T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) back issues from January 2002:
Calendar.
Jan 01, 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 Hyatt San Francisco, www.trld.com. ...
Instructional networks -- some emerging tools.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 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 flexible technology infrastructure. Ubiquitous ...
Lightspan division announces product enhancements. (news).
Jan 01, 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. The product expansion makes it easier for ...
Software suite enables integrated management. (news).(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 simplifies lesson planning, curriculum, ...
Mindsurf, EdVISION combine testing content and tools. (news).
Jan 01, 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 aligned to a district's specific ...
Using technology to enhance the classroom environment.
Jan 01, 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 learning in a classroom environment. While my ...
Palm introduces digital CliffsNotes collection.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, The Odyssey, The ...
Online publishing turns students, teachers into authors. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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, can logon to the Weekly Reader Press Web ...
Windows tool simplifies E-Book publishing. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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, either on a CD-ROM or as a downloadable file ....
Cyber-Bookshelf: E-Wally and the Quest. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).
Jan 01, 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 on the printed word with one that is ...
Publisher offers electronic versions of textbooks.(Course Technology)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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 will offer e-books for popular software ...
Yahoo! shopping adds E-Books category.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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 category on Yahoo! Shopping and make ...
College textbooks, study guides go digital.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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 now be able to purchase Wiley titles ...
Publishing tool enables e-textbook customization. (digital publishing: E-Books * Online & Digital Publishing * Print-On-Demand).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 reading, writing and critical thinking skills ....
Children's author forms literacy network.(Jean Chapolin)
Jan 01, 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 StoryPlus.com, Scribum and StoryClass. ...
Online resource improves exceptional student services.(EDmin.com)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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 for managing the vital, but time-consuming, ...
History rounds out social studies site.(ABC-CLIO)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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 curriculum from secondary schools, covering ...
Rand McNally offers new teaching resources.
Jan 01, 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, which include teacher notes and reproducible ...
On the Web.(Directory)
Jan 01, 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 experience of being a doctoral student ....
Invention sites partner to form resource network.
Jan 01, 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 resources. The network centers on the kids' ...
Assessment platform controls online test-taking environment. (Edu Net: Internet * Web * Online Content and Services).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 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, enabling access to only approved online and ...
Big ten school in Cyberspace: a brief history of Penn State's World Campus.
Jan 01, 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 land-grant university in the 21st century," said ...
Wentworth Institute.(Crayon By Number 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 outline that students can then color in. ...
Educational Activities Software.(DILEMMA multimedia reading comprehension program)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 making, problem solving, reasoning, responsibility, ...
Eastman Kodak Company.(Professional Portraits and More PC Pro software for Windows)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 support for the Kodak Professional DCS 760, 720x ...
GollyGee Software Inc.(GollyGee Blocks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 accustomed to. Editing tools let children organize ...
CharacTell Ltd.(SoftWriting)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 such as a Microsoft Word document. ...
Editors' pick: PC Music Tool Kit: MAGIX, Los Angeles, CA (888) TO-MAGIX, www.magix.com.(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 guitars and vocals, and add audio effects like ...
Projectors & presenters.(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 resolution, and in rich three-panel LCD colon ...
Product showcase.(Toshiba TLP250 and TLP251 LCD multimedia projectors, Canon LV-7345 and Philips cSmart SV1)(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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 LV-7345 projector offers 2,100 ANSI lumens of ...
Monitors & displays.(Product Announcement)
Jan 01, 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" display provides expanded computer and video ...
Case study: Master's Academy focuses on classroom technology.(use SMART Technologies SMART Board interactive whiteboard)
Jan 01, 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 keyboard. At the front of the room is an ...
Forecasting and managing student achievement on high-stakes tests. (industry perspective).(NCS Learn High Stakes Management tools and services)
Jan 01, 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 student? As more and more states attach high ...
NECTAR Foundation's Science Trek 4, 5, 6. (Educator's Evaluation).(Evaluation)
Jan 01, 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 what we teach in the classroom. The program ...
Mount Diablo High School discovers success with the Digital Safari Multimedia Academy. (Applications).
Jan 01, 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 education. Through a competitive process within the ...
LSU expands distance learning program through online learning solution. (Applications).(Tegrity WebLearner Studio)
Jan 01, 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 implementation of an online learning program is ...