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Wired in a Week

Applicants were asked to tell trAce why they wanted to be 'wired in a week' and the best five entrants came from around the region:

Sue Rea from Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicester; Rosie Garner and Helen Davies from Nottingham; David Leicester from Derby and Nigel Lavender from the Royal Theatre, Northampton.

The winners will spend a week working with the trAce team and will also receive a year's free internet account with Diamond Cable Online and a subscription to Computer Active magazine.

To round off their training they will spend the day at the first trAce Writers and the Internet conference at the Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham on Friday 16 October, when they will hear speakers from around the world discuss the place of writing on the internet today. Guests will include the celebrated Australian author and critic Dale Spender and American hypertext writer Mark Amerika.

Background
Do you want to be WIRED IN A WEEK?
Do you like to write?
Do you want to surf the internet?

Enter our competition! If you have a way with workds you can put your talents to good use by telling us in no more than 300 works why you want to be Wired in a Week. Your entry can be in any format - a poem, a story, an essay or an article. It can be funny, scientific, suspenseful... even romantic. Entertain us!

The Prize
To celebrate the launch of the trAce International Online Writing Community this October we're offering the chance to dive in at the deep end. The lucky winners will learn all about the World Wide Web in just four days of intensive hands-on training. They'll be taught by experienced trAce internet trainers who will help them learn at their own pace whilst bringing them up to date with the latest technology. Not all of their teachers will be based in Britain - the class could easily be live online from Australia or America, and our winners will be taking part via the wonders of technology! But no matter where in the world they are, the international trAce team will ensure that by the end of the week our winners will have learned to:

• use email
• surf the World Wide Web
• find the information they need
• communicate instantly in real time with people around the world
• read and create hypertext
• build their own website and put it online

PLUS free entrance to the First trAce Writers' Conference on Friday 16 October 1998

• a year's free internet account with Diamond Cable
• a year's subscription to Computeractive magazine
• a bag of internet goodies

The trainers

trace@ntu.ac.uk
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