• Maryland NetWeekend -- September, 1996
  Since the focus of NetWeekend was on wiring schools, we felt it was important that there be "something waiting" for teachers in schools that actually succeeded in connecting to the Internet. To help make up for the lack of focus on training, we
  • produced and provided all Maryland public schools with a booklet entitled "Teaching With the Internet"

  • provided schools scheduled for wiring as a part of Maryland's NetWeekend with a packet including
    • a videotape extract of the ASCD's "Teaching and Learning with the Internet"
    • several books and pamphlets, and
    • disks containing sample "offline" Web sites and a web page containing a large collection of links to educational sites.

• Spring-Into-The-Net Workshops -- Spring 1997
  We felt that a decentralized model of teacher-training-teachers workshops might hold the most promise of making teacher training widely available, quickly, at minimum expense. This was a preliminary experiment with that model.

• Net Mentors -- Fall 1997
  In the Fall of 1997 NetVision began a project connecting net-experienced teachers as mentors with teachers in schools interested in doing curriculum-related Internet projects. From the applications of schools that requested assistance in the 1997 Maryland NetWeekend effort, those expressing an interest in doing a curriculum-related project were sent a mailing extending the offer of a mentor. Mentors were recruited from previous NetVision training efforts and experienced, interested teachers in the general MDK-12 community. This experimental project, involving about fifteen schools, is still very much in progress.

NETVISION RESOURCES

• Teaching and Learning With the Internet (the "Yellow Book")

• Spring-Into-The-Net teacher training materials

• Collection of K-12 Web Sites

• Journals and Periodicals for WWW/Internet Information

• Grants and Funding for Educators (sites on the Web)