NJ
of Education's announcement of Florence McGinn's
National Teacher of the Year status
http://ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1999/webco.html
Congressman Rush Holt's announcement of Florence
McGinn's role on the US Congressional Commission on
Web-based Education at
http://www.house.gov/rholt/p052499webedu.htm
US Secretary of Education Riley's announcement
of Florence McGinn's appointment to the US Congressional
Commission on Web-based Education at
http://ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1999/webco.html
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GKE Learning System was developed by Florence
McGinn with pilot project students through generous
support from HCRHS and grants and assistance
from the AT&T Learning Network, AT&T,
Johnson & Johnson, GKE, Lucent Technology,
the Hunterdon Foundation, Macromedia Corporation,
Bose Corporation, and many others. Articles
about these innovative projects can be referenced
at
"The
Kids and I Learned Together" by Andrew
Trotter in TECHNOLOGY COUNTS at http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc99/articles/t-profile.htm |
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"Internet-empowered
Learning" by Martha Goodall in PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER at http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/21/tech_life/WEB21.htm
"A New View on Writing," at NEA TODAY
ONLINE at
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9810/bits.html
THE BRACEY REPORT
http://www.millennaire.com/brarchive5.html
"Fully Wired for Learning" Newsday.com
article by Stephanie McCrummen
http://future.newsday.com/11/fmon1129.htm
Philadelphia Inquirer article: "Learning
OnLine"
http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/2:TECHREPORT/2:TECHREPORT0326100.html
"Life Long Learning Taken to a New Level"
by Martha Woodall, Knight Ridder Newspapers.
Article about technology in a classroom that "state
officials have dubbed the classroom of the future."
http://www.newstimes.com/archive2000/mar15/cpi.htm
Science Citations Article Review
http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/bibliographies/science.html
"Poetry in Motion " article by Stephanie
Chang from ACCESS magazine
http://asweb.unco.edu/kosovoconnecti/Conference/Presentations/access_magazine_article.htm
Mrs.
McGinn's pilot classroom
http://www.binc.org/html/projects11.htm
referenced in Congressional testimony by Joan Fenwick,
AT&T Learning Network's National Director
http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/testimony.html
http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/testimony.html#K-12
quoted in John O'Neill's article, "US
Students and Technological Evolution"
http://www.usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0600/ijse/oneiltech.htm
quoted in Electronic School's It's the Tops'
"Teaching Teachers OnLine" article
http://www.electronic-school.com/199906/0699f2.html
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The
GKE Learning System's innovation, process, and
depth of learner empowerment can be seen in actual
student product from the
Home Page of ELECTRIC SOUP: HCRHS and AT&T
grant-supported pilot project based on teaching
methodologies and concepts developed by Florence
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McGinn
and her students. This award-winning project has
received a New Jersey Best Educational Practices
Award, been presented before New Jersey Governor
Whitman at Princeton University, and received
a New Jersey Association of School Curriculum
Award.
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/
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International
Project work developed at HCRHS and created through
the employment of the GKE Learning System and facilitated
by GKE can be viewed at
Student
work mentored by Mrs. McGinn and utilizing the GKE
Learning System include CyberLit, ELECTRIC SOUP, and
the Multimedia Electronic Portfolios; these are on
permanent display at the NEA Washington DC Museum
Exhibit, "Making the Grade"
http://www.makingthegrade.org/pr_000720.html
http://www.att.com/press/1097/971022.chb.html
University of California, Irvine, in Interactive Classroom
at
http://www.gse.uci.edu/doehome/DeptInfo/Facilities/iclass.html
Emerson College, Academic Technology Lab at
http://www.emerson.edu/ac/lab/atl.html
Advanced Information Technology Center at
http://www.accd.edu/is/html/aitc.html
"The Impact of the Physical Environment on Computer
Training"
by Irene E. McDermott at
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan98/story1.htm
T.H.E. JOURNAL at
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A886.cfm
1997 Press Release, "Governor Pataki Opens New
York Wired For
Education
Center" at http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/OCT1_4_97.html
Referenced by West Bloomfield School District, Michigan
at
http://www.westbloomfield.k12.mi.us/technology/overview.html
Referenced in paper, "Dilemmas of Implementing
IT Strategic Planning" by
Valerie Jackson Feinman, presented at the OLA/OLITA/OCULA
Superconference
2000, Toronto, ON, available at
http://www.adelphi.edu/~feinmanv/Olita.html
Referenced on the Bronx Information Network User Support
resources page
http://www.binc.org/html/user-support.htm
http://www.binc.org/html/technology.htm
Referenced by the Delaware Library Conference and
Technology Education
Center at
http://www.lib.de.us/training/
Further,
related press is available at
Within
Chapter 4 of WILL TECHNOLOGY REALLY CHANGE
EDUCATION?
