Conmergence

OnMedia 2010 Speaker Line-up
• Mark Cuban, Chairman, HDNet & Owner, Dallas Mavericks
• Walt Frazier, Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee & Commentator, MSG
• Jon Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corporation
• Jim Lanzone, CEO, Clicker
• Avner Ronen, CEO, Boxee
• Peter Hirshberg, Co-founder & Chairman, The Conversation Group
• Fred Graver, Founder of iLarious & Award-winning TV Writer
• Jay MacDonald, Partner, DeSilva + Phillips
• Ryan Steelberg, CEO, Brand Affinity Technologies
• Craig Roah, Founder & COO, Rubicon Project
• Paul Palmieri, CEO, Millennial Media
• Quincy Smith, Partner, Code Advisors
• Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia
• Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
• Jessica Vascellaro, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
• Greg Coleman, President & Chief Revenue Officer, Huffington Post
• Steven Kydd, Executive Vice President, Demand Media
• Gilbert Fuchsberg, President, Skiff
• Ken Krick, Partner, KPMG
• Iain Scholnick, CEO, Imagespan
• Sam Angus, Partner, Fenwick & West
• Bob Davis, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
• Alan Patricof, Founder & Managing Director, Greycroft Partners
• Michael Greeley, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
• Andy Goldfarb, Executive Managing Director, Globespan Capital Partners
• David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Internet & Technology, Fortune
• Eric Wheeler, CEO, 33Across
• Tom Phillips, CEO, Media6Degrees
• Jessica Schell, SVP, NBC Universal
• Dan Rose, VP Business Development & Monetization, Facebook
• Jay Hallberg, CEO, Spiceworks
• Drew Stein, COO, IMO Entertainment
• Brian O’Kelley, CEO, AppNexus
• Lexi Reese, Director Content Network, Google
• Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic
• Amiad Solomon, CEO, Peer39
• Mike Monahan, Partner, KPMG
• David Pakman, Partner, Venrock
• Ian Sigalow, Principal, Greycroft Partners
• Warren Lee, Venture Partner, Canaan Partners
• Amish Jani, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
• Bo Yaghmaie Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
• Jai Haissman, CEO, Affective Interfaces
• Konrad Feldman, CEO, Quantcast
• Steve Goldman, CEO, Ace Metrix
• Eric Best, CEO, Mercent
• Joe Zawadzki, CEO, MediaMath
• Jon Carson, CEO, BiddingForGood.com
• Brian Hughes, Partner, KPMG
• Carol Cone, Chairman & Founder, Cone
• Joe Marchese, President & Founder, SocialVibe
• Atul Bagga, VP, ThinkEquity
• Nir Eyal, CEO, AdNectar
• Kevin Xu, COO, IGG
• Mitch Davis, CEO, Live Gamer
• Alex St. John, President & CTO, hi5
• Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, All Things Digital, Wall Street Journal
• Bill Rusitzky, Head Strategic Alliances Group, Adobe
• Bryan Perez, SVP & GM of Digital, NBA
• Jason Glickman, CEO, Tremor Media
• Joy Marcus, U.S. Head, DailyMotion
• Ron Yekutiel, CEO, Kaltura
• Doug Scott, President, OgilvyEntertainment
• Michael Siegenthaler, Director, MSN Branded Entertainment & Experiences Team, Microsoft
• Jordan Levin, CEO, Generate
• Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer
• Janet Cullum, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
• Sergio Monsalve, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
• Richard de Silva, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners
• Gerry Campbell, CEO, Collecta
• Sean Morgan, CEO, Critical Media
• Mike Kwatinetz, General Partner, Azure Capital
• Victor Boyajian, Global Chair, Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group
• Rick Heitzmann, Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
• Satya Patel, Partner, Battery Ventures
• Woody Benson, Partner, Prism VentureWorks
• George John, CEO, RocketFuel
• Greg Stuart, Former CEO, IAB
• Calvin Lui, CEO, Tumri
• Shiv Singh, VP, Razorfish
• Adam Oliveri, MD, Private Company Market, SecondMarket
• Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
• Rachel Lam, SVP, Time Warner Ventures
• Joe Josephson, Partner, Union Square Advisors
• John Gardner, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
• David Horowitz, Managing Director, Comcast Interactive Capital
• Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus & Kristin Ganong, VP, Diageo
• Max Herrnstein, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
• Michael Katz, President & Founder, InterCLICK
• Carl Fremont, EVP & Global Media Director, Digitas
• Michael Barrett, CEO, AdMeld
• Matt Seiler, Global CEO, Universal McCann
• Prashant Nedungadi, CEO, IM Shopping
• Siva Kumar, CEO, TheFind
• Stefan Weitz, Director Bing Search Team, Microsoft
• June Bower, VP Marketing, Cisco
• Jeff Litvack, GM, Mobile & Emerging Products, Associated Press
• Michael Moroney, SVP Digital, TBA Global
• Dave Courtney, CEO, JiWire
• Frank Barbieri, CEO, Transpera
• Tolman Geffs, Managing Director, JEGI
• Jon Hsu, CEO, 24/7 RealMedia & Head B3, WPP
• Omar Tawakol, CEO, BlueKai
• Chad Little, CEO, FetchBack
• Peder Magee, Senior Attorney, Division of Privacy & Identity Protection, FTC
• Jeff Hirsch, CEO, Audience Science

