Monthly Archives: July 2003

With wireless network access on college campuses, professors have had a new challenge in the lecture hall – students surfing the web. Now, however, some students are actually using the technology in a productive way. In an article in the … Continue reading →

The first sub-$1,000 Tablet PCs will be released in September, according to press release from the manufacturer TDVision. There will be two models – a 14 inch model, with swivel-screen and keyboard, for $999, and a 8.4 inch model with … Continue reading →

eSchool News has a new paper on the connection between technology, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and data-driven decision making. The student achievement tracking required through NCLB is so complicated that it is only truly possible through the use of … Continue reading →

The massive National Educational Computing Conference was held in Seattle last week, and it was the first year that weblogging became a major topic. In fact, the conference itself was heavily weblogged, with a website set up just for NECC … Continue reading →

The spreading use of digital cameras and camera-equipped cell phones has created new challenges for bookstore owners in Japan. (They’re such trend-setters!) It’s called “digital shoplifting” – taking pictures of magazine articles and images, and then putting the magazine back … Continue reading →

There’s a great website about the topic of time at www.time.gov. The main page tells you what time it is (accurate to .3 seconds) while http://www.time.gov/exhibits.html has links to interesting articles on such things as Daylight Saving Time. (For instance, … Continue reading →