Supercourse Newsletter, December 13, 2002
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Friends,
The most important, exciting, and epidemiologic meaningful holiday of
the year is about to occur. It is called in English, "The Sharing of
the Lectures". It is the time that those in prevention, with EpiInfo
in their pockets, the Dictionary of Epidemiology in their minds and
PowerPoint slides in their hands go out to improve the health of the
world.
On Tuesday Dec. 17 Faina Linkov will lead a group of Supercourse col-
laborators to stuff your CDs in envelopes and to send them out world
wide. It is most exciting.
When you receive you CD, please send us a note at <super2@pitt.edu>
so we know who has received their CDs.
Evaluation of Supercourse Utilization:
We have randomly selected 500 of you to complete a 15 minute survey
on the utilization of the Supercourse. This is being done as the dis-
sertation of EunRyoung Sa. It is extremely important to us, as we
need the utilization data so that we can go out and obtain support to
keep the supercourse going. In addition, this will provide invaluable
feedback as to the direction of the supercourse. We really need a
high response rate for EunRyoung to obtain her Ph.D. We have decided
to be mean, as for these 500 we will not send to you the CD unless we
receive your survey. It is a really, really good deal, as the survey
only takes 15 minutes to complete, it has taken 5 years to collect
the lectures!!
We will of course make the results of the survey available to every-
one (without names, of course). We will use this survey to help guide
us into the future. We very much need your help.
I (Ron) may even call each of your personally world wide to collect
the survey results (now that is scary!!).
Perhaps we should carve out a day. How about Jan. 14, being the "Day
of the Supercourse", and Jan. 13, being Supercourse eve.
We are very excited to hear about what you think of the biggest,
best, most beautiful, SUPERCOURSE CD EVER! The TOP 1038 lectures,
EVER!! and we ALL did it.
Snowballing and Pond Rippling
Remember, remember, remember to snowball the CD. Drive around town,
and every library you see, throw a Supercourse CD like a Frisbee into
the door of the library. We want the CD to ripple out from you to im-
prove teaching, and to prevent disease.
Best Regards from Pittsburgh,
Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, EunRyoung, Akira, Soni, Rania, Julia,
Wendy, Tom, Beatriz, Deb
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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