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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 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 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 More..
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DigiMemo, A $100 Digital NotepadJune 1, 2009 We take notes daily for various reasons. Note taking is very popular in school settings and generally recognized as an effective learning strategy, yet most students probably have never considered just how complex a process it More..
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Top 10 Ways to Save Money on your PrinterMay 29, 2009 Lexmark International, Inc. has released the findings from its Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study, which reveal contributors to a printer's carbon footprint and how a user can reduce them. By shrinking your printer’s carbon More..
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Virtualization: A PrimerMay 18, 2009 While funding evaporates in these harsh economic times, virtualization benefits budgets, education, and the environment while improving security. Here are some ways to virtualize DesktopThe entire desktop environment, including More..
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Recent survey says 40% of ID theft is from browser-based password softwareMay 18, 2009 Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Barbara have released a publication about the operation of a botnet known as Torpig. The team controlled the botnet for 10 days, and during More..
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Saving money with virtualizationMay 6, 2009 School districts across the country always have had to do more with less. Funding only goes so far, leaving administrators and IT staff to find innovative ways to save money while maintaining a high level of academic quality. More..
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The AV Club—Next GenerationApril 20, 2009 Engaging the digital natives isn’t as daunting as you think. Here’s how three classrooms do it.A Media ShowcasePete Episcopo had a vision. When he started at Brevard Public Schools in Viera, Florida, the digital media artist More..
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Nine Reasons to Twitter in SchoolsApril 16, 2009 Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons. 1. Together we’re betterTwitter can be like a virtual staffroom where teachers can access in seconds a stream of links, ideas, opinions, and resources from a More..
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Ready or not, here IT comesApril 13, 2009 According to the “2009 Horizon Report K12 Edition,” the future may actually be closer than it appears. The report is the second in a new series that analyzes emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in More..
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Ten Ways To Get Beyond Powerpoint With Classroom ProjectorsApril 12, 2009 True tech integrators know the digital projector can be used for much more than projecting. Here is a sampling of some creative ways to use your projector in any curriculum. • Reading Writing. Display images, words, or More..
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PC virtualization systems give schools a lot of computer learning for the buckMarch 22, 2009 Sometimes it was a challenge keeping students at Danville (IL) High School focused on interactive video lessons on the library computers. But not anymore.Now classes, like a group of eight special needs students recently, simply More..
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Tamp;L Visits the Science Leadership Academy in PhiladelphiaMarch 20, 2009 When I entered the Science Leadership Academy in center city Philadelphia, I was immediately struck by the energy. Teens bustled around informally, and one polite young man came up and guided me to the office, where, along with More..
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