Monthly Archives: February 2003

McGraw-Hill has announced some new PDA software tools for some of their higher-ed products. They include quizzes, flash-cards, and similar self-study tools. While it’s only higher ed now, K-12 products would probably be lurking somewhere down the road. http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/media/news/2003/02/20030219.html.

An article today in the online version of Business Week outlines the efforts by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to promote legislation to help fight music piracy, and the questionable statistics they are using to support their arguments. … Continue reading →

The Northwest Girls Collaborative Project will award $1,000 mini-grants to a minimum of twenty-two girl-serving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) focused programs to support collaborative projects designed to encourage and motivate girls to enter STEM fields. Mini grant applications … Continue reading →

Florida is in desperate need of new classroom space after passing a plan to reduce average class size. A new proposal would fund districts buying 644,00 laptops and converting 1,680 computer labs into classrooms. The cost of the laptops is … Continue reading →

One of the greatest challenges in buying software for use in school is getting an idea of what’s worth considering. Dennis Small from OSPI just sent us the following useful websites to help find those needles in the haystack! NETC … Continue reading →

How Much Memory do I Have? There’s an easy way to find out how much memory you have left, the number of kilobyes each application uses and which versions are loaded on your Palm handheld. Try this tip: 1. On … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago SRI International, a leading non-profit research agency, put out the results of a 2 year study evaluating 100 elementary and secondary classrooms using handhelds. The study found that 90% of the teachers surveyed say handhelds … Continue reading →