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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 08:15:57 PDT From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd) To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM Cc: com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message of Thu, 23 Apr 1992 22:48:42 -0500 (CDT) <920423224842.9867@SDG.DRA.COM> Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com I have been involved in some of Pac*Bell's dealings with IP and providing services to schools. They have leaned heavily on BARRNet and several of the UC campus networking departments (Berkeley and UC Davis come to mind). In those schools where BARRNet, Berkeley, and UC Davis have taken the lead, the project has been successful. In those places where P*B has tried to do the whole thing themselves, it has been a failure. The key problems have been lack of technical understanding on the part of the P*B employees participating in the project and in a lack of support and education for the teachers and educators involved in the project. For instance, even those places where the network came up and worked properly the project was a failure in those places where the educators were left to their own devices. So, just getting the network up and running is only about 30% of the solution. The other 70% is ongoing handholding and education. You need to get a critical mass of the teachers/educators trained and knowledgeable before the "let's get K-12 on the Internet" project will be a success. Pac*Bell is still learning this painful lesson. Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Lloyd & Associates Principal and Network Architect 3420 Sudbury Road brian@lloyd.com Cameron Park, CA 95682 voice (916) 676-1147 -or- (415) 725-1392
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