Technology in Education

Magazine articles on technology used in education and school administration.

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T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Paula Boxie	Cybermentoring: An Online Literacy Project in Teacher Education This case study looks at teacher candidates who were enrolled in a content-area literacy course and used online technologies and literacy strategies to promote meaningful learning among students at a remote elementary school.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Chris Dede	Enabling Distributed Learning Communities Via Emerging Technologies - Part One Emerging devices, tools, media and virtual environments offer opportunities for creating new types of learning communities for students and teachers.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Sue Cooper	Computerized Practice Tests Boost Student Achievement By taking practice tests four to five times prior to the state testing, students are showing significant improvement within their deficit areas. More important, the students are enjoying themselves.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	Election 2004: Evaluating Your Candidates Candidates should know that their constituents believe technology is an integral part of education. Following are some questions to consider asking prospective candidates running for all levels of office.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Wendi Takemoto	K-12 Portal Brings Honolulu Community Together A centralized, collaborative portal is bringing the widespread community this school together to share values, ideals, thoughts, learning, life experiences and "ohana" (i.e., family values and camaraderie) - anytime, anywhere.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	Click to Meet 4.0 This videoconferencing system works with the hardware schools already have in place. Its multipoint control and transcoding engine can connect up to 90 participants in a single videoconference call.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	FirstFlight Helps Schools Become Wi-Fi Enabled The program also leverages existing Layer 3 infrastructures so an entire campus can be instantly Wi-Fi enabled.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	Polycom V500 This videoconferencing system is affordable enough for everyday classroom use and offers enterprise-quality video communications at 30 frames per second.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	Wireless Plan Generates Revenue for Higher Ed. The program allows schools to offer select Sprint PCS rate plans to faculty, staff and students while collecting service-plan fees directly from the users, often as a supplementary charge with tuition.
T.H.E. Journal September 2004	Junior Achievement Program Turns Students into Business In this free Web-based simulation program, students become CEOs of their own manufacturing company and must master key business decisions such as price, production levels, capital investment, marketing, and R&D.
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