Agenda

• Project planning meetings with the County schools core group

• Baseline evaluation of educational network services in the community and the schools

• Preparatory evaluation of accessibility and usability of existing resources, especially Virgina PEN and BEV

• Initiate a multimedia history of BEV and the virtual school

• Constructing an ethnography of current network use situations -- case studies -- that can contribute to scenario-based design and iterative refinement of enhanced network facilities

• T1 line installation in pilot schools to put on line Riner Middle and High Schools, Beeks Elementary, and Blacksburg Middle and High Schools

• Demonstration / discussion meetings with lead school teachers

• Demonstration equipment acquisition

• HTML for core teachers

• Instructional / project meetings with core school teachers

• Demonstration project development

• Test the capability of desktop videoconferencing to deliver classes among schools

• School Board / Supervisors demonstrations