AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter - 21-May-01

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

Supercourse Newsletter - 21-May-01
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

1. Status and future
2. Military-Civilian Shareware Lectures
3. Improving the Ease of Usage
4. Supercourse at Congress of Epidemiology 2001

Dear Friends,

1. Status and future:

Thank you very much for your messages concerning our 400th lecture. 
We hope that next time you can come and take Indian food with us on 
our 500th lecture! During the year 2000, we received 120 lectures. If 
we keep on track for this year, we will obtain 140. The projected 
time for the 500th lecture is Halloween (Oct 31, 2001). We would love 
to have a 500th lecture Halloween party where everyone comes dressed 
as either an epidemiologist or a Internet techie! What a scary 
thought.

We are in the process of pulling together our complete database. It 
is interesting that we have 400 lectures, however, there are over 
1,100 people who have promised to provide a lecture(s) to the Super-
course. The May to Sept 1, 2001 would be a wonderful time for you to 
spend about 2 hours dusting off your best lecture and sending it to 
us to put up into the Supercourse so that 30,000 students can learn 
from your lecture in the fall term. We would love to hear from you. 
Please send me a note at <ronlaporte@aol.com> if you think you will 
be able to join the teaching faculty.

2. Military-Civilian Shareware Lectures:

Major General Randolph, USAF has developed the concept of a seamless 
Military-Civilian Lecture shareware system for prevention. He had 
also previously contributed a great lecture on prevention to the Su-
percourse. It was just announced that he has moved to one of the 
highest positions in the US Military, and is pushing for prevention. 
We might use this model in other countries as well.

3. Improving the Ease of Usage:

As indicated in our previous newsletter we are trying to make it eas-
ier for people to download lectures to use in their courses. We have 
received many requests that faculty members would like to download a 
lecture not the entire lectures on the supercourse, which is the only 
available way now (one can download the entire supercouse from the 
web page at http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/download.htm)
EunRyoung Sa is developing several systems to download a single lec-
ture. We will announce when a test version is up and we would appre-
ciate your inputs for this new system.

It is our goal to make it extremely easy for any teacher across the 
world to use the lectures or individual slides. Then towards the end 
of the summer we will work with all of you to foster the utilization 
of the lecture.

If you need additional CDs to distribute to your friends, students 
and family, please send us a note at <super3@pitt.edu>

4. Supercourse at Congress of Epidemiology 2001:

Caribou Pie: At the Congress of Epidemiology 2001 we plan to have a 
Supercourse party. The last we had this was in Chicago, and it was 
great fun. If you are coming to the EpiCongress we would ask you to 
bring something to eat from where you live, and something to drink. 
In Chicago we had Caribou pie, Israeli junk food and Iron City beer 
to name a few different foods. Please let us know if you are attend-
ing (send to <ronlaporte@aol.com>), as we will let you know where the 
room will be. 

Best regards from Pittsburgh (and Siberia),

Ron, Akira, Benjamin, Eun Ryoung, Faina, Eugene, Ying, Beatriz, Tom, 
Deb, Yue Fang
mailto:super3+@pitt.edu

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