.edu)
Subject: Coping skills w/o subject background
This message has been cross posted. Please excuse any duplication.
I am doing research into the coping skills of librarians assigned
reference, online searching, and/or collection development duties in
subject areas for which the librarian doesn't have course work or
degrees. I am particularly interested in science and/or engineering
librarians, and their methods for coping with unfamiliar subjects. I
am a science librarian who has subject knowledge in math and physics,
but I am assigned chemistry, computer science, and engineering also.
I have my own coping skills, but I would like to learn what others
do and to formulate strategies for general use. I would appreciate
any and all responses, and I would be happy to summarize back to the
list(s) all responses.
Send responses to mmounts@lib.auburn.edu
Thanks in advance,
Mark Mounts
Science and Technology Librarian
RBD Library
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
205-844-1746
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APPENDIX
FRIENDS is a free service started by friends in Russia and the
United States. This Listserv is one element of that service.
To subscribe to FRIENDS (if someone has passed you a copy of this
announcement), just send an email message to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
consisting of *one line* of the following format:
SUBSCRIBE FRIENDS firstname lastname
and substitute your first and last names for 'firstname lastname'
To unsubscribe from FRIENDS, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE FRIENDS to:
listproc@solar.rtd.utk.edu
To post a message to FRIENDS, send it to:
friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
Please address any comments, questions, or suggestions to your
moderators:
Natasha Bulashova, natasha@ibpm.serpukhov.su
Greg Cole, gcole@solar.rtd.utk.edu