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66:. Although acknowledged by executives at Industry Canada as "one of the most successful websites in terms of the level of interest" funding for the SNE was discontinued, and the project moved with its developer Keenan Wellar from Ingenia Communications Corporation to charitable organization LiveWorkPlay in 1997, before the site was discontinued when corporate sponsorship failed to materialize. 221: 38:(ICT) in libraries and schools across the country. Many important early Canadian ICT programs fell under the SchoolNet umbrella, including Computers for Schools, LibraryNet, First Nations SchoolNet, and Canada's Digital Collections. By 1997, SchoolNet brought internet access to all 433 First Nations schools under federal jurisdiction. 57:
and the Special Needs Education (SNE) network. The MOO was abandoned by Industry Canada in 1998, but a non-profit corporation was set up to continue the site as MOO Canada Eh! From 1999-2001, SchoolNet funded Project Achieve MOO developed at the
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Nolan, J., & Weiss, J. (2002). "Learning Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community." In Renninger, A., and Shumar, W. (Eds.), Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace. Cambridge
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was a federal educational technology project in partnership with provinces, school boards, non-profit organizations, and the private sector, funded primarily by
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on November 26. 1995, stating that "SchoolNet is the leading program in the world in terms of letting kids get out and use computers."
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The SchoolNet project was active from 1995 to the early 2000s, and the site was taken offline in 2008.
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https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/publication-report/full/digitalliteracypaper.pdf
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160103125443/https://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/G5/G5_2.HTM
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070224224427/http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/whatis.asp
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and developed by Ingenia Communications Corporation to promote the effective use of
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https://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/C2-486-2000-3E.pdf
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https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/schoolnet
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Global SchoolNet
SchoolNet Namibia
Industry Canada
information and communications technologies
Microsoft
Bill Gates
Edmonton Journal
MOO
Knowledge Media Design Institute
University of Toronto
https://web.archive.org/web/20070224224427/http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/whatis.asp
https://books.openedition.org/uop/1383?lang=en
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/schoolnet
"26 Nov 1995, 7 - Edmonton Journal at Newspapers.com"
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/C2-486-2000-3E.pdf
"MOO Canada, Eh? Is a Social-themed MOO (MUD, Object-Oriented)"
Internet Society
https://web.archive.org/web/20160103125443/https://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/G5/G5_2.HTM
https://www.newspapers.com/image/465761523/
https://mediasmarts.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/publication-report/full/digitalliteracypaper.pdf
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