The Online Innovation Institute (OII) is a results driven organization, which offers professional development workshops to help students and teachers improve classroom achievement. OII provides educators with a learning environment to support integrating the Internet into their individual teaching styles. Utilizing the Four Directions for Lifelong Learning, OII offers a combination of online and on-site collaborations in which participants develop projects to use in their classrooms.

Web-and-Flow is an online set of template based tools, and professional development community designed by WebQuest co-creator, Tom March.  It allows teachers to create quality web based activities, base on where they are in their comfort levels in using the web and in restructuring the classroom

Southern Regional School District in Manahawkin, NJ, is a 7-12 regional district that is moving toward restructuring curriculum and infusing technology across the curriculum.  Southern has had technology in the district since the early 1980's but it is only in the past three years that the technology has been recognized and a critical tool in the educational process. 

In September of 1998, Art Wolinsky, Southern Regional technology teacher, OII Technology Director and Tom March Associate, retired from the classroom and was hired as a consultant to bring the OII and Tom March theories and practices to the district. Southern is currently in the the second year of  that process that incorporates

The history of technology integration at Southern along with the 1998 initiatives are covered in this article titled, "What Works in Staff Development", which  appeared in the March-April issue of Multimedia Schools Magazine, and in an article by Karlheinz Haas, Southern Technology Director, which will be in the January 2000 issue. 

On these pages I provide links to additional resources, specifics about technology used, and updates on initiatives introduced and implemented during the 1999-2000 school year.

Art Wolinsky
awolinsky@adelphia.net
http://oii.org
http://www.srsd.org

(Last updated 10/25/99)