Forwarded to FEDLIB list: ------------------------ Please post in Federal areas! DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: FED Funding for FED Organizations Online Content *********** RESPOND TO: [log in to unmask] FUNDING For Federal Online Content development! Meeting April 29. www.ed.gov/free For interested FEDERAL AGENCIES/Fed Employees only! Dept of Ed, 600 Independence Ave. SW, Rm 2411, April 29, 2pm ---- Agencies wanting to partner with teachers to create Learning Modules about their FEDERAL ORGANIZATION CONTENT, can attend. There are 7 awards for $50,000 each and 10 awards for $5,000. ONLY Federal organizations can apply. Please encourage teachers to partner with you. See press release below. You do NOT have to register for the meeting but a response is appreciated to [log in to unmask] The due date for the APPLICATION/PROPOSALS is May 19. FREE Working Group Members (and other Federal employees): Please join us for this meeting. And we need your help! If you know of individuals in your agency who are thinking of submitting a proposal (to develop Internet-based learning modules & communities), could you please invite them to a meeting of the FREE Working Group & other interested federal employees on Wednesday, April 29, 2:00 - 3:30. The purpose of this meeting is for individuals in federal agencies that are considering submitting a proposal to have a chance to ask questions & get answers. We will also offer a brief demo of the FREE website & a quick overview of the Invitation. Can you please get this message to any of your colleagues who you think are interested? Please note that this meeting is for federal employees only. (The Invitation is at: http://www.ed.gov/free/980406.html) I apologize for this late notice. Kirk Winters U.S. Department of Education [log in to unmask] ------------------------------- Directions for April 29 Meeting ------------------------------- 600 Independence Avenue, SW, Barnard Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Room 2411. Just across the street (south) from the National Air & Space Museum. Parking can be difficult. The L'Enfant metro stop (on the blue/orange & yellow/green lines) is just across the street, if you take the 7th Street & Maryland exit on the top level. ******************************************* PROJECT BELOW A NEW ONE-STOP WEB SITE for teaching & learning resources was announced today by Secretary Riley. The web site, "Federal Resources for Educational Excellence," (FREE) offers... * quick access to hundreds of teaching & learning resources across the federal government. * a place where teachers, federal agencies & other organizations can begin forming partnerships to develop new resources for teaching & learning. * information about an effort to support partnerships of federal agencies & teachers, as well as other organizations, to develop Internet-based learning resources & Internet-based learning communities. We in the Department of Education have had the honor & good fortune to work on this, during the past 9 months, with dozens of talented, committed individuals in more than 35 federal agencies. They have given countless hours to help develop this web site. We want to thank these individuals, collectively known as the FREE working group. And on behalf of the FREE working group, we invite you to visit the site, explore it & tell us what you think. Our hope is that this is just a first step! The FREE web site is at: http://www.ed.gov/free A press release announcing the web site is below. Kirk Winters, Peter Kickbush, Linda Roberts, Keith Stubbs & Cindy Balmuth U.S. Department of Education [log in to unmask] ********************************************* Riley Announces New One-Stop Web Site for Teaching & Learning Resources (April 8, 1998) ********************************************* Hundreds of federal resources for teaching & learning can now be found at one web site, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley announced today. "This new web site, *Federal Resources for Educational Excellence* (FREE), offers one-stop shopping for a treasure trove of historical documents, scientific experiments, mathematical challenges, famous paintings, and other tools for teachers & students," Riley said. A search of the web site produces dozens of resources for teaching & learning from more than 35 federal agencies. Thousands of topics can be searched -- the Civil War, the Constitution, photosynthesis, condensation, immigration, Picasso, Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Cassatt, Jackie Robinson, the Amistad Case, the America Reads Challenge, famous FBI cases, cartography, genealogy, the Renaissance, calculus simulations, "today in history," the human genome project, epidemiology, "the African American odyssey," the solar system, the microbe zoo, and others. Resources can also be viewed in 12 subject areas. "More than 35 federal agencies have collaborated for nearly a year on this effort," Riley said. "Their work -- this web site - - offers a glimpse of how government