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AUTHOR Rutkowski, Kathleen M., Ed. TITLE NetTeach News, 1995-1996. INSTITUTION NetTeach News. Herndon, VA. REPORT NO ISSN-1070-2954 PUB DATE 96 NOTE 164p. AVAILABLE FROMKathleen M. Rutkowski, 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA 22071-2944; email: [email protected]. ASCII electronic text version via the Internet: $22 (global); HTML version: $40 (global); P rinted version via mail: $38 (U.S.), $45 (Canada/Mexico), $60 (outside North America). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT NetTeach News; v3 n1-10 Apr/May 1995-Mar 28 1996
EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Computer Networks; *Computer Uses in Education; Educational Change; Educational Methods; *Educational Resources; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; *Information Networks; *Internet; Learner Controlled Instruction; Newsletters; Teacher Attitudes IDENTIFIERS *Teacher Networks
ABSTRACT This document consists of 10 issues (one year) of a newsletter intended for K-12 networking teachers. It provides a forum for the exchange of resources, applications to education, significant events, and major international, regional, and state programs and policies relevant to K-12 networking. Cover articles include: "To Liberate a Learner, Liberate a Teacher"; "Turning Swords and Plowshares into Webs, Moos, and Chats"; "The Art of Raising an Independent Learner"; "On Creating a Democratic Internet ARPANET--U.S. DoD (Department of Defense)-Sponsored Network"; "So What Do Jiminy Critket, Big Brother, Warning Labels, and Web Meltdowns Have to Do with Equity and Quality Learning on the Internet?"; "The Return of the Village Schoolmaster: Teachers Who Feel Good About Themselves and Who Speak Up, Speak Out, Speak Honestly, and Speak Wisely"; "The Interactive School: Visions of Teaching and Learning in the JAVA Age"; "The Coming Revolution in Education"; "On Creating a Democratic Internet: Commercialization (Part Three)"; and "A Networking Strategy for School Change." (AEF)
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The Captured Mind skills rather than
Most children come to the formal educationA society that values lifelong learning needs process as creative, curious, eager youngto take take a senous look lt the signals it is minds. There is nothing quite comparablesends to its youngest leams. Do we really to the unbounded energy of a little toddlerwant to send the message that the only Most boys or youths who exploring his world. The young child views learning that matters is formal learning and have had much knowl- the world as his laboratory, and everythingthat the only acceptable measurement of that learning is standardized assessments. edge drilled into them, including bugs, dried leaves, sticks, and mud are treasures to both behold and hold.Moreover, do we really want to send the have their mental capaci- message that their minds are sponges and it ties not strengthened, but Kindergarten and first grade are periods ofis society's task to fill that sponge with skillful overlaid by it. They are adjustment when the young unshackledinformation? crammed with mere facts, explorer must learn to confine his explo- and with the opinions or rations to a desk or classroom but there is If School's Out Is Learning In? still tolerance for wandering. By third and phrases of other people, fourth grade the child often sits in a coldThere is a growing movement to liberate and these are accepted asbrick building, staring out the window ot thelearners and to promote lifelong learning and a substitute for the power sunny world outside wishing he could getan end to the distinction between formal and to form opinions of their up and go outside. informal learning.Certainly Lewis Perel- own: and thus the sons of man's best selling book, School's Out has The resourceful creative child learns howpromoted the most radical paradigm in this eminent fathers, who haveto survive. As the teacher stands in theregard by essentially declaring the irrele- spamd no pains for their front of the room lecturing, as the mechani-vance of formal learning in schools. 0 education, so often grow cal wall clock clicks down the interminable up mere parroters of what minutes in a controlled day, the child (Continued on page 3) they have learnt, inca- whose mind refuses to be captured, ex- plores the depths of his own imagination. pable of using their minds Every now and then he tunes in and be- except in the furrows comes a master of probability and predic- traced for them." Essen- tion. Inside tial Works John Stuart Mill Autobiography pp.27- The Adult Prisoner TRUE CONFESSIONS OR LIFE AFTER INTERNET ADDICTION 2 28. We teach our children that play is not learning, and that learning in school is real TEACHING TEACHERS learning while everything else isplay, TECHNOLOGY 4 homework, or a waste of time. We instruct A TOUR OF ONLINE COURSES children that a prerequisite to "successful" 5 learning is attentive listening to adults. We scold children for their inattentiveness and WEBS FOR KIDS AT HOME rarely award them for their creativity. 10 CANADIAN LEARNING WEBS When most children grow up, they hold on 11 to these beliefs. The only learning they un- derstand is formal, and they place little EDULISTS value on any knowledge or experience they 16 Exploratorium acquire informally. They learn to confine URL:http://www.exploratoriuntedu/ their imagination and they seek to acquire THE GLOBAL KIOSQUE 19
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True Confessions or Life After Internet Addiction
Clifford Stoll, a long time Internet traveler, has just re- wears their religion like a new suit of clothes, proudly leased his new book entitled, Silicon Snake Oil: Sec- and passionately. The long-term believer effuses a faith ond Thoughts on The Information Highway.Al- that is more like a patchwork quilt than a brand new gar- though I think Clifford has gone too far in his efforts to ment. admonish against the dangers of the Internet, I com- mend his honesty ane share at least one of his concerns True belief like true love is never quick or easy. We namely that we who use this medium can become ad- hear about the moment of religious awakening just like dicted to such an extent that we forget fundamental rela- we hear about °love at first sight" but life instructs the tionships and a basic need to live. However, unlike true believers that those moments of certainty are fol- Stoll, I hesitate to readily reject the medium for my lowed by minutes that turn into hours, days and years of somewhat irrational and compulsive use or misuse of struggle for what Henry James writes is "the realization the technology. of a definitive recognition and reconciliation.".
Recently, I took some time away from the Internet, a Surely I am not suggesting that the Internet is any way, moratorium on e-mail, web surfing, and gophering to shape, or form comparable to God or love. The Internet spend more time with my family "living" a life off of cy- does impact on the lives of a growing number of people berspace. One evening I simply turned off my computer around the world and offers the possibility of significant and almost instantly felt °liberated".I enjoyed spending positive social and personal growth but only if men and time interacting with my children, mother and husband. women learn to use it reasonably and effectively in their I actually read entire books and started a stage play us- normal lives, and not lose sight of the bottomlines, be it ing a pen and a legal-sized tablet of paper. I took time to productive learning in a school, a full and satisfying life daydream and time to walk the dog. It was pleasant not for the individual, or collaborative and cooperative com- to be staring at a computer monitor and checking my munities of learners for the global society. many electronic mailboxes for the latest arriving mes- sages at 1 am.. In fact it was so pleasant to be away We cannot allow the technology to control our lives an.d from the onerous demands of cyberspactial interaction steal away our personal or societal souls but rather must that I almost considered pulling the plug permanently as individuals and as a society diligently team to use this like Clifford Stoll and creating a new clubCAAC technology to advance the value and belief systems we (Cyberspatial Addictu Against Cyberspace). hold sacrosanct. It is up to us as individuals and as a society to prioritize, delimit, and promote a responsible I realized, however, that I had real friends in cyberspace and rational use of this technology for the betterment of who I wanted to hear from and communicate with and ourselves and society as a whole. This is not a time for without the Internet my aoility to stay in touch would be second thoughts but a time to fully commit ourselves to compromised. I also realized that the Internet offered a lifelong struggle to achieve a vision with an under- me access to information and knowledge that I would standing that the technology is only a means to the end. not otherwise have and the ability to reach a larger audi- ence through online publishing.I accepted that my per- sonal challenge would be to learn how to better use this technology iri.my personal and professional life. Editor Kathy Rutkowski Contributing Editor Stephanie Stevenson I wonder how many others of you out there, veteran in- ternauts, have experienced similar experiences of burn- out, turn-off, and a need to escape. I wonder how many NetTeach News besides myseli and Clifford Stoll have taken time to May 1995 evaluate how th technologl has impacted on one's pro- ISSN:1070 29U fessional and personal lif;s.I wonder how many of those who considered the impact of MI Internet on their lives Published ten times a year.It Is available in print and have permanently sworn off cyberspace and how many electronically on the Internet. others like myself took a vacation and came back witha new attitude towards the technology. Executive, Editorial, Circulation and Advertising Offices: NetTeach News, 13102 Weather Van. Way, Herndon, VA Most evangelists are guilty of zealousness and protec- 22071-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703-471-0593. Internet: tionism.. They fear that the ignorance and fears of oth- netteachechaos.com ers will militate against the realization of their visions and hopes.Internet evangelists are no different; they are Copyright 01995 by NetTeach News. AN rights reserved. Federal quick to sing praise and slow to criticize. copyright law prohibits unauthorized reproduction by any means and imposes fines up to $25,000 tor violations. In religion, one can usually distinguish the neophyte convert from the long-time believer. The neophyte PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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To some extent, Constructionst theoryThe most relevant key findings in- their students once they have and the work of Howard Gardner and oth-clude: reached an appropriate degree of ers on creativity and cognitive learning Despite technologies available in familiarity with the technology. tend to support the irrelevance of a tradi- schools, a substantial number of However,networkswilloffer tional pedagogy that demands passivity teachers report little or no use of teachers a forum to reveal the on the part of the student and does not computers for instruction.Their constraints that not only subjugate nurture independentand creative use of other technologies also learners but teachers as well. thought!. However, even Seymour Pa- varies considerably. pert who advocates a significant revamp- The Real Challenge ing of the traditional school recognizes a cirWhile technology is not a panacea legitimate function that schools can play for all educational ills, today's tech- and moreover the central position that nologies are essential tools of the Teachers have always been con- teachers must play in any reform pro- teaching trade. To use these tools cerned about learners and have cess, well, teachers need visions of the dedicated their lives to helping technologies' potential, opportuni- young minds reach to their poten- The central issue of change in education ties to apply them, training and tial. New technologies offer them is the tension between technicalizing and just-in-time support, and time to the tools to better understand not technicalizing, and here the teacher experiment. Only then can teach- learners and their different cogni- occupies a fulcrum position." . 0 tive styles as well as to develop ers be informed and fearless in better strategies to impact those their use of new technologies. The Legitimate Role of Schools different learners and help them all Using technology can change the reach to their potential. In effect, new technologies, particularly net- Radical new formulas to change the way teachers leach. working technologies can help paradigm of learning by replacing teach-arHelping teachers to use technol- teachers nurture lifelong learning ers with technology and schools with ogy effectively may be the most im- much more effectively. home telecommunication centers fail rec- portant step to assuring that cur- ognize the legitimate role that schools rent and future investments in The critical challenge is providing can and do play. Schools serve a useful both teachers and learners ade- function by providing all children an op- technology are realized. quate access and training to new portunity to learn with other children and technologies. Together eager Most teachers have not had ade- young learners and their caring with adults who are exclusively at their quate training to prepare them to service to nurture their learning. As well teachers can help the rest of soci- meaning as parents may be, they rarely use technology effectively in teach- ety better understand the process ing. Currently, most funds for tech- of learning and the importance of have the time or training to ,ndertake the nology are spent on hardware and degree of mentoring required by the education to any society. It is also sofhNare. ...On average, districts learners as the learner grows. devote no mote than 15 percent of ************* understood that an individual learner ben- technology budgets to teacher efits from collaborative and cooperative REFERENCES learning and schools can and do provide training. 0 School's Out, Lewis J. Perelman. that setting. A majority of teachers report feel- ing inadequately trained to use (New York, Avon Books, 1992) Certainly new multimedia and networking technology resources, particularly 0The Unschooled MindHow Children technologies can support the individual computer-based technologies. Al- learner in the home by providing access though many teachers see the Think & How Schools Should Teach, Howard Gardner (Basic Books, 1991) to excellent resources, adult mentors, value of students learning about and other collaborative learners, but most computers and other technologies, learners in the K12 community can and some are not aware of the re- 0Constructionism, Edited by Ida Hare! and Seymour Papert (Norwood, New Jer- do benefit from learning in a learning or- sources technology can offer them ganization. as professionals in carrying out sey, Ablex Publishing Company, 1991) many aspects of their jobs. The Leverage for Change 0 The Children's Machine, Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, Sey- The Need for Training Inreasingly those who are interested in mour Papert (Basic Books, 1993) changing the paradigm of learning in There is compelling evidence based OU.S. Congress, Office of Technology schools are searching for the appropriateon these findings and other re- Assessment, Teachers & Technology leverage for change. In April, the Office of Technology Assessment of the USsearch and field work that training Making the Connection, OTA-EHR-616 teachers in the use of technology (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Print- Congress released their report, Teachers may be the key to radically changing ing Office, April 1995) & Technology Making the Connection. the way learners learn in schools.0 0 The connection that their key findings Of course, teacher training must be made between teachers use of technol- Farnet/Cosn, Building Consen- good met with an adequate administrative sus/Building Models: A Networking Strat- ogy and learning perhaps offers support structure that allows teach- egy for Change, NSF Grant No. Red- guidance. ers to use technology creatively with 9254947 (March 1994)
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Net TeachNews TEACHING TEACHER TECHNOLGY by Stephanie Stevenson
Professional Development and enhance their skills and knowl- edge in pedagogy, content and Online Resources leadership; Today's teachers areconstantly Richard Smith, the creator of the asked to bridge the gap between ed- an active involvement of teachers highly successful online workshops ucationaltheoryandclassroom in planning and an ample provision called "Navigating the Internet." teaching. This not only requires of time and resources for change in stated, keeping current on new theories of the classroom; pedagogy, cognitive development, o- a component to evaluate impact on "Telecommunications technologies have assessment and corps curriculum ar- teacher effectiveness, student provided a vast array of teaching oppor- eas but increasingly demands up- learning and performance, and in tunities for (those) educators and librari- gradingtechnologicalskills.Re- upgrading educational standards. ans charged with providing information cently, Richard Riley, the US Secre- to students, staff, researchers and fac- tary of Education, stated, New Technologies ulty. The technology permits expanded communication among teachers/ stu- "Schools and students have changed New technologies are proving to be dent, and also provides a means of in- significantly in recent years, but teach- creasing teacher/teacher and student/ ers are still at ihe heart of instruction.If, useful and cost effective in support- as a nation, we expect to prepare all ing ongoing professional develop- student communications." students for the 21st century, we must ment. Networking technologies in provide teachers with ongoing opportu- particular seem to offer classroom Training using networking exhibits nities to be the most infomied, the most teachers with a quick and easy ac- some benefits over traditional class- capable, and the most inspiring class- cess to other professionals in class- room instruction and also over dis- room leaders possible." rooms, universities, corporations, tance education courses using other and government agencies around telecommunication technologies.. The Secretary is not alone in his the world. Networking is now sup- Some of these benefits include: recognition that ongoing professional porting teacher development and development is a critical component train;ng by: Immediacyespecially compared of any successful educational pro- to print-based materials and corre- spondence courses gram. In April, the Office of Technol- providing access to the best avail- ogy Assessment of the US Congress, able sources of research in the released the report,Teachers & concepts of teaching, learning and Sense of group identitywhere the Technology other active educational concerns; computer system becomes a meet- Making the Connec- ing place for students tion. ( OTA. EHR-616, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, recognizing the concerns of teach- Improved dialoguestudents cor- April 1995) Several key findings em- ers as being central to overall edu- cational reform; respond more than in traditional phasized the importance of support- classroom setting ing more effective teacher training, 0- allowing many different segments especially in the use of technology, to of the educational community to Improved instructor controlthe systemic educational reform. contribute ideas and express differ- computer system can produce on- ing points of view; line schedules and records of planned activities. Critical Components 0- providing new forums for teachers to enhance their skills and knowl- 0- Active learning student participa- The most effective training programs edge in pedagogy, content and tion is enhanced and improved around the country all seem to in- leadership; clude some recurring basic ele- Clearly, uses of networks for profes- ments. These elements include: supporting flexible time frames that sional development can be beneficial assist teachers in developing cur- to the practitioner in the classroom, tr. a long-tenn strategy to improve riculum and training components; and give administrators a new tool for teaching and learning based on the training. However, there is still a le- best available research and practice introducing technological tools, gitimate need for hands-on work- in teaching, learning and leader- concepts and resources in a format shops and professional "real" (as op- ship; that promotes hands-on, self- posed to "virtual") conferences, and directed learning; other forms of distance education. a focus on teachers as central to that together with interactive net- overall school reform,yet include all assisting in evaluations of impact members of the school community; on teacher effectiveness, student working provide a more complete a respect and commitment to culti- learning levels, and attainment of and effective professional develop- vate teachers' intellectual capacities enhanced educational standards. 6ment program.
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The following are some of the many training opportunities The workshop files are set up so that people can currently to be found on the Internet that has helped me get the lessons in one week blocks, and the GET in my personal professional development.. Several of MAP PACKAGE command will send them two let- these offer the ability of receiving graduate level course ters telling them how to get these "blocks." credit. In such cases there is generally a fee involved for participation.Others provide very thorough training for which an inservice component could be created with the For back copies of the Roadmap lessons, send a completed assignments being used to document message to: progress. The beauty of these training opportunities is that they can be done with students in the classroom; [email protected]. while also familiarizing educators with the new tools, tech- niques and applications needad to produce reform in the In the main body of the message write the com- classroom. mand:
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Richard Smith developed his course, Navigating the In- Workshop Schedule: ternet, for On-line training in the use of the Internet. WEEK1 filenri,;a filetype description MAF-01 LESSON WELCOME Course Review: Originally a course delivered via a Listsenr. MAPO2 LESSON LISTSERV FILE SERVER COMMANDS All lessons now stored on a gopher. It only covers gopher ac- cess, though W14441is mentioned briefly at the end. Hence it WEEK2 seems rather limited now. Some of the facts and figures are filename Retype description rather dated. The numbering of the lessons is erratic some MAP03 LESSON LEVELS OF INTERNET CONNECTIV- numbers are repeated; some missing. A chatty, informal style ITY is adopted. The last few lessons discuss ways to customize MAP04 LESSON E-MAIL MAP05 LESSON LISTSERVS various clients, and may be less useful for a general audience MAP06 LESSON OTHER MAIL SERVERS as only character-based clients are discussed. MAP07 LESSON NETIQUETTE
Contact-Name: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh WEEK3 filenamefiletype description Contact-Email: [email protected] MAP08 LESSON USENET Cost: Free MAP09 LESSON SPAMMING AND URBAN LEGENDS Access-Type: Gopher MAP10 LESSON INTERNET SECURITY To Access Type: MAP11 LESSON TELNET (PART ONE) gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/0ther Gophers and Information_R MAP12 LESSON TELNET (PART TWO) esources/Gopherin WEEK4 filename filetype description MAP13 LESSON FTP (PART ONE) The RoadMap to the Internet MAP14 LESSON FTP (PART TWO) MAP15 LESSON FTPMAIL MAP16 LESSON FTP FILE COMPRESSION The Roadmap to the Internet, a very popular online QUIZ1Q LESSON POP QUIZ course developed and moderated by Patrick Crispen MAP17 LESSON ARCHIE ([email protected]) of the University of Alabama. MAP17B LESSON FTP SITES QUIZ1A LESSON POP QUIZ ANSWERS The course provides lessons on the use of and re- sources available on the Internet. To participate in the WEEKS Roadmap workshops, send an e-mail message to: filename filetype description MAP18 LESSON GOPHER (PART ONE) MAP19 LESSON GOPHER (PART TWO) [email protected]. MAP20 LESSON BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS Be certain to include the command: GET MAP PACK- MAP21 LESSON VERONICA AGE F=MAIL in the body of the message. MAP22 LESSON GOPHERMAIL (Continued on page 6)
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WEEK6 Snow Science filenamefiletype description Water Quality MAP23 LESSON WWW (PART ONE) Relativity MAP24 LESSON WWW (PART 7W0) Scientific Visualization QUIZ2Q LESSON POP QUIZ Images of Earth MAP25 LESSON ADDRESSES SEARCHES AND FINGER NEAT LESSON MAP-EXTRA: NEAT STUFF TO CHECK OUT Contact Montana State University Extended Studies for ADVERT LESSON MAP-EXTRA: ADVERTISING ON THE, IN- TERNET course schedules and registration information by phoning MAP26 LESSON IRC/MUDs/MOOs AND OTHER 'TALKERS" (406) 994-6550or sending e-mail to SMITH LESSON GUEST LECTURE RICHARD SMITH [email protected]. QUIZ2A LESSON POP QUIZ ANSWERS MAP27 LESSON THE FUTURE ...
If you want the the lessons e-mailed to you in one-week Visualization and Communications Tools blocks,simply sending an e-mail message to: for Math/Science [email protected]. Visualization and Communication Tools for Mathematics and Science Teaching is one such course being expanded this In the main body of the message include the command: summer. This Math580course provides two semester GET WEEK# PACKAGE F=MAIL. Be sure to replace hours of credit.It will be offered from June 19 - July28 the # with the week number of the block that you want 1995.The tuition and fees for this course are$200,training to retrieve. For example, in order to receive "WEEK2" materials are $60. files. your command would read: As part of this program, Participants will: GET WEEK2 PACKAGE F=MAIL 1) Learn about image processing and analysis After you send your message, a computer at the Uni- 2)Using the program NIH Image1.55 versity of Alabama will process your letter usually within 24 hours. The system will then e-mail you the Measuring Mars: A Visit to Olympus Mons particular one-week block of lessons that you have re- Measuring Global Sea Surface Temperatures quested. Exploring Phytoplankton Pigment Concentrations Review NASA's SIR-C Educational CD-ROM Mission to Planet Earth How Radar Imaging Works What Is SIR-C? MSU's Online Courses Looking At Radar Images Exploration and Discovery Montana State University's National Teacher Enhancement Explore Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries Network offers graduate-credit science and mathematics Using Exciting New Tools courses to teachers nationally. Teachers are able to partici- Explore Euclidean Geometry with The Geometers Sketchpad pate in the telecomputing courses from convenient home or Explore Hyperbolic Geometry with Non-Euclid work locations by dial-up modem connections or Internet Explore Fractal Geometry with: access. Fractograph Fractal Artist Fractal Coastline The Network provides teachers with high quality graduate Explore the Internet Using science courses taught by university scientists, engineers, Mosaic Netscape and mathematiciant. It also enhances professional network- Fetch ing nationwide between science teachers and active re- Window to Blue Skies search scientists. Course topics are selected based on input mail, Listservs, Conferencing Tools & More from science teachers, identified needs from national sur- veys and reports, and current events taking place in science Participants must have have regular access to a Macintosh and technology. computer (LC or better) with an attached CD-ROM drive and an Internet connection supporting telnet, gopher and email Courses are team-taught by the university faculty and an and be a certified teacher at the K-12 level with an interest in active science teacher. A variety of courses are offered mathematics and science education and computer technol- each semester. Courses already developed include: ogy. (Continued on page 7 )
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The textbook to be used in conjunction with these exercises is Introduction to AppieWorks for Educators "Visualization of Natural Phenomena", by R.S. Wolf & L. PageMaker for Educators (Macintosh) Yaeger. It is included as part of the cost of the course and Computers in Mathematics Education materials. Other necessary materials include: CD-ROM:, Computers in Composition SIR-CED Pre-Launch CD-ROM, Monthly Mean Distributions Effective lnservice for Instructional Use of Computers in Education of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface, Temperature and Pigment Introduction to Microsoft Works for Educators Software Sampler I Concentration (5 CD-ROM Set), and a suite of software ap- plication tools. The three quarter hour graduate level tuition is $405, and the four quarter-hour graduate level tuition is $540. For non- To request registration information, send an email message credit students tuition is reduced to $345 for the three quarter to
ISTE/Univesity of Oregon Courses
ISTE, The International Society for Technology in Education in Other Opportunities conjunction with the University of Oregon and the Oregon State System Office of Independent Study located at Portland These then are just a few of the offerings concerning State University, Portland, Oregon offer a series of teacher development that can be found on the Internet. graduate-level Distance Education courses. The purpose of The combined resources to be found there are as vast these courses is to provide staff development and leadership as the Internet itself. Check with local universities and training for educators who do not have local access to world- on the bulletin boards of public educational network classleaders andstaff development opportunitiesin systems as well as the education sections of commu- computers-in-Education. nity networks. These resources are growing on a daily basis and many major corporate giants such as MCI, Credit for these graduate course is granted through the Uni- versity of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon or through Portland State SPRINT, AT&T, and Bell are also now taking a leader- University in Portland, Oregon. Transcripts will be issued by ship role in this development. the Registrar's Office to the university you select. Depending on the rules of the local university it may be possible to use The common goal is to make the Internet something these transfer credits in Master's and Doctoral degree pro- that is easy to use, versatile and provides access to the grams. general public. Computers and computer technology have now become an integral part of our daily lives. There are a variety of advantages with ISTE's graduate More and more people are discovering the potential of courses. For example, you are able to set your own due dates the Internet. Soon will come a day when there are for assignments. The allowable time for completing the course more computers than there are people. is much longer than for a typical on-campus course. You can customize your own learning and work schedules and set your own goals. Students can take advantage of learning telecom- Most importantly for teachers widespread access also munication skills. will support collaboration of educators from MANY di- verse interdisciplinary backgrounds, cultures, philoso- Assignments are flexible er ough that you can adapt them to phies and perspectives. Because of this; teachers are your own particular situation. You can enroll in a course at any already able to teach and pass on information to learn- time. A broad range of courses are always available. And, you ers around the world in a myriad of ways that will for- also receive a $50 coupon good towards any ISTE ever change education from the traditional products when you complete a course. Courses currently be- teacher/classroom environment to a virtual classroom ing offered include: with no walls. Clarisworks for Educators Learning Linkway/Linkway Live Exploring the Internet Stephanie Stevenson teaches at the Holly-Navarre Elemen- Introduction to Logo for Educators tary School in Navarre, Florida. She is on the CoSN cuMcu- Telecommunications and Information Access lum Committee and has presented at Conferences around the Learning HyperCard and HyperTalk Programming country. She is pioneering the use of advanced networicing Planning for Technology in Schools technologies and tools with elementary age students. Fundamentals of Technology in Education Computers and Problem Solving
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games and computer-based explorations with existing class- OTHE GEOMETRY CENTER room practices. (Grades 4-8) http://www.geom.umn.edu/
The Geometry Center is a mathematics research and education cen- ()Eisenhower National Clearinghouse ter at the University of Minnesota, funded by the National Science Digital Curriculum Lab Foundation as part of the Science and Technology Research Center Program. Geomview-users@ geom.umn.edu (for requests to be http://www.enc.org/ added to the list use [email protected]) Provides information about all types of instructional re- sources regarding K-12 mathematics and science. @Gallery of Interactive Geometry http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html PBS MATHLINE A page which contains visualization projects. http://www.pbs.org/learning/rnathline/mathline.html NCTM-standard activities for students and teachers. @Cornell Theory Center Math and OOEXPLORER Science Gateway http://unite2.tisl.ukans.edu/ http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/ Access to curriculum guides, software, and all sorts of inter- esting projects. This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in giades 9-12 Mathematics Experiences Through Image OMATHWORKS Home Page Processing http://www.mathworks.com/ http://www.cs.washington edu/research/metip/ METIP allows students to manipulate digitized images of their Math Works produces MATLAB, a software tool that integrates choice. Software is available on the web site numerical analysis, matric computation, signal processing, and graphics. MATHMOL http://wom.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/ OMATHMAGIC http://forum.swarthmore.edu:80/mathmagic/ O@The Hub. http://hub.terc.edu/ Mathmagic is a K12 network-based math project developed in El Paso, Texas by Alan Hoddon. It posts challenges in each Internetworked resourcefor mathematics and science educa- of four categories (K-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12) and these prob- tionfunded by the Eisenhower RegionalConsortia and oper- lems are solved by registered teams. To subscribe to the list, send a message to
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KIDPUB a place for kids to publish their stories. URL: http://www.en-garde.com/kidpub
THE FRANKLIN MUSEUM Great Place for a Visit Any Day! Check out the virtual exhibits and the HOTLISTS. URL:http://sIn.fi.edu/tfi/welcome.html
THE HEART: A VIRTUAL EXPLORATION (Good Spot for HS Biology Students) AeaAleatimarblysr-e:riijaetiarlddeadeatile11 URL:http://sIn.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html ...74 Chekva weer the amierl WM= taw ftstart Agin f.rt HOTLIST Pointer to educational hotspots. /V . ,',/, .0,...1.-0111/./ .4,erx,,,,I .r.rsrr'r r' URL:http://sIn.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kids.html /./0 / YAZONE - a new site for Gen-Xers URL:http://www.spectracom.com:80/yazone/ KIDS DID THIS Student Productions :17/41, and Creations URL:http:llsIn.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kids.html
INTERACTIVE THINGS TO DO KIDEOPEDIA An oniline kid's encyclopedia URL:http://sIn.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/interactive.html URL:http://199.2.210.97/kidopedia.html EARTH VIEWER You choose the view. HANDS-ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM HOTLIST- - URL:http:llwww.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html The Pands-On Children's Museum of Olympia, Wash- ington has an online exhibit called Ocean Odyssey MEGAMATH Have Fun With Math (For Age 10 & Under) URL:http://www.c3.1anl.gov/mega-math/ URL:http://www.wIn.com/-deltapac/ocean_od.html
THE VOLCANO PAGE LANL SCIENCE AT HOME Science Projects for URL:http://www.geo.mtu.edu/-mtdolanlvolcano/ the family. volcano.html URL:http://education.lanl.gov/SE/RESOURCES/ Science.at.home/Contents.html CRAYON Create your own newsletter. URL:http://sun.bucknell.edu/-boulter/crayon/ UNCLE BOB'S KIDS PAGE Uncle Bob has re- ally done a super surfing job for kidsyou name he's found it. (Boomerang Page, Muppets WWW,, Rollar Coasters) URL:http://gagme.wwa.com/-boba/kids html
A mooline Alsa for the who aro welvins and wmAttliipar vo1e Is b. Mord. TA yoniont of VA. Ww le uodokiml wAAksa THE EXPLORATORIUM Check out the Learning Studio's Virtual Exhibits (Mutant Fruit Flies, Vocal Vowels, etc.) URL:http://www.exploratorium.edu/
SPACE SHUTTLE Status Reports of current flights and history of past. URL:http://www.amdahl.com/internetJevents/ shuttle.html
KidsCom CHILDREN'S PAGE Great Links A communications playground just for kids 8 to 12 URL:http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ (URL:http://www.spectracom.com/kidscom/) jonathan.bowen/children html
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GRAZ, Austria (26th April 1995)IICM, home of Hyper-G, NCSA, The University of Minnesota - Distributed home of Mosaic, and the University of Minnesota, home of Go- Computing Services recently released the pher, today jointly announced the development of VRweb, a new Beta_18 version of Minuet 1.0 . three-dimensional Internet browser based on the emerging VRML standard for 3D objects on the World-Wide Web. Minuet is the Minnesota Internet User's The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), is a non- Essential Too, and is an integrated net- proprietary, platform-independent file format for 3D graphics on work application for the IBM PC that does the Internet, based on Silicon Graphics' Open Inventor file for- E-Mail, NetNews, Gopher, FTP, Telnet, mat. The three cooperating institutions endorse the VRML stan- and now World Wide Web too.It runs on dardisation process and support efforts to make VRML applica- IBM PC's under DOS, from the first lowly tions widely available. 4.77Mhz with 512k up to the latest Pen- It comes with its own TCP The VRweb viewer is based on the Harmony 3D Scene Viewer tium machines. for Hyper-G and is designed to work in concert with popular stack, but you need to supply a packet World-Wide Web browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape, as driver. well as Hyper-G and Gopher clients. It allows users to interac- tively explore 3D models of objects, virtual worlds, and complex Minuet can run in text-only mode on any 3D visualisations and follow hyperlinks embedded in them. In PC. Or if you have a EGA, VGA, or Super- conjunction with the Harmony client for Hyper-G, VRweb also VGA display, Minuet now runs in graphics supports interactive hyperlink creation in 3D models. mode too, adding a bit of excitement to In- It fully supports Web GIF VRweb will be made available in source code form (copyrighted, ternet browsing. but free for non-commercial use), complementing forthcoming and JPEG images in up to 65,536 dis- commercial VRML browsers and providing a platform for re- played colors. (JPEG requires at least a search and experiment. A first release of VRweb is scheduled for 386 CPU). June 1995 for UNIX platforms and shortly thereafter for Windows NT. Minuet is distributed as shareware. If after trying the program fo, 15 days, you decide to continue using it, you rttust register your IICM, NCSA, and the University of Minnesota, all non-profit or- ganisations with considerable experience of Internet information copy by sending us $50. Site licences are systems, make natural partners. The VRweb VRML browser is also available. For further information con- the first joint project between the three institutions. tact:
[email protected] f The Institute for Information Processing ar d Computer Sup- ported New Media (IICM), part of Graz University of Technology, Austria, is home to Hyper-G, a multi-protocol (WWW, Gopher, You can get Minuet by FTP from: Hyper-G) Internet information system, which integrates hyperlink- minuet.micro.umn.edu in ing, hierarchical structuring, sophisticated search, and informa- /pub/minuet/latest/minuarc.exe. This is a tion management facilities into a single, tightly-coupled environ- self-extracting archive that expands to the ment. Hyper-G has supported 3D models and navigational facili- ties for several years. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is dedi- cated to advancing leading-edge technologies in information and high performance computing and communications in academia and industry. The center receives major funding to support its !, New at NETCENTER research from the National Science Foundation, the Advanced R search Projects Agency, NASA, corporate partners, the State ot Illinois, and the University of Illinois. NCSA is developer of the Spry's Internet-On-A-Disk and Spry Air popular Mosaic Internet browser and the most widely used Mosaic Browser are now available from WWW server, NCSA httpd. Gateway's NETCENTER in a 1.4 MB file. To download the file point to: The University of Minnesota is the home of Internet Gopher, a distributed document search and retrieval system which com- URL:http://netcentencom and head bines structured navigation and full text searches. The Gopher down the page to DOWLOAD MOSAIC- team recently released Unix and Macintosh GopherVR clients to AIR MOSAIC. You can also download provide a 3D interface to existing Gopher servers. The Go- Microsoft's Internet Assistant which can pherVR interface represents collections of documents as 3D turn your copy of Microsoft Word into a scenes to make it easy to visualize relationships between the new Internet Browser. documents. VRML is a natural extension to GopherVR since VRML scenes can be treated as another type of document in a Gopher hierarchy.
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Champlain is a new search mechanism to be used to search through Canadian government resources available on the Internet. Using forms, you can enter a query such as
SchoolNet is a cooperative initiativ.: of Canada's provincial, territorial and federal governments, educators, universities and colleges and industry.It aims to link all Canada's 16,000 plus schools to the elec- tronic highway as quickly as possible SchoolNet Resources URL:http://schoolnet.carleton.calenglish/schlnet. htm I
The SchoOlNet Gopher URL: gopher://schoolnet.carleton.ca:419/ SAE's(Society of Automative Engineers) World in Motion Learning Kit URL: http://schoolnet.carleton.ca/english/worldinmotion/index.html Canadisk Canadian History Gallery http://schoolnet.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/schoolnet/canadisk.pl Canadian Space Information http://schoolnet.carleton.ca/english/astronauts/astronauts.html
World-wide web server oeprated by the Information Net- works Division of the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada. URL: http://siksik.learnnet.nt.ca/default.html
Letter from the Deputy Minister URL:ttp://siksik.learnnet.nt.ca/ECE/Introduction.html Education, Coln= and Employment CTS Curriculum Document Index http://siksik.learnnet.nt.ca/CTS/CTSindex.html
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CANADA Presents the WWW from the Canadian Perspective. URL:http://www.dockercom/canada.HTML
CANADA's PARLIAMENT URL: http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/programs/pio/intro.html
Canadian Museum of Civilization URL:http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/cmc/cmceng/welcmeng.html
NAIS MAP With NAISMap you can view and manipulate NA- tional Atlas spatial data and construct your own map of Canada. URL:http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/wnaismap/naismap.html
The Canadian Forest Service has put up this experimental web page which allows you to click Ln detailed rnaps and slide shows on forests around Canada as well as accAss information on their gopher server. URL:http://ncr157.ncr.forestry.ca/mf.htm
©ATLAS of CANADIAN COMMUNITIES Digital Atlas contains useful information about communities throughour Canada http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/ourhome/home.html \\\\\\\\\ Assiniboine Community College http://www.assiniboinec.mb.ca/
W.A. Porter Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario URL:http://www.interlog.com/-lhbulmer/school/home html John Ware Jr. High, Calgary,Alberta Assiaoine URL:http://www.tcel.com/-pstobo/ware.html 'CO IVI'MUN IllrYC 01-11.EGE. Vincent Massey High School URL:http://www.docker.com/-whiteheadm/vm.html
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On May 8, 1995, the new Smithsonian Institution about membership, donations, fellowships and intern- "Home Page" was released to the public. Speaker of ships. the House, Newt Gingrich and the Secretary of the Smithsonian, I. Michael Heyman conducted the demonstration of this new site. Places Here's the spot to begin your tour of the many Smithsonian Museums, galleries, research cen- TheSmithsonian Website isfound at ters, and offices. There is a locator map of The Mall. http://www.si.edu. and there are several mirror sites. The Home Page has several components including, Additionally, every museum posts samples from their permanent exhibits (visual and text), some research Welcome This includes a brief video of Secretary activities and their events calendars. Currently, all four- Heyman welcoming the visitor to the Online Smithso- teen of the Smithsonian Museums have their own indi- nian.This requires software that can run audio and vi- vidual Home Pages. sual information.It provides links to an Overview of Smithsonian Museums, the Encyclopedia Smithsonian There are between one and two thousand "electronic (faqs on the Smithsonian), and information on a Plan- pages" in this Electronic Smithsonian. The information ning a Visit. covers a variety of subject areas, and there are over 2,000 images. The overview section is available in View from the Castle This section contains a Spanish, German, and French versions as well as En- monthly message from the Secretary of the Smithso- glish. nian on topical issues.It may be viewed as text or played using audio software. Links here to News Re- Using the Internet, the Smithsonian Institution hopes to leases from the Smithsonian. be able to provide all Americans in their homes, li- braries and schools with access to one of the world's What's New This section contains a sampler of most magnificent collection of manmade and natural Smithsonian exhibitions and activities for each of the treasures. This is the supermarket of supermarkets for museums and galleries and the National Zoo.It also global learners, and this is just the beginning. includes new additions to the Smithsonian Web Server, and press releases. The Smithsonian Institution is now paving the way for a global virtual museum. You and the Smithsonian This gives information 1 6
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THE GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE THE NEXT GENERATION
The funding cycle for original Global Schoolhouse Project that was funded by National Science Foundation and other sponsors, has officially ended. However, the work of building the "Global Schoolhouse," that began over a decade ago with the Global SchoolNet Foundation(GSN), continues. The concept for a "global school- house" originatedin1985 when teachers in San Diego linked their students to classrooms en the east coast. With a grant from the National Science Foundation in 1992, GSN launched the "official" Global School- house Pilot Project that showcased live video-conferencing over the In- ternet.
Global SchoolNet Foundation is very GSN President Yvonne Andres With Students and Business Partner interested in identifying schools, or- Global Schoolhouse (TM)URL: http://gsn.org/gsn/gsh.home.html ganizations, businesses, and individ- uals who want to become "partners" in expanding the concept of the Global Schoolhouse. This is an inter- national effort to encourage "change Global SchoolNet Pages agents" to work together to improve education and to support lifelong Global SchoolNet Foundation Page URL:http://gsn.org/ learning. Family Tree-Mail: Language Translation Pilot Project URL: http://gsn.org/gsn/ftm.home.html TWO NEW LISTSERVS: Scientist-on-Tap URL: http://gsn.org/gsn/sot.home.html LOGO Foundation URL: http://gsn.org/gsn/logo.home.html globalschoolnet-watch@ gsn.org Presidential Awardees URL:http://k12.cnidr.org/pa/pa.html
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THE EDUCATOR'S CORNER 344t5©Telecommunications and Education, Surfing and the Art of ?1 e$©Class Action, How to Cre- Change by Gloria G. Frazier and De- ate Accountability, Innovation, and neen Frazier (National School Boards Excellence in American Schools by Association, An ITTE Technology John Katzman and Steven Hodas Leadership Network Special Report, (New York, Villard Books, 1995) US 1994) $22.50 This is an excellent, concise guide to This is the book on schuol reform the networks for education leaders.It worth reading, and what's more it is answers the most common questions written to be read. Excellent writing and offers good insight into how net- and profound thoughts. Check this working can play a role in educational reform. one out. ir"----COMINGSOON .7:1=1CL- 1W DMII=11111:311 I 43$© Internet for Kids by De- THE INTERNET NOOK neen Frazier with Dr. Barbara Kur- 1 shan and Dr. Sara Armstrong (Alameda, CA, SYBEX, 1995) THE INTERNET PUBLISHING KIT This is a wonderful book for all edu- e3e!,$$ Silicon Snake Oil, Second In an effort to help users reallze the full po- cators and parents of kids espe- Thoughts on the Information High- tential of the Intemet,Ventana Media is re- cially in the k-8 range. Superbly way by Clifford Stoll (New York, Dou- leasing the Internet Publishing Kit. Packed written and packed filled with great bleday, 1995) US $ 22 with information, examples, tips, software, projects and interesting places on tools, and templates, it provides everything the Internet .Not a comprehensive Clifford makes some excellent points needed to create great looking, effective guide but a book that helps you un- here and his second thoughts are documents online. This Kit enables virtually derstand how the Internet can be worth reading (although you might wait everyone to participate on the Internet with used to create exciting learning ex- for the paperback) but I would guess their own mative documents, newsletters, periences. Clifford's next book might be even advertisements, press releases, brochures, more interesting. He needs time to en- and catalogs. eq OW World Link: An Internet joy his new found "freedom" from the excesses of his electronic networking Publishing on the Internet, a 400 page text Guidefor Educators, Parents, and included in the Kit, will guide readers with Students by Linda Joseph and ponder how we can all better con- trol the technology and use it as it step-by-step instructions on creating a (Columbus, Ohio, Greyden Press, Home Page, building graphics video and 1995) US $24.95 should be used as a tool and not as a crutch or an escape. sound into their documents, creating hyper- links, structuring information for the Web, Unda Joseph, the editor of the World and a great deal more. Sample images and Link newsletter, has put together an home pages feature links to sources of excellent guide to the Internet for edu- 6ele$$$Teach Yourself Web Publish- graphics, images, sounds, and video files. cators and parents and students. This ing with HTML In A Week by Laura Netscape Navigator, the hottest new Web is very easy reading and an excellent Lemay (Indianopolis, Indiana, SAMS browser will be included, as well as, an step-by-step guide. Publishing, 1995) US $25 HTML editor and Acrobat Reader.
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JUNE 1995 By postal mail to Internet Society 12020 Sunrise Vly Dr, Suite 270 9-10 June GopherCON'95 Radisson Hotel Metro Dome, Min- Reston VA 22091 neapolis, MN. Features for this year's GopherCON will include: USA Gopher Con '95 information can be found in inside the directory "Information about Gopher" on gopher.tc.umn.edu port 70. If you have a URL-savvy client you can use this URL: 28-30 June. INET'95 - Internet
,ISTE, 1787 Agate Street, Eugene, OR 97403-1923. Tel: +1 503- 346-3537, fax +1 503-346-3509e-mail : PDKATZ@ JULY 1995 oregon.uoregon.edu. 8-13 July rEARN's Second Annual International 20-22 June Canadian Networking Conference, Networking '95 Teachers Meeting in Melbourne, Australia. The con- Carleton University, Ottawa. For more information contact: Dave ference will bring together l*EARN teachers and stu- Sutherland, Director, Computing and Communications, Carleton dents but will also be open to educators from outside University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, tel: +1 613 788-2600 x3701, the l*EARN Network. Discussions and demonstrations of the latest developments in educational practice util- fax: +1 613 788-4448, email: [email protected] ising telecommunications and associated technology will be the key focus of the workshop sessions. Re- quests for further information or conference registra- 27-29 June. The first Women in Technology Conference, spon- tion can be forwarded to the !TARN GLOBAL SEC- sored by the International Network of Women in Technology, will be RETARIAT at [email protected], or held at thP Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. . Fur- The l*EARN AUSTRALIA CENTRE ther information on the conference is available by calling +1 (818) William A. J. Coppinger 990-1987, via e-mail from [email protected], or by writing WIT Confer- Centre Co-ordinator: Australia ence, 4641 Burnet Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. Chairperson: Executive Board of Directors Australian National Office 26 June ISOC.School Networking Colloquium at INET'95 P.O. Box 268 Broadford 3658 Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Networking for Victoria, Australia schools is one of the crucial aspects of the emerging Global Infor- Tel. (61)-57-843452 (24 hr voicemail) mation Infrastructure. This year, INET will host a unique 1-day pre- Fax. (61)-57-841921 conference School Networking Colloquium for to address this issue Internet: [email protected] from an international perspective and consider ideas for future ISOC activities to support and accelerate school netwo:king Geometry, the Internet and the Coali- around the world. The ISOC School Networking Colloquium will be 23-30 July a highly-interactive program. It will be based on brief presentations tion of Essential Schools. Swarthmore College, to stimulate thinking, followed by discussion and question & answer Swarthmore, PA. This institute is being co-sponsored sessions with expert panelists and all colloquium participants. Ple- by the Geometry Forum, a National Science Founda- nary and breakout sessions will address the role of networking in tion funded program at Swarthmore College in PA, schools, Internet technology for schools,educational applications ol and the Coalition of Essential Schools. Participants the Internet, and supporting educators' use of the Internet. The collo- will become familiar with the resources currently avail- quium agenda will allow ampleopportunity for conversation and dis- cussion inside and outside the sessions. Breakout panel/discussion able to math and science teachers through the Inter- sessions will address: Internet Networking Technology for Schools, net, as well as develop materials and projects for their Integrating Internet Services and Resources into the Curriculum, In- own classrooms and students. Participating teachers ternet Training for Educators, Internet Server and Service Technol- will receive geometry software and support for linking ogy for Schools, Internet-based Educational Applications Develop- school computers to the network. ment, Supporting Educators on the Internet. To register navigate to. Institute Contact person: Steve Weimar the WWW INET95 ISOC School Networking Colloquium form at Organization:The Geometry Forum http://www.isoc.org/ISOC_School_Networking.html Address: Swarthmore College For information contact: Email to
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Houghton Mifflin, McDougal Littel Partner, and a Vision, an Interview and O'Reilly Publishers are collabo- with Susan Hixson, a K-6 Reading rating together on the new GNN Ed- Specialist at Carminati Elementary ucation Center. School in Tempe, Arizona con- ducted by Michael Shelton; and No In the Center, you can find Houghton Girls Allowed, an article by Melissa Mifflin curriculum supplements in the Koch on gender and technology use. Reading/Language Arts Center. and articles such as.lssues in Literacy There are departments that will pro- Development tyi John J. Pikulski and vide information in a variety of areas J. David Cooper. such as online projects, CLASS- ifieds (teachers looking to collabo- The current features include: A View rate online) and links to some other of K12 Education on the Web an arti- K12 internet resources (somewhat cle by Andy Carvin, author of the Ed- limited and not as comprehensive as GNN EDUCATION PAGE Web Project and Moderator of the the EINET Galaxy or CEARCH Meta- http://gnn.com/gnn/mata/edu/index.html WWWEdu listservThe Web. a Indices).
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The GNN Education Center will provide access to the Web, and make a com- Please send any questions or submit a Web site for a primary or secondary mitment to learning the technical con- proposals to Melissa Koch at school with a strong commitment to ventions of publishing on the Web, in- [email protected] if your school wants creating an electronic magazine de- cluding HTML coding. to participate in this collaborative voted to student writing. To demon- effort. The Education Center, located strate this commitment, the creators of Houghton Mifflin, GNN, and McDou- on GNN, will launch on May 1. the electronic magazine must submit gal Littell will share Web server an informal proposal to Melissa Koch, space, some technical knowledge, Melissa Koch GNN Editor of the Education Center. and their experience with electronic GNN Editor, Education Center The school will be expected to involve publishing. The creators of the Edu- O'Reilly & Associates other schools around the country; cation Center also expect to learn 2550 9th St.,Suite 111 within the proposal, the school should from the students' experiences in this Berkeley, CA 94710 indicate how it will obtain submissions new form of publishing. At the end of (510) 883-7220 from other schools. In addition, the a year, the parties to this collaboration (415) 487-0855 (home office) school in this collaboration must pro- will discuss possible ways to extend vide its own computer equipment and the project.
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41 fait.577'4"; II;I 4-4:51"42t r..37.14. 1/47: INK.2teffiri* WZ". . it '4! 6/ 1 .1 WI grple tss gtii-1 stp.!1/4, :V.'s:.3ty ts lii.&-12417"114;10415.7.2.4g!a_NA 1/4454114 ANgs_54.1": .44 Swords Into Plowshares The UNWith this the United Nations acknowledged the sovereignty of the nation state and de- clared itself an "international organization" --=---tlx-irrpting=-Processmr-Fifty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the United Nations was formally establishedas distinguished from a "world government". lamsolutrdwurenum with the signing of the UN Charter at theThe preservation of national sovereignty has , United Nations Conference on Internationalcontinued to dominate, dictate and delimit the actions and activities of the United Na- -===. Organizations in San Francisco, California. The fundamental purposes of the UN astions and its specialized activities. The ulti- "One World" is in someset forth in Chapter I of the UN Charter are: mate hope was to convince and cajole na- respects an ideal and an tion states to establish national policies that aspiration, born of mod- To maintain international peace and secu- would effectively promote plowshares over ern interpretations of an- rity, and to that end: to take effective col- swords, and although there has been some cient moral insights and lective measures for the prevention and major triumphs, the UN system remains a of rational estimates of removal of threats to the peace, and for prisoner of nation states rather than a liber- the requirements for hu- the suppression of acts of aggression or ator of the people that inhabit this world, and man survival;itisin other breaches of the peace, and to bring has invested most ofitsresourcesin other respects a press- about by peaceful means, and in confor- "swordsforpeace" ratherthan in mity with the principles of justice and inter- "plowshares".. ing reality, an actual con- national law, adjustment or settlement of dition of mankind, pro- international disputes or situations which duced by a century of The Changing Global Scene change that has tied all might lead to a breach of the peace; the peoples of the earth To develop friendly relations among na-Fifty years ago, the word "digital" was not in together in an unprece- tions based on respect for the principle ofthe popular lexicon, and there was no Inter- dented intimacy of con- equal rights and self-determination of peo- ples, and to take other appropriate mea-net or concept of a global information infras- tact, interdependence of tructure except perhaps in the minds of welfare, and mutuality of sures to strengthen universal peace; vulnerability." .0* To achieve international cooperation in (Continued on page 3) solving international problems of an eco- Introduction,SwordsInto nomic, social,cultural, or humanitarian Plowshare,The Problems character, and in promoting and encourag- and Progress of International ing respect for human rights and for funda- Organizationsby lnis L. mental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and Claude, Jr. Random House, TO BUILD A WALL Of? TO BUILD New York, 1956. o' To be a center for harmonizing the actions LUES---THATIS THE QUESTION 2 of nations in the attainment of these com- mon goals. SCIENCE LEARNING NETWORKS 4 Perhaps the fundamental flaw in the UN NETB1TES Charter that has inhibiteditsability to 6 achieve its full potential was contained in Article 2: IOS' 0,VLINE 7 Nothing contained in the present Charter shall THE CYBERWAI.1 authorize the United Nations to intervene in 11 SF Conference-- matters which are essentially within the domes- N Charter tic jurisdiction of any state or shall require Mem- NE If' /. 13 httpliirirww.un.orgniN50/ bers to submit such matters to settlement under _T--PhebahM50-020.gif _ the present Charter. Lli'E FROM THE STRA MST/ IEI?E 23 14
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To Build A Wall, or To Build Values That Is the Question.
