T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) articles from January 2002

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) archives from January 2002

Calendar.
January 1, 2002... January 2002 24-26, Indianapolis, IN. Indiana Computer Educators 2002, Indiana Convention Center & RCA Dome, www.iupui.edu/~ice. 24-26, San Francisco, CA. Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties 20th Annual Conference, Grand...

Instructional networks -- some emerging tools.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... Many educational networks are in place to provide administrative reports and instructional content. To accommodate a growing student population expecting anywhere, anytime access to information, concern must center on how best to provide a...

Lightspan division announces product enhancements. (news).
January 1, 2002... Academic Systems, the higher education division of Lightspan, recently announced widespread product enhancements designed to serve the developmental and general education learning needs of more than 6 million college students nationwide. ...

Software suite enables integrated management. (news).(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Century Consultants is now offering Star_Base Suite, which includes Star_Student, Star_Learning, Star_Mobile and Star_Finance. Each of the software included in the suite is completely integrated into one Oracle-based system that streamlines and...

Mindsurf, EdVISION combine testing content and tools. (news).
January 1, 2002... Mindsurf Networks and EdVISION Corp. have partnered to offer school districts standards-based testing content and tools called Assessment Connection for Achievement Essentials. EdVISION's Assessment Connection creates classroom assessments...

Using technology to enhance the classroom environment.
January 1, 2002... Much is being written about the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. However, much of the focus is on distance learning. This article deals with another aspect of this topic, namely, the use of technology to enhance teaching and...

Palm introduces digital CliffsNotes collection.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Palm and Hungry Minds are bringing CliffsNotes to students in an e-book format. The popular CliffsNotes e-books cover a wide spectrum of books from English literature to test preparation and Advanced Placement reviews. Titles include Romeo and...

Online publishing turns students, teachers into authors. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Aspiring young writers can start their publishing careers online through Weekly Reader Press, a Web-based publishing site from Weekly Reader Corp. and iUniverse. To publish their great American novels, students, with their teacher's help,...

Windows tool simplifies E-Book publishing. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The EbooksWriter from Visual Vision Software is a new all-in-one Windows tool for creating e-books. EbooksWriter converts a manuscript from a Word document into a self-extracting EXE file that's ready for royalty-free distribution on the Web,...

Cyber-Bookshelf: E-Wally and the Quest. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).
January 1, 2002... Cyber-Bookshelf: E-Wally and the Quest By Judy Shasek and Wendy Anderson Schulz NetWorks Publishing; $9.95 www.e-wally.org A new book seeks to teach children about the rise of the Internet, bridging the gap between a generation that grew up...

Publisher offers electronic versions of textbooks.(Course Technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Course Technology, Thomson Learning's computer education publishing division, is offering more than 50 of their best-selling textbook titles within e-book platforms this year. Through partnerships with e-book platform resources, the publisher...

Yahoo! shopping adds E-Books category.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Yahoo!, through its shopping site, is offering e-books by four publishing houses: Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and HarperCollins. Educators are able to browse through a diverse collection of titles within the e-books...

College textbooks, study guides go digital.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MetaText, the digital textbook division of netLibrary, has developed electronic versions of John Wiley & Sons college textbooks. A total of 15 titles are now available for review and adoption through the MetaText Web site. Students will...

Publishing tool enables e-textbook customization. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... SIRS Publishing has released eCurriculum, an online curriculum that uses an e-textbook to dynamically link users to information from SIRS' databases and its collection of Web sites. This advanced technology creates a curriculum that emphasizes...

Children's author forms literacy network.(Jean Chapolin)
January 1, 2002... Jean Chalopin, creator of numerous stories and television shows for children, including "Inspector Gadget," has formed The StoryPlus Network, a group of companies established to promote literacy among children worldwide. The network includes...

Online resource improves exceptional student services.(EDmin.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... EDmin.com has released a Web-based resource that helps K-12 educators improve exceptional student services through the power of the Internet. The new Exceptional Student Education (ESE) application is an online resource that provides support...

History rounds out social studies site.(ABC-CLIO)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ABC-CLIO has recently launched its World History site, completing the company's social studies Web site suite, which now includes five integrative online resources that are standards-based and curriculum-aligned. World History is aligned with...

Rand McNally offers new teaching resources.
January 1, 2002... Rand McNally has created new online teaching materials about Afghanistan, Southwest Asia and the Middle East to help educators provide students with a strong geographical understanding of current events. Educators can download the free lessons,...

On the Web.(Directory)
January 1, 2002... www.doctoralstudents.com This site was created as a virtual community so doctoral students wouldn't feel alone in their academic pursuits. Doctoral students can sign on to exchange ideas, comments or resources about their theses and the...

