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• Defining how new communication technologies will enhance the quality of teaching and learning in New York's elementary and secondary schools;
• Demonstrating the potential to reduce disparities in educational opportunities imposed by the obstacles imparted by distance and location;
• Providing access to educational resources that currently lie outside the normal means of individual schools;
• Enhancing the capacity of New York State's teacher education colleges to support the educational uses of high-speed communication networks; And,
• Illustrating that New York State will support an educational environment that is valued by parents and attractive to industry.

• Began initial conversations with schools.
• Installed fiber connection between SU School of Education, NPAC, and NYNEX.
• Demos for Stakeholders (e.g. Rome Labs - Governor's Demo);
• Research and development focus on demonstrating the high end utilization of the LSB's advanced ATM network.
• Teachers began to develop project outlines and basic pages were put up on the web

• Strong emphasis on linking teachers with researchers at NPAC with the School of Education acting as facilitator.
• Videos were created as project dissemination pieces.
• Partial funding was provided by NYNEX for SU School of Education multimedia computer lab.
• Technology control shifts from NPAC to School of Education. As a result, the project experienced an increase in communication via a re-designed web presence.
• The LSB continued to publicly demo and present various projects in order to futher name recognition (e.g. Demo for Mrs. Pataki).
  
  
• Videos: 12/8/95 - "Lifelong Learning -NYNEX"

• Continued to develop more partnerships and collaborations for projects and infrastructure development.
• Increased publicity and continued demos and presentations (e.g. Featured in Apple Computer, Inc. 1996 Annual Report).
• NPAC focused on NII technologies as School of Education focuses on having teachers prototype these technologies.
• NYNEX/LSB Lab at the School of Education officially opened with multi-platform/multi-network configuration.
• The LSB experienced an increase in the average number of video conferences per week.
• In addition, there was an increase in the number of teacher meetings and on-site visits to the project schools.
• The LSB put a greater focus on teacher projects and collaborations between SU School of Education, K-12 schools and community agencies.
  
  
• Videos:
  • 4/22/97 - Rough Times Live - "Schools of the 21st Century" the Media Unit
  • Magazine 13 - Time Warner (shown 5/23/96 - 5/28/96).