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	Battle Creek, MI, June 6, 2001 ACT's Dan Atkins, Kate Williams, Kara Lock, and Vlad Wielbut participated in this event, whose stated purpose was to "bring together Kellogg program staff and invited participants to exchange information about technology that is useful to solving community problems and enhancing organizational effectiveness", with an exhibit entitled: "Collaboration Technology on the Cheap"
	May 30-31, 2001 at the University of Michigan Deba Dutta (Professor, U of M College of Engineering) and Vlad Wielbut (Community Technology Specialist, ACT) gave a talk entitled: "Team-Teaching and Team-Learning on a Global Scale".
	Spring-Summer 2001 Alliance for Community Technology will conduct four experimental workshops to be launched over this time period. Each of these workshops will consist of three 60-minute sessions (one session per week) conducted entirely online via Placeware, a Web conferencing application.
	Detroit Club, Detroit, MI, March 13, 2001 Vlad Wielbut represented ACT in a panel of experts invited to speak at the Detroit Area Grantmakers' meeting organized by the Council of Michigan Foundations.
	February-March 2001 Report on a Library Tour of Cuba.
	November 2000 Vlad Wielbut of ACT visited his native Poland. He traveled to three cities in Poland, where he gave guest lectures about current state of the art in distance education technology, illustrated with detailed descriptions of ongoing experiments in this arena at the University of Michigan: the "Globalization and the Information Society" seminar of Prof. Derrick Cogburn and the "Global Product Realization" course of Prof. Debasish Dutta.
	September 20, 2000, Dearborn, MI. Vlad Wielbut represented ACT at the America On the Net town hall meeting that took place there. This initiative of the Internet Policy Institute is an ongoing attempt to engage American public, business community, and policymakers in a discussion of the leading issues related to the Internet.
	May 12-13, 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan This website detailes the events of the workshop, which forged a strategy for improving the quality of software applications available to organizations that serve their communities but have limited resources.
	April 21, 2000 A full day workshop for a group of staff and grantees from the Mott Foundation exposed participants to a number of tools to support distance-independent learning, online collaboration and communication.
	Los Angeles, CA, March 16, 2000 ACT's Vlad Wielbut was one of four panelists in a session entitled "Crafting Virtual Collaboration: Cross-national (U.S. and Africa) Learning Teams" at the 41st Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention.
	1999 This site was created for professionals working with youth or with technology and youth—practitioners, researchers, policymakers, philanthropists—and anyone else interested in seeing technology used effectively to serve young people.
	October 17-20, 1999 ACT's close involvement with NITI lead to an invitation to host an information booth and give a presentation at this convention.
	Fall, 1999 The W. K. Kellogg Foundation has provided funds to the Alliance for Community Technology to assist AIHEC (American Indian Higher Education Consortium) colleges with their use of technology. The AIHEC Board of Directors at its Fall, 1999, meeting in Oklahoma City voted to focus this part of the whole technology effort on the virtual library.
	August 8-14, 1999 In preparation for ACT's planned involvement in the Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI), Vlad Wielbut undertook this exploratory trip to the National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI) in Santa Fe, NM.
	May 12, 1999, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI The University of Michigan's Teaching and Technology Collaborative sponsored "Enriching Scholarship", a week-long series of seminars, workshops, demonstrations and open houses on the integration of information and technology in teaching and learning. ACT contributed to this event by presenting a detailed report on the recently concluded experiment in distance-independent education, the Globalization and the Information Society Seminar.
	Web presentation, May 11, 1999 The Alliance for Community Technology sponsored a Web presentation entitled "Sites of Resistance: Pedagogy and the Web" by Gina Hausknecht, Jeannine Hammond, and Christa Dickson from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
	August 17-18, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI CHICO (Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach) prepared and hosted this event as an opportunity for teachers and museum professionals to come together to learn how to optimize the use of cultural resources in the classroom, with an emphasis on digital collaborations.
	May 4, 1999, Detroit, MI On May 4th, 1999, ACT's Daniel E. Atkins and Vlad Wielbut visited the All Saints Neighborhood Center in Detroit and met with the Center's Executive Director, Mr. Dennis Nordmoe, the Executive Director of the Michigan Neighborhood Partnership, Ms. Charlene T. Johnson, and the Director of Community Health and Development at the Neighborhood Service Organization, Mr. George Miller.
	February 21-24, 1999, Myrtle Beach, SC On the first day of this national conference Lija Bentley and Vlad Wielbut presented a 45-minute talk entitled: "Kicking the Tires: Experimenting with Distance Education Technologies at the University of Michigan School of Information". The talk described two experiments in delivering graduate-level courses to geographically dispersed students through a mixture of Web-based tools, both synchronous and asynchronous. It highlighted the instrumental role of ACT in setting up and supporting the experiments.
	January - April 1999 The Alliance for Community Technology helped launch yet another bold experiment in distance-independent education. Using a cluster of commercially available, Web-based technologies, a course was delivered, simultaneously, to 35 students in 3 different locations: Ann Arbor, MI, Washington, DC, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
	July 28-29 and August 3-4, 1998 , Battle Creek, MI Managing Information with Rural America (MIRA) is a grantmaking initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food Systems/Rural Development program area. It seeks to draw upon the reservoirs of strength, tenacity, and civic commitment in rural communities and to help rural people use information systems and technologies as a tool to meet current and future challenges.
	List of Conferences, Meetings, Workshop, and other events related to Community Technology. Provides dates, locations, and brief descriptions of missions and/or objectives of these events. Events of 2003 Events of 2002 Events of 2001 Events of 2000 Events of 1999 Events of 1998 Events of 1997
	Detailed comparison - in table form - of five leading tools for real-time Web conferencing: WebEx Meeting, Placeware Conference Center, Centra Symposium, LearnLinc, and Microsoft Netmeeting.
	Powerpoint Slides from a lecture given by Daniel E. Atkins on November 16, 1999 at the University of Michigan. The lecture offered a glance at the past uses of Information Technology at institutions of higher learning, and analyzed such trends as Distributed Knowledge Work Environments, Distance-Independent Learning, and Virtual Universities.
	While attending various conferences devoted to online teaching and learning I noticed that many of the individual experiments and implementations presented there had many elements in common. This article is my attempt to step back from the implementation level and gather these common elements into a comprehensive model of online classroom.
	or: How to Teach in Several Places at the Same Time (a technological perspective). An experiment in distance-independent education was launched in January 1999: using a cluster of commercially available, Web-based technologies, a graduate level course was delivered, simultaneously, to 35 students in 3 different locations: Ann Arbor, MI, Washington, DC, and Johannesburg, South Africa. This article gives a detailed account of this experiment.
	Technologies for Creating Complex Learning Environments on the Web. Article by Vlad Wielbut
	Technologies for Creating Complex Learning Environments on the Web. Panel presentation at the 1998 ASIS Conference in Orlando, Fla., May 20, 1998. In RealMedia G2 format -- requires RealMedia G2 player. (Please note: this version is for fast connections. Version for 28.8 kbps modem is also available.)
	Linked list of non-ACT research papers, reports, theses, etc. pertaining to community networks and community technology. From 1997 through 2000. All available online in HTML, PDF, or RealAudio format.