T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) articles from October 2006

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) archives from October 2006

Math needs a makeover: our most pressing educational crisis may boil down to an image problem.
October 1, 2006... A FORMER MATHEMATICAL boy wonder, I'm not unfamiliar with the presumption of nerdiness. Even educators, who know better, probably have to resist privately snickering: Good for you, Pythagoras. I assume you were also a first-rate Dungeons and...

Keep the customer satisfied: like any good organization, we need to stay in touch with our consumers--the students.
October 1, 2006... I RECENTLY HAD the opportunity to spend some time with a teenager who goes to a school with a 1-to-1 implementation. I have been in schools with 1-to-1, talked to teachers and administrators, and looked at the results of studies done on these...

Event calendar.
October 1, 2006... October 2006 OCT 3-4 Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and Education Events The 2006 Superintendent Technology Leadership Conference Focusing on the Roles of Security, Online Tools and Technologies, and Assessment in...

T+L conference to celebrate its 20th anniversary: an expected 2,000 educators will sample new technology tools at the annual show.(Technology + Learning)
October 1, 2006... THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION (www.nsba.org) is returning to its original venue of Dallas, TX, this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Technology + Learning (T+L) Conference. From Nov. 8 to 10, the expected 2,000 attending...

Digication offers software solution for cash-strapped schools.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Schools short on money but long on software needs should check out Digication (www.digication.com), which offers a simple web-based content management system as an alternative to pricey and complex learning management systems. The online suite...

Follett acquires TetraData.(Follett Software)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Follett Software Company (www.fsc.follett.com), a division of educational services provider Follett (www.follett.com), has acquired TetraData (www.tetradata.com), a provider of data warehousing, analysis, and reporting solutions. FSC hopes the...

Panasonic launches buyer program.(Panasonic Technologies Inc., Panasonic K-12 Educator Points Program)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... A new buyer-points program for educators is available through Panasonic (www.panasonic.com). With the Panasonic K-12 Educator Points Program, school districts can earn points from purchases of Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems products...

Microboards adds Mac support.(Microboards Technology partnered with Hewlett-Packard )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Microboards Technology (www.microboards.com) has added support for Macintosh (www.apple.com) users to its GX-1 Disc Publisher. The company's new software package is designed to improve disc printing and recording on the Mac. One feature allows...

Avermedia partners with Troxell.(AverMedia Technologies, Troxell Communications)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... AverMedia Technologies (www.avermedia.com), a provider of digital multimedia and presentation technologies, is partnering with Troxell Communications (www.trox.com), a provider of audiovisual solutions, to offer reduced pricing on document...

A NUMB3RS game.(Texas Instruments alliance with CBS television and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics developed online educational program)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The popular math-based CBS television series has been translated into a source for online educational fun. Returning for a second year is "We All Use Math Every Day" (www.weallusematheveryday.com), a program developed by Texas Instruments...

Plato elects board member.(Plato Learning appoints Robert Peterkin)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Educational software provider Plato Learning (www.plato.com) has announced that Robert Peterkin, the Francis Keppel senior lecturer on educational policy and administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been elected to the...

Champion Leadership Awards presented.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The 2006 Education Technology Think Tank (www.et3online.org) Technology to Empower Community Champion Leadership Awards were presented last month at the Congressional Black Caucus' Education Braintrust Symposium in Washington, DC. The awards...

A plan without a plan: without some leadership and cooperation at all levels, a new federal mandate for gathering data on students' technological literacy will produce meaningless results.
October 1, 2006... SOMETIME THIS YEAR, the federal government, through your state's department of education, will be asking you how many eighth-grade students in your district have been determined to be technologically literate. (The exact formation of the...

Breaking up the bottleneck: the new affordability of ultra-high-speed networks is relieving K-12 schools of insufficient bandwidth and opening them up to a world of digital education.(networking)
October 1, 2006... THOUSANDS OF AMERICA'S K-12 schools are struggling to meet the demands of the digital era. Standards for student curricula, teacher credentials, and in-school security are rising rapidly. To keep pace, school districts are doing an admirable...