There is much discussions these days on educational stalk neighborhoods or attend youthful gatherings than listservs and in US Congressional hearing rooms about to seek vulnerable youths on the Internet. how to protect innocent learners from pornography on the web and the evil that lurks on the networks. The The real issue, however, is not protection of minors but technical wizards are rapidly responding to the storm social responsibility for educating our youth.If we are clouds over the internet by creating "caching" technolo- seriously concerned about the corruption of our youth, gies and offering services that will effectively "censor" then we must accept the most onerous burden of and "sanitize" the information on the web. allwe must ourselves set moral examples. As a soci- ety we must distinguish right from wrong and fully com- A couple of weeks ago, I sat on a panel with a wise and mit ourselves to positive thought and action. To fight wonderful educator from the Hawaiian Department of pornography, we should be investing more money and Education.When the inevitable question came up not less in support of good literature, good drama, and about pornography on the web and how to protect the the fine arts.To fight perversion and extremism, we innocent students, she turned to me and suggested the should invest in building culture, our environment, and solution is in providing .a good education that encour- our national and international heritage. ages youth to distinguish right from wrong. Ironically, the fundamental principals on which the Inter- It is now fashionable for the President of the United net was formed are morally sound. Those who created States to discuss prayers in schools as it was fashion- and promote this technology are for the most part peo- able during the last election for President Bush to dis- ple who are deeply committed to democracy, volun- ciEs students pledging allegiance to the flag. However, teerism, and a professional code of honor that is based what seems unfashionable these days is for public on cooperation and collaboration rather than corruption schools or employees of public schools to offer any in- and competition. dependent value judgment or take a moral position. This is the age of politically-correct and in this politically- Perhaps the Internet is changing as the demographics correct world it is safer to avoid independent thought of the user communities change but the real challenge and value judgments. is not to insulate youth from the culture of the laternet but rather to lead them to a genuine understanding and Some may suggest that the public schools systems in acceptance of its fundamental founding philosophy. We the United States do indeed continue to morally educate need to send the more mature youth across the globe America's youth by waging campaigns against drugs, the unequivocal message that we trust them and believe AIDS, and teenager violence but sadly most of these that they are fundamentally good citizens of the world campaigns send negative messages. "Say NO" to capable of making sound judgements and performing drugs, to sex, to gangs rather than "Say YES" to creativ- good deeds. Our younger students require not censor- ity, individual and team achievement, volunteerism, love ship but rather our unequivocal support and willingness and marriage, and to that inner voice that says there is to provide them with the kind and quality of teaching and more to life than money, fame and power. This is edu- learning content that they need to become independent cation by fear and coercion and not education by love thinkers and moral citizens of the world. and example. Many teachers and parents are legitimately worried Editor: Kathy Rutkowski about the apparent wilc., wild, west atmosphere of the Contributing Editor: Stephanie Stevenson Internet as portrayed ir the mass media. As a parent, I too would be very upset if indeed what I read in the NetTeach News newspapers or heard voiced by Congressmen was in July 1995 fact true, but the current dangers on the net are far less ISSN:1070 2954 than reported and even further less than the dangers that students face every day in the corridors of their Published ten times a year. Itis available in print and schools, the hallways of the local suburban malls, and electronically on the Internet. unfortunately even in the confines of their home. Executive, Editorial, Circulation and Advertising Offices: There is some pornography on the world wide web but NetTeach News, 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA far less than people are being led too believe. And yes 22071-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703-471-0593. Internet: there are some evil adults online but many more adults [email protected] who would corrupt and convert young who are not on- line.It is far more difficult for those would-be online Copyright ©1995 by NetTeach News. Ali rights re erved. Federal corruptors-of- youth to target youth than it would be for copyright law prohibits unauthorized reproduction by any means and the off-line would-be-corruptors. The rather invisible na- imposes fines up to $25,000 tor violations. ture of networks makes it more difficult to identify mi- nors, and it is far easier for pedophiles and the like to PRINTED IN U.S.A. 24 nor t mu- Est 711- mr.-Amt-71s:olh
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some visionary scientists and science fic- President of the United States, tion writers. The nation state was alive the Prince of Wales, Bill Gates, and well, or so it seemed to the vast num- and to Captain Piccard.In one ber of politicians that assembled in San sense, this means absolutely noth- Francisco that June day to ratify the UN ing because those in power can do Charter. whatever they please.However, the potential now exists for those The primary concern was the threat of an- schoolchildren to be heard and to other world war. Those who signed the influence those in power, and also UN Charter did not fear international nar- for the people to emerge as their cotic trade, international terrorism, and own true watchdogs. the other global issues such as environ- mental pollution and new virulent bacteria strains that can be easily transported via Building A System of modern transportation toto densely- UN HOME PAGE Collaboration populated areasissues that now preoc- http://www.un.org/ cupy the minds of many world leaders. Global networks offer an opportu- The world was pretty much viewed as nity for people of diverse back- black and whitethe good nations en- grounds and cultures to come to- dorsed the UN Charter and agreed to live gether andfindthe common by its guiding principles and the bad na- caneffectivelydistributetime- ground and collective will required tions were those nations that were not sens tive news and critical materials to build a world order based on co- members and who only towed the line to a larger international audience. operation and collaboration. when coerced by the collective good. Global networks demonstrate that Potentially, these empowered com- finding common ground does not munities can work together to install mean losing one's individual or The Impotence and Irrelevance a new world order that foremost of the Nation State cultural identity and indeed net- seekstoprotect and preserve works can help define individuality global resources and to protect and and preserve cultural traditions. We live in a world where the power and defend the sovereign rights of all cit- purpose of the nation state is challenged izens of the globe. Fiftyyearsago, some brave by the reality of global interdependencies. statesman dared to talk about There are truly no longer any national A Global Learning System "collective security" but only a few "safe zones". The Oklahoma bombing, seriously talked about global soci- continuing ethnic purging in Bosnia, and Many visionary educationalnet- ety.Today, more people are talk- the fears of a global ebola outbreak un- workers talk about the emergence ing about global society and global derscore our new vulnerabilities and sug- of a "global schoolhouse," "global communities. The time perhaps gest the need for a new level and kind of communities of learning," and a has come to re-prioritize our inter- international cooperation and global col- "global system of learning." Educa- national political system, and give laboration. It is unlikely in our lifetime that tional programs such as the Copen less emphasis to building collec- nation states will fade away but increas-Family-sponsored rEARN Project tivesecurity,fighting wars for ingly the localities and new global al-are focused on creating communi- peace, and more attentionto liances brought together in part via net- ties of learners and cultivating a building a new global society, pro- works will enjoy a greater voice in signifi- new generation of global citizens tecting the interests of new global cant policy decisions. who can delight in their unique cul- citizens, learners and researchers, tural differences while creating col- and working towards a new world Global Networks And laborative learning experiences. order where individual sovereignty A New World Order takes precedence over national The success of these network- sovereignty. based educational programs per- Global networks can assist world leaders and world citizens in the evoluticn of a haps suggest the time has cume for The challenge is not converting new world order, and national and inter- adult leaders to find positive ways to swords to plowshares but in using national governments are turning to the work together in a very proactive webs, chats, and other new and electronic data highways to reach new manner rather than to expend en- old forms of communication to re- constituents as well as to allay the con-ergy and resources in reacting to define peace as more than the in- negative events. terval between wars, and war as cerns of old ones. The Electronic Town more than the cessation of hostili- Hall meetings that the Clinton Administra- tion has introduced demonstrates how From Nations to People ties The fundamental challenge is From Politics to Policy to bring together diverse groups this medium can be used to build and re- and distant communits and em- distribute political power, and the prolifer- power them to build new social ation of UN and UN-related agency web On the global networks all people systems that better address the pages demonstrates how this medium are considered equal.School chil- pressing issues of our day dren can send messages to the r
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The Science Learning Network Partnerships With Schools found at the Learning Studio's On- (SLN) was established by the line Exhibit Area. Franklin Institute as a unique Each of the science centers is part- collaborative of museums, in- nered with a school in its community The Franklin Museum dustry and schools to support and thispartnership allows the the teaching and learning of schools to gain a presence on the science, mathematics and Virtual Exhibits: Internet as well as to work with the Benjamin Franklin: Glimpses of the technology in grades kinder- museums in the development of ap- garten through eighth (K-8). Man; propriate content for various grade The Heart: A Virtual Exploration The SLN is funded by the Na- levels. tional Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation. The current museum/school part- The Science Museum of Min- nerships include: nesota: SLNprovidesan Internet- based resource for science ed- The Franklin Institute Science Mu- ucators and a virtual museum Maya Adventureactivities and in- seum with the Levering Science formation related to ancient and for science students to explore Magnet School; and learn within. modern Maya Culture The Exploratorium with the Ross School, The Oregon Museum of Participating Museums Science and Industry The Miami Museum of Science with Six science centers are cur- the Avocado Elementary School; Check out OMSI's Educational Pro- rently participating in the SLN grams including: The Museum of Science with the Hosmer School; The Miami Museum of The Franklin Institute Science Science Museum (Philadelphia, PA) The Oregon Museum of Science and Technology with The Buckman pHan on-line chemistry School; The Expioratorium (San Fran- exhibit for K-5 teachers who want to cisco, CA) The Science Museum of Minnesota incorporate inquiry-based science The Miami Museum of Science with the Museum Magnet School. and the internet into their curriculum (Miami, FL) Web Huntan exhibit that will allow Virtual Exhibits elementary school teachers to teach The Museum of Science nlesson on marine biology (Boston, MA) The participating science centers are creating virtual exhibits to be The Museum of Science The Oregon Museum of Sci- used by teachers and students. ence and Industry (Portland, These exhibits cover a range of OR) The Dance of Chance Exhibit opens subjects and encourage inquiry and September 1, 1995 and will be cen- interactivity. Some of the current tered around four hands-on experi- The Science Museum of Min- exhibits and those under develop- nesota (St Paul, MN) ments which develop patterns in ment include: real-time for the visitor. Stayed tuned Each science center is devel- for other upcoming exhibits includ- oping its own unique resources The Exploratorium: ing: based on its own unique area of expertise Diving Into the Gene Poo/ .(8 April a virtual visit to the world's largest to 4 September 1995); Van de Graaff generator and the The Cow's Eye Dissection found in Museum of Science's Theater of the Learning Studio Electricity, a virtual visit to a tropical Mutant Fruit Flies, Vocal Vowels, rainforest, and a virtual scanning Bronx Cheer Bulb, Bird In A Cage, electron microscope Shimmer, Fading Dot, and Mona 2
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In April, User's Choice, a rapidly grow- PBS recently launched the Internet Publishing Group which will be re- ing educational video producer, re- sponsible for developing quality content resources for Internet distribu- leased their latest video entitled, the tion. The Internet Publishing Group will expand PBS' world wide web INTERNET BOOT CAMP. This video site and provide PBS member stations with assistance in developing is designed to assist beginnersin their own webs and online content resources. learning "how to" connect to the Inter- net, install software, set-ip modems, Cindy Johanson was named to be the managing editor of online ser- and use the powerful tools of the Inter- vices and will oversee the development and expansion of PBS World net in an easy and friendly manner. Wide Web site. Cindy was formerly the manager of educational tech- The video presentation consists of nology for PBS's K-12 Learning Services Department. friendly conversational instruction with good graphics and demonstrations. Molly Breeden was named the manager of online marketing and busi- ness developments.Molly was formerly the manager of marketing The video is approximately two hours :,,ervices for PBS Online. in length and the full-text of the video, along with an extensive list of providers For further information, please call Molly Breeden at tel: +1 703-739- and references, as well as all the soft- ware needed to connect to and access the Internet is contained on two accom- panying disks. The INTERNET BOOT CAMP retails for $29.95 (plus shipping and handling) and comes with a 30-day money back guarantee from User's Choice. The Online Internet Institute (011) is a collaborative project between Internet using educators, content area experts and teachers desiring For more information or to order call +1 professional growth. 800-889-2578. or + 1 610-566-2993. or send mail to: This summer 011 is conducting training for more than 400 partici- User's Choice pants, providing them hanc's-on experiences and advice on how to P.O. Box 58 integrate the the Internet within their classrooms and support their Glen Mills, PA 19342-0058 peers to do the same. send e-mail to: [email protected] For more information about this exciting and ambitious project, con- or navigate to: tact Ferdi Serim, 011 Principal Investigator at http://www.voicenet.com/DVbiz/ [email protected] or check out the 011 home page at: uchoice http://www.prism.prs k12.nj.us:70/0/011/01Ihome.htmll
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Global SchoolNet Foundation
The Global SchoolNet Foundation kicked off an Online Contest for schools to win free software and prizes with its first drawing on July.1, 1995. Schools can qualify to win free software and other prizes by registering at the GSN world wide web site and answering a "question of the week." Each week there will bea new set of questions and a new drawing for prizes. the GSN WWW address is: http://gsn.org
The Global SchoolNet Foundation was selected as a finalist for the first annual National Information Infrastructure (NII) Awards. GSN was chosen among more than 500 entries. A total of 36 finalistswere named in six categories: arts and entertainment, business ,community,education, government and health.
For more information about the Global Schoolnet Foundation, contact Yvonne Andres tel: +1 619-433-3413, e-mail a ndresyv@cerf. net
For more information aboul thiNI1 Awards, contact Robin Smith tel: +1 310-450-7941 x 23, e-mail [email protected]
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Main Agencies On-Line A Partial Listing of Major lOs ON THE WWW The UN, many of its specialized agencies such as UNESCO, the ITU, and the IAEA and many of the other major international orga- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nizations such as the World Bank Web: http://www.iaea.or.at/ and the International Federation Gopher: gopher://gopher.iaea.or.at:7011 of the Red Cross and Red Cres- cent Societies are online. Some The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), have set up gopher sites and oth- Web: http://info.itu.chl ers have set up web sites and Gopher: gopher://infoitu.ch:7011 many have a combination of go- pher, web, and ftp sites. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Web Site: http://www.undp.org/ THE VIRTUAL UN Gopher Site: gopher://gopher.undp.orgl The UN itself has several pages The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on the web. It's main page is http://firewall.unesco.org/ available at The United Nations gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ungopherslunep
http://www.un.org/ International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies This page is the main index lhk to http://ww.ifrc.org UN electronic pages that pro iide The World Health Organization (WHO) information on current affairs, Web: http://www.who.chl UN documents, conferences, UN publications, UN campus tours, Gopher: gopher://gopher.who.ch/ as well as external !inks to other UN Internet Sites and to Deposi- The UN Environment Program (UNEDP) gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/111ungophers/unep tory Libraries. 10 Collections World Trade Organization (WTO) http://www.unicc.org/wto/ GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade The UN main page links to the gopher://cyfer.esusda.gov/11/ace/hot.topic.links/gatt World-Wide Web Virtual Library of the United Nations Information Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Services.T his is site is not an Web: http://www.fao.org/ official UN index but is maintained Gopher: gopher://gopher.fao.org:70/1 by staff of The United Nation In- ternational Drug Control Program United Nation's Childrens Fund (UNICEF) (UNDCP) located in Vienna, Aus- Web: http://www.unicetorg/ tria.It contains information links Gopher: gopher://hqfaus01.unicef.org:70/1 to most of the major UN agencies as well as to many other interna- United Nations High Commissioner For Refugess tional organizations. Gopher: gopher://gopher.iaea.or.at:70/1
Other useful collections include United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Web: http://gatekeeper.unicc.org/unctad/ ,rThe World Wide Web Virtual Gopher: gopher://gopher.undp.org/1/ungophers/unctad LibraryInternational Affairs andResearchResources World Bank : (IANWeb) found at Web: http://www.worldbank.org/ Gopher: gopher://ftp.worldbank.org:70/1 http://www.pitt.edu/ian/ianres. html World Meteorlogical Organization (WMO) http://www.wmo.ch/ (Continued on Next Page)
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I/ UN International Computing International Agency for Research on Cancer http://www.iarc.fr/ Center (UNICC) Home Page located at: UN International Drug Control Program http://www.unicc.org/ http://www.unicc.org/ The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Yahoo's International Organiza- http://www.uspto.gov/wipo.html tions:UN Index found at: http://www.yahoo.com/Gover International Trade Law Project nmentlinternational_Organiza F http://ananseirv.uit.no/trade_law/nav/trade.html tions/Unitedflationsl International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) a Linkages A Clearinghouse http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Welcome.html for information on past and up- coming international meetings UN Scholars' Workstation at Yale University related to the environment and http://www.library.yale.edu/un/unhome.htm development, Provided by the International Institute for Sus- IANWEB Resources International Affairs Resources tainable Development http://www.pitteduHan/lanres.html (IISD)located at: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/ The Graduate Institute of International StudiesEXPLORER http://heiwww.unige.ch/explorer/
The New lOs on the Web I World Wide Classroom http://www.worldwide.edu/
Other new and smaller international Mulitlaterals Project organizations and groups having an international interest and focus such http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multilaterals.html as universities, non-profit agencies, and unique global movements are OLIN Online Intelligence Project also developing cyberspatial pres- http://www.icg.org/intelweb/index.html ences. Voices of Youth http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/unlyouth.html (Continued on next page) The Electronic Embassy http://www.embassy.orgl 3 ILIJ The Embassy Page- http://www.globescope.com/web/gsis/embpage.html AN- _11111- _ NW _LiNIOL.:
Copyright (01955 NetTEACH NEWS 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 Volume 3, Number 1 9 Esiiimmomm r1SO1HINJER NetTeachNews Ebola Virus Outbreak nizations can inform a greater These organizations are involved number of people about upcom- in a whole range of international Outbreak In Zaire - WHO Pres/ ing conferences, meetings, activi- ROMPOS and Trak*Advice activities involving the environ- 061:152igki1 ties, publications, key personnel ment, education, science,. human changes, and can potentially at- rights, hunger, the weather, and 4Pointers to other reeotrceS (ncc tract new funders and partici- Outer Space. officially,endorsedbyWHO) pants. rtbe Eboia Pasve by Ornstein Uses of the Net retEbotaNeveLfrom Nand0 Facilitating Research ELDS2 The UN, its specialized agencies The Internet has facilitated the
and other international organiza- 16o to W-I0 Horne Peas needs and interest of global re- tions are rapidly building a signifi- searchers since its inception by cant on-line presence. This activity providing a global meeting space. reflects their growing recognition disseminating current news and that the Internet can:used for: Ebola Virus Outbreak Page original work-in-progress, and by http://www.who.ch/ebolaiebolahome.html allowing researchers to access Information dissemination new global resources including people, libraries, and facilitates. Internal communications and Internally, many of the Interna- Only recently have researchers of tional Organizations are using the international issues, environment operations, Internet to conduct their work and intelligence and re- science, health sciences and biol- Public relations bring field ogy, human rights, and other sub- search knowledge more rapidly to jects of a socio-economic nature Facilitation of research those who need to make quick such as trade and development and informed decisions. have begun to harness the power Development of new partner- of the Internet. ships and new global collabo- The World Health Organization, for example, is able to use the In- rations Virtual centers of international ternet to quickly gather informa- study such as the Yale University tion from its field research stations e* Facilitation of Teaching and UN Scholars' Workstation (shown around the world, and in times of Learning below) and foreign area research health crises, such as the recent centers are now appearing and Ebola Outbreak in Zaire, WHO can more effectively communi- (Continued on next page) The Dissemination of cate critical policy decisions to na- Information tional governments, health facili- ties and personnel worldwide, The UN and other international other organizations that might be t. Lt. Yk+ Gsbool....Or... IP,.., M.. agencies and organizations with involved in the implementation of '..... 1..00... ,,b.., role ..t.o...... " N A an on-line presence recognize the directives, and to the general I .-I power of the Internet to help dis- 4'0 1 seminate the valuable information United I '11° 1 that own. Much of this information Public Relations Nations Scholars' is already available to the public i Workstation 1 but in fact the number of libraries International Organizations are that archive this information and also using web sites to garner ! at Yale University subscribe to the UN publications greater public support of their mis- ' The United Nations Scholars WockstatIon. are limited. Moreover, the Internet ; developed by the Yile UnNersity Libramr and the i sion activities. In some cases this , Social Science Statistical Laboraloa is it supports the rapid dissemination may very well mean more re- . collection of lexte.11nding aids, dala sets, maps. of critical information of a time- sources and a higher priority in : end pointers to pnri and electronic information &tied coverage Includes disarmament economic i sensitive nature not found in print the 10 system. This is especially and social development. environment, human materials. By using the Internet, tights, International relations, International trade, ; important to organizations that peacekeeprig. and population and demotraPhy the international organizations are have focused onsocial,eco- The workstation directty supports the cirncuken in able to reach the communities that . United Nations Stoles at Yale University as wel nomic, cultural, and educational as tho Independer# Worldng Group on the Future of ; can best use this information such areas since these areas generally ' the United Nations, headquartered at Yale with as corporate and governmental have not received the funding pri- International participation through the Ford 41 decision-makers from around the ority and public recognition com- .FIR AVel so world, and researchers, students parable to the UN Security Coun- and teachers, and lifelong learn- cil and organizations involved in ers UN Scholars' Workstation matters of conflict resolution. at Yale University http://www.library.yale.edul Conducting Business By using the Internet, these orga- un/unhome.htm
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{. VO iir toe Pc. be Moormerts WM. 1.11...1, 1 Lamm.. F111././.. rates, exhibit. The original artwork is on tielr display at the Palais de Nations, the United Nations Headquarters !,.0) in Geneva, Switzerland. However, DIALOGUES digital images and information OF PEACE about the artists is available on the Le nuviero de votre ticket est It 631 web site. CI Dialocnvis of Peace Is an International whibitIon of calemporary art. organized Women for Women in by the AssOtionon Frentalso d'Attbn Bosnia Teaching and Learning Artistica» AFAA -, and spiv-tally chosen by the Secretariat of the United Nations 51Xh Annnearsary. IRape sodcampahm of lova to VW pecois Eidibti on curator ,Ssliplag_yon frorn their homes hove been U. Serbians primary Internationalorganizations and strategies of war in Bosnla-lierzegthins and trUrstenbarg has beought togetbaf Croatia Al Wag 16 rape ...MS now Nen programs are increasingly devel- »faction of some sixty artists IidertMed by the llivted Nabcns and Pavan rights reproseraing just about as many areas of grows in Sours. in edition to rivnerous oping content with teachers and the world. ' concentration camps 04 death carrpa Such Dialogues of Peace will be held at the cans have not waded since Wakt War IL learners in mind, especially the Polego dos Nations the United Nations Headouarters at CYeneva and the pre-University or K12 community. -1 1. Mostly this involves creating col- laborative learning projects and Women for Women in Bosnia opportunities such as UNICEF's Dialogues of Peace http://www.embassy.org/wwbosnia/ Voices of Youth.In that project, http://un50-afaa.itu.ch/ wwbosnia.html youth from around the world were invited to send messages to their national representatives attending are supportiro new collaborations the World Summit for Social De- Students and teachers via the In- researchintoareas of major velopment in Copenhagen on 12 global importance. March 1995.In just six weeks, ternet have access to UN, interna- over 3000 messages were sent by tional issues and foreign affairs in- youth from over 81countries. formation that is not typically avail- Their messages dealt with their able in school libraries or class- New Die;ogue and New feelings and recommendations re- rooms.Middle and high school Collaborations garding a variety of topics such as: students can use comprehensive statistical data bases and impor- The Internet offers the opportunity The Environment tant historical archives to do con- for groups of people sharing simi- Human Rights duct their independent research lar visions to collaborate together Population into a variety of subjects.such as
and in some cases create new kPoverty , Job Opportunities global pollution, international global associations much more and Conflict trade, and major man-made and easily than was the case before natural disasters. the creation of networks. Smaller international organizations with New on-line global education pro- limited resources can use the In- jectsand programspromote ternet to reach new segments of 0 learner collaborations and the cul- a. (a Gar Mv. pr.* 17....., the global community and poten- proirmaquiraci tom tivation of a new generation of tially new funders, new partners, a.....1b...... m...... global citizens. Programs such as
and new participants and workers. =C rW yr, 1 IT1-11 3 l*EARN, the European School Major international organizations ai Project, APICNET, The Globe can involve greater numbers of Project, The Chatback Trust and active participants in their interna- 4.. the Global SchoolNet Foundation tional are encouraging learners to think dialogues,conferences, 41:* dab and research programs The Wcrld &make Sochi Development waded in about the globe,its limitedre- Copartopn on 12 Meth 1108.01e Wool accept Other rtiamages al Pm erre Maass role terMIVIC, thill WS sources, the major political and An example of new collaborations awed to reopen Inward. iroii In U. We W. od Mei economic challenges faced by conewe to Metalmileages seemly received evince yet via the Internet is the Dialogues of processed decision-makers around the world Peace Exhibit. This is an interna- lthough es We not currently accepting new and to work together with other messages. The Voles. of Youth Mho continues to I. tional exhibition of the works of avellebio Maws M1e00 OM of the wham Wow: learners, teachers, and adult men- some sixty artists representing as Youth Iran II1 countries sant over 3,0811thaimu85si tors to develop responses to po- many countries of the worldThe tentialandexistingproblems. Association Francaise d'Action These programs are helping to Artistique -AFAAorganized the create better information, more VOICES OF YOUTH worldly, more international, and http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/un/ more proactive youth. youth.html
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=lorLimE-7-m---_ , "f_111-2711t LIIMINMELT.117_111111:711f .71 CYBER-U 1; 1 i THE VIDEO HUT ki7 m-_-_-_mr :71...71M17711M17 ME TUM I.1:24 11112-:011--1101.-21.1:- **** The Internet Boot An HTML Crash Course CampA Video Guide for the Raw Recruit. ©1995 User's . for Educators Choice Inc. US $29.96 (Running Time 105 Minutes) Andy .Carvin, moderator of WWWEDU wrote a tutorial on This is one of the best video's HTMLforeducatorsforthe I've seen produced on the how SchoolWeb Exploration Project. tos of using the Internet. The de- IM-1/MUMMIIMIIMMII Mark Gillingham of Michigan Statd scriptions are easy, the presenta- THE BOOK NOOK put it in HTML and put it into his tions excellent and the degree of web server that can be found at: information accuracy is superior. The producers of this video have http://wweduc.msu.edu/admin/ their acts together and provide Going to School cnr the Interwt pro- guide.html two accompanying discs that in- duced hy1" Cisco Systems clude a very extensive help index (Australia) /995 with assistance A newer version can be found at: as well as the basic internetsoft- from Michele I luston, Global ware needed to get started. I http://k12.cnidr.org:90/htmlguide.h recommend this tape to anyone Schoolhouse Australia Project Coor- tml looking for basic and accurate dinator. information and for simple and MN MU MR UM . MU precise instruction on how to con- This is good guide for any Aus- THE WINW Pub CORNER nect to the Internet and how to tralian netteachers interested in , use the various tools.FIRST learning some basic terms and schools. IMUM IIM -NEL - RATE. uses of the Internet in WebSite for Windows NT 3.5 is CISCO Systems (Australia) has now available from O'Reilly and Available from: also set up a help line for schools Associates. The system require- in Australia to provide advice on ments are: 386 or higher, 5 MB User's Choice the use of Internet resources RAM (10 MB recommended), 20 P.O. Box 58 within schools. The Hotline num- MB disk space, VGA video dis- Glen Mills, PA 19342-0058 ber is +1 800 678 808. Copies of play adapter, NT 3.5 with TCP/IP send e-mail to: the booklet are available and can connectivity, or Windows95 Beta [email protected] with TCP/IP Connectivity, 3.5" disk drive. UM MI NM MU NM ME WEbSite was created for individ- THE 1NET STORE uals, small business, schools and NM MI NM IM 111 other groups that desire to pub- lish on the World Wide Web. The INET, The Annual Meeting of the Internet Society list price is US 499. Internet Society was held June 27- 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive. Suite 270 20th in Honolu, Hawaii. The Pro- Reston, VA 22091 USA isoc@isco org It was designed with the non- , ceedings from INET'95 are avail- UNIX fluent in mind. able electronically and in print form. The Proceedings are now Volume 1 contains the 8 sessions A Windows 95 version will be available in extensive hypermedia of INET's first full Education Track available after Windows 95 is re- (Track D) and includes papers ; form at inet.nttam.com. The print leased. copy can be obtained fromthe from innovative networking educa- ISOC Secretariat located at: tors from around the world For more information, call + 1 800-998-9938, +1 707-829-0515 or send a fax to +1 707-829- 33
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MCI and the National Science Foundation launched the very high speed Backbone Net- work Service (vBNS), the first nationwidehigh- speed network to used advancedUne"el information 1E014 3 age technologies that support the rapid trans- mission of massive amounts of voice, data and .17 video. 4174147 44444 qgt
Intitially the new vBNS will serveas an experi- mental platform for developingnew national 1-1-44.43.F networking applications and will link fivesuper- computing sites around the U.S.
The vBNS will use the capabilities of MCI'sna- tionwide network of advanced switching On June 20, 1995 NetManage, the leaderin TCP/IP and applications for Windows, released ECCO Pro fiber optic transmission technologies,known 3.0, as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and the industry's first global work and informationinte- Synchronous Optical Network (SONET). The gration software for business professionals and vBNS initially will operate at speeds of 155 workgroups. Version 3.0 debuts withover 100 new features, including workgroup collaboration, Mnps (million bits of data per second) andis Internet planned to operate at greater than 600 Mbps integration, an Internet Address Book withover by 1996. 2,000 hot sites, and AutoAssign, an automatic infor- mation organizer.
ECCO Pro 3.0's easy-to-read interface resembles familiar, everyday information management tools. Numerous enhancements include powerfulnew Notepads for outlining all the details ofevery project, a Rolodex card interface for Contact Management, and a familiar desktop look for the Calendar.In ad- Sun Microsystems recently released theHOT- dition, ECCO Pro 3.0 adds customize colors, JAVA Browser, the world's first tabs to dynamic Web switch between views, revised menus and dialogs, browser. HotJava builds on traditionalInternet icon balloon help, a print coach for sophisticated browsing techniques and expands themby print layouts, as well as helpful hints. adding a dynamic capability topages. With HotJava, animations, audio and video, 3-Dbe- The software package includes havior can be embedded in Web an Internet Address pages. Book preconfigured with over 2,000 Gopher,World- Wide Web, and FTP sites organized inover 30 cate- Conventional Web browsers download static gories including business, computers, government, pageslimited to text, images, and low-quality science, and Art. audio. The pages can only be viewedand in- teractivity is limited to fetching anotherstatic ECCO 3.0's AutoAssign simplifies information page.The HotJava browser allows down- man- loaded pages to contain small software agement by automatically categorizing information pro- into specific ECCO folders, basedon a wide range grams, which run locally on the user'scom- of user-definable rules. When informationis puter. This supports a wholenew level of in- entered, teractivity. ECCO checks the "rules", and if the conditionsare met, the information is placed in the appropriate folders. When combined with Shooter, The HotJava browser is written inthe Java AutoAssign language, a new object-oriented programming greatly simplifies the management of the information sent from the Internet or any other Windows language developed at Sun Microsystems. pro- The Java language resembles C++, gram. Users can "shoot" information into ECCO but is from a Web Page, and then AutoAssign much simpler and easier touse. Program- will auto- mers can create interactive HotJava Web matically categorize it for them. pages that contain small Java applications called "applets". ECCON delivers an easy-to-use, world-wide,collab- orative solution that integrates both personaland workgroup information. Projects, brainstorming, The HotJava release is free ofcharge for non- ap- commercial use, available for downloading poitnments,s chedules, and contact informationcan from http://java.sun.com/ easily be managed, shared, and synchronizedglob- 3 4ally.
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In October 1995, studentsin NASA's Ames Research Center and basic Email. NASA schools and science museums in California: students meet the Spacelink and PBS ONLINE will all across America can travel astronomers,crew,andthe provide additional online hosts. aboard NASAs Kuiper Airborne teacher and student team who Just as in LIVE FROM ANTARC- Observatory (KAO) as it flies at will travel aboard the KAO during TICA, the online materials will in- 41,000 feet to study planets, the live observing flights. clude extensive archival Informa- stars and galaxies with its in- tion, including the full text and frared telescope. For the first- These introductions will be fol- graphics of the printed Teacher's time ever, NASA's Advanced lowed by a 2 1/2 hour LIVE flight Guide, and current data on the Communications Technology during the school day, and a 5- KAO, astronomy and aeronau- Satellite will provide live video di- hour night-time flight, observing tics, as well as INTERACTIVE rect from the KAO, and 2-way planets, stars and galaxies. Inter- opportunities such as Field Jour- audio and Internet connections active video uplinks from NASA nals written by researchers on to schools and science muse- Ames, and selected science mu- the KAO, and the ability to send ums during daytime and seums and schools across the Questions directly to scientists overnight missions. LIVE FROM nation, connect students to as- and others seen on camera. THE STRATOSPHERE (LFS) is tronomers on board the KAO and the second in the PASSPORT to each other. Some science mu- Additional online COLLABORA- TO KNOWLEDGE seriesof seums and planetariums have al- TIVE opportunities will include electronic field trips, which began ready agreed to hold overnight having students at diverse sites with LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA camp-ins in conjunction with the around the nation develop group in1994-95: it's an integrated night flight. activitiesandreal-timedata- multimedia project involving: bases relating to astronomy, me- Inlate October will come a teorology and aeronautics. live television (over PBS and videotaped digest of all the previ- NASA-TV), and also avail- ous programming, providing an Registration Information able on videotape; "evergreen" compilation of the print materials suggesting astronomy seen during these To receive regularly updated in- hands-on, in-class activities, unique KAO missions, with rights and: formation online, join the to re-use the video in class in "updates-lfs"list: Send an e-mail online computer networks years to come. using the Internet message to: Print Materials Targeted primarily at the middle listmanager@ quest.arc.nasa.gov school grades, LFS will also pro- A 50-page Teacher's Guide is be- vide interdisciplinary materials ing developed by PASSPORT that can be easily adapted for el- In the message body, write: sub- TO KNOWLEDGE featuring scribe updates-Ifs ementary and high school use. hands-onactivitieswrittenby Carolyn Sumners, Ph.D., Director HOW TO JOIN To receive introductory materials of Astronomy and Physics at the and other background informa- Houston Museum of Natural Sci- tion, send an e-mail message to: There are three major compo- ence, and reviewed by the Mate- nents rials Development Team of the [email protected] PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE The Video Component project, KAO staff and observers and teacher- alumni of NASA's Those without e-mail access The project will begin inlate FOSTER project (Flight Opportu- should write to : Septemberwith a half-hour nities for Science Teacher En- videotaped introductiontoin- Rich ment. ) Life from Stratcsphere frared astronomy. the Kuiper Air- P.O. Box 1502 borne Observatory and demon- Online Resources Summit, New Jersey 07902- strations for teachers of hands- 1502 on in-class activities featured in NASA'S K-12 Internet Initiative the Teacher's Guide. Next will will provide online materials ac- come a one-hour LIVE briefing cessible via a World Wide Web or call: 1-800-626-LIVE (1-800- ontheupcomingObserving page; alternate Internet access 626-5483) Flights from the KAO's hangar at will be be provided via Gopher 3 6
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TWW-AEWifildiaticareer as a school learner. Many parentsport for education results in students learn- , 11w ..T4p.:-.0.r-§104, view the start of school as their time to dis-ing to higher standards and safer schools. 0 : engage, or retire from an active involve- ment in their child's learning process.Secretary Riley urged everyone to partici- Many teachers look with mixed feelings topate in The America Goes Back to School "Monasteries are not as another year trying to teach young peopleCampaign which kicksoff the week of otherworldly as you in communities that cannot or will not pro-September 11. The Family Involvement might imagine.If they vide them with the kind and level of sup-Partnership for Learning, a coalition of some appear secluded and re- port they need to accomplish their mis-140 family, community, religious and educa- moved from the main- sion. tion organizations dedicated to improving stream of society's activ- learning through the development of family- ity,it is only because It is important that parents, teachers andschool-community partnerships is sponsor- they attempt to create a society as a whole reach a commoning the campaign.0 climate that fosters an ground and endorse a clear and unified authenticengagement purpose for formal education. What do we with life at its most pro- truly seek to accomplish when we send (Continued on page 3) found and human level, our youth to schools? What do we really somethingoftenlost expect from teachers and schools? amid the noise and dis- traction of today's world. It is equally important that parents, teach- Whenwe are quiet ers, and communities reach a common enough, freed from our understanding of the relationship between inner noise and chatter, school and home, and school and the we can see with new re- greater community. What role should par- IS THERE A PLACE IN spect the natural beauty ents and communities play in the educa- CYBERSPACE FOR GIRLS & and wisdom of the world tion process? around us and appreci- ate our ties to it.Such These questions grow more important as THE WEATHER WEB perceptive silence opens new technologies appear that many claim up our lives to healthy will help to significantly reform the formal reverence and awe for ail education process.0 Indeed, some sug- THE WEATIIER UNDERGROUND things; it creates a ca- gest that these new technologies will re- 7 pacity for openness that sult in the end of school as we now know is both humanizing and it, or at least a modification that includes a THE ABC'S qj INTERNET A('('ESS , life-giving. greater home-schooling component. 9
Introduction, The Monks of SA A IPLEI? OF A('C'ESS New SketeThe Art of Rais- ing A Puppy by The Monks of America Goes Back to School PROl'IDEI?S 12 New Skete, Little, Blown and Company, Boston, 1991 Recently, Richard W Riley the US Secre- INTERA'ET Pl?().lE('T 1?Ec;ISTRY tary of Education, issued an invitation to 15 parents, grandparents, community lead- ers, professionals, people skilled in voca- THE I?ESOUR('E ('ENTER 18 tional trades, religious leaders, and cre ative artists and all American citizens to A lk'ROSOFT'S K-12 IVEB CENTER 20 1(1
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Recently, I was asked the question, "Are there web sites presume that this means that the Internet is a hostile on the World Wide Web exclusively for girls?"I thought place to females and girls.Yes, there are cyberporn of many web sites that would offer both girls and boys web sites and Usenet newsgroups that insult all women
excellent opportunities to learn in an exciting and engag- and girls. . However, the basic culture of the Internet is ing manner. I also thought about sites that.dealt with one that reflects what has come to be identified with fe- topics that were mostly relevant to girls such as men- males and nurturerscooperation, communicatin, col- struation or of interest to predominately girls such as laboration and tolerance. baby-sitting.It occurred to me, however, that this ques- tion would involve much more serious research than has The Internet is now a place for girls, women and all been done so far in regards to learning on the Internet those interested in learning, sharing knowledge, com- and gender learning orientations. More importantly, par- municating to promote better understanding between ents and educators must consider the Internet in a cultures and people, and collaborating on projects that broader context than just learning. benefit mankind.There is a need to help girls and women recognize that the Internet is indeed a friendly Earlier this month after a lengthy court battle, Shannon place for them and a place where they can truly demon- Faulkner became the first women admitted to The strate their unique abilities in a way that does not com- Citadel.I applaud Shannon Faulkner for her courage promise or conflict with some of their basic feminine in- and determination and also the American Legal System stincts and values. Educators who encourage their stu- for supporting her in gaining entry into The Citadel. dents to use the Internet and its tools must be mindful However, I seriously doubt that The Citadel is worthy of that girls are interested in how the technology can help Shannon Faulkner and will ever understand her brand of them reach out to other people and satisfy their need to courage and determination. nurture, collaborate, and use their intellect for the good of their family and society. Recently, General Charles Krulak, the new commandant of the United State Marine Corps, offered his opinion The Internet needs females to survive and to reach its that women have no place in ground combat. He stated, potential as a place for all people who believe in the im- "It just is damn tough being a grunt." Krulak expressed portance of collaboration, cooperation, and open and his belief that women have the courage and intelligence genuine communication to the survival of mankind The it takes for combat but apparently lack the necessary challenge is not to make the Internet a women's place as gruntnessI question General Krulak's methods of mea- much as to encourage women and men to work together suring adequate "gruntability" throughout history to use the power of Internet to build a new world, a world women have endured great physical hardships and have that is truly equitable and one where there are no wars fought to protect their children and families.However, I and no need for any one to have to be "a grunt agree with General Krulak and wonder whether this Man's Marine Corps is really a place for American women to demonstrate their unique powers of leader- Editor: Kathy Rutkowski Contributing Editor: Stephanie Stevenson ship and moral courage. NetTeach News In the last two decades, great strides were made in the August 1995 name of "gender equity" and many glass ceilings were ISSN:1070 2954 broken. Many American feminist now recognize that it is not enough for a woman to succeed in a man's world Published ten times a year. Itis available in print and I based on men's value systems It is now acknowledged electronically on the Internet. that in the future feminine values and perspectives must weigh more significantly into the transformation of the Executive, Editorial, Circulation and Advertising Offices. workplace and societyWe are beginning to see that Netleach News, 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA I happen with the arrival of flex time, extended maternity 22071-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703-471-0593. Internet I [email protected] leave, and other accommodations to the nurturing in- stinct Copyright 6)1995 by NetTeach News. All rights reservedFederal copyright law prohibits unauthorized reproduction by any means and This brings us back to the Internet and the question we imposes lines up to $25,000 for violations need to ask, "Is there a place in Cyberspace for Girls and Women'?" Currently the Internet is populated mostly PRINTED IN U.S.A. 4 0 by white professional males However, one should not ME NW IMM ME MB NM El UM NM ME NE EN OM MEms 41M111NEEEIMP'
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Isolation and to get involved in learning is an attat Va. G. Gab.. Oatata DWI., b. CH:1121 DEICIMI2 excellent first step to ending isolation Education is a societal responsibility. am iltftaamatatea deftt.lta.G.a. 0.01.1111G Z = and creating new communities of In earlier times, this responsibility was learning. It is important that adults shared by many adults in the commu- lietiat ForEihweiheII grasp the reality of today's school as nity and not just schoolteachers and opposed to the schools of their child- parents.In the Industrial Age, schools Engines for hood.It is also important that adults became disengaged from the commu- Everybody can clearly see the limitations in nity and discouraged parents and few which teachers must mentor and other adults except teachers to partici- student must learn in today's transi- ibisMOWon the book Is for those sdlo ars ars pate in the formal teaching process. simply cutous about %tot the book oortable. .. tional schools.
This kind of isolation deprived learners Emir*. for lEvslybody . Open New Communications of a rich source of adult role-models . V.,bo Is suikinaTomorroves Education& : and mentors and imposed tremendous =Ma Whet la this look 4A6cut? . Educators, learners, parents and pressures on teachers to become the 0 WV S$1004 Fikb TO Taach Cur gnaw,', others from the community need to reigning adult experts on a variety of 0 ezoonstrzatia joylnunagon 7 I1 engage in an open and honest com- subjects, subjects difficult for even spe- -a.' IS....a. LMaari... Iftwoi munication about the goals and pur- cialists to keep up with. pose of education, the nature of ENGINES FOR EDUCATION teaching, and ways society assesses Although great strides have been made http://www.'s.nwu.edul-ejor_e/nodesi the effectiveness of the education inthelast decades to encourage l-M-INTRO-ZOOMER-pg.html process. greater parental involvement, parents have not generally been welcome with Partnerships for Learning open arms as active mentors in the for- What Work Requires of Schools: mal learning process in the schools. A SCANS Report for America The beginning of school provides 2000.0 This report identified five parents, teachers and communities The Need for Independent competencies: the opportunity to work together as a Learners collaborative team to touch the fu- or- Resources:Identifies,organizes, ture by nurturing confident, compe- plans, and allocates resources tent and content learners and citi- As society shifts from an industrial age, in cir which a person could get by with basic Interpersonal: Works with others zens. It is a time for all to come to- reading and arithmetic skills, to an informa- Information: Acquires and evaluates gether and not to divide or to disen- tion age, which requires the ability to ac- information gage. cess, interpret, analyze, and use use infor- Systems: Understands complex in- terrelationships mation for making decisions, the skills and 0 Engines for Education by Roger Schank Technology: Works with a variety of competencies needed to succeed in to- 01994 The Institute for Learning Sciences. day's workplace are changing as well. 0 technologies. See Web Site: http://w4w.ils.nwu.edu /-e_for_e/nodes/I-M-INTRO-ZOOMER- In June 1991,the US Department of The report also identified a three-part pg.html Labor released the report entitled, foundations of SCAN Skills and Per- sonal Qualities: 0Community Update, No. 27, August 1995, US Department of Education, p.1. (See Also 11.- rir US Dept of Edu Web Site, Community Up- EIE11510 . Basic Skills: Reads, writes, per- u"....,la a a a...... 4...... forms arithmetic and mathematical date Archives. Url:http:// 1 operations, listens and speaks www.ed.gov/legislation/GOALS2000/ *IP Oa.," s Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, community/95-08-sp.html makes decisions, solves problems, GAmerica Goes to School Guide. Available visualizes, can learn, and reasons by writing to: GOALS 2000 Information Re- .. tzt. . 4...v..N... Personal Qualities: Responsibility, source Center, US Dept of Education, Room ::,r. self-esteem, sociability, self- 2421, 600 Independence Ave, SW, Wash- iNiriia management, integrity, and honesty ington, D.C. 20202 0 PATHWAYS, Rethinking Assessment and -i[iiiiiLW 14,50110: Auguat 15, 1905 It is clear that the achievement of Its Role in Supporting Education Reform. Topics Cumwaly Avaisbic these competencies and the ac- NEW: Assessment I Ilthool so Worklb quisition of these skills is a major See Web Site: http:/Iwww.ncrel.org/ncrel/ iskostilailleraila,12ntomott. undertaking that involves the ac- sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as700.h tm content a gamest comments idol:D=61.am tive participation of parents, teach- lootrioal information oloannorN I ers, and the entire community. GWhat Work Requires of School: A SCANS .Isd Report for America 2000. US Department of Going Back Labor, June 1991, pp xvii-xviii. (See PATH- Pathways to School Improvement WAYS, Web Site: http://www.ndreforg/ http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs- The invitation tor adults, particu- ncrel/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as pathwayg.htm larly parents to Go Back to School4-17scans.htm
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The use of the Information Superhighway is strength in the design of this series is its ability to quickly expanding the way education is being con- allow an interactive discussion of environmental is- ducted in America. The rapid increase in the use sues (severe weather, snowstorms, droughts, of telecommunications is challenging K-12 class- earthquakes, volcanic activity, El Nino, etc.) in a rooms to find engaging activities which can turn timely manner, matching current news items to this rich resource of information into learning op- science activities. The programs in the virtual portunities.The challenge to teachers is com- classroom series are uplinked to a satellite from pounded by the need to both learn how to operate the University of Michigan. Teachers, administra- the new technologies and employ them effectively tors, parents or students can view the class either in large classroom situations and to expand their on their own or in groups. Participants will be en- content depth to respond to student inquiries that couraged to use their computer and modem to log follow. The information and imagery available on into our server during the show. This interactive the Internet often give rise to deeper questions virtual classroom will allow participants to pose or which teachers may feel ill-prepared to answer. answer questions live (or after the show). The Universityof Michigan Weather Under- ground's Virtual Classroom is an effort to address Navigation on the Internet and pointers to informa- tion specific to the science curriculum ideas pre- these issues and aid educators in the development sented on the show are emphasized and made of new approaches that include technology and available to teachers for use in their classrooms. will meet the needs of the rising generation . Participants are shown where on the Internet to Beginning in September 1995, Professor Perry find imagery and activities relevant to the topics Samson, University of Michigan professor and di- discussed and are lead through a discussion of rector of the Weather Underground, will host an new methods to utilize these data in their class- innovative, biweekly series of live, interactive, tele- room activities. Example activities utilizing current vision shows aimed at teachers, administrators, weather, climate and environmental conditions are and parents interested in K-12 education, Internet demonstrated. resources, and the use of real-time weather infor- mation in science. Aimed specifically at the pro- The University of Michigan Weather Underground sponsors this series.Initiated in 1992 with the fessional development of teachers, the programs support of the National Science Foundation, they create a model for teachers to carry back into their provide a link between the scientists and facilities classroom, a model that promotes project-based of the University of Michigan, Department of Atmo- student centered learning environments using new spheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, and the technology and science ideas creatively. teachers and students of primary and secondary The programs, interactive in design, allow partici- education. The group has developed a range of pants to ask questions and respond to information through a simultaneous e-mail dialogue. A (Continued on Next Page, First Column) 4 5
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computer services designed for the specific goal of of this year's growing Ozone Hole. This show describes making science more accessible through interac- the formation and movement of this manmade disaster tive access to current weather, climate change, and points out how to use this up-to-the-minute informa- and environmental information.Used in com- tion to predict its future growth. merce and schools across the country, Blue- Skies TM is a powerful Internet tool developed by The 1995 Hurricane Season 10/16/95 the Weather Underground that allows interactive This show describes the formation and movement of access to weather and environmental images and hurricanes and illustrates many services on the Internet animations. to track and observe them daily. Classroom activities to track and monitor their destructive power will be demon- If you are interested in participating in this series strated. from your home or school and would like to receive graduate credit for it, please contact: Weather Folklore 10/30/95 The day before Halloween we investigate the wealth of stories passed from generation to generation on how to The Weather Underground forecast weather based on the sun, moon, colors in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sci- sky, wind direction, and animal activities. Join us as we ences explore the physical reasons these folklore make sense. Participants will be asked to document folklore in their University of Michigan own area and share it with the progam. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2134 Future topics will include further interactive discus- or sions of environmental issues such as severe weather, snowstorms, droughts, earthquakes, vol- URL:http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu canic activity, El Nino, etc.The content of each e-mail:[email protected] show will be timed to match current conditions of Call: 1-800-386-4141 weather and climate. The programs will feature interviews with other experts in the field.Partici- SCHEDULING pants are encouraged to be on-line with us to an- swer or ask questions during or between each Satellite broadcasts will be aired every other week show. beginning Monday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. On-line Interaction / Satellite Information EST. Web pages, listservers and e-mail will be available (Titles may change if opportunities arise for ongoing communication throughout the year. in other areas of weather and climate) During the shows, participants will log onto their local host (probably where they get their e-mail Disaster in the Classroom 9118/95 now) and type the command : This first show overviews the images and services avail- able via the Internet to K-12 classrooms interested in For UNIX Hosts: telnet ground- weather information. Spectacular and engaging, these hog.sprl.umich.edu 2061 or images of weather as it's happening are a wonderful in- troduction to the value of the Internet as a resource in a For VAX Hosts. telnet groundhog.sprl.umich.edu classroom. The show explores a pedagogy to introduce /port=2061 and reinforce basic concepts of science through oppor- tunistic use of weather, climate and environmental dis- Specifics of which satellite you or your local cable asters as they happen company should tune to will be made available The 1995 Ozone Hole 10/2/95 4 later in the summer. Be sure to check our home- page for the details. When information is available We will explore measurements being made in Antarctica you should call your local cable company.