CEO Showcases
• Moshe Vaknin, CEO, Todacell
• Phil Fernandez, CEO, Marketo
• George John, CEO, Rocket Fuel
• Scott Silk, CEO, SeeWhy
• Rahul Sonad, CEO, Geodelic
• Jeff Hirsch, CEO, AudienceScience
• Jaan Janes, CEO, Pulse360
• Oded Itzhak, CEO, AdSide
• Ben Kartzman, CEO, Spongecell
• Kirby Winfield, CRO, AdXpose
• Calvin Lui, CEO, Tumri
• Roger Wood, CEO, OrcaOne
• Jay Kulkarni, CEO, Theorem
• Rajeev Goel, CEO, PubMatic
• Pamela Springer, CEO, Manta Media
• Michael McNabb, CEO, Voyage.tv
• Boris Fridman, CEO, Crisp Wireless
• Michael Lee, CEO, Thoora
• Eric Conn, CEO, Gloto
• Walter Doyle, CEO, uLocate Communications
• Siva Kumar, CEO, TheFind
• George Garrick, CEO, OfferPal Media
• Chris Boone, CEO, Visuvi
• John Federman, CEO, Searchandise Commerce
• Al McGowan, CEO, Redlasso
• Marc Shedroff, VP Partnerships, Cooliris
• John Straw, CEO, Linkdex
• Mark Watkins, CEO, Goby
• Kimbal Musk, CEO, OneRiot
• Christine Marie, CEO,Gingerbread Media
• Bettina Bennett, CEO, WhichBox Media
• Steven Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net
• Dave Otten, CEO, LongTail Video
• Alex Mashinsky, CEO, GroundLink

Now is the time to keep your business and personal brand visible in front of the top customers, prospects, and partners that are the most important to you, while your competitors are still recovering from 2009. OnMedia is a great place to meet the most innovative companies and top investors in digital media.

We look forward to the prospect of seeing you tomorrow night when we kick off OnMedia 2010!

Tony Perkins
Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn
tp@alwayson-network.com

Arden Pennell
OnMedia Program Director and Editor, Venture Capital, AlwaysOn
arden@alwayson-network.com

For more information on group rates or to purchase tickets at the lowest possible price over the phone, please contact John Schwartz at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at john@alwayson-network.com.

To find out how your company can join AlwaysOn’s distinguished group of sponsors and for detailed information on the CEO Showcase opportunity, please contact Marc Sternberg at 310.403.3330 or e-mail him at marc@alwayson-network.com.

