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The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up This early grounding in technology may put her at an educational advantage to previous generations as a new breed of teacher (or educational architect), saunters in to the classroom, laptop under their arm (although... [23 Jan 2009]
Collaborative Adaptation Authoring and Social Annotation in MOT
White Paper This paper proposes a new design of the authoring system MOT (My Online Teacher), focusing on collaborative authoring and social annotation. The Web is constantly evolving, in fundamental and innovative ways. [15 Jan 2009]
Introducing Programming Languages Through Data Acquisition Examples
White Paper Motivating students at secondary technical and vocational schools to learn programming languages is not an easy task for a teacher. Namely, programming is not and easy job to do and the results of first "Programmes" seem... [09 Jan 2009]
Teaching Council Leverages Pervasive Intelligence to Optimize Reporting on Teachers and Teaching in Ireland
White Paper The challenge was to generate the electoral register for the 2009 council elections on the basis of county, constituency, and voting category and generate timely, accurate statistics on teacher registration and cut time... [10 Dec 2008]
The Online Academy: An Extranet Approach to Virtual Implementation
White Paper Targeted for preservice teacher education programs in Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), the modules have been implemented by over 172 institutions. The Online Academy was funded by the Office of Special Education... [04 Dec 2008]
Tablet PCs Bring a New World of Learning to Spain's Schools
White Paper The region's goal is to have all pupils using Tablet PCs by the end of 2009 and to maintain Aragon's commitment to this innovative methodology by extending it to other levels, such as secondary schools or even teacher... [03 Dec 2008]
Where does UK get its teachers? YouTube of course
News According to the TDA, one of the experiments will be "carried out on a massive scale" at the agency's teacher recruitment events next year. In an effort to encourage more individuals to become science teachers, the... [26 Nov 2008]
Kent schools outsource IT
News Kent County Council has signed off a £29m outsourcing contract for Northgate Information Solutions to provide IT managed services to 11 schools in the area. The contract will run for seven years and may be extended to a further 25 schools. [29 Oct 2008]
OLPC: Windows vs Linux
News It was the fact that the art teacher used the PCs for research but had the students put them away and use their hands to make wax sculptures. On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux... [24 Oct 2008]
Streaming Media and Advanced Web-Based Education
White Paper Streaming technology is one of key driving forces that help to transform higher education from narrow, local, face-to-face, in-classroom, one-teacher-based type of education into a global, technology-based,... [21 Oct 2008]
The Intel Teach Program Promotes the Effective Use of Technology in South African Schools
White Paper South Africa faces many challenges in incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in its education system, including limited access to technology, a lack of teacher computer literacy, and a need for... [11 Oct 2008]
Personalized Links Recommendation Based on Data Mining in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems
White Paper system in order to help the teacher to carry out the whole web mining process. This paper describes a personalized recommender system that uses web mining techniques for recommending a student which (next) links to visit... [07 Oct 2008]
VoIP in K-12 Education: Leveraging Data Networks and E-Rate Funding
White Paper Phones and advanced applications are being deployed to every teacher and classroom at minimal cost, by leveraging data infrastructures. Learn how David Douglas School District in Portland, Ore.and Dougherty County School... [02 Oct 2008]
Innovative School Enhances Student Learning, Teacher Productivity With Digital Notes
White Paper Laptops have been part of the classroom experience at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart since 1996. Nevertheless, teachers were still using traditional, time-consuming methods for creating lesson plans, organizing paperwork, giving... [19 Sep 2008]
Avantis OpenCD Finally Puts an End to Lost and Damaged CD-ROMs at Hemel Hempstead School
White Paper Having specific government targets to meet, coupled with satisfying teacher requests to allow shared access to the school's array of multimedia CD-ROMs had been something of a nightmare to manage. The Hemel Hempstead... [10 Sep 2008]
