Welcome to the Scope and Support Discussion
Margaret Honey (mhoney@tristram.edc.org)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:42:10 -0400
Welcome to the discussion on Scope and Support. My name is Margaret Honey
and I will be facilitating this conversation. The conference organizers
have asked us to cover a fair amount of ground in our discussion, including
three major issues: scalable technical architectures, scalable structures
for human support, and systemic change. Before delving into specifics it
might be helpful if we gave a little background on who we are and what our
connections to NIE are.
I work for a place called the Center for Children and Technology, which is
a division of a larger organization called the Education Development
Center. We are an educational not-for-profit and CCT's focus is on
research and development in the education/technology arena. Our NIE
project involves a collaboration with the Union City New Jersey Schools and
Bell Atlantic. You can check out the web site at
http:www.union-city.k12.nj.us
The Union City Schools have been engaged in a comprehensive program of
reform and restructuring for the past seven years and have been very
successful. They were recognized by their accomplishments by President
Clinton and Vice President Gore, who chose Union City as the site to
announce their Technology Literacy Challenge initiative. Our mandate in
the NIE project is to effectively integrate networked technologies into
this reformed environment. This has involved working with the district on
the design and build-out of the technical infrastructure as well as helping
to develop and sustain the necessary human infrastructure. The details of
much of what has been done are available on the Web site.
Needless to say, there are many many issues we have confronted and learned
about in this effort. But, before we go on to discuss the topics that have
been placed before us, please take a few minutes and introduce yourself to
the rest of our group.
Who are you and where do you work?
What is your connection to NIE?
What specifically have you been working on in this regard?
I look forward to hearing from each of you.
Regards,
Margaret