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You've heard about the thrill of computers and provide important providers, the domain name re- websurfing and the utility of e- routing information about network mains yours but you will need to and host addresses. When setting have the new service provider mail and now you are ready to up a computer for network ac- register a change with the NIC. "get connected" to the Internet. cess, you need to use IP ad- Before you call an Internet ac- dresses. cess provider you need to under- Physical Connections standsomebasicconcepts Domain Names about the Internet and Internet Access to the Internet requires a physical connection to a TCP/IP access options. Computers directly connected to network. There are two main the Internet are also assigned do- types of physical connection for main names such as felix.com or Internet access: BASIC CONCEPTS gopher.cc.edu.Domain names are easier for humans to remem- (2- Direct permanent attachment The TCP/IP Protocol ber and useThe IP addresses often change over time as com- '2r A dial-up or "switched" line puters are changed whereas the connection. The Transmission Control Proto- domain name stays fairly con- col/ Internet Protocol or TCP/IP stant, even if the corresponding IP is the most widely used network- address of the new computer Host Versus Terminal ing protocol for wide area net- changes. Access working and is essential to direct and full Internet access. This pro- Domain names can be geographi- tocol basically supports the ad- cal such as pen.k12.va.us with va When a computer is directly con- dressing, routing, and delivery of standing for virginia and us for the nected to the Internet it is called a data packets or "datagrams" on United States, or functional such host. This connection can be per- the Internet and allows informa- as whitehouse.gov with gov manent in the case of a direct per- tion to flow between computers standing for a government organi- manent attachment or can be using different operating sys- zation. Other functional domain "activated" in a dial-up connec- tems. TCP supports the ex- endings include edu (educational tion.A host connection always change of information over a net- institution), corn (commercial in- requires the installation of TCP/IP work or group of networks and IP stitution),mil (military domain), software on the machine to be deals with the routing of data net (network), and org (other or- connected. across networks. ganizations). In terminal access, the end user's Most individual users will be as- computer is connected to a host IP Addressing signed a domain name by their computer which is directly con- Internet provider.However, indi- nected to the Internet.The end A computer directly attached to viduals, businesses, non-profits user's workstation itself is not di- the Internet or host computer is and other organizations can apply rectly connected and becomes a assigned an IP address and a for specific domain names that in- "dumb terminal" when the user is host domain name. The IP ad- dicate geographical presence or using Internet applications on the dress is a numeric one that con- function.Service providers will host computer.In a terminal ac- sists of four-decimal values sep- help register the desired name cess,theend-user computer aratedbyperiodssuchas with a N1C (Network Information does not employ TCP/IP soft- 122.67.11.3. These numbers Center) or you can do so on your ware. are easily understood by the own. Ifyou change access (Continued on next page)
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ACCESS OPTIONS cess provider assigns your com- Typically, such terminal connec- puter an IP address, which basically tions will not support the transfer of identifies your computer as a com- large files. Dedicated or Leased Lines puter connected to the Internet. Commercial Accounts The most common direct perma- This kind of connection requires nent attachments to the Internet software to dial the Internet service are dedicated or leasedlines. provider and establish the connec- Thereare many private network These leased lines run companies such as directly to a TCP/IP 7_10 ME: _MC 7.1117:All AmericaOnline, Com- network. Typically this puserve,andProdigy, type of connection is In a SUP or PPP dial-up access, that offer gateways to the used tolink a local Internet. Accounts with area network throughyou must activate the connection, and commercial networks typ- a router to the Internet. ically offer e-mail gate- These connections run once you have dialed-in and success- ways to the Internet and at fast speeds from 56 some like America On- kilobits per second up fully logged on your then your machine Line are providing access to1.544 megabytes to the World Wide Web per second or (T1) or becomes directly connected to the In- using their own browsers. even faster. These These companies pro- kinds of speeds are vide users with their own desirable for more ex- ternet and remains so until you log off network access software oticInternetoptions and do not typically sup- such as CU-See-Me. or are timed out, port TCP/IP software. A SLIP or PPP 1.1111_ 11=11L__ Z_MILDMIE tion. This software and TCP/IP soft- Dial-Up Connection ware is often provided by the Inter- ACCESS net access provider for your operat- ECONOMICS A dial-up PPP (Point-to-Point Pro- ing system at a minimal cost. tocol) or SLIP (Serial Line Internet Generally dial-up shell accounts Protocol) account allows you to op- A Dial-up Shell Account andcommercialaccountsare erate as if you had a direct perma- cheaper than either SLIP or PPP nent attachment to the Internet at Direct dial-up shell accounts are dial-up accounts or direct perma- lower speeds. This kind of access nent Internet connections.Direct supports TCP/IP software and thus basicallyterminalconnections. This means that you use the Inter- permanent connections involve the allows access to the same sort of most expensive upfront investment tools that one can access via a net access software that is installed and operating on your service and monthly charges but are the dedicatedline connectionto a most economical options for orga- TCP/IP network. provider's computer .These con- nections do not support the TCP/IP nizations with multiple users and LANS (local area networks). SLIP and PPP dial-up access ac- which means that your computer is counts require high speed modem not a host machine or directly con- nected to the Internet. These kinds Most dial-up SLIP or PPP accounts (9600 baud minimum and 14.4 or offer some unlimited time usage 28.8 baud recommended espe- of connections can work using low- speed modems.(9600 baud and per month and after that charge a ciallyforusinggraphical web per hour rate that can range from browsers) to connect your com- below).Typically, you are able to exchange e-mail and to a limited $1 to over $3 an hour for each addi- putertotheInternetservice tional hour. provider network. degree use other Internet tools such as telnet, ftp, and gopher. This sort of connection does not allow Many commercial networks offer In this account, you must activate promotions of a free access trial pe- the connection, and once you have you to directly surf the world wide web using such graphical browsers riod.These promotions are avail- dialed-in and successfully logged able in popular computing maga- on your machine becomes directly as Netscape or Navigator nor will it zines and in books as well as connected to the Internet Your ac- allow others to access a Web page located on your local machine. sometimes through direct mail of- ferings. 4 6
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The best way to find out about local USA/ access options is to spend time Universities or community many of which California!! reading the local newspaper, partic- colleges The WELLgopher. ularly the business and technology are linked to midlevel net- sections, talking to companies or lo- works At the main menu, go to The Ma- cal colleges and universities in the trix(Information about global area as well as consulting with Major commercial networks), thern at the next neighbors and friends. There is usu- providers such as menu go to Connecting to the ally someone in the community who Internet. has Internet access and can be of America On-Line, Prodigy, Compuserve, Microsoft Net- some assistance. At the Connecting to the Internet work Menu you can access Susan SERVICE PROVIDERS Estrada's DList (A list of dedi- Community Networks cated Line Providers) and Peter Kaminski's PDIAL (Public Dialup There are typically a variety of ser- such as CapAccess, Cleve- land Freenet, Blacksburg Providers) as well as a lengthy vice providers in a given location list of providers in Canada, The and region. Some of the main types United States, and the Rest of Telephone companies and of service providers are: the World. other information firms Specialized Internet Access such as cable companies, You can also go to The Well companies some of a local for example, internetMCI Web Site http://www.weli.com/ nature and others having a na- tional and international pres- RECOMMENDED BOOK ence such as The Pipeline, ONLINE ACCESS Uunet Technologies, PSI Inc., PROVIDER INFORMATION Connecting to the Internet by Susan Estrada (O'Reilly & Statewide networks some The WELLgopher Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, exclusively for schools such as CA, 1993, ISBN 1-56592- Virginia's Public Education Net- To navigate to the Wellgopher, 061-9 work (VAPEN), the Texas Edu- head to: cation Network (TENET), the Other Gopher Servers/ Florida Information and Re- North America/ search Network (FIRN).
GOPHER- Untitled a FileItem SettingsHelp Df`i10XIWII:110-01601Oftil --t)Connecting to the Internet iF ID About Connecting to the Internet El Connecting to the Internet, by Susan Estrada -ci Susan Estrada's DLIST (Dedicated Line Providers) CI Peter Kaminski's PDIAL (Public Dialup Providers) 111 Providers in the United States X Providers in Canada X Providers in the rest of the world ci Bux Technical Services' NixPub List (long version) --R Bux Technical Services' NixPub List (short version) 11Virus Scanning Software jiClearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich) X Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (Austin,IN F--- NOW (Direr:lay1 ttertislocally stoied) 11r
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Inthissamplerofaccess phone line, and software implementing Metered LAN Cost providers we are providing the the PPP protocol, all of which are avail- descriptions of some access op- able through UUNET. And depending on $49/month basic service fee tions and facilities given by the your usage requirements,you can $3/tk.ur connection cost to local hub, choose billing by connect time or at a $9/hour to 800 number access companies themselves fixed monthly rate. $10/month optional charge each for In- at the time we went to print. ternet mail and USENET news via These are only some access op- Every AlterDial plan permits multiple UUCP/TCP tions and listed prices are al- user mailboxes and registration of your $10/month optional charge for each own unique domain name. Traveling POP account or $20 per concurrent ways subject to change so we NNTP session users can seamlessly connect to any of $499 one-time start-up fee urge you to directly contact the UUNET's hubs around the country, or to providers for more complete and a convenient 800 number. up-to-dateinformationabout Dedicated Cost Service Options their services and prices. The $250/month service charge for unlimited mere inclusion of these access use, including Internet mail and providers in this sampler is not Metered Client: Service to an individual USENET news $750 one-time start-up computer, billed according fee Line costs are not included. Con- an endorsement of the provider to usage. tact AlterNet Sales for pricing but is merely used to give you 25 hours per month of local uSage an example of the variety of ac- standard. cess providers and services that One mailbox and one newsreader are available to you. standard. NETCOM On-Line Client software, unique domain name, and additional mailboxes Communications Services available at extra charge.
Metered LAN: Service to an entire LAN, 3031 Tisch Way, San Jose, CA UUNET TECHNOLOGIES, billed according to usage. 95128, Voice: + 1408-983-5950 * INC. Dedicated IP addresses for your Sales: 800-353-6600 * Fax: 408- internal network and unique domain 241-9145, E-mail:[email protected] name standard. Web Site: http://www.netcom.com/ netcom/numbers.html 3060 Williams Drive, Fairfax, VA One mailbox and one newsreader standard. 22031-4648 NETCOM has provided high quality In- Voice:+1 800-488-6383, +1 703- Additional POP mailboxes and NNTP newsreaders available at ternet services since 1988. Connections 206-5600 to NETCOM can be made by any com- Fax: 4-1 703-206-5601, extra charge. puter workstation or server with a high E-mail: [email protected], speed '1.32bis or V.42bis modem and Web Site: http://Www.uu.net Dedicated: Flat-rated service over a full- PPP (Point-to-point Protocol) or SLIP time analog dial-up line. (Serial Line Internet Protocol) communi- Dedicated modem at our hub and cations software. NETCOM provides In- In January, 1990, UUNET launched Al- ternet Domain registration services for terNet (R), the first commercial TCP/IP IP addresses for your internal net- work, SMTP mail and news deliv- your node, provides you with a Class C network service. Alternet customers can ery, and unique domain name stan- IP address, and routes Internet traffic choose from dial up or high-speed (e.g., electronic mail) to your site. NET- leased line options for direct access to dard. Additional mailboxes and news- COM can also provide you with a net- the full range of services available over work news feed. readers available at extra charge. the Internet. Besides the monthly service fee, there is OPTIONS COSTS: an installation fee associated with each type of network connection. Metered Client AlterDial(R), provides high-quality, low- OPTIONS: priced Internet connectivity to small of- $30/month basic service fee, including fice LANs andindividualcomputer 25 hours of local usage. Internet mail 9600/14400 SLIP Dialup (dedicated users. and USENET news for one user port) $160.00/month $2.00/hour connection cost to local hub 28800 SLIP Dialup (dedicated port) AlterDial connects your desktop or lap- (after first 25 hours), $225 00/month top computer directly to the Internet. Al- $6/hour surcharge to 800 number (at all terDialsuppliesoccasionalorlow- times) (continued on next page, first column) volume Internet access to your office or $10/month optional charge for each ad- ditional POP e-mail account home, providing a total networking solu- $25 one-time start-up fee tiontosmallbusinesses,telecom- muters, and employees in the field You 5 need only a modem, a standard analog
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NETCOM Continued UPI wire-service news, reports on yes- ured to interface with the customer's terday's stock market, computer indus- ethernet or token ring local area net- try news, syndicated columns and fea- work. A dedicated port, SLIP dialup connection tures, financial information, and news will pmvide your company with unlimited 56 kbs Connection $5,995.00 on thousands of other topics. This ser- $9,995.00 dialup access to any of NETCOM's local vice is available via the netnews news- T-1 Connection access points and direct Internet access readers. For full service connections the cus- for a low, fixed monthly fee. tomer must also provide a dedicated, Besides the monthly service fee, there voice-grade circuit (POTS line) located 56KB leased line $400.00/month is an installation fee associated with proximate to the CICNet owned router T1 leased line $1000.00/month each dialup account. located on the customer premises. This circuit is for the exclusive use of the Cl- These higher speed connections are Dia lup Account CNet NOC staff in providing out of band available for sites with higher transmis- management for the router and other (invoiced) 119.50/month network components. *There will be an sion requirements. Dialup Account (C.edit Card, Auto- additional monthly fee of $275.00 for Billed) $17.50/monthDialup Account 56Kbs or $1,600 for 1-1 if we are not NETCOM's NetCruiser(tm) setup fee $30.00 able to establish the customers connec- tion within the same lata as a CICNet NETCOM has developed a graphical For a personal account, you can regis- point-of-presence. user interface for personal computers ter by calling NETCOM at 800-353- using Microsoft's WINDOWS operating 6600 or 1-408-983-5950 and asking for Circuit Costs environment.Net Cruiser allows you to personal sales. click on icons or use menus to use the All CICNet bitPIPE connections include common Internet Services.Net Cruiser either a 56 kbs or T-1 circuit fromthe uses dynamic Compressed SLIP to give 111=0, customer site to the CICNet backbone your computer a direct connection to the node. The montly service fee will typi- Internet allowing you to transfer files di- CICNet, Inc. cally include the cost of the 56kbs or T- rectly to your computer without an inter- 1 circuit. (*There will be an additional mediate host system.Net Cruiser ac- =Net Marketing and Sales monthly fee of $275 for 56kbs connec- counts do not include host dial access to 2901 Hubbard, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 tions or $1,600 for T-1 connections the NETCOM host systems. Net Cruiser Voice: + 1 313-998-6703 or +1 800-947- charged to those -:,,ganizations who are accounts include 40 hours of prime time 4754, Fax: +1 313-998-6105, Email: not able to conn,:ct into a local access at no extra charge. Prime time is [email protected], Web Site: proximate to the customer- CICNet defined as 9 am to Midnight, Monday http://tomcic.net/ POP.) through Friday. Non-prime time is Mid- night to 9 am Monday through Thursday CICNet,inc. is a non-profit regional net- and from Midnight Friday night to 9 am work started by the Committee for Insti- Monday morning.If you accrue more tutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC is IndyNet INTERNET than 40 prime time hours, the charge is a consortium started by the Big Ten Gateway $2.00 per hour. schools some 26 years ago. CICNet operates a high-speed computer net- Net Cruiser accounts (charged to a ma- work in the states of Michigan, Illinois, 5348 N.Tacoma, Indianapolis IN 46220; Voice: +1 (317) 251-5208 jor credit card) .$19.95/month Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Service is available to col- Net Cruiser setup fee ....$25.00 leges, universities, K-12, other non- IndyNet INTERNET Gateway offers Net Cruiser business accounts (via busi- profits as well as commercial organiza- completeInternet access. Itwas ness check) ..$239.40/year tions. founded by a local Indiana corporation Net Cruiser business account setup (LFD Enterprises, Inc.) that has been in fee $50.00 Full Service Connections business since 1980 and has offered In- Circuit Costs ternet access since December 1993. PERSONAL HOST DIALUP ACCOUNT WITH UNIX SHELL Full Service ConnectionsIncludes IndyNet INTERNET Gateway 7/24 end-to-end monitoring, equipmemt NETCOM offers personal accounts on supports: NETCOM's UNIX hosts with unlimited maintenance, etc. Easy Menu-Driven Interface use for a flat monthly fee.All shell ac- Worldwide E-Mail count users may choose from csh, tcsh, Monthly service fees FTP ( ksh, sh, bash, or a custom, menu-driven (*Includes the cost of the dedicated cir- TELNET ( shells. With a personal account you can cuit in many cases) ARCHIE expect 24 hour accesstoE-Mail, IRC USENET news, ftp, telnet, IRC, compil- 56Kbps connection $1,000.00/mo USENET NEWS ( ers, games, text processing tools, edi- T-1 connection $2,000.00/mo GOPHER tors, and file transfer utilities (u/x/y/z/- WWW (World-Wide-Web) modem, kermit) as well as a gopher One-time Network Access Fee client and the Lynx web browser. NET- This fee includes a Cisco Systems (Continued on next page,2nd column) COM also offers you "electronic newspa- router, CSU/DSU, and network man- per" subscription; NETCOM serves a agement equipment which is located on commercial news feed with, for example, the customer premises and is config-
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M1 Performance Systems INDYNET (Continued) International, Inc. Pipeline New York Basic Options and Fees: 150 Broadway, Suite ;710, New York, NY 510 Huntmar Park Drive, Hemdon, VA MENU - $10/month, no hourly connect 10038; Voice: +1 (212) 267-36!43; E-Mail: 22070;Voice: +1 (703) 709-0300. Fax: +1 [email protected]; fee, 300-14400 baud with easy menu gopher: go- (703) 904-1207; E-Mail: [email protected]; Web pherpipelin.com, Wen Site: Site: httpi/www.psi.neU SLIP - $15/month, no hourly connect fee, http://www.pipeline.com/ 9600-14000 baud access with slip (28.8k PSI was organized in 1989 and began baud lines available) Pipeline was founded in December 1993 with just 40 customers. PSI is now one by James Glick, former New York Times of the largest Internet providers in the Access from areas outside Indianapolis reporter and author of the bestselling world. Today,PSIhasPoints-of- carries a $5/month surcharge. book, ChaosMaking a New Science. Presence in over 80 U.S. metropolitan along with software developer Uday areas. Ivatury. Starting in July 1995, Pipelin ex- Special services: panded ts local access to include New PSI provides a full range of Internet ac- Jersey, Connecticut and Eastern Long cess options for individuals and compa- UUCP - $1/hour, $40/month minimum, Island Via network. nies. Last year, PSI introduced the 2400-14400 baud with UUCP e- highly popular InterRamp Service that mail/news Individu.sl User Options provides state-of-the-art personal ac- LIST - $50/month for moderate use (e- cess. mail list-serve) The TIW (Toe-in-the-Water) Plan: $9.95 LINE - $100 setup, $100/month for pri- monthly for 5 hours (and then $2 50 per interRamp vate line (24hrs, 7 days/week) hour after those 5 hours). The IIMO (Internet-Is-My-Oyster) Plan: InterRamp offers individual users dial-up $19.95 or unlimited time. PPP access to the Internet. Your com- puter will require TCP/IP software that is You pay one rate of US $19.95 a month available for various platforms from PSI regardless of usage. You can also opt and a v.32bis/v.34 modem and a stan- for the $5 for 5 hours option and then dard telephone line, or an ISDN TA and pay unly $1.50 an hour thereafter. an ISDN BRI. Business Options: Your InterRamp Account includes: Corporate rate of $20 per month and $2 PPP dialup access to the Internet per hour of connect time; this fee ap- An electronic mailbox accessed plies to each user. through POP3 A USENET News account with un- You can try out Pipeline USA software limited access on an IBM PC or compatible 486 pr Access to the InterRamp Users higher with 8MB or more of RAM run- Home Page ning Windows 3.1 or later.It's free for 7 days for new users. InterRamp includes a POP3 electronic mailbox on a PSINet mail server with up to 20 megabytes of storage. You are as- signed an e-mail address fro 4`le inter- ta4,,_-, $- i'm )s. ....ir 4 . -1 9,Y4.110,-,g1; Vtilii" ..,., r- -e. .;,..t." 1.44-;!:!)...;1,;(9., "iotr.; .1,i:...t...4r,.?.. ramp.com.domain. - . .:.6. -., . r i r-,--;.---,--....n..-,... r.4 .... . InterRamp Rates: 1 f k SN Central, First 29 hours of Prime Time Usage. .US ProduCt Informatoon $29 1..,..:e d. 1 t 211ree".-1; 41114:1"' i. V?) Includes Unlimited Non Prime Time Us- 4 Co ,, r ,.e.:..5.0 age (Prime Time: Mon-Fri, 8 a m 11 p.m. Local time at the point you connect -4., h. -d,c.,-i.4.5w-0,,,:,:t,.4...;;Nu ilWril4' Y to the PSINet network. Non Prime Time ' 4 -...t:rrf:7:017::: .tidriztllw,-- 3.,2,,,c . ' .:4,1.:4:- Mon-Fri, 11 p.m. - 8 a.m Saturday and ta.. A , 'WAWA ..t.r,;e,...* :44 1*, 40-,..4. ,1i',` ., Sunday) ear4, 41 A , .... r,,,,. M Yr t; - "'t ISDN Usage Over 29 Prime Time '411'45' ob > .'7 p. 4', t .. In Hours.. US $ 1 50/Hr ,i,.. r o'.. V.32bis and V.34 Usage Over Intial Prime Time 29 Hours.. US $1 50/Hr Microsoft Network (Pricing effective through December 31, 1995) URL: http://www.msn.com/ 5 ')
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The Global School Net Foundation recently created a November 1995 central registry of open K-12 Internet projects. GSN Letters to Santa (11/1 - 12:15) invites any project developers or anyone else with UNESCO Time Project knowledge of interesting Internet-based K12 projects open to all participants to contribute to the registry. February 1996 The information will be presented in a matrix divided The Noon Project by the month in which the project begins. This matrix Kids As Global Journcy North is accessible via the WWWeb and is also distributed The Read In via the HILITES mailing list. March 1996 How to Submit Projects to the Registry Mayaquest 11 (6 weeks)
If you know of projects that are open to outside par- Ap:ii 1996 ticipants, please send a message to: Save the Beaches
[email protected] HOW TO ACCESS THE REGISTRY
Make sure the message INCLUDES the following in- For those with world wide web access head to th?, formation: following www location:
cr- Month and year project BEGINS http://gsn.orglgsnlprojects.registry.html ar How long the project will last (approx.) You can also subscribe to the HILITES mailing list by sending a message to: co- Name of project
e- The email address for the contact person [email protected]
vrA one-two sentence project description In the body of the message type:
OPTIONAL: The URL where potential participants can find additional information suLscribe hilites
Examples of Current Listings Information About the Global SchoolNet Foundation On-going (appropriate to join at any time) Where on the Globe is Roger For more information about the Global School- Scientist-on-Tap Net Foundation contact: September 1995 Intercultural Sensitivity Yvonne Marie Andres, Global School- Geogame Project house/Global SchoolNet Foundation Cyber English 7040 Avenida Encinas 104-281, Carlsbad, WC1EP 95 World Cultures Information Exchange Project On-Line Conference w/ Japan CA 92009 WWWeb: http://gsn.org October 1995 Voice (619) 433-3413 California WWWeb Project (10131 - 4/15) NASA's LIVE FROM THE STRATOSPHERE FAX (619) 931-5934 Email: [email protected] r
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AIMINI 111111-11MUM -M=IM AMC ....7111FIJEKI . SOME EXCITING PROJECTS FOR 1995-1996
MEL- ..11MiLAIIUJM- , .1M.--111t SPACE ISLAND This year students at the Don Bosco High School in Rosemead, California will be collabo- 011001 rating with students in four hundred schools worldwide located in over twenty-eight countries. Students will also be working on the project with the author of a book called "External Tanks an Economic Solution to California." The author, Mr.Gene Meyers, an Industrial Engineer,is proposing to the Senate and House a bill that would allow the private industries to use the ex- ternal tank of the Shuttle craft (10m by 50m), which are now discarded once the shuttlecraft reaches orbit, and connect them into a space station.Mr. Meyers also envisions that the Throughout the 1995-1996 academic year, classes of in- space station, he calls Space Islands,will be termediate and middle level students from around the used by international interest for development world will use the world wide web and other technologies and research. to collaboratively explore various space science themes The participating high school students will con- Students will exchange project related information and sider a space station created from the ETs of data using e-mail and electronic essays generated by present space shuttles. The American Shuttle individual students, cooperative groups, or by whole craft's E.T. is approximately 9m by 50m.The classes. Students will research world wide web sites to ET is composed of many pounds of AL alloy. include as resources, and exchange GIF files, Hyper- Over the past ten (10) years it is suggested that card or HyperStudio presentations, and other computer- about 10K tons of tankage has been discarded. based resources. That 10K could supply the material for structural supports, trusses, outer skin for outer orbital in- Twelve upper intermediate to middle level educators and frastructure. their classes will server as Project Partners. However, general participation is open to any interested educator The students will study and construct a habitat and class, regardless of grade level, with access to the that might be found on board a spacestation Internet and the WebScience World Wide Web Site. that could be used by an international commu- nity. Students will have to study enclosed envi- Project Partners will be encouraged to use AIMS ronmental habitats (i.e., submarines, oil plat- (Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science from the forms, Biosphere 2), common denominators in AIMS Education Foundation) and GEMS (Great Explo- cultures, design, colors, art, and much more that rations in Math and Science from the Lawrence Hall of will help an international community work to- Science) These teacher guides contain integrated math gether in space. There are many projects that and science activities of a constructionist nature. can be joined to this project in the fields of math-
ematics, physics, social sciences, law, religion, To find out more about the project, contact ecology, solar energy and alternative power Roger Stryker sources, astronomy, symbolic international lan- Williams Elementary School guage codes, recreation, food preparations, Austin Independent School District working conditions, recycling of raw or used ma- 500 Mairo Street terial, and much more. Austin, TX 78748 [email protected] For additional information contact: Voice: +1 512-282-2813 Mr. Peter Romero or go to the WebScience WWW Site at Don Bosco High School 1151 San Gabriel Blvd., Rosemead, Calif. http://marple.as.utexas.edu:80/WebScil 91770 Work Phone: (818) 307-6573, Home Phone: (818) 331-5451, Fax (818) 280-9316, Email or send e-mail to. [email protected] 5 4 [email protected]
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7" MN MN IN imme PBS's Back to School NCTM -L Available On the Web 010,, 71111CM=i111" IP! MN This month, the PBS Internet Publishing The Geometry Forum is now making NCTM-L available to web Group introduced a "Back to School" area surfers in a browseable web version. NCTM-L is an unmoder- on their World Wide Web site.This area ated list which is open to anyone with an interest in mathemat- includes information about: ics education and the NCTM standards.
co- Public Television K-12 Learning Ser- NCTM-L ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB IJ vices: Instructional TV, PBS National Programming, Teacher Training Initia- The NCTM-L discussion list archives on the web are located tives, Electronic Held Trips, MATH- LINE, etc. at: Meet Alice Cahn, Dire,:tor of PBS Chil- http://forum.swa rthmore. ed u/nctm-l.htm I dren's Programmong in an interactive discussion The discussion topics are threaded so that you can read all the message on that topic at once rather than reading them in Hyperlinks to PBS Educational Materi- chronological order of their posting. als You have two options. You can view nctm-I on the Web with- .00Point to the PBS Web site at: out creating an account, or you can create a newsreading ac- count. This latter option allows you to read news on The Ge- http://www.pbs.org ometry Forum machine and will keep track of your reading preferences and the articles that you've read.
Jrzetworzezer AriVIZZAW.47177. ir °- For more information about this web site contact Annie Fetter CPB ANNOUNCES TESTBED at
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We recently took a cyberspace tour looking for interest- http://Www.11t.columbia.edu/k12/7ivetext/webcurrhtml ing web resource centers that contained electronic jour- A guide to help experienced educators to design con- nals, online essays and other research material for edu- cators. We urge all NTN readers to keep in mind that structivist, cooperative learning projects around the tne Internet does offer the opportunity to access fin- World Wide Web ished information as well as data sets not readily avail- able anywhere else. The Institute for Learning Technologies: A Pedagogy for the 21st Century by Joshua H, Reibel A sum- PATHWAYS to School Improvement Web mary white paper on technology and school reform. http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/pathways.htm The VIRTUAL SCHOOLHOUSE The North Central Regional Education Lab has put The Techie's Corner together this excellent web resource area for teachers http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/tech.html and parents. Teaching and Publishing on the World Wide Web by Some current online essays are: Harry Kriz
Why Should Assessment Be Based on a Vision of Internetworking Technology Overview Learning?New Assessments for Learning What Does Research Say About Assessment? Internetworking: Planning and Implementing a Wide- Area Network for K-12 Schools by Randall Bigelow What Does Research Say About Early Childhood Edu- cation? The Internet Companion: A Beginning Guide to Global Networking by Tracy LaQuey Parker THE MORINO INSTITUTE http://www.morino.org/ California Department of Education K12 Network Planning Unit Directory of Public Access Networks an excel- http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/WWW/K4 2/K- lent online catalogue of public access networking re- 12_home.html sources. K-12 Network Technology Planning Guide an 892K The Promise and Challenge of the New Communica- booklet setting statewide networking standards and ad- tions Age a preliminary draft of this paper on the dressing key issues of educational internetworking. threats and promises of the Communications Age is available for reading. Benefits of School Networking by Laurie Maak and Robert Carlitz a paper on the basic issues related to The Coalition of Essentials Schools school networking http://archive.phish.netleosVerica/Coalition.html Stages of Internet Connectivity for School Networking Essays: by Robert Carlitz and Gene Hastings Paper de- Eleven Suggestions for Reforms That Are Radical scribing the costs and benefits associated with various But Shouldn't Be by Grant Wiggins stages of connectivity.
ReThinking Standards by Theodore Sizer THE Nil AWARDS Success in Cyberspace ILTweb http://www.gii-awards.com/success.htm http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/ Ask Advice of those from the Entrants of the 1995 Nil WWW Constructivist Project Design Guide Awards.
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rtililiCT.M.JIILLANI AIM MITI Transfer of Technology to Education. For ;September 1995 more information send mail to:National Nur .1111E.. School Boards Association, Institute for the 20-22 September EDNET 95 The Educa- Transfer of Technology to Education, 1680 tional Technology and Telecommunications Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-9973 or Markets Conference. Loews Coronado Bay call: +1 800 950-6722. Resort, San Diego, CA. For more informa- tion, send mail to: EdNET 95, Nelson B 26-29 October. AAHE 6th National Con- Heller & Associates, 1910 First Street, Suite ference on School/College Collabora- 303, Highland Park, IL 60035-3146, call: +1 tion. Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel 708-441-2920. or send e-mail to: Ed- ..For information call Carol Stoel or Grace [email protected] Moy at 202/293-6440 ext. 34 or ext. 15 or e-mail: [email protected] 27-?9 September Networld+Interop 95 (-ieorgie World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA. 30 October- 1 November ONLINE 95 and Over 500 leading suppliers and the network- Multimedia Schools The Palmer House ing industry's top experts will join together to demon- Hilton, Chicago, IL For more information contact: strate the latest in networking and telecommunications- Tasha Heinrichs, 462 Danbury Road, Wilton, Ct 06897- gate on the world wide web to http://www.interop.corn. 2126, or call: +1 203-761-1466. r. -111 October 1995 k. November 1995 L:i 111:1 NOV BEI MI 11111 24-27 October VI International Conference on 30 November-3 December Tel Ed'95 Broward County Technology and Distance Education. San Jose, Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Spon- Costa Rica. Sponsored by NOVA Southeastern Uni- sored by 1STE. For more information contact: Cathy versity and Universidad Estatal a Distancia. Keynote Hutchins, Tel: +1 904-824-2955, Fax: +1 904-829- Speakers: Dr. Roberto Dobles, Minister of Science and 5958. e-mail
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The RESOURCES section contains curriculum par tnerstnps t3ecial Offers 7tr. mcn..0* ideas and teacher activity guides for using Mi- crosoft products in the classroom or at home, Library Media Center Activities, Scholarship pro- ,n-trn vents Maw* grams, the Education Server Evaluation Pro- 44gram, and a True Stories area. In the PRODUCTS area, there is information on Welcome to the Microsoft® Focus on K- Microsoft's educational software as well as cur- Homepagel riculum activities geared to these products. This is an area where you can find the latest products The PARTNERSHIPS section contains informa- and programs offered by Microsoft for K-12 educators arents and students. Sta tuned tion on such Microsoft programs as the Mi- IMO crosoft's Teacher Education Partnership Pro- 2131 gram, Children's Museum Partnership and the .4225,2ziorrzezr.,roxixenstrozririze.,777Ate State Department of Education Partnerships. FOCUS on K-12 Can be found at: The Special Offers and Upcoming Events pages LJRL:http://WWIN.M Crosoft.comik-12/ are still under development.
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This marks the first of a series of arti-In July 1968, ARPA's Information Process- cles that will look at forces that haveing Techniques Office (IPTO) released a so- called "Request for Quotation" for a commu- reit and are shaping the Internet.In thisnication system to connect together a few iffrtAvE.-mg*gc.4 first article, we will look at the stronggeographically dispersed computers over a elingt,twoormgit7,,. influence of the US defense advancedshared network. This network was to be- research community. come ARPANET. Bolt Beranek and New- man (BBN) was awarded this contract. "Lifeis,in fact, a bat- tle...Evil is insolent and Understanding the Past ARPANET began in the fall of 1969 with the strong; beauty enchanting successful linking of four computers known but rare; goodness veryIt is important to understand the past in or-as "IMPS" or "Interface Message Proces- apt to be weak;folly veryder to build the future, and the past of thesors", which were located at the University of apt to be defiant; wicked-Internet was the US Department of De-California at Los Angeles SRI (in Stan- ness to carry the day; im-fense. The original reason behind the cre-ford), University of California at Santa Bar- becilesto be ingreatation of ARPANET, the precursor of thebara, and the University of Utah. places, people of sense inInternet, was to create a communications small, and mankind gener-system that would carry command and ally, unhappy. But thecontrol information in the event of a nu- (Continued on page 3) world as it stands is noclear attack. illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; weIn the mid-sixties, ARPA The Advanced wake up to it again for everResearch Projects Agency of the US De- and ever; we can neitherpartment of Defense. (In 1972, ARPA was forget it nor deny it norrenamed DARPA, The Defense Advanced dispense with it." Research Projects Agency.) sponsored research into areas crucial to the success- COMING TO AGE IN AN IMPERFECT "Ivan Turgenieff in French Po-ful linking of geographically remote com- WORLD 2 ets and Novelist by Henryputers in a way that:allowed (1) remote lo- James, 1878 gin access, and (2).data and resources to be shared. In particular, ARPA's support ONLINE OPPORTUNITIES 4 of packet switching research paved the BY STEPHANIE STEVENSON way for today's computer networks. GOVERNMENTS ONLINE (Packet switching is the breaking down of 7 data into datagrams or packets that are la- beled to indicate the origin and the desti- A NEW SOURCE FOR TEACHERS & nation of the information and the forward- LEARNERS ing of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information ar- AIWIIND THE WEB rives at its final destination computer. 11 was crucial to the realization of a computer networkIf packets are lost at any given O('EA NA AN 111,CINc; EXPERIEN('E point, the message can be resent by the /2 'The Last Sunrise originator ) -httpAriti444.webcarmel. THE GL013AL KIOSK /5 camlharolcithtm The Creation of ARPANET 5!) THE / 996 INTERNET WORLD'S PAIR 16
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Anyone who can read a newspaper online or off-line is aware cents and we need to understand that this means the same in that Cyberspace has its problems such as child pornography, Cyberspace as it does in the real world. As irresponsible as it viruses, hackers and con artists, stalkers and potential child would be for me to leave a six year old by his or herself in my molesters and rapists. Of course, even people who are not home for two or three hours, it would be foolish for me to leave connected to computer networks face these same societal that age child alone on a computer or in front of a tv set for menaces, every day, in New York City and in Boise, Idaho: in that length of time. Parents and teachers need to be actively Hong Kong and in Galway Bay. Ireland.The reality, online involved with their children in their learning, in their friend- and off-line, is the world is a very imperfect place. ships, in their entertainment, and in their dreams, and above all in their inevitable journey to independence. I am the mother of a twelve plus year old girl.In 6 months she will turn thirteen and that is a significant milestone for her and There are times when I wish I had some magic wand that I for me. For her, it will mark a new stage in her journey to could use to make the world a safer place for my children, and adulthood, and to me it will mark a time when I must yield to with a turn of my wand make all the bad people in this world her more independence and by so doing expose her to the disappear but such a magic wand unfortunately does not ex- imperfect world that heretofore I have tried so hard to shelter ist. We may believe that we do in fact have magic wands that her from.In fact, I realize that at earlier ages, I have let her can make cyberspace safe but in fact cyberspace will always test her wings and step out "alone" into the world without me be as safe and as unsafe as the streets of New York City and at her side, although I was usually an arms length behind, hid- the streets of Boise, Idaho. ing behind some tree.She is already demanding that I give more slack to her reigns and I know the day is inevitable when It is important that we don't deny our children the freedom they at last I will have to release those reigns and send out into this deserve and need to grow and to learn about life and the imperfect world my most precious gift. world they must live in.At appropriate periods in their lives we. their parents, need to be mature enough to recognize we It would be so unfair of me to deny her greater freedom be- need to give our children some slack. We need to accept the cause I fear a world, neither flier father, she, or anyone can fact that we can 't control the virtual world or the real world but ever control. My mother gave me freedom and indeed more that we and they can lead productive lives and with street at an earlier age but then again the times were decidedly dif- sense and common sense lead relatively safe lives. ferent or so it seems..Nonetheless, in six years, hopefully, she will graduate from high school and set off for college away Parents and Teachers Teach Your Children Well There from her father and me, and will have to make her own deci- are evil people in the world who will try to harm them and ex- sions and protect herself. ploit them even in the name of advertising. However, there are also people in the world and in cyberspace who will gen- My husband and I can only hope that we. and the other adults uinely be interested in helping them and providing them with that have also nurtured her, have equipped her with the tools the benefit of their knowledge and life experiences.Teach she needs not only to survive but to prosper in the imperfect them not to be cyberspatial cripples nor cyberspatial inno- world we all live inI don't want her to be afraid of that world cents, teach them to be wise cyberspatial travellers and tell and to lock herself away rn some room and experience life in them to have some good times, learn much, and have afull a closet.I want her to be able to go out into the world and and productive life and always remember they are loved. experience the excitement and joy that I have as a young adult and now as a middle-aged person IMMINE MB I= MN MIMINIM NM VIE When / think of the challenges I face as a parent of an adoles- Editor: Kathy Rutkowski cent. I think of the challenges society now faces as the archi- Contributing Editor: Stephanie Stevenson tects of an 'Internet Coming to Age".In our desire to protect our children and ourselves. we may think we can 'control' the NetTeach News world by restricting the growth amj limiting access to the Inter- September 1995 net hut m fact I suggest this is an illusion at hest, and may ISSN:1070 2954 likely result in depriving CPU children and ourselves with some- thriq that can help its to lead a more interesting and full life Published len times a year. Itis available in print and I electronically on the Internet. We can try to impose .s('VVIV regulations on the use of COM- outer networks by creahrig twa, and better firewalls. caching Executive, Editorial, Circulation and Advertising Offices: fr,vici.nor knitting acci1ss Liqtairl user poplliAluis We NetTeach News, 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA iii try In kf,t'll It JS it 11:05 tildrfinUt1(1 liii j fey, Of dS 22071-2944 USA. 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known as the NSF was interested in Research on Core Protocols ARPANET and in particular was in- terested in developing a major net- The next few years in the development work backbone that could link to- of ARPANET were spent developing gether researchers at the Supercom- core protocols. The first such protocol outing Centers.In the late 1980s, developed was known as the Network NSF began to create what became Control Protocol or NCP. This protocol known as the NSFNET. supported a symmetric host-to-host communications that is the connection In 1990, the Department of Defense of host machines running on the same 11111e- disbanded the ARPANET and it was network. replaced by the NSFNET backbone. A Visualization Study of inboud traffic mea- The designers of ARPANET realized sure in billions of bytes on the NSFNET T I The Legacy of US DOD the need to create a protocol or proto- backbone for Septernebr 1991. 100 billion cols that supported the connection not bytes are depicted here. The data was col- Dr.Vint Cerf, who together with only of computers to computers on the lected by Merit Network, Inc. (See URL: Robert Kahn is the co-inventor of same network, but also the intercon- http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CMS/Diglib/text TCP/IP, in a speech made early this nection of different computer networks, /technology/Visualization-Study-NSFNET- year stated, now known as intemetworking. ARPA Cox.html assigned SRI (The Stanford Research Center) with the task of designing a set The roles of ARPA and the Defense of protocols that would allow multiple Communications Agency were critical computer networks to be intercon- cial to the growth of local area both in supplying sustained funding for nected together to enable various computer networks. implementing the protocols on various tasks. The Division of ARPANET computers and operating systems and During1973-1978 a teamofre- for the persistent and determined appli- searchers headed up by Vinton Cerf at In the early 1980s, the ARPANET cation of the new protocols to real SRI and Robert Kahn of ARPA devel- was dividedinto: MILNET and needs. 0 oped TCP/IP (Transmission Control ARPANET. MILNET was to serve Protocol and Internet Protocol) which the needs of the military and as a suite supported the interoperability ARPANET to support the ad- The US Department of Defense and interconnection of diverse com- vanced research component. The played a fundamental role in the cre- puter networks. TCP/IP became the Department of Defense continued ation of ARPANET and laid the foun- core Internet protocol and in 1983 re- to support both networks. dation for NSFNET and the current placed NCP entirely. Internet. The lETF By the mid-1970s, ARPANET had be- come fully operational and the US De- REFERENCES: partment of Defense computer net- In January 1986, the Internet Engi- 0 Computer Networking Global Infrastruc- neering Task Force or IETF was ture for the 21st Century by Vinton Cerf, work. On July 1, 1975, the responsibil- created to serve as a forum for ityfor operational management of Copyright 1995 by Vint Cerf and the Comput- ARPANET was transferred to the US technical coordination by contrac- ing Research AssociationFound at URL: DARPA workingon DefenseCommunicationsAgency torsfor http //www cs.washington edu/homes/lazows (now known as the Defense Informa- ARPANET, US Defense Data Net- ka/cra/networks html work (DDN), and the Internet core tion Systems Agency). gateway system. Internet System Handbook by Daniel C The Development of Ethernet Lynch and Marshall T Rose. 1993 Addison- The IETF evolved into an open in- Wesley Publishing Co ISBN 0-201-56741-5 ternational community of network Also in the 1970s, ARPA sponsored vendors, further research into the applications of designers.operators, Internetworking with TCP/1P. Volume 1. Prin- packet switching technologies. This in- and researchers concerned with ciples Protoco/s. and Architecture by Dou- cluded extending packet switching to the evolution of the Internet archi- glas ECorner. 1991Prentice-HallInc tecture and its operation This ISBN 0-13-468505-9 ships at sea and ground mobile units group continues to establish the and the use of radio for packet switch- engineering protocols for the oper- ing ation of the Internet Ethernet was created during the course THENSF of research into the use of radio for The Creation of the COMING T packet switching. and it was found that Creating Internet Inr coaxial cable could support the move- NSFNET Backbone ment of data at extremely fast rates of .111 Learners speed By the mid-1980s. the US National Science Foundation commonly MN MN NMI I= MI I= MN MI The development of ethernet was cru-
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4 ONLINE TRAINING bCrawler, InfoSeek, and others. e. To make WWW bookmarks and organize your bookmarks with Hy- Mathematics pertext Markup Language Learning Forums ilANcTorlrcijoN (HTML). How to effectively and efficiently design your own home page with (World Wide Web For Everyone) HTML and install it on a server. -gorgon/links. html The principles of good home page In May 1994, the Bank Street Make the Link Workshop (World design, in order to project afa- College of Education offered the Wide Web for Everyone) is an vorable image for you and/or your first Mathematics Learning Fo- eight week distance-learning employer or business. rums pilot courses to educators workshop conducted entirely using across the United States. The e-mail. It introduces the beginner Advantages and disadvantages of HTML editors such as HoT- success was overwhelming and to the World Wide Web (WWW), MetaL and HTML Assistant and these online seminars have con- the Internet'sdistributed hyper- related utilities. tinued. media information system, as well as enhances the skills of the How to build interest in your home The courses are intended to help somewhat more experienced page through USENET News- promotemathematicsreform user. groups, mailing lists, IRC, BBSs and the standards of the National and MUDs. Councilof Teachers of Mathe- The workshop is lead by Thomas matics (NCTM). P. Copley, Ph.D., who is a pioneer This Fall, three workshops will be in the use of the Internet for train- held during the following dates: Designed for teachers in grades ing.Dr. Copley is one of the K-8, the forums are hosted by a founders of the Electronic Univer- Session ll Sept. 25 - Nov. 19 graduate faculty member of Bank sity in San Francisco, and is an Session Street College and focus on the experienced instructor of distance Oct 16 - Dec. 3 Session IVOct. 30 - Dec. 22 "how" of mathematics instruction, learning course via networks. He providing on-going support to has taught the highly popular Go- teachers as they implement re- pher-it The cost of the workshop is $20 Workshop, an e-mail US form in their own classrooms. course on the Internet gopher for more than one year For more information, send an e- During each eight-week forum mail message to the address: teachers engage in online dis- The Make the Link Workshop cov- cussion with colleagues as they ers such areas as: majordomo@arlingtomcom plan, revise and implement activ- ities with their students, view How togain accesstothe and in the body of the message, videotapesofstudentsand WWW. including information on setting up a include: teachers in a range of school set- direct TCP/IP con- tings, and discuss topic-relevant nection to the Internet (SLIP/CSLIP/PPP) subscribe links2 readings. (or links 3 or links 4 depending on How to link to specific Web re- which session you are interested in) Each forum is limited to twelve sources using Uniform Resource participants, making in depth dis- Locators (URLs) This includes You will automatically be placed on cussion around mathematical how to construct URLs for vari- the mailing list for more information content, pedagogy and class- ous kinds of resources, such as about the workshop, and will re- room teaching strategies possi- WWW gopher. FTP. telnet, etc ceive an acknowledgment with ble. To distinguish between various specific instructions about registra- kinds of WWW browsers, includ- tion An Internet email account is re- ingNetscape Navigator. NCSA quired to participate in the fo- Mosaic Arena. Agora. Lynx, etc To participate in the workshop you rums and the strengths and weak- only need access to e-mail. How- nesses of each ever, it is very desirable to actually This year the fall session will be use a WWW browser held from October 2-November How to navigate Webspace and 30, 1995; the Winter session use various searching tools such 6') as Wandex, CMU Lycos. We- See URL http //www crl com/ (Continued on next page)
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Governments at all levels (federal, important government functions: supreme court decisions. provincial and local) are going on- line. Even governments with lim- eProvide citizens with access to Even provincial, state and local ited resources and having a limited valuable public information on governments are using electronic citizenry online have joined the In- a timely and relevant basis networks to disseminate their ex- ternet Club. Evidently, they be- ecutive and legislative works. lieve the Internet has a legitimate Provide learners and students role to play in the process of infor- with a wealth of information The Wellington, New Zealand City mation dissemination and commu- held by government organiza- Council, for example, is providing nications. tions and organizations funded access to Council databases such by public money as the Community Service Direc- Government use of the Internet tory, and access to the archives of and the World Wide Web more Solicit the opinions of citizens the Minutes of the Council Meet- specifically is still in an experimen- on a variety of policy critical is- ings. (See Graphic Below) tal stage but already the statistics sues are revealing and the numbers of these web, gopher and ftp sites Provide non-citizens with use- are significantly growing and the ful information about the coun- frequency rate of visits to these try, the government, and the sites is significant and increasing. society. Here we will briefly consider how Disseminate Information on governments are openly using the Government Action Internet, what kinds of information they are sharing, and what value One of the functions of a demo- this information has for students, cratic government is to keep citi- teachers, researchers and all citi- zens informed since in fact citizens ; zens. . are the sovereign power.Indeed, ,1 YAW&f.$Vit;041:0.1. all the democratic governments Prime Minister's Office, Web server have evolved structures of govern- ment dedicated to the dissemina- tion of information regarding the decisions of government and other '-Vtaff=retc221! significant information that is im- portant to the welfare of its citizens. The Wellington City Council Page The cost of providing citizens with http://www.wcc.govt.ne access to the piles of paper gener- ated in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of govern- ment would be prohibitive. How- The US Commonwealth of Mas- ever, the electronic dissemination sachustetts has created MAGNet Prime Minister of Hungary of such information is much more which stands for Massachusetts feasible and affordable. Access to Government Network. Web Site Statistics Magnet helps online citizens ac- http://www.meh.lmimisc/ Most of the major democratic na- cessinformationabout Mas- statit c s/lai saue .htin tions are experimenting with re- sachustetts Government at work leases of such valuable informa- in the State Executive, Judiciary tion.The United States, Canada, and and Legislative offices., publi- Australia, New Zealand and Japan cations supplied by the Common- How Governments Use all have experimental sites that are wealth on such matters as The providing citizens with quick and Governor's Budget recommenda- The Internet timely access to legislative bills, tions for Fiscal Year 1996, Educa- hearings, executive reports, and tional Reform Grands and Local Governments are exploring how Aid Data, and the Massachusetts the Internet can facilitate several Internet Job Bank.(See Next Page, Top Insert)
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'3343 tional economic performance as ,.. .- - ,...... " well as reports on the budget and other important economic initia- An Interactive Citizens' Handbook tives and plans. MAGNet Allows US Citizens to send messages to http://www.magnet. Solicit the Views of the President Flinton and Vice President state.ma.us/ Citizenry Gore http://www.whitehouse.gov/WhiteJlouse/ Many of the governments are Mail/html/Speak_Out.htmlstate.ma.us/ Disseminate Government also e xperimenting with elec- Research and Policy Studies tronic d9rnocracy.The Clinton Administration was perhaps the first to explore the Electronic Provide Information About Governments are also using the the Nation, the Government, Internettoprovidecitizens, Town*Hall and is using listservs learners and researchers with and web forms to solicit the opin- and the Citizens access to significant information ions of the public on a variety of and knowledge acquired and subjects. Governments are also providing generated by government agen- informationabout thebasic cies and departments. Some of -. nol.;;;;-1A.,.woinn ..r.e..pt It structure of government, the Ia. 1:1...not. 0.0... ti the information is already avail- Ldll yw. G. 01... consitutions, the political and '. t "...:' C,, *, 4 + ' ;^ able to the public in print version ttStra''''''.',5; `'' ... geographic regions of the coun- but now citizens can more easily 1.: i.`,'XV,..:', try, and other information that 147.24J. UrSre accessbibliographicindexes , ...i..1,,,,,,A, . can be used by international and retrieve electronic versions "Or arijeatici travellers,businessmen,re- of the reports as well as, in some Watt pir# f,1116 searchers as well as nationals. cases, order the hard copy ver- 1* , :4"19i4, VIPlAariPitilSO1040,..,.' r.6141kbil4.6341EIVAtelgri.!. , w e sions. Many of the Embassies in major "`.3;" 1,\- A .3 '`,3,...."';', 3"-.3 \<:',...:Nik"3'.n...!?,;V.". 3' capitals of the world are online "1... The Geological Survey Offices providing a vast amount of cul- ''. tural. commercial, and consular such as the US Geological Sur- 413**Widot 3'. information. The Belgium Em- vey, AUSLIG (theAustralian ..3t, P.3. bassy in Washington D.C. has a Surveying and Land Information 3 web site that provides students Group), and the Geological Sur- 13*NA. .., vey of Canada are providing ac- interested in study in Belgium , .., cess to excellent imagery, exten- with useful information and links to universities in the Country sive data bases, and finished re. is.4.,,....., porting on a variety of subjects .4- with exchange programs. This such as hydrology, cartography, month there was a notice re- and seismology,. The Australian Geological Survey Organi- garding two missing children from Belgium. zation (AGSO)provides access to wonder- The US CentralIntelligence Agency provides online access ful imagery, extensive databases, and relevant (Continued on next page, See to a wealth of information found studies. See How To Use Material With Stu- http://www.agso. *ov.au/ dents)
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The French Constitution, (English and French The vast amount of information now Versions Available) is located at ^ available online can be utilized by http://www.ensmp.16-scherer/adminet/ Summary. teachers and their students at virtu- constitution.html treinns.r.sumaree Pe.: Car Mo.,* ally all levelsofthe education pro- Qatlieet Some other Constitutions Online include: cess and indeed some of this infor- Ths French Constitution mation is already a treasure trove for professional researchers and ana- The Irish Constitution(Gaelic and English Ver- pequom en de 4%. 25 Ka 1 TIM ft...Pi ego sion A..ailable) htt,-)://www.maths.tcd.ie/ Near.. unsimet d.4,aIterrno, lyst. ver.limAlmtmettseorketesi.Mito pub/Constitution/index html Unose.1.0.essedbutletenD Prowti 4.104in de 2/ 00 0.0)IttOrt4 kroar4 The imagery. databases. and fin- Ls CrerWoon do la RIVAAIWO kncour The New Zealand Constitution ( English) 4* WIMAO Mee Mee Want I ished reports can aryl should be- . http.//www.govt.nz/constitn.html hem meetleSimeime.211 /*lied 1.. 14p/hkam40.11*1 come a known, used, L.7d well cited Other constitutions source for independent student re- The Constitution of Japan (English and searchers investigating current af- Japanese Versions Available) .V1V19 MISAMTAMIS Cn011.0. Ow) http://www.ntt.jp/japan/constitution/ fairs, international studies, area stud- ies, diplomdcy. technological and sci- The Constitution of Argentina (Spanish entific research, health studies, and Only)http://www.secyt.gov.ar/arg/cons.html other critical social and economic ar- eas The US Constitution (English Only) tsommin._ rmionsiaron http//www.law cornell.edu/constitution/ This material can also be effectively constitution.overview.html used by teachers as new sources of A , curriculum as well as supp!mentary materials. Some of these databases Some Cool Government Sites can be used to reinforce mathemati- 0-- cal skills using current matenal that Teti. .1..1=4 - perhaps might be more engaging to Admi-Net of the Republic of France(Wonder(ul students.Students of foreign lan- Starting Point for Information about France and guages can be given materials to the Government of France) (French and English Versions). http://www ensmp.fr/-scherer/ translate that are current and timely adminet/ Students of government and interna- tional issues can be asked to draw RMJN (The WWW Server of the Ministry of Jus- comparisons between the various tice of Argentina) provides links to a woalth of constitutions online, economic plans. information on Argentina. (English and Spanish '11.1151nr!AMERSEIMMIIM and the structure of different govern- Version) ;URL: http://www.secyt.gov ar/ ments by touring the vanous govern- nCopn ment webs. These materials can be Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs the source of some interesting dis- provides information on Japanese foreign policy and information of educational and cultural ex- cussions and debates on current af- changeshttp //www.nttls co jp/infomofa/ fairs, diplomacy, and mord general the decision-making process Stu- TDBThe Singapore Trade and Development dents of journalism have end'ess op- Board Web Site provides a wealth of trade and portunities to practice their craft by economic information ,http //www tdb gov sg/ sifting through the historical and cur- Also worth a visit is the Singapore Ministry of rent material now avadable online Education Page at http //wwN moe.ac sg/ Many of the governments online are Australian Governme.-!t Home Page (A Super governments that are strongly sup- Starting Place to Governi -lent Agencies and De- partments) . http //gov infc au/ portive of schools and students using ,114.1....1,1 1 -1 the Internet and offer various pro- Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and grams and even online collaborative International Trade Server (English and projects for teachers and students French) a source of excellent inforinalion on N o that are revealed in these webs at I Canadian Foreign Policy . Nip //mem dfait - various places most typically in the mac° gc cal 3 ....mrsannalb t1 isiall.ak S *a OAS Ministries and Departments of Edu- cation Servers US Government Budget 1996 found ut gopher //sunny stat-usa gov/11/Budgeti:Y96 1.1...,.....nw tr.* .00 66
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SDSC (the San Diego Supercom- ronments accessible via the Inter- of educational MUSEs and a col- puter Center) recently announced net. They follow in the tradition of lection of Internet host computers, that it will provide permanent sup- the popular text-based adventure which support access to and ad- porttothehighlyacclaimed games but support real-time inter- ministration of the MuseNet sys- Oceana, a new and exciting educa- action among many participants tem. tional tool for the K-12 internetwork- who collaborate to build their own ing community.. world. Barry Kort, the consulting scientist for BBN's K12 MuseNet Project de- Children with knowledge of a simple A Muse Environment scribes MuseNet as " an unfunded programming language can visit K12 outreach program for informal and transform the virtual planet of MUSE offers many educational op- science education, operating on "Oceana" and experience global portunities including, for example, donated, surplus, salvaged, and re- travel within a text-based virtual re- critical thinking, game-playing, de- built computers and is operated en- ality (TBVR) world of islands cre- bate, collaboration with others from tirely by volunteer staff members." ated and administered bytheir different cultural and social back- MuseNet's main goal is to provide peers. Oceana "inhabitants '. are en- grounds; and creativity. access to online educational worlds couraged to collaborate on the cre- such as Oceana for as many stu- ation of these new worlds with lim- Students of all ages and of varying dents and adults as possible. ited or no guidance from adults levels of technical expertise can benefit from the MUSE. Students OceanaMUSE takes place on the There are currently 35 islands un- do not need a high degree of tech- planet of Oceana, named for its der construction and, through this nical tolerance or ability. The inter- vast oceans and numerous islands. creative collaborative process, par- faces are user-friendly and the pro- Users are given the opportunity to ticipants learn about government gramming language used is easily rule an island, construct a stable trade, and economic systems, cul- mastered by even students as domestic system, and participate in tural boundaries,traditions, and young as eight years old. international affairs. OceanaMUSE customs, and how to use virtual re- isoperated and supportedby ality as a building block to create MUSENET "Oceana Admirals" Terry Ford, virtual societies. Mark Eisenstat, Peter McArthur, and Jason Hula, who range in age Oceana is run on a software plat- OceanaMUSE is collaborating with the Muse Net project. Muse Net, from 14 to 18 years old and live in form called MUSE, which stands for Canada and the United States. Multi-User Simulated Environment. the Multi-User Science Education Network, is a loose confederation MUSEs are multi-user, TBVR envi- 7 0 (Continued on next page)
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To visit OceanaMUSE, type "telnet neering, is sponsored by the Na- oceana.sdsc.edu 4201" from the tional Science Foundation, admin- UNIX prompt.). istered by General Atomics, and af- filiated with the University of Cali- The History of Oceana fornia at San Diego.
