Welcome to ISOC-NY

Posted by WWWhatsup on Wednesday March 22, @07:50AM
from the it's-not-all-about-ecommerce dept.

Internet and the Community
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Waverly Center, NYU

Each panelist spoke briefly on how his/her organization has realized the notion of using technology to benefit society. Afterward, there was an open discussion on future needs and possible solutions.

The whole event was recorded on two 1 hour dv tapes. The cue numbers on the left refer to the dv timecode.

media - on demand
25kbps realvideo streaming slideshow of part1
25kbps realvideo streaming slideshow of part of part 2

16kbps mp3 streaming mp3 audio of part1

16kbps mp3 streaming mp3 audio of part2

 
 http://punkcast.com/15/

--pt.1--

Introductions
5:00 moderator's preamble 
 
 http://isoc-ny.org

Chris Lehman, Beacon School
6:21 Beacon School
open systems the future of education - riding the beast 
 
 http://www.beaconschool.org

Ted Nellen - Murray Bergtraum Highschool
9:00 'plant' - 5th grade - 34 computer classroom with help from charles - access - interactive response - community - Ron Edmonds - Frank Macharelli - John Dewey - teacher no longer alone - 2 way street - board of ed 
 

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng

Barbara Fisher and Richard Spiegel, Waterways
18:30 poems - hard copy output - prisons - penpals - streams online - poets online review
questions: rikers 
 
http://www.tenpennyplayers.org
http://sol.tenpennyplayers.org

Bruce Lincoln, HEAVEN, Harlem Renaissance Project
33:00 HEAVEN - community not schools - people - incubator - meeting needs of uneducated - Harlem Renaissance 2001 - Virtual Harlem 
 
http://hubheaven.org
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/text_version/ilt/staff/bel.html

Kathy Dee Zasloff, PASA
43:00 community based organizations - poverty of benefits and access - communicationNET - emphasis on email not web 
 
http://www.pasa.org

Conrad Barclay, MOUSE
53:00 use in schools - mentor system - Washington Irving - 200 boxes - neglected machines - bringing in parents
Chris contrast with corporate MIS bloat - MOUSE good model - make sysadmin a teaching job at teacher pay - Board Of Ed 
 
http://www.mouse.org

--pt.2--

Daniel Kreiss, New York Cares
0.00 ted:(following up Chris) accountability - Board of Ed.
daniel: teachers - New York Cares 
 
http://www.nycares.org

Charles Rawls, Dorsai
14:00 plato's challenge - the thirst to learn - labs - boxes then wires - horse before the cart - life's too short
Chris: jazz 
 
http://www.dorsai.org

Discussion - schools
30:00 richard: techies and teachers must take intiative
ted mireolis: obstacles? - priorities? - action ?
chris: bypass filtering - project connect
ted : board of ed vs parent power 
 
ted66@earthlink.net

Discussion - community
46:00 kathy: 3 ways to act - community - questions - persistence - prioritize communities as well as schools. ted mireolis: approach corporations? 
 
http://pages.nyu.edu/~hmc1
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan

Discussion - women's issues
50:00 women! 
 
http://isoc-ny.org/women
4/20: There is still work to be done on this: