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2nd Online conference on the Congress on Professional Education
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karen Muller)
Fri Apr 9 20:02:15 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:19:23 -0600
From: Karen Muller <kmuller@ala.org>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Posting on behalf of Ken Haycock (and widely so, so please accept
apologies when you get a gazillion of these!)
The second online conference in relation to the Congress on
Professional Education is MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1999 - 5-6:30 pm Central
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The Steering Committee for the Congress on Professional Education
invites your participation in the second online conference to discuss
issues relevant to the Congress. The conference is scheduled for
Monday, April 12, 1999, 5-6:30pm CDT. Dr. Fred Roper of the
University of South Carolina will lead the Discussion on Issues in
library and Information Studies Education.
Here are some instructions that will help you participate in the
online LIS_Education conference:
(1) We recommend that you use a JavaScript-enabled browser such as
Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or
higher.
(2) Sign up in advance by pointing your web browser to
http://webboard.ala.org:8080/~1/new
You will be asked to fill out a form with name, password, email
address, etc.
If you set up a WebBoard username and password for the first
CoPE live conference, you need not do so again. However, if you do
not remember your username or password, simply register anew with a
new username and password. We cannot give out password information
over the phone or by email, simply because we do not know users'
passwords. If you would like to change your password, click PROFILES
in the black Menubar, then click Change your personal profile at the
top of the Message Window.
(3) At the scheduled conference time, point your web browser to
http://webboard.ala.org:8080/
To log on, you will be asked to enter the user name and password you
established in step (2).
There will only be one active conference. On Monday, April 12, it
will be called LIS_Education. Click on the name of the conference to
enter.
The conference will be moderated, which means that any message you
post will first be viewed by a moderator, who will either post the
message as is, edit it and then post it, or delete it without editing
or posting it.
There are three major parts to the WebBoard screen: the Menubar
(across the top), the Conference List (left) and the Message Window
(right).
-- Use the Menubar to access the functions of the conference.
-- The Conference List contains a list of all active conferences (in
this case, only one) and all messages posted to those lists. If you
see a + sign in a square next to a message, it means there are more
messages pertaining to that message. Click on the + sign to see all
relevant messages. When you click on a message in the Conference
List, it will appear with the rest of the messages in its "thread" in
the Message Window (right side of your screen).
-- In the Message Window you may read and reply to messages, post
new messages, email the person who posted the message, etc. (buttons
for doing so are found in the light blue bars at the top of each
message in the Message Window.
WebBoard should refresh the Conference List (showing new messages)
every 10 seconds. If there has been no activity for some time, click
on the REFRESH button in the black menu bar just to make sure. Please
do not click REFRESH more frequently than every 10 seconds, though, as
it will degrade performance for everyone.
Online help is available by clicking on the HELP button in the black
Menubar.
Please note that live chat will be disabled for this conference in
order to avoid confusion and keep the discussion focused.
At the end of the conference, you must close down your browser to
fully exit WebBoard. This is especially important if you are
participating from a public terminal, since failure to shut down the
browser will leave it connected to the conference under your
username.
Please note that this live conference will discuss ONLY Library and
Information Science Education and will be of limited duration (1.5
hours). Those wishing to participate in other ALA discussion lists
should visit http://www.ala.org/membership/lists.html to see a list of
available lists and to read instructions on how to subscribe to those
lists.
-- Karen Muller
Executive Director, LAMA/ALCTS
50 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611 USA
800-545-2433 x5031
312-280-5031 (direct line)
fax: 312-280-5033
e-mail: kmuller@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/alcts
http://www.ala.org/lama
