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SUCCESS STORY
Creative thinkers all over the world are looking 
for new ways to harness the potential of
the World Wide Web. Pushing the limits of
the Internet is one of the missions of the
Center for Technology and Education (CTE).
Operating out of John Hopkins University in
Maryland, in partnership with the Maryland
State Department of Education, the group 
is developing new models and strategies 
for using technology to enhance education.
Recently, CTE was asked to lead the 
coordination of the Southeast Cluster of
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants.
The Challenge Grant program was introduced 
by the Clinton administration to serve
as a catalyst for positive change in schools.
“The grants focus on enhancing teachers’
skills and their professional development 
to use computers and advanced learning 
technologies in their classrooms,” said U.S.
Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley.
“Students will benefit from teachers who 
are familiar with these rapidly changing technologies 
and are able to effectively integrate
them into their teaching curriculum.”
To build support networks for the grant 
programs, the U.S. Department of Education
grouped projects into four national clusters,
but like all grant programs, there is a tremendous 
amount of administration involved. The
CTE development team decided to design an
interactive Web site to facilitate the Southeast
Cluster’s grant program development, documentation, 
evaluation and dissemination of
information. The challenge facing the team
was they did not have a technology solution
that allowed real interactivity on the Web.
“We needed a way to be able to exchange
measurement tools and evaluation information 
between our Challenge Grant projects.
However, at the time, we were not aware of
any solutions that would support this 
kind of information exchange on the Web.
We launched a research effort and found
DocuShare,” said Betsy Lowry, Program
Director for the distance education and 
on-line learning initiatives at CTE.
“I began looking for a software solution that
would allow our users to share resources via
our Web site. We needed simple search features, 
an easy way to organize resources and
information, and most importantly we needed
a solution that would work across different
platforms. I found DocuShare on the Internet
and was able to immediately download and
evaluate a demo copy. I began to work with
the product and think of ways it could be
used with our interactive Web sites. In light
of the timeline pressures we were under, I
was very enthusiastic about finding such a
versatile, easy-to-implement solution for 
providing Web-based resource sharing,” 
said David Peloff, Program Coordinator 
and Web Developer at CTE.
The grant projects vary from developing multimedia 
and telecommunication curriculum
strategies to staff development and 
training programs. Many of the projects 
will span more than five years and account
for millions of dollars. Because the projects
demand close collaboration and require 
limited resources, face-to-face meetings 
are impossible, making an interactive Web
site that uses DocuShare ideal. “As a tool,
DocuShare allows groups of geographically
distributed people to collaboratively share
information and documents,” said Roger
Ellefson, the Xerox DocuShare Sales
Manager for the mid-Atlantic region.
CTE is pushing the envelope with its 
innovative use of Web technologies to enhance
education.
CTE has seamlessly integrated DocuShare
into their existing web presence.
Clicking on the DocuShare icon immediately
brings users to the DocuShare site, where
they can add, view and edit content using 
any standard Web browser.
Xerox DocuShare Sets the Standard for Interactive
Web Sites at John Hopkins University’s Center 
for Technology and Education
“DocuShare was the only solution I found
that allowed users to upload files and create 
a shared hard drive of resource data. We were
able to use the bulletin board as a way to post
information to help keep everyone 
up to date. Instead of sending out e-mail to 
a list server and hoping everyone reads it, 
the bulletin board allowed everyone to check
the site at their leisure for current information,” 
said Peloff.
The technology grant Web site is only 
the beginning of this Internet story. What 
began as a need to coordinate ten states in the
Southeast Cluster group is evolving into 
an entirely new on-line community. “The
Southeast Cluster Web site became a natural
springboard to integrate what we learned
from the Challenge Grant projects into 
our new Electronic Learning Community
projects,” said Lowry.
In its fifth month of development, the on-line
learning team is laying the foundation for a
new way for educators to use the Internet.
DocuShare allows educators across the 
country to collaborate and share resources.
The Electronic Learning Communities
include synchronous and asynchronous 
discussions and feature searchable databases,
and will integrate a DocuShare Web site with
multimedia features, databases and distance
learning projects. Courses offering technology-based 
collaborative learning have already
been put on-line using DocuShare technology
. Although the project is in its early phases,
the potential for its ability to impact education 
is extraordinary.
“Our business is education and the support
and development of education professionals.
CTE believes that providing an electronic
community of collaboration and exchange
among educators, can be an effective means
of solving common problems, supporting 
and encouraging innovation and sustaining
an ongoing dialogue around common issues
and challenges. Over the next year, we will
be collecting and analyzing data relating 
to Electronic Learning Communities, and
DocuShare is a key component,” said Lowry.
DocuShare provides technology that is 
creating the next on-line evolution. When 
the World Wide Web was designed, the
excitement was all about putting information
out on the Web. The second evolution had to
do with transactions giving users an opportunity 
to log information and download files.
With DocuShare the evolution of interaction
has arrived, allowing for real-time collaboration 
and sharing of resources. “The whole
concept of the Web is changed when people
can actually share and interact with data,”
said Peloff. “The Internet began as sort of a
one-way format. However, new technologies
like DocuShare are creating more interactivity 
on the Web, allowing users to contribute 
to Web sites. Giving people an opportunity 
to contribute to and be part of the Internet,
and sharing in that sense of ownership, is
very important to the CTE on-line projects.”
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CTE’S DOCUSHARE
CONFIGURATION
At CTE, DocuShare resides on a
Dell PowerEdge 4200 server with
256 MB RAM, with a Windows NT
Server 4.0 hosting Microsoft
Internet Information Server 4.0
(IIS) software. Also installed on the
server are O’Reilly’s Web Board 3.5
and Allaire’s Cold Fusion 4.0. 
Users at CTE access the system
from a variety of Macintosh and PC
systems (which are not centrally
managed), using Netscape
Navigator or Windows Explorer. 
“ With DocuShare the evolution of
interaction has arrived, allowing
for real-time collaboration and
sharing of resources.”
David Peloff
Program Coordinator and Web Developer
John Hopkins University’s CTE
Xerox DocuShare Sets the Standard 
for Interactive Web Sites at CTE
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