Today, the Internet and the World Wide Web significantly change the cost and efficiency of implementing such a project. However, schools still need numerous resouces to effectively participate: equipment to produce their own multimedia history stories; University speed connections to the Internet to make multimedia sharing more realistic; training to use this technology; deeper understandings of the process of constructing history; connections with a support team of sufficient interested others to help each other through problems and creative moments.

This suggests the need for another grant. This web page will lead to the ongoing development of such a grant and track the process and progress of obtaining such a grant for those who wonder just how such things happen.

Please help light up the LAMP. Keep in touch.
(Dr. Robert Houghton, WCU).
Last updated 3/17/97.

The Goal: a Grant for LAMP

1. Technology Grantsmanship 101.
2. February, 1996, a graduate class team assignment was to produce some North Carolina history and place it on the web. Dr. Tyler Blethen, Director of the campus's Mountain Heritage Center museum and his assistant, were invited to speak on their work and the resources of the museum. Conversations were begun about further development and summer teacher/community member workshops, but other projects moved such collaboration to a back-burner.
3. January, 1997. Dr. Houghton asked two independent study graduate students, Robin Hall and Susan Lawrence, who were learning the grant development process to help prepare information that could become part of a web page on the grant writing process and to consider LAMP as a target for a grant.
4. February 12, 1997, Dr. Bob Houghton called Dr. Curtis Wood, chair of the history department and arranged a meeting and shared LAMP's web page address. Dr. Wood invited Dr. Scott Philyaw. Dr. Wood teaches a course on local history development. Dr. Philyaw teaches a fall course in North Carolina history. A vision emerged of a chain of course projects and summer workshops that would continue through the year. For example, a summer workshop of teachers and interested community members would study multimedia and local history development for a week or two at WCU. Their work and designs would be passed to the fall North Carolina history course for further development. This work would be passed to the two spring courses for further development: Dr. Houghton's Multimedia Education course and Dr. Wood's local history course. This cycle would continue through the years. National Endowment for the Humanities and other grant sources were discussed briefly.
5. February 20, 1997. Dr. Wood's class on developing local history and Dr. Philyaw visit the Instructional Technology Center classroom for an introduction to LAMP and the Internet by Dr. Houghton.
6. Brief summary of March 10, '97 meeting: Dr. Wood arranges another meeting with Bob, Curtis, Scott and Dr. Tyler Blethen. A decision is made to target Federal NEH grants and another meeting date is set for April 11, 2 pm in Dr. Curtis's office. Classroom teachers teaching North Carolina history at the required fourth and eighth grade levels will be sought as peers in this development. It is recognized that using multimedia technology could further faculty training in the use of computer technology. Further, a goal is set to collectively develop a short multimedia project among ourselves to cross-train each other. A local history figure is targeted and some multimedia resources are identified.
7. Minutes and concepts from our March 10 meeting by Scott Philyaw.
8. March 14-17, 1997, the LAMP web pages are revised to included new initiatives and a simpler first contact web address is devised
   http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/LAMP.html