S 1714 IS
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1714
To authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 24, 2009
Mr. DURBIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘Open College Textbook Act of 2009’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The growth of the Internet has enabled the creation and sharing of open content, including open educational resources.
(2) The President has proposed a new, significant Federal investment in the creation of online open-source courses for community colleges that will make learning more accessible, adaptable, and affordable for students.
(3) The President has challenged the United States with a goal of having the highest college graduation rate in the world by 2020.
(4) More than 80 percent of the 23,000,000 jobs that will be created in the next 10 years will require postsecondary education, but only 36 percent of all 18- to 24-year-olds are currently enrolled in postsecondary education.
(5) The high cost of college textbooks continues to be a barrier for many students in achieving higher education, and according to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 200,000 qualified students fail to enroll in college each year due to cost.
(6) The College Board reported that for the 2007-2008 academic year an average student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies.
(7) Making high quality open textbooks freely available to the general public could significantly lower college textbook costs and increase accessibility to such education materials.
(8) Open textbooks can improve learning and teaching by creating course materials that are more flexible, adaptable, and accessible through the use of technology.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) DIRECTOR- The term ‘Director’ means the Director of the National Science Foundation.
(2) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION- The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
(3) OPEN LICENSE- The term ‘open license’ means an irrevocable intellectual property license that grants the public the right to access, customize, and distribute a copyrighted material.
(4) OPEN TEXTBOOK- The term ‘open textbook’ means a textbook or set of course materials in electronic format designed for use in a college course at an institution of higher education that is licensed under an open license.
(5) SECRETARY- The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Education.
SEC. 4. GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) Grants Authorized- From the amounts appropriated under subsection (i), the Secretary is authorized to award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to carry out the activities described in this section, including creating, updating, or adapting open textbooks. The Secretary shall award grants in a manner that will result in the creation of a comprehensive slate of high quality course materials for introductory courses in a variety of subject areas.
(b) Eligible Entity- In this section, the term ‘eligible entity’ means–
(1) an institution of higher education;
(2) a professor or group of professors at an institution of higher education; or
(3) a nonprofit or for-profit organization that produces open textbooks.
(c) Duration- Grants awarded under this section shall be 1 year in duration.
(d) Applications-
(1) IN GENERAL- Each eligible entity desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
(2) CONTENTS- Each application submitted under paragraph (1) shall include a description of the project to be completed with grant funds and–
(A) a plan for quality review and review of accuracy of content;
(B) a plan for access to ensure the widest possible availability of the digital version of the open textbook;
(C) a plan for distribution and adoption of the open textbook to ensure the widest possible adoption of the open textbook in postsecondary courses, including, where applicable, a marketing plan or a plan to partner with for-profit or nonprofit organizations to assist in marketing and distribution; and
(D) a plan for tracking and reporting formal adoptions of the open textbook within postsecondary institutions, including an estimate of the number of students impacted by the adoptions.
(e) Special Consideration- In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give special consideration to applications that demonstrate the greatest potential to produce–
(1) the highest quality and most marketable open textbooks;
(2) open textbooks that correspond to the highest enrollment courses at institutions of higher education;
(3) open textbooks that are easily utilized by faculty members at institutions of higher education; and
(4) open textbooks created in partnership with for-profit or nonprofit organizations to assist in marketing and distribution.
(f) Uses of Grants-
(1) OPEN TEXTBOOKS- An eligible entity that receives a grant under this section shall–
(A) create a new open textbook for use in postsecondary coursework;
(B) update an open textbook for use in postsecondary coursework; or
(C) adapt a textbook into an open format for use in postsecondary coursework.
(2) LICENSE- An open textbook created, updated, or adapted under paragraph (1) shall be licensed through an open license.
(3) ACCESSIBILITY- The full and complete digital content of each open textbook created, updated, or adapted under paragraph (1) shall be–
(A) posted on an easily accessible and interoperable website, which site shall be identified to the Secretary by the eligible entity; and
(B) made available free of charge to, and may be downloaded, redistributed, changed, revised, or otherwise altered by, any member of the general public.
(g) Review Process- The Secretary shall develop a peer review and evaluation process in consultation with the Director to ensure that open textbooks created, updated, or adapted under this section are of the highest quality, accurate in content, and meet or exceed market quality and accessibility standards.
(h) Report- Upon an eligible entity’s completion of a project supported under this section, the eligible entity shall prepare and submit a report to the Secretary regarding all project costs, including the value of any volunteer labor and institutional capital used for the project.
(i) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 to carry out this section for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as are necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.
SEC. 5. LICENSING MATERIALS WITH A FEDERAL CONNECTION.
(a) In General- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, educational materials such as curricula and textbooks created through grants distributed by Federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, for use in elementary, secondary, or postsecondary courses shall be licensed under an open license.
(b) Accessibility- The full and complete digital content of each of the materials created as described in subsection (a) shall be–
(1) posted on an easily accessible and interoperable website, which site shall be identified to the Secretary by the grant recipient; and
(2) made available free of charge to, and may be downloaded, redistributed, changed, revised, or otherwise altered by, any member of the general public.
SEC. 6. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that institutions of higher education should encourage the consideration of open textbooks by professors within the generally accepted principles of academic freedom that established the right and responsibility of faculty members, individually and collectively, to select course materials that are pedagogically most appropriate for their classes.
SEC. 7. REPORT TO CONGRESS.
Not later than September 30, 2015, the Secretary shall prepare and submit a report to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives detailing–
(1) the open textbooks created, updated, or adapted under this Act;
(2) the adoption of such open textbooks; and
(3) the savings generated for students, States, and the Federal Government though the use of open textbooks.

