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Dear Friends & Colleagues in the American Memory program , Holiday greetings. I wanted to let folks know about this opportunity to expand your schools' work with new digital media. As some of you might remember, I help to run the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at City University of NY. Starting next summer, ASHP's New Media Classroom program will be offering an unusual opportunity to deepen and extend the important work on teaching, learning, and technology already taking place in your classrooms. I've attached an RFP announcement that outlines the program and ways to get additional information. Proposals are due shortly after the New Year. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. We are particularly interested in school/college collaborations. For more information, please contact my associate, Donna Thompson, ASHP's Assistant Education Director for New Media Programs, at [log in to unmask] Or you can go directly to the ASHP web http://www.ashp.cuny.edu. I hope this finds you well. Best for the new year! Bret Eynon ***************************************************** The American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, in collaboration with the Crossroads Project (of the American Studies Association), is pleased to invite proposals to create new regional programs to be part of the New Media Classroom - Expanding Horizons national network for the 2000-2001 school year. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New Media Classroom is a national faculty development program which helps educators examine the promise and problems of integrating digital resources in the humanities classroom. NMC Regional Centers bring faculty together forhands-on workshops and reflective discussion, exploring active learning strategies for using content-rich digital resources to help students develop deeper understandings of American history and culture. Each Regional Center selects a broad curricular theme to highlight; examples have included immigration and migration studies; studies of the Western Plains; and "Crossing Urban Boundaries." The defining characteristic of the NMC approach to faculty development is a thoughtful, classroom-based discussion that addresses content and pedagogy as well as technology. NMC Regional Centers help faculty share insights and generate innovative curriculum while deepening and rethinking their classroom practice. NMC Regional Centers are responsible for hosting a summer institute and school-year follow-up workshops for 20-30 teachers. NMC National Faculty will help design and co-lead summer institutes and provide leadership training for selected local faculty leaders. Nationally, the program offers all participating faculty opportunities to take part in on-line seminars and materials development projects. NMC Regional Centers receive support services and re-grant funds worth up to $ 45,000. The re-grant assumes significant in-kind contributions from participating institutions. Those who may apply include colleges/universities, secondary schools, museums and cultural studies organizations, professional associations, community service groups, and other comparable non-profit organizations. NMC encourages applications from school/college collaborations, schools of education, and institutions serving low-income and under-resourced groups. The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning administers the NMC program through the Graduate School and University Center of City University of New York (CUNY). Existing NMC programs are based at Washington State University, Tulsa Community College, Pennsylvania's Millersville University, the Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as NYC high schools and the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. Application materials and additional information are available on the ASHP/CML web site at http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/rfp.html. All application materials must be received by Friday, January 5, 2000. Awards will be announced in February. Questions about the application process or eligibility requirements: contact Donna Thompson, Assistant Education Director for New Media Programs, via email at [log in to unmask]