Union City On-Line: An Architecture for Networking and Reform

Honey 95-54327联合城市在线是教育发展中心儿童与技术中心、联合城市新泽西州教育委员会、新泽西州系统倡议和相关的教育试验台网络基础设施、贝尔大西洋公司、Lotus开发公司、ISDN系统公司和ARC咨询公司之间的独特合作伙伴关系。该项目的目标是开发高度复杂的网络资源，专门用于促进该地区系统教育改革的目标。预期的结果包括：产生关于学校高速网络有效架构的广泛知识。制作可分发的培训应用程式，协助教师将互联网资源整合到课程中，并向他们介绍建立原创万维网资源的创作技术和设计原则。开发可传播的在线应用程序，以支持教育改革的三个关键主题：学生主导的探究、档案评估和家长参与。为社区创作活动创建一个模式，将教师、学生和家长聚集在一起创建万维网资源。展示技术和设计专业知识从企业和非营利合作伙伴转移到当地社区。为学校社区和项目合作者在州和国家层面广泛传播项目成果提供机会。实现这些目标涉及两项核心任务：首先，开发技术基础设施，展示一种新的方法来创建一个负担得起的、可扩展的、可能无处不在的全区网络架构；第二，通过创建：新颖和可扩展的教师培训和持续的员工发展方法来发展必要的人力基础设施。一套支持全区改革工作的核心应用程序。有机会让社区，包括教师、家长和学生参与广泛的创作项目。一个以州和国家网络为基础的K-12改革努力的典范。新泽西州的SSI和相关的NIE项目是该模型的主要受众。在这项为期三年的努力结束时，该项目将确保在地方一级发展技术、培训和设计专门知识，以便项目的技术和人力基础设施能够得到维护和进一步发展，并继续作为其他学区的榜样。

Honey 95-54327 Union City On-Line is a unique partnership among the Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology, the Union City New Jersey Board of Education, New Jersey State Systemic Initiative and the associated Networking Infrastructure for Education Testbed, Bell Atlantic, Lotus Development Corporation, ISDN Systems Corporation, and ARC Consulting. The objective of this project is to develop highly sophisticated networking resources dedicated specifically to furthering the goals of the District's systemic educational reforms. Anticipated outcomes include: producing extensive knowledge about effective architectures for high-speed networking in schools. creating disseminable training applications to support teachers in integrating Internet resources into the curriculum, and to introduce them to authoring techniques and design principles for building original World Wide Web resources. developing disseminable on-line applications to support three key themes of educational reform: student-driven inquiry, portfolio assessment and parental involvement. creating a model for community authoring initiatives that bring together teachers, students and parents to create World Wide Web resources. demonstrating the transfer of technical and design expertise from corporate and non-profit collaborators to the local community. providing opportunities for the extensive dissemination of project outcomes by the school community and by project collaborators, at state and national levels. Achieving these objectives involves two central tasks: first, developing a technical infrastructure that demonstrates a novel approach to creating an affordable, scaleable, and potentially ubiquitous district-wide networking architecture; and second, developing the necessary human infrastructure by creating: Novel and scaleable approaches to teacher training and ongoing staff development. A core set of applications that support district-wide reform efforts. Opportunitie s to involve the community, including teachers, parents and students in a wide range of authoring projects. A model for state and national network-based K-12 reform efforts. New Jersey's SSI and associated NIE project are a primary audience for this model. At the conclusion of this three year effort, the project will have ensured the development of technical, training, and design expertise at the local level, so that the project's technical and human infrastructure can be maintained and further developed, and continue to serve as a model to other school districts .