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Around the World – Classroom Connection, Passaic Valley Regional High School
Around the World – Classroom Connection promotes global awareness and understanding through a combination of videoconferencing, on-line learning projects, e-mail, on-line chats, and other classroom experiences.

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Biology Beyond the Classroom, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School
www.geocities.com/trefz15
"The 24 Hour Classroom, Biology Beyond the Classroom". Is a website that allows teachers to post daily schedules, tutorials, an assignment calendar (along with a few other "fun science" information and games)and a wiki. Students use the website for talking biology to one another outside of the classroom. They can download and upload material to help them understand topics/labs that we are discussing.
Sponsored by The Biology Teachers Association of New Jersey

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Emergency Services Network Solution, Triveni Digital
www.TriveniDigital.com
Triveni Digital, Inc., a subsidiary of LG Electronics, develops systems that provide for the management and distribution of data and metadata in digital television streams and other broadcast and multicast media. The SkyScraper™ Emergency Services Network (ESN) solution from Triveni Digital is an end-to-end communications network system. Utilizing any transport media such as digital television broadcast, satellite, broadband and WiMAX. SkyScraper ESN provides a secure and reliable data path, delivering training, operational and emergency alert information to targeted first responder sites.

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Global Collaboration/Stem Cell Research, Bergen County Academies
Bergen County Academies is a gifted magnet school serving all of Bergen County. The school has recently been recognized as The Intel School of Distinction for our innovative program in mathematics. Additionally, it has been recognized as the Intel Star Innovator for its creative infusion of technology into the academic program. Bergen County Academies features a fully functioning Stem Cell Research Laboratory and other technologies that make it a model for education in the 21st Century. All of the classrooms are outfitted with state-of-the-art technologies and students learn by engaging in hands-on, project-based inquiry. Bergen County Academy will soon open a new nano-technology laboratory, complete with a dual beam, scanning electron microscope. The future is bright at BCA as students are presented with emerging technologies and challenged to utilize them for research projects and learning.
Sponsored by The Biology Teachers Association of New Jersey

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Global Learning Institute, Project CLASS
www.classk12.org/pc.htm
The Global Knowledge Exchange is (GKE) and the Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS) are building a robust, large-scale, nationwide “Learning Community” for Chinese language and culture.

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Global Virtual Classroom, Fairleigh Dickinson University
http://gvc.gig.org
Global Virtual Classrom (GVC) provides essential tools to connect an FDU classroom and a classroom located anywhere in the world.

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Learning Skills through Cyberinfrastructure, Stevens Institute of Technology
www.stevens.edu/ciese
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology works with educators, policymakers, and research organizations to develop and test technological tools and curricular approaches to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for K-20 students. Since 1988 sponsored projects of $30 million have impacted more than 25,000 teachers throughout the U.S. and internationally. Currently more than 100,000 from 35 countries participate in CIESE’s online classroom projects.

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MIICE, MedIT Corporation
www.miice.com
MIICE (Medical Information In Case of Information) is an internet and automated phone service which provides access to personal and medical information in case of an emergency.

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Millennium Communications Group
www.millenniuminc.com
Millennium is a full-service telecommunications company, offering engineering, construction and technical solutions to both the public and private sectors.

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Podcasting/Language Access Tools, Union City Schools

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Professional Development, NJEA
www.njea.org
The New Jersey Education Association is a diverse, democratic organization working to promote and deliver quality professional development for educators and to advance and support policies that enhance and enrich public education in New Jersey.

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Rutgers Writers House, Rutgers University
http://wh.rutgers.edu/
Writers House provides a gateway to the experience of creativity and serves as a laboratory for developing expression in all the media of the twenty-first century.

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SMART
http://www.smartstates.com/
SMART (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow) is a collaborative effort supported by members from the academic, government, and business sectors to make Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware a science and technology powerhouse that rivals any in the world.

 

Social Networking/Engage & Educate Tweens, Northfield Community School
Northfield Community School is presently planning social networking in education initiatives for the 2008-09 year in conjunction with community organizations.

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Think Finity, Verizon Foundation
www.thinkfinity.org
Thinkfinity.org is a comprehensive Web site that gives teachers, instructors and parents the tools they need to increase student performance to day and create the lifelong learners of tomorrow.

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UChannel – Academics from Anywhere, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/
UChannel is an online video lecture archive from a consortium of universities led by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

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Verizon Wireless
www.verizonwireless.com
Broadband phones and cards to connection to the Internet.

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Virtual Campus with Broadband Technology, Montclair State University
Today's new species of learner is fully adapted to pervasive computing and digital technologies.
MSU is a leader of innovative teaching strategies that matches the student’s new style of learning, employing mobile technologies for academic, safety, and community-building applications.

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You Ticket, Discover Jersey Arts
www.jerseyarts.com
The project’s mission is to increase the awareness of and participation in the arts in New Jersey. JerseyArts.com supports that mission by providing a central clearinghouse of information on New Jersey’s cultural scene. Whether browsing the site’s comprehensive event calendar, searching its directory of cultural organizations, discovering works by local artists in its virtual gallery, or simply catching up on what’s new this season, JerseyArts.com is your “one stop shopping” to arts and culture in the Garden State.

 
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Sponsors:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, AT&T, J.C. Kellogg Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Verizon, New Jersey Education Association, The Edward W. and Stella C. Van Houten Memorial Fund, Intel, and Camares Communication, Inc.

Partners:
Governor’s Office of Economic Growth, New Jersey Department of State, Bloomfield College, Center for Innovative Education at Kean University, Citizen Corps, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, The Levine Group, Medical Missions, Montclair State University, New Jersey Business Force, New Jersey Cable Telecommunications Association, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, New Jersey Economic Development Authority, New Jersey Hospital Association, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey Office of Information Technology, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey State League of Municipalities, New Jersey Technology Council, Newark Alliance, Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies/Fairleigh Dickinson University, Triveni Digital.

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