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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:20:48 EST
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- From: Patt Bromberger <patt@squid.tram.com>
- Subject: Re: Help/Advice on K-12 Network Advantages
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- On Dec 10, 2:04pm, ccnysci!mcis.messiah.edu!dsmith wrote:
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- } I have a problem. A teacher in the Harrisburg, PA school district has been
- } offered the opportunity to hook up to the net via modem to a local Penn State
- } campus. However, his school superintendent does not see the need for it and
- } wants him to provide information on how it could benefit the teacher and his
- } students to have access to the net. In other words, this teacher needs to
- } justify his request because of the administrator's lack of knowledge about
- } networking.
- }
- } [deleted for brevity]
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- Best advice: contact Dr. Robert D. Carlitz at U/Pittsburgh; he hosts
- KIDSNET and has answers to all your questions -- probably in the
- KIDSNET archives; all of these questions have already been asked by
- teachers who have had to justify an Internet connection to a
- less than understanding administrator [chortle]!
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- email address: rdc@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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- Good luck!
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