Dana:

You are spot on about the farm team. The big “biz model mystery” is that now that the IT infrastructure is commoditized and cloudified and google adified and as readers create their own content, they have figured out from whence the “value add”. It is the producer of the content which should be compensated not the manager of the producer nor the manager’s manager. (What would the world be like in the challenge of STEM education if the engineers got paid, rather than the C-Suite — mysterious biz model challenges, indeed.)

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Every Monday; networking from 6:30-7:00pm; meeting from 7:00-8:30pm; BUMC, 309 Franklin Road, Brentwood
IT Career Network (IT SPECIFIC)
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START DATE TO BE DETERMINED, 2nd & 4th Mondays
MT-SHRM Career Transition Group (HR SPECIFIC)
Barbara Stewart
Every other Monday, Right Management, Brentwood
Career Connection, Murfreesboro
Randy Allen, 898-8081 x147
Every Monday, Rutherford County Career Center, 9:00 – 10:30am
Hermitage Career Group
Paul Henrie, 833-9318
Every Tuesday, 10:00-11:00am, Hermitage United Methodist Church
Careers Moving Forward
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2nd & 4th Tuesday night, 6:30 – 8:30pm, Long Hollow Baptist Church, Hendersonville
Joelton Career Transition Group
615.876.0527
Every Tues at 7:00pm in room 1102 at Joelton First Baptist Church 7140 Whites Creek Pike
Career Transition Partners (BRENTWOOD)
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Every Wedn, 7:00-8:30pm, Room A206, Clearview Baptist Church, 537 Franklin Road, Franklin
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In the interest of transparency, starting in January 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is making available to the public the HIT Policy Committee and the HIT Standards Committee workgroups’ deliberations.

All workgroup meetings will be available via webcast; for instructions on how to listen via telephone or Web visit http://healthit.hhs.gov. (Note that the majority of the workgroups’ meetings will be available both via phone or web, except when indicated otherwise.)

Please check the ONC website for additional information as it becomes available since any last minute additions or modifications to previously announced workgroup meetings cannot always be published in the Federal Register to provide timely notice.

In addition, audio files (.mp3) of FACA Committee meetings and the workgroup meetings will be available on the ONC website within 24 to 48 hours following the conclusion of each meeting.  A draft transcript of the meetings will be available within 5 to 8 business days. All transcripts will be marked and considered “draft” until they are reviewed and approved by the committee or workgroup members.

Contact Person: Judy Sparrow, Office of the National Coordinator, HHS, 330 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20201, 202-205-4528, Fax: 202-690-6079, email: judy.sparrow@hhs.gov  Please call the contact person or visit the ONC website for up-to-date information on these meetings.

We are delighted to announce the release of the version #5 of SocialCalc activity on Sugar. We have introduced a number of features in SocialCalc on Sugar since the last community release -

1. Localization in Spanish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese (simplified), French, German and Portuguese.
2. Ability to read and edit single sheet Excel .xls files.
3. Sharing of activity over the mesh network.
4. Ability to read and edit single sheet Lotus notes.
5. Optimization of the save files. The sheet extents will include just the part that has data. This feature also “canonicalizes” the saved data in other ways, such as removing no longer used formats and color definitions from the save file.
6. Localization made easy, especially of text in the user interface. All of the text that is normally seen during operation is now easily localizable by changing a single file, socialcalcconstants.js.

