About Projects and Press
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Research Report of Commission on Web-based Education
The full research report of the Congressional Commission on Web-based Education can be downloaded in pdf format at http://www.hpcnet.org/webcommission

Florence McGinn's article "Modern Assessment" published by Milken Foundation
http://www.mff.org/edtech/article.taf?_function=detail&Content_uid1=281
http://www.mff.org/edtech/article.taf?_function=detail&Content_uid1=282

Article, "The Kids and I Learned Together" by Andrew Trotter in TECHNOLOGY COUNTS at
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc99/articles/t-profile.htm

"Fully Wired for Learning" Newsday.com article by Stephanie McCrummen
http://future.newsday.com/11/fmon1129.htm

Bronx Information Consortium Presentation, "Digital Velocity," with pictures from FlorenceMcGinn's pilot classroom
http://www.binc.org/html/projects11.htm

21st Century Skills: Electric Soup, National Edition Project
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/glimpse4.htm

SchoolNet Teacher's Handbook
Introduction http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/cr_begin/tg.htmlhttp://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/teacherhandbook.pdf

Students as Teachers
http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/wh_stuww.htm

Student Projects from Florence McGinn's pedagogical pilot projects are archived and exhibit at the Washington, DC-based NEA Museum
http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id=3640

Press Releases Related to Florence McGinn's consulting services as GKE Senior Vice President
AESPU Declares GKE Professional Development Seminar a Success
GKE and Jersey Cow Software Announce a Strategic Alliance
GKE Expands Online Resources for Educators and Learners
GKE Launches Online Interview Magazine Incite Education
GKE Announces Membership Agreement with NYIT Education Enterprise Zone (EEZ)
GKE Completes Strategic Professional Development in China
GKE Innovation Cafe Aligns with China Primary English Textbook Series
or at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/11/prweb88862.htm
GKE and Jersey Cow Present at the Global Learning Initiative in Bologna, Italy
or at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb125451.htm
Download Presentation at http://www.edpress.org/gli/programs.htm
GKE Honors Lucy Lee for National Leadership in Chinese Language Instruction
GKE Supports Innovation in Distance Education at Burlington County Community College
GKE Expands Facilities in Beijing

Press Releases Related to Florence McGinn's Interactions with the GKE Foundation
GKEF Taps Neela Mookerjee as Key Facilitator at AESPU Seminar
James Chang and Florence McGinn to Helm GKEF Board
GKEF/CLASS Announce Digital Starlight Award Winners
GKEF Joins CLASS to Recognize Innovative Language Teaching
GKEF to Collaborate with Allied Elementary School of Peking University

Press Releases Related to Florence McGinn's interactions as Mediatech Foundation Vice President
Opening of the Mediatech Center in Flemington, New Jersey
http://www.mediatech.org/pictures.html

Home Page of ELECTRIC SOUP
Florence McGinn designed, launched, and executed this award-winning HCRHS and AT&T grant-supported pilot project. This project has received a New Jersey Best Educational Practices Award, been presented before New Jersey Governor Whitman at Princeton University, and received a New Jersey Association of School Curriculum Award.
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/

International Classroom Project work can be viewed at
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/china/information.html
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/china/
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol12/internat/ketitle.htm
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol12/interview/keyan.htm
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol12/internat/bangladeshtitlepage.htm
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol11/intervw/spisso.htm

Home Page of Honors Imaginative Process Classroom: curriculum created by Florence McGinn
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/hipsite/

Article about Florence McGinn's OnLine Teaching by Bill Robertson, "Teaching Teachers - OnLine" at ElectronicSchool.com
http://www.electronic-school.com/199906/0699f2.html

Technology and Learning Article on Florence McGinn's pedagogies.
http://www.techlearning.com/content/contest/etloy/mcginn.html

NJ of Education's announcement of FlorenceMcGinn's United States National Teacher of the Year status
http://ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1999/webco.html

PBS Teacher's Source, "Writing Across Curriculums"
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/feb02/author.shtm

