Introduction
Melanie Goldman (mgoldman@bbn.com)
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 02:19:46 -0500
Hi - I am Melanie Goldman, Director of the National School Network project
at BBN Corporation. The National School Network is a community of over 400
organizations - schools, institutions, government agencies and corporations
who use networking in support of systemic change in education at local
levels. Operates the NSN "Exchange" (http://nsn.bbn.com) a national
electronic meeting place, pioneering on-line events for students and
teachers. The "Exchange" is based on the pioneering model that each member
institution is both a consumer and a contributor through the networks, of
services and content for the others. Through its experience with the
"Exchange" over the past three years, the NSN has learned how to develop,
promote, and deliver online activities, attracting participants from all
over the country, rural and inner city, helping them integrate the
technology into the curriculum, and to share and learn from each other.
The NSN has also created a web-based telementoring tool, NetPals,
(http://nsn.bbn.com/community/rs_telementor/netpal.shtml) which provides a
structured environment and administrative tools to support an iterative
exchange between submitters and reviewers.
Before coming to BBN, I worked at Harvard University for over 13 years and
among other things pioneered the use of the Internet across the campus and
worked to get Massachusetts schools online. I was also a member of the
Steering Committee that founded and managed the New England Regional
network NEARNet starting back in 1989.
Melanie Goldman
Co-Principal Investigator
National School Network
BBN, Corp.
70 Fawcett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617 873 4653
mgoldman@bbn.com
http://nsn.bbn.com