K-12 School District makes big move to wireless, giving students, faculty and IT staff hassle free connectivity.
October 1, 2006... Spring Independent School District (Spring ISD), north of Houston, Texas, is known for its innovation in technology to enhance education. In fact, Spring ISD installed a two-way fiber optic ring by burying fiber and connecting each school with...

Taking the work out of homework: with the rise of the internet, schools are seeing an epidemic of cut-and-paste plagiarism. But the same technology that's making plagiarism easy is being used by teachers to catch copycats in the act.(fighting plagiarism)(Cover story)
October 1, 2006... IT WAS ONE of those assignments that Advanced Placement English students at Oak Park High School in Ventura, CA, love to get. The students had just finished reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and their teacher, Roland Herberg, asked them...

The technology of smart $hopping: cheaper, more efficient, and altogether easier than paper-based methods, electronic purchasing is eliminating handwritten requisition forms and long waits for supplies. So why are districts so slow to make the transition?
October 1, 2006... AS FAMILIAR AS WE ARE with the ease and speed of the computer age, old habits can still prevail. The purchasing trends among K-12 districts are a case in point. Despite the billions of dollars that flow from schools each year in procurement...

Too much information: the surge in the collection and use of data has created a new problem for K-12 administrators--where to put it all, while ensuring it stays safe and accessible. Data warehouses have the answer.(data warehousing)
October 1, 2006... AMONG ITS MANY SWEEPING CONSEQUENCES over the past five years, the No Child Left Behind Act, with its mandates for collecting and documenting student achievement statistics, has fueled a surge in the volume of data collected by schools,...

A textbook case: the prohibitive cost of purchasing and maintaining textbooks has left our students with outdated materials or none at all. The solution? Print your own.(hardware)
October 1, 2006... HOW IRONIC IT IS that in the internet age, current events are a click away but often not on the desks of students in K-12 classrooms throughout the country. The culprit is out-of-date or inadequate textbooks. In a survey conducted by the...

The final new.(product FOCUS: The latest releases, services, and new product versions)(color laser printer from Lexmark International Group Inc.)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... THE FINAL NEW color laser printer in Lexmark's C770 family of printers, the X772e combines the printing features of the C772n with a Lexmark 4600 scanner. The unit's 800-MHz processor allows complicated jobs to be processed quickly and enables...

Inspiration software.(product FOCUS: The latest releases, services, and new product versions)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... INSPIRATION SOFTWARE'S InspireData aims to help students visualize, investigate, and understand data, and to use data to draw conclusions. Targeted for grades 4-12, inspireData applies visual learning and data analysis to science, math, and...

Digital foci.(product FOCUS: The latest releases, services, and new product versions)(Picture Porter Elite)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... DIGITAL FOCI has released its Picture Porter Elite portable digital photo viewer. Featuring a 3.6-inch LCD screen, Picture Porter Elite saves photos on its hard drive, and its built-in memory-card slot lets users copy and archive photos without...

Hewlett-Packard.
October 1, 2006... HEWLETT-PACKARD has introduced its HP 39gs graphing calculator with multiple connectivity options. The HP 39gs is designed for high school math and science classrooms and allows users to wirelessly share data and applications with other...

Gateway.
October 1, 2006... GATEWAY'S E-9520T tower server has enhanced functionality and redundancy features, including an optional remote-control KVM (keyboard, video, mouse). Users can incorporate both SAS (serial attached small computer system interface) and SATA II...

Adove captivate 2.
October 1, 2006... ADOBE CAPTIVATE 2 enables users without programming knowledge or multimedia skills to develop engaging, interactive content. With Captivate 2, educators can create assessment exercises with eLearning interactions, such as feedback fields and...

Extracurricular: for technologists who do their homework.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Online learning is opening up new academic avenues to both teachers and students. How great an impact is it having? Find out from the people who know: the curriculum directors. Q: Have you deployed online learning in your district for...