can use technology to serve citizens in ways barely dreamed of a decade ago." The FREE site was developed in response to a directive President Clinton issued nearly a year ago. It can help make compelling online resources available in every school, which is part of the president's Technology Literacy Challenge. The four goals of this challenge are: * All teachers will be trained to help students learn through computers & the information superhighway; * All students & teachers will have access to modern computers; * All schools & classrooms will be linked to the information superhighway; and, * High-quality software & online resources will be part of the curriculum in every school. "FREE is just a first step," Riley said. "And it is more than just another web site. It is a place where federal agencies & teachers can begin forming partnerships to develop additional high-quality, standards-based resources for teaching & learning." To that end, the Education Department today announced support for up to seven partnerships of federal agencies & teachers, as well as other organizations. Each partnership will develop two products: * A set of Internet-based learning resources organized around a particular topic & tied to challenging academic standards. A set of resources might include, for instance, student activities, teaching ideas, primary documents, artifacts, scientific tools, and data sets; and, * An Internet-based learning community -- a community of teachers, students & others who use & contribute to that set of resources. Proposals must be submitted by federal agencies on behalf of each partnership & must be received by May 19, 1998. The invitation requesting proposals & the complete application are at: http://www.ed.gov/free/980406.html Teachers & organizations interested in participating are invited to post a message on the "Looking for Partners" area of the FREE web site, at: http://www.ed.gov/free/partner.html The FREE web site is at: http://www.ed.gov/free Attached is a list of federal agencies & federal organizations that participated in the FREE Working Group, which developed the FREE web site. ================================== Federal agencies & organizations contributing to the FREE web site: ================================== 1. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 2. Agency for International Development 3. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention 4. Consumer Product Safety Commission 5. Corporation for National Service 6. Department of Agriculture 7. Department of Army 8. Department of Commerce 9. Department of Defense 10. Department of Education 11. Department of Energy 12. Department of Health & Human Services 13. Department of Housing & Urban Development 14. Department of Interior 15. Department of Justice 16. Department of Labor 17. Department of State 18. Department of Transportation 19. Department of the Treasury 20. Environmental Protection Agency 21. Federal Emergency Management Agency 22. Federal Maritime Commission 23. General Services Administration 24. High Performance Computing & Communication 25. Kennedy Center 26. Library of Congress 27. National Aeronautics & Space Administration 28. National Archives & Records Administration 29. National Endowment for the Arts 30. National Endowment for the Humanities 31. National Gallery of Art 32. National Park Service 33. National Science Foundation 34. National Security Agency 35. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 36. Office of Personnel Management 37. Peace Corps 38. Securities & Exchange Commission 39. Smithsonian Institution 40. Social Security Administration 41. U.S. Geological Survey 42. U.S. Information Agency 43. U.S. International Trade Commission 44. U.S. Postal Service 45. The White House --IMA.Boundary.190224398 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="RFC822 message headers" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RFC822 message headers" Received: from secfw2.sec.gov (162.138.246.3) by smtpgate.sec.gov with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.11 Enterprise) id 000DC993; Wed, 22 Apr 98 17:40:19 -0400 Received: by secfw2.sec.gov; id RAA13320; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:39:01 -0400 Received: from vader.ed.gov(165.224.216.253) by secfw2.sec.gov via smap/slg (V2.0) id sma013317; Wed Apr 22 17:38:57 1998 Received: from smtpgwy1.ed.gov (smtpgwy1.ed.gov [165.224.216.37]) by vader.ed.gov (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA17915; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:41:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccMail by smtpgwy1.ed.gov (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 0014CF91; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:38:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:37:58 -0400 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] (Kirk Winters) Subject: FREE meeting April 29, 2:00 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] (Glynis Long), [log in to unmask] --IMA.Boundary.190224398--