This premier Arizona eLearning Community Networking event is hosted by GAZeL and sponsored by various vendors.

eLearning Drinks is a vibrant and growing opportunity to socialize and network with others in the field of eLearning i n Arizona, the mecca of eLearning.

If you're an Entrepreneur/Company Owner, Instructional Designer, Job Seeker, Employer, Software Guru, Trainer, BizDev Pro, Tech Manager, Marketer, VC/Angel Investor, Professor,... Student, or even from the "user community" - "eLearning Drinks" is for YOU!

True to the disruptive nature of e-Learning, "eLearning Drinks" isn’t a "structured" event: NO AGENDA...NO SPEAKER...NO "MEETUP" GROUP... just a great exchange of ideas, business cards and banter!

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Representatives of companies who are hiring may identify themselves with a green dot on their name tag that we provide at each event so that they can be easily identified by those looking for new opportunities.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Tallwave and Today's Campus at Mumbles on 8/17/11.  See photos

GAZeL Board Meeting Minutes

February 24, 2011

The meeting was started with a welcome from the President, Alex Devereux and announcements concerning legislative activities by Ted Kraver.  Alex introduced Henry Rung and the presentation started.

Henry Rung President of InXsol presented his new research based training application using internet based voice recognition at the GAZEL May 26th luncheon at ASU Skysong.  Since 1997, inXsol has been a work-for-hire company developing medical, aerospace, gaming, psychology and other simulation based training for Fortune 500 companies. The10 person staff is supported by off shore resources.

They recently won SBIR development grants from one of the large number of government organizations requesting innovative research from small business that will result in new technology that can be exploited commercially. They were awarded a Phase I demonstration and feasibility grant followed by a much larger Phase II to create real commercial products. They are 25% through this development that will be finalized by August 2011.

The Command Plan Project is for the National Institute for Environmental Health Systems. It will train the incident commanders on how to manage multi-disciplined teams of first responders addressing incidents ranging from chemical spills to weapons of mass destruction. Using Phoenix and NYC fire fighters as their initial test subjects, this system trains know how to coordinate and make decisions, while minimizing hazards themselves.

The current simulation is a view of the incident scene from a truck with the commander using radio microphone to bring in and manage resources. The simulation includes avatar voices of the entities in the field. It replaces current simulated command centers such as a Chevy truck where a Phoenix fire commander sits talking to cubical based people reading scripts

FRED DUVAL PRESENTS

ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS

The next networking event will be on May 26, Wednesday, at Skysong.  We will have lunch ($15) and inXsol will be our presenting company.  More details to come.

The February 18^th, 2010 meeting of GAZeL took place at SkySong.  Announcements were made by Bobbie Kraver in the absence of the President.  This was followed by a short presentation by Ted Kraver concerning the striker being proposed to create a Digital Curriculum Institute in conjunction with Arizona State University.

 Amy Weibel Ph.D gave a presentation on assessments that match the curriculum being taught in K-12.  The information was well researched and developed a sequence that should be followed when assessments and curriculum are being written. 

 This was a very interesting presentation.  Dr. Weibel has had experience in this field at Grand Canyon University, University of Phoenix, Pearson, and many other companies and educational institutions. At this time she is a consultant.

The next networking and informational meeting of GAZeL will take place on Thursday February 18, 2010 at Skysong at 11:30 AM -1:00 PM. The speaker will be Amy Weibel and she will speak on

Assessment Design and Development And Curriculum Development for Online Distance Learning.

This Surprise learning center for higher education is on the cutting edge for Community Colleges, technical programs for high school students and university courses.

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Our next networking event will be presented by ABLE on Thursday, October 29, at 11:45 am.  Flypaper is sponsoring this event.  It will be located at the 2nd floor conference room at Skysong and lunch will be provided by the Wildflower Bread Co.  Registration for live and web/audio event will be available soon; live attendees pay $15 for lunch.  

 For any questions, please contact Bobbie Kraver at 602-944-2324 or bkraver@qwewst.net.

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