New Canoe University Adds Wholesale Buying Course to Its eBay Selling Curriculum

(PRWEB) December 3, 2003

A major issue facing many eBay sellers has been the difficulty of acquiring products to sell on eBay at a price at which they can be profitably sold on the marketplace. Now there is an online course that focuses exclusively on that issue and provides real-world advice and practical training in the art of successfully acquiring goods at wholesale prices. The course is taught by Harry "Skip" McGrath, an eBay power seller, wholesale buyer, and author. His book, "The Wholesale Buying System: How, What and Where to Buy Wholesale Products to Sell on eBay", serves as the basis for the five lectures and textbook for the course. The lectures, which are each approximately 45 minutes in duration, are entitled:

Lecture 1: Setting Up Your Business to Qualify to Buy Wholesale

Lecture 2: Types of Wholesale Distributors & Buying at Auctions

Lecture 3: Importing Wholesale Products & Buying Closeouts

Lecture 4: Wholesale Sources for Art, Antiques & Collectibles

Lecture 5: Buying at Trade Shows, Merchandise Marts & Gift Marts

The lectures include reviews of and hundreds of links to tools, services, and product sources to firmly supply aspiring power sellers with the answers and resources needed to acquire products to be profitably sold on eBay.

Beyond the innovative, Flash-based, "talking slides" of the lectures, students actively participate in discussions and collaborate with their fellow learners and the instructor. "This online education approach gives students a very practical, hands-on experience. New Canoe University narrows down topics into bite-size modules and practical procedures that can be applied immediately to earning an income," relates Americ Azevedo, Interdisciplinary Studies Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, who helped New Canoe University develop its online learning environment and education methodology.

"While I lecture on my wholesale buying system in a number of different venues, I am excited to be providing a comprehensive learning experience to my students and to become a member of the faculty at New Canoe University," relates Skip McGrath.

"Skip is a bona fide expert and we're very pleased to be adding his course and his expertise to our eBay selling curriculum at New Canoe University," says Bob Heyman, Provost at New Canoe University. "Students who take our 'How to Become an eBay Auction Power Seller' course have been asking for material like that which Skip teaches. With the addition of this course, New Canoe University has put another key piece in place to deliver a fulfilling, people-based, online learning experience that will ultimately help assure success for our students."

"There is a lot of nonsense circulating on the web purporting to be the nirvana of wholesale sources for eBay sellers. In many cases these CD's, e-books and so-called wholesale clubs offer sources with very little discount to retail. It is very difficult for an eBay seller to make money using these sources," says Skip McGrath. "We teach our students how to source goods directly at a cost point where they can make a good margin reselling them on eBay."

The cost of the course is $ 167.00 and includes access to the lectures and the online study groups for an entire year, lifetime access to the Wholesale Resources Plus™ database, and the book, "The Wholesale Buying System: How, What and Where to Buy Wholesale Products to Sell on eBay or Your Web Site."

Skip McGrath is President of Auction Seller's Resource (http://www.auction-sellers-resource.com) and is based in Anacortes, Washington. Skip is an eBay power seller and has authored 6 books relating to selling successfully on eBay. He has been selling online since 1996 and on eBay since 1998.

New Canoe University (http://www.newcanoeu.com), founded in January 2003, is based in Sausalito, California. NCU's mission is to be the leading online provider of training in practical skills that can be immediately applied by students to start small, or home-based businesses. The Company offers low-bandwidth online courses at low-cost in short segments. NCU currently offers the course, "How to Become an Ebay Auction Power Seller."

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University of Wisconsin Pioneering the Accessibility Frontier with Web Captioning

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) October 17, 2010

As the latest development in a national trend toward Web accessibility, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has signed a contract with 3Play Media for media captioning and transcription services in conjunction with delivery of video to the Web and mobile environments. The entire University of Wisconsin System is able to purchase off of this contract. The initiative makes the UW System the second statewide university system in the country, after the University of California, to endorse the use of transcripts and captions for web media.

Historically, UW-Madison has been at the forefront of web accessibility. It was the first university to adopt a web accessibility policy, based on Section 508 standards that make information accessible to individuals with disabilities. In 2001, the Trace Research and Development Center funded the development of MAGpie, the widely used captioning tool. UW's latest initiative comes on the heels of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act awaiting the Presidents signature which mandates closed captions for certain types of web video.

"Captioning benefits are often associated with individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, but research dating back to the 80s concluded that captions also improve reading and listening comprehension, word recognition, and decoding skills," said Alice Anderson, the University of Wisconsin's Technology Accessibility Program Coordinator.

In addition to closed captions, 3Play Media will be providing its interactive transcript tools that allow users to quickly search and navigate a transcript, as well as translate it into 50+ languages. Users can even clip and share sections of a video simply by highlighting the text.

"The search capabilities of captioning make it invaluable," said Anderson. "What faculty, staff or student wants to scroll through hours of lectures to find the answer to their question?"

Josh Miller, 3Play Medias Co-Founder said Were thrilled to be working with such a progressive institution to advance accessibility. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate how transcription and captioning not only make web video accessible, but also provide a richer experience for all users.

About the University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin System is one of the largest universities in the country, serving more than 178,000 students and employing more than 32,000 faculty and staff. It is comprised of 13 universities, 13 colleges, and statewide UW-Extension programs.

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is a leading provider of time-synchronized transcription & captioning services and interactive transcripts. Its customers include universities, corporations and web companies. 3Play Media was founded in 2007 by four MIT graduate students and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more information, visit http://www.3playmedia.com.

