Monthly Archives: November 2003

The Tom Snyder company has just released a new entry in their “Workshop Book” series called Handhelds for Teachers and Administrators. The contains many classroom activities and comes with a CD containing a variety of programs for integration into classroom … Continue reading →

The Plimoth Plantation website has a very well-designed online activity for students to uncover details about the original Thanksgiving. It provides original source material and other information through interactive multimedia, and has a teacher guide to help with classroom use. … Continue reading →

CNET has a well-written article looking at the arguments around the impact and importance of school computers. It’s a very extensive article, and covers a lot of different viewpoints. It’s part two of a three-part series, so check out the … Continue reading →

One year after introduction, the Tablet PC has not made much headway in sales. Only a few hundred thousand have been sold, representing just a tiny part of the overall portable computer market. One of the reasons is thought to … Continue reading →

The University of North Texas has backed away from a plan to set up the first completely online public school in Texas. The proposal was very controversial, and there are no standards currently in place for approving such a charter … Continue reading →

HP and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) have partnered to provide $10,000,000 in technology grants and training to teachers across the country. The applications are targeted at teams of five teachers from a school, “who’s work is … Continue reading →

ASCD has released a neat new book called Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn by Lynell Burmark. It’s an overview of how images and colors affect our students, how they learn and process visual information, and how our … Continue reading →

Amazon.com has disabled the print function of their new search mechanism. (See “Searching the Amazon.com” on Oct. 23 in the archive at www.psesd.org/weblogs/edtech/archives/2003_10.html.) This new search option searches the full text of 150,000 books, as well as the title and … Continue reading →