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Saturday, June 08, 2002
http://www.indystar.com/article.php?nteacher07.html Teachers go to class to master technology - Use of new computer skills can help clarify many subjects Josh Duke The teachers became the students this week in Washington Township Schools. For the first time, the district held a technology academy at its Community and Education Center. Like the rest of society, teachers have found technology taking over their daily routines. From communicating to grading, everything teachers do has become technology driven. That alone made this year's academy both necessary and popular, said Marguerite Hart, the district's director of technology.... (0) comments http://www.detnews.com/2002/schools/0206/07/e12d-508601.htm Computer literacy program expands Rod Sanford / Associated Press A program that provides computer training to low-income students has grown so quickly that organizers have opened two new satellite offices to help meet the demand. Closing the Gap plans to train 140 more students this year with new offices at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lansing and Edgewood Village Housing Corp. in East Lansing. The Black Child and Family Institute formerly was the program's only location. The program, designed to get computers into the homes of low-income families and help people find jobs in the computer industry, began in January 2001.... (0) comments Friday, June 07, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000039088jun03.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia Laid-off tech employees are rejoining work force as public school teachers. JENIFER RAGLAND, TIMES STAFF WRITER Tera Creech has cracked genetic coding as a researcher for a biotech firm and taken apart software programs as a skilled technician for a booming dot-com. But that's nothing compared to what she plans to do next: teach high school science. Creech is one of about 200 laid-off technology workers in California who are rejoining the work force as public school teachers. With help from a $1.6-million state grant, they are bringing their science degrees and high-tech backgrounds into a public school system that is facing a severe shortage of qualified math and science instructors.... (0) comments http://showmecenter.missouri.edu/ Show-Me Center - Math Education Online The Show-Me Center, located at the University of Missouri, is a math education project of the National Science Foundation. The center's Web site "provides information and resources needed to support selection and implementation of standards-based middle grades mathematic curricula." There are some sample lesson plans offered, but most of the material is solely for use by teachers. Five different middle grade math curriculums were started in 1992, and now, the implementation and results of each curriculum are presented on this site. Teachers can examine each one, view video clips, and read case studies and other reports to choose which parts of the curriculums would fit best into their own classes. From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2002. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ (0) comments http://www.eschoolnews.com/features/nclb/index.cfm Meta-site for No Child Left Behind Act Under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, millions of students in grades three through eight will be required to take annual tests in reading and math, with their scores affecting for the first time how federal aid to their schools is allocated and spent. Schools with persistently low test scores would have to give some of their federal aid to students for tutoring or transportation to another public school. The reforms bring greater challenges for school leaders, who are charged with ensuring their students can meet new standards for learning... eSchool News, with generous support from Kaplan K12 Learning Services, has assembled a host of resources to help you in this effort... (0) comments http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/rttrack.htm On the Right Track - Develop your professional development plan by evaluating student achievement. Barbara Bray Linking the technology professional development program with improving student achievement provides teachers an effective action plan that teachers can use. To do this, teachers, along with key members of the school community, contribute to a shared vision that defines where students need to be to become successful learners. Student data with evidence and anecdotal conversations about the status of their students provides a reality check for teachers that helps determine if the student program is on the right track. A successful professional development program involves planning how the school integrates technology as part of the student program starting with where students are now to the vision of where they will be in the future. The action plan for the professional development program needs to be a key part of the school's improvement goals and plans. (Bernhardt, 1994.) Planning for the action plan needs to be based on improving student achievement.... (0) comments Thursday, June 06, 2002
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/techarts2.html Bringing the Curriculum to Life with the Arts By Barbara Bray Visual and performing arts help children develop creative thinking, team-building and problem-solving skills. The arts bring the curriculum to life and make it fun. Professional development programs that include the arts have teachers doing hands-on, real-world activities, and their enthusiasm translates back to the classroom. Add technology to the arts and students become producers rather than consumers of information. Students today have a difficult time connecting content to their world. By creating and editing their own music - capturing and modifying images to publish, or editing video clips - they become empowered to collaborate, experiment, question, analyze and infer. And with real content they begin to understand the connection. Here are some resources on how technology and the arts help make that connection.... (0) comments http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/05/020605hngopher.xml New IE flaw enables remote PC attacks David Legard ANOTHER SECURITY FLAW identified in Microsoft's IE 5.5 and 6.0 Web browsers has the potential to give a remote user access to a host computer, according to security company Online Solutions. The attack exploits IE's built-in gopher client. Gopher is a nearly obsolete protocol for accessing remote directories and files which has been largely superseded by the Web and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The part of code in IE which parses gopher replies contains an exploitable buffer overflow bug. A malicious server may be used to run arbitrary code on an IE user's system, Online Solutions said in a security advisory issued Tuesday. The attack can be launched via a Web page or an HTML mail message which redirects the user to a malicious gopher server when the user views them. The exploiter could do anything that a regular user could do on the system -- retrieve, install, or remove files, upload and run programs.... (0) comments http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/424729p-3391587c.html Students help school districts with computer technology LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Students might be able to teach their teachers a thing or two about technology. That's according to a new study of 811 school districts, which showed that 54 percent of those surveyed rely on students to provide technical assistance. Teachers, meanwhile, are "unevenly prepared for using technology as a tool for teaching and learning," according to the National School Boards Foundation. "With increasing pressures to improve student achievement and bridge the digital divide, school leaders need to better integrate technology into the curriculum as a major learning tool," Robin Thurman, director of the NSBF, said in remarks prepared for Tuesday's release of the survey.... (0) comments Wednesday, June 05, 2002