Please visit -

1. SocialCalc on Sugar – http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html

2. SocialCalc on Sugar wiki page – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar

3. Download pages – the version #5 along with its source code can be downloaded from http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html or from activities.sugarlabs.org.

4. For Educators

Video on using Charting Tools – http://www.scalablec.com/videos/14/socialcalc-charting-tools-video-tutorial
Guide for using Charting Tools – http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc

We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with SocialCalc on Sugar. We started a group about SocialCalc on Sugar for educators, content engineers, developers, translators, curriculum developers, testers and graphic designers on ScalableC (www.scalablec.com) to share ideas, collaborate and engineer curriculum materials and develop case-studies on using SocialCalc on Sugar at schools. Please join the group if you are a member at ScalableC. If you are not a member, please ask for an invitation at http://www.scalablec.com/register.php with the message “interested in joining SocialCalc on Sugar group”.

Please visit the developers’ guide documented for each feature -

a. Collaboration of SocialCalc in Sugar – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Collaboration_in_SocialCalc_on_Sugar
b. Localization Infrastructure – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_Localization
c. Interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Excel (.xls format only) – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=File:Interoperability_SocialCalc_on_Sugar_and_Excel.pdf
d. Interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Lotus Notes – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Interoperability_between_SocialCalc_on_Sugar_and_Lotus_Notes
e. Manual for Programmers – http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Guide

Opportunity for Developers and Content Creators -

We are looking for developers and content creators, who are interested in participating with us in a number of initiatives -

1. Develop teacher training videos for SocialCalc on Sugar in their local languages;

2. Develop interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Excel (from MS Office 2007 – xlsx format), Apple iwork Numbers, Google Spreadsheet, Gnumeric, Open Spreadsheet format and KSpread;

3. Engineer features to modify the charts (like colors, fonts, scale etc.);

4. Integration of SocialCalc with Paint, Write, Arithmetic, Physics, Turtle Art and E-Toys and other Sugar activities;

5. Development of 2-D and 3-D area charts and surface charts;

6. Creation of shapes like rectangles, block arrows, equation shapes;

7. Creation of templates that could be used as teacher tools (example – income task problem sums);

8. Localization of SocialCalc on Sugar.

If you are interested, please write to us at socialcalc.sugar@seeta.in.

Best Regards,

SocialCalc on Sugar Team

Dear NGN Forum (IMS Forum, ISC, IPCC, VoIP Forums, IP Multimedia Forums) members and colleagues,

The NGN and IMS Forums’ Plugfests are the industry’s premier interoperability events covering NGN services over wireless 3G, 4G, LTE, WiMAX, wireline xDSL, cable, fiber optics broadband and IMS architectures.

We are pleased to announce that the Diameter and Control plane TWG and interoperability group successfully completed their initial guideline documents and testing/IOT activities at Plugfest 8 in October, 2009. The forum technical and business group is now progressing to the next stage of releasing all the test documentation and planning for the next Plugfest event. Our next IMS Plugfest™ and NGN Plugfest™ interoperability test event, Plugfest 9, will take place in the first week of June, 2010 at the InterOperability Lab (UNH IOL) in Durham, NH.

The NGN Forum & IMS Forum themes for this Plugfest are NGN Network and IMS Rich Applications deployment. Topics under consideration will include:

• IMS core, CSCF, AS, HSS, Policy
• Inter and intra network testing areas of key interest including, billing services interdomain scenarios, roaming users, visited networks scenarios, applications
• presence, voice, video, user agents
• SDP / Rich Communications Services (RCS) / Voice Features and IMS Applications
• VoIP / SIP / QoS
• Security and Reliability
• Billing – off-line charging and on-line charging
• Control Plane and Diameter
• Voice over LTE/4G
• IP Video (IPTV)
• Wireless and Smart Grids
• Messaging, IP traffic, presence, IM and termination, integration
• Implementation of Convergence: integrating legacy to NGN
• Transition 3G to 4G LTE and WiMAX
• Metrics for standard sets of SIP call flows in IMS and NGN
• IPv6, and
• others

We will define network topologies based on the participants’ requirements for these tests. We are also excited about the soon to be released IP BSS/OSS and security architecture guidelines to be released in January 2010.

