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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
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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
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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
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Directions for April 29 Meeting
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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.
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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
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********************************************* Riley Announces
New
One-Stop Web Site for Teaching & Learning Resources (April 8,
1998)
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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.
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Federal agencies & organizations
contributing to the FREE web site:
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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
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