Multimedia & Internet@Schools back issues from January 2004:
And now for something different--but not completely!(Editor's Notes)
Jan 01, 2004; ... DID you note the change when you saw the cover of this first 2004 issue? As I noted in our last issue, we've been reworking MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS, including making an unobtrusive but significant name change. We're now MULTIMEDIA & INTERNET@SCHOOLS, or MMIS for short. What's with ...
Why teachers hate tech training ... and what to do about it.(The Op-Ed Page)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Editor's Note: Do you follow any library or technology listservs? I do. I find pearls of wisdom on them, and some great discussions of issues school library media specialists and technologists deal with. When I read Gall Combs' posting a while back on WWWEDU, in a thread entitled "Why Many ...
Cyber Security for the Digital District.(Net News)(Consortium for School Networking)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has launched a new program designed to provide education technology leaders and policy makers with strategies and tools to ensure the privacy of data and the safe operation of technology within school systems. The multi-year vendor-neutral ...
eLibrary.(Net Libraries)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ProQuest has released eLibrary Curriculum Edition, a curriculum and reference service that provides one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for secondary schools and libraries. The service provides more than 2,000 full-text magazines, ...
Online Reader.(Net Teaching)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Online Reader provides an interdisciplinary database of articles and images from leading magazines and includes Lexiled reading material suitable for early readers through grade 12. The database complements existing reading programs and offers 4,000 selected articles for reading ...
Performance Series updated.(Net Teaching)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Norm Reporting module has been added to Scantron's Performance Series assessment tool, allowing educators to compare student test results from Performance Series with results from students across the country. A standards-based online assessment. Performance Series delivers a unique test ...
Online SOL tutorial.(Net Teaching; Standards of Learning)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Princeton Review has developed an online tutoring program for the Virginia Department of Education to help high school students pass the state's English: Reading and Research Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment, which is required for high school graduation. The customized online ...
Human Rights.(Net Learning)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Human Rights 101 Web site [http://www.thirteen.org/ edonline/hr101/] offers students insight into topics such as tolerance, racism, women's rights, refugees, and religious freedom and helps show students how they can become effective catalysts for change. The site serves as a launching ...
Generation Link.(Net Learning)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... EarthLink, the Internet service provider (ISP), has launched Generation Link, a nationwide, community-based initiative that helps high school students teach senior citizens how to use the Internet. The ISP has partnered with the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) to identify ...
Blogging and RSS: the "what's it?" and "how to" of powerful new Web tools for educators.(Cover Story)
Jan 01, 2004; ... THE INTERNET has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, and use information. But the promise of the Web as more than just a readable, ...
Math destinations.(CyberBee)
Jan 01, 2004; ... MATHEMATICS is the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets using numbers and symbols. It is also dazzling, magical, perplexing, challenging, cool, awesome, and fun. Research has shown that the more-abstract concepts become more concrete when modeled ...
No librarians left behind: preparing for next-generation libraries (Part 2).(The Pipeline)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Editor's note: In the November/December 2003 issue of MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS in the "DirectConnect space, Stephen Abram presented Part 1 of an informative essay on what he sees as important trends school library media specialists should be watching for. (Its also online at http://www. ...
State ed tech budgets: opportunities and challenges.(News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The average total of federal funding for educational technology increased from 2001-2002 to 2002-2003, but state budget cuts more than offset the gain, according to the first annual State Budget Survey conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). In the ...
Emerging technologies report: wireless.(News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... One of the greatest concerns about wireless networking is the obvious security challenge it presents, according to the "Emerging Technologies Report: A Guide to Wireless LANs in K-12 Schools," prepared by the Consortium for School Networking's (CoSN) Emerging Technologies Committee ....
Librarian of the Year.(Library News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Librarian Greg Lum of Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon, was named the 2003 National School Library Media Specialist of the Year by the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and SIRS Mandarin, Inc. The award recognizes individual excellence in the ...
Sagebrush In-Hand.(Library News)(In-Hand v3.1)(Product/Service Evaluation)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Sagebrush In-Hand v3.1 updates the hand-held computer program for libraries with new Lookup Title and Lookup Patron features that allow users to search for, verify, and cross-check patron and collection data. The upgrade includes previously released features that allow reduced inventory ...
ISTE technology guides.(Classroom Resources)(International Society for Technology in Education)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The book Electronic Briefcase for Administrators--Tools and Templates provides basic instruction on the software tools that can be used to complete everyday administrative tasks, as well as ready-made templates for immediate use. Organized around the International Society for Technology in ...
Science Academy scholarships.(Helping Hands)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The PLATO Science Academy Scholarship Program, for middle and high school students, provides a 1-week, all-expenses-paid scholarship for 40 students chat will allow them to participate in a customized science program at Space Center Houston in June 2004, working with astronauts and other ...
From musty old library to 21st-century program.(The Media Center)
Jan 01, 2004; ... CONTRARY to popular belief, musty libraries haven't disappeared; they are there, waiting for media specialists who love challenge and change. Perhaps you've been hired to upgrade a 1950s-era school library into a media center and program for the 21st century! A media specialist ...
