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MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU] On Behalf Of Colton Alton
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 7:40 PM
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Subject: The 1999 Koln G8 Summit Online.One Classroom, One World
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
communiqu� by June 14th 10:00 GMT. Final communiqu�s will be posted within
the official G8 Summit Online website.
Each team's final communiqu� will be reviewed by a G8 Research Group panel
and judged against 9 other Team's final communiqu�. 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 communiqu� 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 K�ln 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
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 K�ln 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
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:
info@g8online.org
telephone: 303-873-7400
fax: 303-873-7449
http://www.g8online.org
Sharing ideas, sharing knowledge, learning together: The 1999 G8 K�ln Summit
Online
" The 1999 K�ln G8 Summit Online...One Classroom, One World"