Invention sites partner to form resource network.
January 1, 2002... PatentCafe and Kids Invent! have joined forces to create an interactive Kids' Invention Network. Together, the two portals provide over 200 interactive invention pages, including more than 1,000 kid-safe links to science and invention...

Assessment platform controls online test-taking environment. (Edu Net: Internet * Web * Online Content and Services).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Vantage Learning has released VANGuard, a new online assessment platform that assures test validity by restricting a student's access to online and desktop information. VANGuard provides complete control of the online test-taking environment,...

Big ten school in Cyberspace: a brief history of Penn State's World Campus.
January 1, 2002... In his 1996 State of the University Address, Penn State's President Graham Spanier first outlined his ambitious goals for a new, "virtual" Penn State campus -- the World Campus. "I believe the World Campus will change the shape of the...

Wentworth Institute.(Crayon By Number 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Budding artists who don't yet have the artistic sensitivities of a Picasso or Rembrandt can take heart with their own photos. Crayon By Number 2.0 from Wentworth Institute lets students scan any photo and turn it into a paint-by-number style...

Educational Activities Software.(DILEMMA multimedia reading comprehension program)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Educational Activities Software's DILEMMA provides a multimedia reading comprehension program that uses social issues as topics for lessons. Written by a school principal, DILEMMA combines comprehension strategies with real-life decision...

Eastman Kodak Company.(Professional Portraits and More PC Pro software for Windows)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... With Kodak's Professional Portraits & More PC Pro software for Windows, young and old photographers alike can capture images with a digital camera and output high-quality prints on-demand. The PC Pro software is easy to learn and adds full...

GollyGee Software Inc.(GollyGee Blocks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... GollyGee Blocks is a 3-D creativity program for children ages 5-12 that uses traditional building blocks in a new way. Children can create their own 3-D world on their computers using the building block shapes and premade objects they're...

CharacTell Ltd.(SoftWriting)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Students looking to transfer their handwritten notes into a computer file without spending too much time typing it all out can use CharacTell's SoftWriting software. SoftWriting enables students to convert handwritten text into a computer file...

Editors' pick: PC Music Tool Kit: MAGIX, Los Angeles, CA (888) TO-MAGIX, www.magix.com.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The PC Music Tool Kit from MAGIX Entertainment Corp. offers a complete recording studio that allows users to compose, record, edit and master their original music, and then burn it to a CD. Users can record live instruments from keyboards to...

Projectors & presenters.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Eiki's NotebookThree series portable projectors come with true SGA or SVGA projection capabilities for computer and video images. The NotebookThree series delivers images at a 90 percent uniformity and 350:1 contrast ratio, at an SXGA or SVGA...

Product showcase.(Toshiba TLP250 and TLP251 LCD multimedia projectors, Canon LV-7345 and Philips cSmart SV1)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Canon has introduced a PC-free presentation system that combines the LV-7345 ultraportable LCD multimedia projector, the PR-200S Presentation Assistant and the LV-MC01 Compact Flash Imager, to produce a flexible system for educators. The...

Monitors & displays.(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The TH-37PWD4UZ 37 professional display is the newest widescreen addition to Panasonic's family of high-contrast, high-brightness information plasma displays. It features a viewing angle of 160 degrees and a contrast ratio of 3,000:1. The 37"...

Case study: Master's Academy focuses on classroom technology.(use SMART Technologies SMART Board interactive whiteboard)
January 1, 2002... A group of fourth-graders file into a classroom at Master's Academy and College, a private K-12 school in Calgary, Alberta, and power up their PCs for class. This is the music room, where each workstation has a desktop computer and a piano...

Forecasting and managing student achievement on high-stakes tests. (industry perspective).(NCS Learn High Stakes Management tools and services)
January 1, 2002... How will your students perform on their state assessment this year? What if, today, you could glimpse students' performances on test day? What would you do differently between now and then to improve learning and raise achievement for each...

NECTAR Foundation's Science Trek 4, 5, 6. (Educator's Evaluation).(Evaluation)
January 1, 2002... NECTAR Foundation's Science Trek 4, 5, 6 covers most of the science curriculum found in grades 4-6. After using the program with my students, it is obvious that teachers were involved in the creation of this program because it fits well with...

Mount Diablo High School discovers success with the Digital Safari Multimedia Academy. (Applications).
January 1, 2002... In 1995, the Mount Diablo Unified School District in Concord, Calif., received one of nine Integration Grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant was for a demonstration project aimed at integrating vocational and academic...

LSU expands distance learning program through online learning solution. (Applications).(Tegrity WebLearner Studio)
January 1, 2002... Louisiana State University (LSU) and its Ourso College of Business, like many leading universities, had the challenge of providing the highest quality of education to as many students as possible with limited physical space and resources. The...