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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS From
the New Hampshire Department of Education ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ET News is sent from the Office of Educational Technology at the New Hampshire Department of Education. Please note that, while ET News is forwarding information about technology related products and services, we have not conducted a formal evaluation of such products/services. We encourage you to let us know if you find a particular item of high quality and value to your school. You can find previous issues of ETNews on our web site at www.nheon.org/oet/etnews . ============================================ http://www.nheon.org/oet/survey02/ We are aware that many schools have had difficulty accessing the online School Technology Survey and Tech Planning Approval Rubric in the past two weeks. Please be aware that we are trying to address technical issues as quickly as we can. We appreciate your patience with the temperamental nature of these online tools. Due to the delays you have experienced accessing these tools, we have adjusted the deadline for submitting this data. The old deadline for both the survey and the plan was November 1st. The new deadline for both is December 1, 2002. When you do try to access either tool, please be sure to clear your browser’s cache before you start. Also, please note that your school ID is a five digit number assigned by the DOE. It is not the seven digit NCES code. Contact us if you can’t locate your code.
http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ Form 486 is now available for filing online in the Apply Online/View Forms area of the web site. This online form can be used for Funding Years 2001 and 2002. The Form 486 is in a scannable PDF format. Online filers must use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or higher to successfully complete the form. If you would like to download this free software, you may do so from PDF Help located in the Reference Area of this web site. Please note the following: 1. No Save & Exit. At this time, you must complete your Form 486 in one session - no Save & Exit function exists. After submitting your online Form 486, you may certify your form either online or on paper. When the Save & Exit functionality is available, a notice to that effect will be posted on this web site. 2. Printing Your Form. When you have completed entering data on the last page of the form, you must click on the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page. You will then see a dialog box with the message that the information on your form has been successfully submitted. If you want a printed copy of your form, you must then click on the "Print" button on this page before you click on the "E-cert" button or exit the form. You will not be able to print a complete copy of your form after you click on the "E-cert" button. This printed form will feature your Form 486 Application ID in the upper left-hand corner of pages 1 and 7. 3. E-certifying Your Form. If you click on the "E-cert" button and then successfully submit your certification online, you will get a dialog box with your Cert ID Number. This means your form has been successfully certified online.
http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ ============================================ The MarcoPolo program has been very well received all across New Hampshire. Many, many teachers have discovered the excellent online resources available on the MarcoPolo website. Some of you have used the NHEON curriculum frameworks area to locate MarcoPolo content aligned to NH standards. We know that with the WorldCom issues that arose this year, many of you have been wondering whether the MarcoPolo Program will survive. This recent announcement from MarcoPolo indicates good news: “MarcoPolo, an education-technology program founded by MCI in 1997 and, more recently, supported solely by WorldCom, will continue to receive financial support. MarcoPolo brings unmatched value in online Internet content and teacher training to our nation’s educators. MarcoPolo has been built on trust, honesty, and integrity: unwavering values that ensure quality is never compromised, and decisions are driven by data and educator needs. WorldCom
has long recognized that MarcoPolo was emerging as a national treasure
for education, one that would require diverse and multiple funding sources.
Initial planning had been underway by WorldCom to start a new and independent
foundation called the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, and due to the circumstances
surrounding WorldCom this foundation has been put in place. This entity
will attract broader support and diverse leadership from public and private
sources to ensure MarcoPolo will be available to all teachers and students
in perpetuity. Although the WorldCom Foundation will no longer provide grants or gifts, WorldCom Inc. will continue its core funding this year, and will allocate an additional $6 million beginning in 2003 to support core MarcoPolo components through contractual arrangements for content and program development, administrative and management expenses, and other direct expenses associated with the MarcoPolo effort. Parallel to WorldCom’s efforts the new MarcoPolo Education Foundation, now established, will seek funds and in-kind support from government, private foundations and business. The goal of the additional funding is to reestablish and achieve the aggressive goals for MarcoPolo which were agreed to by our Content partners and all 50 states: train 2.4 million teachers, provide 3300 interactive lessons and thousands of educational resources across the K-12 curriculum, and reach one million on-going teacher users by 2005. With a diverse and independent board and long-term funding in place, the MarcoPolo Education Foundation will be well positioned to assume management of MarcoPolo and address the country’s education priorities related to quality teacher training, state standards, student assessment, and support for underserved schools. MarcoPolo is alive and growing. An advanced MarcoPolo web site was recently launched adding new resources for teachers and state education agencies. The newest MarcoPolo site - ReadWriteThink - under the direction of the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English will be launched in the next several weeks. We are pleased to announce MarcoPolo, a national treasure, will be saved for the benefit of millions of teachers and students for generations to come.”
From Jay
Anderson of EarthWalk Communications: Regards, *** Visit us on the NHEON.ORG web site at www.nheon.org |
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