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1. The Centre for The Study and Teaching of Writing
2. Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology Colloquium
3. Laptop Purchase Program
4. NCS News: Scheduled Service Disruptions

PUBLIC LECTURE: ALL WELCOME

Writing Seminar Series

Clark Blaise, an award-winning author will speak on the
University of Iowa Writing Program; its history, its
changing mission, and its many international writers.

Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 4:00 PM
Jack Cram Auditorium, Room 129
Faculty of Education
3700 McTavish Street

For further information:

Carole Kleivstul
Tel.: (514) 398-6960
E-mail: carole.kleivstul@mcgill.ca

Tuesday, February 19, 2002
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Faculty of Education, Room 624

A cultural theory of meaning making: Implications of reading and design studies

Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia
(Co-editor: Research in the Teaching of English,
Award Winner: Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research, American Educational Research Association)

Faculty and students who would like to meet individually with Peter Smagorinsky on Tuesday morning or later in the afternoon should contact Bob Bracewell at local 3443.

Peter Smagorinsky's latest article, If meaning is constructed, what's it made from? Toward a cultural theory of meaning, can be found in Review of Educational Research, Spring 2001, 71, (1), 133-169.

Robert Bracewell
Associate Professor

More on Laptop Purchase Program, Round 2

More on the second round of the Academic Staff Laptop Purchase Program. Details were not announced on the NCS web page as previously indicated, but are found here instead:

Details are available here:

http://ww2.mcgill.ca/icc/ResearchProjects/laptop-q102.html

Application forms are available here:

http://ww2.mcgill.ca/icc/ResearchProjects/form.html

If you wish to take advantage of a possible matching grant from the Faculty (limited number), under the conditions previously announced, your completed application form should be forwarded to me by March 4th for transmission to VP Masi by March 7th.

Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean

Please note that the following services will be unavailable (for short periods of time) on Sunday, February 17, 2002 from 6:00 am to 8:00 am, in order to perform a major reboot of several machines (in most cases downtimes will be approximately 5 to 10 minutes):

Authentication syncing
DAS tools
FTP access to CISTI documents
Mail delivery
Mail routing
Mail service (IMAP/POP)
NCS staff mailboxes
Namespace resolution
Reggie
Some of the McGill.CA web space
Web access to EDRS

McGill NCS apologizes for any inconvenience caused.