Buying digital cameras.(A Look At ...)(Buyers Guide)
Jan 01, 2004; ... IT'S BECOME clear to most educators that the uses for digital photography in day-to-day teaching, learning, and assessment processes are limited only by the imagination of the users and the availability of the equipment. Daily photographs of a growing plant or a cocoon can show ...
Chronicling a technology initiative.(Learning Unleashed!)
Jan 01, 2004; ... FOR the past year and a half, I have written the MMS column "Making IT Work for Learning." In this column, I examined some of the institutional and pedagogical forces that shape instructional technology. Beginning with this issue of the new MMIS, my column has changed both in name and in ...
Preparing students for digital living and lifetime learning.(Henrico County Public Schools)
Jan 01, 2004; ... EDUCATIONAL initiatives that prepare students for 21st-century living must unite revolutionary teaching tools with an evolution in teaching methodologies. The Teaching and Learning Initiative we educators and administrators of the Henrico County (Virginia) Public Schools (HCPS) launched in ...
An LCD projector can light up your teaching life.(Integrating Technology)(Buyers Guide)
Jan 01, 2004; ... I ARRIVED an hour early at the newly opened Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, where I was going to give a talk on "Emotions and Learning." I wanted to see this new campus. I must say that I was taken by the grandeur of the buildings and grounds. I arrived in the main ...
A Higher-Level Edition has been added to News-2-You, the online weekly newspaper providing current events news to special education and beginning reading students.(Cross-Curriculum)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... A Higher-Level Edition has been added to News-2-You, the online weekly newspaper providing current events news to special education and beginning reading students. The new edition provides more text with fewer supporting visual icons, as well as more challenging activity pages. Developed ...
The Finder series of advanced thesaurus-like tools has been added to MY Access! 4.1, an online writing tool.(Language Arts)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Finder series of advanced thesaurus-like tools has been added to MY Access! 4.1, an online writing tool. The Wordfinder and Meaningfinder applications provide students with the ability to highlight words and identify alternative word choices and related concepts, as well as the meaning ...
Fraction Shape-Up.(Mathematics)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Fraction Shape-Up for grades 3 to 5 contains 499 math problems and 1,220 questions on fractions and their application. The program's units include Understanding Fractions, Exploring Fractions, Comparing Common Fractions, Introduction to Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions, Making ...
Astronomicon: Celestial Construction Tool Kit.(Science)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Astronomicon: Celestial Construction Tool Kit lets users create virtual models of the solar system to explain eclipses, planet rotation, and other astronomical events. The 3-D modeling software allows teachers and ...
PLATO Life Science.(Science)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... PLATO Life Science for middle school students has been added to the online PLATO Instructional Solutions library. The courseware's theme-based scenarios engage students in scientific inquiry, problem solving, and critical thinking in a variety of topics, including cells, the structure and ...
I.D.E.A. Works! Special Education CD-ROM.(Social Studies)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The I.D.E.A. Works! Special Education CD-ROM provides teaching resources for the Holt social studies textbook series. The CD includes modified activities and assessment as required for Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) of special-needs students in mainstream classrooms. Each version of ...
PaceWare for Social Studies.(Social Studies)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2004; ... PaceWare for Social Studies gives GED and struggling students the basic information and skills they need to function as good citizens and make sense of the news and events in today's world. Available in both electronic and print versions, the program covers six social studies content areas ...
In the spotlight.
Jan 01, 2004; ... THE PRODUCT netTrekker Available online THE COMPANY Thinkronize 15 Triangle Park Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45246 Phone: 877/517-1125 Fax: 513/731-1710 Internet: http://www.nettrekker.com/ http://www.thinkronize.com/ ...
Dell Inspiron 1100.(Product/Service Evaluation)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Company: Dell Computer Corporation, One Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas 78682; Phone: 800/915-3355; Internet: http://www.dell.com/. Description: The Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook computer features the "moonlight silver and Venice blue" case found on the entire Inspiron line. The base ...
GeoSafari Talking Telescope.(Product/Service Evaluation)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Company: Educational Insights, 18730 S. Wilmington, Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220; Phone: 800/9954436; E-mail: service@edin.com; Internet: http://www.educational insights.com/. Description: The GeoSafari Talking Telescope (EI-8805) looks like a combination microscope and telescope ....
Max's Sandbox.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Company: eWord Inc., 104 Fairmount Road East, Califon, NJ 07830; Phone: 908/439-2439; Internet: http://www. maxssandbox.com/. Price: $47--single home user; $68--two home users; $146---lab pack, five users; $266--lab pack, 10 users. Site/ network license pricing is available; ...
Aspire.(http://www.aspire. com/ )
Jan 01, 2004; ... Located online at http://www.aspire. com/. Source: Aspire Learning Corporation, 812 Huron Road, Suite 280, The Caxton Building, Cleveland, OH 44115; Phone: 888/335-3788; Fax: 216/619-2400; Internet: http://www. aspire.com/. Access fee: Varies from $1,000/year for ...
Galeschools.com.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Located online at http://www.gale schools.com/. Source: The Thomson Corporation/ Gale, 27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331; Phone: 800/877-4253; Fax: 800/414-5043; Internet: http://www.gale.com/. Access Fee: None. Audience: Grades K-12. ...