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Issue 18: May, 2004

Evaluation and Assessment: Program Evaluation Tools

Includes the following:

  • Profiler
  • Profile Tool
  • North Carolina Department of Public Instruction evaluation tool for Technology Literacy Challenge Grant programs
  • enGauge
  • Technology in Schools: Suggestions, Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Sites to Share with Teachers on Classroom Assessment:
    QuizStar, RubiStar, PBL Checklists, QuizCenter, Quia, NCRTEC Lesson Planner

Issue 17: February, 2004

What to do with that Handheld? Readings and Research on Ubiquitous Computing

Includes the following:

  • MOSAIC: An EDC Report Series, Fall, 2003
  • Handheld Devices for Ubiquitous Learning, HGSE News
  • Handhelds: Ubiquitous Computing, The Concord Consortium
  • The Maine Event, Edutopia Online
  • Laptops for All, Edutopia Online
  • Building a 21st Century Community, Apple Learning Interchange

Issue 16: October, 2003

Technology Planning Tools and Resources

Includes the following:

  • Taking TCO to the Classroom
  • CoSN/Gartner TCO Tool
  • Technology Support Index
  • NetDay Compass
  • Critical Issue: Developing a School or District Technology Plan
  • Links from SEIR*TEC:
    Sample Technology Plans
    Planning Into Practice: Resources for Planning, Implementing, and Integrating Instructional Technology

Issue 15: September, 2003

Online Collaborative Projects

Includes the following:

  • The Global SchoolHouse
  • Blue Web'N
  • The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Projects (CIESE)
  • Journey North
  • ePALS
  • iEARN

Issue 14: July, 2003

Universal Design for Learning

Includes the following:

  • Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

  • Teaching Every Student

  • IntelliTools

  • The National Center for Accessible Media

  • Access IT

  • DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology)

  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education

  • Summer Reading:
    Association for Supervision and Curriculum Instruction (ASCD)

Issue 13: April, 2003
Includes the following:

  • Northeast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium (NEIRTEC)

  • The New England Comprehensive Assistance Center (NECAC)

  • The Regional Alliance for Math and Science Education

  • The Education Alliance at Brown University

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    Education World; Education Place; Earth Day Network's Teacher's Corner;TeacherVision

Issue 12: January, 2003
Includes the following:

  • Re-Designing Learning Environments

  • Putting Reading First

  • Preventing Digital Plagiarism

  • We Won the Grant! Now, What Do We Do?

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    A WebQuest Series on Creating Non-violent Schools; Atlanta 1906: A Race Riot; American Museum of Natural History: Infection, Detection, Protection

Issue 11: October, 2002
Includes the following:

  • Two Introductions to Wireless Computing:
    Breaking Free with Wireless Networking, Wireless Technologies (interviews with four educators)

  • Pay as You Go

  • New Technologies in Education

  • Thin Clients Meeting Teacher Needs

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff: Using Students to Support Technology
    Youth Tech Entrepreneurs; Generation Yes; SWAT: Students Working to Advance Technology

Issue 10: July, 2002
Includes the following:

  • Planet 5th

  • Handhelds Go To Class

  • U Sight: Taking a closer look at ubiquitous technology in education

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    Learning in the Palm of Your Hand; Memoware: Your PDA Library Card; CNET: 5 apps to make your Palm OS handheld more productive; Palm Applications in Education

Issue 9: May, 2002
Includes the following:

  • An AlphaSmart for Each Student: Does Teaching and Learning Change with Full Access to Word Processors?

  • Elements of Successful Online Professional Development Programs

  • No Teacher Left Behind: Understanding and Preparing for the New Education Legislation, NCREL's Learning Point (Spring 2002)

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    MuseumStuff; DigNubia; Ology (presented by American Museum of Natural History); Treasures from the World's Greatest Library; Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945; Children's Museum - Bone Exhibit

Issue 8: March, 2002
Includes the following:

  • The Literacy Matters Project

  • ASCD's Professional Development Online

  • National Educational Computing Conference

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff (Spanish Resources):
    Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack (Más allá de la culpa: la reaccion al ataque terrorista); The Moon and the Chinese New Year (Feb. 12, 2002) (La Luna y el Año Nuevo Chino); The Moon and Easter (La Luna y la Pascua: cálculos y convenciones; Major Meteor Showers in 2002 (Tabla de lluvias mayores de meteoros – 2002); Women Nobel Prize Laureates (Mujeres Premio Nobel); María Mitchell; Florence Nightingale; Irene Joliot-Curie

Issue 7: January, 2002
Includes the following:

  • Executive summary of EdWeek Article

  • The Connected Teacher

  • Classroom Dynamics in a Technology Rich-Rich Learning Environment

  • Beyond Technology: The end of the job and the beginning of Digital Work

  • Conference on Leadership for the Digital School: Challenges, Implications and Opportunities

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics; Walking with PreHistoric Beasts; Explore DC; Schools Online

Issue 6: November, 2001
Includes the following:

  • America Unites

  • Building a Better Web Site

  • Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

  • Turning the Tables -- Students Teach Teachers

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    Illuminations; The Math Forum; Connected Mathematics Project; ENC Online; UBACAR; Figure This.

Issue 5: October, 2001
Includes the following:

  • Technology Standards for School Administrators

  • More Fun Than a Barrel of ... Worms?!

  • The Knowledge Loom

  • Professional Development Opportunities:

    DESIGNING FOR TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION (DTI)
    Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse

  • MA-TLC: Connecting Technology with Learning for School Leaders

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    Africa; How Water Enables Quality of Life in Chicago's Little Village (El Agua Trabaja); Hemingway Adventure; ArtsEdNet.

Issue 4: August, 2001
Includes the following:

  • The CEO Forum School Technology and Readiness Report:
    Key Building Blocks for Student Achievement in the 21st Century

  • Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn:
    Improving school quality through principal professional development

  • Spotlight on Community Involvement -
    Running a Successful Technology Campaign: A Political Primer

  • Online Learning Grows Up

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    RubiStar; Eyes on Art Education First; Your Congress.com; Africa Cam; Fresh Air; National Geographic

Issue 3: June, 2001
Includes the following:

  • Spotlight on Digital Equity:
    Technology Counts 2001

  • Sharing Results with Stakeholders:
    A Progress Report on Technology Resources in Maryland Schools

  • Promising Practice:
    Virtual job fair

  • Sites to Share with Students and Staff:
    The National Archive - The Digital Classroom; Biography of America; Explore Math

Issue 2: May, 2001
Includes the following:

  • Feature Article -
    Superintendent 2010 - A Day in the Life

  • Promising Practice -
    The Florida High School

  • National Perspectives -
    No Child Left Behind; An Interview with Linda Roberts; The Web Commission Report; The National Technology Plan

  • Best of the Web -
    Safeguarding the Wired School House; The National School Boards Association; Electronic School

Issue 1: April, 2001
Includes features on:

  • A laptop program in Westborough
  • National technology standards for school administrators
  • The Charge of the Instructional Leader: Some Case Stories
  • Teaching and Learning for Tomorrow: A Learning Technology Plan for Maine's Future
  • Best of the web for school administrators


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