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Examples: Teacher Telecommunications

A teacher at Open Charter School
communicating over the network

At the Open Charter School, one of the teachers we interviewed had done a number of joint projects with teachers at another school. Both students and teachers have shared ideas and project products over the network.

Teachers at Open and at the West High School ACOT communicate with other classrooms supported by Apple.

At Hawthorne Elementary School there are plans to connect the teachers using CSILE with other CSILE classroom teachers next year. Project Galaxy was supposed to include communication among teachers at different sites, but problems with getting the technology to work properly led teachers to give up such efforts.

At Northbrook Middle School the industrial arts teacher uses the network to communicate with other industrial arts teachers and the coordinator for his district, and the computer literacy teacher communicates with her peers throughout the state, but other teachers we interviewed did not report active use of the network for such purposes during SY1993-94.

At the Ralph Bunche Computer Mini-School, the computer coordinator makes extensive use of the network to interact with people interested in educational uses of telecommunications on a national level. The Mini-School's other teachers have made little use of their wide-area network connection for such purposes, however.