Oregon Public Broadcasting, "Cold War - Yalta: Peace, Power, and Betrayal"
http://www.opb.org/lmd/coldwar/yalta/credits.html

Science Citations Article Review
http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/bibliographies/science.html

SAS Institute featuring ELECTRIC SOUP:
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall98/hs.htm
http://www.sasinschool.com/news/pages/press2.shtml

Within Chapter 4 of WILL TECHNOLOGY REALLY CHANGE EDUCATION?
FROM BLACKBOARD TO WEB. AUTHORS: Todd W. Kent (Princeton University) and Robert F. McNergney (University of Virginia) Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1999.
http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/bibliographies/techchange.html

Article on "Fair Use" on the Internet by Florence McGinn
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/fairuse.html
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/public.html

Congressional Commission on Web-based Education
http://www.hpcnet.org/webcommission
http://www.ed.gov/offices/AC/WBEC/pressrelease/Feb2pr1.html
http://www.house.gov/rholt/p052499webedu.htm
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1999/webco.html
http://chronicle.com/free/2000/02/2000020401u.htm
http://www2.wiche.edu/Telecom/Archives.htm
http://www.johngage.com/miscPgs/WebComm.html

"The Immortal Transcendence of Myth" Essay by Florence McGinn
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/hipsite/questtheory/litessay.htm

KidsChat: US Dept of Education & K12 Nation
http://www.air-dc.org/forum/KidsChat.htm
http://www.k12nation.net/chat/2000/06/k12n_chatarchive-doe.html

Education World: Desktop Videoconferencing - High School Writers Meet Video Mentors
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr120.shtml

Article, "A New View on Writing," at NEA TODAY ONLINE at
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9810/bits.html

US Secretary of Education Riley's announcement of FlorenceMcGinn's appointment to the US Congressional Commission on Web-based Education at
http://ed.gov/PressReleases/05-1999/webco.html

Referenced in Congressional testimony by Joan Fenwick, AT&T Learning Network's National Director
http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/testimony.html
http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/testimony.html#K-12

Quoted in Electronic School's It's the Tops' "Teaching Teachers OnLine" article
http://www.electronic-school.com/199906/0699f2.html

Article: "Fair Use Copyright" by Florence McGinn, Emily Judson, and Douglas Gorton
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/fairuse.html

NEA OnLine, article "A New View on Writing"
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/9810/bits.html

Florence McGinn is a published poet. As part of her published Language Arts lessons plans, PBS created a PBS Haiku Gallery to support interactivity with her published Frank Lloyd Wright lesson plan: Poetry of Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and Haiku
http://www.pbs.org/flw/resources/index.html

Florence McGinn and Dr. Roland Pare, Director of Information Systems at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, collaboratively write software reviews for Multimedia Schools Magazine. From this site, you can click into one of their reviews.
http://www.infotoday.com/mmschools/MMStocs/nov97toc.htm

CyberLit Project URL: HCRHS and AT&T grant-supported pilot project
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol14/cyberlit/indexnn.html

Multimedia Electronic Portfolio Project: HCRHS and AT&T grant-supported pilot project
http://www.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/disk2/mep/web%20server/index.html

FlorenceMcGinn and her students have testified before the Congressional Commission on Web-based Learning as expert witnesses in the area of technology-assisted learning.
http://www.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/disk2/news/wash.html
http://www.hpcnet.org/cgi-bin/global/a_bus_card.cgi?SiteID=155282

As part of PBS FrontLine's introduction of its documentary, Jefferson's Blood, the published work of FlorenceMcGinn's students was on television and on the Internet. To view two of the published student manuscripts:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/diversity/jefferson/gallery.html

FlorenceMcGinn developed strategies to empower students in learning process theories and enable them to participate in their own lesson planning. This concept expanded to students demonstrating the ability to write professional lesson plans for teacher usage. FlorenceMcGinn's former student Sujay Pandit's student-written lesson plan are student-produced professional development artifacts.
published on the Dirksen Congressional Center's site at http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/SPPropoganda.htm
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall00/congress/index.html

And, for assessment, a student-produced assessment rubric is at
http://www.congresslink.org/rubric.pdf

