Technology in Education

Magazine articles on technology used in education and school administration.

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T.H.E. Journal	Wireless Products: eBeam System 3 BT The eBeam System 3 BT by Luidia Inc. brings cordless interactivity to standard whiteboards. Utilizing Bluetooth technology, the eBeam System 3 BT allows PCs, Macs, Palms or Pocket PCs to capture notes, images and drawings from a standard whiteboard.
T.H.E. Journal	Wireless Products: Intellisync: goAnywhere Intellisync: goAnywhere from Pumatech Inc. allows users of Web-enabled devices (e.g., laptops, mobile phones or PDAs) to remotely access Microsoft Outlook information and files that reside on their desktop computer, including e-mail, contacts, tasks, calendars and documents.
T.H.E. Journal	Wireless Products: LearnTracfx LearnTracfx from eLearning Dynamics LLC is a teacher-controlled platform that wirelessly distributes and collects classroom assignments and study materials for an entire class, selected group or individual students simultaneously,
T.H.E. Journal	Wireless Products: PocketMac 3.0 Also using Bluetooth, PocketMac 3.0 by Information Appliance Associates is the original Mac-to-Pocket PC synchronization solution. The program syncs a Pocket PC with a user's Mac desktop, enabling e-mail and other desktop applications to be used on the Pocket PC.
T.H.E. Journal	Wireless Products: Portable Forms Rovenet's Portable Forms (www.portableforms.com) is an automatic data collection application for the education market. It allows administrators, teachers and students to create customized data collection forms in minutes using a word processing application and an Internet browser.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Ferdig & Trammell	Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere' While a few educators have already started using blogs in the classroom, more have focused on the potential of blogging in teaching and learning.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Geoffrey Fletcher	The Importance of Delivering Classroom Content Via Technology The idea of using technology to deliver content historically has been met with a cool, if not frigid, response from educators. Why? For some answers, we can look to Texas, a leader in this area -- at least from the policy perspective.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Amodeo & Taylor	'Virtual Supervision' Model Tips the Scales in Favor of Instructional Leadership The perennial lament of many principals is not having enough time to fulfill what is perhaps their most important responsibility: teacher evaluations. Video-conferencing technology can help administrators evaluate teachers more easily.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Sloane O'Neal	Individualized Instruction for Improved Student Achievement -- Education's 'Holy Grail' Adding more teachers may help somewhat, but unless we can provide one-to-one instruction, teachers -- and more important, our students -- will still fail. This is where technology can make the difference.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Bernard Percy	Creating Attitudes Worth Catching One of the real issues educators face is how to change the mind-set of naysayers when it comes to implementing technology. One of the best solutions I've heard to help change this naysayer attitude is a listening strategy likened to "letting the tape run."
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