Monthly Archives: October 2003

Next week Antelope Technologies will be releasing a small modular computer about the size of a deck of cards. The central core module is 5 x 3 x 3/4 inches, and contains 256 megabytes of RAM, a ten or fifteen … Continue reading →

The Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York, has become the first school in the country to use RFID (radio frequency identification) chips to track their students. Each child has a $3.00 photobadge that incorporates a small radio chip that … Continue reading →

Amazon.com has added a new research option for us and our students. While you have always been able to search for books by title or author, you search will now go through the content of thousands of books. Amazon has … Continue reading →

Toshiba announced their e805 Pocket PC handheld today, the first such device to have a 640 by 480 resolution screen. (Typical Pocket PC resolution is 320 by 240). This could potentially mean that they will be easier to read and … Continue reading →

The November issue of National Geographic has a very interesting article on surveillance. In a few short years, technology has developed to the point where daily, routine watching and listening to virtually eveyone is a reality. It’s kind of spooky … Continue reading →

The state of Massachusetts has issued a recommendation that state agencies move to open source software (such as Linux) whenever possible. I haven’t been able to find out if that includes public schools, but it will bear watching. Massachusetts is … Continue reading →

The Christian Science Monitor has a review of a new book by Todd Oppenheimer titled The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom. . After five years of research, Oppenheimer finds quite a bit of evidence that … Continue reading →

Another article on the slow acceptance of the ebook is at Yahoo news. Despite lots of hype, sales are still quite low. Part of the problem is due to competing formats, and another is that for reading devices, we currently … Continue reading →

The Cincinnati Public Schools launched a Virtual High School in 2001. By the end of the first year, the participation rates of the students was so poor that half were dropped from the school. The program has been radically redesigned, … Continue reading →

Milwaukie High School in Milwaukie, Oregon has opened a new art and technology program. Partially funded by a Gates Grant, it increases the capacity of the visual arts program from 240 to 400 students, as well as providing more variety … Continue reading →