Educational CyberPlayGround

Not 1 dime from any tax payer.

Not 1 dime from a federal or state grant.

Not 1 dime from a university.

The tax payer spends "big bucks"
on Jerry Taylor and James Beal

Jerry Taylor is "making a buck" -- BIG BUCKS FROM THE TAX PAYER'S dollar and thinks teachers are idiots.

Jim Beal " will do anything to make a buck."

THE TAX PAYER is paying Jerry and Jim $50,000 - $80,000? + benefits no matter how INEPT they are. They do NOT WORK FOR FREE.

Two MEMBERS on the k12ADMIN list (which is now defunct)- Jerry Taylor and Jim Beal say that anyone who makes money in education, who sells their service to a school district for money has no integrity.

Both Jerry Taylor and Jim Beal accept money for the services that they sell to school districts so by their own definition - they do not have any integrity. According to their "standards" they should be donating their services to the school district for free if they want their opinions be considered pure from their own financial motives.

Their opinions are soiled because of their profit motives. They both sell their services for profit. They are both business men in the education business. Jerry and Jim stand accused. They do not satisfy their own stated standards of integrity.

They are education vendors who sell their services to the school district for profit and have denied these facts. They are both in the business of education. They both collect money for their services. They sign contracts. The public citizenry is their revenue stream. They work for hire. They do not provide services for free. They SELL their services for their personal gain. They both have tried to obfuscate this fact.

Jerry Taylor and Jim Beal deny that education is a business. They believe everyone in education who makes money has no integrity, and is that an education vendor is a tricky underhanded person / for profit / not for profit - with no ethics , whose objective is to make money and that money makes their product devoid of value. Money incriminates the Vendors standards of integrity.

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From: JerryTaylr@aol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:06:36 EST
To: K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

Karen can trick you into going to her site and buy some of her books and cassettes that she's selling, that's why!

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:00:43 -0600
From: Jim Beal <bealj@SOMONAUK.NET>
To: K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

Facts about Jerry Taylor and James Beal:
They are both education vendors and business men who have a vested interest in their own personal financial gain.

It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

The business of education has an infrastructure in place to collect money from the federal, state, and local government, who has collected the money from the citizens of the US to pay the bills aka their revenue stream.
The public pays for lawyers, CIO, CTO, Board of Advisors, Business Managers, supplies, software, hardware, phones, administrators, staff, and school personnel, etc.
It conducts business with vendors who sell services and products. It hires and fires.
It handles money every day. It has a budget. It can go broke. It competes for customers with other education businesses that want those customers, aka Supply Chain.

I am the public.
All public school children are schooled with my tax money.
All public education services and products are bought with my taxes.

When the customer doesn't like what you sell, doesn't like your service, you loose your custome. Beal the Business man competes for profit in the business of education against other education vendors who offer a better product.

Look at his work as Dist. Tech. Coord. It is a joke. It is hideous. Look at the VITA would you pay money for this unreadable piece of flash trash? Grade F

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4/12/04
I've been sharing info on MY web site for years, and haven't tried selling ANYTHING!)

Red Herring:
Jerry Taylor is a liar. He does not own a website, a stunning example of incompetence. He signed a legal contract and accepts money that makes it a "work for hire."

www.greece.k12.ny.us and http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/
both belong to THE TAX PAYERS WHO OWN THAT SITE. THE PUBLIC OWNS EVERYTHING. The Tax Payer also owns the connection, computer, bandwidth, and software used to make the site.

NEW: As of September 2006 Jerry Taylor has retired and all his personal work that he put up on the school server at the tax payers expense has been removed from the Greece School District's server. Now that he retired and I quote "HIS" website is no longer on the net. It was up there as long as he was paid by the tax payer. He retired. The tax payer no longer pays for that website.

BIG CLUE: Work for Hire - Who owns What
Jerry Taylor and Jim Beal are both $money $making education vendors paid big bucks for "work for hire." All websites produced with public money are a work for hire. They both think the sites belong to them. It is illegal for them to attempt to sell anything there. They would be breaking the law and get arrested.

JERRYTAYLOR.NET domain is not owned by Jerry Taylor, but he does have ONLY ONE link on it to a site that sells product from education vendors. Jerry Taylor is now selling to seniors at www.seniortech.us he even calls what he has a listserv. It is not a listserve. That is a registered trademark and it is illegal to use that word. I would never allow Jerry Taylor to teach people over 50.
Domain Name: JERRYTAYLOR.NET
Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC.
Whois Server: whois.OnlineNIC.com
Referral URL: http://www.OnlineNIC.com
Name Server: NS3.IVCDNS.COM
Name Server: NS4.IVCDNS.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 23-mar-2004
Creation Date: 29-jun-2003
Expiration Date: 29-jun-2005

BEAL SAYS ~ "schools do not choose their "customers."

