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Tamp;L Announces the 2009 Awards of Excellence WinnersOctober 28, 2009 Tech & Learning magazine today named 65 education technology products as winners in its prestigious program More..
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Highlights from Tech Forum Northeast, Palisades, NY October 23, 2009October 27, 2009 Welcome and Opening Keynote Chris LehmannBuilding School 2.0 Creating the Schools We NeedWhat is School 2.0? What are the pedagogical ideas that form it? Examine ideas of constructivist pedagogy and the use of 21st Century tools More..
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Students with Disabilities Excel in Summer Work ProgramJuly 31, 2009 A six-week summer work program at Intermediate School District 287 in Plymouth, Minnesota trained students with disabilities in document imaging tasks, and was so successful that the district has decided to make it a regular part More..
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Safety Net: Web filtering that worksJuly 23, 2009 A district can take many steps to ensure that its students are protected from harmful, obscene, or otherwise unworthy websites. It can establish guidelines for appropriate Internet usage, create acceptable use policies, or More..
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Connecting neuroscience and readingJuly 21, 2009 Neuroscience research has shown that the only real way to change the trajectory of a child’s academic career is to change the rate and accuracy with which the brain receives and uses information. Research conducted by Drs. More..
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Eight Ways To Use School WikisJuly 21, 2009 Wikis are a great tool to help a school enrich instruction, and increase communication and collaboration among staff. They are also free (for educators using wikispaces) and provide unlimited storage for digital materials More..
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Ready for 1:1? Check this list before you answerJuly 16, 2009 Check this list before you start your 1 1 program or to improve an existing program. Search for more funding The state may be providing machines and some training support but I will guarantee it will not be enough. More..
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Calculating the ROI on virtual schoolingJune 25, 2009 All these schools are interested in Virtual High School (VHS). They are excited about the quality of the course offerings and the caliber of the instructors of the courses. School boards love innovative programs but are More..
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Look Ma, no textbooksJune 22, 2009 Empire High School (Vail, AZ) seniors will be the first group of students to have started and completed their high school careers without the use of traditional textbooks, using personal laptops instead. When the school began its More..
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Virtualization saves Texas school over a million dollarsJune 10, 2009 Steve Young, chief technology officer of the Judson school district in Texas, recently performed his own energy cost analysis a year after beginning a major computer upgrade and expansion program in his school district of 21,000 More..
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25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja ColeJune 4, 2009 Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in. It is not always clear what its professional uses are, or what to post in 140 characters or less. But when you start to think of Twitter More..
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Michelle Obama on EducationMay 28, 2009 If you haven't watched the videos posted at TED.com, be careful or you could be there for hours. The one below is from the First Lady's trip last month to a London girls school. More..
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We have a winner: meet our 1000th Twitter followerMay 25, 2009 In May, we announced that we would profile our 1000th Twitter follower in the June issue. And the winner is... Easton Area School District, Easton, PA (about 9,100 K 12 students)Director of Technology Thomas DragoDistrict More..
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New doc cams in action: pros, cons, and tipsMay 13, 2009 Shine a LightThere are as many uses for document cameras as there are styles of product. Teachers are getting more creative in integrating this technology into their curricula, using document cameras to project everything from More..
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