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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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Virtualization saves Texas school over a million dollarsJune 10, 2009 Steve Young, chief technology officer of the Judson school district in Texas, recently performed his own energy cost analysis a year after beginning a major computer upgrade and expansion program in his school district of 21,000 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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Put students to work: tips for a successful laptop programMay 25, 2009 One regularly overlooked aspect of implementing a school laptop initiative is student involvement. The education consultants at Generation YES recently outlined some ways to do just that. For the full report, go to http 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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Create Your Own Content with VideoconferencingMay 13, 2009 Here’s one way to cut travel costs for field trips. A dozen broadcast journalism students from Howe, Oklahoma, public schools made the forced migration of Native Americans come alive earlier this year for youngsters 1,600 miles 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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eBook Reader UpdateApril 19, 2009 It’s only a matter of time now. As e book readers mature, the image of children lugging dated, heavy bundles of pulp will become as anachronistic as them writing on slate boards. Besides the much heralded release of the Kindle 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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