Amy J. Brenen wrote:
>
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> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 21:25:29 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Ronald E. LaPorte from Pittsburgh" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: please send to the ghnet list..thanks
>
> Friends,
>
> We wanted to provide for you  the approach that
> we
> are taken for our super course.  If you are thinking
> of developing a lecture for the course, here is the
> format.  If you have difficulties, we will assist
> you.  Some people, for example, have the slides, and
> we are converting them into Powerpoint for them.  We
> can help you do this, depending upon our man power.
>
> It is very exciting in that we are now starting to have
> a large number of people interested in setting up
> mirrored servers for us.  We are targeting Ministries
> of health.  It appears that we can set up a mirrored
> server in Cuba on the MOH machine.  WE are pushing to
> get on other Ministry of health machines, as if it
> on the MOH computer systems, this will spread it
> across a country.
>
> Please let us know your interest in writing a lecture.
> We would very much like it.  Also, forward this to
> people who you might think would be interested.
>
> We particularily need Internet lectures.  We are
> creating two internet lectures here, and John Patrick
> from IBM is doing one, but it would be nice to have
> several more.
>
> Ron LaPorte, Ph.D.
> Director, disease monitoring and telecommunications
> who collaborating center
> professor of epidemiology
> graduate school of public health
> university of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, pa 15261
> USA
>
> Supercourse Lecture Format
>
>         It is very important to have a consistent format
> for the lectures as part of the Supercourse.  Here we
> outline the structure of the presentations.
> We can help you develop each aspects of the format should
> you not have the capabilities at your institution.  For
> example, if it is impossible for you to produce powerpoint
> slides, we will do this for some of you if we have the
> time.  Please contact some of the people below so that
> we can help you.  What is important to us is to
> have you teach in the course.  We can help, or do the
> technical aspects if needed.
>
> 1.  Learning Objectives:
>
>         There needs to be stated a set of learning
> objectives.  Thus for the second lecture on the
> Epidemiologic Transition the learning objectives
> might be:
>
> A.  To understand the concept of the
>     Epidemiologic Transition
> B.  To view local and national trends in disease
>     in light of the Epidemiologic Transition
> C.  To understand the importance of
>     Geographic Differences in Disease
>
> 2.  Performance Objectives:  By the end of the
> course the student should be able to use the
> information.  Performance objectives are to be
> stated to indicate what the students can do with
> the new information e.g.:
>
> A.  Examine the trends of disease and predict
>     the future patterns of disease
> B.  Graph and interpret geographic patterns in
>     disease
> C.  Understand the importance of monitoring
>     disease
> The learning and performance objectives can be sent to
> us as an ACII file, and we will put these in your talk.
>
> 3.  Development of the Lecture
>
> A.  First Slide, Title, readings and who you are.
>    In the first slide the title should provide
> an overview of the topic to be covered.  There
> should be hypertext links to readings on the
> web (e.g. the text books, or other readings)
> which go over the topics of interest.  Your
> name and picture should be on the slide.
> In some topics there may not be any good readings
> on the web.  If you send us your picture, we
> will scan it in.  We want to have the students
> see who you are.
> Ideally, we would want to click onto your name
> and bring up your own individual home page,
> which we would help you make.
>
> B.  Second Slide:  In the second slide we want
> 2-3 paragraphs about who you are, how you
> became involved with this topic, and why
> you are excited about it.
> You can see examples of this in  lectures which are
> already on the web.
>
> C.  Slide construction:  We need to have your
> slides prepared in Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows.
> It can be created in any version of Powerpoint.  We
> will convert it to Powerpoint 1997.  For each
> slide you should use the notes formats to include text
> for each slide as this is presented beside each
> slide when it is put on the web. For older versions
> of Powerpoint it is not possible to put
> hyperlinks into the slide nor notes.  If you use
> an older version of Powerpoint that you cannot add
> notes and/or hyperlinks, please provide a text file
> of the text that accompanies each slide and the
> URL(s) which should be linked to for each slide.
> When you send the slides to us we can add the
> notes and/or hyperlinks into the presentation. The slides
> can be sent to us via Email, or on a disc.
>
> D.  THe total number of slides should be between 20-30.
>
> E.  We will convert your slides from an older
> version of Powerpoint to the newest, and
> we will put them onto the Web.  To your
> lecture we will add the peer review form as
> well as links to other lectures.
> In general it will take 1-2 weeks to bring your lecture
> up onto the web.
>
> F.  Your name will be listed in the contributors
> section as well as for your lecture
>
> G.  We will maintain a list server for the people
> who contributed to the development of the work.
>
> 3.  Who to contact with questions:
>         Deborah Aaron,([log in to unmask])
>         Akira Sekikawa,([log in to unmask]) - Japanese
>     /Asia
>         Ingrid Libman,([log in to unmask]) - Spanish