From the Classroom

GPS and Learning
By Charles Sinicki
It knows exactly where you are and can lead you to where you are not, which makes the GPS a great and inexpensive tool for the learning and team-building activities of a fascinating adventure called Geocaching.

Give Students the "Write" Stuff with Online Learning Tools
By Scott Fellenbaum
How fifth- through eighth-graders improved their writing proficiency and their results on a state-mandated assessment with an easy-to-use and highly effective Web-based writing tool.

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Professional Development

How To Get Teachers To Attend Tech Training
By Diane Coggins
Build it (your tech training seminars) and sometimes they (your teachers) will not come, unless you find ways to make it productive, personalized, and rewarding.

Tech Talk

Free Technical Software
By Richard Williams
The price is right (either free or very inexpensive) for some very interesting and sometimes very esoteric software of great interest to teachers of various technical topics.

Leadership

Transcripts in Transit – Digital, Safe, and Secure
By Steve Dantinne
Mailing paper transcripts is so 20th Century compared to the ease, speed, and security of transmitting digitized transcript data.

8 Steps to 21st Century Learning
By Lydotta Taylor and Jill Fratto
Although change is desirable, it often does not happen easily. Here are some useful ways to facilitate change and implement 21st Century Learning.

Ideas and Opinions

Daylong Learning
By Craig Ullman
It's time for schools to abandon the 19th Century model and bring their students into the 21st Century by adopting a technological and information-based model.