Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Many of you know that I promote Wikipedia as a useful resource for staff and students. Wikipedia is the largest enclyclopedia in electronic, online or print form.
There are several advantages to using Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) in the classroom.
1) It is available anywhere you have an Internet connection. You are not limited to a few […]

As you know probably know, you can now set up an Intel based Macintosh computer so that it will start up in either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Now when you are wondering if you should purchase a Dell, Gateway, HP or other computer to run Windows XP, you can add Intel based Macintosh […]

Yesterday Apple Computer announced they had released a free beta download of “Boot Camp.” This software allows you to install Windows XP on an Intel based Macintosh.

In our district we already have two iMac computers that are set up to dual boot into Mac OS 10.4 or Windows XP. You make the choice during startup.

There […]

I am sure that you have heard the following quotes. These are often used in presentations to make the point that many educators are not using technology to improve their instruction or the learning that takes place in their classroom.
"We need to educate our children for their future, not our past."
A.C. Clark

It is […]

This was a question posted to a national technology listserv and my response to that listserv.
>Can anyone assist me in finding resources and/or presentors
>that deals with internet safety for kids?
Most of the schools in North Dakota use i-SAFE and we are very pleased with it. Our state has regional technology support staff through an […]

Reposted from Moving at the Speed of Creativity
by Wesley Fryer on November 26, 2005
This is an excerpt of excellent article about the “new literacies” written by Wesley Fryer; please read the complete article at the above link. Wesley has a lot of thoughtful commentary and ideas about teaching and learning with the “new literacies” […]

From ArriveNet.com Press Release
ARLINGTON, VA — (Market Wire - Dec 08, 2005) — The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) announced today that it will host Technology Impact in Education Month during January 2006. Technology Impact in Education Month is a month of sharing, discovery and celebration of the potential, both realized and envisioned, […]

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From Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 3, 2004, p. 487-512
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11525, Date Accessed: 12/4/2005 8:35:07 PM
by Judith Haymore Sandholtz & Brian Reilly
Despite many efforts at the national, state, and local levels to promote the use of computers in K-12 classrooms, over the past 20 years, the impact of the computer on teaching […]

From Manchester Metropolitan University Innovations Report
Recent research suggests that most children spend more time ‘gaming’ than doing homework.

So what if gaming were homework or at least ‘out of class work’?
A European-funded project at Manchester Metropolitan University aims to show how games and mobile technologies can be combined to give new learning experiences for schoolchildren, particularly […]

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From BBC News Article of November 17, 2005
A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an “expression of global solidarity” by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The green machine was showcased for the first time by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte at the UN net summit in Tunis. He plans […]

Press Release from the US Department of Education
FOR RELEASE:
November 18, 2005
Contacts: Chad Colby, Samara Yudof
(202) 401-1576
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced a pilot program where interested and qualified states can submit proposals for developing growth models that follow the bright-line principles of No Child Left Behind. As part of the pilot, the Department […]