Multimedia & Internet@Schools back issues from March 2007:
School librarianship in the new era.
Mar 01, 2007; ... IT'S coming! Internet@Schools, along with Computers in Libraries, is next month--specifically April 16-17 in Arlington, Va. I talked in some detail about the conference last time in this space, so I won't do so again, except to point out two important things: 1) There's an insert on pages ...
YALSA's new electronic discussion list.(Young Adult Library Services Association)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of ALA, recently introduced a new open discussion list, YA-MUSIC. Available to YALSA members and nonmembers, the list was created to discuss ways that librarians can use music in all its forms to serve the teens in their ...
EIA electronics recycling tips.(Electronics Industries Alliance)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA) offers an online resource with information on an array of local and national options available for donating, selling, or recycling used electronic equipment. The E-Cycling Central database (www.eiae.org) was developed by EIA's Environmental Issues ...
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... WilsonWeb now includes Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983, a wide-ranging retrospective article index. The database covers 1,200 key periodicals, includes citations to more than 500,000 articles, and catalogs the innovations, controversies, and individuals ...
Expanded Book Index with Reviews.(NetLIBRARIES)(EBSCO Publishing )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... EBSCO Publishing announced that the latest version of Book Index with Reviews (BIR) has been expanded to provideinformation on thousands of music and video titles. BIR now features detailed information on more than 4 million popular and classic book titles, 450,000 music titles, and ...
Poetry Month Web site.(Thomson Corp. Thomson Gale)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Thomson Gale is supporting National Poetry Month (April) with Poet's Corner, a free Web site located online at www.gale.com/free_resources/poets. The site offers poems and the concepts behind them, biographies of well-received poets, a quiz based on these poets and their works, a timeline ...
Free professional development podcasts.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Curriculum Associates offers free podcasts that cover trends and happenings in education, as well as ways to incorporate the company's products with current events training. The initial podcasts, located online at www.catraining.com, focus on writing. The first discusses how helping young ...
Sagebrush bookstore's state alignments.(Sagebrush Education )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The online Sagebrush Education bookstore now aligns titles to state curriculum standards in all 50 states for the core subject areas of language arts, math, social studies, and science. Users can find aligned titles in three ways: drilling down from the state standard to the most finely ...
Healthy choices.(student health)
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE most recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 17 percent of children and adolescents are overweight. Statistics show that one in five kids abuse prescription drugs. These are only two examples of the health issues facing children today. In ...
Shooting themselves in the foot.(THE PIPELINE)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2007; ... SO, TIME magazine declared "you" the person of the year. Give yourself a pat on the back. Besides applying millions of Mylar mirrors to the cover of TIME, they received an enormous ripple effect of press attention from the choice and highlighted the movement of the social networking tools ...
ISTE opens career center.(NEWS)(International Society for Technology in Education )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) launched a new career center focused on educational technology positions. ISTE member job seekers can use the online service to search for jobs and post resumes at no cost. Employers can post jobs for a fee (ISTE member and ...
CoSN annual conference and international symposium.(NEWS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) will hold its 12th annual conference in San Francisco from March 28 to 30. The theme of the meeting is Bridging Individualized Learning and High Stakes Accountability. Speakers include L. Michael Golden, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania ...
School networking: state chapters.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) opened state chapters in Georgia, Louisiana, and New Mexico.The new chapters were founded by the local chief technology officers' (CTOs) organizations in each state: the Metro Atlanta CIO Council, the Louisiana Chief Technology ...
Invent-A-Toy World Games.(Helping HANDS)
Mar 01, 2007; ... By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and Mattel will partner for the third annual Invent-A-Toy World Games competition. The contest gives youngsters ages 5-19 the opportunity to create their own commercially viable toys and games for a national audience. The winners will be awarded a licensing contract ...
Gates Foundation expands Global Libraries project.(Library NEWS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the expansion of its Global Libraries initiative with grants to Botswana, Latvia, and Lithuania to ensure that people in those countries have access to the latest information and training available via computers and the Internet. The grants for ...
Microsoft Grava.(Classroom RESOURCES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Microsoft launched a new set of tools designed to help educators create and assemble materials to build multimedia learning experiences. The product, code named Grava, offers developer tools, simple authoring tools, playback, and the ability to perform assessments, log results, and create ...
Califone USB Jackbox.(Classroom RESOURCES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Califone International, Inc. introduced the USB Jackbox, the first jackbox with microphone inputs. The device enables the recording of vocal responses and lets as many as six students listen to and practice language skills simultaneously. In addition, the jackbox can be used in creating ...
A look at ... secondary-level software and webware.
Mar 01, 2007; ... TODAY, computer-related resources for secondary education include everything from exciting new software for video-editing tasks that weren't really possible in high schools 20 years ago to extraordinary subscription databases. In between can be found Web-based courseware that is becoming ...
School librarians help students achieve: here's the evidence!
