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8:00am REGISTRATION - The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Technology Plaza

8:30am BUSINESS MEETING

8:45am WELCOME: Rich Schaffer, Principal - Mid Pacific Institute and Marci Powell, Sr. Vice President for Chapters - United States Distance Learning Association

9:00am KEYNOTE ADDRESS (via videoconference):

Colette Mazucelli

Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, PhD, DDG, is a founding faculty member, OnLine Training Institute. She is also a fellow of the International Biographical Association in Cambridge, England and a biographee in Who's Who in America (Marquis, 2004). In 2003, Mazzucelli received a citation as International Educator of the Year by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, in recognition of her contributions to the development of multimedia pedagogy for active learning. She is a member, Founding Cabinet, World Peace and Diplomacy Forum. Mazzucelli, working together with Roger Boston, pioneered in the creation of the TCMuses transatlantic Internet/multimedia seminar south eastern Europe as program development associate, Centre for Educational Outreach and Innovation, Teachers College, Columbia University and senior lecturer, Sciences Po Paris.

Roger Boston

Roger Boston is currently with the faculty of the Houston Community College System and holds the additional title of "Rockwell Chair", an innovation in educational technology supported by the Rockwell Foundation since 1985. A transplant from private industry two decades ago where he was involved as an information systems manager, he has built an international reputation in distance learning since helping his organization to go "on-line" with their credit courses in the late 1980's. He is a member of the PBS Going the Distance Advisory Group, has served with the Virtual College of Texas, the State of Texas Distance Learning Master planning group, and the National Instructional Telecommunications Council. Roger has hosted hundreds of global town meetings via internet and taught his classes and conducted workshops from such far away places as China, Australia, Finland, Mexico, Hawaii, Brazil, India, Vietnam, and many other places overseas as well as nationally.

10:15am PANEL DISCUSSION: Pathways to Cultures and People via Distance Learning

Henry Meyer, Kamehameha Schools Distance Learning (Moderator)
Keola Donaghy, Faculty - University of Hawaii at Hilo
Ellen Miyasato, Hawaii State Department of Education
Darren Okimoto, UH Sea Grant Project, American Samoa (via videoconference)
Sal Poloai, American Samoa Department of Education

11:45am LUNCH and EXHIBITS

12:30pm BREAKOUT SESSION #1

A. Technology and Curriculum Integration
Mark Hines, Mid Pacific Institute

B. Enabling Technologies for Distance Education
John Southworth, UH Curriculum Research and Development Group

C. The Online Library for Alu Like
Bob Stouffer

1:30pm BREAKOUT SESSION #2

A. Kamehameha School's Distance Learning Program
Henry Meyer and Aaron Mersberg

B. College of Education's Outreach Program
Paul McKimmy, UH College of Education

2:30pm WRAP UP SESSION