| Videogames That Teach |  |
| Schools are struggling to teach in a high-tech world. Daniel Sieberg speaks with Hannah Storm about his visit to a school in rural Indiana, where fun and learning is just a mouse-click away. |  |
| 1:1 Computing | |
| the information in this guidebook can provide administrators with useful advice, practical strategies, and best practices to consider when implementing 1:1 computing. | |
| 11-Year-Old Boy Takes School Network By The Horns | |
| When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. | |
| 2002-2003 Texas STaR (School Technology and Readiness) Chart | |
| Report on technology planning for K-12. Toward the end (search for bandwidth) there is a 4-level readiness rubric for schools/districts. | |
| A Good Teaching Technique: WebQuests | |
| In this article, the author first introduces and describes a new teaching tool called WebQuests to practicing teachers. He then provides detailed information about the structure of a good WebQuest. Third, the author shows the strengths and weaknesses of using WebQuests in teaching and learning. Last, he points out the challenges for practicing teachers and administrators. Keywords: Internet, mathematics, teachers, WebQuests | |
| A Homegrown Design For Data Warehousing | |
| Report on how a district created its own process for generating detailed information about students in real time | |
| A Report On Internet Speeds In All 50 States | |
| Report by the makers of "speedmatters" a recent look at Internet speeds using data obtained from people hitting their speedmatters.org website | |
| A School Decision-Maker's Guide To Student Technology Support Programs (PDF) | |
| The Decision Maker's Guide is not a how-to guide for launching a program. Rather, these pages provide background for decision makers to make a case for such a program and also determine what type of program is most appropriate to pursue. The resources section links to documents and Web sites with specific program development resources. The YTSC white paper: "Youth Technology Support Programs: Meeting the Challenge of Technology Support in Schools," Douglas Levin, American Institutes for Research, February 2004, provides a summary and review of programs and literature. | |
| A Virtual Supervision Model | |
| The perennial lament of every principal is not having enough time to fulfill what is perhaps his or her most important responsibility -- teacher evaluation. In the absence of a human resource solution to this problem, technology offers an opportunity to tip the scale in the direction of instructional leadership through a medium we refer to as Virtual Supervision. | |
| Acceptable Use Policies | |
| Description of why you must have an acceptable use policy and what it should have | |
| Affording 1:1 | |
| Two articles that provide strategies and guidelines for funding a successful one to one initiative. | |
| An Innovation Odyssey | |
| Looking for ideas to help you use technology to motivate and inspire? See how teachers around the world use technology in their classrooms to support student learning. | |