Technology in Education

Magazine articles on technology used in education and school administration.

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T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Dan Holden	The Litany Investigating the organizational changes needed to make technology effective in the classroom and create an environment where no child is left behind
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Sylvia Charp	Administrative and Instructional Portals Well-developed portals make it easier for the user to find information. This could include academic, administrative and social information, such as registration materials, campus activities, community opportunities, test results and assignments.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Sam Dempsey	North Carolina School District Streamlines Its Special Education Management System Our district, located in central North Carolina, faced the challenge of upgrading its special education management system in a way that facilitated program evaluation, compliance monitoring and accountability tracking.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002	Web Platform Enhances Communication Between Parents, Faculty in Hempstead ISD Community An easy-to-use Web-based platform lets families access school information from home. It also provides an array of Web publishing, groupware and e-mail management functionalities that a school's staff can use to enhance communication with parents, as well as within a school or district.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 George Warren	Outsourcing: A Cost-Effective Alternative to the School Help Desk As new applications are added to the education technology mix, the complexities of hardware and software can become daunting. Eventually, it makes sense to farm out some, if not all, help desk functions.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Anne Kim	Lofty Grant Program Benefits Learning-Disabled Students Based in DeWitt, Mich., Premier Programming Solutions is giving away its Accessibility Suite to any school that cannot afford to buy assistive software for its learning-disabled students.
T.H.E. Journal September 2002 Doug Jackson	Case Study: Texas University Breaks Down the Walls of the Classroom With Wireless Connectivity The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) was presented with the challenge of breaking down the walls of the classroom on its campus. A wireless connectivity project for the faculty quickly became a campuswide initiative to increase UTD's wireless network penetration.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	Democratizing education with technology Juan Valiente is convinced that technology should be used to transform how teachers teach and students learn. To that end, in 1995 this 41-year-old native of El Salvador joined a group of young professionals and began to look for ways to turn technology into a social "leveler."
CIO August 15, 2002 Alice Dragoon	Point, Click -- and Save a Frog Thanks to a plethora of virtual dissection websites, students who want to be kind to their web-footed friends can learn all about frog anatomy without having to wield a scalpel
T.H.E. Journal August 2002 Jacqueline Keane	Teacher vs. Computer. Where Educators Stand in the Technology Revolution Instructional technology and the World Wide Web offer powerful teaching resources that provide educators with a limitless wealth of information and shared professional practices.
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