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Bellarmine Museum of Art Opens to the Public at Fairfield University October 25

Fairfield, CT (Vocus) October 1, 2010

With the long-awaited public opening of the Bellarmine Museum of Art scheduled for October 25, Fairfield University introduces a permanent sanctuary for its growing art collection and future exhibitions. Museum hours will be Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., while the University is in session.

The museum, built at a cost of $ 3.2 million, will be a dynamic new center of learning for all of its constituencies, including students of all ages and stages, art professionals and members of the general public. The Bellarmine also maintains collegial ties with the larger museum community, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art/the Cloisters Museum and the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The loans and gifts that these, and other, institutions have made to the Museum have enhanced its core permanent collection, facilitating a remarkable breadth of display for a museum of the Bellarmine's size. It is expected that this architectural gem, which comprises three galleries and an ancillary corridor, will become both a cultural destination and an invaluable resource for art-loving residents and visitors in the area.

The month of October begins a whirlwind of receptions and campus events to celebrate the museums opening. There will be a private, special reception on Thursday, Oct. 14 to which members of the art community, press and special friends of the University have been invited. On Monday, Oct. 25 at 10 a.m., the Bellarmine Museum of Art will open its doors to the public.

Jill Deupi, J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of art history in Fairfields Department of Visual and Performing art and director of the Bellarmine Museum of Art, has expansive educational plans for the museum. There is no doubt that the Bellarmine Museum will substantially enhance the art history program and all that it has to offer. With the works of art located in one central location that features an onsite multi-media smART classroom, the process of hands-on learning will rise to a new level.

Deupi is currently working on stratagems that include docents, outreach and K-12 arts education encompassing a wide range of activities. Her colleague in this endeavor is New Canaan resident and docent at the Yale Center for British Art Kathleen Leitao, whose son Daniel is a junior at Fairfield. Among their plans is the reservation of one Saturday each month for family art-based activities.

Jim Childress, FAIA and Stephen Holmes, AIA of Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook, Conn. transformed a utilitarian storage area into an elegant yet functional space. Childress said that the thick concrete walls in the catacomb-like basement of the original mansion conveyed a sense of mystery. If you step through the small basement door of the lobby, you discover a place of refuge away from the world, he said. The gallery form we designed was inspired by an almost complete cruciform plan that we discovered in the basement.

The main gallery, The Frank and Clara Meditz Gallery, named in honor of the parents of the lead donor to the project, University Trustee John Meditz 70, evokes an early Christian basilica in plan and will showcase ten paintings from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods works that were gifted to the University by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation via Bridgeports Discovery Museum.

In one smaller side gallery highlights from the University's collection of plaster casts after exemplary works from ancient Rome and Greece, including eight recently donated to the University by the Acropolis Museum in Athens, will be displayed. The corridor adjacent to the Meditz gallery will showcase plaster casts of significant pieces from the Parthenon (also Athens). The Gifts from Athens: New Plaster Casts from The Acropolis Museum and Photographs by Socratis Mavrommatis exhibition will open Nov. 2 and continue through Dec. 17.

In addition to historic plaster casts, the museum houses a range of non-Western art objects (including pre-Columbian vessels, 19th-century South East Asian sculptures and African masks), and is fortunate enough to hold objects from the late Antique, Celtic, Medieval and Romanesque periods on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art/the Cloisters Museum.

Leitao, who is volunteering her time and expertise in planning for museum education, saw an opportunity in the Bellarmine Museum to work with schools to help them use our collection as part of their curriculum, particularly the casts of ancient Greek sculptures. She said: There is a lot of focus in museum education today on finding ways to bring art into the classroom to support curriculum goals rather than have the museum be primarily a field trip.

Deupi and Leitao are working together to find ways to build connections between the museum and, as Leitao says, the Universitys students as well as for local schools and the community. The physical space intrigues her and she is also interested in how the intimate nature of this museum and its collection will allow students and community members to become familiar over multiple visits with pieces in the collection in a way that they would not typically experience in a large museum.

The Bellarmine Museum of Art has been, and continues to be, truly a collaborative venture. First, came the vision from faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, then the buy-in from administrators who understood its fit within the Jesuit universitys mission and strategic plan and commenced raising funds to make it possible. In addition to Meditz, other donors to the project include The Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Charles and Mabel P. Jost Foundation. Fundraising for the project and the endowment of the museum remains ongoing. The National Endowment for the Humanities has also provided generous support through an award of a $ 500,000 four-to-one challenge grant mandating that the University raise $ 2 million by 2013 to ensure receipt of the NEH challenge. Individuals and representatives of corporations and foundations interested in partnering with the University in supporting the museum are encouraged to contact Geri Derbyshire, director of major gifts at gderbyshire@fairfield.edu.

Photo caption: The Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University

Photo credit: Jean Santopatre/Fairfield University

Photo caption: PAOLO DE MATTEIS (Italian, 1662-1728) Andromeda and Perseus, c. 1710; The Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University; Samuel H. Kress Collection via the Discovery Museum (Bridgeport, Conn.)

Vol. 43, No. 61

Fairfield University offers its students and the regional community a wide array of opportunities to enjoy the arts and enrich their lives through study, performance, appreciation, and thought. The annual Arts & Minds season of events at Fairfield provides an outstanding array of cultural and intellectual events that include the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts season, the popular Open VISIONS Forum lecture series, professional and student performances, art exhibits, special lectures, and a myriad of other lifelong learning opportunities. For further information check http://www.fairfield.edu/arts.

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