Special Project: Connecting Minority Educators by Enhancing Minority Participation in NECC 2000

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta GA

Investigators

Abstract

EIA 00-02553 Mitchell, Helena Clark Atlanta University Special Project: Connecting Minority Educators by Enhancing Minority Participation in NECC 2000 This project supports the travel and registration of 115 K-16 educators affiliated with selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority and Minority Serving Institutions, to the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) to be held in June 2000 in Atlanta Georgia. The NECC is one of the largest K-16 educational technology conferences that attracts more than 8000 educators and 3000 exhibitor personnel. The anticipated outcome of NECC attendance is the formation of a network of educators in K-12 and higher education that would share ideas and knowledge regarding the use of learning technologies in their classrooms. Through coordinated, structured activities, this project will demonstrate increased minority participation in NECC, increased use of technologies in targeted K-16 schools, and increased benefits (e.g. panels, papers, programmatic initiatives) from partnerships between K-12 schools and the selected higher education institutions.