Our NAWeb 98 - The Virtual Campus conference is preceded
by two days of fabulous pre-conference sessions.
Saturday, Oct 3rd
Saturday Full Day Sessions
- Practical Issues in Getting Your Course
On-line - 9:00 am till 3:00 pm, Instructor - Stephen Downes -
Distance Education Instructional Design Specialist *
Assiniboine Community College.
Lunch and nutrition breaks are provided. Full Day
- Beginners Introduction to Java Script - 9 am till 3 pm, instructor - Dr. Weichang Du - Computer Science at UNB.
Lunch and nutrition breaks are provided.
This is NOT a session for people who are into C++, and high-level computer science type programming.
This is for people who are into HTML - doing a little web page design - and want to learn enough JAVA
Script in one day to really spruce up their pages.
Enrollment is limited to 15 for this JAVAScript session.
- Full Day
Saturday Half Day Sessions
-
3D Interfaces and Video in Distance Education This half day presentation will introduce delegates to the possibilities involved with Three Dimensional Interfaces and Video for web-based learning. - 1:00 pm till 4:00 pm, Instructor - Blaine Agnew, System Specialist with Silicon Graphics - Canada. Half Day
- Adaptive Courseware - This half day session will be an in introduction to the technical and pedagogical implications for providing a web based learning environment that tailor's itself to individual needs of students participating in the course. - 1:00 pm till 4:00 pm - Instructor - Dr. Richard Pascoe, Computer and Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand - Half Day
There will be a newsgroup running for those in this Adaptive Courseware session for a few weeks prior to NAWeb 98 conference.
Sunday, Oct 4th
Sunday Full Day Sessions
- Pedagogical Issues in Developing Web-Based Courseware
- 9 am till 3 pm. Instructor - Dr Allan Ellis, Associate
Dean Faculty of Education, Work and Training, Southern Cross
University.
Lunch and nutrition breaks are provided. Full Day
- Advanced CGI Topics - 9:00 am till 3:00 pm.
Lunch and nutrition breaks are provided. Full Day
Instructor - Jeni Li Shoecraft - Webmaster - Arizona State University
Advanced CGI topics will include:
- special headers (including refresh/expire, date, location, cookie, server push)
- techniques for keeping state ("remembering" user entry and session-specific information)
- handling in-process cancellation (when the user clicks "cancel" in the middle of your process)
- maybe, using CGI with other techniques (e.g., JavaScript, Shockwave)
- tons of troubleshooting tips from the field (including differences in popular servers and browsers)
- perl source code you can steal, um, adapt from Jeni at will
Sunday Half Day Sessions
- Being
Seen on the WWW - 9:00 am till 12:00 noon - Instructor - Richard
Seltzer - author of Alta Vista Search Revolution . Richard
is the Internet Evangelist for Compaq,
formerly Digital- Boston. - Half Day
- Beginners Introduction to On-Line Web-based Testing
- 9:00 am till 12:00 noon Instructor - Dr. Peter Sephton -
Department of Economics at UNB -
Author and Instructor of ECON1013 and ECON1023 - Half Day
Pre-Conference Fee/Payment Information
The Pre-Conference fee schedule remains the same as 1997 and is as follows:
- Pre-conference (one day session) - $150.00 CDN
- Pre-conference (half day session) - $85.00 CDN