From the Classroom

Becoming Better Writers
By Algie Davis
Overworked teachers struggling to help their under-performing high school students master essential writing skills find that software helps their students to write better and improve test performance.

CAD Helps Stem Student Aversion to STEM
By Rick Hebert
In this new global economy, our students must remain competitive in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math – and CAD (Computer-Assisted Design) is one way to ‘hook’ students and get them interested in these essential academic areas.

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Tech Talk

Open Source in South Korea
By Jeremy Mereness
This article is about the adoption of open source by the South Korean government in a nation-wide project, not just to bring their national education system into the 21st Century, but also to help create a national computing infrastructure that is not dependent on foreign companies.

Administrators

An Open Letter to Elementary School Teachers
By Kenneth Willers
The technology-savvy principal of an award-winning school has inspiring things to say to teachers about why they’re more important than the technology; how to make teaching, not technology, their top priority; and how to make technology work for them.

Professional Development

To the Rescue! How an LCD Projector Saved Us
By Marty Mayer, Dina Mayne, and Barbara Rodgers
A relatively simple piece of technology facilitates collaboration, allowing three maidens-in (temporary)-distress to get the job done and remain best friends.

Wikis Work for Online Tech Ed Courses
By Pam Page Carpenter and Edward Roberts
These graduate education students used wikis to learn online and now believe that if teachers are going to use new technologies in their classrooms, they must first learn to use the technology themselves.

Studies in Ed Tech

Graduate Students Grade Online Instruction
By Dr. Sue E. Hoppe
Online learning is becoming an increasingly popular option for many of today’s busy students – but does it do the job? A team of 110 graduate students investigated this question, and here are their findings.