It would be great for a Sugar person to goto this if there is someone local. <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cathy Alfano <<a href="mailto:CAlfano@distancelearn.org">CAlfano@distancelearn.org</a>> Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM Subject: August Conference: Creating & Sustaining Educational Digital Repositories To: <a href="mailto:ITFORUM@listserv.uga.edu">ITFORUM@listserv.uga.edu</a> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> This conference, Digital Repositories for Learning: moving from why to how, will feature experienced educational practitioners discussing challenges and solutions related to creating and sustaining educational repositories. This is a full-day session (August 11, 2009), offered in conjunction with the Open Ed 2009 Conference, August 12-14, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The one-day conference is sponsored by the FIPSE-funded OnCoRe Blueprint Project. The conference goals are: 1. To share issues and strategies related to educational repositories. 2. To establish a community of practice whose members will continue to share knowledge and interact with one another after the conference concludes. 3. To expand knowledge and use of Open Educational Resources 4. To expand the knowledge of and use of the OnCoRe Blueprint, a FIPSE grant project, which provides a framework for the development, implementation, and sustainability of digital educational repositories. Details at: <a href="http://www.oncoreblueprint.org/Conference/About.htm" target="_blank">http://www.oncoreblueprint.org/Conference/About.htm</a> Open Ed: <a href="http://openedconference.org/" target="_blank">http://openedconference.org/</a> </div> </div> </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax