Message-ID: <6A261EE48BADD21192BD00902727A4A1190C36@epmail.realeducation.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:40:04 -0600 From: Colton Alton <mailto:colton@ECOLLEGE.COM> Subject: The 1999 Koln G8 Summit Online.One Classroom, One World To: mailto:INTDEV-L@pete.uri.edu
eCollege.com (www.ecollege.com) and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (www.g7.utoronto.ca) present the 1999 G8 Summit Online (http://www.g8online.org). Join students from around the world for a collaborative online seminar mirroring the official G8 Summit deliberations. The purpose of this email is to invite you to be involved with the 1999 G8 Summit Online Seminar and a chance to win a $500 prize because of your participation.Contest Rules: Registration for this project is FREE; there is NO charge to participate. When you register for this event, you will be put in a Team with 10 other individuals. From our experience, this project has the greatest amount of interaction for its participants when the student-delegates are signed-up from one class. However, if you do not have an entire class, you may still register and you will be assigned to a Team. Your team will study the summit topics with online guidance of facilitators from the G8 Research Group. You should plan to participate beginning late-May. These efforts will culminate during a two-week online session (June 7 - June 20), where your team will debate the issues surrounding the actual summit with other teams in the G8 Summit Online. After these discussion with other teams, your team's goal will be to collaborate with each other and submit a final communiqué by June 14th 10:00 GMT. Final communiqués will be posted within the official G8 Summit Online website.
Each team's final communiqué will be reviewed by a G8 Research Group panel and judged against 9 other Team's final communiqué. The panel will judge in a fair and equitable manner and compare teams that have similar profiles and merit achievements: Secondary Schools will be judge against other Secondary Schools, College Teams will be judge against other College Teams. The panel will announce the winners of the contest on July 1st. The team that wins will receive a $500 prize that will be divided among each team member.
The Project: The 1999 G8 Online Seminar is not a mere online project, but an intellectually challenging experiment that combines international education, G8 simulation, and worldwide distance education through the Internet. Student participants from around the world will discuss and debate issues of policy and globalization in a "Mock G8 Summit" atmosphere. We are looking for a student-delegation made up of students from around the world. The profile of these groups will be Secondary School or College students that will participate with other students around the world in this unique online experience. Delegations will represent the G8 country of their choice and participate in the G8 Online Seminar from June 7 - 20, 1999.
Each country delegation will be provided assistance from with a Facilitator from the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto and eCollege.com. Where the facilitators will do their best to accommodate language differences, it is strongly recommended that participants have the ability to read and write English. In addition to creating a global communiqué as a final project, teams will have many opportunities to access interviews and country reports from experts at the Summit and interact with other student delegations from around the world.
The 1999 Köln G8 Summit Online will be organized by Seminar Director Dr. Robert Hazan. Dr. Hazan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research and teaching focus on political theory, political economy, Middle East politics and world affairs. Dr. Hazan played a key role as the principal instructor of the 1st Summit Online project: "Denver Summit of the Eight and World Affairs Project" during Spring of '97. Additionally, at last year's Summit conducted in Birmingham, United Kingdom (May 14-17), Dr. Hazan was the Co-Director of the "Birmingham Summit of the Eight on the Internet".
We will need to have each student delegate registered with the G8 Summit Online no later than May 17th. Again, registration for this project is FREE; there is NO charge to participate. Registered students will receive a fully outlined project syllabus by May 24th. To register students from your class with the online project, please email mailto:student-delegate@g8online.org with the following information for each student-delegate participant:
* First and Last Name of Student * Desired Login ID of Student (4-10 characters) * Email Address of Student * Address of Student * Phone number of Student * Country you wish to represent in the G8 Summit Online * Institution/University/School Student Attends (We respect the rights of individual privacy, therefore, this information will not be for public distribution. This will remain private and will be used for access purposes only.)
When many of the most powerful leaders in the world meet in Köln for the 1999 G8 Summit, students from each of the G8 Countries will be there, sharing in these experiences as decisions are made. Become part of a student delegation and participate in this truly memorable event. If you have any questions concerning this project, please email me at mailto:info@g8online.org. Please feel free to pass this inquiry and information on to other instructors/educators who may be interested in bringing their classes into this online seminar.
Thank you for your time.
Respectfully,
Colton R. Alton Senior Account Coordinator eCollege.com 10200 E. Girard Avenue Denver, CO 80231
e-mail: mailto:info@g8online.org telephone: 303-873-7400 fax: 303-873-7449
Sharing ideas, sharing knowledge, learning together: The 1999 G8 Köln Summit Online
" The 1999 Köln G8 Summit Online...One Classroom, One World"