BELLE Bulletin No. 24 For the week of April 22, 2002

BELLE ANNUAL PLANNING MEETING A SUCCESS
On April 12, the BELLE partners participated in an all-day planning meeting at the University of British Columbia. We would like to thank Jim Tom and Mark Zuberbuhler for hosting the event and all our partners who attended and contributed. We have an exciting six months ahead of us and with your input we will be working hard to meet our extension goals. Details on project developments will follow through the summer months.

ANNUAL REPORT
It is annual report time once again, and we do invite our partners to contribute and participate. Based on the presentations made at the Annual Planning Meeting, we asked partners to provide a few paragraphs about their accomplishments and activities in the BELLE project, and new activities proposed for the expansion. To include your submission in the Annual Report, please submit to Deborah Kaloudis via email deborah@netera.ca by April 26th. If you have any questions please do contact Janelle Ring at (403) 220-2012 or via email jring@netera.ca.

NEW AND FAMILIAR FACES IN THE NETERA OFFICES
Michael Magee has recently joined the BELLE project as an Educational Technology Specialist and Information Architect. He previously designed and managed the software development on the CAREO (Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects) repository project. Mike will continue the same role within Netera as the project continues to develop on a national scale. Mike's work will deal with the adoption and implementation of the new technological paradigm in both the post secondary and the K-12 areas.

Norm Friesen has joined the Netera team as Information Architect on the BELLE project. Norm has been working in the area of instructional web development at the University of Alberta since 1997 and most recently on the CAREO project. Norm's work has focused on the development of descriptive data or metadata which has led him to collaborate in the development of the CanCore Profile - a standard way of describing educational resources that will be used in a number of educational repository projects across the country.

We are very pleased to welcome both Mike and Norm to the BELLE project.

Previous issues of the BELLE Bulletin can be found at www.netera.ca/belle/news.htm

Contacts:
Deborah Kaloudis
BELLE Communications and Training
Tel: (403) 220-2593
deborah@netera.ca

Janelle Ring
Assistant Project Manager
Tel: (403) 220-2012
jring@netera.ca