AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, February 12, 2003

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, February 12, 2003
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

Grant writing, grant writing and more grant writing:

We have been busily writing NIH grants the past month. Two done, and 
two to go. They were all designed to build Supercourse. The first two 
were for an Environmental Health Supercourse and a Diabetes Super-
course. The last two are on Disasters and Cancer. Many of you have 
joined and added your expertise, which is wonderful. Our concern is 
to continue to obtain stable funding so we can continue with Super-
course which expands, like the expanding Universe. If you would like 
a copy of any of the grants, please let me know <ronlaporte@aol.com>. 
The cancer grant will not be ready in a few weeks.

Evaluating the Supercourse:

It is very important for funding efforts as well as for continuation 
of our efforts to evaluate the supercourse. EunRyoung, who many of 
you know, is doing a neat evaluation of the Supercourse for her dis-
sertation. Please, please, please participate, as we all want EunRy-
oung to graduate. She has been responsible for many things about the 
Supercourse with the most important being the phenomenal mirrored 
server distribution.

She will be doing an Internet-based survey to evaluate the Super-
course utilization, and will be randomly sending to some of you a 
survey. It only takes 15 minutes to complete. We would very much 
appreciate if you could complete the survey.

The survey will be very important for understanding who uses the su-
percourse and why they use it. Even if you do not use the Supercourse 
it will be important for you to respond.

We have already sent to you the new Supercourse CD as our token of 
gratitude for your contribution to Supercourse. Your answer will be 
another great contribution to Supercourse to help us understand the 
utilization and make Supercourse more useful.

Please, please, please help us evaluate the supercourse like few 
other sites have been evaluated. Please, please, help EunRyoung get 
her degree, as she has been critical to the success of the Super-
course.

Cell to PP to TV:

We are really excited about the concept of using a cell phone to 
download PowerPoint lecture 33 and then to connect the phone off line 
directly to the TV for presentations. If you have any ideas about 
this, it would be great. We can do this also with a PDA, which are 
obviously not as prevalent. EunRyoung suggested if a school did not 
have any of these, we could use the technique that Rania Saad from 
Egypt suggested, creating hypertext comic book and printing and dis-
tributing. The concern in countries such as India, Pakistan, China, 
etc., especially in the rural areas if there is cell phone connec-
tivity, TVs or printers? Could a central place in a school district 
be found that had these facilities? Please let me know:
mailto:ronlaporte@aol.com

Thanks so much - back to grant writing!!

Ron, Faina, Mita, EunRyoung, Eugene, Soni, Julia, Abed, Akira, 
Beatriz, Tom, Deb
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu

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