History on the Web
by

Mary Delgado, Marquette University
Char Harteau, Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning

This Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning (WCLL) middle school online history
modules project grew out of a program called AmeriQuest. AmeriQuest was a Grade
58 online history project piloted at WCLL by Mary Delgado, Milwaukee Public
Schools (MPS) Department of Technology, and Char Harteau, WCLL Media/
Technology Coordinator. Char had developed the modules for a course at Marquette
University called Spinning Your Web Classroom. This class was part of an MPS/
Marquette University Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF) Grant. The TLCF
grant provided courses for teachers to be trained in the use of computer-based
technology.

Mary came to WCLL on a regular basis to work with students involved in the online project. The students participated in a parent/guardian training night before being issued Toshiba laptops. AmeriQuest was also part of a study, funded by the Joyce Foundation, done by the Center for Children and Technology (CCT). It was designed to show the effects of the E-rate money that has been spent on technology and how it has affected teaching and learning other than the raising of test scores.
For the full article: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/training/effect/studies/delgado.htm