FROM BLACKBOARD TO WEB. AUTHORS: Todd W. Kent (Princeton
University) and Robert F. McNergney (University of
Virginia) Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1999.
http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/bibliographies/techchange.html
Article
on "Fair Use" on the Internet by Florence
McGinn
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/fairuse.html
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/public.html
Writing
using a professional poem as source
http://www.archivegoddess.simplenet.com/ds/hawkmountain.html
USA
Today Gender article
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctd635.htm
US
Secretary of Education's Conference: Featured
Speakers
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/techconf/2000/speakers.html
"The
Immortal Transcendence of Myth" Essay by
Florence McGinn
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/hipsite/questtheory/litessay.htm
KidsChat:
US Dept of Education & K12 Nation
http://www.air-dc.org/forum/KidsChat.htm
http://www.k12nation.net/chat/2000/06/k12n_chatarchive-doe.html
Merit
Network's Teach for Tomorrow: Module 8, Multimedia in
the Classroom
http://tft.merit.edu/mod8/lesson3.html
Tegrity
Corporation article and quote
http://www.tegrity.com/ptr_hunter.html
http://www.tegrity.com/ptr_ss.html
quoted
by Macromedia and Winstar
http://www.saintrochtree.com/pr/000008.htm
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2000/winstar_contents.html
Triangle
Coalition Electronic Bulletin: Commission Begins Study
of On-Line Materials article on hearing where Mrs.
McGinn and students testified
http://www.triangle-coalition.org/tceb/2000/tceb021700.htm
NJN
Launches New Teacher Training Series
http://www.njn.net/njnguide/foc98jan.html
Article:
"Fair Use Copyright" by Mrs. McGinn, Emily
Judson, and Douglas Gorton
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/fairuse.html
On
Kawabata's book, SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN
http://www.rsbd.net/pages/travel_3.htm
NEA
OnLine, article "A New View on Writing"
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9810/bits.html
Singapore:
Florence McGinn, Official Opening of IT Labs
http://www.acjc.edu.sg/news/webarticles/ooitlab.html
Students
from Mrs. McGinn's classes write on digital age innovation
in College of New Jersey's UNBOUND http://www.tcnj.edu/~unbound/features/old/feats00/mains00.html
Florence
McGinn quoted in "Effect of Internet on Education"
article at
http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/student/maicherr/2.htm
Florence
McGinn has discussed electronic publishing on New
Jersey Network's NJ Caucus show, "The Shape of
Things to Come."
http://205.247.5.34/flo.htm
Florence
McGinn is a published poet. As part of her published
Language Arts lessons plans, PBS created a PBS Haiku
Gallery to support interactivity with her published
Frank Lloyd Wright lesson plan: Poetry of Form: Frank
Lloyd Wright and Haiku
http://www.pbs.org/flw/resources/index.html
Florence McGinn and Dr. Roland Pare,
Director of Information Systems at Hunterdon Central
Regional High School, collaboratively write software
reviews for Multimedia Schools Magazine. From
this site, you can click into one of their reviews.
http://www.infotoday.com/mmschools/MMStocs/nov97toc.htm
Florence McGinn and her students
have testified before the Congressional Commission
on Web-based Learning as expert witnesses in the area
of technology-assisted learning.
http://www.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/disk2/news/wash.html
As part of PBS FrontLine's
introduction of its documentary, Jefferson's Blood,
the published work of Mrs. McGinn's students was on
television and on the Internet. To view two of the
published student manuscripts:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/diversity/jefferson/gallery.html
Florence McGinn has developed strategies
to empower students in learning process theories and
enable them to participate in their own lesson planning.
This concept has now expanded to students demonstrating
the ability to write professional lesson plans for
teacher usage. Florence McGinn's former student Sujay
Pandit has had his student-written lesson plan used
in class, and SAS Institute's MidLink Magazine is
highlighting them. His site with the student-produced
artifacts from his propaganda lesson is called "Political
Dragon" and is at http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall00/congress/index.html
His actual lesson plan is published on the Dirksen
Congressional Center's site at http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/SPPropoganda.htm
And, for assessment, a student-produced assessment
rubric is at
http://www.congresslink.org/rubric.pdf
His lesson plan's objectives can be found at
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall00/congress/index.html#lesson
An interview with former student Sujay Pandit is found
at
http://webcommunicator.congresslink.org/archive-11-01-00.htm
Mrs. McGinn's former student Neela Mookerjee's student-written
Amending the Constitution lesson plan is at http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/NMAmending.htm
