Using CREN Virtual Seminars Scenario The Provost, someone you've known for years as each of you moved through the campus administrative structure, tells you at lunch that she'd really like to "get it" about using the World Wide Web. She admits that she is not inclined, however, to attend one of those group sessions for training support staff in basic Internet functionality. Later that day you send a student over to her office with a copy of the "Untangling the Web" CD from CREN's Virtual Seminars series. In the accompanying note you suggest that she "attend" Howard Strauss's 60-minute presentation on "Power Browsing on the World Wide Web." A week later, she returns the CD and tells you that she has just ordered her own copy from the CREN website. Scenario It's Monday morning and you've just received an email message from the your boss letting you know that you are the expert at an 11:00 am meeting on Wednesday of colleagues who are preparing the plan for renovating the old Library Science Building. Your task is to brief the group on current standards for network wiring infrastructures. You are very pleased that you completed the Virtual Seminar on Campus Communications Strategies last week. Even though you are feeling quite confident about current guidelines and standards, you decide to review the presentation.on Guy Jones' "Wiring Infrastructure," again, and also Jones' topic on "Collapsed Backbone Switching." You also find time to check out the web site for the online discussion that featured the strategies being used at other institutions. At the planning meeting on Wednesday you are able to provide current and up-to-date information on network wiring infrastructures, including some alternative strategies and their relative merits. You feel as if you had a personal briefing from Guy Jones and your national colleagues. (Yes, this is fiction, but it could happen!) Contribute to the Virtual Seminars' Evolution When the CREN Future Committee conceived of the CREN Virtual Seminar series, it was with the intent of providing just these kinds of assistance to you and your colleagues on your campus. The primary audience is members of the information technology staffs and leadership at the colleges and universities that are members of CREN. Each member-institution will receive at least two sets of the CDs free and can purchase additional sets at a special member price. As you "attend" the Virtual Seminars, you are also experiencing CREN implementing technological advances in "learning at the desktop," a key element in the development of a perpetual learning paradigm. CREN will keep you informed, by email, newsletter, and with our website, about the planned implementation of website FAQs on the Virtual Seminars, question and answer from the experts via email, and session updates from the presenters. This is not a one-way effort, it needs to be a community effort. Please contribute your part to the evolution of this digital networking learning community by providing your feedback and comments and by getting the CDs into the hands of your colleagues who need them. To top of page

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