Student lesson plan's objectives can be found at
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall00/congress/index.html#lesson

Interview with student Sujay Pandit is found at
http://webcommunicator.congresslink.org/archive-11-01-00.htm

Florence McGinn's student Neela Mookerjee's student-written Amending the Constitution lesson plan is at http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/NMAmending.htm

FlorenceMcGinn's students have participated with US Director of Technology on a US Department of Education project entitled KidChat
http://k12nation.com/chat/2000/06/k12n_chatarchive-doe.html

Florence McGinn won a New Jersey Best Educational Practices Award for the pilot project development of "Wired Words." That electronic videoconferencing and electronic publishing concept is part of a distance learning, electronic writing workshop methodology. Products of that may be viewed at
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol10/esv10ap.html
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol10/esv10yw.html

Florence McGinn writes collaborative poetry with young writers.
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol17/potpourri/text5.html

Student-led Spotlight Interview of Florence McGinn.
http://homer.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/esoup/esvol15/interview/fmcginn.html

Macromedia Case Study
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=2341&loc=en_us

Referenced in Andrew Trotter's article "E-Learning Goes to School"
http://www.govhs.org/vhsweb/Press.nsf/0/BAA3F0003E82051F06256C330048F8B2?OpenDocument

Keynote at OpenVES (Virtual Education Space) Conference
http://www.openves.org/speakers.html

Featured Speaker: United States Secretary of Education's Conference on Educational Technology
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf00/speakers.html

Plenary Session, "Alternative Approaches to Education Reform," at George Washington University PREP Conference
http://www.gwu.edu/~prep/9811con.html

Keynote Session at National ACM Conference
http://www.acm.org/announcements/tech-learning.html
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v5.3/acm1.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Feb_21/ai_70703589

Advisory Board of Technology and Learning
http://www.techlearning.com/content/about/tl_advisory.html#mcginn

The Write News: MidLink Expansion: OnLine Journalism and Writing by Students, Electric Soup project designed by Florence McGinn
http://www.writenews.com/1998/103098.htm

Learning Domain and Technology Consultant on Fulbright Grant with Chinese Language Teachers Association
http://www.classk12.org/Files/Professional%20Development/Fulbright%202004.htm

Florence McGinn's book BLOOD TRAIL on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0938631349/104-9534610-2163135?v=glance#product-details

Referenced in Memorial University of Newfoundland course materials
http://www.cdli.ca/~daking/whydoit.htm

Referenced in John O'Neal's US Students and the Technological Future" article
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0600/ijse/oneiltech.htm
http://ed.tsud.edu/tcubed/digital_divide/being_connected_advantage.htm

Referenced in SAS Institute Caroline McCullen's "Technology Learning Labs" article
http://www.sasinschool.com/success_stories/articles/pages/ethread_learninglabs.shtml

Referenced in Wired News: "E-Learning is Good: Now What?" article
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40477,00.html

Referenced in McIntosh, Hurst, Rylander White Paper, "Integrating Digital Content into Daily Classroom Curriculum"
http://fte.eanes.k12.tx.us/Projector/DataProjectionWhitePaper.htm

Review of Florence McGinn's PBS Lesson Plan (see Lesson 3) work, "Frank Lloyd Wright and Haiku"
http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/J03CR/mpampo/critique/critique.html

