NEWS ALERT ...
CoSN profiles
'must-have' technologies
Datacasting, radio
frequency identification chips,
student web logs, and intelligent
essay
graders are among a dozen technologies likely to emerge as must-have
solutions in
the
nation's schools, according to a
report unveiled Nov. 3 by the
Washington, D.C.-based Consortium for School Networking....
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GRANT ALERT ...
Grants,
loans, and expertise
to execute rural broadband
initiatives
Rural communities will be chosen to
participate
in the Rural Wireless Community VISION Program
on the basis of a two-
to-five-page essay that
describes the community's vision for wireless
connectivity
and services and how it
will benefit from
this vision....
Deadline: December 01,
2004
WEEK'S TOP NEWS ...
'Smart'
schools
cut energy costs
With energy costs threatening to reach
record
levels this winter, schools and colleges
from coast to coast are
scrambling to
find ways to enhance the efficiency of
their physical plants.
Researchers and
architects are hard at work developing
innovative ways to help
educators lighten
the burden of escalating
fuel
costs....
Latest
online
threat to students: 'spim'
First, there was
"spam," or unsolicited bulk commercial
eMail, which posed a threat to
students
with personal eMail accounts, given the
graphic nature of many of
these solicitations.
Now, the internet industry is targeting
a new threat
to students and other patrons: "spim"....
Group
touts
free eLearning platform
A handful of leading
universities have developed
a new consortium to raise awareness and
increase
the use of a free, open-source
software platform for
managing courses,
content, collaboration, and online learning....
Peer
reporting
debuts at T+L�
eSchool News introduced
a new concept
in education journalism at last week's
National School Boards
Association's
T+L� conference in Denver: peer
reporting by practicing
educators....
READERS' CHOICE AWARDS ...
...
PARTNERS UPDATE ...
Atomic
Learning's
tutorial
library now exceeds 12,000
From Atomic
Learning, Nov. 1, 2004--Atomic Learning,
a provider of affordable web-based software
training
and tutorials, released 12 new tutorial movie series
comprised of
almost 700 new tutorials. Atomic
Learning now offers over 12,000 tutorials for
more
than 75 different applications....
Students
work
with CDW-G to point district toward affordable
solution
From
CDW-G, Oct. 27--Challenged by teacher Mark La
Porte to find an affordable answer to the
school's
trouble accessing the internet, a cadre of 20-or-so
computer-savvy students
came up a thin-client
network of end-user PCs that ran applications and
processed
data stored on high-powered
backroom
servers....
Sagebrush
Corp.
announces the
release of Analytics version
6.1
From Sagebrush Corp., Nov. 1--Sagebrush Corporation,
a leading provider of
technologies and information
resources for K-12 districts and schools, announced
the
latest release of its data management
and analysis system, Sagebrush Analytics
version
6.1....
'Pinnacle
PDA'
helps educators make data-driven
decisions every day
From Excelsior Software, Nov. 3--Excelsior Software,
a provider of meaningful
assessment tools for K-12
schools, has developed a way for educators to have
the
assessment information they need to make
decisions at their fingertips at any time....
Massachusetts
elementary schools
to receive book that every child
can read
From
Kurzweil Educational Systems Inc., Nov. 8--The
Kurzweil Foundation, a non-profit
organization dedicated
to fostering the creative application of technology
to human
needs, and Kurzweil Educational
Systems, Inc., innovator of reading technology
for
individuals with learning disabilities or visual
impairments, announced a
donation of 14,00 books
and accompanying CDs to all Massachusetts
elementary
schools....
Century
Consultants
announces
Text Book Inventory tracking
system
From Century Consultants, Nov. 5--Century Consultants
has enhanced its Text
Book Inventory tracking system.
Textbook tracking is a standard integrated
feature
set of Century's web based student information
system Star_Student....
Holt
releases
middle school science curriculum for North
Carolina
From Holt, Rinhart and Winston, Nov. 4--Holt, Rinehart
and Winston announced
the release of Holt Science & Technology,
North Carolina Edition, which is
specifically developed
for North Carolina's middle school science curriculum
and
meets the North Carolina academic
standards prescribed in the Standard Course of
Study....
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RESOURCES FOR
EDUCATORS
Finding Technology
Funding
Believe it or not, funding for school technology is plentiful.
Corporations, foundations, donors, and even local, state, and federal government agencies have
funding they're eager to put in your hands. Trick is, you must know where to find it, how to ask for
it, and how to play by the rules
when you get it.
Enhancing
Curriculum
with
Web-Enabled Resources
To help you use the internet to improve instruction, we at
eSchool News have compiled an online toolkit featuring an extensive collection of stories
and articles. We hope it helps you effectively
integrate the web into your curriculum to enrich the learning experience of all your
students.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Instructional
writing tools
The new SAT, which debuts next March, features both a grammar and
essay-writing component for the first time in decades. The change was made possible in large part by
advances in technology--and advances in technology also might help educators
better prepare their students for success on the new exam. Just how much these new technologies
can help, however, is yet to be determined.
IP
Telephony
IP telephony, a packet-switching technology that transmits phone calls
over
a
data network, reduces the load on a network by minimizing the time a connection
is
kept
open.
Schools
have
discovered that combining
voice and data into a single network can
be more efficient and
help reduce phone costs.
Informed
Instruction
Delivering
individualized instruction targeted to meet each student's needs once was no more than the stuff of
educators' dreams. Today, thanks to a growing number of offerings and some creative financing on the
part of school districts, this model is
becoming a reality for teachers and students nationwide.
Professional
Development
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