Mar 01, 2007; ... [Editor's Note: When we went looking for an author and expert to cover the theme Librarians and Assessment, we quickly found our way to Violet Harada of the University of Hawaii's Library and Information Science Program, whose considerable work in this area resulted in, among other things, ...
E-scheduling.(THE MEDIA CENTER)
Mar 01, 2007; ... ARE you and your teachers using an online calendar to schedule classes in the media center and labs? Last fall, I posted an inquiry about e-scheduling on LM_NET (www.edu ref.org/lm_net/archive; Inquiry posted on Nov. 20, 2006). The responses were diverse, informative, and inspiring. With ...
Featuritis fever and gizmo flu!(BELL TONES)
Mar 01, 2007; ... WHILE mulling over my topic for this column, I kept hearing a song in my head, but with words pertaining to technology. It was Johnny Rivers singing "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu." Clearly this reveals my age and also may have something to do with my penchant for writing ...
Lights, Camera, Education!(CROSS Curriculum)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The American Film Institute's (AFI) K-12 screen education program, LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION! is now available online on Discovery's unitedstreaming service. The program trains teachers to use filmmaking as a method to engage students in the learning process. Video-based modules profile ...
netTrekker now includes access to Teachers' Domain, produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation.(CROSS Curriculum)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... netTrekker now includes access to Teachers' Domain, produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation. A digital library of nearly 1,000 multimedia resources for classroom use and independent study, Teachers' Domain includes award-winning public television programming produced by WGBH. The ...
The Teacher's Interpretive Guide and The Family's Interpretive Guide.(CROSS Curriculum)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Pearson Education offers two new guides for its PASeries (Progress Assessment Series) product line. The Teacher's Interpretive Guide and The Family's Interpretive Guide were developed as tools for understanding PASeries assessment results and for using them to improve student achievement ....
Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.(Social STUDIES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The ABC-CLIO Social Studies Database series expands with the release of Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. The online database features more than 15,000 primary and secondary sources, including government documents, photographs, artwork, video clips, and historic maps ....
Virtual Economics 3.0.(MatheMATICS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Virtual Economics 3.0, a CD-based program from the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), provides more than 1,200 activity-based economics and personal finance lessons for K-12.The program includes a searchable database of lesson plans from NCEE's library of more than 80 ...
PLATO Straight Curve Mathematics.(MatheMATICS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The PLATO Straight Curve Mathematics series expands the program from grades 3-5 to include grades K-2 and 6.The teacher-facilitated supplemental curriculum uses online technology and five instructional blocks (mini lessons, investigations, workshops, games, and quizzes) to present ...
WGBH Boston Video is releasing Masterpiece Theatre productions of Jane Eyre and Dracula on DVD.(Language ARTS)
Mar 01, 2007; ... WGBH Boston Video is releasing Masterpiece Theatre productions of Jane Eyre and Dracula on DVD. Jane Eyre stars Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Ruth Wilson (Suburban Shootout), and Francesca Annis (Marple: At Bertram's Hotel, The Libertine).The running time is 240 minutes. The price is ...
In the spotlight.
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE PRODUCT: GenevaLogic Vision Kits: Classroom Computer Management Software THE COMPANY: GenevaLogic 15725 SW Greystone Court, Suite 105 Beaverton, OR 97006 Phone: (866) 725-7833 Internet: www.GenevaLogic.com GenevaLogic ...
Great Source iwrite.(Product/service evaluation)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Located online: www.greatsource .com/iwrite. Company: Great Source Education Group (a division of Houghton Mifflin Co.), P.O. Box 7050, Wilmington, MA 01887. Phone: (800) 289-4490 (Option 4); Email: through the online contact link. Access Fee: iwrite is a free Web ...
Virtual History--Ancient Egypt.(MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SOFTWARE/WEB SITES)(Product/service evaluation)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Company: Knowledge Matters, Inc., 85 Woodland Drive, Florence, MA 01062. Phone: (413) 587-9917; Fax: (413) 584-8485; Internet: www .knowledgematters.com. Price: $195--Five-user license. $395--Lab license. $595--Site license. Audience: Middle school, grades 5-8. ...
First in MATH.(Product/service evaluation)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Located online:www.firstinmath.com. Company: Suntex International, Inc., 3311 Fox Hill Road, Easton, PA 18045. Phone: (800) 242-4542. Access Fee: $8 per student, 1-year subscription fee. Volume discount pricing is available. Six-month subscriptions are offered for ...
WebLessons.(Learners Online Inc.)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Located online: www.weblessons.com. Company: Learners Online, Inc., 3616 Maple Ave., Dallas, TX 75219. Phone: (800) 672-6988; Email: sup port@weblessons.com; Internet: www.learnersonline.com. Price: About $600 per teacher for an annual subscription. The cost is ...
Library resources: a critical component to online learning.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Advancements in online education (commonly referred to as virtual learning) continue to sweep the nation, with ever-growing numbers of educational institutions endorsing the format as a viable alternative to the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom setting. In fact, the impact of ...