In addition to positive teacher comments, The Community Discovered project world wide web site, and the web sites of the collaborating museums have received numerous official acknowledgements and considerable recognition, as indicated by the following electronic communications:

Web Page Acknowledgement (1999):

First of all I applaud the member museums for placing biographies of American artists on the Internet via their websites. My hope is that institutions in all 50 states will post biographies of their home statesí historic artists, starting with the earliest and working their way to the present as funding allows.

John Hazeltine, Editor, Resource Library Magazine

Web Page Acknowledgement for Josyln Art Museum Site (1999):

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Web Page Award (1997):

The advisory group responsible for developing the Web site for NetTech, the Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium wants to let you know that "The Community Discovered" is featured in this monthís NetTech: Best of the Web in Educational Technology. Check it out at http://www.nettech.org/ NetTech searches the Web for new and exemplary sites in educational technology. Each month NetTech highlights 12 best educational technology sites.

Web Page Award (1997):

Your story is featured this month in our Innovator of the Month section of ENC Online. At the end of the month, it will remain on our site in our Innovator Hall of Fame. The direct URL for the Innovator Story is: http://www.enc.org/classroom/iom/nf

The formative evaluation process targeting museum participation has included site visits, focus group analyses, questions on stakeholder surveys, and electronic monitoring of web site and listserv use. Surveys and interviews are continuing to examine teacher perceptions of museum related activities, providing the project with additional formative evaluation information to help further refine their activities and the general educational utility of their web sites.