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May 19, 2010

Media Advisory: Province to Celebrate National Award for
Use of Technology in Education

The Honourable Darin King, Minister of Education, will attend an event to recognize a national award received by Newfoundland and Labrador's public education institutions for technology in education. The minister will be joined by Dr. Chris Loomis, President and Vice-chancellor pro tempore of Memorial University of Newfoundland; Ann Marie Vaughan, Director of Memorial University's Distance Education and Learning Technologies; John King, former Chair of Distributed Learning at College of the North Atlantic; and John Baker, President and CEO of Desire2Learn Incorporated.

The event will take place tomorrow (Thursday, May 20) at 9:00 a.m. in room ED-5004/5 in the G. A. Hickman (Education) Building, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's Campus.

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Media contacts:

Tara Power
Director of Communications
Department of Education
709-729-0048, 727-5953
tarapower@gov.nl.ca
Courtenay Griffin
Communications Coordinator
Distance Education and Learning Technologies
Memorial University of Newfoundland
709-737-2611
cgriffin@mun.ca 
 
Roger Hulan
Communications Specialist
College of the North Atlantic
709-643-7938
roger.hulan@cna.nl.ca
 

2010 05 19                                                   1:45 p.m.
 


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