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September 21, 20052:00-3:00 p.m. EDT Dan Balzer and Dennis O’ConnorIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy Power Searching: A Learning by Doing Experience If you want to enhance your online search skills, join Dan Balzer and Dennis O’Connor for a hands-on-the-keyboard experience with searching digital resources. Using real-time and simulated Search Challenges,…

The purpose of the Katrina_EdRelief Yahoo! group is to share information that will enable us — as a community of government leaders, education organizations, corporations, and foundations — to better respond to the short- and long-term educational needs of those displaced. As a community, we share a belief that online…

Education Daily for Tuesday, August 30, 2005, has an article about a computer use study conducted by CDW-G, Inc., a technology services provider to government and educators. The study provides interesting statistics relating to the use of computers by teachers. Not surprisingly, according to Education Daily, 86 percent of teachers…

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Please join ISTE’s special interest group for Technology Coordinators (SIGTC) for a featured online “Liveâ€? event—E-Rate Funding with SIGTC’s Dan Riordan. This event will assist technology personnel in navigating the confusing and sometimes challenging process of receiving funding under E-Rate. New changes to the E-Rate program make this a “must…

December 31, 2005 is an important date for the E-Rate program. That is the day the one-year waiver from the Anti-Deficiency Act expires. If that day comes and goes with no Congressional action to extend the waiver, the E-Rate program will be frozen for a minimum of six months and…

This August 2005 data memo from the Pew Internet American Life Project digs into their recent teen internet use survey and is rife with implications for schools. Among the key findings: 68% of all teen (youth between the ages of 12 and 17) have used the internet at school; This…

Susan D. Patrick, the chief adviser on educational technology to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, will leave the U.S. Department of Education in September to head an organization that promotes online education.For more info, see EdWeek online only article, here.For those not familiar with the organization, NACOL is the North…

The search is on for the nation’s top education visionaries. Not long after Intel Corporation staged its own Visionary Conference in Washington, D.C., two more technology giants are on the hunt. Dell Inc., the nation’s leading provider of computers to schools, and the world’s leading software maker, Microsoft Corp., have…

On-Tech Consulting and Microsoft are holding a series of free, vendor-neutral E-Rate webinars. The schedule is as follows: July 26 - E-Rate overview August 18 - E-Rate funding for construction projects September 15 - Avoiding E-Rate application pitfalls October 13 - Recent changes in the E-Rate program November 10 -…

The May/June 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs includes an article by Thomas Bleha titled "Down to the Wire". In it he illustrates how the US has fallen so far so fast in the broadband race and the impact on the nation’s economy, including education. Bleha’s summary: "Once a leader in…

Mainichi Daily News reports that Tokyo’s Shinagawa-ku ward (a large neighborhood in the city of Tokyo) is preparing to equip all 12,000 elementary school students with special cellphones that allow them to call two different numbers in addition to providing access to emergency services by pulling a pin on the…

Link: Eastern European Winners Announced in Worldwide Technology Competition for Students. From Converge Online, an article about the Eastern European regional finals for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup.  The world finals will be held in Japan in July.  High school and college teams from around the world compete in nine different programming…