Terry Ford and Mark Eisenstat, 17- For additional information on year-old high school students from Oceana see, Ontario, Canada, created Oceana- MUSE nearlytwoyearsago. http://www.sd sc. ed u Oceana began when Ford created Cliffs of Oceana a virtual "island" on another MUSE, http://vedana.sdsc.edu/ TimeMUSE. Oceania was so well- COLL/Oceana/lmages/cliff3.gif or contact received that Ford crafted a pro- posal with Eisenstat for a new Ann Redelfs, SDSC, re- MUSE system there are some in- MUSE, one that was to be based [email protected], 619-534-5032. onFord'soriginalconceptof herent problems that need to be Oceana, emphasizing the pres- addressed, the most major being Mark Eisenstat, "Oceana Admiral," ence of an educational theme insufficient machine memory. SDSC will work with the Oceana 613-596-4059, withinan entertainingsetting. [email protected] Eisenstat worked on hardware, and administrators to find solutions that Ford worked to develop the soft- will benefit not just OCEANIA but Terry Ford, "Oceana Admiral," ware to manage/partition islands. other MUSES..Terry Ford be- lieves, "If we found a way to better 613-225-3487, With the charter formed, Oceana [email protected] opened for business.. handle 'objects,' it would be possi- ble to have an almost limitless Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC, 619- The next challenge was to find a world. Users would not have to 534-5035, [email protected] permanent site.With assistance have limited building quotas." from Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC SDSC's Braun, leader of the Ap- Barry Kort, BBN, 617-873-2358, senior staff scientist, Oceana has [email protected] obtained a permanent site at SDSC pliedNetwork Research (ANR) on a donated DEC (Digital Equip- group--a group established to de- ment Corporation) Alpha machine. velop realistic models of today's complex network infrastructure-- For more information on .4djressing Scaleability announced his group"plans to de- MUSES see: velop more sophisticated commu- nication and relational channels to Oceana is rapidly growing in popu- 00CEANA HOME PAGE larity and as more users join the allow an object, such as a 'room,' to URL:http://vedana.sdsc.edu/COLL/ appear simultaneously on multiple Oceana/oceana.html servers. (See http://www.nlanr.net) People at various servers will be able to communicate within this vir- OMUSENET WWW Server tual room. This model fosters social http://www.musenet.org/ interaction across the individual 'world' (servers) while obscuring O MUSER Home Page Extrava- the geographic distribution of the ganza participants." Discussions are un- http://www.umich.edu/Ipackard/M der way to implement this multicas- brig capability across an environ- use/musers.html ment like the MBONE (Multicast Bone) which facilitates multicast- O MUSENET GOPHER ing by means of a virtual network gopher musenet org/ overlaying the Internet infrastruc- The Mountains of Oceana ture. O CAMP MAR IMUSE Gopher http://vedana.sdsc.edu/ gopher //pcef pc mancopa edu/ COLL/Oceana/lmages/ The San Diego Supercomputer Center, a national laboratory for desertovlk3.gif computational science and engi- MiP, 71 Copyright C 1995 NetTEACH NEWS 13102 Weather Vane Way, Herndon, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 Mi14 SEPTEMBER 29, 1995 NetTeachNews 1 01911111T S .F.F if ,t1. ' FOiiiiTI:19.1iliiilliq I.R1111.1141plimpl-gitAlimpqmItio.!. m 1.111
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Professor Judi Harris of the Univer- Requirements for Participation sity of Texas at Austin, author of Way 0- You must be willing to complete a short and confidential individual of the FerretFinding Educational There are currently60 "matches" Resources Online and one of the project evaluation form by Decem- available. You are invitedto ber 8, 1995. foremost Internet teacher's teacher, browse through our database of has launched the Electronic Emis- subject matter experts to see if You must be willing to collaborate sary Service. This is a matching ser- there is one whom you would like to with the SME to write and send us vice that helps teachers with access invite to correspond with you and (by December 8, 1995) a short to the Internet locate online experts the student(s) who would most ben- (approximately one page), jointly- in different disciplines, for purposes efit from the interaction. written summary of how you struc- of setting up learning collaboratories tured the exchange, what tech- involving the teachers,their stu- niques worked well, and what dents, and the experts. There are several requirements for you would do differently next participation: fime if you were to do it again. Past Collaborations This summary will have to be You must have your *own* Internet written in the week following the account to participate in the pro- end of the exchange, and will be Examples of last y, ar's collabora- ject, or an account to which the posted publicly on the Internet tions involved: students and you will have easy for others to read and use for access for communication with the their own organization of tele- computing projects. -0 FourthgradestudentsinFort subject matter expert (SME). Worth, Texas and middle school students in Menomonee Falls, Wis- e You must use ONLY this ONE ac- How To Request A Match consin communicated with an as- count for all Emissary communica- tronomer and planetarium coordina- tion. tor from Louisville. Kentucky about To get to our SME database: the origin of the universe, the birth, .0'You must be able to use e-mail for life, and death of stars, constella- the project at *least* three times 1. Go to the system prompt in your In- tions, the solar system, black holes, each week during the exchange ternet account. the use of the sun as an energy period. source, the moon, Mars, and current 2. Type: telnet tapr.organd press 0' You must be able to participate, auroral activity. the
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, ..-;',.. ., The site of this World's Fair is the WORLD. The Internet 1996 There will be activities both online and in the real world happening around the world. The fair will World Exposition last for all of 1986. A World's Fair for the Information Age Anybody can open a pavilon. A core infrastruc- ture has been designed that will support the world's fair and be left behind when it is done. Weicolne to the Internet :I 89,19_Wo_riA This is called Central Park. Erapsition For more information about the World's Fair see Vlby_A_WiPrIsrs Fair? About Pavilions, Events, and places http://town.hall.org/fair/ Abo,ut CRTitral Park .7- 141 st,V1 or send a message to Carl Malamud, the Secretary General of the In- ternet 1996 World Exposition at:. I The Internet 1996 World Exposition URL:http://town.hall.org/fair/ [email protected] 0
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SO WHAT Do JIMINY CRICKET, BIG BROTHER, WARNING LABELS, AND WEB MELTDOWNS HAVE To Do WITH EQUITY AND QUALITY LEARNING ON THE INTERNET?
Many parents, educators, and community leaders are %orried about unrestricted use of the Internet by minors Much of this "Net-Anmety" results from an apparent naivete or ignorance by many of exactly what the Internet is and who is using it, media frenzy and predictable LIS Congressional debate on pornography and pedophiles on the Internet that led to the passing of the Communications Decency Act of 1995. 0 Parents are worried their children will be shocked, perserted. or electronically abused and educators are concerned that anxious parents will pull the plug on the new technology or point the accusing finger of prosecution if an "electronic- incident occurs in school. SONG OF THE The good news is that pornography and pedophiles on the Internet canhe reasonablydealt with using some common sense measures, existing laws, good parenting, good teaching and OPEN ROAD technology. However, there are those who are calling formore drasticmeasures that will certainly test the US Constitution's First Amendment,0 and may' seriously infringe on a Afoot and light-hearted I learner's right to learn. These negative views and actions may very result in an Internet that is take to the open road. only for the privileged learners whose families have the resources to provide access from home Healthy, free, thc world and moreover may well retard the development of the Internet as a quality learning place for before me, all learners and open the floodgates to mass commercialism and entertainment at its vilest The long brown path before form me leading wherever I 'onitntwd on page 3i choose. Here is the test of inisiDeTHIS ISSUE ss isdom. 'Flash and Burn Journalism (The Weekly Reader Net Attack) 2 Wisdom is not finally tested in schools. 4 Wisdom cannot be passed Young Children Taking Journeys Into Cyberspace from one having it to another not having it. Whalenet Setting Sails for New Worlds 5 Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its The CoVis Geosciences Web Server Released 6 ow n proof, Applies to all stages and FirnWeb 8 objects and qualities and is content. 14 Cyber Fair for Schools SOng of Mc ()pea Road. I.aves of Grass. Walt Th E tectric Learning Web Is Coming To The Cyber Fair 16 Whitman
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Recently, my son came home with his Fourth Grade Edition substantiated incidents involving minors on the Internet, and Weekly Reader which featured an article entitled "Plugging many of those incidents did not occur on the Internet at all but Holes In the Net."0 Normally, I don't attempt to make much rather on private commercial networks. of a Weekly Reader article but merely listen to my son read it aloud or help him work out the answers to the questions if he It is understandably difficult for responsible parents, teachers needs help.I lowever, my lingers reached out for the ke)board and citizens to put this issue into a proper perspective given when WR asked their young readers, "Would your parents let the lack of good media reporting.But somehow those of us you wander around a city of 2.5 million people without who know better have to reach out and calm the public not them?".I know taking on Weekly Reader will be viewed as with more disinformation but with the truth based on our real either a sign of major emotional strain or an unthir attack on an experiences. We need to conduct and promote studies that American icon but I truly wonder if the Internet CPU ever get a clearly lay out relevant issues such as the report. Teachers fair trial with this kind of flash and burn journalism, albeit Technology Making the ( 'onnection,released this Spring watered down w ith milk and cookies. by the now dellmet t IS Office of Technology Assessment. @ 'That report calls for more resources to be allocated to teacher First of all, Weekly Reader suggeNls that there are 2.5 million training in order to better ensure that the technology will be people on the Internet but the best current estimates are closer used properly and effectivel) in classrooms. We also need to to thirty to fill)million Internet e-mail users and some 10 share firsthand experiences using the Internet with all ages of million people withfull access to the world wide web. children and we must begin to document how they are using Nitpicking, perhaps.Secondly, the question raised b) a the technolog) and how that use is either positively or Weekly Reeder editor is a curious question to pose to nine and negatively impacting on their education. We need to find our ten year olds, most of whom have never visited the Internet voices or otherwise knee-jerk. quick -fix remedies will be ssithor without their parents but may have heard something adopted that at best will only temporarily resolve situations about the Internet and ma) be curious to learn more.If the and more likel) will delude many parents and less informed intent is to make these children afraid to use the Internet with educators with false hopes and result in more serious problems or without their parents or teachers, then the article probably later on that will ultimately diminish the viability of the succeeds.I lowever, if the intent is to educate children about Internet as a legitimate learning place. the Internet and encourage the proper and productive use of the technology, then the article surely fails because it pays little 0 Weekly Reader, Edition 4, Volume 77, Issue 4, September 29, attention to how the technology is being used by children to 1995, p.3 engav in new collaborations and explore new frontiers of OU.S.Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Teachers learning not possible using older technologies or other tools of and Technology: Making the Connection, OTA-616 (Washington, learn ing. D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1995) M) argument is not reaIlss ith Weekly Reader hut ss ith the Editor: Kathy Rutkowski media reporting in general on c)berkids and cyberporn. Much Contributing Editor: Stephanie Stevenson of the reporting has been negative, little based on actual fact or even reasonable guestimates, and just too manyorthese NetTeach News articles present ver) sensitive and potentiall) olitale issues in October 1995 a somewhat unbalanced, incomplete and often unprofessional ISSN:1070 2954 manner I am certain some of the problem results from Published ten times a year.It is available in print and journalistscosering these matters who arc not necessaril) electronically on the Internet. 's elI-acquainted themselses ssith the tecimolog) and perhaps somewhat biased against it. No matter the result is that the Executive,Editorial,Circulation and Advertising media has helped confound the public rather than inform the Offices: NetTeaph News; 13102 Weather Vane Way, public and h) engaging in camp journalismis needless]) Herndon, VA 2204-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703-471- escalating societal tears about the Internet at a time when man) 0593. Internet: [email protected] schools and school s)stems are trying to get more public support to be able to bring this resource to more learners in Copyright ©1395 .i7y NetTeach News.All rights t heir reserved. Federal copyright law prohibits unauthorized reproduction by any means and Imposes fines up to Much ot the reporting on c)berporn and pedophiles -stalking- $25,000 for violations. kids on the Net gisesthe impression that this is a ) outh crisis of significant proportion unique (0 the Internet environment. PRINTED IN U.S.A. I low es er. so far there hine onl) been a handful ot reported and
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I. Reasonably Dealing With Porno and Perverts The quandary parents face in regard to their children accessing inappropriate material from the Internet is in one sense no different than a visit to the local library or the local bookstore. familiarity or Good Intelligence Typically, parents of younger children will help these young readers pick out a book, and if their first grader heads off on The first and most important prerequisite for reasonably deal- his or her own to find a book in the library and comes back , ing with cyberporn and cyberperverts are for parents and holding Grey's Anatomy or Canterbtay's Tales, the parent educators to put the problem in perspective by becoming tries to explain why those books are not necessarily suitable or acquainted with the Internet and how minors are using it. better yet offers an alternative book that is more suitable to Ignorance often breeds misunderstanding and fuels fear and that age group.If you walk into your high schooler's bedroom prejudice. and find a copy of Playboy under the bed, you have to decide Current media reporting has tended to sensationalize and focus the best way to communicate your disappointment or displea- sure to your offspring, the same on the negative. There have been some incidents of minors con- as you would if you found your tacted by adults with wrong in- high schooler visiting a cyber- . porn site. tentions and of minors accessing I . I. pornographic sites but these inci- I - The quandary regarding meeting dents are few and isolated. This unsavory people on the Net is is perhaps because Internet users the same quandary a parent faces under 18 years old represent every day when their three year around 2 percent of the total old breaks away from them in a Internet using population but . department store, or their twelve also because those minors who year old heads off on an unan- . are using the Internet are benefit- 1 nounced bike trip, or their eigh- ing from the guidance of their teen year old heads off to a party parents, their teachers, and their with friends. We admonish our own good sense.This is not to young children "not to talk to downplay the potential for more strangers" and we urge our older problems as both the adult Internet using population and the children to be careful who they confide in and "hang out" with. under eighteen Internet using population expand but ratheris to suggest the need for more research into the sociology of Most parents understand that the most effective "blocking" networking. . mechanism is a good offense and that good offense is offered by sound and wise parental and educator guidance and clear, Objectionable materials can be found almost anywhere on the concise and honest communication. Internet but not easily.. Despite press accounts that Cyberporn sites are pervasive, the fact is for the most part you really have The Best Defense Is A Good Oftense to know what you are looking for, and even then it's not all that easy. Accidental trips to porno sites by younglearners are not Parents and teachers need to cultivate in learners trom the likely and should he easily avoided. It is perhaps important to earliest of ages an understanding of "good" and "bad" infor- point out that even some quality content areas such as web sites mation. Some of those who promote the use of the Internet in on human anatomy or a surgical procedure may prove tobe too schools recommend that the technology be used for older graphical or difficult for young learners or adults with weak students, but others believe that if the technology is introduced stomachs. However, there are many wonderful learning re- at earlier levels and children are properly taught ethical and sources on the Internet that are not available anywhereelse and appropriate use of technology at various levels of maturity. were exclusiv ely created for various ages of learners. 'nnnnued on page 9)
CoT'YRIGIIT i-)1995 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON. VA 22071,2044USA ISSN 1070-2954 Young Children Taking journeys into Cyberspace
By Elissa Gerzog
niagine. a monster, created part by part, by young children in classrooms from four different continents. Imagine, classrooms around the world linking up to measure and compare window, chalkboard and room sizes. Imagine. youngchildrencommunicatinginformationabout endangered species with classrooms in places where other endangered species inhabit. Sharing ideas and information are ways . oung children can take a journey into Cyberspace traN cling thc Information Super-highway. Incorporating telecommunications components into regular classroom learning for young children, opens classroom walls to the world. Children become globally aware, and sensitive to cultural diversity.A class in Florida learned that "closets" are called "cupboards" from their key-pals in Australia. One morning the children found e-mail that arrived during the night from the same Australian friends. Although the arrival date on the e-mail showed it came on Monday night, the Australian children had signed it Tuesday afternoon. The e-mail was dated regular school lines can be used without tying them up for more the next day! This teaching moment led to a discussion about than the length of a normal call. time zones as the lights were turned out and flashlights focused One ingenious teacher tape recorded modem sounds from her on globes. home computer and "made believe" the computer at school was When teachers use opportunities to incorporate doing all the work. She would save e-mail messages to the word telecommunications intoregu;,7- classroom activities, they processor, then print them out at school. so the children would provide children with an exciting and motivating purpose for think the messages arrived on their classroom computer, which learning how to reau and write. Infusing telecommunications didn't happen to have a modem. enhances and extends learning. The children who shared in the For the first time, during the Christmas season of 1994, children creation of themonster learnedthepositivevalues of could send their letters to Santa's e-mail address. I le answered cooperative collaboration. As they exchanged pictures by all letters personally within a day. This interchange delighted regular mail, the children learned the importance of following directions as they and their teachers both discovered with children around thc world. amazement how much the monster designed from the Most young children today have always had technology and collaborative descriptions, looked alike.' computers around them. These children learn to use technology naturally and with ease, sometimes even quicker than adults. Children take a step towards information literacy when they see Internet,e-mail and Cyberspace arc becoming common that the computer and telecommunications can be used to answer their own questions. In a pre-school one day, after language on radio, IN and in newspapers making children more aware of these words. Writing Santa,finding questions reading "The Very I lungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle, a little answered by on-line experts, collaborating with children around girl asked her teacher how long a caterpillar lives after it turns the world about books and topics of interest, or creating a into a butterfly. The school did not have a library, nor any ready cooperatively designed monster, provide natural ways for young resources to help the teacher answer the little girl's question. children to take journeys into Cyberspace. I he teacher posted a note to the Internet address of Dr. Science. 13efore the teacher even had a chance to seek the answer for the For more information about successful classroom collaborations little girl Dr. Science sent the answer. When the comet, struck with young children see :the Monsters, Monsters, Monsters Jupiter on July 16, 1994, images were available on Internet WebSite athttp://www.coedu.usledu/inst tech/students' resources within hours, long before they were published in the gerzoge/index.html and http:,-www.coedu.usEedu'inst tech/ next edition of local newspapers. students terzoge/student.html While dedicated phone lines are nice. unless a class or school is 626262 6262 going to use the line full time, they are not absolutely necessary. Most Internet resources ai e available through e-mail.Since lier:og IA a londergarten tem her hn. the Aide ('ouutt Stiunds e-mail messages take just a few moments to send and receive, flthann.lorula itark /A natumally recognu:ed and she Ls a frequent presenWr at nunor educanoluil cwarrences.
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WhaleNet Setting Sail for New Worlds of Learning
WhaleNet isa new and dynamic Internet-basedlearning How To Access WhaleNet prow-am that allows learners to studywhales, the marine habitat, and environmental studies in a highly interactive, There are several ways to access WhaleNct. interdisciplinary and engaging manner.Researchers and students from around the world are encouraged to share their By Gopher. gopher://whale.simmons.edu is compiled and data and experiences.The data collected By World Wide Web: http://whale.simmons.edu stored on the WhaleNet Server to be used for research as well as in interdisciplinary curricularactivities. By Telnet connect vmsvax.simmons.edu The WhaleNet program provides teachers and students with To connect as a guest to EnvironNet/WhaleNet. "hands-on- material3 and supplementary curricular activities that are designed to stimulate learning, enhance environmental Telnet vmsvax.simmons.edu or IP 134.140.112.5] awareness, cultivate science literacy, andimprove problem solving and critical thinking skills. Or via direct dial up at +1 617-521-3000 WhaleNet is funded by the National Science Foundation and When you reach the system, use ENVIRONET as sponsored by Wheelock College and Simmons Collegein username and SIMMONS as password.This should Boston.There are currently some seventy-eight affiliate annnued On page I r) organizationsrepresentingresearchgroups.educational organizations, and whale watch companies.These various affiliate groups participate in various projects and various aspects of the program.MUSENET, for example, provides igetscape- fWhaleNetl Wrectory technical assistance and the Whale Conservation Institute Elle Edityiew Bo BookmarksQptions developed the Elementary Whale Study Curriculum whichis Window Help used by young learners. 'Welcome to Whale Net ... . -: t Some New Projects : ..' There are se \ eral new projects under developmentincluding: O SatelliteTagging ObservationProgram (STOP) Students and educators will work in conjunction with international research organizations in a unique program using advanced satellite technology and telecommunications to monitor and research the actual .. of . migration patterns of movements of selected species .: . whales throughout the oceans of the world. Whale Net is a On kw* intirdiaciplinarj; handron. collaborative telecomputIng project to foster O Remote Research PlatformWhaleNet will establish excttement andteamingaboutthenatural worldin satellite links with the Whale Conservation Institute's schools across the nation and around the glob*. vessel Odyssey to transfer data, information, andimages Whale Net is a combined project of the biology and departments et Simmons and Vyheelock Colleges from their whale research ECOTOX program, wtth support from the National Science Foundation, WhaleCAM project to WhaleNet. and technical assistance from MuseNet - the Mulli-Usar Saone* Education Network. OHabitat WednesdayParticipating researchers working with w hale watches and or other research programswill . ... the For general Inforrnation, see the WhaleNet provide sighting records from each Wednesday trip to II:hombre WhaleNet server. This will give weekly "snapshots" of the For a summary of the WhateNet Project, see the movements of marine mammal species. WheleNot Overview . 4 O Allied Whale and the Humpback WhaleCatalogue .1 Students will he able to access portions of the I lumpback Whale Catalogue at the College of the Atlantic. Thiswill allow identification of sighted humpback w hales and/orthe study of the histor of a particular whale. O WhaleNet Pals An indexed data base that w ill allow classes and educators to locate and set upcollaborative projects with other classes around the world.
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(oils Cultivating Sdence Literacy UsingInternet Tools he Learning Through Collaborative Visualization Project(CoVis) is working to enhance science 15n weernov education by making it more like the collaborative, eg-optintnan project-basedenvironmentofthescientific community. The CoVis community includes researchers at Northwestcrn University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Exploratorium, along with teachers and students at more than 45 high schools and middle schools throuthout the United States.Recently,the CoVis Project announced the debut of he CoVis Geosciences Web Server: http://www.covis.nwu.edu/ and the UlUC-CoVis Geosciences Web Server: http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/geosciences/ geosciences.html The purpose of these servers is to provide K-12 teachers and students withonline resources specially designed to support project-bascd inquiry in the Geological Sciences.To help support the special needs of different audiences, the CoVis Geosciences Server has been designed for CoVis classrooms and the general K-I2 community, and the UIUCserver is tareeted more towards the needs of the atmospheric sciences and broader scientific communities.There is an almost complete cross-linkage and sharing of resources across these F;ROIJECT COISTS."0-AN two servers, emphasizing the close relationship that CoVis INIblVD.UAL OR GROUPENGAGEDIN believes should exist between the K-I2 and scientific LONG-TERM. IN-DEI4TH.,AcTIVITY THAT communities. f3SULTS 11\1 EITHER'NEW KNOWLEDHG.E., AND/OR NEWARTIFACTS." While a number of unique features of theseservers are currently reserved for use by thc CoVis community, thereare many resources that the Web community at large may find (See Project Pecfagogy in CoVIS at http/I wyvtit cows nwu edu/Geosciences/philosophy/ innovative and useful. These include: a growing database of classroom projects and activitiesin the Geosciences; an projects litinl) . extensivecollectionof annotatednetwork-resources;a collectionof multimediainstructionalmodulesinthe atmosphericsciences; and new web-based visualization environments to explore both the greenhouse effect and real- Foundation and theIllinoisState Board of Education' time weather data. Eisenhower Program.
The CoVis Weather Visualizer is a particular highlight of these For more information about the Project contact: servers: it allows users to generate customized weather images Barry J. Fishman , Project Manager,CoViS "on the fly" from real-time weather data.Context sensitive Nnrthwestern University, help and explanations make complex imagery' understandable Education & Social Polley by novices. The range of analysis options available will make Walter Annenberg Hall, Room 236 this tool valuable to advanced users as well. 211'3 N. Campus Drive, Evanstc,n, IL V-Mail 1,g ,b-IishmanOnwu.edu-. lhe CoVis Projectis funded by the National Science Tcl: 41 I7(R) (6!-:40')
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Neiscape.- Well Atlantic WWII l) MAUER I sa Lit The Bell Atlantic WORLD SCHOOL program, which links Ole Ethtyicw gobookmarks OptionsDirectory Window West Virginia public schools to the Internet, now has its own belp a home page on the World Wide Web.
On October 13, 1994, Bell Atlantic unveiled the WORLD . A SCHOOL home page at "WORLD SCHOOL and Beyond...A SM(iwie
Technical and Educational Symposium,"being held Oct.12-14 . at Flatwoods, W.Va. . 7,;..4. .t- '',5,. \ "Our homepagewill showcase the significant progress West . .,, Virginia has made in incorporating technology into the class- `'.;'' N room," said Dennis Bone, Bell Atlantic-West Virginia presi- dent and CEO. "The WORLD SCHOOL home page also will 6. provide \Vest Viminia teachers and schools a place to find resources to help them use the Internet in theirclassroom and will allow them to collaborate with their peers around the state The Bell Atlantic(r) WORLD SCHOOL(sm) program Is providing digital, high-speed Internet access to more than or around the world." 700 K-12 public schools In West Virginia.
The Internet address of the WORLD SCHOOL home page is This site Is hosted by Bell Atlantic for the hundreds of Mountain State teachers, students, principals and others using computers, networks and the resources of the http://www.bell-atl.com/wschool Internet in their classrooms.
The home page includes information about the WORLD You are invited to collaborate with us as we explore and SCHOOL program and participatingschools, ready-to-use learn to use the vast resources of the world wide web! classroom resources, and links to other K-12 resourcesavail- l I About WORLD SCHOOL II What's New? il Electrpnic n able on the Internet from around the world. Several special features also reside on the home page, including: a collabora- :Aditi 1 tive classroom activities page where WORLD SCHOOL teach- ers share what they're doing; an electroniclesson planner that points teachers to West Virginia-specific informationon the Internet; the Newsgame current events quiz, which is devel- oped hy WSAZ-TV Newschannel 3 in Charleston/Huntington; and the Smokehole Project, a series of lessons -- developed in cooperation with the Nature Conservancy -- that are designed to teach middle school students about conservation.
Five WestVirginia educators oversee thecontent and direction through WORLD SCIIOOL. of the WORLD SCHOOL home page:BillBurrallof Moundsville Junior High School; I.ou Casini of Oak Glen Bell Atlantic Corporation isatthe forefront ot the new com- Middle School; Bob Frostic of horace Mann Junior High munications, entertainment and information industry. The School; Phyllis Justice of the West Virginia Department of Philadelphia-based company prol, ides a full array of local Education, and Lana Turner of Chapmanville Middle School. telecommunications services throughout the mid-Atlantic re- gion and is a leader in national and international wireless Under the WORM SC1 IDOL program,BellAtlantic is linking communications. The company is also a partner in TELE-TV, more than 700 kindergarten throughtwelfth-gradepublic a national alliance developingvideo and interactive program- schools to the Internet using high-speed, digital Frame Relay ming and services, and has substantial holdings in interna- service. Currently, 95 schools are linked to the Internet tional markets.
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IRN 6411,114i' .1, 1 1- 1:4.04 . MING Uows Ely MarrIA In 1982, the Florida Informationand studeni.: access to the In- 9000 Resource Network (FIRN) was 1000 ternet via two main mecha- 7000 established to basically support nisms: 0000 the more efficient and rapid 5000 II. lii I I transfer of administrative data(1) Dial-up Telnet, SLIP and 4009 from school districtsto the PPP servers; 3000 1011111111 State Department of Education 2000 1000 1 .1 11/1141111111141111111 as well as within the Florida(2) A reduced rates for school 0 WI 11111111111 11111$411,111.Iiliitili11 Community College System us- districts and community col- ing computer networks. This leges with SURAnet for TCP/IP :,4 .t 7 7 was a bold move by the State ofconnections. Florida and the State and FIRN have continued to pioneer theCurrently, FIRN has 275 dialup use of electronic networks in linesin 37 locations around support of educational facilitiesFlorida.In August 1995, there 4000 and more recently in direct sup-were 7,000 active FIRN users. 3500 port of learners and teachers. 3000 in the third quarter of July 1995 2500 over 2700 new users were 2000 FIRN's mission has expandedadded to the system. Over 1500 as the technology and its appli-sixty-seven percent of all F1RN- 1000 cations have evolved. Cur- MAL accounts were allocated to 500 rently, FIRN supports adminis-K-12 userstwenty-seven per- tration, research and instruc-cent elementary, twenty-four 1110.i0' 40' 10' ill110' 41 tion.In 1993-95, FIRN made percent secondary, and sixteen major strides initseffort sopercent to middle schools. support teachers and learners at the K-12 level. Both the FIRN user policy guidelines are FIRN gopher and FIRN Webset forth in its Acceptable Use offer educators access to a fulland Access Use Policy State- range of network-based instruc- ments. tional material, and FIRNMAIL allows teachers and students to For information regarding FIRN, communicate within the Statecheck out FIRNWEB at and via the Internet to the oth-www.firn.edu or the FIRN go- ers around the world. pher at gopher://gopher.firn. edu/ or send e-mail to FIRN currently offers [email protected].
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((ontinued from page 3) Acceptable Use Policies The, Board generally supports there is less likelihood that more serious access by students-to rich infoir abuses or misuses of the technolog bySchools, libraries, and youth community older students who can usually find theircenters have some legitimate liability motion resources along with the. way around technology "walls" and areconcerns that need to be addressed in a ilevelopment .by staff of appiro-:.._ more independent users of technologysociety thatis prone to legal action. priate skillkto analyze.and eval- - will occur. Many schools and school systems around uae such resources ln a free:-.:- the globe have worked out a set of gen- Teachers, parents, and media specialistseral guidelines for student access to the .and democratic sbciety, access . should work with children at all ages toInternet using school accounts that must :to information' is-a fundamental find web sites that will help them con-be read and agreed to by parents, teach- right o-f citizenship, duct research at their level of under-ers, and students. These Acceptable Use standina. Young learners need morePolicies or AUPs as they are more com- Bellingham Public School District adult guidance than their older brothersmonly called vary somewhat but they 501, Board Policy - Student Access.. and sisters to avoid accidentally visitinprovide the parameters of acceptable be- to' Networked Infbrrnetion Re- web sites, chat lourmes or other elec-havior and reveal the consequences of , sources.(See:http://www.bham, tronic places that are geared more forabuse or misuse of Internet privileges. wednet.edu/2313inet.htm) - adults or more mature learners.How-The CoVis Project See page 6 in this ever,older middle school and highissue succinctly states the rationale for that a system administrator school students can also benefit from theacceptable use policies: might take in order to expertise and experience of adult men- maintain or "police" the They help educate the stu- network-so there dia no tors who can not only point out where do dent and their parents about surprises during the school go on the Internet but when "not to use" the kinds of tools they will year. They may outline the Internet and to instead use alternative use on the network aod what generalworsecaseconse- they can expect from those technologiesandprintpublications. quences or specific re- tools (in a general way). sponsesto specific policy Adult mentors can also introduce ethical violation situations. 0 behavior on the Nets based on the age They help to define bound- aries of behavior, and more level of the learner and can at last resort critically, specify the any community, educational and pH- revoke the "privilege" of using the Inter- consequences of violating\ ate commercial networks are alsousing net for research or creative expression if those boundaries. AUPs with minors as well as with adult usedunwisely.irresponsiblyorfor They specify the actionsusers.Commercial Internetaccess wrong purposes. providers are not content providers and are unable to truly monitor individual user activities on the Net. They generally The following- guidelin6s arejntended tO be helpful and do not demand AUPs but assume that p-rovide a base from which-district and School policies can be..71 parents paying for their children's access tailored. =While Ahe emphasis here is on ;appropriate use, should use common sense and good par- there is -nci intent to) diminish the vital natureof"blectronic enting and should only allow minors to use the Internet with a level ofsupervi- information services. The concerns described are real but sion warranted by age and degree of ma- ihey shbuld not discourage school officials from planning turity. for the appripriate use of one ofedUcationls newest 'and
mist valuable .tools, , Blocking or Filtering Sohn . ,California ,Departmerif of Education, Electronit Infonnation Re" Some technological solutions are now sources Acceptable UsePolicy:District Guidelines (See: gopher:l available in the marketplace that allow /goldmine.cde. ca.gby:70/00/C_D_E_Into/Tech'nology/Accept; able Use/PoliCy) 'onnnued on page 10) .741 1
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83 Other Measures To Controlor Limit Access
I('antmued from page 9) the Telecommunications Competition parents and educators to "block" un- 0230.1EMEAPTOILAMEMIZER `;..- and Deregulation Act (Amendment No. wanted material.. In January 1995, Surf- 1271). This Amendment called for: Watch Software, Inc. was founded with a mission to "deliver tools which help peo- :.sugFwATcHA, tha voluntary use of tags in the names, addresses, or ple better use technology to solve social . .. '.: vvoic,*iii. to the§urtWaj,01.'., text of electronic files con- problems created by the explosion of taining obscene, indecent, or technology." 0 SurfWatch 1.0 is now ..ciftwarOltdpiittWidefireb mature text or graphics that I,,,,,i,ma.:,,-ttat t,,.-.;,:; --, marketed for both Mac and Windows are made readily available to suiletatsilios flaw type ofizjftwi the public through publL. in- environments. This software filters sex- panaitti:Wust***60.1re00,14* 4 aOikinin iner.oin141*aiii sat$iy .uplkt formation networks in order matarial*the Intoioep,toowtiWthe Inks beim i ually explicit matel ial on the Internet and to andoitt laxiseet>a0SPOomPeify;endatridrisic''r, to ensure the ready identifi- also offers a subscription service which :.:,-V:':',q1;,,zs,,';'''' 1.,,,, ,', cation of files containing Fteiak,u* updates the list of blocked sites. one'af' such text. cr qr!iphics; Cyber-. 1-66.046e. sitter 1.2 is a blocking software for use _., with Microsoft Windows which blocks .----.,' : Also in June, the Network Working objectionable WWW sites, news groups Group of the Internet Engineering Task and provides intelligent message and e- Force (IETF) also released an Internet mail filtering.0 Scantron Quality Com- Draft entitled, "KidCode:Narning Con- putersintroducedtheLINQserver. ventions for Protecting Children on the Among other features theLinq offers: World Wide Web and Elsewehere on the Internet Without Censorship." This A firewall system, including a proxy draft suggests that: rip and Web server, to prevent Parents and educators with time can en- gage in their own blocking and filtering. a"KidCode" naming conver-- students from accessing inappropri- Once a day, once a week, or once a ate FTP and Web sites. tier, bo used to inferm web month a parent or teacher can download ows i programs when the Your own Usenet news server for web sites that are desirable for use in a materi,11being made avail- able or. the web is r)i discussiongroups,oraccessto given curriculum area or area of student someone else's news server. The- investigation or interest.Teachers and n'onnnued on page 121 1.inq gives you powerful filtering parents can use this activity as a learning capabilities. 0 experience with students and engage them in the process. Even though this is Other similiar products will be appearing a form of censoring it can serve to in- 1 Ca rim G. 0.0.441W.. 0 men WM.. Ot 4 in a computer store near you. Despite the struct students on ways to determine Goal: A Safe Cyber.Playground for ftict these companies claim to be the "good" and "bad" web sites from a con- Your Children ultimate key to a safe Internet, there are tent and purpose perspective.As the ,,Ifielavne to Mr no absolute guarantees short of total ac- student matures and better understands cess denial. These filtering technologies, the environment, the student isbetter -44Vesitlf- ..14 IloinePagr however, offer a quick and reasonable equipped to be able to "productively" ,..., technology fix and an aura of protection use their research timc on the Inteniet Thank you for your interest in that might calm anxious parents or ner- and not engage in endless aimless wan- SateSurf. vous schoolboards. derings We're an organization dedicated to making the Internet safe for your children. We've developed and ere Implementing en Internet Rona4landlyci that is bdnging together parents, Alternative People Blocking and Coding, Tagging or Rating providers, publishers, dveiopers, and all th resources evellable on the Internet to achieve filtering and limiting Real-Time this goaLtt involves marking the "Child Safe" Internet Sites sites smith the SafeSurt Wave. Network Access In June, US Senator Charles Robb of 4xa p Virginia introduced an amendment to
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ENVIRONET: An Environmental WhaleNet Collaboratory Learn- Study Collaboratory ing (Con't from p.5)
L. Ld. Y...Ile...rks NM. [1.1'c-toryWI.* 'onnnued from page 5) ife4 put you at the BULLETIN> prompt 1 '''0109mti to govitoNeti/.. To access the WhaleNet Bulletin Board, at the BULLETIN =t4 >prompt type BULLETIN> lfor the introductory message, then at BULLETIN->dir. Type the number of the file you . . ... wish to rcad .. . . , To sign off type BULLETIN>exit ENVIRONET
Env Irotio,Ii a whaorIcteallthait Wawitgs. For more information contact: olinkannwnlai ina.Kaintgang Wpm Oa IOW IakanimenunlogonlnPh*Va !'1:4941111116:11 ULKI(41 . tithr.4t1041EmnioNat Wigan In tW 'Stalls/41w Michael Willikimson, Ethic/mama ersiant at ginvuonstoaoga WBaskal ntian la amakianytnatIggsnoladatteagglatini.raa.. .. [email protected] wow* althapialwt la Ioannina. unntaninontal OW. educagoilln int.K.12 Otionla'afl,lan,whontNeWFmod. WhaleNer coc,rd:na:cr, arta the nadan ill trio nal of Wilwarsaag4006. : 2C0 Riverway, Hjst (,,h,MA (211, 6)7:7 1-- 5200, X256, Fax 617P566-7369, or Paul Colombo, colomi,o0whale.simmons.cdu EnviroNet, Park Science Bldg., Simmons College, 300 1.',,nway, Boston, MA (:211'), 611/ r)21-;:r.
6262.62.62& EnviroNet is a "network of teachers, scientists, environmen- tal educators and others who utilize telecommunication to Other Related Web Sources:: enhance environmental science education," that was created MuseNet in 1992 with funding from the National Science Foundation. http://www.musenet.org/ Thc purpose of the project is to enhance environmental science education at the middle and secondary levels in New Allied Whale, College of the Atlantic England through the use of telecommunications. http://www.coa.edul
Initially, some forty teachers from seven northeastern states New England Science Center were provided access to the Internet via Simmons College or http://www.nesc.org/ other academic institutions. They were trained in the use of the Internet, and utilized EnviroNet for specific monitoring Whales: A Thematic Web Unit projects as well as for communications with other educators http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU:80/kpj5e/Whales/ from around the world.Recently, the NSF awarded Sim- mons College a three-year Teacher Enhancement grant to Charlotte, The Vermont Whale expand EnviroNet. The new grant will be used to develop http://www.uvm.edu/whale/whalehome.html and support interdisciplinary teams among 150 K-12 teach- ers within 30-40 school systems in New England. Teacher's Guide from Sea World http:llwww.bev.net/education/SeaWorld/ Teachers with Internet access but not directly involved in the teacherguides.html EnviroNet Proiect can also participate in the various moni- toring programs and discussions. Monitoring programs for Ocean Planet, A Smithsonian Exhibit 1995-1996 include: Acid Rain, Bird Watch, Plants, Lichens, http://seawifs.gsfc nasa.gov/ocean_planethtml Ozone, Roadsalt, Roadkill, Vernal Pools, Watershed and WhaleNct.
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The Communications Decency Act of 1995
WontmlaulfmninwIN The bill passed in an 84 to 16 vote. (For nature that might be unsuit- II. More Omsk Measures the complete voting results see:gopher:// able for children. Some gopher.panix.com:70/0/vtw/exon/legis- aspects of the convention In June, the US Senate passed the Com- lation/s314.final). House Speaker Newt are also applicable to munications Decency Act of 1995. Gingrich opposed the Senate bill on the browsing by FTP, to news which was sponsored by Senators James basis thatit constituted a violation of reading, and to other proto- Exon and Daniel Coats. This bill makes cols as well." 0 freespeech. Majorconstitutional it a criminal offense to: watchdog organizations such as the Two separate conventions were recom- (1) knowingly within the ACLU and the EFF have also opposed mended: (1) for fixed URL's the perma- United State or in foreign the bill. nent URL isitself used to specify the communications with the nature of the child-oriented restrictions: United States by means of Several US stateletdslatures passed (2) for simpler or pre-existing URI re- telecommunications device similar legislation, and others are delib- strictions are enforced using a naming makes or makes available erating such legislation. indecent comment, request, convention in conjunction with the stan- suggestion, proposal, im- Both the }louse and the Senate continue dard web form mechanisms. age, or other communication to discuss these issues as they finalize which is These codes would work with filtering or available to any their respective legislation on Telecom- personunder 18 years of blocking technology and other procedures munications deregulation. The House ageregardless of whether has adopted more lenient measures in to basically censor out any sites that the maker of such communi- "voluntarily" agree to label themselves cation placed the callor regards to the issue of minors on the Net fbr "adults-only". initiated the cmmunica- and is promoting the use or at least the Lions study of filterina technoloay. A parent's group called Safe Surf has in- (2) kncwinjiy troduced "The Safe Surf Rating System". Possible Consequences 1-his system proposes to ident4 'good' faei:ily under such person's control sites for children as opposed to filter out It is likely that many local governments be used for :in activiy the 'bad' sites. Kids would only be able prohibited by paragraph (1) will take the lead from the federal and to access the sites identified as "child- with the intent thatit be state legislatures and adopt more restric- proof. Several layers of blocking would used for such activity, tive local positions regarding the use of be available so that older children could the Internet in schools. The local impact access additional materials than younger The penalty shall be a fine of not more of this federal debate may very well children.This rating system would be than $100,000 or imprisonment not result in decisions against introducing or uscd in conjunction with blocking and more than two years or both. CID funding the expansion of networking filtering technology. 0 a 'oramml 3)
'Empowering parents to control what their kids Article.One. Access over the Internet and-enabling creators to protect their intellectual property from copyright Congress shall make no law respecting an estab, infringement with technology under(their control lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer- it far preferable to criminalizing users or deputiz- -cise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech., ing information service providers as smut polire, or of press; or of the right of the peOple peaceably :to assemble; and to petition the Government for-a U.S. Senate Patrick Leahy (EY. Vermont) in an redress ofgrievances. Amendment entitled Censoribg Cyberspace in- troduced to the Senate March 30, 1995. LlS Bill of *Right.. 'http:i/www.house.goytConstitutlOVArnend.html
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Minors On The Net The Debate Continues
'onamwd.from page 12) References: able.html capability in schools and school districts or()Communications Decency Amend-Critiquing Acceptable Use Policies by may result in strict censorship of networked ment of 1995, S.314, Passed June 14,Dave Kinnaman at:http:// materials available to school learners. 1995 See:gopher://gopher.panix.com:www.gnn.com/gnn/meta/edu/features/ 70/0/vtw/exon/legislation/s314.final, orarchive/aup.html One of the real possible consequences of these search Thomas at http:// Bellingham, Washington School Dis- efforts to protect minors may be that the rights thomas.loc.ov/ trict Internet Policy http:// of young learners to to freely learn may beFor Press and Other Commentarywww.bham.wednet.edu/2313proc.htm violated and that only a few privileged youngAbout this bill see: Los Angeles Unified School District learners at home or in some schools will be AUP: http://lausd.k12.ca.us/aup.html able to enjoy the full benefits of Internet ac- Don't Tread On Me: Accountability and Self-Regulation in CyberSpace by Pe-Taft High School AUP http:// cess. ter F.Harter, 29 March 1995, NY198.189.0.232/ Times (http://www.nptn.oro,/cyber.serv/ Another possible consequence of this kind of Utah Education Network AUP: http: solon/ lic/exonessay.html) legislation is the numbers of minors accessing www.state.lib.utus uen.txt the Internet will decline or become flat as EFF Censorship-Pornography (ADavis CountyElectronic Information Megalndex of articles found at: http:// States decide against continued funding of Resources Contract: :http: www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Pornog- public KI2 educational networks or localities raphy/ 163.6.7.9 'contract.html dezide against spending more money of tech- EFF Communications Decency Act nology development. This may result in deci- O SurfWatch Home Page: http:I. (More arf:cles related to the Exonwww.surfwatch.com/ sions by network content producers, particu-Amendment and the CDA, See http:// larly those targeting the K-12 school popula-www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/Pornog-0 Cybersitter: http:;:www.pow- tion to move away from the Internet perhaps raphy/Comm_Decency_Acti) dist.co.uk/solidoakicyber.html into commercial networks. Entertainment A Letter from the Dept of Justice to publishers targeting kids at home will continue Senator Patrick Leahy Opposing Bill-o thel,INO: http: "www.thelinq.net to develop their materials and opportunitiesfound at http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/thel inq.html for quality learning may be diminshed. doj_leahy_cda_050395.letter O Robb Amendment No. 1271 (US Progressive Networks Page on theSenate-June 12, 1995) Congressional Ill. Conclusions CDA see: http://www.prognet.com/con-Record, Page:s"183 ((Related to: S. tentp/rabest/exonl.html 652, Telecommunications Competition In answer to the question, what do Jiminy Yahoo Index on CDA is found at: http:/and Deregulation Act of 1995 ) Cricket, Big Brother, Warning Labels, and /www.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/ Web Meltdowns have to do with equity andCensorship/Censorship_and_the_Net/OKidCode: Naming Conventions for Protecting Children on the World Wide quality learning on the Internet? everythingCommunications_Decency_Act/ Al! are now offered as ways to Web and Elsewhere on the World and nothing. O US Constitution found online at Wide Web. IETF, Network Working ina democratic society protect minors but http://lcweb2.foc.gov:8080/ const- Group,InternetDraft,D.New,N. Jiminy Cricket is truly the only hope and thequery.html Borenstein, June 1995. (ftp:// best guide and friend to minors, teachers, and ietf.cnri reston.va.us/internet-lrafts! OCoVis Acceptable Use Policy is parents.A good conscience is the best and draft-borenstein-kidcode-00.txt) found at: http://www covis.nwu edu/ fairest censor. AUP-archive/CoVis_AUP.html and OSafeSurf, Home Page at http:// http://www.covis.nwu.edu/Papers/Fish- The major challenge to parents and teachers is www.safesurf.com/index.html (See man&Pea1993 html also: http://www.safesurf.com/wavel to help young learners become conscientious time.htm, http://www safesurf.com students and users of new technologies. TheyFor some Other good AUP sites and lwave/sspress2.htm, http.// articles see: need to learn that all information is not good www.safesurf.com/wave/ssplan htm) and that some people are bad and beyond thatArmadillo gopher on AUP at. gopher:// ©Communications Decency Amend- they need to understand that we their parentsriceinfo.rice edu.1170111/More/Ac- ment of 1995, S.314, Passed June 14, and teackss trust them to make the rightceptable 1995) choices and to do what is right for themselves Armadillo WWW AUP page:http:// and for society as a whole. chico rice edu/armadillo/accept-
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MCI and Cisco Systems recently an- Students and teachers from individual The Global Schoolhouse/Global nounced they are sponsoring the Interna-schools, or group of schools such as aSchoolNet Foundation, will be coordi- tional Cyber Fair for Schools aspart ofschool district, will work together on anating many aspects of the International the upcoming online world's fair on thecommunity-based educationalprojectCyberFair for Schools. Internet, The Internet 1996 World Expo- and publish their information within the sition. The Cyber Fair is a demonstration Global Schoolhouse pavilion of the of how schools can share the knowledge Internet 1996 World Exposition. REqiSTRATiONINfORMATiON and skills of their teachers and students on world-w ide basis. The International Cy berFair will he a Registration for the International C) her- featured activity in theInternet 1996 Fair begins in No ember and closes on I3uilding on the global Internet platform, World Exposition, a world's fair for theJanuary 15. Schools will be able to reg- International CyberFair participants w ill information age. fhis world's fair w ill ister at the Global Schoolhouse pavilion effectively create curricular content for lastall of 1996 and already includeson the Internet 1996 World Exposition use by students around the world through participantsfrom over 25 countries. beginning next month. cooperation, mutuai discovery andcon- "This world's fair is building apublic tent creation. r,trticipating schools will he park for the global village," said CarlFollowing registration, from January asked to conduct aresearch project in- Malamud,secretary-generalof thethrough mid-April, schools will be able volving community resources and publish World Exposition. "One of our highestto sign-up for CyberFair activities and their project on the Internet's World Wide prioritiesis theGlobal Schoolhousework on their projects which are due Web Pavilion.We're delighted that MCI and April 15. Entries will be judged on pre- Cisco are joining with groups such as thesentation and content by participating The Internet1996 World Exposition, Kennedy Center in Washington and theschools and well- known Internet indus- modeled after the great world's fairs at the Tokyo Aquarium to make the Globaltry figures.Awards will be presented turn of the 20th century,will start on Schoolhouse a reality." live on the Internet in June 1996. January 1, 1996 and run the entire yvar. The International CyberFair , sponsored The International CyberFair for Schools o be placed on an electronic mailing by Cisco and MCI, will begin in January is patterned from a CyberFair that MCI list to receive CyberFair updates and for and run through June. and Cisco implemented earlier this yearmore details, school representatives can withtheAllen (Texas) Independent send an e-mail message to: BASic DESCRipTiON School District. More than 100 seventh and eighth grade students and 15 of their [email protected] The International Cy berFair for Schools, teachers from the Curtis Middle School participated in the cyberlearning experi- which is open to all K-12 schools on the In the main body of the message write: ment by creating their own sites on the Internet, is a demonstration of educational World Wide Web. According to Curtis electronic publishing and use of the Inter- subscribe cybevfair net's World Wide Web. "Share andprincipal Ted Moore, "Our students and teachers learned a lot on this project llnite"is the theme of the Cy berFair and @gsn.org. fromresearching their projects on the will encourage schools and their commu- nities to use the Internet to share re- information-laden Internet to learning and using Ily perText Markup Language sources, establish partnerships, and work In find out more information about the together to accomplish common goals. urnm)in creating some very interest-Internet 1996 World Exposition, Inter- ing and informative homepages on the netusers can point their browser to: Someexamples of projects are: docu- World Wide Web. It was a very valuable menting historical landmarks, showcasing http::/park.org/fair or send an e-mail to local specialties, and or involving local and worthwhile experience for all of us." lutherf&radio.com tourist attractions.
