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T.H.E. Journal December 2006 Linda L. Briggs |
Document Management :: It Prints! It Faxes! It Scans! A state-of-the-art multifunction publishing system combines the work of several devices into a single unit, creating dramatic savings in paper use and personnel time. |
InternetNews October 2, 2007 Larry Barrett |
IBM's Web 2.0 Approach to E-Documents IBM's new Lotus Forms 3.0 offering lets customers create, fill out and sign documents from a Web browser, saving time, money and lots of trees. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2007 John K. Waters |
MFPs: A Bundle of Possibilities Packaging diverse software with powerful hardware, vendors are turning out multifunction printers that offer educators options galore. |
PHONE+ July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 |
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Agreement With Atomic Learning Miami-Dade County Public Schools has approved a district-wide agreement with Atomic Learning, giving the district full access to the company's unique Web-based software training and tutorials. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 John H. Cox |
Maryland District Evaluates a Special-Education Management System's Impact on Its Bottom Line The Charles County Public School District considered factors such as the total cost of ownership and return on investment during the evaluation and selection of a new special education management system. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Matt Miller |
Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze' An ed-tech specialist explains how a versatile Web conferencing tool is helping his sprawling district remove the distance between teachers, administrators, and staff. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2008 Dian Schaffhauser |
Is VoIP Worth It? School districts have by and large had great results implementing VoIP, which has become the conduit for delivering expanded functionality, achieving greater internal control, and gaining freedom from onerous monthly phone bills. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2005 Robert Yost |
Flexible Network Infrastructure Helps Meet District's Changing Needs IP telephony system improves student safety and staff productivity of northern Virginia district. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Rama Ramaswami |
A Tight Squeeze As government regulations mandate the long-term retention of districts' rising volume of information, K-12 IT directors are using new storage tools to put their data in its place. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Williams & Krueger |
Is Your Network Safe? Why educators should care about cybersecurity - and what they should do about it. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Matt Villano |
One Server Fits All E-mail, telephone, chat, instant messaging - so many communication technologies, yet we still can't track each other down. Some school districts finds that a centralizing unit is the solution. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Out of Site, Out of Mind Software as a service puts burdensome administrative tasks into the hands of a web-based host. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 Robert J. McGarvey |
You Want Me to What ? It's a riddle faced by virtually every IT director: how to fulfill users' desire for more muscular computing resources while still obliging administrators' commands to keep education spending down. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2008 Matt Bolch |
Remote Control School districts are catching on to software as a service, a business model that allows administrators to manage essential organizational functions and plug in to student data from anywhere with an internet connection. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Matt Eckel |
Logging On With... After 40 years of serving Broward County schools, the educator turned politician Robert Parks remains a force for technology integration. |
Reason January 2006 Tim Cavanaugh |
Kentucky School Days Faced with rising fuel costs and flat school budgets, a Kentucky county has begun playing hooky one day a week. Should public school administrators be proud or ashamed that students who stay home one day a week appear to be doing as well as full-timers? |
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 Matt Villano |
Data-Driven Decision Making :: The 'Other' Data Most districts know the benefits of tabulating and tracking student performance. But now many are finding there's even more to gain from number crunching by casting out a wider net. |
PC Magazine May 1, 2008 Larry Seltzer |
Rock the Vote At least one company wants to charge you for filling out voter registration forms for you. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Paula Jacobs |
Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption. |
T.H.E. Journal April 1, 2010 Bridget McCrea |
It Goes Both Ways The days of using the internet as merely a one-way supplier of news are over. With social media tools encouraging a back- and-forth exchange of information, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders can participate directly in the life of their school. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2008 Matt Villano |
Point Man A district's IT efforts all revolve around the CIO, whose role and responsibilities have been transformed by the digital age. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2001 |
Focus on Copiers: Xerox Xerox's Document Centre 480 is the final device in the 400 series of printer-copiers, and includes software that enhances individual and enterprise document management and knowledge sharing... |
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Esther Shein |
One-Stop Shopping With Learning Management Systems Virtual course delivery is only one of many options afforded by an LMS, which allows educators to transfer online a host of educational and administrative tasks. |
Financial Advisor May 2009 David Lawrence |
Worth The Investment The simple truth is that those advisors boasting an efficient document management system can bring their costs way down over time. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Jacob Milner |
VoIP to the Rescue Faced with the challenges hampering school communications nationwide, three districts forge into the 21st century with Web-based telephony. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Identity Scramble An identity management system can catch potential mistakes that could put your district at risk. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Andy McDonough |
More Is More No one solution can defend K-12 computer networks against the proliferation of digital threats. A multilayered strategy that addresses cyber safety on many fronts is a district's best hope. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 Pam Haney |
Doing More With Less Despite a "peanut-sized" budget, Georgia's Worth County Schools finds a tool to manage and improve network application performance. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Neal Starkman |
Special Section: Resource Management :: Value Judgments Are your technology expenditures proving to be money well spent? A new online total cost of ownership (TCO) tool will let you know. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2006 |
ISKME Special Series Part I >> Data Driven Savvy school administrators are using data to improve instruction district-wide. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Chris Riedel |
Green Schools : The Color of Money School districts are discovering the abundant financial gains to be had by going green. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2008 Christina C. Schaller |
Lights...Camera...PD! As the online delivery of technology training expands, weekly live web shows are being used to demonstrate to teachers how to apply the latest tools. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Matt Villano |
On Alert Recent events point up the need for school districts to upgrade campus security procedures. But while some have acted by adopting emergency notification systems, many don't seem to have gotten the message. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2008 Matt Villano |
Make It Count Budget crunches are elevating the need for K-12 technology leaders to demonstrate a favorable return on investment. Here's how to ensure you're getting what you pay for. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
The 4-1-1 on District 219 This year's Charp Award winner is honored at NECC for its unique and compelling use of technology, particularly in support of teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2007 Wendy Chretien |
An Urge to Converge Combining several commonly separate communication systems into a single IP network offers a slew of benefits for K-12. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Alex Roman |
Taking a Byte Out of Meal Programs Horizon Software International LLC has released MealPay, a unique meal payment system that lets parents prepay and manage their child's meal cards via the Web, telephone, or at on-campus kiosks. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Sharing and Rewarding Your Successes, Failures The Sylvia Charp Award for District Innovation in Technology will once again honor a district for its pioneering application of technology districtwide. |
T.H.E. Journal February 22, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district. |
InternetNews February 14, 2011 |
Adobe's FormsCentral Taps Power of the Cloud Adobe's new cloud-based service offers a complete online forms creation and management solution. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2007 Rama Ramaswami |
The X Files Wireless-enabled extended Internet - or X Internet - technologies allow virtual control of physical objects. A Colorado district explores whether the truth is out there. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 John K.Waters |
Classroom Collaborators Wireless connectivity is providing a level of flexibility for students and teachers, changing the learning environment in ways that in some cases has to be seen to be believed. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2005 Christopher W. McGinley |
Surviving a Communications Network Overhaul A Pennsylvania school district implements a system to provide anytime, anywhere communications for its 4,700 students and 600 staff members. |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Christine Fox |
Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
T.H.E. News Update :: April 1, 2009 Schools Pilot USC-Built Math Game Platform... Oklahoma District Adopts Online Student Information System... Penn State Expands Professional Development Program for School Nurses... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Nancy Napolillo |
Leadership & Advocacy: Technology Leadership at the District Level: A Look at the Monongalia County School District Monongalia County School District emerges as a leader in technology implementation. |