Exactly, they earn them, they compete for these customers. You compete for the money you make, because you are in business of education. Money follows the customer. The customer can buy their education anywhere they want. The tax payer is the customer. The public owns you. It is the tax dollar, that follows the customer wherever they go. Your service can be out sourced, leaving you out of the supply chain, out of business. No more money for you Mr. Business Man.

BEAL SAYS ~ "Unlike a business public schools serve the public interest, not private."

Education has a customer. It is the public. I am the public. Beal sells his services to me. I do not think you serve the public's interest when you intentionally repeatedly fail to source excellent free information on this site to administrators. You have openly discouraged administrators from using this excellent site, from learning for the free.

Taylor and Beal work for profit . That is why they work. They want their money. They do not want competition from other education vendors. They will do anything to protect their revenue stream. Yes they compete because they are vendors and want the money.

They are responsible for teaching about security. Their jobs in educational technology would be to teach administrators about security. SEE E-RATE FIASO

They both actively tried to stop a discussion about security on the K12 list. It is in their financial interest to to keep admins ignorant. Yes, as business men making that kind of money they do what they can, they will do anything to keep their customers from going somewhere else. An educated Administrator isn't in their best interest. They do not want their revenue stream threatened by Free information.

These business men need to protect their $50,000 dollar a year revenue stream, and one way is to keep their customers the administrator as ignorant as they are.

How can they compete when excellent free information is made available on the net. Customers don't need Taylor or Beal. No one needs them. School districts outsource all the time, sometimes outsourcing is spelled this way "your fired."

A $50,000 Ed Tech job vs. FREE Educational CyberPlayGround Security information?

What is obscene is an ignorant administrator who relies on a some Ed tech who only teaches for profit and discourages admins on K12 from using excellent free information sourced on the net just to keep his percieved value from being eroded and outsourced he is going to protect his valuable lucrative revenue stream.

Why would Taylor and Beal want their customers to learn for free at ECP? They don't.

Taylor and Beal want an ignorant Teacher and an Administrator who relies on them for information. An ignorant customer protects their revenue stream. Taylor and Beal's percieved value is eroded by free information. Admins and school boards might learn they don't need to buy their services anymore. The tax payer may learn they can save money. Tax payers might also also learn that an ignorant admin doesn't serve them but the virtual school does a better job instead.

FACTS:
They sell it. Yes, they are education vendors. They are in the business of education. An ignorant administrator is their best customer. School districts have customers called students and the money will follow the customer and go to the virtual school or charter school. The Tax payers money will follow the child. Eductaion gets out sourced. When School Districts can't deliver an education they will loose the customer and the revenue stream. They go out of business. Education vendors get fired.

Over 22,000 websites link to ECP
Who helps more people? Clearly I do and without a paycheck from the school district, federal government or a sponsoring company. The work speaks for itself. My intentions speak for themselves. Your mission has lost it's compass. You only do it for money.

Among many things I am a netizen - I don't get a pay check from the school district or the federal government to help the public citizenry learn about technology. I do it for no pay.

I am part of the movement that helps to integrate online curriculum into the classroom. Admins need sources for multicultural content that reach the needs of their population and it is on the CyberPlayGround.

I am pioneering a way to integrate interdisciplinary educational curriculum that will reach standards based benchmarks using the multiple intelligences through literacy, music, and technology. I've produced a video this past fall about the National Children's Folksong Repository project.

Imagine, all this produced for free, made by a simple teacher. Do you think these 2 men have the skills to integrate literacy music and technology into the classroom? Can they get music and classroom teachers involved? I doubt it. Since I am an education vendor this public folklore project built by the nation's children won't be shown to teachers and admins, and students in their schools won't hear about it.

Because these two men can't support the "information age" and the idea of "life long learning" they are operating against purpose - which makes so called "educational technologists" Taylor and Beal a problem for administrators and everyone else.

Why is that true? Because thought leaders are what K-12 needs, backward thinking ignorant liars aren't. Anyone that discourages Administrators, Teachers, Studens and Parents from sourcing excellent sites with excellent information that helps to integrate technology into the classrooms need to retire or get fired.