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0 THE RETURN OF THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER The Village Schoolmaster rEACf(ERS WHO FEEL gOOD ABOTAT THEMSELVES AND WHO SPEAK UP, SPEAKOur,SPEAK HoNESTLY, ANDSPEAK WISELY
Today, anybody with access to the Internet can celebrate an American Revivalthe Return BESIDE YON STRAGGUNG FENCE At a time when the experts on American education have THAT SKIRTS THE WAY. of the Village Schoolmaster. WITH BLOSSOMED FURZE declared the profession an endangered species,0 the American schoolteacher is making a UNPROFITABLY GAY, comeback. The pioneer networking teacher is leading their profession to assume a major role THERE, IN HIS NOISY MANSION. in the future global learning villages and virtual learning communities. For those of us who SKILLED TO RULE. believe we are who we are because we had a teacher who cared and made us care, this revival THE VILLAGE MASTER TAUGHT HIS brings more than nostalgia but also a hope for our children and all future generations of LITTLE SCHOOL. learners. However, to make this revival successful we need to understand the forces that have A MAN SEVERE HE WAS. AND STERN TO VIEW: shaped and continue to shape the destiny of the American schoolteacher. I KNEW HIM WELL. AND EVERY TRUANT KNEW, WELL HAD THE BODING TREMBLERS The Demise of the Village Schoolmaster LEARNED TO TRACE. THE DAY'S DISASTERS IN HIS In the 1700s, when the poet Oliver Goldsmith wrote his description of the Irish village MORNING FACE. FULL WELL THE BUSY WHISPER. CIRCUNG ROUND. schoolmaster in his famous poem The Deserted Village, the schoolteacher was viewed as a CONVEYED THE DISMAL TIDINGS genuine professional in the eyes of the villagers. He was perhaps not as revered to the degree WHEN HE FROWNED: Goldsmith suoaest but it is certain his position in the community was unimpeachable and that YEr HE WAS KIND. OR, IF SEVERE IN his expertise was acknowledged and his abilities respected by many if not most villagers.9 AUGHT. THE LOVE HE BORE TO LEARNING WAS IN FAULT. (Continued on page 2) THE VILLAGE ALL DECLARED HOW MUCH HE KNEW- TWAS CERTAIN HE COULD WRITE, AND CIPHER TOO; NSFNetworking Infrastructure for Education Grants 3 LANDS HE COULD MEASURE, TERMS AND TIDES PRESAGE. 4 AND E'EN THE STORY RAN THAT HE On Creating A Democratic Internet, Part Two, The N5FNET COULD GAUGE, IN ARGUING. TOO, THE PARSON !Life from the Hubble Space Telescope 7 OWNED HIS SKILL. FOR E'EN THOUGH VANGUISHED. HE 8 COULD ARGUE STILL. The Connected Learning CommunityBill Gates's Vision WHILE WORDS OF LEARNED LENGTH AND THUNDERING SOUND INFOBYTE5 13 AMAZED THE GAZING RUSTICS RANGED AROUND. 14 AND STILL THEY GAZED. AND STILL NTN Cybermall THE WONDER GREW THAT ONE SMALL HEAD COULD !CiscoSystems 's Virtual Schoolhouse Grant Program 1 6 CARRY ALL HE KNEW FromThe Oeserted Village
COPYRIGHT ©1995 No-TEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE Wm,. HERNDON, VA22071 2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 9?, (Continued from page )) dramatically, school teachers witness fewer and smaller raises. A recert study released by the American Federation of Teach- , In 1960; classrooth teachers made up nea. rly two- ers noted that the average teacher salary nationwide for the thirds of the full time_staff of American schools. 1994-1995 school year was $36,744, which represented an By 1991, classroom teachers barely made up half average annual increase of 2.7 percent, a rate slightly below of the full-time employees of American educk the rate of inflation tion; nonteaching staff..had risen from 25.2 per- cent of the total to 46.7.percent in three decades. At a time when other professions are set apart with special Between 1960. and 1980, local school districts privileges and perks, the schoolteachers are still denied even increased their spending on administration and the simple privilege of a telephone on their desk. Oand are 'other nonteaching functions by 107 percent after given the privilege of eating twenty minute brown bag lunches inflation--a rate almost twice the increase in per with little or no time to network, collaborate or converse with pupil instructional expenses.During the same other colleagues or professionals.In an age when other period, the proportion of money spent on teach- professions are encouraged to use the most advanced tech- ers' aries Pinelementary, and secondary nologies in their profession, teachers are given outdated or sch ols II from more than 56 percent to less second-hand technology for use in their classrooms by their than41 p rdent. . students and not for their own research, course development or
. . student assessments. 0 C arl.sJ. SykesDumbing Down Our Kids, pg.228 rn US.Department of Education, Although most professions have experienced some decline in Amedcan Edation: Making it Work, 1988 ) the levels of societal trust and respect due in part to the residue anti-authoritarianistr of the sixties, the school teaching profes- sion has endured the most dramatic loss of prestige. Even the In America, the Village Schoolmaster who taught in their youngest of students from a diversity of backgrounds and in one-room schoolhouses from the colonial days into the eigh- increasing numbers are displaying major disrespect and con- teen hundreds were for the most part learned scholars, well- tempt that never would have surfaced in the pre-1960s.. respected by their communities.Their authority over their Parents are also less trusting and willing to accept the actions students and the learning process was nearly absolute. They of teachers to the same degree that their parents were. Politi- were indeed the Masters of their school. cians and civic leaders are less supportive and less interested in teacher job satisfaction and more interested in student In America during the 1900s, the village school was trans- (Continued on page 10) formed into an education factory and the village schoolmaster intoaskilledlaborer. Somehow inthisprocess of "modernization" the school teacher became isolated and alien- EdKon,KathY RutkOwski ated from the community and increasingly his or her base of Contributing Editor: StephanM Stevenson power was eroded. A new stakeholder class, the professional NetTeach News educator, rose to power and the teacher fell out of sight, out of November 1995 heart, out of mind and silent. ISSN:1070 2954
Published len times a year.It is available in print. As the professional education bureaucracy grew in power and .and electronically on the-Internet. stature, more and more functions of the teacher were removed and eventually the teacher became a prisoner in his or her own Executivg, . Editorial, Circulation . and Advertising classroom, forced to teach under new controls and conditions Offices:jtetTeach News, 13102 Weather Vane Way, imposed from above and denied the ability to regularly interact Herndon, VA 22071-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703- and communicate with the community and with those making -, 471-0593. Internet: [email protected] the critical decisions on educational policies and programs. CopyriglA ©1995.by NetTeach News. All rights. ,reserved. FederalcopyrightlawprohibitS unauthorized reprodUction by any means and The Current Status of the American Teacher imposes fines up to $25,000 for violations.
The degradation of the profession of teaching continues. At a _PRINTED IN U.S.A. time when the salaries of other professionals continue to grow
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The National Science Foundation's Networking Infrastucture -r .ArE FD 12 ELI CP:1-1 CO HUMAN IRestntisecs for Education (N1E) Program is a joint effort between the Pr rams oCI-41.1l Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engi- OS faos.OLL.TIL ublications C Oftra neering (CISE) and the Directorate for Education and Human Couc^Tto.U wide mO4.0.0,10,C Resources (EHR). 1.,11 CCM . - C...... SI t CO40..., re, NW competitions were conducted during FYs 1994 and 1995. clans* art hems, In the FY 1995 competition, the NIE program awarded a total 00 RCrow. a of S14.5 million, while leveraging an additional $8.7 million Hu... 1.410/C1.-00.4C.I.--- in cost-sharing from awardee consortia. Another $9.7 million IsCAs.Atuo... A E R C 4.7101.8 4,14o was awarded in continuation grants and in collaboration with 1304.5 other NSF and federal proarams. Visit NSF's Directorate for Education and Human 1 Program Goals Resources Site At: http:llred.www.nsf.gov/
andcreativeactivitiesaimedat either The NIE Program, under the direction of Nora H. Sabel li, integrating educational applicationsinto supports the development of strategies for the appropriate use networking systems, or integrating network- of networking technology to enhance teacher professionaliza- ing applications into systemic reform ef- tion, student achievement, and school restructuring. It specifi- forts. cally seeks to: New Guidelines for 1996 establish testbeds,implementation models and prototypes thatexplore therole of electronic networks (the Internet and In the upcoming competition, NSF is encouraging others)in support of reformed education, proposals with innovative and proactive dissemina- or that demonstrate sustainable approaches to educational networking; tion plans, strong evaluation components to docu- ment the impact of technology on educational re- support theR&D neededfor large-scale, cost-effective implementation of educa- form, electronic libraries to house innovative mate- tionalnetworking, including infrastruc- rials, strong collaborative partnerships and that ture, policy, training, curriculum, re- form, school organization,tools, materi- demonstrate full integration with national systemic als, and mechanisms for technology trans- reform efforts. fer;
strengthencollaborationsbetweengroups The Size and Duration of A wards that aredeveloping services, technical assistanceand national connectivity and NIE plans to fund 3-5 awards yearly for each of the following the largereducational communities, such as states andschool districts . categories:
build cn existing technological infras- Policy Studies $25,000 to $100,000 per tructure in a manner that demonstrates year effectiveeducational reform and deploy- ment to awider community. 0 Research and Development $250,000 to $750,000 per year for 1 to 3 years
NIE also encourages planning grants to either: Demonstration and model sites $250,000 to $750,000 per year for 1 to ,_.stablish appropriate consortia and part- 3 years nerships, or Infrastructure and testbeds $500,000 to supplement!i existing awards for innovative (Continued on pop? 6)
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This is the second in a series of articles that will look at forces that have and are shaping the Internet.In NTN Volume 3, Number 4 we looked at how the US Department of Defense supported re- search that lead to the development of ARPANET and TCP/IP which became the core Internet Protocol. In this article we will look at the role the National Science Foundation has played in evolv- ing a network to support all researchers including most recently K12 learners .
Supporting Research Visualization study of inbound traffic measured in billions of bytes on the NSFNET T1 The National Science Foundation (NSF) backbone for September 1991. Source: Visualization Study of the NSFNET Sig- is an independent agency of the United graph '92, Web Site: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCMS/Diglib/text/technology/ States Government that was created in Visualization-Study-NSFNET-Cox.html 1950 with the mission and purpose: entitle fields and levels of scientific edu- operational by July 1988,transmitted To promote the progress of cation. Knowledge transference, infor- date at a rate of 1.5 megabits/second and science; to advance the na- mation dissemination, and connecting connected thirteen sites.. tional health, prosperity,and researchers and learners has been core welfare; to secure the na- By 1989, the T1 backbone circuits were tional defense . to its mission once again re-engineered to support an even faster rate of data transmission, The National Science Foundation Act of Building A Backbone Network 1950 gave the NSF the authority to initi- 1.544 Mbps. ate and support: In the mid-1980s, the National ScienceThis new backbone system supported a basic scientific research and re- Foundation (NSF) decided it needed a rapid cultural.migration of university re- backbone networktolinkitssix search fundamental to the engineer- searchers to the online communications nationally-funded supercomputing cen- ing process, and collaborations. Between July 1988 ters to one another as well as connect programs to strengthen scientific and July 1989, network traffic increased researchers from scattered cross the and engineering research potential, by an average of twenty percent per United States to the Supercomputing science and engineering education month.0and once again new capacity Centers. 0 The first network, which programs at all levels and in all the was needed. was built by the Cornell Theory Center various fields of science and engi- and the National Center for Supercom- neering, By 1990, the NSFnet emerged as the puting Applications (NCSA), consisted programs that provide a source of dominant backbone networkinthe of only 56 kilobits/second. (Kbps) lines. information for policy formulation, United States and the ARPANET, the and other activities to promote these network created by ARPA was phase, ends. 0 Almost instantly that backbone was in-out. 0 sufficient to handle the rapidly expand- ing volume of data traffic. In 1987, NSF From its inception the National Science In 1990, the Advanced Network Ser- decided to build an even faster and ex- Foundation has served to both support vices, Inc. (ANS) was created to build a panded NSFNET. It awarded a contract and lead American researchers in private T3 backbone as a not-for-profit corpora- to a IBM, MCI, and the Merit Corpora- and public institutions, and from all sci- (Continued on page 5) tion. This new T I backbone, which was
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The UT, A Network For learners tion by the the partners awarded the NSF During the 1990s, the the number of switch to which a number of contract in 1987, namely IBM, MCI, and networks can be connected NSFNET users, host machines, and the via routers for the purpose Merit Corporation. ANS completed its volume of traffic grew rapidly. NSFNET of traffic exchange and T3 (45 Mbps) backbone by December backbone traffic doubled annually from interoperation. 1992. At that time, all NSF backbone a terabyte per month in March 1991 to One ormore NAP Manager were connected to this new T3 backbone eighteen terabytes per month in Novem- organizations to arrange for and manage NAPS. arid NSFNET became a customer of ber 1994. (A terabyte representing a Routing Arbiter (RA) to ANS.NSFNET had emerged as the thousand billion bytes.) 0 provide for equitable predominant national research network. treatment of thevarious The Road to Privatization networkservice providers with regard to routing Mid-Level Regional Networks administration and will Although the NSF had directed con- provide for a common One of the most significant aspects of tributed to the development of the re- database of route informa- the NSF networking program was its tion to promote stability gional networks, it had made its inten- and manageabilityof the support of regional network develop- tions clear that the ultimate goal was that network. ment. These mid-level or intermediate these providers become self-sustaining VeryHighSpeedBackbone networks connected to the backbone within a reasonable period of time. Service Providers (vBNS) to NSFNET. 0 The mid-level service provide for high speed interconnection of NSF Su- providers were the primary means by In 1987,the first commercial access percomputing Centers; the which most universities and research company,UunetTechnologieswas development ofa national centers to access the NSFNET back- founded. In 1989, the California Educa- high performance computing bone. Their growth undoubtedly con- environment; applications tion and Research Network (Cerfnet) high tributed to the overall explosion in involving distributed was created as a result of a proposal by performancecomputing and NSFNET backbone traffic. From Au- General Atomics and the San Diego Su- isochronousvisualization; gust 1988 to November 1992, NSFNET percomputing Center to the NSF, and in and connection to the NSF- traffic grew from 195 million packets to the same year, Performance Systems In- specified NAPS.0 nearly 24 billion.0 ternational (PSI) was spun off from the New York Educational Research Net- On the evening of April 30, 1995, the A Network for R&D work. Uunet, PSINet and General NSFNET backbone was silently and un- Atomics created the Commercial Inter- ceremoniously decommissioned. A fully net Exchange or CIX. These companies commercial system of backbones has re- The NSFNET Backbone was created to were the first to provide commercial ac- placedthegovernmentsponsored support not-for-profit research. With cess to the national backbone.For the NSFNET. NSF continues to support the thatintent,the NSF established an connections of research and education "acceptable use" policy that restricted first time companies and eventually indi- viduals were able to access the same institutions to the Internet, new applica- the use of the Internet to non-commer- global resources as government- tions of networking tools, international cialactivities.0Domain names were sponsored university researchers. connectivity, and and continues to sup- only allocated to organizations that had a port research on high bandwidth connec- U.S. government agency as a sponsor. NAP Architecture nvity. For many universities researchers, ac- The Impact of NSFNET cess to the NSFNET became as much a In May 1993, NSF proposed a new net- prestige as a matter of survival. Univer- work architecture that would ultimately sities and researchers with access to the ease the transition to a privatized net- The NSF played a major role in evolving NSFNET gained advantageous in terms work. "he NSF proposed: a network r Zhitecture that could support of access to new global sources of infor- the growing needs of an informatized the esmblishment of a and online society. The NSF also helped mation as well as advantages in competi- number cf Network Access tion for government funding. Points(NAPS) defined as a (See NSFNET on page 6) high speed network or
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9 3 NSF HT (Cool) NSFs HIE Program ((min)
(Continued from page 3) Examples of 1995 Awardees: $1,500,000 per year for I to New Planning Grant--Claude McMillan 3 years. University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Fair- "T Planning Grants should not exceed onebanks North Star Borough School District- year and are expected to range from'Partners in Science-5253,250: to further $25,000 to $100,000 math and science learning through electronic networking in rural Alaskan school distrids, and among isolated horneschoolers. The pro- Further Information ject will link practicing scientists from higher education, government, and industry with Proposals should be prepared and submit-teachers and students, using the latest infor- ted in accordance with the guidelines pro- mation networking technology.The project will also creole a virtual classroom model to vided in the NSF brochure, Grants forsupport remoto professional development for Research and Educati in in Science and isolated and rural teachers. Engineering (GRESE), NSF 92-89, Octo- ber 1992Copies of the most currentStartup Grants SupplementsFerdi edition of this publication are available at SerimPrinceton Regional Schools, Princeton, no cost from N.J."Online Internet Institute"$177,157. to create a virtual infrastructure on the Inter- National Science Foundation net to provide leading Internet-using educa- Forms and Publications, Rm P15 tors, proponents of systemic reform, and 4201 Wilson Blvd. teachers desiring professional growth with Arlington, VA 22230 hands-on experiences that will enoble them to (703) 306-1130 integrate the Internet within their classrooms, pubs@nsf gov (Internet) and support their peers in doing the same pubs@nsf (Bitnet ) Multi-Year Awardees---lynn Churchill Reference Web Sites University of Montana"The Network Mon- Jti tana Project: Development of Rural Network- National Science Foundation ing InfrastructureIn Support of Systemic http://www.nsf.gov/ Change in Mathematics and Science Educo- tion."$2,520,000 over 36 months: to de- Networking Infrastructure for velop flexible, sustainable approaches to a Education (NIE) systemic educational network infrastructure http.//wwd.ehr.nsf.gcv/ERR' The project includes a wide range of partners RED/NIE/inaex.html who will develop a rural community network- ing model that infuses technology into ongo- NIE Program Guidelines ing systemic educational reform efforts http://www.ehr.nsf gov/EHP/ RED/NIE/guides.htrl Elliot SolowayUniversity of Michigan'A Digital Library for Middle Schools: Support. NIE Awards http-//www.ehr.nsf go: ingAuthentic ScienceInvestigaticns" RED/NIE/guides . htrrl $1,413,000 over 36 monthsto build the Middle Years Digital Library, which will pro- virle an Internet source for access to brood Division ofResearch, Evalua- tion, and Communication (REC, range of information resources, including tra- http://www.ehr.ns: .ov, EEF / ditional books, magazines, journals, data RED/Index.html sets, scientific instruments, computer-based re- search tools, and colloboration with peers *Irv_ Tne Directoratetor EJ.1.-_-at..,r. and mentors.The project will demonstrate and Haman Resources (EHR the viability of electronic libraries and the
(3114 http://www.ehr.not. role such librories will play in the reform of .;:7111414: newfrnt .mar)159,30 science education.
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On March 14, 1996 students all across America will partici- Following the Debate pate in a cyberspatial outer space event. Student "Virtual Co-Investigators" will watch as the Hubble Space Telescope In January through February 1996 the consensus plan will be (HST) performs astronomical observations which they them- selves have helped design along with America's foremost transformed into an operational blueprint.Students will be space researchers. On April 23, 1996 the raw data will be able to go online and monitor the planning process. published, on-camera and on-line, again as part of a live March 14, 1996 1:00-2:00 pm EasternLive from the Hubble national television broadcast, freely available over public tele- Space Telescope observations will take place, and be broad- vision and NASA-TV. cast in a live one-hour program Tuesday April 23, 1996 1:00-2:00 pm Eastern, the final Live from HST program will Through a special relationship with the Space Telescope Insti- report of the results of the student-suggested observations, and tute (STScl), which operates the Hubble Space Telescope for will invite live interaction by video, phone and e-mail between NASA and the European Space Agency, Passport to Knowl- the students and the astronomers. edge has been assiped 3 orbits of the Hubble Space Telescope for original observations to be researched, planned, executed and published as part of the Live from the Hubble Space ONLINE RESOURCES Telescope project. For further information about this project, send email to: Preparing for the Great Planet Debate [email protected] By December 15, 1995, a decision must be made about which planet the HST will observe during its three orbits for the In the message body write Passport to Knowledge allocation.Students are to participate in this decision. subscribe updates-hst
In March, when the HST will be performing the observations, The Web site is located at: 4 planetsJupiter,Uranus, Neptune, and Platowill be available targets for study.Students are now conducting on-line research on these four planets so that they can offer http://questarc.nasa.govilivefrom/hst.html their educated opinion as to which planet or planets would be The web contains additional background on the project, and the best target for the Hubble Telescope. The students are pointers to further print and on-line resources to help students investigating the planets using valuable online resources in- research the choices that face them. cluding web sites and online discussions with four of Amer- ica's most distinguished space scientists who are serving as If you would like to participate in the choice and "The Great "Planet Advocates". These scientists include: Professor RETA Planet Debate", send email to BEEBE of New Mexico State for Jupiter; Dr. MARC BUIE of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona for Pluto; Professor HEIDI HAMMELof MIT for Neptune, and Professor CAR- listmanager®questarc.nasa.gov OLYN PORCO of the University of Arizona for Uranus. In the main body of the message write: A final determination will be made by a group consisting of educators working with Passport to Knowledge, astronomers subscribe discuss-hst from STScl and student representatives communicating via the Internet. There will be detailed commentary by each "Planet Advocate" on the candidate planets, suggestions about what 3 orbits could study, explanations of what unique contribution HST can make, and on a more personal level -- why they themselves became astronomers.
COPYRIGHT 01995 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 95 The Connected learning Comity: On November 28, 1995, Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of activities. The new lines of communication between parents Microsoft Corporation, presented his vision of the Connected and teachers will help them to better work together in creating Learning Community to more than 700 national education the best possible environment for the child at school and at leaders and students who gathered at Georgetown University home. in Washington D.C. He described how advanced technology is being used to create exciting and engaging learning for all Connecting with the outside world offers new opportunities for ages of learners but especially for K-12 learners.He also all. Teachers can share their best practices, curriculum, pro- announced some new initiatives designed to help educators use jects, and mentor colleagues.Students can access global this new technology to create new schools of learning. resources and contact experts in all sorts of areas of interest.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Madeleine Kunin joined Gates showed an excellent short video that featured five gatesinthis forum hosted by The Reverend Leo J. schools exemplifying innovative uses of technology in educa- O'Donovan, President of Georgetown University. Kunin em- tion including: Blackstock Junior High School, Oxnard, CA; phasized the importance of technology in reaching the nation's Christopher Columbus School, Union City, N.J.; Sunman Ele- education goals. "Bringing the full fruits of new technologies mentary, Sunman, IN;and Thomas Jefferson Science and to our schools depends on expanding access to the information Technology Magnet High School in Fairfax County, VA. highway, developing better tools and educational software, This video showed students and their teachers at all grade and building new alliances with the private sector," Kunin levels using technology with purpose and excitement. said. "Technologies provides us with a new unique opportu- nity to improve teaching and learning. Above all, our nation Initiatives to Support Use of Technology in Educa- needs to do a much better job with technology training, tion including developing teachers' professional skills with these new tools." Gates declared Microsoft's commitment to help build this new learning community. Microsoft will focus on two key needs: The Connected Learning Community cr'facilitating three-way connections that bring together Gates believes that multimedia and networking technologies schools, homes and the world; are creating new opportunities for learning that will redefine learning as well as reshape the current structure of learning. In helping teachers fmd find value and rich educational this new environment, students will have access to the global content in the information available via the Internet. information through personal computers, and students, teach- ers, parents and the extended community will be connected The Microsoft Parent-Teacher Connection Server together. Microsoft is building a comprehensive set of software to Learners within schools will learn in a more engaged and facilitate home-school communications and simplify network interactive ni;..nner with the benefit of the new technology. administration for schools.The Microsoft Parent-Teacher The technology supports a more individualized approach to Connection Server, an extension to the Microsoft Windows learning and at the same time will allow the opportunities for NT Server, will be available free to schools in the Spring. the engaged iearner to share their knowledge with their class- Microsoft is working with Compaq Computer Corporation, mates and work together on collaborative projects. Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell Corporation to set up computer systems for the Microsoft Parent-Teacher Connection Server, Teachers will grow more important as they become facilitators and provide schools with network access, support and training. and coaches. They will be able to use the technology not only to offer students new ways of learning but also to maintain The Global SchoolNet Foundation Partnership student records and profiles. Gates announced a new partnership with The Global School- Parents connected to the schools will become more involved in Net Foundation to develop a virtual center for teachers on the their child's education as well as mor 'olved in the school (Continued on page 9) 41111i COPYRIGHT ©1995 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON. VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 96 NETPARTNEF3$i NETTEACH NEWS 9
A Vision for Technology hi Education
(Conanuedfrom page 8) 171 web.Microsoft and GSH will work with experts in key Eat 114110,111agligeg bar curriculum areas to develop critical resources areas, including a repository for lesson plans and classroom tools, a teacher LiSN's resource center with information standards, and a library of 4015ScHoolhouse. , -4, re,,:rcscdt innovative classroom projects. 4. 4, The Road Ahead Program for Schools
To demonstrate his personal commitment to education, Gates announced that the proceeds from the sale of his new book, Website Contents The Road Ahead, will fund school technology programs in 22 communities across the United States through the National
Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE). The i3T . two-year interdisciplinary initiative is designed to explore cnng e pacxf how new technologies can be used to enhance the learning process. NFIE will evaluate and document the results of these initiatives. A COrdencti.rh usc`u ret:Taces 0-c 'e . I the leart-nrg ttnrre-rt riere ^d c! the Cs' c ass,dcrmtestect ceas a -d lesscn p ar s ca,, -; O.O0Cf s of Libraries Online teaCtnng frdm planning and prepanrt3 c G;e:E-ro,-g --ta*.enar and mctr:d'ano students nrtegtatrg ps;,/ :nto the Classtxxn. g -wing anC geling feecback -eamIra p,! Microsoft and the American Library Association will t partner together in a one-year, $3 million initiative to research and develop innovative approaches for extend- ing information technologies to underserved popula- The Global Schoolhouse tions. http://www.gsn.org
Nine libraries will receive cash grants, staff training, computer hardware, Microsoft software and technical The newly revised Global Schoolhouse Web site is now divided into sections that follow support to address specific community needs. At the Bill Gates's vision of The Connected Learning end of the year, an advisory committee will evaluate the Community. projects and make recommendations forfuture strat- egy. The Website Contents are:
Further Information TeacherTeacher Section TeacherClassroom Section A copy of Bill Gates' address can be found on the Focus on TeacherCommunity Section ClassroomClassroom Section K-12 areainMicrosoft's Web home page, http:// ClassroomCommunity Section www.microsoft.com/k-12/vision CommunityCommunity Section For online information on Microsoft's K-12 13;-ograms: The site also contains the Internet Project Reg- http://www.microsoft.com/kI2 istry and information on the Global SchoolNet Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (Viking, New York, 1995, pp. Foundation 236 with a CD ROM,$29.95)
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(Continued from page 2) better without the benefit of their observation and knowledge. performance. Perhaps most revealing most critical commen- It has contributed to the mistrust of parents and the community tary and research on America's school system only tangential and ironically it has even at times allowed the bureaucracy to considers teachers 0 use the teacher as the scapegoat for meffective policies and poor management. The Silent Stoic Beyond ReproachOf Course Not The defrocked, defiled, defrauded and dumped upon Ameri- can teacher continue to do the best job they can in their stoic All of this is not to say that all teachers are saints and the silence, adapting new teaching methods tossed to them from teaching profession perfect. There are many excellent teachers above, adapting new technologies passed to them with little or and others who are just passing time and occupying a space. no training,displaying their expertise, their individuality, The teaching profession is no different in this respect than any their humor, their dignity and grace and their creativity to other profession.One of the necessary challenges of the those who matter mosttheir students. Somehow they toler- teaching profession is to establish a professional standard and ate the misdirected anger of parents, the lack of financial devise objective measures of accountability and success. incentive, the lack of managerial support and vision, and the disregard and contempt of their colleagues in the colleges and universities and sometimes even in their schools. Through it The High Cost of "Duncing" Our Teachers all, and in spite of it all, they continue to do what only they can do touch the future one child at a time. As a society, America is paying a price for the way it has treated its teachers and part of that price is the instability of our educational institutions and the ineffectiveness of much of the Ironically, to some degree, the teacher's sense of professional- educational reform efforts of the last several decades. One ism has contributed to the decline and dismissal of the teacher may argue that American students are declining or not declin- as a real stakeholder. The teacher has been willing to "get the ing but it is certain with the numerous reform efforts of the last job done" without disloyalty to the educational bureaucracy or several decades, the increasing numbers of books released disservice to their students and the community. They live in a criticizing the American public school system , and the serious world of stark economic and social reality where they can see erosion in public confidence that something is not working as firsthand the impact of sociey's priorities and policies on the well as it might. Clearly the system is in transition and quite next generation. They understand it could be better but also possibly in crisis. understand it could be worse and so they compromise and do the best they can with what they have to make it better for their students. Most are frustrated, overworked, tired and bewil- It would be speculative hindsight to suggest that America's dered by a complex educational system where politics rules schools might have evolved more smoothly had teachers had a more significant voice in the process but it is certain that the the day more often than common sense and academic sense. lack of teacher input has contributed to some policy failures and system inefficiencies.Teachers in the classroom have the Teachers have not as a group stood up, .spoke up, spoke out, benefit of seeing firsthand whether or not new teaching meth- spoke honestly, and spoke their minds and hearts to the public, ods are effective. They may not grasp the macro significance to the politicians, or to tile educationil bureaucrats. For the and be able to quantify trends but surely they can evaluate at most part they have simply z.ndurs,i and at times have turned the basic level what works and what doesn't with their learn- on each other before turning on the system that has se- ers. The more experienced teachers can begin to grasp intu- questered them. itively what works best with which kinds of students and what doesn't work. That silence has masked problems in the classroom and has masked the complexity of America's crisis in education. It has (Continued on page I I) allowed experts from the left, right and center to debate what is right or wrong in the classroom and how it can be made
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The Technology of liberation and Change
sional development. Many technology-using (Continuedfrom page 10) teachers report a renewed sense of profes- sionalism when theytake part insuch activities, especially since they have The Crisis in Teaching little time for face-to-face collegial activity outside the classroom. Telecommu- nications can provide a means to give and Sadly, many of the best and brightest of our teachers are receive support from colleagues and enable leaving the profession and many of our brightest would-be teachers to expand their knowledge in all teachers are turning to other professions.Teachers may now content areas.0 be on the lowest rung of the American professional education bureaucracy but in the classroom learning process, only the An earlier study concluded: teacher and learner count.If these trends continue, we will Networking alone cannot change the profession face a serious shortage of the very kinds of teachers we need to and culture of teaching, but it can open new bring stability to the institutions of learning and help structure windows of opportunity. Increased and regular new schools of learning. outside communication, greater and easier access to new information sources, and greater opportunities to publish and to participate in The Favorable Winds of Change professionaldiscussions can induce such change. Outside communication helps to aug- Fortunately, in recent years teachers have found a way to ment a practicing teacher's knowledge of new pedagogical developments, support direct com- break out from the prisons,f their classrooms, schools and munication withuniversity researchers and school systems. They broke out initially for the benefits of other practitioners, and increase his or her their students but are now finding that these technologies can self-confidence as a teaching professional and also help themselves and their profession grow. These teach- lifelong learner. e ers have seized upon the global networks and are working side-by-side with their students to apply these advanced tech- The Return of the Village Schoolmaster nologies to the learning process in remarkable ways that are beyond the imagination of even the designers of this technol- Their numbers are growing, their voices are louder now, their ogy. . confidence has gown, and they have become a force that will not be silenced or stopped. These networking classroom A recent OTA study concluded that: teachers like Stephanie Stevenson, Sally Laughon, and Mari- lyn Wall are presenting in professional networking confer- Qr Student enthusiasm fortechnology is a ences such as INET, the annual meeting of the Internet Soci- powerful incentive for teachers to use it. Teachers who are technology usei:soften ety, Tel-Ed, an Annual Meeting of the International Society for report that technology can make learning Technology in Education's Sig Tel group, and NECC, the more relevantto "real" life and more National Educational Computing Conference 0 and they are engaging and motivating to students. like Pam Burish, Mark Ahlness, Marjorie Duby publishing their work and their students' work on the wirld wide web for Qr Increased communication is one of the biggest changes technology offers classroom the entire world to see.0 They are also speaking out like teachers. Technology, particularly new Bonnie Bracey, a teacher who sits on an US Interagency Task telecommunications options,can transcend force on Networking, and Leni Donlan as moderators of walls of isolation that plague the profes- educational listservs, like Mary Ellen Verona establishing sion and allow teachers to converse with colleagues, the school office, experts in Virtual high schools,ED and like Ferdi Serim founding Online the field, parents, and others outside the Internet Institute's for teachers, D and in their noisy and boundaries of the school. active classrooms teachers like Alice Allnutt, April Phillips, Steve Gunter, Joyce Perkins, Jan Meizel, and Betsy Frederick air Teachers who are leader in telecommunica- are together with their students taking the first bold steps to tionsand other technologies aredemon- strating how technology can be a vehicle new worlds of learning. for continuing formal and informal profes- (Continued on page 12)
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(Continuedfrom page I I) There is an qften-expressed fear that technolog Building The Global Village School will replace leachers.I can say emphatically an unequivocally, IT WOAI;T.The information high- Networking teachers and their students are leading the way to a way won't, replace or devalue any of the human new system of learning that will be far different than the factory education91 talent needed for the challenges model of the 1900s and in some ways more like the Village ahead: ccimmitted teachers, creative administra- Schoolhouse of the earlier centuries to the degree that these tors, involved parents, and, of course, diligent stu- schools will work with the community and be part of it and not )(lents. However, technology will be pivitol in the Isolated from it.Already we are seeing the emergence of new 'ruture role of teachers. learning colonies that support new kinds of learning and in- struction. The I*EARN project has demonstrated that learners gill Gate's, The Rood Ahead, (New York, Viking, from from diverse cultural backgrounds and speaking different 1995)p. 1 El 5 languages can come together with their teachers to share expe- riences, build knowledge and work to solve significant prob- lems confronting the global village community.. 0 U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Teachers and Foca foca zool foca /OM roca Technology: Making the Connection, OTA-EHR-616 (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1995) pp. 49-50 REFERENCES: @Building Consensus/Building Models:A Networking Strategy for O Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Why American Chil- Change (Federation of American Research Networks, Inc. and Con- dren Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add (St. sortium for School Networking, March 1994; supported by NSF Martin's Press, New York, 1995) p.25 Grant No. RED-9254947) p. 13
(9 Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish poet who lived from 1728 to 1774. OINET'95, David Thomas and Stephanie Stevenson, The Internet and His more notable poems were The Vicar of Wakefield, The Travel( r, K-12 Mathematics and Science Reform, published in the INET'95 and The Deserted Village. A Treasury of Great Poems, English and Proceedings Volume 1(Internet Society, Reston, VA, 1995)pp.365- American (Simon and Shuster, New York, 1942) pp. 574-578 373; TEL ED'93: Sally Laughon and Jim Swanson, Oh! Telecommuni- cations: Projects That Produced Results and Why, published in Tel O Teachers' Salaries Rose 2.7 Percent, Washington Post, November Ed'93 Conference Proceedings (SEDL, Austin, TX, 1993) p. 259; 22, 1995, p. A7 NECC'94 Marilyn Wall, New Forms of Communication Are The Heart of the Revolution, Abstract published in NECC'94 Conference Pro- O Ronald E. Anderson, Computers in .American Schools 1992: An ceedings (ISTE, NECA, Eugene, OR, 1994) p.228.Many other Overview (IEA Computers in Education Study, Department of Sociol- practioners from the classroom participated in these conferences and ogy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993) pp.12- others, and their numbers are increasing. 27, pp. 45-54;U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Teacheh and Technology: Making the Connection, 01A-EHR-616 OSee Pam Burish(EakinSchool) http://www.tbr.state.tn.us/ (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1995) pp burishp/eakinhp.html;Mark Ahlness (Arbor Heights ES) http:// 1-2, pp. 89-118; Educational Technology Trends, Public Schools, www.halcyon.com/arborhts/arborhts.html;Marjorie Duby (Lee Ele- 1992-93 (Quality Education Data Inc, Denver, CO, 1992) mentary School) http://www.wentworth.com/classweb/BostonKid- Web.html OCharles J. Sykes's Dumbing Down Our Kids, Why America's CU- dren Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add ( IBMary Ellen Verona (Maryland Virtual High School) See: http:// 341 pp. New York; St. Martin's Press); Lewis Perelman, School's Out, goober.mbhs.edu/mvhs.html A hadical New Formula for the Revitalization of America's Educa- tional System. (368 pp. New York, Avon Books) Sykes and Perelman 43) Ferdi Serim (011) See http://prinn.prs.k12.nj.us:70/0/WWW/ are examples of expert critics who focus on the student and student 011/01Ihome.html needs, interests, and problems with only tangential references to ;he impact of the system on the teacher and the teacher-learner, teacher- e) Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers, Brave New Schools, Challeng- community relationship. ing Cultural !literacy Through Global Learning Networks (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995)
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Tre14;/[5:77-- 1 1 Li CHANGES AHEAD FOR operate autonomously and will identify project launched by Bell Atlantic and and match their volunteers to local pro- Children's Express. THE GEOMETRY FORUM jects according to interests, skills and school districts' priorities. Children'sExpressisanaward- The Geometry Forum is about to be- winning, national non-profit youth de- come the Math Forum. The Tech Corps build upon a program velopment organization that uses teen started in Massachusetts that has suc- journalism to give children a signifi- A new section will be added to web site cessfully completed pilot projects in cant voice through print, electronic, called Web-Based Units and Lessons. twelve communities and will expand and broadcast reports. It features a small but growing collec- this fall to 47 school districts represent- tion of resources created by Forum ing more than 60 communities. The new project, sponsored by the Bell participants and staff. These resources Atlantic Foundation, will establish offer substantive, hands-on materials The Tech Corps is incorporated as a eight interactive kiosks in the mid- for math classrooms. private, non-profit organization and Atlantic region that will serve as field is overseen by a board of directors news bureaus for Children's Express. The Math Forum will explore how web which includes professionals from technologies with helper applications the high tech, telecommunications and At these interactive sites, young people such as the Geometer's Sketchpad, Hy- education sectors. use computer links to "voice" their percard, HyperStudio, Mathematica, opinions to Children's Express re- and QuickTime movies - may revolu- For more information on the Tech porters.Sites at boys and girls clubs tionize the way mathematics is taught. Corps or to register for the Tech provide ekctronic mail for idea ex- Corps Chartering Conference, visit the changes and story suggestions.At The Forum home page can be found at organization's Internet World Wide community center sites, a computer http://forum.swarthmore.edu/. Web site at http://www.ustc.org. > screen asks a question to which young Contacts: people can respond by using a key- unard. Later this year, a video confer- WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES Tech Corps National Office ence roundtable discussion also will be Web Site: http://www.ustc.org held at one of the interactive sites. TECH CORPS Contacts: The Children's Express news service is The Tech Corps is a grassroots, volun- Karen Smith staffedwith reporters aged eighi teer organization designed to help (508) 620-7749 through13and editorsaged14 schools prepare students and teachers [email protected] through 18. Their stories and analyses for the 21st century by bringing the Gary Johnson of issues are syndicated to newspapers technical expertise of thousands of men [email protected] around the world. Young people using and women into America's schools. the new interactive sites will be ccm- municating directly with reporters and President BillClinton, challenging 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00.0 0 0 MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF editors at the Children's Express New Americans to help bring the power York and Washington central news bu- of computer technology into the class- EDUCATION CHANGES ITS WEB reaus. room,said,"This goal cannot be achieved by government fiat.It can The Michigan Department of Educa- The new interactive sites are located at only be met by communities, busi- tion has just posted it's second genera- theRockvilleLibraryandthe nesses, governments, teachers, parents tion of World Wide Web pages. RockvilleBoys andGirlsClub, and students joining together. A high- Rockville, Md.; the Wheaton Library, tech barn-raising." The NEW address is http:// Wheaton, Md.; the Silver Spring Boys www.mde.state.mi.us/>.If you don't andGirls Club, Silver Spring, Md.; Tech Corps volunteers will work with have WWW access their Gophtk is at the Bald Eagle Recreation Center, grade K-12 teachers and school admin- gopher://goplicr.mde.state.mi.us/ Washington, D.C.; and, the Winnet istrators in their local communities to South Philadelphia Community Cen- provide assistance with technology ter, Philadelphia, Pa. Other sites to be planning, technical support and advice, STUDENT NEWS BUREAUS developed include the R.W. Brown staff training, mentoring and classroom Young people in Washington, D.C., Community Center, Philadelphia, Pa.; instruction. Baltimore and Philadelphia can now and, the University of Maryland Medi- use electronic news bureaus to ex- cal Center-Teen Room, Baltimore, The national organization will provide change views on critical issues with Md. guidance and training for state chap- their peers worldwide, as the result of a ters.State Tech Corps chapters will
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St. Martin's Press Releases Brave New Schools, Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks
In a season when most of the newly-released books are painting a grim picture of America's education system and the school environment, Brave New Worlds: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks offering a real potential for positive evolution of schools into the New World of the Information Age. Brave New Schools offers a vision of how networking technolou can be used to engage learners in a way that not only makes them better learners but also better citizens of the globe. Jim Cummins, a Professor in the Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada and Dennis Sayers, Director and Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education in the Multilingual/Multicultural Studies Progarn at New York University have put together a book with a heart. mind, soul and destiny. If you are interested in educational reform that is more than a buzz word or a banner for some hidden political agenda, Brave New Worlds is the book you've been waiting for. (Jim Cummings and Dennis Sayers, Brave New Worlds, St. Martin's Press, New York:, 1995, pp.374, ISBN 0-312-12669-7, $23.95)
Math Projects In The Computer Age, Projects for Young Scientists by David A. Thomas
Professor Dave Thomas of Montana State University has written a book that is a must read for any high school teacher of mathematics or old student, like myself, who would like to revist mathematics in a new and exciting way. Dave introduces a wide variety of mathematical ideas and puzzles that provide students with the basis for an exciting and fun exploration of linear algebra, graph theory, projective geometry, fractal geometry, and umber theory. The graphics used in the book are defmitely worth viewing and were generated on supercomputers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Dave is an expert in using visualization tools and imagery analysis with young mathematicians and has pioneered the use of the Internet in teaching mathematics and science. (David Thomas, Math Projects In the Computer Age, Projects for Young Scientists, Franklin Watts, New York, 1995, pp.176, ISBN 0-531-11213-6)
BOXER TRIGONOMETRY An Interactive and Fun Way To Learn Trigonometry
Boxer Trigonometry is the first title in the Boxer Math Series, and augurs well for the future of Boxer and interactive mathematical study. This program is a hands-on, interactive tutorial designed to give students an intuitive and computational understanding of trigonometry. The Boxer interface is very user friendly and will entice even a technology-phobic adult to explore the complex world of trigonometry. The presentation of material is engaging and the learner is given some real world examples of application. The program is well thought out and provides the student with a comprehensive understanding of the material and nurtures problem solving skills. Boxer will complement the series with a Boxer Math area on one of the major online services and/or the Internet. Boxer Inc. is developing a similar program for geometry, algebra, and calculus.
For more information about the series contact: Boxer Inc. 100 2nd St NW Studio 10 Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA +1 804-977-4125, Fax +1 804-977-0736, E-Mail [email protected]
COPYRIGHT 01995 Ne-rTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 102 MARCH 1996 and Sponsoned by National Edu- FIRST CM FOR PATIO!! LI WFB KET'96 catio_nalAomputip9Agsaciation in cpoperafiof it t, o 4-6March.Midyest Educa- Y1OR1bO GOUhlEBSOUE1flober - 'Confer- MinRSot7 rersity, tion and 4 more ence.',13th- 16-19, 1996 *San Francisco, (A USA info 3 to: Cervantes, Amer- SiliSSI011 Aid 1,19% Lake ica's Cerife For Roa4n--- lle, erence r more i WebNet-96 - the first World Conference of the Web Soci-MN 5 St. ti Coord" . d, ety is an international conference, organized by the Associ- Louis, Mil,. :Y. -692- ation for theAdvancement of Computing in Education 4.,:ze i nter- 1250. (AACE). This annual con'Nenceserves as a multi- iety disciplinary forum for the dissemination of informationon 13-16t 7th the research, development, arid applications on all topics InterOilym related tote use, applications and societal and legal as- rence the S8:cle pects of the Web in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassingof the ntembrSocietr otusing on Tech042gy du- all modem tools to peruse the Internet. worldwide issues of Internet net- catioAmgen ore working will be held 25-28 June Tais conference is a must for all who plan to use the information write to: This Internet for informational, communicational or transactional 1996 in Montreal, Canada. SITE 96/AACE, P.O. Box 2966, conference brings together those ex- Charlottesville, VA 22902 applicationsor, who are currently running or planning to run servtis on the Internet. tending the reach and use of Internet USA, or call +1-804-973-3987, networks. Participants include those or FAX: +1-804-978-7449, or WebNet is the annual conference of the Web Society that developing and implementing Inter- send e-mail to: net networks, applications, and poli- AACEevirginia.edu. was founded in 1995out of a concern that an organisation addressing the application aspects of the Web and repre-cies for worldwide infrastructure de- senting a lobby for Web users independent of specificvelopment. The development of In- 17-20 March. ICTE'96 Tech- platforms and without the domination of commercial organi-ternet networks in an ever wider vari- nology and Communications: sations was needed. ety of social, cultural, economic and Catalyst for Educational linguistic contexts is also a focal Change. WebNet-961AACE point of this conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.ICTE is an P.O. Box 2966 international conference. Delegates Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA The INET96 Conference will also be from over forty countries, and from E-mail: [email protected]; 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978- preceded by a tentative two day pro- many different positions in the world of7449; http://aace.virginia.edu/aace grambringingtogetheractive education and training willattend. Kindergarten thru Secondary School More than half of those attending will Internet innovators from around the maker5onrso4prgs.entation and MAY 1996 world to share experiences and learn thoseg:preidiriiieatieri44be pub-2-4 May. 1966 10th AnnualVSTE new advanced tools and collabora- oceeclings. lished", Technology Conference tion techniques. The swito eightHotel Roanoke and ConferenceCenter, ; Roanoke, Virginia. May 2 will be a full-day For triforM4tibti, ues- gress in aspe of hands-on workshops and May 3rd and 4th tionsV360#.) Sec- techn includ- will be general sessions geared towards educa- ondaly. ease rj'e infor- ing e tors who work in the classroom and adminis- send rg matio on andtrators who work with those educators.For train 4 ons ardmore information con- privatt . orma- tact:[email protected] or call +1 804- tion: 320-3424 ICTE JUNE 1996 Post OffidarBoX-195349-- Int UTA Station tari Arlington, TX 76019-0001 USA 11-13 June. NECC'96, Call of the 1202 Telephone: +1-817-534-1220; I North St. n. Fax:+1-817-534-0096; Minneapolis Convention Center,Min- Reston VA 22091USA E-mail: icteeicte.org; neapolis, MN. Hosted by Technology and URL: http://www.isoc.org/ World Wide Web: http:// Information Educational Services (TIES) conferences/inet96/ www.onramp.netP-icte
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1 03 Cisco Announces Toe Virtual Schoolhouse Grant Program
In late October, Cisco Systems, Inc. announced the Virtual Demonstrate an understanding of the technology infras- Schoolhouse Grant Program which is designed to help schools tructure needed to achieve their technology visions and nationwide connect to the Internet.Each year, Cisco will implement their plan. award products, service and training to selected single-site, Demonstrate a personnel and financial commitment to K-12 schools for curriculum-based Internet connections.. developing this infrastructure, including adequate funding to cover expenses for all non-Cisco equipment and ser- "The need for networing in schools today is a fundamental part of the educational infrastructure, just like good lighting vices required to establishing an Internet connection for at and adequate facilities. As information on the Internet grows least two years. each month, resources for use in public schools have increased phenomenally," said John Morvidge, chairman of the board Applications must be received by March 1, 1996 to be consid- of Cisco Systems. "The Virtual Schoolhouse Grant is devised ered for the 1996 awards. The Awards will be announced at to expedite the implementation and support of networks in the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in educational institutions." June.
