US/ND-3: Re: [Fwd: BELLSOUTH TO PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS IN SCHOOLS]]

Re: [Fwd: BELLSOUTH TO PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS IN SCHOOLS]]

Diane Midness (dmidness@nando.net)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:53:43 +0200 

[Moderator's Note:  Some of you will view this as a duplicate posting;
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I have not quoted the message that I am responding to.  I just want to
say how our local BellSouth representatives have helped us.  In 1995 our
school district won a grant from the Nortel Education in Excellence
Program. The main benefit of the grant was to spend a week at their
National Institute.  We spent the week with the likes of Bill Daggert,
Alan November, and David Thornberg.  Nortel sent a representative from
our local telecommunciations (telco) program with us.  Our project
included our high school, a middle school and Exploris (a new museum
opening in our city).  One of the biggest benefits we had was from this
was the excitement of our telco rep from BellSouth.  She convinced
BellSouth to test a prototype for a Wide Area Network for our school
system using those of us participating in the project, including the
nonprofit museum that has no official connection with the school
system.  In the process, North Carolina State University also became one
of our partners.  What a wonderful relationship this has formed that
will profit the whole school system.  Just today I received a call from
our telco saying she was trying to get internet accounts for the
teachers that are in our local Telecommunications in Education (TIE)
user group.  We did not have to ask for any of this.  They are eager to
help us.  In turn I continually harp that we need to be able to help
ourselves.  
-- 
Diane Midness                   dmidness@nando.net
Media Coordinator        http://www.webbuild.com/~dmidness/
Enloe High School    http://www1.enloe.wake.k12.nc.us/enloe/enloe.html
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA