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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Marilyn Tickner
GEM Project Representative
geminfo@xxxxxxxxxxx
URL: www.thegateway.org


Gateway to Educational Materials Portal to Expand

Information Institute of Syracuse forms transition team to manage and
develop new web site features and member services

Syracuse =AD Mar 25, 2005   The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM),
already one of the Internet=92s most popular destination web sites for
teachers, will introduce new options and services in the coming months
designed to provide better searching, added flexibility and personal
interaction, according to officials from the  Information Institute of
Syracuse, GEM=92s home since 1996. The new features are part of a
reorganization process that will also improve and expand services to groups
hosting or contributing to the rapidly growing collection of high quality
lesson plans, reference materials, and other exemplary educational=
 resources.

Originally developed with funding by the United States Department of
Education, GEM has grown from a collection of 700 lesson plans in 1998 to a
digital library featuring over 42,000 resources today from over 700
providers including PBS, NASA, The Smithsonian and many others. The GEM
website=92s popularity among teachers is due to the quality of resources it
houses, its organization of educational materials, and search technologies
that provide much more precise and relevant results for teachers than
general Internet search engines.

=93The Gateway=92s success and growth over the past three years encouraged=
 us to
reconsider how the project should be funded and managed,=94 noted R. David
Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse.  =93We need to
transition to a consortium model that embraces a wide range of funding
sources, that facilitates rapid development of new technologies and
capabilities, and that reflects an increasing emphasis on academic standards
as an integral part of the Gateway=92s search and retrieval functions,=94 he
continued.

The transition to the next version of The Gateway to Education Materials
Portal will be directed by the GEM Exchange, a partnership of JES & Co., a
non-profit organization with extensive experience in academic standards and
organizational management, the Information Institute of Syracuse, and the
Information School at the University of Washington, who will continue to
oversee the development of new services provided by the Gateway on behalf of
the consortium members.  The next release will include an individual
personalization space for teachers and the ability to create and share
information about the available resources including alignment to state and
national standards. Access to the GEM portal by teachers will continue to be
free.

For more information, see http://thegateway.org, or visit JES & Co.=92s
website at http://www.jesandco.org.

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