Planning is well underway at the NGN Forum technical working groups (TWG), which have been holding regular joint sessions for the planning of Plugfest 9.

The latest addition under review to the technical working groups plan for 2010 is going to be in the areas of EPC ( including Packet Core, AAA, Policy, DPI etc.),  VoIP/LTE, Service Delivery Platform (SDP), IP Video/IPTv, IMS BSS, NGN Security and 4G Technical and Business Marketing Working Groups. The groups launch will be announced in early 2010.   Companies interested in TWG participation and demo / interoperability PF9 testing should contact Admin@NGNForum.org.

Starting in 2010, the working groups are meeting every other week to define TWG objectives and Plugfest/IOT planning.

The NGN Forum and IMS Forum are the only industry associations dedicated to interoperability and certification of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Next Generation (NGN) applications and services for fixed, mobile and cable networks. Participation in NGN IMS Plugfests and Technical working Groups is open to all companies. We look forward to your participation in our 2010 Working Groups and in Plugfests. For more information please contact Info@NGNForum.org or visit www.NGNForum.org, www.IMSForum.org.

The Alliance for Distance Education in California (ADEC) is pleased to announce Summit XXI: Online Education — Collaborating to Succeed. The annual distance learning summit will be held in partnership with CUE 2010 this year. ADEC’s Summit reflects the theme of collaboration in today’s challenging times and the corresponding booming growth in recent years of online learning.Sessions will examine online trends, collaborative professional development and content delivery and successful funding strategies. Lunch and reception are included. CUE 2010 conference registration is NOT required to attend the summit. Registration is limited to 50 attendees so sign up today!

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New Online Learning Bundle to Attend ADEC Summit, CUE 2010 & SAVE!
Greetings ADEC members! I wanted you to be among the first to hear about an exciting new way to save precious professional development funding AND advance you and your colleagues’ learning opportunities!
To draw attention to the record number of activities centered around online learning at this year’s CUE Conference, we’ve crafted a bundle of all of them and lowered the cost to participate! Please feel free to attend and share with those around you!
All the details: http://www.cue.org/conference/bundles#olb
Here’s the info:Online Learning Bundle – Regularly $394, Bundle rate of $349Full CUE Conference registration <http://www.cue2010.org/> , March 4-6; Palm Springs, CA.  Conference registration includes opening and closing keynotes, over 200 speaker presentations, and 100,000 square feet of vendor displays.  1 year CUE membership benefits <http://www.cue.org/members/memberPage/>  Online Education Summit <http://www.cue.org/conference/oes>  - Thursday, March 4, 10 am – 7 pm; The Alliance for Distance Education in California (ADEC) is holding its annual distance learning summit at CUE this year.  This reflects the theme of collaboration in today’s challenging times and the corresponding booming growth of online learning in recent years.  Sessions will examine online trends, collaborative professional development and content delivery, and successful funding strategies.  Lunch and reception are included.Online Learning Breakfast – Saturday, March 6, 7 – 9 am; Susan Patrick – Join Susan Patrick, CEO and President of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and panel of expert guests for a breakfast discussion on the future of online learning in California. Continental breakfast included 7:00 – 7:30 am.  Using E-Learning for Academic Continuity:  School Closures & Flu Pandemic Planning   Saturday, March 6, 12:30 – 1:30 pm; Spotlight session by Susan PatrickA Global and National Perspective on the Future of Education – Saturday, March 6, 2:00 – 3:00 pm; Spotlight session by Susan Patrick eLearning Special Interest Group picks <http://www.cue.org/conference/featuredstrands>  Various concurrent session over the 3-day conference <http://www.cue.org/conference/sessions/%20> See you in Palm Springs!
– • • •Mike LawrenceExecutive DirectorComputer-Using Educators (CUE)www.cue.org925.478.3461• • •
Kitty SalinasMatrix California MediaAlliance for Distance Education in California
626-272-1615fax 626-285-3754kitty.salinas@sbcglobal.net