Saturday, February 16, 2008

Internet2

Internet2

Wow, how could this have existed since 1996 and I have not even heard even a whisper about it before this article? I found this article very interesting. Is this the future that would allow our students to connect to educational sites when they are completing research projects? Often the students are blocked out of valuable information at school when doing research projects such as abortion and other subjects that might be considered risky. Is this a possibility that we as educational institution could have access to this and not even know it.

From what I understand from this article, if you are part of a K-12 institution and are connected to the state’s educational networks it is a possibility that your school might be connected and not even realize it. I tried to run the applet to check and see if we are but either we are not or our tech coordinator has certain components blocked that will not allow me to run the applet on the school network. This is a good possibility.

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