Educators are, in large part, bullish on the role technology can play in improving student outcomes. But too large a percentage of them aren't receiving adequate training in the areas that matter most: instructional software, technology integration, learning outcomes management, and designing individual lesson plans. This according to a study released last week by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, which also described access to classroom technology as "woefully inadequate" in most schools.
Motivating The Instructional Designer - 0 views
Faronics Power Save - AUTOMATED Energy Conservation - 0 views
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A typical desktop PC with a 17-inch LCD monitor requires about 100 watts-65 watts for the computer and 35 watts for the monitor. If left on 24x7 for one year, this same computer will consume 874 kilowatt hours of electricity-that's enough to release 750 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the equivalent of driving 820 miles in the average car! Faronics Power Save delivers desktop computer energy management that doesn't interfere with user or IT needs. Power Save keeps computers running when users need them, accurately determines when computers are inactive so they can be powered down, and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports.
An Administrator's View of One-to-One | 21st Century Connections - 0 views
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In just another week we will be able to say that we made it through the first semester of the 1:1 initiative. Of course, next week we will monitor the 9s and the 10s taking their English and History exams on the computer-and that will have its challenges. But we will be wiser and smarter afterward.
When YouTube is blocked (seven ways around) - 0 views
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In so many ways, YouTube is the world's video portal. It is also, perhaps, the fastest growing website. Sure, lots of it is seedy and inappropriate. But so much of its content is legitimately important for education, for media and information fluency. For example, I blogged recently about the learning potential of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an international collaboration. YouTube's YouChoose became one of the richest presidential campaign resources. Our President-elect now chooses to upload his transition team messages to our nation on this portal.
Getting more from Moore's Law (BBC) - 0 views
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The advances have underpinned everything from the rise of mobile phones to digital photography and portable music players. Chip-makers have been able to deliver many of these advances by shrinking the components on a chip. By making these building blocks, such as transistors, smaller they have become faster and firms have been able to pack more of them into the same area. But according to many industry insiders this miniaturisation cannot continue forever.
NSTA offers on-demand training for teachers (eSchool News) - 0 views
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has developed a new resource to improve the quality of science instruction in the nation's schools: an online hub that provides affordable, on-demand professional development to help educators boost their knowledge about various science topics, as needed.
How Rsync Works - 0 views
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This document be able to serve as a guide for programmers needing something of an entré into the source code but the primary purpose is to give the reader a foundation from which he may understand why rsync behaves as it does, the limitations of rsync and why a requested feature is unsuited to the code-base.
Mac Enterprise backup options are looking up (Macworld opinion) - 0 views
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Before looking ahead to what's coming, it's important first to look back. And that means a quick refresher course on Retrospect, a mainstay of the Apple community since Mac OS 7 was hosting e-mail, files and FileMaker databases. The venerable app had solid features and drivers for a fairly large subset of tape libraries. Unfortunately, it peaked in the late 1990s around Version 4.3, long before the introduction of Mac OS X in 2001. Since then, it's been in a steady decline.
Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions 5 - macosx.com (Michael Dhaliwal) - 0 views
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In what's become a yearly release, I have officially released the fifth edition of the Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions paper. If you are unfamiliar with the document, it is a free paper that will help you find the right backup solution for your environment, outlining various backup techniques, software solutions and data consolidation solutions. This document has been referenced in numerous webcasts and online publications.
District13 Computing (OS X server backup options - 2008) by Michael Dhaliwal - 0 views
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It's the number one question on everyone's mind... "I have a great new Xserve and Xserve RAID or Promise RAID, but how am I going to get all of this important data off-site, so I can rest easier at night?" "What am I going to do if a disaster hits?" "The word that comes to mind, when I try to describe my disaster recovery plan is simply disaster!" Have no fear! We have a round up of the best backup solutions for Mac OS X that you may have never heard of! Best of all, they're all cross platform, so everyone's invited to play.
Atempo Time Navigator (OS X server backup) - 0 views
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The natural complement to Apple's enterprise server and storage solutions It provides high performance, scalable and reliable data protection. IT managers can administer and monitor their data protection environment from one single location using Time Navigator's native MAC GUI and dedicated dashboard widget.
Classroom Technology 'Woefully Inadequate,' Study Finds : June 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views
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Educators are, in large part, bullish on the role technology can play in improving student outcomes. But too large a percentage of them aren't receiving adequate training in the areas that matter most: instructional software, technology integration, learning outcomes management, and designing individual lesson plans.
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Educators are, in large part, bullish on the role technology can play in improving student outcomes. But too large a percentage of them aren't receiving adequate training in the areas that matter most: instructional software, technology integration, learning outcomes management, and designing individual lesson plans.
Research Review: Multimodal Learning Through Media | Edutopia - 0 views
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The Metiri Group's report disputes the widely debated Cone of Experience theory, which says each of us learns 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we hear and see, 70 percent of what we say or write, and 90 percent of what we say as we do a thing. (The rampant misrepresentation of researcher Edgar Dale's valid model of classifying learning styles is discussed in this entry in the blog of educational consultant Will Thalheimer.) After an extensive search, the report's authors were unable to find any empirical evidence supporting this breakdown. Contrary to popular opinion, research shows that lessons in which students interact with material, rather than passively absorb it, are not always better.
educationalwikis » home - 0 views
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This site aims to answer one question: With your help we aim to provide: A list of articles and resources that describe how to use wikis in education A comprehensive list of existing educational wikis that we can learn from A place to post ideas and discuss them This is a collaborative effort so please, jump in, contribute, and let's all help each other bring the power of wikis to our schools
kidthing - 0 views
Alice.org - 0 views
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Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming.
Technology Integration - 0 views
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Best practices and ideas about technology integration.
