Tamp;L Announces the 2009 Awards of Excellence Winners
October 28, 2009
27th ANNUAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE WINNERSANNOUNCED BY TECH & LEARNING MAGAZINEOutstanding Education Technology Products SalutedSAN BRUNO, CA (October 28, 2009) – Tech & Learning magazine today named 66 education technology products More..

Highlights from Tech Forum Northeast, Palisades, NY October 23, 2009
October 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..

Students with Disabilities Excel in Summer Work Program
July 31, 2009
Working  at the ice cream parlor, gas station or local restaurant for the summer is a rite of passage for many teenagers. But finding summer work can be challenging for young people with disabilities, who may be faced with special More..

Safety Net: Web filtering that works
July 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 provide More..

Connecting neuroscience and reading
July 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. Michael More..

Eight Ways To Use School Wikis
July 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 including More..

Ready for 1:1? Check this list before you answer
July 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. Questions More..

Calculating the ROI on virtual schooling
June 25, 2009
When calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) for VHS schools it is important to consider more than just training costs. Also to be considered is the cost to schools to relieve the teacher from teaching one period per day. More..

Look Ma, no textbooks
June 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 2005 More..

Virtualization saves Texas school over a million dollars
June 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 students More..

25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
June 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 as a micro-blog (and not More..

Michelle Obama on Education
May 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. Definitely worth the 10 minutes to stream in class:   More..

We have a winner: meet our 1000th Twitter follower
May 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 Technology More..

New doc cams in action: pros, cons, and tips
May 13, 2009
There 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 historical artifacts More..