Grants are to be used for curriculum,-based applications such Interested schools Can obtain an application by calling Cisco's as Internet access and in-classroom learning. Selected schools educational hotline at +1 (408) 526-4226 or sending e-mail to will receive eapproximately $10,000 in router products, ser- [email protected]. Applicants with Web access can head vice,and training. A total of $500,000 will be allocated to: http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/cisco/grant.html and can down- annually to this grant progam. load a grant application and brochure in various versions including Word 5.0 for Mac, in HTML and in ASCII text.
Preference will be given to single-site schools that: Cisco Systems is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks, including routers, :LAN and ATM switches, dial-up Have developed a clear, well-articulated technology plan access servers and network management software. for using the products and services for curriculum-based applications.
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he Age of Interactivity is dawning, spawned by the rapid proliferation of intercon- nected global computer networks and the development of computer software that supports interactivity and virtual collaborations, the most powerful being the JAVA The Gutenberg Bible programming language 0 This new technology is transforming the structure of school, the Sourcc-htcp //www glared" corn/ composition and character of classrooms, the role of teacher and the nature of learning across %lost/gutcl /gutc I Jan die alobeThe Interactive School is emerging and challenging the paradigm of the "traditional" school of the Post-Modern era '(1 e.nateaiiruptryrcpCacc. Ourime-lionolif and- srou-- In the Interactive School teaching is "hot" and learning is "hotter". Gone is the teacher to- 01( ot- communi- lecturer reciting from tried and true classroom lecture notes, replaced by the teacher mentor cation and :n!ciaCtion
I and collaborator/publisher. The New Teacher is not the fountain of all knowledge but a guide modcs L fiacc in Sig-- to lifelong learningGone is passive learning rote memorization, repetition, drill and tuncatzt sulmdierzte learning through unconnected and unreal work problems, replaced by learning by doing, by itn;',,sed 6v trial and error, by experimentation, and learning in a real world context. natuic. in If,:pocess aitcnng Our ?el toI imc, space, The New "learning" classrooms buzz with an electrical energy, not just the hum of machines and to ca,-/-1 c liace but also the noise of excited and engaged voices. Instead of the squeak of chalk against a Sam bcdIII a33,:sst fie chalkboard, one can hear the rapid pounding of keyboards, the clicking of mouses, and the - ?.z u.,/,11 ma- (Continued on page 3) Irons )2,:tiill lyi:c (1011, gehcid.tit INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2 The Fate of Wisdom In the Electronic Age , _ The Resource.s for Science Education Program 4 '9)4 .
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Infobytes 14 DIGITAL BOOKS The Global Kiosk 1 5 Source:http://www.yale.eduf
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The fate of isdom inanEle ionic Age - In The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Elec- computer networks to chronicle and write down family histo- tronic Age, (Fawcett Columbine, 1994) the author Sven Birk- ries. Many children are using computer networks to ask senior erts voices the concerns of many raised in the pre-Digital Age citizens questions about what life was like when they were In observing students in his college literature course taught dur- young Many college students and their parents are using ing the fall of 1992, he noted: computer networks to maintain a daily communication when separated by physical distance. that they were not, with few exceptions, readers never had been; that they had alwcrys occupied We need to recognize and research the physiological and themselves with music, TV, and videos; that they psychological changes that constant exposure to electronic had difficulty slowing down enough to concentrate medium may bring about, particularly in young learners.It is on prose of any density; that they had problems important to provide young learners with opportunities to read with what they thought of as archaic diction, with with depth, use paints and chalk, skip rope, sing songs, and to allusions, with vocabularythatseemed socialize and learn in conventional ways but itis equall) 'pretentious '; that they were especially uncomfort- important to learn how to use new technology innovatively not able with indirect or interior passages, indeed just to supplement old ways of learning and interacting but also with any deviations from straight plot; and that to create new ways of learning and interacting. they were put off by ironic tone because it flaunted superiority and made them feel that they were Wisdom is not solely a by-product of reading. Surely before missing something. Gutenberg, people were wise. Wisdom is, however, the desire to find truth, and that search must bridge generations and historical periods.It is important that as we embark upon this new technological age we continue to keep alive the aspira- Birkerts considers this period a watershed wherein "one way oftions, thoughts, and even the frustrations of those who came processing information is yielding to another" and where before us. Through communication, cooperation, and collabo- "vertical consciousness" or wisdom is yielding to "managingration, we can gain wisdom and continue to promote our information". His major concern is that by losing the ability tocommon heritage and our humanity. "read" with depth , we are losing our ability to connect with previous generations and transmit cultural values and experi- ences. Editoe: Kathy Rutkowski Contributing Editor:Stephanie Steve' Birkerts' observations and fears are significant and worthy of the attention of anyone interested in teaching, learning, and NetTeach News transmitting culture.It is widely observed that students raised in December 1995 ISSNO 070 2954 the electronic world are less inclined to read long and ponderous
text, their attention spans appear slighter than previous genera- published ten times a year It t tions, and they seem to be more oriented to the visual and and electronically on the inter', t auditory. Many are worried that books, newspapers, magazines, and even traditional penmanship will disappear, replaced by Executive. Editorial.Circu,oti, 11 1 electronic books, zines and signatures. Offices. NetTeach News 131C,2 I., otti. Herndon. VA'22071 2944 USA T. , 471-0593Internetnettuach It is premature, however, to declare this the Age of Unwisdom and the period when books disappeared.It is clear that elec- Copyright 1995 by NetTeach tronic medium are impacting on the way humans process infor- reserved Federal cop,r1;iht mation but in many ways the electronic medium is restoring unauthorized reproductionby on, ancient traditions of story-telling, reviving ancient languages imposes fines up to S25 000 for u ?., such as the Celtic language, and bringing generations closer PRINTED INU S A together rather than further apart.Many families are now scanning in old photographs of deceased relatives and using
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The Co-NECT school design was . (Continued from page I) developed at Bolt Beranek and electronic voices of the computer nar- Newman, Inc. (BBN) with funding rators. Where once students sat at from the New American Schools their desks in orderly rows listening to, Development Corporation. The and watching their teacher in the front Co-NECT model integrates five of the classroom, now groups of stu- key concepts: dents and teachers huddle together around computer workstations, smil- in:: into cameras mounted on their school-based design computer monitors, asking questions performance assessment of Nobel Prize winnine scientists and arproject-based learning other experts from all disciplines, and a strong professional commu- sharing their oriainal ideas and work nity with the world. cIr use of the best available tech- nologye 4
The Co-NECT school design is a comprehensive frameworkfor whole school restructuring. Central to the design is develop- Schools for the Interactive Age: ing an environment that empowers all members of the school community (students, teachers, administrators, parents, and Co-NECT Schools business and other community leaders) in a way that ensures academic success and excellence for all children.
Other schools and school districts around the country are ktrr also evolving themselves into new places of learning and teaching. The common elements are:
strong community involvement that involve new part- nerships between teachers, parents, students, adminis- 7 trators, and corporate and community leaders; f clear and defined purposes for technology in instruc- t ion, learning, management, and community communi- cations; greater stress on performance-based assessments innovative classroom designs such as multi-age, multi- The Connect Exchange grade learning teams and projects, flex scheduling; Source: http://co-nect.bbn.corn/ interdisciplinary, hands-on, project-based learning ex- periences; The time has come to create a new generation of American schools strong support for teacher training and professional We need schools that are safe, challenging, and intellectually stimu- development lating for all children.We need schools that give every student a chance to learn to cad and write, get comfortable with technology, make connections between academic Imowledge and real-life prob- New Classrooms lems. and learn to work responsibly and productively with people who are different in respect to age, gender, race, and ethnicity. 0 Larry Mitchell is a teacher in America's "Last Frontier", Alaska. He is also an educational pioneer teaching a multi- In 1992, The Accelerated Learning Laboratory (A.L.L.) in age K-3 classroom at the Anderson Elementary School, Worcester, Massachusetts was designated the first Co-NECT located on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Larry's students School in the nation. There are currently eighteen Co-NECT are heterogeneously mixed with some consideration to bal- schools from eight districts. These schools are pioneering new ance classrooms academically and based on gender.0 designs and ways of teaching , learning., and managing educa- (Continued on page 6) tion.
COPYRIGHT ©1995 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 107 Theesouffesfor Sdeme Education Proom The Resource for Science Education (RSE) Program brings visiting educators to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to interact with staff and scientists. This Program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation under the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, is pioneering how the Internet can be used to promote engaged and interactive learning and empowered teaching. The main objectives of the program are to: eAndiThere a- build collaborations between researchers and classroom WeatherHereandThere is an integrated learners and teachers, weather unit which incorporates interaction empower teachers by supporting their innovative uses of with theInternet and hands-on collabora- new information technologies in the classroom tive, problem solving activities forstu- dents in grades four through six. The unit is divided into six lessons. The lessons Classroom teachers from elementary, middle and high schools provide a multidisciplinary approach to the are working with NCSA staff and scientists to create new online study of weather. Students learn to observe curriculum designed for K-12 learners and their teachers. The weatherphenomena, plotweather, forecast weather, and broadcast projects encourage hands-on, interactive learning by providing a technology-based multidisciplinary study of a variety of subjects This unit was created by Brenda L. Foster, a including The Arthurian Legends, Mathematical Pi, Weather, teacher at Dr. HowardElementary School, and Dynamic Modeling. Evelyn Walton, a teacher at Wiley Elementary School, and Deborah S.H. Foertsch, a teacher at the Carrie Busey Elementary School. These projects provide an excellent starting point for K-I 2 educators interested in learning how.to build unique web-based Source:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ teaching and learning environments. RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html
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One of the most interesting projects for The Pi Mathematics isa multidisciplinary all teachers interested in utilizing net- project which focuses on the concept of pi. working resources is Designing Resource- It was designed by educators Georgette Based Projects that Use the Internet. This Moore, Yankee Ridge Elementary School and project was created by media specialist, Betty A. Ganas, St. Pius X School for Theresa H. Michelson of Urbana High School. students in grades five through eight. It provides a framework for teachers of Through various interactive exercises stu- students in grades six through twelve to dents explore the concept of pi and learn workwithlibrary media specialists to how to use measurement, report data, apply design forstudents resource-based pro- formulas, and problem solve. jects that use the Internet. Source:http://www.ncsa.uluc.edu:80/edu/RSE/ Source:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/ RSEorange.html RSEvIolet/RSEviolet.html
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The Good News Bears Stock Market Project is an interdisciplinary project specifi- cally designed for middle school students High School Teachers Elaine L. Wetbrook, and teachers. Carol A.Engelmann,and David M. Stone have put together a web site designed for Theprojectprovides students withthe secondary science and math educators opportunity to track and manage their own interestedin integrating Web-based re- portfolio of stocks. Teachers are pro- sources into their curriculum. Web vided with lessons and warm-up discussion resources dealing with biology, chem- topics designed to help students under- istry, computer science,earth science, stand the stock market and its relevance. physics and mathematics arelisted and evaluated based on cost, student engage- Source: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ ment, and National Standards. RSE/RSEyellow/ghb.html
Some of the resources evaluated include:
The DMS Model allows manipulation of eight factors regulating oceanic food web.
The Heart Preview Gallery allows the user to take a standard heart/circulatory sys- tem tour. This resource serves as an ex- cellent foundation for middle school and Introductory Biology students.
Stella II (Systems Thinking in an Experi- mental Learning Lab with Animation) is a The Arthurian Legends project was de- powerful and flexible program for build- signed to provide secondary students with ing models of dynamic systems and pro- Web-based resources for the multi- cesses. disciplinary study of Arthurian legends.
NESP Wireman (National Education Super- Student Resource Pages (SRPs) are de- computing Program) provides a unique re- signed to allow students to share their source for teachers and students in ele- and expand their existing knowledge of mentary, junior high, high school, and Arthurian legend and Medieval Times and community college. to provide students with the opportunity to practice using web resources. Source: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ RSE/RSEindigo/modelhomepage.html The site was conceptualized and developed by Katherine Eisenhower, a teacher at the Hylton High School in Woodridge, VA.
Source: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ RSE/RSEblue/arthur/artidu.html
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Third, Fourth and Fifth graders at the Barnett Shoals School in southeastern Georgia spend 45 minutes a day 4 days a week working jobs in the Micro Society Students run a Post Office, a newspaper and a Bargain Barn, and get paid between $90 and $100 a week. Their money is saved in bank accounts and they are asked to pay taxes and tuition.0 At the Chico Junior High School in Chico, California, students work in an $8000 tv bioadeast studio The class of twenty-four students is di- vided into two teams of 12 members each Students come into the studio at 7-15 on their team's broadcast day and tape a broadcast that is transmitted to the whole school via closed circuit tv.During that day they spend their class period putting together the program for their next broadcastStu- dents work cameras, sound equipment, edit tapes, mix videos and write the scripts 0 - The characteristics of a classroom are changinoThe tradi- tional classroom with rows of desks and students grouped - - - - -11 based on age and ability is evolving into a classroom that B. sometimes looks more like a scientific laboratory, broadcast is .6 studio, or think tankStudents of varying ages, abilities, S. - . grades, interests and even from diverse geographic locations
and cultures are collaboratively working together on an amaz- . 4 ina range of interdisciplinary projects.Students are using technology to collaborate and communicateacross vast dis- . tances and are also using tethnology to create their unique knowledge productsHowever, students are also exploring their world through role-playing, field trips and field research activities, and through school-wide and community-wide ac- tivities that promote an active student involvement in deci- sionmaking, management, and communications. The Role of Teacher Project-based learning requires more flexible scheduling than permitted in the traditional classroom.Block or modular In an interactive classroom, the role of a teacher changed from scheduling affords the opportunity to allocate more time for activities that require longer and concentrated periods ofthe traditional "giver of knowledge" to that of a guide, co- research, exploration, or production. Project-based learning is learner and learning architect.The demands are greater on a often optimized through heterogeneous groupings, with teams teacher in a new interactive school and classroom as they are on of students and teachers with varying interests and abilities the students, but generally the teachers in these environments working together on a given project. receive more school and community recognition for their efforts and achieve a higher degree of job satisfaction. In general, intera.tive classrooms are:
Qr more heterogeneous in composition, The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVIS) CO based on flex scheduling; project, is pioneering how to improve science education for LIP interdisciplinary and project-based; middle and high school-age learners, employing a broad range collaboratory in nature, involving new collaborations be- of communication and collaboration technologies. There are a tween students, between students and teachers, and be- number of key guiding principles recommended to CoVIS tween students and between students and researchers and educators including: experts from universities, government agencies, corpora- tions, and non-profit organizations such as museums and a-Learn science by doing science; research foundations. Invite and nurture open-ended questions (Continued on page 7)
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Foster refinement of questions in reflective discussions; schedules, and more "free" or "non-classroom" time that can' secure respect and value for the diversity of learner's be devoted to professional development, mentoring and re- questions; search and development of project designs. provide multiple representations as diverse and flexible means for asking and answering questions; teach inquiry by modeling inquiry; Learning Interactively support progress in learning by seeding it with the use of Each child is unique, the child learns through interacting with his powerful ideas; environment: each child shozdd and can become an independent, (0- reflect these principles in the assessment of student activi- resourceful and creative thinker: a love of learning is basic to ties.0 continuous learning: and true education is a process, not a product. (Baker Demonstration School, Evanston, Illinois, Philosophy,http:// These guiding principles, with some modification, can apply to nIu.nl.edu/Uthu/nlutbaker.html)0 other disciplines as well, and underscore a new pedagogy that clearly involves a greater level of engagement by the teacher as Interactive learning is personalized, generative, collaboratory, well as the students. multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary, dynamic, empower- ing, and compelling.The interactive learner communicates Teachers that are directing students in the use of new technolo- and collaborates with people from around the world, explores gies are anything but pass:ye teachers. The best projects are the real and virtual worlds, and computer programs to explore those that are carefully crafted by students. teachers, and other and investigate new information and knowledge sets, scale adult mentors. Teachers can model good uses of technology as upon prior knowledge, create new knowledge and produce well as design projects that integrate well with core curriculum unique and original creative works. The learner is primarily and scale upon the prior knowledge of their students. self-motivated and capable of some degree of self-evaluation This kind of pedagogy requires more time for planning, assess- and assessment. ment and mentoring on a one-to-one, or team basis as well as requires more opportunities for professional development and Interactive learning is optimized by collaboration with teach- collaboration. This kind of teaching is highly demanding and ers, parents, other adults, and other learners. Collaboration is is optimized by reasonable class sizes, less rigid classroom facilitated via e-mail, real-time video conferencing, collabora- tory notebooks, shared computer screens, project webs, chats, discussion groups, and muds and moos.Learners work to- gether to research subjects of mutual interest and to compile and present the results of their research to one another and others with an interest in the subject of inquiry.
The key to successful interactive learning is empowerment. If a learner feels a sense of ownership over the learning design and process, the learner will generally be more self-motivated and driven. The empowered learner is more willing to expand their knowledge base and work with teachers and other adult mentors in order to accomplish a task or complete a project, and indeed often feels compelled to reach to new self-standards of excellence. 0510031,0 C.031003t0 C.9310031,0 (M-40M) MO References: OFor information on Java scc: http://java.sun.com/ 0Co-NECT Home Pagc. http://co-ncct.bbn.com/WW"fco-ncct.html 0Co-NECT School Design, http://co-ncct.bbn.comb, WW/whatis/ about_co-nect.html#s_design 0 Mulitagc Classrooms, hrtp://www2morthstarl I 2.ak.us/schools/and/ . . pro/magc/mukiagc.html 0Miero Socicty. http://bob.coc.uga.cdu/bbiddlc/bshoals/micro.html 0 Chico Jr. High. Broadcast Studio. http://www.chicojr. chico.k I 2.ea.us/tech/bs.html 0C0VIS Guiding Principks. http://www.covis.nwu.cdu/Gcosacnccs/ philosophy/prinaplcs.html ()Baker Philosophy, http://nitinl.cdti/bthu/nlit/bakcrphil.html
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ontinued from page 81 it FileEdit Coomectieo Participants 1154 1 X Mere at MOM burrrIPInuf Buckman DIM Applications of Cu-SeeMe Technology 1:1 in Classrooms r OWN° The Global Schoolhouse classrooms demonstrated that Cu- OD Posh0 to Tote- SeeMe technology could be used to nurture and support 91 collaborations between students, between students and ex- perts, and between teachers and experts. Real-time videocon- ferencing provides learners with the opportunity to meet and A interact with people around the globe in an exciting and IEl Sendi 1 dyanmic manner kg Ilec Id 0 torten The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVIS) Project Classrooms are also exploring new ways to use Cu- .' SeeMe On a weekly basis, CoVIS students are able to participate in interactive weather briefings using Cu-SeeMe " and/or QuickTime Video Conferencing (QTC), a software that combines a video conferencing capability with the screen- sharing of Tm buktu into a single.software packageAtmo- Other schools are finding their own unique ways to use this spheric scienti its from the University of Illinois conduct these resource: to conduct online research, online interviews, share weather briefir es, :conveying to students critical information and present data, research, and creative works such as joint and discussing these concepts with the students musical compositions and art exhibitions, explore remote places and meet telementors and new collaborators. CoVIS students are also able to go on virtual field trips to the Exploratorium in San Francisco via CU-SeeMe technology The students are able to interact in real time with scientists at Future of Video Conferencing the Exploratorium who demonstrate and discuss an assortment For K12 Learners of topics The technology is evolving and growing both more reliable and more powerful. This software development is coinciding with SchoolHouse2/ E Thomas ro NBC the general evolution and democratisation of the Internet which augurs well for a more extensive use of the capability by K-12 schools and learners Video conferencing is just one more powerful tool that teachers and learners can use to enhance the learning experience and achieve a new global reach.
Additional Information on Cu-SeeMe
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. Michael Sattler's Cu See-Me Page at:http://www.indstate.edu/ msattler/sci-tech/comp/CU-SeeMe/index.html
White Pine Home Page at:http://www.wpine.com/cu- seeme.html
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Mathematics isessentially a process of thinking that involves research and analysis, engineer- building and applying abstract, ing, design, economic and stock logically-connected networks of market analysis, and other social ideasThese Ideas often arise science research and analysis in- from the need to solve problems volving complex and dynamic in science, technology, and ev- data sets. eryday lifeproblems ranging from how to model certain as- Other technologies such as col- pects of a complex scientific laboratory notebooks and web problem to how to balance a pages are supporting mathemati- 9 cal study byopening up new checkbook(Benchmarks for kinds of collaboration, commu- Science Literacy, American As- nication, end curriculum. Stu- sociation for the Advancement dents are able to participate in of Science, Oxford University globalmathematics competi- Press,993, p 209) tions, and are involved in the creation of web pages that pose Mathematics has always played significant mathematics chal- an integral role in human civi- lenges to other learners around lization.Mathematics applied the globe created the pyramids in Egypt, the States and worldwide. The Curriculum Gutenberg press, the electric generator, and Evaluation Standards for School the artificial lung, Beethoven's Ninth Mathematics or NCTM standards have The New Interactwe Math Symphony and the choreography in become the guiding principles for a new Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story approach to mathematical learning that The study of mathematics has become promotes both knowledge and practice. highly interactive Learners are using (See World Wide Web- http://enc org/ Every day each and every one of us e-mail, listservs, web pages, visualiza- applies mathematical principles to some online/NCTM/280dtocl html) degree whether we are musicians, poets, tion and simulation technologies to ex- plore simple and profound mathematic .,..cramblers, accountants or mathemati- Technology and Mathematics cians. Our world is a world of numbers, principlesinengaging and exciting patterns, relationships, and complex and Education ways. What follows is a sample of some chaotic systems dynamically interacting of the places and software available via and evolving in a time continuum: Technology has played an increasingly the Internet for the study of mathematics. important role in the study and evolu- Mathematics Instruction tion of mathematics. The technology of measurement and the technology of MathMagic Few adults recognize that mathematics computation, and now the technology of is truly an aesthetic art because often visualization and modelling are pushing MathMagic is a K-I2 telecommunica- their first encounter with mathematics the frontiers of mathematical inquiry. tions project developed by educator was through repetitious drills, totally Alan Hodson of El Paso, Texas. Chal- abstract problem-solving with no con- Today, students of mathematics can em- lenges are posted in four categories (K- nection to real world problems, and bark on mathematic adventures that 3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12). Each registered long and difficult tests, demanding re- were beyond the wildest dreams of most team of students works with a Net Team call of esoteric equations and terms. mathematicians just a generation ago. Partner which can be either local, state, A new generation of scientific visual- national or international. The teams dis- The teaching of mathematics is chang- ization tools is now supporting student cuss solutions and ultimately offer one ing, and today young learners in ele- inquiry into significant mathematical solution that is posted. mentary school work with manipula- and scientific problems. Even elemen- tives, quilts, and twenty-four game chal- tary age students are able to use com- The Internet is used to post the chal- lenges to acquire mathematical under- plex data sets to analyze weather, cli- lenges, carry on the team discussions, standing in an exciting and engaging mate, the movement of the planets, and and post the answers. manner. The National Council of geologic activity on the earth and on Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has distant planets in our solar system. The MathMagic home page is located at: played a critical role in the reform of They are learning to apply mathematics mathematics education in the United in real world contexts such.as scientific (Continued on page I I)
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Ask Dr Math Elementary, middle and high school stu- dents L.an submit mathematic questions to Dr Math. Swarthmore College math stu- dents are responsible for personally an- swering these queries The questions andthe answers are archives at the Dr Math Web site, see http://forum swarthmore edu/dr math/dr- math html The Geometry Forum
The Geometry Forum, an NSF-funded project housed at Swarthmore College, is experimenting with the use of the World Wide Web for mathematics instruction co' Skydome: A Newspaper Review Unit The Fractal Microscope is an interac- Some examples of web-based projects tive tool designed by the Education are These and other projects can be found at Group at the National Center for Su- http //forum.swarthmore edu/ percomputing Applications (NCSA) co- Algebra and Calculus via Sketchpad, web units.html for exploring the Mandelbrot set and co- Building Models of Surfaces, fractal patterns. Students and teachers co- Geometry Through Art, The Geometry Center at all grade levels can use this tool to Hypercard, Hyperstudio, and Tesse- explore the art of mathematics.Stu- lations, dents can visually model natural phe- Introduction to Vectors The Center for the Computation and Visu-nomenon and effortlessly explore ele- alization of Geometric Structure is a Na-mentary mathematic principles while tional Science Foundationenjoying the Mandelbrot set The Frac- Science and Technologytal Microscope can be found at:http-// enter at the University ofwww ncsa uluc.edu/EdulFractal/Frac- Minnesota. The CentertalHome html supports K- 16 math edu- cation , and has create an online web nexus for the Non-Euclidean Geometry study of geometry NonEuclid is an interactive simulation The Gallery of Interactiveof the Poincare Model of Hyperbolic Geometry allows studentsGeometry designed for high school and to study complex mathe- undergraduate education.The soft- matical problems using in-ware tool was developed at the Center teresting and engaging on- for research on Parallel Computation line projects such as (CRPC) of Rice University.NonEu- Build a Rainbow, Orbifoldclid creates an interactive environment Pinball, and Techmullerforlearningandexploringnon- Navigator. The Center is Euclidean geometry. The software runs located at http.//on Macintosh computers and is avail- vI www.geom.umn.edu/able without fee for education pur- I 41 apps/ poses. It can be obtained at:http://rice- info.rice.edu/projects/NonEuclid/ The Fractal Micro- NonEuclid html scope (Commued on page 16)
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Woos, Moos, Muds, Mushes and Muses..
The questic:: is, shall we inhabit a world shaped (as we have longed believed) by lifeless mechanically interacting fragments driven by mechanical laws and awaiting our reassembly and control? Or shall we inhabit a worldthe one suggested by fractals and chaosthat is alive, creative. and diversified because its parts are uni- fied. inseparable, and born of an unpre- dictability ultimately beyond our control? (Fractals, The Patterns of Chaos by John Briggs, A Touchstone Book, 1992, p. 180)
For most people over the age of thirty, the world of woos, moos, muds, mushes and muses is a foreign land, inhabited by strange people, speaking in strange dialogues.It is a world of the imagina- tion brought to life through text, dia- logue, role-playing, and computer pro- gramming. Choi( EI WAD C
These network-based virtual worlds are places where the younger generations users to communicate synchronously, ex- move around the virtual world and spend from around the globe are creating a plore, multiple rooms, and build new ca- more time interacting with other people.. new form of literaturethe chaotic pacity. MUCKS became social MUDS where genre. Groups of people together visit participants can visit multiple rooms and these synthetic or fantasy worlds with The original MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) interact with other participants using a names like: The Realm, HoloMud, Mi- was written in 1979 by Roy Trubshaw and networked chat program. ami Moo, OceanaMuse, BayMoo, 1848 Richard Bartle at Essex University in Moo, The Sprawl, LambdaMoo, Enig- Britain.This was a text-based fantasy In 1990, Lany Foard wrote the code for Moo, and Pueblo, and they socially in- role-playing game that allowed multipleTinyMUSH.This MUSH (Multi-User teract, create new worlds, create new users to play together simultaneously.Shared Hallucination) program intro- situations, and develop a community This game environment was like the popu- duced PUPPETS, or robot-like objects. story. Indeed this new form of interac- lar board game of the 1970s, Dungeons MUSHes emphasized social interactions tion called MUDding is very much a and Dragons, and people went off on and community building. product of a new aestheticism that is quests, facing dangers at every turn. based on the order of uncertainty. InOctober 1990, Pavel Curtis at Xe- In 1989, James Aspnes, a graduate student rox's Palo Alto Research Center, re- This MUD world of game-playing and at Carnegie Mellon University, removedleased LambdaM00, thefirst MOO fantasy is like a play in progress. The the "Dungeons and Dragons", and created (MUD, Object-Oriented or Multiuser play is read and written by those who a world of exploration called "TinyMud".Object Oriented System). LambdaM00 choose to enter this virtual world. The TinyMud did away with verbs such as "to introducedobject-orientedprogram- actors serve as playwright and director kill" and emphasized cooperation, com- ming, a more friendly user language. that and audience.It is the theater of chaos munication, and the creation of new allows multiple users to manipulate the worlds. that can only be appreciated if one rolls environment in infinite ways. Using this up their sleeves and joins in its creation. language, virtually any player could cre- Muds based on client/server technologyate objects and use objects to build new continued to evolve, attracting more and virtual places. A Brief Histoty of Muds more users, creating new environments and supporting new building capacity. Also in the fall of 1990, Stan Lim and A MUD (Multiple User Dimension, Barry Kort introduce MicroMUSH., a In the winter of 1990, Stephen hitevirtual world that features a place called Multiple User Dungeon, or Multiple wrote TinyMUCK. User Dialogue)is a network-based In TinyMUCK theCyberion City.In the summer of 1991, @teleport command was introduced..This computer program that allows multiple MicroMUSH's name is changed to Mi- command made it easier for people to (Continued on page 13)
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MOO.MCS.MUOhio.Edu/#2 OceanaMUSE is a world of islands on an ocean.The MUSE allows participants to explore environmental issues, political power, and intercultural communication. OceanaMUSE is found at web site: http:// www.nlanr.net/COLL/Oceana/ oceana.html, or Telnet to oceana.sdsc.edu re ef 4201 telnet fred.net 8888 Pueblo Learning Collaboratory.Stu- dents at Longview Elementary School Phoenix,Arizona andresearchersat Phoenix College are pioneering the use of MUDS with K-12 students, particularly at-risk students. MariMUSE,the forerun- ner of Pueblo, was introduced in the spring of 1993. In Pueblo, students can build all sorts of objects including homes and icatic swimming pools. The project web site is located at:http://pc2.pc.maricopa.edu/
MicroMUSE was the first MUD designed croMUSE, and it becomes the first MUDmanner. exclusively for K-12 users. MicroMUSE designed for K12 learners.MUSEs or is based at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Multi-User Simulation Environments. In these virtual worlds, students can studyLab. MicroMUSE is located in Cyberion history, science, mathematics, in a game-City 11.In this city one can explore such The MUDS continue to evolve.Theplaying and/or communications environ-places as the Cyberion Community Center, introduction of the world wide web hasment. They can acquire problem-solvingSpace Port, Cyberion City University, the introduced new capabilities.In Juneskills as well as develop writing and com-Science Center, the Air and Space Mu- 1994, SenseMedia Netcasting openedmunication skills. seum, the Curio Shop, The Phone Com- "the Sprawl", the first public web server pany, MicroBoardwalk, and many other and multimedia MOO. The Sprawlftp:// Some Educational MUDS interesting and engaging places. For more ftp.musenet.org/chezmoto/muse/info- information about MicroMUSE go to:ftp:/ supports the WOO protocol ( an internetFredNet MOO started in January 1995./ftp .m usenet. org/chezmoto/m use/ info/, communications protocol designed to in-In FredNet MOO students can visit thehttp://www.musenet.org/microdocs.html tegrate the world wide web and MOObiochemical lab and therein study the environments (WEB +MOO = WOO).chemical processes in the human body.Good Starting Points: One can browse The Sprawl by clickingThey can also travel to Shanghai, China, Information on Muses and MuseNet: http:// on the objects one wants to see. WOOthe Iceman Museum, Ancient Rome,www.musenelorg/ objects may contain inland images andFord's Theatre, or a South Philly Pizza audio. Parlor. Yahoo Index to MUDS, MOOS, MUSES:http:ll www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Inter- MUDS In Education FredNet MOO is found at: http:// net_Games/MUDs_MUSHes MOOs_etc/ www.fred.net/cindy/frednet.html, or tel- MO0s/ Educators are building MUSES, MUDSnet to fred.net 8888. Educational Technology. http://tecfa.unige.ch/ and MOOs that are specifically-designed edu-comp/WWW-VUeduVR-page.html for K-I 2 learners. These environmentsThe MiamiM00 Project.Students at are based on the constructionist model ofthe Miami University in Oxford, Ohio are The Mud Archive http:/NAvw.ccs.neu.edul learning and encourage students to col-building virtual models of important his- home/Ipb/muddex.html laborate together to build their owntorical and religious buildings and re- worlds, and explore historical and virtualgions.The project is sponsored by the The Mud TimeLine. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/ worlds. Students are able to embark onUniversity's Classics and Religion De- homellpb/mudline.html adventures that allow them to discover partment.Information on this MOO is InternetVirtual Wodds,Quick Tour, by Sean knowledge in an exciting and interactivefound at: http://M iam Carlton (Ventana Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1995)
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II I ' 1 1 1 1 6.4z4:0,04t,-,k4li;;;N oft!er What on Earth is a multimedia news journal for kids ages 6-1& It includes six daily news stories and accompanying activities, created by a team of multimedia authors, education specialists and journalist. The program uses Reuters text wire services and photo archives. The news stories are presented in a mulitrnedia format that incorporates video, sound, Check Out the Inge- araphics, photosand interactive learning challenges. Each day. the program is delivered over cable to schools and home computers. nius Online .Point your web browsers In addition to the regular What On Earth Staff there are three youth reporters who write to: regularly-scheduled current events columns. Amanda Brodjeski (age 14) writes "EcoBeat" a column focusing on environmental issues.Tomicah Tillemann-Dick (age 16) writes http://www.ingenius.comi "Artwise", a column which contains weekly entertainment reviews. Yasmeen Watson (age 13) writes "StyleCouncil," a column which focuses on fashion and fads. Ingenius Online Hot Spots include: Fred For more information about What On Earth or Ingenius:contact: Fiscal, Shockwave, 1 800 7PC NEWS and Art Zine. E-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.ingenius.con
Get Ready, Get Set, Go On-line Get Ready, Get Set, Go On-Line! is a new video commissioned by the Research Program on Communications Policy at MIT. This is a two-part, 72 minute video that features three Minnesota schools and their unique Internetworking plans. The video includes information on how to mobilize resources, get funding, develop effective technology plans, train teachers, and how to effectively use the Internet for teaching and learning.
For more information send an e-mail note to [email protected] or contact:
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The Children's Television Workshop released two new "Math Talk" Programs, Math Talk for Teachers: An Introduction, and Math Talk for Families: Measuring and Geometry.Both video programs are accompanied by activity booklets. Math Talk for teachers is designed to help classroom teachers for grades 4-6 incorporate cooperative learning techniques in math instruc- tion..Math Talk for Families provide parents with information about changes in mathematics education and ways to help thir children with their mathematics homework.
Both programs can be taped off the air for free but most be erased altcr eight years. For more information call PBS Video at: +I 800-344-3377.
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_ published in the Conference Proceedings TheNow.;.*0- Orange Colitr vptIon, tpr, Or- Conference is divided into eight sub-themese, 41.1.0f lando, Florifik 4.*r (Kational each examing a particular aspect of develop-INE rence Technol6fA s one ng on to ments and progress in technology and commu-of thOt of the lqg' ork- educatiótril In nication, including current and future uses ofworlcr,V! 1995, trioi ts the information infrastructure in education anding 96 in from alit In training for educational institutions and pri-Montrea, erence 1996, thef es- vate businesses. For more information: bringija g the sions, 3 geh'eraE ork- reach -ahd aworks. shops. For iñf ICTE NEW ORLFANS'96 loping Post Office Box 195349 and implementing Internet networks, Interntfu eduUTA Station applications, and policies for world- World Wide'Vet-:---fiEEF77- Arlington, TX 76019-0001 USA Tele- wide infrastructure development. www.firn.edu/fetc/fetc.html phone: +1-817-534-1220; Fax:+1- Tel: +1 904-488-0980 817-534-0096; For further information: E-mail: [email protected]; E-ail: inet968isoc.org World Wide Web: http:// Tel: +1 703 648 9888 MARCH 1996 www.onramp.net/--icte Fax: +1 703 648 9887 Address: INET'96 4-6 March. Midwest Education Internet Society Secre- & TechnologyConference. MAY 1996 tariat,12020 Sunrise Valley 13th Annual Dr., Suite 270, Reston VA Cervantes Convention Center at Amer- 2-4 May. 1966 10th Annual VSTE22091USA ica's Center, St. Louis, Missouri. Guy URL: http://www.isoc.org/ Kawasaki, Apple Fellow and noted au-Technology Conference conferences/inet96/ thor will deliver a k eynote address. For more information write to: HotelRoanokeandConferenceCenter, Roanoke, Virginia. May 2willbe a full-day J U LY 1996 Conference Coordinator, 1460 of hands-on workshops and May 3rd and 4th24-27 July. Second Interna- Craig Road, St. Louis, MO will be general sessions geared towards educa-tional Conference on the 63146, or call +1 314-692- tors who work in the classroom and adminis-Learning Sciences, ICLS 96 1250. trators who work with those educators.For more information contact: Northwestern University, Evanston, 13-16MarCO*SIT- -he 7th Illinois. Hosted by the Association Internatii)-- 0 of thedarkin8pen.k12.va.us or call +1 Society' ech- 804-320-3424 for the Advacement of Computing in Education. ICLS 0103ri!sip)ggher noloitit = ca- tion.Pt. re infor- professionats..,,,Clytilerrin., ,,S1 in- t.4 JUNE 1996 ght matiorit, dustry to- . on fos , SITE 966, 11-13 June.NECC'96, Call of theserve _ ial t Charl 2 USA, North focus ns f - or or calle inbottill .For FAX: 4.3. send Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis,more- e-maik .edu. MN. Hosted by Technology and Information Educational Services (TIES) and Sponsored httpi 17-20 March. ICTE'96 Tech- by National Educational Computing Associa- tion in cooperation with University of Min-icls2 nology and Communications: httpit du/ Catalyst for Educational nesota, St. Cloud University, and Twin Cities AECT. For more information write to: aace Change. E-Mhil: AACEevirginia.edu New Orleans, Louisiana.1CTE is an NECC'96/TIES, 2665 Long Lake Road, Tel: +1-804-978-7449 internationalconference. Delegates
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Special Note SAMISM and MegaMath arc challenges created for students and teachers at all levels Nillard Glow 415190SOSIM:it4,41./Mag.F.z.:1:* r" rZfki .71.,t Sailwariand fktigail ., SAMISM (Science And Math Initiatives Solve Mc) is found at: ,,mets.e AANZLEINIMItralta,r , 44toptti#"=P*-4saistagssitirr&, ' http://www.c3.1a nl.gov/jspee k/SAM IS M-howe.shtml Mathematical challenges arc postcd and solutions can be sent by e-mail ...11.1DonoNWRotttottottet, -,.. At asmtatiAlit. 2 to betasami@bvsd k12.co usThe solutions will be posted.
MegaMath is a fun interactive math learning site designed for elemen- tary age studcnts and their teachersThis product was produccd by thc Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos.Mike Fellows and Nancy Casey created the MegaMath Workbook which provides additional activities. MegaMath is found at:
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(Continued from page I) organize parties, to help hang posters on walls, to help out in theSociety and School Change cafeteria, to go on field trips, or to help organize the big PTA fund-raising events.Instead these parents come, to offer theirTraditionally, society did not encourage schools to lead revolu- technology "visions" which very often are "learning" andtions or to be cutting edge laboratories. Public schools were "teaching" visions, sometimes they bear technology "gifts", andcreated to provide basic skills and knowledge that would allow always they are ready and willing to offer free advice on how tochildren to become productive workers and citizens. In a way, make schools and classrooms into better places of learning.schools were given the task of providing the basic common They come well-intentioned, enthusiastic and totally convincedknowledge sets necessary to operate in mainstream society. that new advanced technologies will make a difference to their children's attitudes towards formal learning and to all children's Schools are entirely dependent on localities for their funding. successful learning. They also come convinced that any rationalLocal school boards and local taxpayers and voting citizens human being and "specially an educator will accept their visionplay a very major role in the "look-and-feel" of schools. Their and embrace it enthusiastically. control of the "purse" often pressures school administrators into compromise and conformity.Teachers have very little Few take the time to go into a classroom to watch a teacher teachpower, if at all in the "look-an-feel" of school, although they twenty-five students or go into a principal's office and listen toare often the favorite scapegoats. They can individually elect the choices they are confronting.Few really understand theto change the "look-and-feel" of their classroom and many do "system" of education they are seeking to change, and evenbut they do so at their own risk, and sometimes at their own fewer the nature of change in this kind of system. Most do noteperil. quietly to themselves or more openly among themselves when a computer is idle in classroom or used for "drill and kill" pur- Back in the 1950s, it required the National Guard and Federal poses only. Most become impatient and many become disillu-marshals to open up white schools to black children in Little sioned and reach the same conclusion that Steve Jobs has andRock, Arkansas. The doors did not swing open when the Civil like him decide that private schools might be better places forWar concluded or the day that the US Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal" unconstitutional.Once the doors were their children. opened, Little Rock schools and others around the country started the process of "educating" both white and black chil- The Unchanging "Look-and-Feel" of Schools dren together , teaching tolerance, teaching multiculturalism, and teaching equality. Steve Hodas, in his seminal work entitled,Technology Refusal and the Organizational Culture ofSchools,writes, (Continued on page 3)
Tor nearly a century outsiders have been trying to introduce technologies into high school classrooms, with remarkable con- sistent results. After proclaiming the potential of the new tools to Editor: Kathy Rutkowski rescue the classroom from the dark ages and usher in an age of ContributingEditor: Stephanie Stevenson efficiency and enlightenment, technologists find to their dismay that teachers can often be persuaded to use new tools only NetTeach News slightly, if at all.They find further that. even when the tools are January 1996 used, classroom practicethe look-and-feel of schoolsre- ISSN:1070 2954 mains fundamentally unchanged. ". 0 Published ten times a yearIt is available in print and electronically on the Internet. Steve notes that schools are complex environments, with certain value systems and power structures. He suggest that they are Executive. Editorial,Circulation and Advertising "intentional systems for preserving and transmitting information Offices: NetTeach News, 13102 Weather Vane Way, and authority, for inculcating certain values and practices while Herndon, VA 22071-2944 USA. Telephone: +1 703- eliminating others."Steve Hodas goes on to describe the clash 471-0593. Internet: netteach@`chaos corn between the cultures of change, a subset being technologists, and the culture of refusal, those in the school who resist change Copyright..'1996 by NetTeach News.All rights because they perceive it challenges their value system and base reserved. Federal copyrightlaw prohibits of authority. Steve suggest that schools "can never be indepen- unauthorized reproductionby any means and dent of the values of society at large; if those change, then imposes fines up to S25,000 for violations schools must" or become irrelevant or be replaced. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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The (hanging World of Education (Continued from page 2) Give Schools more Decision-making authority Certainly there are instances where school leaders take more leading social positions but in those instances those leaders are In further action, the Superintendent appointed a technology subject to the same forces of possible resistance that teachers team to make specific recommendations by January 31, 1996 in classrooms are who decide to cross that line and on their for integrating technology into curriculum, the classroom, and own change the "look-and-feel" of school. the community, including wiring every classroom in California by 2001. Forces For Change The Coming Revolution Today, many schools in the United States and in other coun- tries around the world are flinging open their doors to technol- Schools are complex institutions that have changed very ogy and to change. The external forces calling for change are slowly, so slowly they seem to the outside observer to be static. powerful. In his State of the Union Message, William Clinton, However, they are no longer static.The "look-and-feel" of the President of the United States endorsed the concept of schools are changing, and will likely change even more charter schools as a way of improving public-sponsored edu- dramatically as the culture of refusal yields to the culture of cation. The Virginia Assembly is now considering education change in mainstream society and that culture empowers to allow charter schools in the Dominion and in January New schools to transform themselves into complex and dynamic Jersey Governor, Christine Whitman signed into law legisla- systems of learning in an interconnected dynamic global sys- tion permitting 135 charter schools to open in the Garden tem of learning. State. Central to this change is the rapid deployment of advanced However, it is not just a matter of external forces urging communications, computing and networking capability, the change, it is also a matter of educators themselves realizing so-called global information infrastructure.Steven Hodas that the time has come and that many things must be handled declared that the last technologies to have a defining influence differently, including the way schools regard technology. The on the general organization and practice of schooling were the Newark School District recently signed a $1.25 million con- textbook and the blackboard. Electronic publishing and net- tract last week with the Sylvan Learning Systems of Columbia, working are not only impacting on the general organization Maryland to run the remedial education program at three local and practice of school but are also fundamentally helping to high schools through June 1997. 0 In 1995, Delaine Eastin, change the very definition of school, teaching and learning on the California Superintendent of Public Instruction, outlined a a worldwide basis. plan to create"Challenge School Digricts."0Challenge School Districts are exempt from customary legal and fiscal Ironically, Steve Jobs tossed in the towel just when it is all constraints and in return and can negotiate waivers of the State getting interesting. Hopefully he will come back to help those Education Code with the DPI.In return these schools are educators that he inspired who are leading this revolution expected to: within the schools and finding increasing support throughout the entire system. They need his help so that together they can Close School Campuses to Protect Students create a common vision of the New School.
.0-Adopt Measurable Content and Performance for every subject and at every grade level,
Increase mandatory graduate course requirements, @Steven Hodas, Technology Refusal and The Organizational Culture of Schools. URL: http://homepage.saeas.upenn.edu/ Ensure that every graduate meets requirements for the .--cpage/techref.html Golden State Achievement Certificate, @New York Times, Lure of Education Market Remains mr Set Standards for safe, clean, well-lighted, high-tech Strong for Business, January 31, 1996, p.A1 sch oo Is, @California Department of Education, Press Release, 9-7-95, Create A Parent-School Compact signed by every parent, URL: gopher://goldmine.cde.ca.gov:70/00/C_D _E _Info/ N ews_and_Announcements/Supt._De la ine_East in/Refol n_9- Have an Individual Learning Plan for each Child, 7-95
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The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a US national information system designed to provide K-12 Ea ViewfieIselomaoke Wilms WI Witer Delp educators, parents, and anyone with an interest in K-12 educa- tion access to a wealth or education-related information and knowledge. ERIC was established in 1966, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), and The National Library of Education.
The ERIC system includes: the ERIC database, AskERIC, the National Parent Information Network, ERIC Clearinghouses on a variety of subject areas, such as: Art Education, Informa- 4. tion & Technology, Reading, English and Communication, Educational Management, Counseling and Student Services, Assessment and Evaluation, Child Care, Elementary and Early Childhood Education,Rural Education and Small Schools, Urban Education, Social Studies/Social Science Education, Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education.
The ERIC database, the world's largest source of educa- tion information, contains summaries of more than 850,000 journal articles and documents. The database can be accessed via the Internet through the World Wide Web (http://eri-For a one-stop entry point to the ERIC sys- cir.syr.edu/ERIC/eric.html) and Gopher (gopher://vmsgo- tem, including the ERIC database, point pher.cua.edu.:70/11gopher_root_eric_ae: [search] ), and is your web browsers to: also searchable at most university, research , and large public libraries.For a list of public Internet access points to the http://www.aspensys.com/eric2/welcome.html ERIC database, send an e-mail message to ericdb@ aspen- sys.com.
AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based education service -Pg.! managed by The Eric Clearinghouse on Information & Tech- nology at Syracuse University. AskERIC offers:
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0-The AskERIC Virtual Library lAept3' c Internet Access to the ERIC database The AskERIC Virtual Library is located at: Anyone with an education-related question, can send an e-mail message to: http://ericir.syr.edu/#1
[email protected] Here one can find InfoGuides on a variety of subjects includ- ing for example: CelticHarp, Homeschooling, Financial Aid, and receive an answer in approximately 72 hours.How Schools The answerUse the Internet, EthnicGender Bias, Shake- might be a full text of one or more research summaries called speare, Science Fiction, Electronic Books, Chemistry, etc. ERIC Digests, the results of a short ERIC database search, or The InfoGuides provide information on electronic newsletters the addresses of relevant Internet Gopher sites and listservs. and journals, listservs, gopher and ftp sites housing relevant information.
The Virtual Library also provides access to a wealth of lesson
COPYRIGHT ©1995 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 124 A QUICK TOUR OF THE ERIC SYSTEM plans including, subject-specific lesson plans, CNN Newsroom In the main body of the message, write: Daily Lesson Plans, NASA's SIR CED Education Progatn, Newton's Apple Educational Materials, School Library Media subscribe PARENTINGL Yourfirstname Activities Monthly, Discovery Networks' Educator Guide, Yourlastname Lesson Plans from Stem Net and the Minnesota Valley Na- tional Wildlife Refuge.It also contains the latest postings to Parents can also send questions to AskEric and find other re- popular education discussion groups such as K12Admin and sources of interest. Questions can be sent to Parents LM-NET, access to Civnet, an international gateway to infor- AskERIC at:: mation on civic education, to Quality Education Data surveys of technology usage in U.S. public schools, .and access to [email protected] information on educational conferences, electronic journals, books, reference tools, internet guides and gopher and library catalogs.
Itar 44.4.r1 <, , e There are numerous other online services offered by ERIC ,
. -4,--- t including access to information in ERIC Clearinghouses, Ad- junct Clearinghouses, ERIC Support Components, Publishers of ERIC Material, and ERIC Information Retrieval Services. For those with web access, point your browser to: The National Parent Information Network (NPIN) is sponsored by two ERIC clearinghouses:the ERIC Clearing- http://www.aspensys.com/eric2/barak.html house on Urban Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Internet locations for Select ERIC Components: Elementary and Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The purpose of NPIN is to Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for Art Education provide information to parents and those working with parents. http://www.indiana.edu/^-ssdc/art.html Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for Child Care To access NPIN, gopher to ericps.ed.uiuc.edu, or if you have http://cricps.ecLuiuc.edu/nceic/nccichome.html web access point your browser to: Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for Clinical Schools http://ericps.ed.uluc.edu/npin/npin gopher://ericirsytedu:70/ I I /Clearinghouses/Adjuncts/ACCS home.html Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy gopher://ericinsynedu:70/ I I /aearinghouses/Adjuncts/ACLE Here one can access Parent News which is a journal providing short articles and summaries of key educational journal articles Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for L2w-Related Education and research reports on a variety of subjects of interest to http://www.indiana.eclu/ssdc/Ire.html parents.For example, the December 1995 issue contained ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation information on:Siblings and Fights, Safe Art Materials for hup://www.cua.edu/www/erk_ac/ Children, Recent ERIC Digest on Adolescent Girls, and Ex- ceptional Parent Involvement Programs. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology gopher://ericirsytedu:70/ I I /Clearinghouses/ I 6houses/CIT The NPIN Web site also provides access to Parenting-L, an Internet discussion list on topics related to parenting children. ERIC Clearinghouse on Education Management hup://darkwing.uoregon.edu:80/ericcon/home.hunl To subscribe to Parenting-L , send an email message to: Ozyx Press (publisher of Current Index to Journals in Education) [email protected] hup://www.oryxpress.com/
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Online Inc., publisher of MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS magazine, recently issued a call for nominations for the second annual Student Technology Leader's Competition. The purpose of this award is to honor outstanding students who have made exemplary and innovative use of information technology in their schools and communities. This award will recognize those students, who in the eyes of their teachers and peers, serve as technology leaders with projects created and maintained by the students themselves.
Nominations are now being accepted for the competition and three students will be chosen to attend the 1996 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC'96) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 11-13, 1996. Winning students will present their projects to those attending the conference and receive an award. Modest and reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed for the winners and one chaperone each by MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS magazine. This competition is open to all students attending a public or private school full-time in the continental United States. Students will compete in one of three categories based on grade levelelementary (K-5), intermediate (6-8), and secondary (9-12). Teams of students may be nominated; however, travel expenses are only available for one student and chaperone for each of the three categories.
To enter the competition the student must be nominated by a teacher, school media specialist, or school administrator. For more information and nomination guidelines contact: Deneen Frazier Student Technology Leaders Competi- tion 107-B W. Carr St. Carrboro, NC27514 NRGconsltglaol.com Tel: +1 919/ 929-2913
Schools having web access and their own server are invited to participate in the Alphabet Highway Project, a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education under the READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative. This r roject is intended to help school-age children discover . the power of the Internetvia an assortme nt of interactive web-based activities, including online mentoring, guided discovery, competition:, and other activities.
