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Web 2.0:
from Curious to Competent
Web 2.0 tools play an increasingly important role in everyday life. Not only are people more connected, but they have more opportunities to find information, share ideas and be creative than ever before. Most educators who use some of the new, free, online tools to accomplish tasks find rich rewards. Yet many others are curious about how the tools work, and even more, what exactly they can do with them in the classroom to help their students learn. This eBook is designed to explore the reasons for using the most popular Web 2.0 tools and guide you as you explore the read/write Web on your own.
K-12 Blueprint eBook:
A Laptop Especially for Schools:
Introducing the Intel-powered classmate PC
As the schools profiled in this eBook will attest, placing a rugged and kid-friendly computing device in the hands of every child for 24/7 use can have a transformative effect. Join us on a visit to eight classrooms where new, Intel-powered classmate PCs are part of a complete software and hardware solution that supports student-centered learning and opens up new worlds of possibility.
Securing Our Schools:
How to Protect from New Threats and Simplify Network Security
Are you overwhelmed by the time, energy, and money it takes to stay on top of monitoring your network traffic? Frustrated by the seemingly endless proliferation of Internet security threats? Read this eBook for advice and solutions on how to handle problems you face every day, from enforcing your AUP and archiving your email to countering spam, viruses and proxies.
Guide to Mobile Computing:
Creating Innovative Wireless Learning Environments
It's a wireless world. Schools are increasingly discovering the benefits of wireless mobile computing: the power to add new devices to existing networks without costly hard-wire drops, the freedom to create flexible learning environments, and the promise of narrowing the digital divide. From how to use innovative tools like next-generation tablet PCs and projectors to how to evaluate wireless systems, this eBook will guide you.
K-12 Blueprint eBook:
Funding Your One-to-One Vision
- Are you wondering if you can afford a one-to-one initiative, with budgets as tight as they are?
- Do you worry that you won't be able to sustain an existing program once your initial source of support runs out?
This eBook explores some possible solutions to the funding challenge. Because when there's a vision, there's a way.
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Do Our Students Measure Up?
How to Define and Assess Student Technology Proficiency
Are our students as tech savvy as we think they are? Sure, they can multi-task with iPod, cell phone, YouTube and MySpace, but can they design an effective presentation or create a graph in a spreadsheet? In order for schools to turn out graduates who are proficient in technology, institutions must first have an accurate means of measuring students' technology literacy. Read this eBook to understand how to accurately define and measure technology proficiency to guide your assessment efforts. Discover how districts are using Web-delivered authentic assessment tools to gauge student technology literacy, and how they are using the important data they gain to inform instruction and meet accountability requirements.
Taking One-to-One Computing to the Next Level
Laptop Learning Lightens Up
Simple Storage Solutions
One-to-one computing holds out the exciting promise of engaging students and empowering educators. Convertible notebook PCs, in particular, can be powerful tools to stimulate inspiration and interaction. This eBook contains suggestions on incorporating some of these new technologies into a 1:1 learning program. A true 1:1 computing solution is more than the computer, however; read this eBook for ideas on bolstering your program with industry expertise, effective software and responsive support.
Professional Development Through Just-in-Time Learning
Just-in-time learning provides a cost-effective, time-saving resource to address technology training and support. When learners can get the instruction they need when they need it and can repeat it as often as they want, they learn—and remember. In this eBook you will find tips on incorporating web-based software training and support into successful just-in-time learning programs to enhance professional development.
New students, new tools, new possibilities
Creating digital learning environments
Today's digital generation has access to music, video, images, information, and other people on demand. They create MySpace personas, YouTube videoclips, personal blogs, and podcasts. They communicate with cell phones and instant messaging. They hang out online — often on social networking Websites. It is no wonder that this generation expects personalization from education too.
Download this new guide to Creating Digital Learning Environments that will help people in your district as they think through what teaching and learning should look like in the future and show them how to begin today to create the environment — with personalized learning — that students need.
Guide to Classroom Presentations
Harnessing the Potential of Interactive Technologies
Media Savvy for Today's Students and Teachers
Imagine a classroom where teachers and students interact freely and easily, expressing thoughts and explaining ideas. That's the kind of shared learning environment InFocus projectors can help you build. With big, bold images and bright rich colors, InFocus Learn Big projectors create excitement around a single focal point enabling you to command students' attention like never before. If you want to inspire, excite, entertain and (oh yeah) educate along the way, InFocus gives you the power to think BIG. Find out more about how InFocus projectors are inspiring a whole new generation of teachers and students at www.infocus.com/learnbig.
The Why and How of Interactive Whiteboards
Making a Difference
Tips and Tutorials for Purchase and Use
Interactive whiteboards have become popular in many classrooms, and the research shows there is positive impact on students with their use. This eBook is designed to help you decide what to do and how to do it. From how to use an interactive whiteboard to how to teach with one and even how to decide what you need and how to choose, this ebook will guide you. There is even research to help you learn what works in other places.
Guide to VoIP and Networking
Becoming Network and VoIP Savvy
The ROI of VoIP
So many of the great new ideas that come along seem to mean an increase in spending. So it is great when a new technology actually results in savings as well as efficiency. This eBook provides information on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a technology that provides a real cost benefit to school districts. Read this eBook to find out everything you will need to know about Internet telephony.
Keeping Students Safe Online
Securing the Learning Environment
Addressing the Challenges of Internet-Assisted Learning
It's all out there — the good, the bad, and the ugly — at the click of a mouse or press of a key on a computer, they can find it all on the Internet. The Web has revolutionized how we work and learn, but it has also created new challenges for school districts — in terms of student security and safety online.
Technology and the Future of Learning: Mobile Computing Makes the Difference in Preparing Students for the 21st Century
Schools districts realize that learning today means preparing students for the future. The best way is to provide them with the tools they'll need for work, play, and lifelong learning. The most basic of today's tools is a laptop computer. Putting laptops into the hands of students promotes learning 24/7 and helps them prepare for the future.
Laptops & Learning: Wireless Classrooms for 21st Century Learning
Are you planning to use or already implementing laptop learning in your school or district? To help you make the decision about one-to-one computing or to help your program be a success, read this free resource from T&L. You'll find out what the research says about laptops and get practical advice, tech tips, case studies, and links to resources.
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