Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh

End of the School Year - Update

• ONLINE - A PPS Internet Event

  On Friday May 17, Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh took a snapshot of Internet activity in the classrooms and homes of PPS teachers and students. We were interested in finding out exactly what Internet activities occured during the time period from midnight to midnight on May 17, 1996. During the day a homepage was created to include all examples. By 4:30, on May 17, ONLINE had processed 97 email messages representing 21 PPS school sites.

  Allderdice High School		Allegheny Middle School
  Bon Air Elementary		Brashear High School
  Carrick High School		Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) High School
  Colfax Elementary School	Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh (CK:P) Office
  Conroy Education Center		East Hills Elementary
  Frick Middle School		Fulton Elementary
  Homewood Montessori		Langley High School
  Liberty Elementary		McCleary Elementary
  Minadeo Elementary		Phillips Elementary
  PPS Administration Building	Spring Hill Elementary
  Westinghouse High School	Woolslair Gifted Center
  

  The day was a great experience. Our staff had a wonderful time showcasing the students and teachers of the Pittsburgh Public Schools who are demonstrating the power of Internet resources in their classroom environments. The ONLINE homepage is located at: http://www.ckp.edu/online.html

  Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh - Sites

  CK:P has now expanded to 20 school sites throughout the district. These include 9 high schools (Allderdice, CAPA, Carrick, Langley, Letsche, Peabody, Perry, Schenley, Westinghouse), 4 middle schools (Allegheny, Frick, Knoxville, Schiller), and 7 elementary schools (East Hills, Fulton, Liberty, McCleary, Phillips, Spring Hill, Woolslair).

  Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh - Users

  As of May 28, there were 3,535 users in the system. Of these, over 1,000 are students at CK:P sites.

  Pittsburgh Public School - Modem Pool

  CK:P users presently dial the University of Pittsburgh or Carnegie-Mellon University modem pool. In September, 1996 the Pittsburgh Public Schools will provide modem access to the Internet for its staff. Please watch for notices of this in the fall. Every PPS staff member who uses the Internet from either home or school using a modem will be effected by this change. The PPS modem pool will offer SLIP, PPS and dial-up access. Once the migration is complete, we will not use the Pitt or CMU modem pool.

  Non-CK:P School Sites

  A number of schools in the district are replicating the CK:P model using school or grant funds. These schools will have access to Internet resources using ISDN connectivity, an Internet server for email, news and WWW access and Internet software on both PCs and Macs. These schools include: Fort Pitt, Pioneer, Vann, Milliones, and Weil. Further information on obtaining Internet connectivity for your school can be obtained from the PPS Division of Computer Services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answer: The best way to obtain help over the summer is to send email with your problem to:

Workshops and Support

• Using email in the K12 curriculum.
• Using newsgroups in the K12 curriculum.
• Using the WWW in the K12 curriculum.
• Creating WWW homepages in html.
• Operating systems.
• Unix server support.

If you are interested in fall workshops look for announcements via the CK:P servers (oberon), the CK:P homepage (/projects/ckp) and the first fall newsletter.

Obtaining Help

Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh
501 Fortieth Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
(412) 622-5930; Fax (412) 622-5935

	Pittsburgh Public Schools - CK:P Staff
Barry Check	check@pps.pgh.pa.us
Priscilla Franklin	franklin@pps.pgh.pa.us
Joseph Kern	kern@pps.pgh.pa.us
Richard Wertheimer	wertheim@pps.pgh.pa.us
Mario Zinga	zinga@pps.pgh.pa.us

	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - CK:P Staff
Peter Berger	peterb@psc.edu
Eugene Hastings	hastings@psc.edu
Gwendolyn Huntoon	huntoon@psc.edu
Chris Rapier	rapier@psc.edu

	University of Pittsburgh - CK:P Project Director
Robert Carlitz	rdc@ckp.edu