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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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Bridging the Gap and Connecting ClassroomsAugust 24, 2009 After completing the Walt Disney World® Marathon in Florida, high school math teacher Josh Dorsey settles into his hotel room with his computer and an Internet connection to teach calculus III. Dorsey is more than 800 miles away More..
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Texas Students Track Swine FluAugust 19, 2009 Last April when Novel influenza A (H1N1) – swine flu – emerged onto the world stage, students in Texas watched with concern. Would their education, sports and social activities be affected? Some districts halted student travel. Others More..
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Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Searches?August 4, 2009 Getting the Most out of Royalty-Free Image Libraries By David PatschkeFor student designers, royalty-free image libraries are an invaluable resource. Learning how to navigate these digital archives can radically reduce search time; More..
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Document Camera PromotionJuly 29, 2009 AVerMedia Information, Inc., provider of presentation and surveillance technology, has announced a Buy 8 Get 1 Free promotion on the AVerVision CP300 Interactive Document Camera through September 30, 2009. The AVerVision CP300 Interactive 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 provide 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 including More..
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Calculating the ROI on virtual schoolingJune 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.
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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 2005 More..
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Cover Your Assets: the latest asset management software in actionJune 18, 2009 Quick, tell us: How many laptops are in your middle schools? Which ones are about to come off warranty? Did your tech department finish updating all the software licensing? If you can’t answer these questions, it is probably time to More..
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Spending wisely: DC school funds innovative tech programsJune 16, 2009 Rick Kelsey, STEM coordinator and technology director at McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., has developed some unique ways for this citywide public high school and career academy to use stimulus funding for educational 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 students 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 as a micro-blog (and not 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 Technology More..
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