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What superintendents need from their CTOs
eSchool - School Administration News - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 11:31am
Communication and trust are critical in the relationship between a school district's chief technology officer (CTO) and superintendent, said panelists at a Nov. 19 webinar that focused on what superintendents need from their CTOs for districts to integrate technology successfully into all facets of education.
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What superintendents need from their CTOs
eSchool - Top News - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 11:29am
Communication and trust are critical in the relationship between a school district's chief technology officer (CTO) and superintendent, said panelists at a Nov. 19 webinar that focused on what superintendents need from their CTOs for districts to integrate technology successfully into all facets of education.
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Analysis: Yahoo's fate riding on new CEO
eSchool - Top News - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 11:29am
Analysts say the fate of struggling internet company Yahoo Inc. likely rests on its choice of a new chief executive to replace co-founder Jerry Yang, who announced Nov. 17 that he would step down as CEO when a successor is named. But it's not just the company's investors who have a stake in the decision: So, too, do the millions of educators and other internet users around the world for whom web searching and related applications have assumed increasing importance.
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My Hero
techLEARNING blog - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:00am
PDQ Professional Development QuickTips
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Poetry Everywhere
techLEARNING blog - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:00am
Site of the Day
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Questions abound as emergency alert flops
eSchool - Technology Management - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 11:30am
The failure of Virginia Tech's text-messaging alert system has raised questions about the effectiveness of such systems to warn faculty and students of an emergency -- an important consideration as schools nationwide continue to invest in these technologies.
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Seven skills students desperately need
eSchool - Top News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 11:29am
Teaching to the test is a mistake, Harvard's Tony Wagner reminded the audience of his Nov. 18 keynote address to the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), because it interferes with transmitting the seven "survival skills" every student should acquire before graduating.
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Questions abound as emergency alert flops
eSchool - Top News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 11:29am
The failure of Virginia Tech's text-messaging alert system has raised questions about the effectiveness of such systems to warn faculty and students of an emergency -- an important consideration as schools nationwide continue to invest in these technologies.
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Hubble Telescope
techLEARNING blog - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:00am
Site of the Day
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Back Office Business
techLEARNING blog - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:00am
Read how these tech installations are improving the way these schools work.
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States make progress on data systems
eSchool - Top News - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:29am
States are making progress in building longitudinal data systems to track students' academic growth over time, and now they must use the information available to them through these systems to raise student achievement, a new report says.
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Report challenges online-learning assumptions
eSchool - Top News - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:29am
Some critics of distance learning say face-to-face classes give students a better learning environment, but a recent Indiana University study found that online learners reported deeper approaches to learning than classroom-based learners.
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Very Small Data Projectors
techLEARNING blog - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 12:00am
Web 2.0 Tools & Tips
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The Podcast for Word Lovers
techLEARNING blog - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 12:00am
Site of the Day
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On the web, social sites can sometimes bite
eSchool - Technology Management - Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:30am
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are great ways to reconnect with old acquaintances and meet new ones, but posts can create problems, as recent events show, reports the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C.
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Ten ways to boost learning with technology
eSchool - Top News - Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:29am
Urging policy makers and school leaders "to take bold steps ... to improve education for America's 21st-century leaders," the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has issued new guidance for reforming the nation's schools with the help of technology.
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Harvard law professor fires back at RIAA
eSchool - Top News - Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:29am
A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the music industry's aggressive anti-piracy campaign, which has wrung payments from thousands of online song-swappers -- including many college students -- since 2003.
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Environmental Games
techLEARNING blog - Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:00am
Site of the Day
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Media companies help promote low-cost laptop project
eSchool - Technology Management - Mon, 11/17/2008 - 11:30am
After a rocky beginning, the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child thinks an advertising campaign will give a lift to the organization's effort to place low-cost laptops in the hands of children in developing nations, reports the New York Times.
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