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Kam Matray (kmatray@nps.navy.mil)
Sat, 29 Mar 1997 07:31:34 -0800
Kam Matray from Monterey, CA - hello, again=8A
In brief - I facilitate the R&D group for the Monterey Peninsula Unified
School District. I hesitate to use head, direct, lead etc. because so much
of our work is undertaken with many other agencies; in this kind of milieu
"leadership" takes on a different quality. (For that matter collaborative
leadership takes on a different quality when using networking tools to
"manage" something.)
I've been plugged into educ tech since way back as a practitioner, trainer,
manager, and instructor. Among my more practical experiences was directing
one of California's five "Model Technology Schools" projects for its
duration from 1985-93. Currently I serve also as PI for the collaborative
group that is building one of the "virtual field trip" prototypes in the
=8Afrom Abyss to Andromeda series.
Virtual Canyon is a prototype development project hopefully to be completed
in September 1997. The intent is to build an interactive learning system
for students in grades K-12. Here students they can work on real-life
research projects where they select and
manipulate online tools to explore the Monterey Canyon, access video
footage from a research institute's remotely operated vehicle (ROV),
conduct research
projects in a virtual canyon and virtual research lab, and post the methods
and findings of their research in a gallery on the web for other students
to review and utilize in subsequent research (a form of collaborative
learning in the long term, perhaps). Postings might take the form of a
research paper, drawing, poetry, story, song or=8A This reiterative process
depends upon the real world of science research, its willingness to share
its data sests, and the real world of human questioning and curiosity.
>Melanie, Frank, Jillaine, Jim, et al.,
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> Thanks for the contributions. For those who have not spoken up yet,
>we'd like to see:
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>* a short introduction from each of you
>* with a line or two about your best experience at (or your thoughts on) u=
sing
> networking tools for collaboration.
>
Kam Matray - PI, Virtual Canyon Project
Research & Development Group
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
Box 1031 * 700 Pacific Street
Monterey, California 93942-1031
voice 408.899.9414 fax 408.899.3224
kmatray@nps.navy.mil
kmatray@monterey.k12.ca.us