The Alphabet Highway transports young learners (grade level 4-8) to CyberCities and CyberCenters. CyberCities are locations where general topics like science and sports can be found; cybercenters are located within CyberCities and provide more specific information such as in the science. CyberCenters are located in CyberCity Neighborhoods. For example, in the Science CyberCity one might fmd the zoology or the meteorology neighborhood. The Centers are places to find all sources ofinformation on those subtop ics. Students must obtain a learner's permit to drive down the Alphabet Highway, and as they master tools and materials, they are granted higher license levels. This is an extremely interesting and worthwhile project.
An overview and other important information on the Project can be found at: http://www.udeLedu/ETUAlphahwy/contents.html For more information, write to: Professor Richard L. Venezky Alphabet Highway Willard Hall Building-211 Univesity of Delaware Newark, DE 1 97 1 6 E-mailto: venezkyBeecis.udel.edu
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Youth CaN, Youth Communications and Networking, is an initiative to demonstrate how networking can empower youth and focus their attention on critical environmental issues.It is open to elementary through high school students and teachers. Last year's Youth CaN event brought together over 1,000 students and teachers for a day of workshops on how telecommunications can be used in student environmental work. This year's event will have workshops ranging from planting native flowers to hands-on experience developing WWW pages for student environmental work. There will also be opportunities to participate via IRC chat, POW WOW and Apple's video- conferencing on the Internet. The Conference will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on April 26th from 10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
For more information about Youth CaN:
E-Mail: For general information send an e-mail note to:youthcaninf o@ ige . apc . org For a Registration Form or if you have specific questions contact: youthcan@igc . apc . org . Tel: +1 212-769-5039; Fax: +1 212-769-5239 Point Web Browsers to the I*EARN Home Page at: http : / /www . iearn . org/learn/
SPIDER OR RY A WEB COMPETITION
The SPIDER OR FLY? contest is an [email protected] Is the computer affecting education as invitation to explore the relationship be- advertised, or is it redefining what it tween networking technologies and the subscribe netfuture (full means to learn and teach-and in ways we recognized? human being.The contest is all about name) have not yet fully social responsibility and using the power Make your entry relevant to the themes, of networking to create some good inNETFUTURE can also be found on the society. persuasive, original in thought, and effec- Web at: tive in expression. The best of the entries will be published http://www.ora.com/staff/stevet/netfuture/ by O'Reilly & Associates. Send email entries to [email protected]. The themes of the contest include: They must be received by midnight, Eastern Standard Time, April 30, 1996. Prizes ar What, within you and me, drives the Or, send hard-copy entries to: First prize: $2500. success and progress of the Net? Four second prizes: $500 each. SPIDER OR FLY? Five third prizes: $100 each. ar How does technology determine us O'Reilly & Associates and ow do we determine technology? GP Does it matter how we form all those 90 Sherman Street If any prize is not awarded due to lack of little habits that shape our interaction Cambridge MA 02140, USA meritorious entries, the associated prize with computers money will be donated to the Wilderness Hard-copy entries must be postmarked no Awareness School, Redmond, Washing- Qr Doesitmatter when we support, later than April 30, 1996. (No entry will ton. through our purchases and use, new be considered official until a signed, hard technological capabilities that exist Contest Themes solely betause the massive machinery copy of the Permission Form is received of research has made thempossible at the above address. The contest's themes are those of the NETFUTURE newsletter. To subscribe ay- How ore we being affected by comput- Winners will be announced May 31, to this free newsletter, send the following erized technology in our self-image, email message to: our personal relationships, our attitudes 1996. toward community?
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Online teaming Adventures Childhood Adventures In the beginning, in the day; that is before the world wide web, the Today we have a certain primitive me-typicalonlineadventuresin- Children igowing up in the fiftiesdia for kids...ln terms of their sensoryvolved e-mail exchanges between and sixties, often traveled to exotic children and scientists or adven- places in their imaginations. Booksintensity, these are like roller coasterturers. The adult telementors and National Geographic maga-rides.Kids /ove roller coa'sters, forwould respond to student ques- zines, and to some extent televisionnatural reasons.But roller coasterstions and often send daily or were their primary sources of visualonly go around and around in circles.weekly field reports. Interactivity and textual description and infor- wasachievedviahuman-to- mation. Learning was mostly pas-Kids need media that they can go sive and the only opportunity forplaces with.They need the virtualhuman communications. real-time or first-hand interactivtyequivalent of a kid's bicycle. TrainingToday, e-mail and human-to- with the actual environment andwheels for cyberspace. human communications remain a people or objects existing in it was vital part of online adventures, through physical travel. however, the world wide web and Speech By Bruce Sterling other technologies offer new op- Today, young learners are experi-Convocation on Technology and Education tions and possibilities. Using the encing the thrill of "running rapidsSource: About The Project Central America Page,web environment, organizers of on the Nile," the bone-chilling coldhttpdlinformns.k12.mn.usierobertsipcaPproject.html online adventures can now offer and isolation of living in Antarc- teacher guides, curriculum materi- tica, the wonders of a Mayan tomb, als, photo and video archives, and and the lushness of a tropical rainforest in ways far different videoconferencing and audio tools as well as collaboratory and than earlier generations. They still read books and magazines, screen-sharing capabilities. watch television, and dream about becoming explorers, but are also now using global networks to: These new capabilities allow students not only to engage in synchronous communications but also the power to become an talk via the Internet with first-hand observers and real life active participant in the remote enviromnent. thrill-seekers as well as field scientists in the act of their risk-taking and discovery; Some Common Elements of Successful explore virtual environments via virtual reality programs Online Learning Adventures that open new dimensions of real world environments ; cz- There are certain common elemems of successful network- remotely manipulate via the Internet objects such as based learning adventures including, robots, cameras, and other computer-controllably ma- chines that are situated in remote environments . The adventures support multidisciplinary and often multi- cultural learning, Essentially, advanced technologies are allowing young learn- ers to become explorers and adventurers in a very real and A robust online curriculum is created which often includes interactive sense. references to printed material, videos, tv programs, CD- ROMs, laser discs, computer software, and to new tech- A Brief History of Online Adventures nology tools that support investigation and exploration,
Some of the most interesting Internet programs and projects Cir A clear and concise timeline, agenda or itinerary, for young learners are those that seek to create opportunities for interactive, empowering online adventures. One of the first A team of telementors, with at least one having some of these online adventures took place several years ago when experience in education an American educator Bruce Daley of Las Vegas, Nevada arranged to have "network" talks via e-mail with Australian A local hands-on, real field experience like counting but- Scientist who at the time was working in Antarctica.This terflies, or measuring rainfall, or real laboratory experi- project spawned many other Antarctica and online projects as ence. well as a whole new generation of online adventures, using new tools and capabilities such as videoconferencing and Hang on to your seats as we take a tour of Online Adventures virtual reality. for today's young learners and tomorrow's scientists, explor- ers, and discoverers.
COPYRIGI-rr ©1995 NErTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY. HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 128 AL-0 a ven u e.on m adventure.online is a free service of event media desined to bring adventure and adventure learning PROJECT CENTRAL AMERICAN to K-12 classrooms and Internet explorers. adven- ture.online features exclusive expeditions, adventure news (Expedition Focus) and entertaining games. It roject Central also provides links to otAer adventure learning sites. American is a two- The adventure.online home page is found at: month 1900 mile http://www.adventureonline.com/about.html. learning adventure de- signed collaboratively by the Minnetonka Pub- lic Schools and the
4 Bush Educational Lead- RUNNING THE NILE ers Program. (An Online Kayak Expedition) The Project web site is located at: n January 1996 a team of kayakers began their two-month attemptto http://informns.k12.mn.us/--eroberts/ kayak down the Victoria Nile River in pca/ Uganda, Africa. If successful this would be the firsttimepaddlershave The web contains teaching materials such as classroom "conquered" this great river.Previous resources, Central American maps, a photo and video gallery, and information about the cycling team that is such attempts have not met with success. embarking on this two month adventure through Central America. RUNNING THE NILE is an adventure.online project that in- tends to provide a unique opportunity for educators to expose their learners to the mysterious and majestic continent of Africa. The classroom resource area contains: Through real-time content delivered via the Internet, RUN- NING THE NILE creates a curriculum framework for main- cvClassroom activities designed to help students explore stream Social Studies and Science classrooms. history and geogaphy, and science and language arts,
All online programming is provided FREE OF CHARGE!, and cr A Bibliogaphy on materials on Central America . teacher resources Include:
c2r Journey highlights Journal Updates from the Team in Africa
Water Quality, Topography, and Life Science Data from car Information on the Individual Countries Visited the Nile River Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities crSpanish lessons Photos, Tips & Templates for Multi-Media Presentations Other Resources for the Nile Classroom car Journal Reports Ask the OnLine Expert
Ask the Team - Questions to the Team on the Nile car Links to other Adventure Learning Webs
For further information on RUNNING THE NILE Students an use interactive software package, combined send e-mail to: with real-time telecommunications such as e-mail/telecom- puting, satellite telecast (video and audio), and facsimile to Nile@eventmedia com track and communicate with the cycling team.
or visit the Running the Nile World Wide Web site at: (Continued on page l 0) http://www.adventureonline. com/nile/ index.html
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The Internet Field Teams must pay a $39 per class registration fee. For this fee, the participant teams will receive printed materials including a 50-page Teacher's Manual with 54 inter- ourney North is an annual favorite Internet-based disciplinary lessons that can be used throughout the 4-month learning adventure for elementary and middle schoolprogram. A Journey North Migation Map (34" X 29") is also _students. During the course of this project, students included. gain an understanding of wildlife migrations, seasonal Internet Field Team students work on coordinated interactive change, as well as an appreciation for other culturesprojects with other classrooms across the Northern Hemi- lifestyles and localities through network-based interper-sphere, and will participate in weekly "Ask-the-Expert" inter- sonal communication. views with Journey North Scientist.
Beginning on Groundhog's Day (February 2nd) students willFor more information about registration, point web browsers follow the "arrival" of spring in the continent of North America. to: k12.mn.usk.jnorth/register-info.htmlor Classrooms from around North America will report observa-contact: jnorth-info®learner.org.For information about last tions from their localities to other classrooms around the world.year's project, point browsers to: http:// www.ties.k12.mn.us/-jnorth/jn95/index.html. In this project, students will follow the migrations of: monarch butterflies, robins, bald eagles, loggerhead sea turtles, peregrineJourney North is an Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project falcons, gray whales, humpback whales, loons, orioles, whoop-in partnership with TIES (Technology and Information Educa- ing cranes, caribou and migratory Bats of the Sonoran Desert.tional Services), the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Satellites will assist the students in tracking the migrations.and Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Animal locations will be pinpointed using transmitters attachedEducation located in St. Paul, Minnesota. to the animals that emit these data readings to orbiting satellites which in turn download this information to other sites around the world and to classrooms via the Internet. In addition to the migrations,these students from diverse MayaQuest'96 is an interactive environments will collaborate together doing comparative stud- learning expedition designed for ies of the natural world. They will observe the physical signs of grades 4-12. Students are asked to help spring in their localities through studies of changing daylight unravel the mystery, "Did the ancient and temperatures. Maya Civilization Collapse?"
In 1996, there will be two levels of participation. In the spring of 1995, the first MayaQuest team visited archeological sles in Mexico and Central America. Students partici- LEVEL ONE, NEWS REPORTER pated in the cycling adventure as well as followed the journey back in their classrooms via Internet reports. In Level 1, students are invited to become a Journey North News Reporter and to share their wildlife observations over theIn 1996, Dan and Steve Buettner will lead the expedi- Internet.Schools can register as official observation posts bytion in the exploration of ancient Maya ruins and will sending an e-mail message to: I.:se laptop computers to communicate their first-hand observations and field findings with learners around the jnregisternearner.org wot
One can also go to the Journey North Home page and register Students and teachers from remote sites will be able to communicate with the expedition team as well as chat directly from there. The home page is located at: with other students and teachers around the world par- ticipating in the .project. http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/jnorth/jn-info.html
Registration is free. Any one can follow the progress of the team for free via LEVEL TWO, INTERNET FIELD TEAM (Continued on page I I)
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%% %% % % % %% scientists questions. %% % % % % % % The JASON Classroom Network will offer supplemental The Jason Project has emerged programming for JASON VII, including six satellite as one of the most popular broadcasts, a series of three Professional Development interactive explorations for programs designed to help teachers use the JASON VII the past several years. Each year Curriculum, and a copy of JASON VII curriculum. This year the Distance Learning Associates, Inc. (DLA is Jason scientists take on new chal- assisting JASON to help connect individual schools. lenges. JASON Iexplored the For information on the Classroom Network contact Mediterranean Sea, JASON II ex- Distance Learning Associates at +1 800-786-6614. plored The Great Lakes, JASON III explored The Galapagos Islands, JASON Online Systems provides electronic resources JASON IV explored Baja California for students and teachers on the Internet.There are three main components: the JASON News and Discus- QNSur, JASON V explored Planet sion Groups, the JASON Project Gopher, and the JA- Earth, JASON VI explored Island SON Project Web Pages. For more information on P ROJECT.Earth, and now JASON VII will JASON Online point your web browsers to: take learners to the Florida Keys to explore how life adapts to a Changing Sea. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/JASON/HTML/ ONLINE_home.html
This year's JASON Project VII, Adapting to a You can also gopher to: Changing Sea.will investigate living at the edge of the sea, gopher.jason.bridgew.edu an area that provides habitats and food for the majority of the world's A Guide to JASON VII Programming is located at: population in addition to the many http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/JASON/HTML/ aquatic organisms residing there. EXPEDITIONS_JASON_7_PROGRAM_GUIDE.html During JASON VII, students and teachers will join Dr. Robert Bal- For general information about the Project go to the JA- lard, the creator of the Jason Pro- SON VII Home Page at: ject to explore the shallow water habitats in Southern Florida. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/JASON/HTML/ EXPEDITIONS_JASON_7_home.html The Expedition started January 20
with a team of scientists led by \% % 0% % 0%% 0% 0 % %0 John Hunt who will study several Ea% %la% %0%a% % % % a% organisms that inhabit Florida Bay and by another team of scientists headed up by Dr. Frank Mazzotti and Laura Brandt who will investigate the ecology of the American crocodiles. (Connnued on page 16)
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Requirements: questions and answers with the students for 30-35 minutes. Schools must have a direct connect to the Internet (T-1 is preferred, but 128 ISDN or a 64 KB line will probably Schools will be expected to publish a 1-2 page summary of work) how this activity enhanced learning experience. Schools must have a either Macintosh with AV capability If you are interested in the NOAA Scientist-on-Tap Program, or a PC with Windows and a video board; in addition, please send a message to: schools will need a video camera that is connected to the [email protected] by February 10, computer and can send and receive video images.tools 1996. Include ALL of the following information: should download (FTP) Cornell's CU-SeeMe videocon- Teacher Contact: ferencing software from gated.comell.edu Full Name- Participants will be expected to review and adhere to the Email-,Phone-,Fax- "Guidelines for an Effective CU-SeeMe Conference" Location of School-(City,State,Country) http://www.gsn.orglgsn/articles/article.videoconf.html Type of Internet connection (T-1, 128 ISDN, 64 KB)? NOAA will provide some materials to the teachers prior to the Type and model of the computer that will be video conference so that students will be prepared to ask used for videoconferencing? questions of the NOAA scientist(s) conducting the video Experience: conference. What is the grade level of students who will participate? Format of Conferences: A 5-10 minute opening presentation Are you CURRENTLY connected, equipped, and will be delivered by the NOAA scientist to introduce the topic READY to do CU-SeeMevideoconferencing? and explain the purpose of why NOAA conducts work in this If so, when would you be available for a prac- area. This will be followed by a discussion of the topic and tice session?
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n September, the friendly Diego,California,Buist folks at NASA's Jet Propul- AcademyinCharleston, sion Laboratory in Pasadena, South Carolina, and the California initiated Kid Sat, a Washington Accelerated three-year pilot education pro- Learning Center in gram desiped to engage stu- Pasadena, California will dents from around the globe in work with scientists from an interactive exploration of the JPL and the University of frontiers of space. KidSat, Pro- Californiain San Diego ject YES (Youth Enhancing (UCSD) as well as educa- Space) will allow students to tional curriculum specialists operate instruments and down- from John Hopkins Univer- load images in real-time from sity Institute for the Ad- the Shuttle, and in the future, vancement of Youth (IAAY) from MIR, the International to develop an interactive ex- Space Station. ploration program. JPL will develop remote-sensing in- The Pedagogic Vision: Empowerment struments and cameras to be used by the students as well as manage the overall KidSat program, UCSD is responsible for KidSat is fundamentally an experiment in certain kind of the mission operations, and John Hopkins for developing the learning, i.e. empowered learning.. The project is based on curriculum, teacher training and the evaluation component. the fundamental belief that young people are natural explorers and learn best when they are architects of their own learning environment.Dr. JoBea Way of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) and the KidSat principal investigator states, (Continued on page 14) "The underlying philosophy of this program is to stimulate young people 's interest in learning by giving them their own piece of the space program " Students will operate and design instruments aboard the Shuttle and MIR, frame their own inquines and use the data in multidisciplinary studies.
The Mission Control Structure
KidSat is based on a mission control structure. A KidSat mission control "gateway" will be staffed by students and will communicate with NASA's Mission Control Center in Hous- ton.It will also serve as a communication gateway to other participating schools. Student mission control centers will be located at numerous school sites around the country. Other students in other schools not directly involved in a mission operations center can access data from the project via the Internet.
The Pilot Program Telepresence and Virtual Reahty Sour http:/iwwwol.nasa.govlkicisatftele_mosatc/ Three middle schools are participating in the initial phase of telepresence2.html the pilot program. Students and teachers from these schools which include Samuel Gompers Secondary School in San
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(Conanuedfrom page 13) Telepresence and Virtual Reality
One of the hopes of the scientists involved in the KidSat project is to allow students to explore space as the astronauts do in shuttle orbit. With this end in mind, they are exploring telepresence and virtual reality.There are currently three areas of consideration:
0 Beam live video camera images down from the shuttle or MIR 4 to a student wearing stereo virtual reality glasses with the capability of controlling the cameras on board the orbiting vehicle. A Crater Viewed From the Shuttle Source: http://www.jpinasa.govikidsaticurricu- lum __mosaic/curriculum Vieas2.htm1
support learning in a number of curricular areas including science, mathematics, history, current affairs, and art.The imagery will yield information on the impact of natural and man-made disasters such as earthqinikes, volcanoes, forest fires, and wars.It can assist in studying human and animal habitats. It can offer powerful geographic and geological images that afford a different perspective in the study of our changing earth.It can also offer access to up-to-the-minute weather imagery.
The KidSat Web Site 0 Combine existing topological data, live video beamed down from the orbiting vehicle, and a computer to create virtual The KidSat Web site is under development but definitely reality. worth a visit.It can be found at: 0 Students can use a modem or the Internet to access the KidSat http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/kidsat/ Storage Archive Computer where all the downloaded data is archived and that is archived and pick a flight plan. The flight plan would then be transmitted to the user's computer and In the words of the JPL organizers, KidSat will let young when used with virtual reality raster glasses would allow virtual learners "go to outer space without leaving earth " and in the explorations of any area that has been scanned by KidSat process one generation will pass on the thrill of space explo- instruments. ration to another.
For a more detailed description of telepresence and these KidSat options under consideration, point web browsers to: http: //vim. jpl . nasa. gov/kidsat/tele_mosaic/ telepresence2.html
Uses of Remotely-Sensed Data and Imagery
Data and Imagery from the KidSat instruments will be able to Source: http://www.jpinasa.gov/kidsatitele_mosalc/ goto_space2.html
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environment and within ESP. 4.; --,..1-41' 4-6 Mii-ElinV1 LAWcriaation 1NE rence &TechnOt'' areIpnce.For more information contact: of the 13th jt For Prof. H. Christiaen Cervantps Amer-Kandidatuurcentrum Emai ica's . ForCelestijnenlaan 2004 URL ences/ more io 13-3001 HEVERLEE ine Phone : +324016-327075
Confere";r-Z% 0.71-7c12,ffe4::: Fax :+3240)16-327997 Road, S Lifer+1 314-E-mail: [email protected] 692-1250, 4adfir,-47'lv 2-4 May. 1966 10th Annual VSTE .4,VE 6-12- 13-16&%c ii p 7th Intemitkrain rdndrof the MAY 1996 tional Meeting: Society for Information Tech- Hotel Summer Hillin Budapest, nology and Teacher Education.Technology Conference `4.ungary. The conference will repre- the collective talents of I*EARN Phoenix, Arizona. For more information teachers, youth-servicefacilitators write to: HotelRoanoke and ConferenceCenter, Roanoke, Virginia.For more informationand students from across the globe. contact: Hundreds of participants will meet in SITE 96/AACE, P.O. Box 2966, Char- Budapest to further the work of edu- lottesville, VA 22902 USA, or call +1-804- cational telecommunications and to darkinepen.k12.va.usor call +1use the face-to-face meeting to build 973-3987, or FAX: +1-804-978-7449, or 804-320-3424 send e-mail to: [email protected]. greater personal links with interna- tional colleagues.Requests for fur- 6-11 May Fifth International World 17-20 March. ICTE'96 Tech- ther information or conference regis- Wide Web Conference tration can be forwarded to: nology and Communications: Catalyst for Educational Paris, France at CNIT, one of the largest con-The I*EARN GLOBAL SECRE- Change. ference and exhibition centers in Europe. The conference will give a comprehensive pictureTARIAT at
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(Continuedfrom page I I) their online discussions that occurred with schools subscribing to the project. - 41111kAntarctica has captured the imagina- tion of most young explorers. There To participate fully in the project and interact directly with the , .. are a number of fine projects involv- scientists and invited expert guests, schools need to subscribe. _ ...... ___ ing this region that were created The cost of subscription is $85 and this fee includes a teacher especially for K-12 learners. BLUE resource guide, a newsletter, two-access to guests of the week, Fenotcus Atbnetarfcetlikcsa iast a raEthcecr subscription to listservs, a 800# hotline and a directory of Blue Icea other participant schools. Focus oNANsirocA Software. For more information, Between January 2 and March 31, 1996, K12 learners and Tel: + 1 800-375-0055 teachers can undertake an interdisciplinary study of of this E-Mail: [email protected] special continent. Each week focuses on different study topics. WC13 Site: http://www.mecc.com/blueice.html For example, the week ofJanuary 29-February 2, student's are %.1%a%a%a%0 %a Aa"%a%a%co %0 exploring the concept of hypothesis and apply this concept to .1% erm.1% .1%.1%.1% the interrelationship between Antarctica animals and the Antarctic environment. Students are looking at two different Web Sites for Some Other Interesting Online Projects: hypothesis that attempt to answer why penguin populations change in size from year to year. Live From Antarctica, A Passport to Knowledge Project sponsored by NASA. URL:http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/live- Access to the web site is free. The site contains a useful guide from/livefrom.html to Antarctica Resources available in print and video, as well as hot links to other online resources on a variety of relevant Creative Kids in Kamchatka a TIES project that links topics, highlights from an e-mail discussion group wherein classes of 5th and 11th grade students from Kamchatka with teachers of grades 2-12 share activities, questions and com- other children around the world. URL:http:// ments about their Blue Ice experience, a Kid Corner where www.infortnns.k12.mn.us/kamkids/index.html children share their works on Antarctica,.information on Antarctica treks, a page for high school students where partici- In Search of the Scarry Saftri: A Global Adventure. Url: pating high schools can share their projects and work, and http://gsn.org/gsn/scarry.home.html infonnation from scientists and other guests with excerpts of
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This is the third article in the "On Creating A Democratic Internet" series.In NetTeach News Volume 3, Number 4, we looked at the major role the US Department of Defense somummuirreor played in the creation of ARPANET, the forerunner network to the Internet, and the TCP/IP Pararla rftiril de. earrPrOarra protocol developmentIn NTN Volume 3, Number 6, we looked at the significant role tkr.e US National Science Foundation played in the evolution of a global network for researchers Beech-Nut, No Baby Eats Better In this article, we will consider the privatization of the Internet and the and learners. Source: http://www.beechnut.comt implications of a Commercial Internet for society, learners, schools, and educational systems The heart of the Web will On the evening of April 30, 1995, the NSFNET backbone was silently and unceremoniously be commerce, and the decommissioned and replaced by a commercial system of Internet backbone and access providers. 0 On that evening, the NSFNET's Acceptable Use Policy that had restricted heart of commerce will be commercial use of the NSFNET backbone ceased to be relevant and a new era in the Internet corporate America serv- evolution commenced, the so-called era of the Commercial Internet In fact, the commercial- ing custom produds to ization of the Internet had begtm prior to this date and NSF's decision to privatize the NSFNET in part reflected a recopition that the commercial sector had a viable Internet individual customers. presence and legitimate role to play in the future growth of global networking. (Continued on page 3) Steve Jobs An Interview in Wired, Feburary 1996, p.102
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THE INTERNETBY THE PEOPLE & FOR THE PEOPLE 2
THE 1996 TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAWA MIXEDBAG FOR K12 4
INFOBYTESLINDA ELLERBEE ON NSW, NEH 'S SPECIAL TECH PROGRAM, 6 BENTON & NIIAC
SPECIAL PROJECTS:KIDS FROM KANATA, CHILDREN OF THE ETERNAL FOREST, 10 NIGHT OF THE COMET, THE NUBILE SPACE TELESCOPE
INTERNET GROWTH REPORTAN ANALYSIS OF LOTTER'S JANUARY WALK 12
A SURVEY OF THE INTERNET IN VS SCHOOLS 13
14 PICS, A WORLD WIDE WEB RATING SYSTEM WARNER BROS HOME PAGE
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137 The Demo k Intern B the Peo le nod for The Peo le In the beginning, way back in the days of ARPANET, there wasISN-Working Group (ISN-WG) also emerged in the early little need of leadership over the evolution and growth of inter-seventies to represent the unique interests of school network- networking capacity. To the extent, there was a helm, it was aing.. The relatively new World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, small coalition of US government-paid researchers, a sort ofwas created in 1995 to provide international institutional sup- elite technonerd club.These men worked out the technicalport for world wide web developments since this area was standards necessary to make the network operate but didn'tlargely ignored by ISOC and other organizations despite the concern themselves with any social, legal -, or economic impli- fact that the WWW is the Mecca for most new users. The cations of internetworking deployment worldwide. Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF) is providing an interna- tional focus for the consideration of the legal issues regarding Times have changed and the 1990s.ushered in the era of the newthe Internet and its societal impact. Internet, a global networking capacity serving global citizens including men and women, young and old, all nationalities andThe International Telecommunication Union, UNESCO, and cultures. Commercial companies now operate and own the net-UNCTAD are all displaying increasing interest in the Internet work backbones and the US government and many other govern-and beginning to provide some institutional guidancethis is ments around the world are paying customers. The World Widea positive sign that should be encouraged.The ITU, UN- Web and WWW browsers such as NCSA Mosaic and NetscapeESCO, and UNCTAD can provide the international institu- catapulted the Internet to the front page of newspapers aroundtional frameworks necessary to mobilize world resources to the world including the financial rag sheets where Internet stockspromote an equitable, ethical, and rational Internet igowth. have soared. There is also a need for more national and local dialogue and attention to the social, economic and legal implications of The growth of the Internet is exponential. In January 1996, Markintemetworking at a national and community level. Lottor counted some 9.5 million Internet hosts in his now famous Internet "Walks". A recent survey conducted by the U.S. What is clear from this picture is that no single institution or Department of Education revealed that over fifty percent ofgovernment is now capable of controlling the future growth American's public schools are online and 75 percent of those not and development of the Internet This is because the Internet is online are planning to go online soon. The Internet is far fromfundamentally democratic, open and global. It demands a ubiquitous but is nonetheless fast-becoming a household and coalition leadership that is equally democratic, open and schoolhouse word and fixture. global. Indeed, the biggest threat to global society would be an Internet like ARPANET, shaped and controlled by a single nation This month President Clinton signed into law The Telecommuni- and a single elite group of technocrats with little understanding cations Act of 1996. This law creates a deregulatory environ-or accountability to mainstream society. ment to spur on the growth of Internet-related businesses and it also includes a provision to control the content of Internet materials that can be accessed by minors. The constitutionality of aspects of that provision is now under review by a Federal Court in Philadelphia but clearly the US government and other governments around the world are displaying increasing "interest" in the social, legal and economic consequences of the growth and diffusion of internetworking capabilities in society. Several organizations rose to claim the leadership gauntlet over the evolving Internet including the International Engineering Task Force or IETF, the Internet Architect Board (IAB), and the Internet Society. The IETF is concerned with standardiZmg TCP/IP protocols. Prior to 1992, the IAB was the guiding technical body but no longer plays any significant role. The Internet Society is a technical professional organization primar- ilygoverned by American technocrats, many who are ARPANET veterans, with little experience and desire to deal- with broad societal applications and the social, economic and legal ramifications. The CIX or the Commercial Internet Exchange emerged in 1992 to represent the interests of the commercial access providers who are interested in promoting the Internet for business as well as personal use. This organization has played a major role in providing individuals and businesses with Internet access. The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the IETF's
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(Continuedfrom page I) A Comparison of the Number of .Com The Control of Private and Commercial Traffic Web Sites As A Percent of the Total Web Prior to April 1995 Sites In 1993-1996
Prior to April 30, 1995,the NSFNET backbone carried 60 private as well as public traffic.However, individuals and private companies that utilized the NSFNET backbone were 50 asked to comply with the NSFNET's Acceptable Use Policies 40 Jun.93 that restricted the use of for-profit traffic to research purposes Jun.94 30 only. Jun.95 a.20 Jan.96 This restriction applied only to the use of the NSFNET 10 backbone and did not apply to use on connecting networks. NSF advised connecting networks to "formulate their own use 0 policies," and assigned the NSF Division of 1 '...1twr.re.dng and Jun.93 Jun.94 Jun.95 Jan.96 Communication Research and Infrastructure th-.3k of resolv- ing any questions about th Acceptable Us. °olicy or its interpretation.0 Source: The statistics used to create this graphic were provided in Measuring the Growth of the Web, by Matthew Gray of net.Genesis. These connecting networks were the major access providers to This report is found online at: the Internet for individuals and private companies and much of http://www.netgen.com/infolgrowth.htrnl this traffic in the United States was routed via the NSFNET and thus subject to Acceptable Use restrictions. AUP enforce- ment required monitoring traffic flows and the nature of usage for a rapidly increasing number of private users. This situa- of NCSA X-Mosaic, a hypermedia, hypertext world wide web tion led to confusion, abuses, and only in the most egregious browser, that the World Wide Web or W3 gained any signifi- cases of abuse an actually decision to deny an individual cant popularity.0 Since 1993 interest in the World Wide Web access. has gown steadily, particularly evident in the web activity of commercial enterprises. The Role of Commercial Internet Access Providers Mathew Grey of net.Genesis specializes in tracking the devel- In 1992, the Commercial Internet Exchange, or CIX was opment of the world wide web. In June 1993, he counted 130 created as a non-profit, trade association for the commercial web sites, and of that total.com sites comprised 1.5 %. In June Internet access providers. The Association was created "to 1994, the number of web sites had grown to 2,738, and the assist in the development of standards and percent of those that were .com sites had increased to 13.5 interconnection protocols that will provide a percent.In June 1995, 23,500 web sites were counted and basis for greater interconnection to public .com sites comprised 31.3%. In January 1996, some 90,000 network for the industry as a whole." 0 web sites were counted with .com sites comprising 50.2%.0 This Association and its members provided companies and private individuals access to By mid-1993, Internet visionaries such as Anthony Rutkowski, the Internet without the restrictions of the then Vice President of the Internet Society and Director of NSFNET backbone, and thus contributed Technology Assessment for Sprint, were declaring Mosaic as significantly to the growth in commercial a "Killer Application" and the gowth of the worldwide web and private Internet traffic and usage. as historic. Mr. Rutkowski wrote, "Annual trafficgrowth for the WWW service alone this year (1993) exceeds 300,000 percent! Nothing in the history of human electronic communi- The Role of the World Wide Web cation has scaled so massively - not only in terms of traffic, but also in geographical ubiquity."0 In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist working in CERNthe European High Energy Physics Laboratory, intro- duced the world wide web, a distributed heterogenous collabo- (Continued on page 8) rative multimedia information system.0 However, it wasn't until 1993 when Marc Andressen released the Alpha version
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THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996
Under this law, our schools, our libraries, our hospitals will receive elementary and secondary school classrooms, health providers, telecommunication services at reduced costs.This simple act will and libraries; move us one giant step closer to realizing a challenge I put forward in the State of the Union to connect all our classrooms and libraries Obscenity and Violence (Communications Decency Act of to the Information Superhighway by the year 2000 not through a 1996) big government program, but through a creative ever-unfolding partnership led by scientists and entrepreneurs, supporting by busi- The most controversial aspect of the Act for the Internet ness and government and communities working together. (Remarks community and for schools, libraries, and other organizations by U.S. President William Clinton At The Signing of The Telecom- that use networks with minors is the section entitled The munications Act of 1996)0 Communications Decency Act of 1996. This is a modified and compromise version of the Exon Bill introduced in 1995. On February 8, 1996, U.S. President Clinton signed into law The Act states, The Telecommunications Act of 1996.0 This Act: "Whoeverin interstate or foreign communications knowingly car seeks universal access to advanced telecommunications ser- (A) uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person vices, or persons under 18 years of age, or uses any interactive computer significantly revises the 1934 Communications Act by among service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years other deregulatory action allowing Bell Telephone companies of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or to compete with long-distance telephone companies. other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms seeks to open up competition in the cable tv industry and the offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sex- broadcast industries. ual or excretory activities or organs, regardless of whether the user citcalls for a V-Chip to be installed in every new television set ; of such service placed the call or initiated the communications; or establishes criminal penalties for people who permit indecent (2) knowingly pennits any telecommunications facility under such or obscene materials to be distributed to minors online. . person's control to be used for an activity prohibited by paragraph (1) with the intent that it be used for such activity, shall be fined under title 18, United State Code, or imprisoned not more than two Significant Provisions Specific To KI2 years , or both.
Reduced Telecommunication Services Rates for Schools The legislation further states that any
The Act seeks to advance universal service by promoting "person that has taken, in good faith, reasonable, effective, and quality service at affordable rates and access to advanced appropriate actions under the circumstances to restrict or prevent services.All providers of telecommunications services are access by minors to a communication specified in such subsections, requested to make an equitable and nondiscriminatory contri- bution to the preservation and advancement of universal which many involve any appropriate measures to restrict minors service from such communications, including any method which is feasible under available technology"
The Act states, will have a defendable position in the event of any criminal prosecution. cir"All telecommunications carriers serving a geographic area shall, upon a bona fide request for any of its services that are Economic Implications of Deregulation and within the definition of universal service under subsection Universal Service Provisions (cX3), produce such services to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries for educational purposes at rates less The deregulation of the communications industry should lead than the amounts charged for similar services to other parties. to a more competitive environment and to better services at The discount shall be an amount that the Commission, with more affordable prices. In particular, this regulation will respect to interstate services, and the States, with respect to encourage continued innovation and growth of advanced intrastate services, determine is appropriate and necessary to communication systems including the Internet. Special pro- ensure affordable access to and use of such services by such visions regarding affordable access to schools and libraries entities. " should help schools in their initial efforts to connect to global cirThe Commission ShallEstablishCompetitively Neutral networks. Schools, however, will need to work with parents Rules"To enhance, to the extent technically feasible and and local community leaders to ensure that Public Utility economically reasonable, access to advanced telecommunica- Commissions are aware of their real economic needs when tions and information services for all public and nonprofit +11 (Continued on page 5) COPYRIGHT ©1996 NEYTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY. HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 140
Rib IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOLS reasonable rates are being formulated. and are determined to control and deny access to minors. The fear is that many parents and others in the community who are The Implications of the Communications perhaps ignorant of the benefits of networking and the limited Decency Act of 1996 number of pornographic sites on the Internet will oppose the networking of schools and ultimately deprive their children and others of new opportunities for learning. The provisions of the Law related to the criminality of provid- ing minors access to obscene or pornographic materials are the Notwithstanding the outcome of the civil suits, it is essential potentially the most troublesome to schools.The vagueness that all those who are interesting in promoting school network- of the wording, particularly such sections as: ing work to educate the general community about real benefits. Moreover, educators must establish a system that rationally "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other integrates networking technology into the mainstream learning communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms system and must establish a clear contractual framework for offensive as measured by contemporary community stan- network use that involves parental and minor consent. Block- dards", and ing or filtering technologies might be considered, particularly in elementary schools to avoid any "accidental" access of "knowingly permits any telecommunications facility under objectionable materials, although it should be noted that these such person's control w be used for an activity prohibited " technologies are not full-proof.
causes some legitimate worry about possible prosecution for Perhaps, the most hopeful development is the PICS, Platform teachers, librarians, and even to parents who allow minors to for Internet Content Selection. system now under development access global networks via computers in their charge. in the World Wide Web Consortium. (In this Issue, See Pics, A World Wide Web Rating System, p. 14) Not only does In interpretation itis possible that schools using blocking this system allow for flexible rating systems but also allows for technologies or having clearly stated Acceptable Use Policies quality selection.0 might be exempt from prosecution, or exonerated if brought to trial, assuming that a prosecutor, jury or a judge consider these Even the PICS system will not necessarily resolve the funda- measures as " takAn, in good faith, reasonable, effective, and mental problems faced by schools and libraries in highly appropriate actions under the circumstances to restrict or politicized areas where the mere act of choosing a rating prevent access by minors." However, the mere possibility of system might cause divisiveness. Nor will it address concerns criminal prosecution caused by the inherent vagueness of this of libraries in general that choosing "rating systems" might language will likely have a chilling effect on many schools and constitute a form of censorship. 0 libraries, particularly in very conservative communities. Moreover, this provision might lead to various degrees of As more and more schools are networked, the hope is that censorship, where any materials with any possibility of being more and more quality web sites and other material will appear construed as objectionable would be excluded from use. In the on the Internet, and moreover the use of the technology in the worst cases scenario, this might include web sites on advanced classroom or library by minors will be refined, documented, human anatomy or web sites or discussions lists intended for and assessed. This information should help to dispel some high school age students that provide quality information on societal fears and opposition. sexuality, or birth control. Footnotes: This provision is under challenge. Shortly after it was enacted 0 Remarks by President at the Signing of The Telecommunications Act of into law, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a civil suit 1996 Ceremony on February 8, 1996. See URL:http:// which resulting in U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter www 1 .whitehouse.gov/WH/E0P/OP/telecom/release.html ruling that the provision barring indecent material was uncon- OThe Telecommunications Act of 1996, See Url:http:// stitutionally vague. 0 In late February, more than 20 corpo- wwwl.whitehouse.gov1WH/E0P/OP/te1ecom/telecom-top.html rate and trade organizations initiated a civil suit that was filed 0.ludge Blocks On-LineSmut Law Enforcement, Washington Post, February in the United States District Court in Philadelphia.0 This suit 16, 1996, B1 was joined with an the earlier suit. The Justice Department, 00n-Line Services Join Indecency-Law Suit, NY Times, Monday February which is named in both suits, has temporarily suspended any 26, 1996, D2 prosecution of this law, until a judicial ruling has been is- sued.0 Oudge Blocks On-LineSmut Law Enforcement, Washington Post, February 16, 1996, B1 The American Library Association is concerned about the EPICS. See 1JRL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/ potential impact of this law as are many other educational 0 Must ReadingThe Internet Advocate, A Web-based Resource Guide for organizations that are actively promoting networking for soci- Librarians and Educators Interest in Providing Youth Access to the Net. See etal learning purposes..0 However, there are many community URL: http://silver.ucs.indianaedufIchampel/netadv.htm groups that have fought for much more stringent provisions
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trwthesfeeri On February 13, 1996, PSINet Inc. announced that it is merging its two wholly-owned software subsidiariesInterCon Systems Corporation, Hem- filar systoms don, VA., and Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley, CA. Both compa- nies produce Mac Internet software.
Commenting on the merger, Bill Schrader, the CEO of PSINet, said, "The combined staff of more than 100 individuals constitutes the finest groups of Macintosh developers and marketers in the industry, as well as a strong PC development and marketing group." Schrader noted that this decision to consolidate comes as a result of growing uncertainty about Apple Computer's future and the the decline in the Macintosh market share. The consolidation will allow InterCon to expand its leadership position in the high-performance Macintosh computer environment domestically as well internationally. The new organization will continue to sell, market and support Software Ventures' leading products, Internet Valet and Microphone. InterCon produces TCP/Connect II for Macintosh, TCP/IP Connect II-for Windows, Planet Xan X Window System client for Macintosh, InterServer Publisherthe industry's first integrated (WWW,FTP, Gopher) Macintosh-based server application, InterPPP II&tmallows Macintosh users to connect to remote networks using PPP and fully supports TCP/IP and Appletalk, and the newly-released NFS/Share provides seamless access to UNIX servers for Macintosh users, among other products. For more information about InterCon software contact: URL: http://www.intercon.com/ [email protected] Phone :1-800-468-7266 (Sales) Phone: +1-703-709-5500 (Main Phone NuMber) Fax: +1 703-709-3360
NIAlehr...,..s.4 01.111M ...e. RTA II ,nms-. . On February 21, 1996 the premier cybercast of Microsoft's en the recordP emmosairoeummemow., Encarta On The Record was conducted. In the frst show, Linda Ellerbee, the veteran journalist and host of this all-new monthly Internet interview show and cyberforum interviewed Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, "MTV News" reporter and anchor Tabitha Soren, and former senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. The topic of the month, "So what is the next generation of voters seeing when it looks at the state of politics today?"
Each month Ms. Ellerbee will explore other equally interesting and provocative matters with other notable guests. Guests and online participants will be invited to go "on the record"and become part of an online national debate.
Encarta On The Record will be cybercast live from the @Cafe in New York City on the third Wedenesday of every month at 9:30 pm EST. @Cafe is New York City's premier "cyber cafe". Fifteen of its dining tables have desktop computers that are linked to the Internet via a T1 line.
To optimally view the cybercast, Microsoft recommends downloading a free copy of their Internet Explorer World Wide Web browser. This is available at:
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced a special three year grant program designed to support teaching the humanities with information technologies. This new grant program seeks to: ca- Increase the number and usefulness of technological resources with rich, high-quality humanities content, particularly for schools and colleges. c3 To improve the effectiveness of such resources by shaping them around sophisticated, creative, and engaging approaches to learning and by testing them in classrooms. ca-To increase significantly the number of teachers who can integrate such humanities materials into their daily teaching. Projects should address specific humanities topics and have a national impact on humanities teaching and learning on a wide and varied audience. Proposals that (1)develop new educational materials, (2) field test and prepare classroom applications of new and existing materials, and (3) enable school and college teachers to integrate new materials and approaches into their teaching will be considered. Proposals that target K-12 education are especially encouraged.
For more information about the program including selection criteria and applications contact:
Staff of the Division of Research and Education Programs Telephone: +1 202-606-8373 Fax: +1 202-606-8394 E-Mail: [email protected] us WWW: http://www.neh.fed us Director James Herbert
Benton foundation to toutinue the Work of the NII Advisory. Council
InFebruary, the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) completed two years of work with the release of two publications:KickStart Initiative and a policy report, A Nation of Opportunity and a video entitled The National Infor- mation Infrastructure and YOU!, hosted by Bill Nye, the Science Guy. The 36-member NIIAC chose the Benton Foundation to continue its work. The Benton Foundation, which was founded in 1981 by Charles Benton, the son of U.S. Senator William Benton, works to promote the effective use of communications technologies in society. The Benton Foundation will distribute the NHAC's documents and will create new information services and forums to help schools, libraries, and community centers to access the Internet and other advanced communications technologies.
To access the NIIAC documents on the Internet, use Benton's World Wide Web site: http://www.benton.org. To receive document descriptions, information on other Benton F resources, or instructions on downloading the documents via 'onsPolicy gopher or ftp: send e-mail to: [email protected], or call Benton's fax-on-demand service at 800-622-9013.
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(Continuedfrom page 3) In 1995, Brian Fuller, business editor of the Electronic Engi- Comparison of Public and Commercial neering Times wrote, Hosts Growth, 1993-1996 "Eighteen months ago, an Internet address was the cutting edge of fashion; now you're dead without one. Companies are rushing to 2,500,000 something that last year they couldn't say 10 times fastWorld Wide 2,000,000 Weband hanging their respective shingles on that digital fa- cade.." 0 1,500,000 1,000,000 Today, small mom and pop business, local chamber of corn- merces, major corporations, and even the Girl Scouts have web 500,000 sites and many their own web hosts. Commercial web host 0 growth is contributing significantly to the overall growth of the 1993 1994 1995 1996 Internet. Hosts 0 Commercial Hosts The Dawning of Internet Business al Public Hosts (.gov,.edu,.mil) Source: This table is based on Statistics fromMark Lottor's Jarh.nry In the last few years, a whole new kind of business enterprise Internet Walks from 1993-1996. URL http://www.nw.cotrilzone; and activity has emerged the Internet Inc..The Internet 1 Access companies dated back to the creation of PSInet and Uunet Technologies in the early seventies but in the last year uesto decline and the cost of computing power, the Interut local access companies proliferated.Telephone companies will become more accessible to a greater number of potential such as MCI and Bell Atlantic, cable companies such as TCI consumers representing most income levels with major pur- and Media General, software companies such as Microsoft and chasing ability. This will likely spawn even more commercial even companies such as EROLs noted for video tape rentals Internet-based activity. are moving into the Internet access business. The Internet and the World Wide Web has engendered several A Statistical Review of Overall Commercial other kinds of new businesses including the web design indus- Internet Growth and Activity try, multimedia and web content production companies, web authoring and browsing software developers, firewall software From 1993 on commercial Internet activity increased steadily. developers, web commercial security and encryption compa- In 1993, Mark Lottor, in his January Internet Walk counted nies, index systems and search engines, and intelligent agents. 347,486 .com hosts; in January 1994 this number had in- creased to 567,686; and in January, 1995 1,316,966 were The expanding number of Internet users from all populations counted.Today, the largest single host domain is .com, and including K12, higher education, government, corporate, and the 2.4 million .com hosts counted in January 1996 by Mark military has also created a need for Internet trainers and Lottor,and now constitutes 26 percent of all hosts. (11) network system consultants. In addition to companies set up to provide hands-on instruction, there are software companies creating CD-ROM and Web-based interactive tutorials, Inter- The Significance of the Commercial Internet net training video production companies and distributors, com- Threats and Promises panies specializing in Internet training workshops and semi- nars, and finally publishers specializing in Internet books, New sites on the World Wide Web are cropping up at the rate of one magazines and training materials. per minute. As it expands at this astounding rate, the Web'scoloful entanglement of words, pictures, sound and motion is briskly be- The Internet has also spawned new virtual businesses and is coming more than a new medium. It's more like a parallel universe transforming many established industries such as the publish- that mirrors the real world in some ways but exhibits unique proper- ing industry, the entertainment and gaming industry, retail ties in others. (Advertising Webonomics 101 by Evan I. Schwartz in stores and cafes, record production and distribution companies, WIRED, February 1996, p. 74) online survey companies, and art galleries.
Currently, the demographics of most households with Internet (Continued on page 9) access suggests a significant population of suburban, high- income professionals.0 However, as the cost of access contin-
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The Threats and Promises of N (ommerdalism (Continuedfrom page 8) public relations and advertising purposes, there are many I see vast increases in the amount of useful information on the Web that nonetheless contain quality content information that and the amount of people it takes to create and develop the informa- can be used by the K12 community and other citizen tion. (Josh Bernoff, An Analyst at Forester Research, quoted in The learners. In addition, the new online publishers are offer- Meteoric Rise of Web Site Designers by Trip Gabriel, New York ing quality products that cannot be accessed via any other Times, February 12, 1996, p.D1) medium. Foundations, government agencies, and research communities are also putting up information onto the When the NSFNET retired last April, many feared that the World Wide Web and the Internet that will benefit K12 Internet would be destroyed.Some of the early Internet/ teachers and learners as well as the general public and Arpanent architects viewed this event somewhat like the Chi- research communities. nese Kuomingtang Party held the so-called "fall of China" in 1949.The Commercial Internet represents something vastly different than ARPANET or NSFNET. First of all, it is based The Significance of the Commercial Internet on a consumer-driven market system and is not an aristocratic- The Impact on Education controlled monopoly.Secondly, the commercial Internet is intended for greater, more diversified, more global populations Perhaps no where is the fear of commercialization greater of users and is not intended for the exclusive use of a few. The than in the area of education. Many educators and parents pre-Commercial Internet was all about TCP/IP and standard- fear the commercialization and indeed the democratization making, and the Commercial Internet is all about user-friendly of the Internet as the end before the beginning. They see applications. these trends as a sign that the potential of the medium for quality learning will never be realized, and moreover that Many other people who are not yet networking, indeed many the Internet will become too expensive to the education who are technophobic or anti-technology view the commercial community. Ironically, if these fears gain popularity they Internet and the vision of a democratic Internet skeptically. may be realized because if the education community slacks They rail against "cyberporn" and "cyber crime" and the end of off in its interest and pursuit of networking capacity there civilization.They fear the Internet as a Wild Wild Westwill be less quality web learning sites, less corporate primarily populated by renegades, gunslingers, and mavericks interest in the education market, and less opportunities for who are threaten our youth and eroding our societal values. the education community to transform itself into co- They see the Internet as porno shops and electronic red-light partners with industry. districts or as an intrusive, ugly electronic billboard.
