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           Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology
                   Pathways to Learning Communities:
         Connecting Education to the Information Superhighway

On May 8-10, 1994, the Department of Education sponsored the
Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology.

Most of the plenary sessions will be rebroadcast via satellite
by Star Schools projects June 6 through June 9, 1994.  The
preliminary broadcast schedule is included below.

The ED/OERI Gopher Server now has a directory of information
about the conference, including the conference agenda, lists
of speakers, presenters, and state team participants, the text
of Secretary Riley's speech, and descriptions of most of the
networks and resources presented at the conference.

A somewhat different presentation of the same information will
soon be available on the ED/OERI World Wide Web Server,
including live links to many of the resources presented at the
conference.

Gopher/WWW/FTP Access Directions
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The ED/OERI Gopher server can be accessed by pointing your Gopher
client software to:

     gopher.ed.gov

or select:

     North America-->USA-->General-->U.S. Department of Education
     from All/Other Gophers in the World.

For information about the conference, follow the path:

     Department-wide Initiatives (GOALS 2000 ...)/
        Technology/
           Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology (May 8-10, 1994)/

The ED/OERI WWW server can be accessed by pointing your WWW client
software to our uniform resource locator (URL):

     http://www.ed.gov/

FTP users can access the information by ftping to:

     ftp.ed.gov       (logon anonymous)

Please note that we do not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients.
You cannot access our server by telneting to our site.  You must
either have an appropriate Gopher or WWW client, such as NCSA Mosaic
or Lynx, at your site or be able to telnet to a public access client
elsewhere.

If you have any suggestions or questions about the contents of the
Gopher, FTP, and WWW servers, please use one of the following
addresses:

   E-mail:     inetmgr@inet.ed.gov
               gopheradm@inet.ed.gov
               wwwadmin@inet.ed.gov

   Telephone:  (202) 219-1547
   Fax:        (202) 219-1817

   Snail Mail: INet Project Manager
               U.S. Department of Education
               Office of Educational Research and Improvement/EIRD
               555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Room 214
               Washington, D.C.  20208-5725

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                    PRELIMINARY REBROADCAST SCHEDULE
                    Rebroadcast Dates: June 6 - 9, 1994
           THE SECRETARY'S CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
                             MAY 8 - 10, 1994
                     WASHINGTON HILTON & TOWERS HOTEL
                              WASHINGTON, DC

              "Pathways to Learning Communities:  Connecting
                Education to the Information Superhighway"

PART I
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June 6, 1994              3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Eastern)

Keynote Address: Brewster Kahle

  *  Satellite Coordinates: SBS 6; Transponder 12A; Downlink
     Frequency 11.983; Audio 6.2

PART II
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June 7, 1994              1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Eastern)

Speaker:  Richard Riley, Secretary, United States Department of
           Education (Topic: Technology's Role in Goals 2000)

Panel Discussion: (Topic: "Networking for Professional
           Development")

     Panel Members
                Gary Watts, National Education Association
                Judith Harris, University of Texas at Austin
                Douglas Wood, Teacher, Columbia, SC

  *  Satellite Coordinates: Galaxy 4; Transponder 6; Downlink
     Frequency 11.810

PART III
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June 8, 1994             3:30 pm - 5:00 pm (Eastern)

Speaker:  Bonnie Bracey, Teacher Representative, NII Advisory
Council

Panel Discussion: (Topic: "What it Takes to Make it Work")

     Panel Members
                Henry Marockie, Superintendent, West Virginia Dept.
                of Education
                Mitchell Sprague, Teacher, Mendocino, California
                Thomas Minnich, President, Matanuska Telephone
                Association, Alaska
                David Brittain, Florida Department of Education
                Connie Stout, Texas Education Network

  *  Satellite Coordinates: SBS6; Transponder 12A; Downlink
     Frequency 11.983; Audio 6.2

Part IV
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June 9, 1994               3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Eastern)

Special Presentation:      Madeleine Kunin, Deputy Secretary, United
                           States Department of Education

Speaker:  Reed Hundt, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

  *  Satellite Coordinates: SBS6; Transponder 3; Downlink Frequency
     11.774; Audio 6.2/6.8

Satellite Coordinates are subject to change.

The following Star Schools projects will participate in the
broadcast of this four-part series:

     Black College Satellite Network
     Education Service District 101
     Far West Laboratory
     Great Lakes Collaborative
     Los Angeles County Office of Education/TEAMS
     Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications
     Missouri School Boards Association
     Pacific Mountain Network
     Satellite Educational Resources Consortium
     South Carolina Educational Television

Re-broadcast of Parts II and III:

     Wednesday, June 8, 1994 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Eastern)

  *  Satellite Coordinates: SATCOM C1F1; Transponder 22

Re-broadcasts to be announced in the Fall.

            FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE BROADCASTS CONTACT:
                              Tawana Colbert
                       U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
                              (202) 219-2116

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Keith M. Stubbs                                      (voice) 202-219-1803
Director, Education Info. Resources Div.               (fax) 202-219-1817
US Dept of Education/OERI                  Internet:  kstubbs@inet.ed.gov
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW  Rm 214c
Washington, DC  20208-5725

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Gene V Glass                                         glass@asu.edu
College of Education                                 atgvg@asuacad.bitnet
Arizona State University      602-965-2692           Tempe, AZ 85287-2411