The Internet:
Networking, Research and Popular American Culture

November 26-December 5 Workshop

The Internet serves as a vital communication tool linking diverse people and professional organizations over vast areas. In addition, the World Wide Web offers new and unique sources of information for teachers collecting authentic materials for classroom use, especially materials reflecting topics in popular American culture. The workshop will focus on exploring the Internet via e-mail and the World Wide Web, and identifying sites useful to teachers in the EFL classroom. Participants will create projects which, with their permission, will be placed on the World Wide Web page for this workshop. In addition to the creation of web page projects, the program is composed of plenaries by faculty followed by a question and answer session, break out or discussion groups and participant panels. Typing or keyboard skills are required. Participants will be university and secondary teachers, and ministry officials with access to e-mail but with minimal skills in the use of this resource. Application deadline via USIS is September 26, 1997.

Faculty: Rob Kroes, Chair of American Studies, America Institute, University of Amsterdam; former President, European Association of American Studies. Margaret Sokolik, Lecturer, College Writing Program, University of California at Berkeley. David Tillyer, Lecturer, City University of New York. Reinhold Wagnleitner, Associate Professor of History, University of Salzburg; Former President, Austrian Association of American Studies

This program was made possible by a grant from the United States Information Agency.