The Internet and its current most popular component the New Economic Opportunities Networked Schools World Wide Web, are undeniably changing society, one per- son, one company, one school, one industry at a time. There The Internet offers educators new opportunities are currently an estimated 20 million people worldwide now surfing the World Wide Web and an estimated 40 million using 4"The opportunity to join local corporate and commu- the Internet for e-mail and other purposes . These are modest nity leaders in creating new technological alliances demographics compared to the total world population or even that support resource-sharing and new education fund- the total population of those using telephones. However, some ing models. microanalysis suggest that these users represent a powerful The opportunity to work with other schools, school group with money, intelligence and revolutionary ideas. Many districts, and school systems to create united positions of these Internet users are the risk-takers, the early adapters, on significant national, state and local economic poli- and the pioneers who are ready, willing, and eager to explore cies as well as a mass, and perhaps even consolidated market for new products and services. change in their lives, their professions, their workplace, their 43- professions, and in their communities. The opportunity to work with corporations as co- partners in product development. Net pioneers are leading efforts to apply the Internet and find cze' The opportunity for schools to become more rational ways to "rationally" use the technology with purpose. These and optimal economic enterprises people are teachers, lawyers, doctors, housewives, artists, writ- ers, detectives, retail store managers, and magazine publishers Forging New Equal Partnerships With Industry who are exploring this medium and using it to change the way we live, we work, we learn, and we interact.These people Educators must take a new look at themselves and present welcome corporations,welcome new tools and applications,themselves in a new way to the corporate world. They welcome new users , and above all welcome the opportunity to must begin by realizing how essential their industry is to promote beneficial societal change. the growth of the evolving world and national economies. Although most of the commercial web sites are now used for (Continued on page 16) .4momms COPYRIGHT ©1996 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 145 a
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Children of the Eternal Forest is a project that encour- . . ages people from around the world to help protect and grow This Logo was designed by Buffy Sainte-Marie. forests and flowers for future generations. Children and adults are urged to engage in community planting projects that can The KIDS FROM KANATA project at is a Canadian- transform concrete junk piles into community parks, and ugly originated telecommunications project linking urban and rural First Nations and non-First Nation schools via the and dangerous school grounds into natural arevs for education Internet. The purpose of the project is to create bridges of and recreation. - understanding between the Canadian First Nations commu- nities and the rest of the Canadian citizenry. Children of the Eternal Forest is wori,..i112 with The Evergeen Foundation and the Boston Greenspace Alliance in to create This project started in 1990 as part of KIDLINK, a grass- projects for schools and school-age learners. The Evergreen roots telecommunications project that currently brings to- Foundation is dedicated to preserving and restoring natural gether over 50,000 children in the 10-15 age group.from 80 areas in the urban environments and making Canadian schools countries.The KIDS FROM KANATA initiative was and communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play. started entirely as a Canadian effort and in its three years of The Boston GreenSpace Alliance's Schoolyard Greening existence has reached over 6,000 Native and non-Native Workbook, An Activist's Guide to Beautifying Boston's Canadian students. Schoolyards provides an plan of action and numerous exam- ples of projects that any school can undertake. KIDS FROM KANATA recently formed a partnership with the Industry Canada's SchoolNet project and is also plan- A Children of the Eternal Forest discussion list is open to ning to develop links with I*EARN classrooms in Australia teachers and learners of all ages. This discussion provides a and around the world.Canada's SchoolNet Project is a forum to ask questions and share thoughts, ideas, and projects Canadian educational initiative with broad organizational concerning the global forests. To subscribe, send an email support that aims to promote the use of networking in message to schools across Canada. I*EARN is a global telecommunica- tions project that seeks to empower teachers and young [email protected]. people through collaboration in meaningful projects. In the main body of the message, write: As part of the Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet project/KIDS FROM KANATA alliance, SchoolNet/Indus- try Canada will cover the membership fee of federally subscribe children-of-the-eternal-forest supported First Nations schools in Canada ;)articipating in KIDS FROM KANATA project. For more information about Children of the Eternal Forest contact: For more information on KIDS FROM KANATA and the other mentioned projects visit The Education and Youth The Tree People 12601 Mulholland Dr. Page of the Web Networks/NirvCentre Community Re- Beverly Hills, CA USA 90210 source Center at:http://www.web.net/crd Tel: +1 8181-753-4600 or visit the World Wide Web Site at: http:// The KIDS FROM KANATA page is located at: www.herbsinblume.com/forests.html http://www.web.apc.org/KFK/kikhome.html Those without browsing capability can also obtain informa- For more information about: tion about the KIDS FRONI KANATA project by sending an email message to: The Evergreen Foundation visit:http://www.evergreen.ca/home.hunl [email protected] The Boston GreenSpace Alliance visit: http://kl2.oitumass.edu) masag/gsoindex.html
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NASA Ames Research Center and the Stratospheric Observa- The Live From the Hubble Telescope Project is now under- tory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) are sponsoring a Net way through April 1996. in Decemimr, students, educators, Event for learners and amateur astronomers worldwide called and astronomers cl.ecided to allocate t wo orbits to Neptune Night of the Comet. This is billed as an Internet virtual star and its giant storms, and 1 to Pluto. party devoted to the near-earth visit of the Comet Hyakutake. On Thursday March 14, 1996 at 13.00 EST, a live, one-hour On the night of March 25, 1996 the Hyakutake Comet, the interactive tele :ast entitle, "Makilig Your Observations," will comet discovered in late January, will come within 9 million connect students to the Space Telescope Science Institute so miles of the planet earthits closest approach.On that that they can watch the data-gathering from the Hubble evening the comet will be visible all night long from the U.S., Telescope. Canada, Europe, and Japan (weather and light pollution con- On March 15, ft e Star Census Classroom Collaboratory will ditions permitting).It is also anticipated that the Cornet will begin.Student; will make their own data observations, likely be as bright or brighter than the stars of the Big Dipper. analyze the data locally, and share their results with other participating students and educators. The Night of the Comet Web Site became operational on February 26th and provides comet images collected from On Tuesday, April 23, 1996, at 13:00 EST, a second live professionals and amateurs around the world.Educators, interactive telecast entitled, "Announcing Your Results," will planetariums, and others can follow the virtual real time path enable students to analyze and interpret their observations. of the Hyakutake Comet, and on the March 25th will be able to communicate with NASA experts using e-mail, chats, and The Live from the Hubble Space Telescope Web Site is network videoconferencing. located at:
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INTL N T ENDS by Tooyutkowski , Sunnyvale CA, USA. The latest results from the most basic and longest continu- ing measurement of the Internet's size were just released by Mark Lottor of Net- work Wizards at Menlo Park CA USA. 1-77-cfnit The Domain Survey attempts to discover 1.-odu every host on the Internet by doing a n et complete search of the Domain Name Sys- g et, tem.The results were gathered during January 1996. The raw data plus several Network Wizard chartsare availableat ftp://ftp.nw.com/zone or hap:// Int www.nw.com/. Lottor's measurements show that the Internet currently con- sists of countless autonomous networks, representing 240,000 domains, with 9,472,000 "advertised" connected computers. Because of the unknown and potentially unlimited numbers of multi-user computers and network or application gateways, as well as the existence of innumerable temporarily connected, non-advertised, or firewall protected machines, it is not possi- ble to establish a complete total or correlate any of this General MagicHost Three Letter Domains information with the number of end users. Source: http://www.genrnagic.com/internet/trends/sId007.htm cir Further processing and analyzing Lottor's data over the past The increases in the US domain are substantially from pri- several years reveals the following newsworthy and strategic mary and secondary schools. highlights: orWithout subsequent processing to attribute the three letter orThe figure of 9.4 million hosts represents a current armual host global domains to a country previously done by John Quarter- growth rate of 85 percent, and was precisely the predicted man of MIDS COPYRIGHT 01336 NETTEACHNEWS13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 148 - INTERNET TRENDS IN U.S. SCHOOLS Recent statistics released by the U.S. Depariment of Education,and key findings and a downloadable formatted copies can be and Mark Lottor,of Network Wizards suggest that increasingobtained from the U.S. Department of Education World Wide numbers of U.S. public schools are obtaining, and seeking toWeb site at COPYRIGHT ©1996 Nen-EACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 149 The PM ebclings In August 1995 following a summer of heated debate about in January 1996. 0 It reported that currently, the PICS label Minors Accessing pornographic materials on the Internet in distribution document is "frozen"pending reference imple- the U.S. Senate and House, the World Wide Web Consortium mentations. A new version is expected in March. (W3C) and the Information Highway Parental Empowerment Group (IHPEG) merged efforts to find a tangible technical PICS System: How It Works means for people to selectively control online content.0 The The PICS establishes a "values-neutral" infrastructure for new W3C initiative brought together some twenty-three com- Internet content labeling that can be used by parents, teachers, panies and organizations representing academia, publishers, school systems, third-party rating systems, and other organiza- telee:ommunications companies, Internet and online service - tions to block material deemed "inappropriate" for minors as provides, and software firms to develop an easy-to-use label- well as to help users select interesting and high-quality materi- ing and selection platform, designated PICS or Platform for als. Internet Content Selection. PICS specifies: IHPEG, which was formed in July 1995 jointly by Microsoft, 0"a standard fonnat for describing a labeling service, the new Netscape and Progessive Networks. 0 The World Wide Web MIME type application/pies-service. This enables the separa- Consortium (W3C) is an industry consortium run by the tion of selection software from rating labels; Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Insti- ca-a standard format for labels that includes the URL, which tute of Technology. In Europe, MIT collaborates with CERN, identifies the labeling service and can also include information the originators of the Web and the Center for High Energy about the creation and expiration date, and the attributes that Physics in Europe, and INRIA, The French National Institute describe the resource; for Research.0 W3C Consortium members include such com- '2"three ways to distribute labels: embed labels in HTML docu- panies as AT&T, Adobe Systems, Inc., America Online, Com- ments, send labels along with document from the http server puserve, Delphi Internet, Digital Equipment Corporation, upon request from client, a label bureau sends the labels Eastman Kodak Company, France Telecom, Fujitsu Ltd., IBM, MCI, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell, Inc., Prodigy, and PICS separates the rating system from the selection system. Any Sun Microsystems. PICS-compliant selection software can read any PICS-compliant labels. A single site or document can actually have many labels and The Primary Goals of PICS the labels can use non-binary rating scales, for example a value and The primary objectives of PICS standards are to facilitate: subject category that assigns a "good" rating for a ten year old and a "good" rating for a sixteen year old. First-Party Rating: Empower content providers to voluntarily label the content they create and distribute on the Internet; PICS Developers Group Third-Party Rating: Empower Multiple independent labeling Most recently PICS created a developers group called PICS- services to associate additional labels with content created and DEV. PICS-DEV is to be a forum for the exchange of distributed by others. Services may devise their own labeling information among individuals and organizations that are systems, and the same content may receive different labels from developing PICS-compatible software and labeling services. different systems; To apply for membership, send e-mail to Footnotes: The Work of the PIC Technical Subcommittee 0Announcing PICS: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/ The PICS technical subcommittee has released several major 95091l_Announcelpics-pr.html drafts reports that form the basis of the evolving PICS system. OIHPEG Page. See URL: http://www.prognet.com/contentp/rabest/IH- In November, two papers were released: Rating Services and PEG.html Rating Systems (and Their Machine Readable Descriptions),0 0 W3C at URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Consortium/ which defmed a language for describing rating services, and OTechnical Committee Charter, see URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/ Label Syntax and Communication Protocols which defines a PICS/TechCharter.htrnl general format for labels that permits them to be distributed in ORating Systems and Rating Services, See URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/ three ways: embedded in an html document, sent along with a WWW/PICS/services.html document from an http server to a client upon request, sent OLabel Syntax and Communication Protocols,See URL: httpil separately from a "label bureau" that runs the http protocol. i;Avw.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/services.html Recently, PICS issued PICS: Internet Access Controls Without OPICS:lnternet Access Controls Without Censorship, See URL: http:// Censorship. OThis report prepared by Paul Resnick of AT&T www.w3 .org/pub/WWW/PICS/services .htm Research and James Miller, W3C , summarizes the work of OProposed UpdatestoPICSLabelDistribution,See,URL:http:// the PIC group to date and describes the basic technical system. www.w3.org,/pub/WWW/PICS/update.html The latest update to the PICS Label distribution was released CoPvRIGHT©1996NETTEACH NEWS13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 1 5 0- focus on the use of the World Wide Web +1-804-973-3987; Fax:+1 - 804- (WWW) within the school, environment 978-7449, AACE home page: and within ESP. For more information http://aace.virginia.edu/aace 4-6 March-.,Miciwest-Education &contact TechnOlOgY*X6':,": r- 13th An- 25-28 10019 nuali5e- ; - penterProf. H. 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Hundreds of partic- Conference, "K-12 School Net- Wide Web Conference. Paris, France ipants will meet in Budapest to fur- working on the Emerging Informa-Will bring together web users, developers, therthework of educational tion Superhighway"Sheraton Na- researchers from around the world. For telecommunications and to use-the tional Hotel Arlington, Virginia registration and other information: Send face-to-face meeting to build greater E-mail to: [email protected] personal links with international col- For more information:Send an e- Visit http://www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/ leagues. Requests for further infor- mail to COPYRIGHT ©1996 NErTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944USA ISSN 1070-2954 151 16NETTEACH NEWS NET-DEMOCRACY EDUCATION AND COMMERCIALISM (Continuedfrom page 9) and the communities that in effect will allow schools.to A networked world demands an intelligent and creative work transform themselves into more rational and viable non-profit force.Technology-infused schools are better equipped to organizations. produce the kind of workers required by industry. Commercialism is not to be feared by educators but rather to Education is also big business. Apple Inc. has long regarded be used to promote better quality public education and more K12 Education in this .light and heavily marketed their prod- effective learning. The challenge is for educators to seize the ucts in schools around the U.S. Now new computer hardware moment not just to acquire networks for learning only but also and software companies, and the new networking companies for decision-making and alliance building purposes. are eagerly looking to the nation's schools as the Western *************************** corporate world look to the China market in the 1970s when References: China was "re-opened" to the world.Companies like Mi- OFor information on NSFNET's Retirement, see URL: gopher.// crosoft Inc., Bell Atlantic, PacBell, TCI, Cisco, Novell, Sun, nic.meritedu:7043/0/nsfnet/nsfnetretired AT&T, and MCI have launched new initiatives with schools OThe Internet Navigator by Paul Gilster (John Wiley & Sons, New around the country.Initially, these programs are providing York, 1993) Figure 2.4 NSFNET's AUP, p. 31 some assistance to schools in their efforts to network but there OFor information on CIX, see URL http://www.cix.org/ is a clear understanding that these schools and the parent OFor a good history of the World Wide Web, see URL:http:// communities that support them will become major consumers. www.w3.org/pub/WWW/WWW/ OFor information about Mosaic, see URL:http:// Publishing companies are moving online and creating new www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/help-abouthtml curriculum for networking teachers and learners. Training and OMea.suring the Growth of the Web by Mathew. URL: http:ll consulting companies are preparing Internet training programs www.netgen.com/info/gowth.html and seminars for educators. Companies specializing in lans, OInternet's "Killer Applications"Mosaic and WWW by Anthony servers, routers, and high-end workstations are scrambling to Rutkowski. NetTeach News Vol I, No. 6, November 1993, p.8 achieve a presence in education. OGaining the Network Advantage by Brian Fuller. EET Mid-Year Forecast:The Network, 1995. See: http:Mechweb.cmp.com/techweb/ In the past, schools and school districts have not effectively eet/doos/f95/network.html used their power to form equal alliances with each other and/or Olntemet Demographics, MIDS. See URL:http://wwwl.mids.org/ with industry. 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COPYRIGHT 01996NErTEACHNEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 152 ETTEACH NEWS A NETWORKING ST TEGY FOR SCHOOL CHANGE .5, "As the 21st century approaches, a well-developed mind, knowing how to learn, and the ability to put knowledge to work will increasingly determine success in the workplace; fully 60 percent of jobs in 2000 will require a working knowledge of information technologies, Young people who leave school without the knowledge and foundation to find and hold a good job will pay a high price throughout their working lives." (*Realizing the Benefits,' inKickStart Initiative, Connecting America's President Clinton and ViCe Presi- Communities to The Information Superhighway by The United States National Information Infrastructure dent Al Gore with Students. Advisory Council. 1996. Source: The President's Educa- tional Technology initiative Page Educators are slowly but in increasing numbers recognizing the need for modem technologies in Location: hatp://www. today's schools and classrooms. They are bringing in video, CD-ROM, and networking technologies. whitehouse.gov/edtech.html However, they are limited by shrinking budgets, and even more by outmoded visions of school, learning, teaching, and the educational uworkplace,.".and by a woefully limited understanding of the "Setting goals for U.S. education is new technologies, especially networking and its unique applications in "knowledge" enterprises and systems. one thingReaching them is an- other.And the only way it will If schools and school districts are to optimally use modern technologies, those in positions of authority happen. the only way we have a must comprehend the differences between networking technologies and more traditional isolated ghost of a chance of getting there. technologies that have heretofore been introduced into schools primarily for "status quo" teaching and is if we push through a fundamen- learning such as video equipment, computers, CD-ROM, and video discs, and they must recognize the tal. bone-jamng. full-fledged. 100 revolutionary significance of this technology to the workplace in general.Moreover, they must percent revolution that discards recognize how networking technologies can impact both holistically and dynamically on the school the old and replaces it with a totally enterprise and the school system. Finally, educational leaders at all levels must strive to formulate new perforniance-dnven system" comprehensive long-term integrated networking strategies for complete school change, that is they Louis V. Gerstner. Jr. CEO must seek to optimally use networking resources in their ongoing efforts to promote systemic change and school reform. IBM Remarks at the National Gov- ernor s Association Meeting. (Continued on page4) Burlington Vemiont. July 30. 1995 "ADVENPJRE WEB SITE OF THE ff%I.t.° k Pr4-4 flItte MONTH VISIT TERRAQUEST5 NetDay'96A Day I. the Sin or The Dawn of a New Age INFOBYTES: MARCH MADNESS: ATM, MCI & AOL go InterNuts INFOBYTES: The BYTES OF SPRINGGrants and Competitions Microsoft's Internet lump Start CD & Its Power Tools a A Young Explorer on Galapagos Islands Source: Tenni:host VirtuaI Expsaitions The Global Kiosk 11 Localion:hltp://www.terraquest.com/ ossignmen1/assignmnthImI COPYRIGHT 01996 NEiTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 153 Netky'96A ki lo the SuoorThe Dan ofaNew Age On March 9, 1996, over 17,000 volunteers brought their enthusi-technologists but we were and are first and foremost hurrian- asm, experience, and physical strength into schools scatteredists. From our desert classrooms and our legionnaire research across the state of California for the purposes of pulling wire, andand activist outposts, we called and contiime to call for a "connecting" schools to the Internet. As a media event and photo"sane" systemic acceptance of change. However, we are now opportunity for prominent politicians and corporate leaders tofrankly worried because there are signs that tbe big bureauracy advance their vision of educational networking, NetDay'96 wasmight end up "wired" but otherwise "unchanged", and more by all measures a success. Already there are plans for NetDay'sworrisome many schools may end up "wired" and "worse-for- in other states and even in other nations. However, as a catalystthe wire", and many more teachers and students hooked to the for school networking and more importantly a catalyst for school Internet but chained to the walls of a darker and more dismal change, the jury has not even been born. What is certain is thatcave. the "systemic" success of this event will largely be determined in the Weeks, months, and years ahead through the blood, sweat andThose of us who care about schools and public education, tears of those grassroots social activists and educators who aremust not be afraid to ask the hard questions, "When the wires not interested in hardware, in wires, or in software as much as inare all stnmg, and the schools "connected" to the Internet, will challenging educational systems and educational leaders to teachers and learners haw.: gained any truly measurable bene- evolve and grow. fit?, Who will benefit the most?, and Will the system of education be changed for the better? " Those of us who are The numbers of schools and school districts around the countryserious in our efforts to promote "successful" school network- clamoring for Internet access is growing at a dizzying pace. Theing must clearly define our "criteria of success" and resist the numbers of schools obtaining access to the Internet continue totemptation to in any way compromise ow commitment to soar. The numbers of schools putting up web sites is steadilyteachers, to learners, and to learning. growing.Although impressive and to some extent welcome, these numbers are misleading, conceal some certain and potentialLet us recognize that if we compromise now we are no differ- pitfalls, and distract government, community, and educationalent than the Yankee Peddler Reformers of the past who teased leaders from the more critical challenge of promoting paradigmschools and socicty with their cures and trinkets and their shifts in education in part by means of a comprehensive andgrandiose plans of school reform, and who in the end, when it thoughtful deployment and integration of networking technology.mattered most, were gone in search of new markets. (Continued on page 3) It is perhaps ironic that many of us who have long supported, promoted and worked diligently for networking in schools are now questioning the sanity of netpoliticking a la Netday'96. Some will suggest we've grown too old and jaded. Others will suggest we're envious of the new arrivals who are even more zealous in their missionary efforts. Only to each other dare we share our secret fears and reveal our recurrent nightmare of The NetDayed School,the NetDazed Society, and lemmings plung- ing to the sea. 1 1 From the beginning, we understood both the promises and perils of promoting school networking. Our voices were few, but we believed in the power of our message and we believed that our numbers and influence would grow. We also believed that somehow we could harness the power of networking, not the power of computer networks, not the power of wires, synchroniz- ing modem strings, or glitzy client software but the raw and I marvelous power of peopl. coming together for a purpose, and the only purpose in our minds that justified this effort and this sacrifice was to change schools into better places of learning. Although we were and are identified as advocates of school networking, in fact, we were and remain primarily heralds of change. Many mistook and mistake our voices for the voices of COPYRIGHT C1996 NErTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 10702054 154 The Promises and Pails of N PolitkkiN The masses are unknowing but we know, we understand that stroke pronouncements to declare the arrival of the New Dawn, wires alone do not , cannot, and will not change attitudes nor but those of us who know better must somehow make our fundamentally change schools.Wires in this respect are not voices heard over all this din. Let the politicians, publicists, different than stand-alone computers or an abacus. and businessmen make their compromises for their own gain, but let us settle for nothing less than the liberation of all In our past actions and words, we have supported numerous teachers and learners. The politicians, the publicists, and the "netdays".In our efforts to promote networking, we have businessmen are not our enemies but bureaucratic inertia and parried the difficult questions and avoided the hard debates societal ignorance is. that can only be won through persistent, persuasive and pas- sionate communication of real issues. We have even cele- The lemmings are now beginning to run from their wooded brated getting one machine connected to the Internet in a forest homes, and let there be no mistake, right now their school. We have averted our attention when technologists and course is towards the fiords. It is not too late to stop their mad in some cases our disciples have promoted technology first dash and to guide them to a new destination, to a better home, with little or no thought about learning or systemic change. and to a brighter destiny. We can chose not to do anything and may become one of those mysterious surviving lemmings that However, the climate has stand on some distant changed and the stakes cliff and watch the armies are higher now than ever of lemmings plunging before. As a society, werThe goal is betor learning, into the sea.It is certain have arrived at a critical that some of those surviv- juncture and teachers and ing lemmings probably learners are the chosen smile in a sickeningly sacrificial lambs in this sta self-assured manneras great social experiment. they witness the death NetDay'96 was a defin- plunge while others cry or ing moment, perhaps not not stringing wires! call out in a deep and unlikeWoodstock'69. resounding dirge. One way or the other, it will defme our generation; what we Either fate is oursthose who somehow intuitively have a valued, what we were willing to give away, how well our vision of the fiords as well as a vision of another world far visions fared when the music stopped, the mud dried off our away from the precipitous cliffs. We do, however, have shoes, and we made our way back home. another choice and another possible destiny, and that is to do what we set out to do and guide the lemmings out of the woods Historians will judge whether or not in our zealous efforts to and to a clearing, far away from the dangers of the fiords. woo the masses and the recalcitrant educational bureaucracy, we banished teachers and learners to a more inhospitable and Change for the sake of change is as meaningless as no change. barren learning wasteland than the ones they currently struggle Deploying technology with the assumption that positive change for survival within, or whether we seized this moment and took will follow is foolhardy but this is exactly what we do when we to the roads to sing even more loudly and clearly their song, the speak half-truths, pull wires in schools where there are no song of the liberated learner and teacher. computers, design masterful local area and wide area networks with no thought to teacher training and user support, and extol In the euphoria of Netday'96, let us not forget why we first the virtues of networks without carefully explaining the funda- raised our voices and called for school networking, and let us mental rationale for "educational" networking. not turn our backs on those who need us most. We cannot let ourselves and society be content with mere wires in a ceiling, "The goal is better learning, stupid, not stringing wires." one machine "connected" to the Internet, and classrooms built on deception and disillusionwe've come too far to yield to The time has come to demand nothing less than a thorough and inertia and we owe too many teachers and too many learners comprehensive a "learner-oriented" strategy of change. Yes, across this globe much more than our complacency and will- we want networks in schools but will will not stop until every ingness to settle for less than their legitimate entitlement. teacher and every learner is "connected" and liberated to network as dignified lifelong learners. Let the politicians, publicists and businessmen use their broad COPYRIGHT 01996 NcrTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAy, HERNDoN, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 155 NETTEACH NEWS NETWORKING VISIONS CURRENT CONSTRAINTS ON NETWORKING (Continuedfrom page I) funding, strategic planning, and technology acquisition. As a result, The Impetus for Networking the cost of technology acquisition, deployment, and application is predictably higher than in other "knowledge" industries, particularly "I came here to San Francisco today to issue a challenge to those that have more experience and familiarity with networking America to see to it that every classroom in our country business culture and products. The net result may well be a looming every classroom in our country is connected to the Informa- "crisis" in America's schools resulting from major expenditures of tion Superhighway." (Remarks by President Clinton on Education capital for new technical capacity that is in some cases, woefully Technology and Connecting Classroomsmade on September 21, underutilized, outmoded before installation, poorly supported and 1995 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA.) misused in application with major costs to students, teachers, other "workers" in the system, and communities. Across the country, a growing number of "networking" or "net- aware" citizens are "challenging" schools to get "connected." Presi- A Recommended Vision Quest for Educational dent Clinton and Vice President Gore have offered their vision of the Decision-Makers "connected" schools of the future, and other national, state, and local leaders are also calling for companies and communities to work with It is highly recommended that any educational leader interested in schools to help them "informatise.". Prominent businessmen such as acquiring networking capacity undertake a speedy but focused John Gage of Sun Microsystems, Bill Gates of Microsoft Corpora- "Vision Quest" to find within a holistic vision of how networking tion, and Louis Gertsner of IBM Corporation have undertaken major technology can be introduced into the system or school enterprise for corporate and personal initiatives to help support this effort. John the fundamental purpose of producing capable lifelong learners, and Gage championed NetDay'96 in California, Bill Gates donated his effective and content teachers and support staff. From the onset, it is profits from his best-selling book, The Road Ahead, to a major important that educational leaders accept that they are undertaking a school technology initiative, and Louis Gertsner is co-hosting the major challenge that has no historical precedent in the history of 1996 National Education Summit. education. They are pathfmders and pioneers that will create the new models of teaching and learning, and conducting the education There are also a small but growing number of internal change agents, "business." They need not, and should not go the way entirely on representing teachers, school librarians, and school principals, calling their own.It is important that they work with other leaders within for the diffusion of networking capacity in schools and classrooms. their own ranks, and from higher education, business and government Educational researchers in universities, non-profit organizations, to understand the significance of societal informatisation and the role government agencies, and corporate research think tanks are develop- of the education "industry" in the emerging Information Soci- ing new online content and offering guidance for how and why K-12 ety.It is also important that they enlist the support of their schools should embrace networking as a means for systemic reform. local communities to help them define their vision and then An increasing number of parents across the country arc raising their help them take the necessary steps to achieve that "collective voices and offering their expertise and time to help schools become vision." technology-infused enterprises.. The Five-Fold Path to A Networking Vision of Educational leaders are under increasing political pressure to School Change "acquire" and "deploy" networking technologies in the near term, and after a minimal grace period will be under major pressure to The five-fold path that is offered here is not a strategy for demonstrate successful "application." Most educational leaders are implementing school change or a plan for technology diftb- aware that the success of their "technology" programs will ultimately sion, but is a way for finding a leadership vision or rationale be judged by student performance, but many are unaware that the for using networking in schools and school systems. Without demands of a new workplace and the very nature of the new technol- this vision, there is little likelihood that networking will be ogy require not only new ways of teaching and learning, but also new used successfully or result in beneficial changes to the school learning assessments and perhaps even more fundamentally new or school system. ways of managing and conducting the education "business." The decision to embark on a networking program must therefore be (Continued on page 5) fundamentally grounded on a recognition and willingness to boldly go forward with school and school system reform. -Thesame technological forces.that will make learning necessarywill also make it practical and enjoyable Cor- Limited Visions of School Networking porations are reinventing themselves aiound the flexi- ble oppOrtunitres afforded by information technolody. Many educators arc offering limited technology visions that serve classrooms will have to change as well (The Reid only to deploy new technology into traditional classroom settings Ahead Bill Gates. Viking. New `{ork. 1995. p. 184) with no real thought about teacher training and professional develop- ment, uscr support services, and systemic impact Moreover, many only rely on their tried and true traditional methods of technology COPYRIGHT el 996 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 156 A NETWORKING VISION QUEST (Continued front page 4) user support, and new kinds of funding mechanisms. I.Understand the Difference Between Networking Tech- II. Understand The New Workplace and the Role of Tech- nologies and More Isolated Instructional Technologies. nology Networking technologies are based on the principles of "Today's workplaces and communities and tomorrow's "openness," "connectivity," "fungibility," "scaleability,." and have tougher requirements than ever before.They need "chumability." Other technologies previously introduced into citizens who can think critically and strategically solve prob- schools were primarily isolated, proprietary, and basically lems.These individuals must learn in a rapidly changing unchanging in nature.In the past, technology acquisition environment, and build knowledge from numerous sources decisions were in part based on long-term service and mainte- and different perspectives.They must understand systems in nance contracts, the underlying assumption being that the diverse contexts, and collaborate locally and around the technology had a long "shelf-life." This is not the case with world" "New Time Demand New Ways of Learning" in Plugging networking technologies, with the possible exception of the In by Beau Fly Jones, Gilbert Valdez, Jeri Nowakowski, and internal wiring. Claudette Rasmussen.(http://www.ncrel.orencrel/sdrs/edtalkinew- times.htm) The TCP/IP protocol that supports open network systems, or "internetworking" is an open standard that allows multiple The corporate use of the Internet is a relatively new phe- computer platforms such as UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows nomenon.However, most knowledge industries are major to "communicate" together. Internetworking software and technology users and are experienced in computer networking, hardware development and marketing is fundamentally driven systemic computer applications, and computer-based informa- by an open rather than proprietary " competitive" model. This tion gathering, storage, retrieval and distribution. Most knowl- is in marked contrast to earlier "enterprise" networks that edge industry managers and workers grasp the significance of employed "close" or "proprietary" software and hardware technology and the necessity of collaboration to the creative technologies. The result of the "open" nature of the technol- and knowledge-building processes. However, the Internet and ogy is a much more competitive market structure that supports its unique characteristics offer new challenges and opportuni- multiple consumer options and solutions. ties.Companies that have employed more centralized man- agement and communications systems will experience greater Networking technologies are also based on "connectivity." stresses and strains than industries that are more en- The kind of "connectivity" can be "inter" or "intra" and/or a trepreneurial and decentralized in management structure. combination therefore, depending on the enterprise and indus- try, and primarily applications.In any case, the optimal The distributed nature of "internetworking" and the new TCP/ network design and application is one that is highly distributed IP-based "intranetworking" is highly supportive of an open in nature, allowing for multiple tasking, optimal collaboration, communications system.In industries that have had more open communication, and multiple applications throughout the hierarchical management and power structures, this can result enterprise or system. in changcs in the management structure, reallocations and realignments of power, as well as changes in the very nature of Networking technologies are increasingly "fungible," that is some positions, the emergence of new job routines, changes in component parts can be easily replaced. Hardware can, and is job responsibilities, performance assessments, and the systems expected to be upgraded on a regular basis, as is software. of worker supervision and accountability.Generally, the Because of the open nature of the operating systems, it is distributed system is supporting a more decentralized and easier to replace isolated machines and server/client softwares streamlined management model and a more empowered cre- with other competing machines and softwares. ative and adaptive workforce. A whole new system of man- agement style is emerging that is based on managing empow- Networking technologies should be "scaleable." that is ered workers. designed to grow and serve an increasing number of users and an increasing degree of tasks and functions. The basic design The client/server architecture can support more frequent and must allow for growth but should be introduced in reasonable new collaborations and provides a new medium for training, scale, based on existing user capabilities and system require- interpersonal communications, inter and intra-departmental ments. collaborations, and system and worker support.Increasingly, the world wide web is useful for sharing and displaying Finally, networking technologies are "churnable," that is un- internal as well as external corporate information. Both net- der constant development, upgrading, and transmutation. Typ- working and multimedia technologies are impacting on corpo- ically, networking client software undergo monthly, if not rate training programs;increasingly Interactive wchnology- weekly, modifications. The hardware is more stable but there based training is supplanting class-room seminars and tutori- is fairly constant development at this point in the industry. als. This kind of technology is totally new to the education com- munity, and requires a new kind of management, degree of (Continued on page 10) IIIIIM1 1COPYRIGHT C1996 NriTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USAISSN 1070-2954 157 111111m.. INFOBYTES America Online Woos The Internet Culture America Online, the company that pioneered a commercial community of learners, is launching a new effort to strengthen its Internet strategy. In the last several weeks, AOL announced new strategic alliances with Netscape, Sun, and Microsoft Network. ri0 On March I I, AOL and Netscape announced a marketing and technology alliance. AOL licenses the very popular Netscape Navigator to be the standard browser for use on AOL and as the standard browser for GNN, AOL's Internet service. AOL members will have an option of using the Netscape Navigator, although Microsoft's Internet Explorer will be the standard. Subsequently, on March 12. AOL and Microsoft announced that AOL licensed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to be the standard built-in Web browser for AOL members. As part of the arrnagement, Microsoft will incorporate AOL software into Windows 95 and future versiions of Windows. This will allow Microsoft Windows customers to effortless access AOL via an "online services" folder on the Windows 95 desktop. AOL aht reached an agreement to license Sun Microsystems's Internet progranuning language Java. This will allow AOL to support more dynamic, interactive and real-time content and applications. For more details about these alliances see: A Letter from Steve Case, March 13, 1996 found at URL: http://www.ao1.com/about/updates/1996/960313.html AOL, Microsoft Announce Far-Reaching Strategic Partnership , A Microsoft Press Release, March 12, 1996 found at URL: http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1996/mar96/aolpr.htm AOL and Netscape Announce Marketing and Technology Alliance, A Netscape Press Release, March 11, 1996 found at URL:http://home.netscape.cominewsref/penewsrelease104.html AT&T & Ma Woo Residential Internet Customers Murphy Brown Is Silent AT&T and MCI, the two big telephone rivals, are going head AT& T Worldnet customers will also be able to quickly and to head in their PR efforts to woo new customers to their In- easily gain access to America Online, beginning early this ternet services. AT&T WorldNet Service officially opened summer. for business on March 14, 1996. InternetMCI, which opened its Internet doors over a year ago, AT&T Worldnet is offering AT&T Residential long-distance is soon to offer its MCI long-distance telephone companies a customers five free hours of dial-up Internet access a month special introductory rate for dial-up Internet access via inter- for an entire year. Free installation software is provided. netMCI. Non-AT&T customers are also invited to access the Internet For more information about AT&T's WorkINet Service see: AT&T Worldnet will provide ATT&T long-distance residen- URL http://www.att.condworldnet/ tial customers who signed up by December 31, 1996 with For more information about internetMCI see: five hours of free Internet access for the entire year. AT&T http://www.mci.com/fornet/access/indexacc.shtml customers who desire unlimited Internet access are offered the competitive rate of $19.95/ month for a dial-up access ac- Sprint, which like MCI is a major Internet backbone provider, count. Non-AT&T customers can also use Worldnet services has not yet announced any plans to enter the residential for a slightly higher fee, a rate of $24.95/month for unlimited Internet competition.Sprint's strategy is to provide Internet dial-up access. All Worldnet subscribers will be provided access to carriers, governments, and businesses.For more with an AT&T version of Netscape Navigator software information about Sprint's Internet policies see URL: browser. http://www.sprint.com/interoet/internet.html CoRyRIGHT C1996 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 158 a z A I I I I II " II II ' Microsoft invites kids from the ages of 6 to 11 to imagine what the "coolest" computer could do in Otke the 41, vcritheir second "Imagine the Magic" contest. Kids can write, draw. paste or paint.their concept of the c. super cool computer.Six national Grand Prize winners will receive a trip to Microsoft's "Magic Factory" in Seattle and the opportunity to participant in the second annual Kids' Technology Summit. They also get a chance to meet Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and lots of other great prizes. Fifty semifinalists will win selected Microsoft Software. Teachers are invited to encourage the students in their classes to participate in the contest. Teachers of any of the grand finalists will get a Gateway Destination multimedia system and a library of Microsoft software for the classroom, and the teacher and the students will be spotlighted in Instructor and Electronic Learning magazines next fall. Entries must be received by May 15th, 1996. To fmd out more about the contest and to submit entries, visit the special site set up by Microsoft at URL: http://www.microsoft.com/kids/imagine/ THE NSF WRING TWO-YEAR IN T CONNECTION GRANTS The National Science Foundation is offering two-year grants in a novel way, negotiated awards. to assist K-12 institutions, vocational technical schools, pub-. crHigh performance network connections will be awarded lic libraries and museums, post secondary educational institu- $350,000 grants. tions,and consortia of such organizations hook up to the Inter- net. DEADLINES: May 15, 1996 and July 31, 1996. K-12 institutions will be offered $15,000 grants for in- For details contact Mark Luker, NSF, 4201 Wilson Boule- novative technologies for Internet connections. vard, Room 1175, Arlington, VA 22230, telephone 703 306- Postsecondary institutions will be offered $20,000 grants 1949, or e-mail:[email protected] and ask for instructions to to establish initial access for institutior.s without Internet submit a proposal for the Internet Connection Grants. connections. c2rAwards amounts will be negotiated for Consortia to con- For more information about the National Science Foundation nect small colleges, K-12 institutions, two-year colleges grant programs visit the NSF web site at: http://www.nstgov/ Microsoft and MCI Ind Schools-on-the-Web q, Last month, Microsoft and MCI Communications launched the Schools-on-the-Web program at FETC The Florida Education Technology Conference. This program aims to encourage schools to design their 10110.1111111.8111111L1011.1=1.0 own web pages by providing 10 megabytes of server space free to any school that desires to have aweb presence and already has an internet connection and an e-mail account. Schools that already haveweb sites up can also participate in the program by registering their web site with the Global Schoolhouse International Education Sites Registry.All U.S. schools that register a new or existing school home page with the Global Schoolhouse by May 17 are eligible to complete for $100,000 in software, hardware, training and support for their schools and classrooms. For more information about the Schools on the Web Program see: http://dm.eden.com/fetc/home.htm For more information about the Schools on the Web Contest see: http://dm.eden.com/fetc/contest.htm COPYRIGHT ©1996 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY. HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 159 I I I ' II Microsoft is aggressively seeking to position itself as a leader in providing Internetworkhig tools and resources to the educa- tion community.In February, at the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando, one of the largest educa- hmememmeltcoarallowalm tional technology conferences in the world. Microsoft an- nounced several major initiatives and released the Internet Jump Start CD-ROM for educators. The CD-ROM is free of toscIliaret Mem Pletibores4 charge to educators and contains a number of extremely useful products and tools including: Microsoft's Information server, Microsoft's web server publisher A special release of Microsoft's Windows NT Server that supports unlimited connections to the school from the Internet via the Internet Information Server Microsoft's Internet Assistant, an add-on Internet publish- ing too to Microsoft Word, for both the Windows operat- Click! ing system and Macintosh, that schools can use to create Chsolaillogiagalca Meth' lisabilautiza EgthaLidatai HTML pages. Magma bowie Worm 2.0 foe %ion 95 DInnlosi horse:kw Gr- Microsoft's Internet Explore web browser Yamastbe IScrosofsfAirodmse 95 1. no Ificrosad IticaetE*5xer , ISeltdblegmage prayed to Mode*/ 2 Mk tin WW1 aim% Rekborti ForeFront's WebWacker, an innovative off-line browsing Ifyotire wing eprevicormain aniienmput isiortEaptang. sktOpetR W technology for Windows and Macintosh that enables edu- vppadsramislirommisa 3 31'r:dna:Ka est limeor. Otde ttompuery NAN earnelmlorrk mil* cators to capture groups of web pages for subsequent use lik on a classroom computer that does not have Internet access A Snapshot of the Internet Explorer Home Page Microsoft's K-12 web site with its resources for educators including Teacher Activity Guides Web Location: http://www.microsoft.comliel Global Schoolhouse web site, where educators can access Microsoft's Internet Explorer is giving Netscape a major new curriculum ideas and other useful information challenge.It is being freely distributed and is available for Windows 3.1, Windows NT operating systems, Macintosh, To request a copy of the Microsoft Internet Jump Start CD, and in over fifty languages for Windows 95. educators can call the Microsoft Sales Information Center at: +1 800-426-9400 to receive a sign-up form. CDs are limited The Internet Explorer is slick and easy to use for both Web to one per school while quantities last. surfer and Web developer.It supports all of the popular HTML extensions such as tables, foims, and background sounds. For the complete listing of HTML tags supported by $Crtv3Cif 1/111-1111111kIligAinik the Internet Explorer visit the WWW page located at: http:// www.Microsoft.com/ie/author/litmlspedie2Ohtml.htm and the (Continued on page 9) Add to Favorites List int Sttp Favo _..11,:ii:otogoi Refresh These buttons control font I, 1111 Zt htp//www.iutico*o1Lco*/ie1sie..ht _ _ _ _ COPYRIGHT ©1996 NrrTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY. HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 I I I H1'ML specification page at: http:llwww.microsoft.com/ie/au- There are versions available for Macintosh, Windows 3.1, thor/htralspec/html toc.htin.IE also supports numerous mul- and Windows 95. You can preview and download free timedia extensions such as inline videos and scrolling mar- trial copies at the WebWhacker Home Page located at quees, and #-D World with VRML. URL: http://www.ffg.com/whacker.html It is very easy to use for Web Surfers, and has the fastest display speed which is particularly useful for slow connec- tions.There are some unique features such as the history The Grand Canyon feature illustrated below. IEEE atar-Att.:: Eig GRAND CANYON National Perk Ham Pols http /hew klot.corn/gc/pc-to GRAND CANYON National Perk - Masterhttp//vw kbt.com/qc/rrni Grand Canon Chember Music Fastiyal http /Aew kbt.corn/pc/ THE Let* Leann Web http//w.' kbt.com/v/pt ago Microsoft Intenet Eçezfc Windows 95 Download iP9 Mrrosoft Coq:station http / 1ww kattotn/pc/pc-spt Chaos Creabcris Home Page pffWhet to sae and do tittp /hew kiNtom/qc/pc_w Internet S earth iffGuided tour Mlitory Weather gj Spacial alerts gff services A SnapShot Capture of Internet Explorer This allows you to quickly go back to the sites you most Source:http://www.ffg.comIgifsiwwmacl.screen.jpg recently visited, and reduces the need to clutter up your favorites file by using it as a "bookmark" device. To download a free copy, go to the world wide web site In addition to WebWhacker, Forefront has two other poten- located at: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm: tially very useful tools for educators, Roundtable and Grab- Net.. These are not bundled in the Microsoft Jump Start CD but can be found at the Forefront Internet Software page located at: http://www.ffg.com/internet.html.Roundtable A Word About Web Whacker combines text-based chat with the capability to dynamically share images, documents, URLS, video, audio and more, in Microsoft licensed the Windows operating system and MacIn- a freeform workspace or "canvas." GrabNet allows one to tosh versions of Web Whacker from the ForeFront Group. "grab" information from the World Wide Web, including Web Whacker allows students to fully simulate real-time web images, text, and URL's, for reuse, navigation and organi- browsing. It eliminates the connection time and costs for zation within a customized collection of hierarchical folders on-line browsing and allows teachers to select the Internet stored on a local desktop.Both these products can be content appropriate for students and relevant to various cur- downloaded for free trial. riculum units. For more information about Roundtable see URL:http:// Using the WebWhacker tool an educator can download or www.ffg.comirt.html "Whack" a single Web page, groups of pages, or entire web sites, including text and images and stores these "whacked" For more information about GrabNet see URL: http:// pages which can be loaded onto a local desktop computer that www.ffg.com/grabnet.htrn1 is not connected to the Internet. For more information about Forefront's Web Whacker visit Forefront'sWebSiteatURL:http://www.fig.com/ home.html COPYRIGHT ©1996 NE-aEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON. VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 1 6-1 N working In The Classroom (Continued from page 5) .11,,,,thildadimait",,,,,dakamaa,hkgkagal malah,b,""am., III. Understand The Potential Impact of Networking Tech- nology on Schools and Classrooms "Networking has the tremendous potential to break down the traditional isolation of the cla-sroom that exists for students and teachersWhen computers are networkecZ teachers and students can share information, coordinate projects, ask for advice, and access re.sources outside their classrooms, build- ings, or town." ("Impact on Key Areas of American Life and Work A Nation r.if Opportunity, Realizing the Promise of the Information Superhighway, A Foal Report by the U.S. Advi- sory Council on the National Information Infrastructure, 1996, 0 Source: http://www.benton.org/KickStart/nation.impact.html) Most schools remain fairly isolated from their local communi- ties and more so from the global community. Students and strategic and tactical decisions.However, to realize this teachers are "locked in" to their age or ability-based classes, benefit, students, parents, teachers and staff must feel confi- their rigid centrally-controlled curriculum, and to a rigid rou- dent that management respects their " field intelligence" and is tine and structure. There is little opportunity to engage other willing to include them in the decision-making process. Tbe learners and teachers within the building, and even less so most effective management style is one that seeks to "manage" outside the building. School principals are perhaps the most empowered workers rather than to "control" the rank-and-file. isolated, with little opportunity to reach to students, teachers, and parents in anything but a very formal manner. Dis- In the learning component, networking can provide new op- tributed networks will challenge these traditional paradigms portunities for "engaged" learning.Students can use this and can lead to a more open learning and teaching environ- technology to construct new knowedge, access global informa- ment as well as to a more decentralized and open management tion, and share original work and research locally and globally. system. Already there is growing evidence that networking does "empower" students to learn in new and exciting ways. Decentralized information systems can provide managers with more timely and more accurate information on which to base In the teaching component, networking opens new professional horizons for teachers. Teachers can use networks to reach out to other teachers across the globe in order to create new - learning experiences, new curriculum, and new learning and I III working conditions. Teachers can also use networks to under- I take their own research and their own quests for new sources of knowledge on a global basis.Finally, teachers can use networks to publish their work and promote more effective learning across the country, and indeed the globe. I IV. Understand The Likely Holistic Impact of Networking on the School "Enterprise" or the School "System" Even though the most important focus and rational for net- working in classrooms and schools is on teaching and learning, it is important to understand that networking can, and will likely impact on all other components of the school enterprise or school system in an equally major way. Networking can fundamentally change the "business" of education, including I I I how resources are allocated, how priorities ate set and deci- sions made, how decisions are communicated, how tasksarc (Continued on page 12) COPYRIGHT 01996NriTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON. VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2964 16 2 , MAY 1996 and Information Educational Services Conference on the Learning (TIES) and Sponsored by National Educa- Sciences, ICLS 96. tional Computing Association in coopera- tion with University of Minnesota, St. Northwe,stera4kti_nrsiV_,Atqpston, 2-4 MaY:1-9-667-17.L,.,:i luari/STE Cloud University, and Twin Cities AECT. Illinois.g-lo4ekb - Technology . J For more information write to: for the MY" -1, 0,, I! .3-;-. 1g .: ...... r...: ' - in Edu : ,,,,#,2 - 2 II - ,.....{.0-Cen- Hotel R ..f...-'- ...Lux. -4 ----:-,^' r, NECC'96/TIES, 2665 Long Lake Road, gether ter,Re'-I c- 11-74:-/....:0 more .- . Suite 250, Roseville, MN 55113-2535 and ind -=4;;"'"-.-i,r.-"V,A,6-. d inform insigl.ts t"*"..'' 17-22 June 1996. ED-MEDIA'96 ing to s 1,-:,1:-.,,1 1 804- darkin with ED-TELECOM'96. special 320-34 vations Boston, Massachusetts. This joint world ing. For , 6-11 M._ .._.World conference, which is sponsored by the Wide W Association for the Advancement of Com- http:// r icls96.11 puting in Education (AACE), spans all http://a Paris, er web disciplines and levels of education and E-Mail: users, developers, researchers from attracts leaders in the field from over 50 Tel: +1-80 7872149 around the world. For registration countries. For more information: and other information send e-mail to: On the World Wide Web: [email protected] or visit URL: http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/info.html NOVEMBER 1996 http:///www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/ or E-mail: AACE®virginia.edu; WWW51ftch_html/participation.html Tel: +1-804-973-3987; Fax:+1 - 804-978- 7449, Community Access AACE home page: http://aace.virginia.edu/ 21-22 November 1996. Build- 10-12 May. aace ing An Educational Experi- Goes Digital: Building Our Com- ence Through Applications of munities in the Information Age 25-28 June 1996 INET'96, The In- Computer-Based Technolo- featuring CYBERSCHOOL ternet:Transforming Our Society gies. Now., Champlain College, Burlington, Ver- St. Paul, Minnesota. Radisson Ho- mont.Hosted by the Chittenden Com- Montreal, Canada. INET96, the 6th An- tel Saint Paul.The University of munity Television (CCTV), Old North nual Conference of the Internet Society. Wisconsin-Stout is designing this End Community/Technology Center, For further information: Send e-mail to: conference for university and tech- Lake Champlain Access Televsion, Ver- [email protected], nical/community college faculty us- mont Educational Cablecasters and Ver- URL: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/ ing or seeking to use computer- mont Access Network. This conference inet96/ based instructional applications with is intended forpublic access producers, non-traditional students. For further volunteers7sta,- 41tterbers who information about participation con- workwithcOii 4deo and JULY 1996 tact Deanna Applehans and Christo- computeir>4 also of pher Smith at: Tel: +1 715-232- speci rarians, 3385, Fax: +1 715-232-2693, E- and o ton con- 6-12 July. rEARN's Third Annual Mailkoutreach@nwstontedu: tact: International Conference Hotel Summer Hill in Budapest, Hun- jor. ence gary.The conference will represent the stpa Mar' collective talents of X*EARN teachers, Orga .s.t...,eNa 5, Fax: +1 81 youth-service facilitators and students from across the globe. Hundreds of partic- mart _ eb site at: h ipants will meet in Budapest to further the --one work of educational telecommunications and to use theface-to-face meeting to 5-8 ifth build greater personal links with interna- Inte tional colleagues.Requests for further Tel u- information or conference registration can cati be forwarded to: Tam r- 11-13 June. NECC'96. Call of the The VEARN Global Secretariat at rey, e North COPYRIGHT ©1996NC1TEACH NEWS 13102WEATHER VANE WAY. HERNDON, VA 22071-2944USA ISSN I 070-2954 .163 A VISION OF CHANGE NETWORKING FOR SYSTEM GROWTH (Contuzuedfrom page 10) difficult to bear witness to a definitive change, and even more implemented and assessed, and how the overall criteria fordifficult to play an active role in that process of change..- system performance. Economics will necessitate hard choices and assiming priorities, and there is tremendous uncertaintyEducational leaders understand that society is demanding how any given choice regarding networking will impact on all or school reform, and they must also understand that technologi- any given area of the system. What is certain is that in such a cal change and historical forces have converged in this time dynamic and chaotic system, any significant change to a compo- and in this society, and that networking will certainly play a nent will likely have a systemic effect and necessitate a rational fundamental role in the schools of the future. Educational response and adjustment. In this kind of "change" environment, leaders will work with others in society to define that new training and user support services have a major role to play in place called school, but if they are serious about reform, then ensuring that the system functions well and successfully re-them must also be serious about networking and how they sponds to the technolou.Not only will training and userchoose to introduce networking into their schools and school support be necessary to achieve comfortable technology usagesystems. Any strategy of networking must fundamentally be a but more importantly to deal with changes in work cultures strategy of comprehensive and holistic educational reform. caused by the introduction of the technology as well as the increases in the level and use of information. Recommended Web Sites: OA Nation of Opporivnify, The final Report of the United States V.Understand School Networking Is All About School Change Advisory Courted on the National Information Infrastructure,1996. URIAttp://www.benton.org/CickStart/nalion.home.html The obvious is often that which is most difficult to accept, andKkkStart:Connotling Amerka's Communities to the Information this appears to be the case in regards to educational networking.Superhighway.1996.URL:http://www.benton.org/15ckStart/ The obvious vision of a "networked" school is a "changed" and 0 EducationalSummit,Irio6n9look1996. URL:http:// www.summit96.thm.com/brief/papers/Mclex.html "transformed" school.It is a school necessarily different than Plumb, In, Choosing and Using Educational lithnology,Council any that currently we, as a society, are familiar with. Perhaps we for Educational Development and Research, hitp://www.eantorg/ncrel/sdrs/ are all somewhat reluctant to yield to a new vision of a school edtalk/toclim because ironically we all have some degree of nostalgia about 0 The 5w:refried-On Classroom, TheMassachusetts Software Council, our "schools," even if we recognized many shortcomings, we all 1 994;http://www.swcouncilorg/switch2.html OSCANS/2000, The Work:force Skills Home Page. Uitlitip://www.jhu.edu/ to varying degrees find comfort in what is familiar.It is -ips/scans/itoges O. COPYRIGHT 01996 NETTEACH NEWS 13102 WEATHER VANE WAY, HERNDON, VA 22071-2944 USA ISSN 1070-2954 1.64