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Now Available
February, 1996
MacArthur Foundation Funded Project by the EPIE
Institute Releases Major Report on Achieving
Practical School and School/Home Networking
"Creating Learning Communities: Practical, Universal Networking
for Learning in Schools and Homes" -- A Report for School
and Community Technology Planners and Policymakers (165 pages)
[Not to be confused with Doug Schuler's new book, but hopefully
complementary]
P. Kenneth Komoski W. Curtiss Priest, Center for
EPIE Institute Information, Technology & Society
Project Director Associate Project Director
Availability:
We encourage people on the Internet to send for a paper copy. The report
contains numerous figures and charts produced with Postscript tools and
employs "dingbats" to highlight text. The entire report is 1,300K
in size. While we find the Internet useful for distributing short
documents, we believe a document of this size is best viewed on paper.
We hope you won't consume copious amounts of time downloading and printing
the document yourself. But for those of you with a Macintosh on something
distinctly faster than a 2400 baud modem --
Available at cosn.org:
(CoSN is the Consortium for School Networking)
This file, a readme README 3K
Sections 1-2, a Macintosh Word 4.0 file: EPIE-1-2 hqx 384K
Sections 3-4, a Macintosh Word 4.0 file: EPIE-3-4 hqx 303K
Section 5, a Macintosh Word 4.0 file: EPIE-5 hqx 180K
Bibliography, a Macintosh Word 4.0 file: EPIE-B hqx 180K
[These are in BinHex. BinHex is a utility on the Macintosh that
takes a string of mailable characters and creates the actual
Word file. A BinHex decoder is available from
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac or a similar site.]
Available from EPIE:
EPIE Institute, 103-3 W. Montauk Highway, Hampton Bays, NY 11946
Include check for $9 (includes shipping)
Sections:
1. Achieving Practical Networking: "Do's, Don'ts, Maybe's and Lessons"
Creating Practical Networks within Schools, in Local Communities
(School-Home), and for Worldwide Connectivity
2. "Home is Where the Time is ... and the Payoff for Improving
School Learning"
Increasing the Quantity and Enhancing the Quality of At-home
Learning and Improving Parent-Teacher-Student Communication via
Equitable School-Home-Community Networking
3. K-12 Networking -- Models and Benefits
"Do the Benefits Justify the Costs?" Modeling the Potential
Impact of Networking on the Development of a Learning
Community
4. An Achievable Vision
Making Tomorrow Happen With Today's Technology
Appendix A -- School-Home Computer Survey Form
Appendix B -- Bibliography (670 references including 100's of URLs)
Survey Results:
Community Networks Reaching Out to Schools
Practical Networking Suggestings from CoSN
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