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Information Today October 2000 |
ABC-CLIO Launches Native American Rights Movement CD This CD-ROM provides students in grades 6--12 with information about the eradication, relocation, and acculturation that Native Americans endured as part of U.S. government policy... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Andrew Taylor |
ABC-CLIO Interactive's The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Civil rights is an issue many educators neglect in favor of less controversial topics. But with the new interactive encyclopedia, The Civil Rights Movement in the United States from ABC-CLIO, teachers and students have 500 articles and a host of multimedia materials to explore... |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 Kathryn Childs |
ABC-CLIO's American Social Issues ABC-CLIO, longtime publisher of books and large bibliographic database products, offers six interactive multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM that are wonderful reference resources for upper middle and high school student research... |
T.H.E. Journal March 2001 Elizabeth Amberg |
Focus on Science Education Interactive learning and informative content are vital assets in any science classroom. Several software programs exist to help students visualize and analyze scientific information... |
T.H.E. Journal August 2001 Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri remain some of the most valuable tools that aid in the completion of student research projects. This article presents the electronic versions of many reference industry favorites... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
Gale Helps Middle School Students With Information Literacy Gale launched Research In Context, an online, multimedia (images, audio, video, and primary sources, etc.) research tool for middle school students. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
World Book Student by World Book World Book has updated its Online Reference Center with new features and a new name. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Learning about Innovations in Education The Learn & Live CD-ROM from the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) combines all of the content from the documentary Learn & Live, its companion resource book, updates on the film stories and articles, and the entire archive of GLEF's newsletter, Edutopia. |
Information Today March 21, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods. |
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 January 2001 Becky A. Snyder |
Seeking Value on the Internet With so many free Web sites available, is there still value in purchasing a subscription to a curriculum or reference Web site? |
Information Today August 2000 |
Gale Group Launches History Resource Center Gale Group has announced the release of the History Resource Cente. The subscription service, designed primarily for libraries, schools, and universities, is the first product to integrate history's most important documents within a single interface |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
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. |
Information Today June 17, 2010 |
ABC-CLIO eBooks Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library "By adding these titles to Gale Virtual Reference Library, we are expanding our reach and are providing librarians, students, and researchers with greater access to our ebooks," says Tom Fitzgerald, ABC-CLIO's vice president of sales. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
T.H.E. Journal October 28, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
Pearson Launches Early Warning System for At-Risk Students In an effort to help schools combat the decision by at-risk students simply to "give up" and drop out, Pearson has launched Prevent, a data-driven software system designed to give early-warning alerts to educators. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer |
Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition. |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Tabula Digita will test educators' math skills... US middle school students can do their part to help save the planet by entering the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge... IBM introduced a new Web 2.0 peer-to-peer learning tool... etc. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 |
Smart Table by Smart Technologies The Smart Table, is an interactive learning center designed for students from preschool to sixth grade. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
This Just In...Teknimedia Teknimedia has released PC110 - Files and Folders, an interactive multimedia CD-ROM designed to teach computer users the concepts and skills required for working effectively with the computer's filing system. |
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. |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward. |
Information Today October 6, 2008 |
ABC-CLIO Gains Perpetual License to Publish Greenwood Titles The agreement is designed to allow ABC-CLIO to increase and enhance its high-quality offerings for the education and library markets. |