http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/06/02/vanishing.chalkboards.ap/index.html Chalkboards slowly erased from schools - Marker boards, computers taking place of class staple ...While the old-fashioned chalkboard remains a fixture in most U.S. classrooms, school designers have all but eliminated it. Taking a page from the business world, they're outfitting most new and remodeled schools with whiteboards, in some cases installing high-tech devices that turn them into virtual computer screens. Teachers can surf the Internet in front of class, save and print out lessons or even create animated diagrams that students can review on a home computer.... For about $3,500, schools can buy a device that allows teachers to draw on a board, hit a button and print copies on a laser printer -- or save text and drawings to a hard drive or Web server. An even cheaper device simply sticks to a whiteboard with suction cups, each of its four markers fitted with a computer stylus. The mimio Xi, manufactured by Massachusetts-based Virtual Ink Corp., saves words or drawings stroke-by-stroke into a computer file, allowing teachers to create a digital movie of a lesson. Students can download and review it using a VCR-like program.... (0) comments http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=2349 Parents push for online learning - Internet beats TV as an education tool Wendy Brewer Nearly half the parents of school-age children (48 percent) feel the internet is just as important as traditional resources for their child's learning, according to a study by ISP BT openworld. "[Computers] are a very powerful and motivating tool for children," said the BBC's education executive, Karen Johnson. "[They provide the child with] certain independence while also making the learning very safe and tailored." Almost half (45 percent) the 549 parents questioned thought the internet was a better learning tool than TV.... (0) comments Tuesday, June 04, 2002
http://www.mediabrains.com/client/eschooln/bg1/search.asp Welcome to the School Technology Buyer's Guide! The School Technology Buyer's Guide is the most comprehensive online source of information about vendors, products, and services for the K-12 field. Click on one of the category links below or use the handy Search box below to locate information by company or keyword. Total Companies Listed as of Tuesday, June 4, 2002 is 3690.... (0) comments http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/pamlowe.htm Technology Is Tailor-Made For Teaching Pam Lowe My life and teaching style changed forever on the day I stepped into my technology laden fourth grade classroom as a part of the state of Missouri's eMINTS program. Now the world is at our fingertips and my students and I grab onto it with both hands. I wonder what my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. McMillin would think if she could see the technological tools at my teaching disposal. I know that, for me, teaching and learning will never be the same. One of the first things I learned was that technology and the Internet can make you fearless. I noticed that my students are not afraid to try new things and I seldom hear those words that teachers despise, "I can't." When faced with roadblocks, my students work to find solutions. Internet lessons and WebQuests create challenges that my students love to meet. Those light bulb moments when ideas become reality are the kind of moments that inspired me to become a teacher. My students are excited about learning, and it doesn't get any better than that.... (0) comments Monday, June 03, 2002
http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/ Managing Incoming E-mail: What Every User Needs to Know By Mark Hurst Summary: A 35-page report showing how to manage incoming e-mail. Description: This report - available as a PDF download - describes a simple method that will allow any user to cope with increasing amounts of incoming e-mail. Some of the ideas come from author Mark Hurst's free Good Experience newsletter, which reaches 50,000 subscribers worldwide. Audience: Anyone who uses e-mail should read this report. Anyone who manages e-mail users, or works in I.T., should read it twice. Price: Free (suggested $10 donation) (0) comments http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/408408p-3256855c.html Teachers claim Web sites offer students easy cheating chance ALEJANDRA NAVARRO, Modesto Bee Plagiarism has always existed, some say since the birth of formal education. But the Internet has made the temptation to steal words much harder to resist. Faculty members say some students create entire papers using a patchwork of paragraphs from different sources without giving the original author credit for the words or ideas. Some students cut corners with research papers because they feel the pressure to earn top grades; other students do it to keep up with their classmates. Still others do not see the crime in lifting a few lines of someone else's work. In a 2000-01 survey, more than half of 4,500 high school students said they had used sentences from Internet sources without citing them, according to Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe. Of those students, about a third said they cheated because they "didn't study" or they were "lazy."... (0) comments Sunday, June 02, 2002
http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=38newtechhigh.h21 New Technology High School in California's Napa Valley provides at least one computer for every student. Rhea R. Borja At first glance, the 1970s, low-rise stucco building squatting near an animal feed and supply store seems like a typical public school. Only a column painted purple, reaching toward the sky, hints that New Technology High School may be a little different. Inside, parts of this 223-student school in California's wine country resemble a dot-com workplace. There are glass-enclosed classrooms, clusters of interactive computer workstations, and high-tech wiring twisting like veins through the rooms. No books are stacked in the library, or research center. Instead, students log on to an "e-library." Just as in a well- equipped office, there's at least one computer for every student, a ratio unheard of even in some of the nation's wealthiest schools. And the school day here is fluid: No bells ring to signal the end of class, nor must students get permission to use the bathrooms.... (0) comments http://www.techlearning.com/content/contest/etloy/index.html T&L's Ed Tech Leaders of the Year Program Technology & Learning's Ed Tech Leaders of the Year Program recognizes and honors K-12 teachers, technology specialists, and administrators who use technology in innovative ways to motivate students and enrich learning. Call for Entries - Calling all Teachers, Technology Coordinators, and Administrators! Enter Technology & Learning's 2002 Ed Tech Leaders of the Year contest. Entries must be received by Tuesday, October 1, 2002. (0) comments http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0527/web-portal-05-29-02.asp School linking to community Dibya Sarkar The Memphis City Schools district, spurred by a greater need for community contact, is developing a portal that would fill instructional and administrative needs, including online registration and training.... Providing a single point of access, Mainord said a portal could offer information about neighborhood schools, ease the application process for free and reduced-price lunch programs, enable users to view educational material and homework assignments, and facilitate communication between the school and community.... (0) comments Educational Technology News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use |
