From: Laura Lou <lauralou@gatecoms.gatecom.com>
Subject: Re: Checking status
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 17:39:51 -0500
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------------31F74D863495 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ginny wrote: > > Hi, I am hoping that all of you that go to NSTA's National Convention this > week-end will share with those of us that didn't get to go! I would really > like to here about the sessions you went to and anything you are willing to > share about what you learned. Thanks so much, gin Indeed, Ginny, I hope they wiil. I am a little appalled that there is no technological inclusion of those of us who cannot be there in person. A couple of years ago I cyber-attended a convention of one of the school librarian organizations. Our media specialist was attending the other organization's meetings the same week. I had been sent the announcement of this event in email and was anxious to try it out. It was so easy that I have been amazed that no other organization I have contact with has done it. The first evening was a virtual cocktail party in an IRC channel known only to those who registered to attend from a distance. There was a bank of computers at the convention with several monitors visible through the big windows to the attendees passing in the hall outside the media room. Officers, speakers and attendees came and went, introducing themselves to those in the IRC channel. Jokes about passing drinks and appetizers around made the hour or so a lot of fun. Many of the speakers allowed the texts of their presentations to be sent to us via a temporary list. Those e-mailings were scheduled to coincide with the actual presentations. Some attendees wrote reviews of other presentations. Many of the presenters came right to the media room after their last presentation to answer questions from us in an IRC channel. The schedules were emailed to us every morning. There were even commercial exhibitors that offered to mail the same "freebies" to us that the regular attendees were getting. I logged everything and gave it to our media specialist, but she could never have the feeling of actually being there that I had. It was the most exciting weekend (4 days) I ever spent at the keyboard! How about it, Marc? It is do-able! Maybe not this year (wish I had thought to bug Marc about it earlier) but something else must be coming up we can attend from a distance. Anyone who can put together the fantastic day online and on TV that we had in Washington can do this easily! Laura (Michigan) ------------31F74D863495 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Laura Lou Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="nsmailOU.TMP" Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="nsmailOU.TMP" BEGIN:VCARD FN:Laura Lou N:Lou;Laura EMAIL;INTERNET:lauralou@gatecom.com NOTE:Personal Web Page: http://www.gatecom.com/~lauralou X-MOZILLA-HTML:T END:VCARD ------------31F74D863495--