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Landra.  It looks like I will not be able to make it to Springfield.  I always
teach summer semester (at Univ. Maryland) and that is the weekend before finals.
Teaching via distance education involves a quite different set of review/final
activities.  I would like to be active on the Leadership Committee; tell me how
I can help.  Just now, I 'm preparing to invite 20 members from Asia-Pacific
region for the Int'l Div. Leadership Project in Anaheim, which I think I dis-
scibed to you.  I'm also developing a list of Presidents of ed. tech. associa-
tions outside the US and hope to interest them in becoming members (a handful
are already) by featuring them at the 1997 conference.  Meanwhile the Int'l Div.
will report on their activities, exchange publications, and encourage
membership. There is another group  of "leaders" that the curriculum committee
has been courting for years to no avail; the "U.S. univ. ed. tech. dept. chairs"
and ed. tech. professors in general. During my interview for graduate school
(PhD ed.tech at U. of MD) the Prog. Director asked if I was a member of then
DAVI, I said "yes", he said, get active in that association if you want to get
a degree from me; ("Yes. sir, and I did")  I've heard that story from a few
members who studied in the 1970s, but not since.  I'd really like to find a way
to get the leading professors on our team, not that we have none, but too few.
Of the chairs whose curriculum we print in the directory, 168 U.S. univ., less
than 10% belong to AECT. Could the Leadership Committee work with the
Curriculum Committee, new Chair is Tom Schwen, Dept. Chair I.U.?  The Prof.
of Instructional Development and Technology (PIDT) are holding their annual
retreat, which is sort of an continuation of Okobojii, May 13-16 at I.U.
Approx. 200 attend. I will be there. I guess I'm not even sure this fits your
committee's mandate, that is, bring existing leaders into the assoc. rather
than developing leaders. I think both activities could be addressed.  If you
see some potential in this please let me know. Contact Tom Schwen at e-mail:
pidt@indiana.edu. if you want.  Looking forward to your reply. Jenny