Hi Gang:
I'm forwarding the following message for all the museum ed. teams out there.
>*****CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*****
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>The SchoolWeb Exploration Project - Get your school on the Web, or help
>others do the same!
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>(Note: This document may be distributed freely. Please address all
>inquiries and responses to Andy Carvin at [log in to unmask] Pardon
>any multiple copies of this document, for it is being cross-posted.)
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>The SchoolWeb Exploration Project is an international consortium of k-12
>schools, commercial organizations, non-profit groups and universities.
>The purpose of SchoolWeb is simple: to give K-12 schools the tools to
>develop World Wide Web sites for student use. Despite the thousands of
>web sites currently available on the Internet, educational sites
>dedicated to K-12 schools are few and far between, and the number of
>sites actually designed and maintained by the schools themselves is even
>lower. The SchoolWeb Exploration Project hopes to change that.
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>With SchoolWeb, k-12 schools team up with other Internet users who have
>access to servers. By sharing resources, students get a chance to learn
>the ins and outs of hypertext and on-line publishing.
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>SchoolWeb members are divided into two subgroups: sponsors and school
>sites. Sponsors are volunteer organizations and individuals with web
>server access who are willing to donate user accounts, disk space, and/or
>technical support to K-12 use. The school sites, turn, design their own
>Web pages for student academic activities, professional development and
>community use, accessing the sponsors' servers as a gateway to the Internet.
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>Sponsors and sites usually fall into one or more of three major web
>building partnerships: community partnerships, subject-oriented
>partnerships, and cultural exchange partnerships:
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>Community partnerships. In these projects, each sponsor and site has the
>prerogative to decide how and where their server space would be
>allocated, but the focus would be on offering schools in the sponsor's
>community access to the web. These particular sites would be used to
>further the role of community leaders and organizations within its school
>district, a concept which clearly fits well into current trends in
>education reform. Schools could develop sites on classroom activities,
>student home pages, local history and culture, as well as other projects.
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>Subject-Oriented partnerships. Other sponsors may choose another approach
>in which their servers could be used for a specific educational subject,
>such as government or biology. In these cases, schools from outside the
>community could participate under the aegis of developing a subject e for
>all schools to use. For example, one sponsor might offer server space to
>schools interested in developing on-line foreign language projects. In
>cases such as this, the sponsors would team up with many schools and
>develop a collaborative distance learning program, with each school
>taking on certain tasks.
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>Cultural Exchange partnerships. Sponsors and schools may also choose to
>hosting or develop cross-cultural exchange sites, where two or more
>schools from different countries could team up and develop a collective
>site. For example, a school in South Dakota may choose to work with a
>'sister school' in Amsterdam. Each school would have passwords to the
>same web server, and each would see to the development of certain aspects
>of the site. These partnerships would focus on the expansion of
>understanding between the two schools, utilizing on-line web development
>as their medium for collaborative cultural distance learning.
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>We at SchoolWeb invite all internet users to participate in our first
>phase of the Project, which will take place over the next several months.
>Specifically, we are looking for organizations to sponsor schools on
>their web servers, as well as K-12 schools who are interested in
>developing their own web sites. Additionally, the founders of SchoolWeb -
>largely members of the on-line discussion group WWWEDU (The World Wide Web
>in Education) - are currently writing a starter kit for teachers who are
>interested in participating in the Project. The kit, which will include
>web site templates, software, lesson plans, and other tools, will be made
>freely available early this spring.
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>If you are interested in sponsoring a school on your web server,
>developing a web site at your k-12 school, or helping out in some other
>fashion, please contact Andy Carvin at the Corporation for Public
>Broadcasting at [log in to unmask] or 202-879-9824. Please submit a
>basic overview of how you would like to help, or what your school would
>do with the site.
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>Thanks for your interest!
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>Andy Carvin
>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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