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Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 09:00:26 EST
From: oliver@dhvx20.csudh.edu

Bill's very helpful summary of activities during the New
York workshop reminds me that there are at least two on-line
Internet workshops in progress:  NETTRAIN and HELP-NET.
It seems to me that there was an announcement a couple of
months ago of an on-line workshop (fee for service, as I
recall) headed up by one of our subscribers.

I no longer subscribe to HELP-NET, as the traffic became
too great for me.  Can any of our subscribers bring us
up to date on his/her perception of the usefulness of
HELP-NET as an online Internet/BITNET workshop and
perhaps some information on the other one that was
announced.

Before I end, let me say simply that when I give a workshop
in one of our "connected" classrooms, the group of
participants represents a captive audience for 3-4 hours.
I give them lots of handouts and we go through the material
at a constant rate.  For the ones who are just getting started,
such an experience is frustrating -- they just barely grasp
the ideas associated with one topic before moving on to the
next.  Being able to move at one's own rate of comprehension
on NETTRAIN or HELP-NET seems to me to be a great advantage.
The disadvantage of something like NETTRAIN and HELP-NET
seems to me to get a novice hooked up in the beginning.
I'd be interested to read your thoughts on this.

Oliver