About Awards and Honors
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  • 2004 Appointment to Advisory Council of Pennywhistle Projects
  • 2004 BLOOD TRAIL book goes into its 2nd printing
  • 2004 Spotlight Session for Global Learning Initiative sponsored by Association of Education Publisher and Italy's MOE
  • 2004 Served as Judge for AEP Awards at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Italy
  • 2003 Keynote and Catalyst Training at new GKE Innovation Center in Beijing on campus of Peking University's Allied Elementary School
  • 2003 Appointment as Vice President of Mediatech Foundation
  • 2002 Keynote for OpenVES Conference
  • 2002 Appointment to Advisory Council of Cisco Learning Institute
  • 2002 Promoted to GKE's Senior Executive Vice President
  • 2002 Keynote for Western Austrailian Conference, Change and Challenge: The Future of Education
  • 2002 Keynote for CODE, Consortium of Distance Learning comprised of 31 northeastern colleges and universities
  • 2002 Publication of Empowering Electronic Velocity, a 5 CD-ROM set, in China
  • 2002 Keynote at International DALI Conference, Aizu, Japan
  • 2002 Publication of Educational Pedagogy CD-ROM Empowering Electronic Velocity in China by Centrix Technology, Nankai University, and GKE
  • 2001 Keynote Session at Singapore's Symposium, E-Learning: Changing the Shape of Education, at the invitation of Singapore's National Institute of Education
  • 2001 Keynote Session in Korea for that nation's Future21 Association
  • 2001 Keynote Session for New York State's PT3 Grant Advisory Board
  • 2001 Spotlight Session Panel on National Educational Policy in Chicago for NECC
  • 2001 Invited participation in the National Academy's initiative, Improving Learning Through Information Technology
  • 2001 Appointed to the Board of Trustees of School Tone Alliance, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Joined Executive Team of GKE as Vice President of Research
  • 2001 Appointment to the Board of Trustees of the MediaTech Foundation
  • 2001 Keynote session at ACM International Conference, San Jose, CA
  • 2000 Appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Global Knowledge Exchange (GKE) Foundation
  • 2000 Appointment to the Board of Directors of the Mediatech Foundation
  • 2000 Appointment to the Board of the Baker Foundation
  • 2000 Selection as Keynote Speaker for China Educational Forum in Beijing, China at the invitation of China's Ministry of Education and with the support of GKE
  • 2000 Selection for Keynote Presentation at Conference 2000 in Singapore at the invitation of Singapore's Ministry of Education
  • 2000 New Jersey Best Educational Practices Award: Wired Words
  • 2000 Selection of key pilot projects for permanent exhibition display at the NEA Museum in Washington, DC
  • 2000 Selection for filming for National Democratic Convention 2000 piece on Vice Presidential Candidate Al Gore and Educational Issues of the Digital Divide
  • 2000-2001 Selection as Chairperson of the newly formed K-12 Issues Focus Group of the Congressional Commission on Web-based Education
  • 1999-2001 Appointment as US Commissioner to the Congressional Commission on Web-based Education established by Congress in 1999
  • 1999-2001 Appointed to PBS OnLine TeacherSource Advisory Panel for Educational Internet Resources
  • 1999-2001 Johnson and Johnson Mark of Teaching Distinction Grant
  • 1998-2001 Classroom selected as demonstration site for ComWeb and Global Knowledge Exchange
  • 1999-2000 Advisory Editor for Milken Family Foundation Exchange on Education Technology web site
  • 1999-2000 Classroom selected as one of ten, international beta testing sites for Tegrity Corporation
  • 1998-2001 Advisory Board member of Technology and Learning Magazine
  • 1998 National Teacher of the Year, Microsoft-sponsored Technology and Learning Award
  • 1998 Microsoft Eastern Region Technology and Learning Teacher of the Year;
  • 1998 Microsoft Tech. and Learning New Jersey Teacher of the Year
  • 1998 Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Educator Award
  • 1998 Resolution placed on New Jersey Congressional Record by Senator Schluter and Congressman Lance honoring teaching and writing achievements
  • 1998 NJ Association of School Curriculum Development Award
  • 1997 New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival Writing Coordinator
  • 1996-1998 Program Developer of AT&T Grant Pilot Projects focused on electronic publishing and Electric Soup, a Rider University Mentors Videoconferencing Project, a multimedia electronic portfolio project, electronic publishing involving Asbury Park High School
  • 1996 New Jersey Best Educational Practices Award: ELECTRIC SOUP
  • 1995 Liberty Science Center Connections to the Future Grant
  • 1993-94 and 1996-97 Hunterdon Foundation Grants
  • 1992-93 Full Year Writing and Research Sabbatical
  • 1988 New Jersey Governor's Teacher of the Year Award

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