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T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Townes-Young & Ewing |
Creating a Global Classroom A NASA videoconferencing program knocks down traditional educational boundaries, drawing together teachers, students, and field experts in a single virtual setting for the benefit of all. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 John K. Waters |
Maine Ingredients The nation's first-ever statewide 1-to-1 laptop program marks its seventh birthday by expanding into high schools, providing an occasion to celebrate - and to examine the components of its success. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 Maria Cornelli |
Videoconferencing Programs Let Students Explore the World Without Leaving the Classroom For every successful videoconferencing program, there is another successful and rewarding learning experience for students. |
T.H.E. Journal November 4, 2009 Denise Harrison |
Reinvigorating Videoconferencing at Passaic Valley High School When a high school with a dormant videoconferencing room hires a 20-year videoconferencing veteran, that school can expect big changes in the AV department. |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Michael Bowker |
A Virtual Ticket to Ride A teacher at Clarion Elementary School in northwestern Pennsylvania, is able to take advantage of the reach of digital technologies to guide her students on what have become known as virtual field trips. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 |
RACOL Project Delivers Distance Education to Rural Alberta Schools Through Videoconferencing The Rural Advanced Community of Learners project is one of the most sophisticated videoconferencing systems ever created for K-12 education to help provide rural students with the same quality of education as their big-city peers. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Drew Tiene |
Digital Multimedia & Distance Education: Can They Effectively Be Combined? Two of the most dynamic instructional technologies available to today's educators are multimedia-based learning and distance education. I worked with a system that has attempted to marry these two approaches... |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom. |
CIO September 1, 2001 Meg Mitchell Moore |
Stay Tuned for More Knowledge Videoconferencing hasn't exactly fulfilled its promise in the corporate world, but a few universities are putting the put-upon technology to innovative uses... |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Grayson |
The Expandable Classroom: Walls That Move! "Learning needs to be highly flexible and adaptable," says Konrad Judd, principal and lead designer for SHW Group. "With the integration of technology it's more necessary than ever." |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
T.H.E. Journal March 4, 2010 Denise Harrison |
Technology Turns Students into Educators in Distance Learning Program At Stamford HS in Texas, the students also find themselves in the role of teacher as they bring their own part of the world and their own unique knowledge to others through videoconferencing. |
T.H.E. Journal September 16, 2009 Patricia Deubel |
Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation District leaders want some evidence that social networking would fulfill their expectation of adding strong educational value and purpose. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Jeff Weinstock |
Logging On With... A veteran district superintendent looks to his students' future with stars in his eyes. |
T.H.E. Journal October 22, 2009 Denise Harrison |
Middle School Preparations for Live Video Conferencing A class of 8th graders and their teacher will ascend to the summit of New Hampshire's Mount Washington. Unlike those who live and work there, the class won't have to brave the cold at 6,288 feet above sea level. They'll be experiencing Mount Washington with the help of videoconferencing. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal November 12, 2009 Denise Harrison |
Middle School Preparations for Live Video Conferencing Ensure Success Mount Washington Observatory offers an interactive videoconferencing distance learning program for grades 4-12. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2006 Victor Rivero |
High-Speed Broadband: A Need for Speed Slow connectivity is imperiling the quality of our nation's K-12 education, while the rest of the world sets the pace technologically. |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2008 John K. Waters |
Face Time Videoconferencing is adding a new dimension to social networking - and a new opportunity for K-12 educators and learners. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski |
STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Manchester, Muir & Moulton |
Technology Integration: Maine Learns' Maine is the first state to make real implementation of one-to-one computing through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative by having the provision of a laptop computer for every public school student and teacher in grades 7-12. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
T.H.E. Journal July 15, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities Social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Christine Fox |
Using Technology to Expand Opportunity: Going Virtual Online courses can get to people and places beyond the reach of the traditional school setting, serving the needs of students and teachers nationwide. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 |
Videoconferencing for K-12 Classrooms: A Program Development Guide Designed for teachers, administrators, technology coordinators and library media specialists, this book describes the setup and use of standards-based interactive videoconferencing utilizing IP and ISDN networks. |
Information Today March 14, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad. |
InternetNews July 9, 2010 |
Hackers Raid University of Maine's Servers The social security numbers and other personal data of over 4,500 students were compromised in the attack. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 David L. Silvernail |
Middle Schools : Maine : Laptops for All Since its launch, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) has provided all of the state's middle school students, and their teachers, with laptop computers. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
Fast Company Mary Pilon |
Using Google Glass, Elementary Students Learn How Blind People Live The larger goal, according to organizers with Classroom Champions, a nonprofit focused on connecting Olympic and Paralympic athletes with students at high-need schools, is to use Glass to increase children's empathy and goal-setting skills. |
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. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2008 Skip Duemeland |
Face Time Videoconferencing personalizes long-distance business relationships. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 Levy & Downing |
Building Bridges With Video A collaborative videoconferencing project succeeds in connecting two classrooms of students from opposite coasts. |
Information Today November 11, 2014 |
World Library of Science Aims to Open Science to All Students This free, online education resource is designed to give students around the world equal access to the latest science information. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2001 Stephen W. Zsiray, Jr., Tim Smith, & Richard West |
Desktop Videoconferencing Giving Technology-Proficient Teachers a Powerful Tool for Collaboration... |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Manchester, Mao & Puentedura |
Systemic School Reform :: Maine The MLTI prides itself on securing funding for ed tech, providing teacher training that meets specific schools' needs, and building learning communities. |
Information Today February 19, 2015 Woody Evans |
Google for Education Is Giving Away the Classroom Google for Education can no longer brush off its parallels to other big, for-profit LMSs as "just some apps to help students." We're well beyond Google Docs and Hangouts now. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
T.H.E. Journal August 27, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
Insurance & Technology April 30, 2008 Claire Schooley |
As Vendors Introduce Less-Expensive Technologies, Insurers Can Capitalize on the Promise of Videoconferencing and Telepresence Telepresence, which is the high-end, life-size videoconferencing, and high-definition videoconferencing can be used both internally and externally in insurance. |
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Katherine Grayson |
Flippin Out The Flip camcorder is such a great way to get students active and engaged in their learning. |