Re: Summaries

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Summary of the Dissemination Discussion

While nothing was solved in the discussion a number of issues were
raised.  The discussion began with a few provocative comments
including:

* Creating products that for-profit companies market is the most
  effective form of project dissemination.

* Even research projects should devote major resources to
  identifying, creating, and supporting products.

* The relationships between grants and marketing companies can
  become too chummy; clearer guidelines are needed.

* Workshops for a few teachers and presentations at professional
  meetings are inefficient dissemination strategies.

Only one dissemination approach appears to have been funded by NIE.
The Well Connected Educator, was funded last fall for dissemination.
The Well Connected Educator is an on-line publishing center and forum
for those in the K-12 community to write and talk about educational
technology.

But there appear to be uncertainty about what the NIE expectations and
goals of any dissemination effort should be.  The possible goals
identifies for dissemination include:

* being recognized in academic circles
* local community knows about project
* participants know how to use results
* products getting used by other than project participants in
  both the local community and the national community or even
  internationally
* creating products that are marketed by for-profit companies.

Agreement wasn't reached on the definition nor were solutions, other
than the 'Well Connected Educator' identified, but there's a set of
issues to focus on at the conference.

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