Participate remotely from your office by free telephone and web conferencing provided by Cox Business Services and iLinc Communications beginning at 12:30 PM. For toll free audio conferencing call: 1-877-269-5960 and enter Conference ID: 7256108.

Lunch will be served at both locations at a cost of $20.00. The event includes demonstrations of new eLearning technologies, networking with eLearning providers and consumers, and an update on the development plans for the GAZEL eLearning High Tech Cluster.

For details, registration and web conferencing instructions see the "Events" page on the GAZEL Web Site at www.gazel.org or contact Bobbie Kraver, 602-944-2324, bkraver@qwest.net in Phoenix; or Steve Peters, 520- 321-1309, stevepeters@gazel.org in Tucson.

Technology Demonstrations

- Vinay P. Kulkarni, Senior Strategic Planning Consultant and eLearning Practice Lead for Tucson-based Strategic Growth Advisors, will demonstrate the Elicitus Interactivity Builder, Harbinger Knowledge Products' patent-pending technology for rapid authoring of interactive content, built on models that emerged from human computer interactivity research.(www.elicitus.com)

- Joseph Rotello, founder of WindowGroup, www.windowgroup.com, will demonstrate WebPod Studio, an intuitive, exciting and productive software that creates and distributes webcasting and podcasting content for Windows platforms.

- The R*Smart Group will present The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) http://www.osportfolio.org/, a collaborative, open-source, software development project based on the University of Minnesota System's electronic portfolio software, and The Sakai Project http://www.sakaiproject.org/, a $6.8M community source software development project founded by The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

GAZEL is the statewide Arizona eLearning Industry Cluster organization. It includes both providers and consumers of eLearning technologies and services, and we also welcome related businesses, organizations and institutions that support the industry. Their mission is to promote the growth of the Arizona eLearning industry and the adoption of eLearning in business, education, government, and community development. For eLearning companies, GAZEL initiatives will help them develop business opportunities, enhance their business practices, and develop their technologies and services.

For consumers, they will learn more about eLearning and have access to technologies, services, and professional development opportunities.

eLearning is the use of digital media such as the Internet, CDs, Cable TV and streaming media to facilitate education, workplace training, online training, communication and web collaboration. It includes Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and online audio, and audio, video and web conferencing. While eLearning has become a major tool for education and workplace training, it is also being used for business development, customer relationship building, product support, investor relations, communication, collaboration, and more.

For more information on elearning and web conferencing and GAZEL, visit www.gazel.org