Technology in Education

Magazine articles on technology used in education and school administration.

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T.H.E. Journal October 2003 Ronny Richardson	Hands-On Review: InFocus X1 Over the last few years, projectors have found their way into many classrooms. The trend started at universities, but has now made its way into many K-12 schools as well. And the low-priced, feature-rich InFocus X1 projector will make sure that this trend continues.
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 Ronny Richardson	Hands-On Review: Sony MVC-CD350 CD Mavica Digital Camera The Sony MVC-CD350 is perfect for use in an educational environment where it will be shared among many students. This is because rather than using an expensive memory card to store images, the MVC-CD350 uses a high-capacity 3" CD-R/RW disc for storage.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Michael Surran	Making the Switch to Open Source Software While it has been a bumpy road, our switch to open source software has shown itself to be the perfect solution to a problem that more and more school systems find themselves facing.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Stephen P. Forte	A Pragmatic Approach to High-Tech Security on Campus The challenge is complex, especially considering how decentralized a campus' security, IT and safety systems are today.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Laurence Goldberg	Creating Safer and More Efficient Schools With Biometric Technologies While technology cannot provide a panacea for all school security concerns -- particularly those related to internal threats -- it can be used to enhance security, access control and communications within schools
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Roger Del Russo	Securing Your Computer Network Your entire district could be brought to its knees by a hacker's assault, and the costs of reviving the network could be astronomical. While district administrators may have devised plans for securing the physical plant of the school, they rarely consider the vulnerability of their computer networks.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Sylvia Charp	Security and Privacy of Information We must all be fully aware of what is happening to information, which we previously thought was private and secure. Perhaps, we need more education as to what we should and should not do.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003	Internet Monitoring Software Keeps PACE-Brantley Hall School's Students Online, In-Line It was E-Rate funding concerns that initially caused PACE-Brantley Hall School, a nonprofit, independent K-12 school for children with learning differences in Longwood, Fla., to search for a software program that would control what people were doing on the school network.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Tom Mykl	Rural Wisconsin District Improves Teaching and Learning Through Worldwide Connectivity School districts are providing services that support and train teachers in everything from basic computer skills to how to use the Internet in the classroom. It's time for the institution of education to get off the dirt road and become the leaders of the information highway.
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Judith B. Rajala	Educator-Specific Templates Templates are pre-designed layouts that can be used as a starting point or "skeleton" to create your own publications.
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