Monthly Archives: September 2006

Conferences 2007 AY: Consumer Electronics Show

This is part of a list of conferences addressing topics of special interest to educators and mobile PC users. January 8-11, 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV. Many conferences compete for attention and resources of educators. One of the … Continue reading

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A Roadmap to Unified Communications on Campus

On October 5,2006 at 11:00 am PDT, Matt Villano talks with Scott Claverie of CSU Chico in a 60 minutes Webinar about how the school’s new network has increased productivity and streamlined communications across campus. Converged networks are quickly becoming … Continue reading

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Study Reports: Reading First and School Restructuring

Diane Stark Rentner, Director of National Programs, Center on Education Policy, announced release of two reports related to the No Child Left Behind Act. The first report, Keeping Watch on Reading First, highlights findings from CEP’s surveys of state and … Continue reading

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Visiting Granmother

I will miss a few posts in the next few days. We’re traveling with AJ to visit Grandmother, and then on to Redmond. I thhink I have the back of our hybred SUV set up to handle his 100 pounds. … Continue reading

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Tablet PC Works for Student with MS

Carol Allen described uses of Tablet PCs with students with disabilities. Her purpose was to understand the value a Tablet PC to learners with special educational requirements. A Year 8 student with MS wrote at North Tynsdale Woodlawn School: “So … Continue reading

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Tablet PC Teacher in Non-Technology-Laden Facilities

Sara Kajder, (then University of Louisville) describes how she uses her Tablet PC daily. She offers a framework for considering the qualities of the technology-using English teacher. Within the first few hours of that day, I had Read and commented … Continue reading

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Perspective: Battle of Antietam

On this day, September 17, 1862, 23,000 men died or were wounded in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland. … it was also the bloodiest single day battle in American history … … Antietam resulted in nine times as many Americans … Continue reading

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Tablet PC School: NJ Institute of Technology – Tablet PCs for Team and Collaborative Learning

Donald George and Katia Passerini of New Jersey Institute of Technology and others offer great PowerPoint slide set titled “Tablet-PCs for Team-Based and Collaborative Learning – More Heads around the Screen.” These slides focus on the use of the Tablet … Continue reading

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Poem a Day for High School Students

The Library of Congress offers Poetry 180, a list of links to a poem a day for high school students. Delightfully, romantically realistic against the brash streets and hallways of learning! This is a great classroom supplement, and you don’t … Continue reading

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Koozer’s Student

US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser offers an interesting poem, Student, about leaning into wave after wave of responsibility, paddling ahead, crawling out of a hangover and onto the sand of the future. Thanks, The Writer’s Almanac for republishing this poem, … Continue reading

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