I hope someone in Greece, NY. and Somonauk can explain to their school boards and citizenry why their tax dollars are well spent buying the education vendor services of Taylor and Beal.

Outstanding teachers and education vendors on the k-12 list who volunteer their time and effort serving the work on the Educational Cyberplayground.

The real measure of demand for the Educational CyberPlayGround isn't how many people line up to eat the free lunch you've made but how many volunteer to help you prepare it.

E-RATE FIASCO brought to you buy the K-12 Admins and Ed Techs that are incompetent.
Just because there are "no state requirements for administrators related to educational technology / standards for school administrators in educational technology" does not excuse them from their duty to know what they need to know, they can't just take everything a contractor recommends, unless they are an idiot or on the take.

It is someone's JOB to buy technology and write the proposal for the e-rate money. It is their JOB to understand what they are buying. It is their JOB to know what they are doing.

It doesn't matter what the state mandates. It is their JOB to run their business in a manner that shows that they are competent. Fools have no excuse.

Schools are in business.

Running the school system is a business and admins and ed tech's are the ones hired because they SUPPOSED to have the skills to do this. Admins and ed tech's who do not have the skills are guilty of neglect, and they should be fired.

Business (contractors) come through the school door and sell their product and services EVERY DAY. Incompetent & ignorant ed tech's and admins are in the business of evaluating and buying product and services every day.

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"Mr. Greenwood said that since schools often must pay only 10 percent of the cost of equipment and services while E-rate picks up the rest, "contractors have mastered the art of coming into these districts, recommending gold-plated architecture, and school officials, buying at 10 cents on the dollar, take everything they recommend.''
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Waste and Fraud Besiege U.S. Program to Link Poor Schools to Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/politics/17computer.html
By SAM DILLON

WASHINGTON, June 16 - When the El Paso school system wanted to upgrade its Internet connections three years ago, it tapped into a federal program that offers assistance for such projects.
The program paid the International Business Machines Corporation $35 million to build a network powerful enough to serve a small city. But the network would be so sophisticated that the 90-school district could not run it without help.
Foreseeing the problem, I.B.M. charged the district an additional $27 million, paid by the federal program, to build a lavish maintenance call-in center to keep the network running. The center operated for nine months. Then, with no more money to support it, I.B.M. dismantled it and left town.
The federal effort to help poor schools connect to the Internet, the E-rate program, which collects a fee from all American phone users to distribute $2.25 billion a year to such schools and libraries, wasted enormous sums as El Paso built its extravagant network in the 2001-2 school year, according to documents and federal lawmakers.
But the problems have not been there alone. In Brevard County, Fla., school officials used E-rate money to install a $1 million network server, a powerful device more suited to the needs of a multinational corporation, in a 650-pupil elementary school. And just three weeks ago in San Francisco, a subsidiary of the computer giant NEC agreed to plead guilty to two federal felony counts related to the program.
Across the nation in recent months - in El Paso and in New York and Pennsylvania, in Puerto Rico and Atlanta, in Milwaukee and Chicago - investigations or audits of the program have turned up not only waste but also bid-rigging and other fraud, according to lawmakers and investigators. A report issued last week by the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the E-rate program, said 42 criminal investigations were under way.
On Thursday, Congress is to open hearings on all that has gone wrong. The hearings will be held by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, whose chairman, Representative James C. Greenwood of Pennsylvania, says the F.C.C.'s supervision was weak.
Mr. Greenwood said that since schools often must pay only 10 percent of the cost of equipment and services while E-rate picks up the rest, "contractors have mastered the art of coming into these districts, recommending gold-plated architecture, and school officials, buying at 10 cents on the dollar, take everything they recommend.''
"You couldn't invent a way to throw money down the drain that would work any better than this," he added.
The Universal Service Administrative Company, a nonprofit government corporation overseen by the communications commission and known to school administrators as USAC (pronounced YOU- sack), is in charge of the E-rate program, which has many enthusiastic backers.
"Every mammoth government program has problems," said Gregg Downey, editor of eSchool News, a paper that covers educational technology. "The sloth, the waste and the cases of outright fraud shouldn't be a reason to get rid of a program that's doing a lot of good. This is a program that helps schools serve students better through technology." Michael Balmoris, a spokesman for the communications commission, said that E-rate was not "waste- and fraud-free" but that abuses were not "endemic." Narda M. Jones, an acting chief in the F.C.C. division that oversees the program, said it was designed to give schools "maximum flexibility" to build technology systems that suited their needs.