AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter - February 6, 2001

[Ron LaPorte <super3+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter - February 6, 2001
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Dear Friends,

We present to you the new lectures we have opened on January 30. You 
can go to the web site to see all the different lectures we now have 
available.

1. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Bacterial -Part I- by Robert M. 
Lloyd.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2401/index.htm

2. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Bacterial -Part II- by Robert M. 
Lloyd.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2411/index.htm

3. Epidemiologic Side of Toxicology (6th of 10 Lectures on Toxi-
cologic Epidemiology) by Michael H. Dong. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2381/index.htm

4. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Viral -Part I- by Robert M. Lloyd. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2351/index.htm

5. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Viral -Part II- by Robert M. Lloyd. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2361/index.htm

6. Helping Parents Learn to Facilitate Young Children's Speech Flu-
ency -Part I- by David W. Hammer and J. Scott Yaruss.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2331/index.htm

7. Helping Parents Learn to Facilitate Young Children's Speech Flu-
ency -Part II- by David W. Hammer and J. Scott Yaruss. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2341/index.htm

8. Environmental Epidemiology on Small Areas by Alessandro Menegozzo. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2171/index.htm

9. Healthcare Delivery in the year 2050 by Ricky J. Richardson. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1911/index.htm

10. Improving Diabetes Care For Adults: A Population-Based Approach 
by Patrick J. O'Connor.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1861/index.htm

11. Neurolathyrism by Haileyesus Getahun. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1801/index.htm

12. Aplicaciones del Correo Electronico by Javier Santisteban Ponce. 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1541/index.htm

The interest in the CDs has been astounding. We are having a second 
batch of 1,000 printed. Many people have reported giving the Super-
course to others to put onto their PCs. We have from 1 to 1,000 cop-
ies of each made. It is fascinating to see this go around the world.

Last week Tom Songer and I (REL) tried something new in our class in 
Chronic Disease Epidemiology. I presented the wonderful lecture pro-
vided by Vint Cerf. For those not in the area of the Internet, Vint 
is truly the father of the Internet. He developed the initial proto-
cols for the Internet to send packets of information from Machine to 
Machine, and he developed the systems that the different mainframe 
machines could understand each other. Perhaps of greatest importance 
is that he got everyone in the world to take on the standards, at a 
time when companies, and in fact countries wanted to use their own. 
After presenting Vint's lecture for an hour, he graciously answered 
questions from our students over the telephone. He very nicely cor-
rected all my errors! The students were thrilled to talk with Vint 
Cerf. It also proved to be a very powerful way to have students learn 
and be motivated by the Supercourse. In the future, please consider 
the possibility of having the original developer of the lecture as a 
guest speaker, either in person over the telephone, or via questions.

We are now thinking about novel ways to use the Supercourse. Please 
write to us with your experiences.

Ron, Akira, Eun Ryoung, Benjamin, Beatriz, Faina, Fan, Deb, Tom
mailto:super3+@pitt.edu

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