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EII Services and the
Living Schoolbook Project

The Living Schoolbook has prototyped two Education Information Infrastructure (EII) services, a network educational archive and the Interactive Journey. Teacher teams are creating multimedia content and electronic lesson plans to use these EII services in their classroom.

EII Services

The classroom of the future will be built on NII (National Information Infrastructure) technologies and applications. Education will be a subset of the services available over the NII. In this spirit, we envision EII (Education Information Infrastructure) services that will support the classroom of the future.

The Living Schoolbook Project is developing two EII services, the Interactive Journey of New York State, and a network educational archive.

A Network Educational Archive

The very succesful Kids Web, a digital library of Internet resources for school kids is the prototype of a network educational archive.

The Living Schoolbook is working with a number of project partners to add text, image, and video content on subjects relevant to K-12 education. We are building information on-demand servers with these partners to demonstrate how digital media, high-speed networks, and classroom interfaces provide options for supporting new models of learning in the classroom.

Some examples of the network educational archive include:

A New York State Image Database

An African American photograph collection from Syracuse, New York

This project is in the development phase, we expect to have a demonstration of this concept running soon.

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