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December 2006



WestEd Free Online Event: January 23, 2007

Friday, 29 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
Response to Intervention / Neurodevelopment with Leigh Burgess, All Kinds of Minds In this interactive presentation, Leigh Burgess, Implementation Manager, All Kinds of Minds, will examine Response to Intervention, an emerging approach to diagnosi
Category: Professional Development
Lynne Wolters

Setting Ground Rules for Teachers Who Blog

Friday, 15 December 2006 3:20 P GMT-08
Ed-tech author David Warlick sorts teachers who blog into three groups -- the independent, the professional and the instructional -- and offers school administrators tips on how to deal with each kind. He recommends establishing committees to develop
Category: Culture of Education Teachers & Tech
Lynne Wolters

NORAD Santa Tracker 2006

Thursday, 14 December 2006 11:59 P GMT-08
  Track Santa with NORAD On Christmas Eve!  Languages supported include English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese. This is the 51st year NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), have tracke
Category: Teacher Resources Early Childhood Middle School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold A Library On One Disc

Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD.University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team have cracked a puzzle that s
Category: Research Tech Tools
Lynne Wolters

Ex-coach: Tech a win for student athletes

Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
Former NCAA basketball coach Mike Jarvis launches campaign to help student athletes keep up with their studies through video technology. Balancing school and athletics can be hard for most student athletes. To help student athletes keep up with their
Category: Teachers & Tech Health/PE High School
Lynne Wolters

Microsoft Online Library Challenges Google Books

Monday, 11 December 2006 12:59 P GMT-08
Microsoft launched an online library on Thursday in a move that pits the world's biggest software company against Google,s controversial project to digitise the world's books. Microsoft said the US test version of Live Search Books featured
Category: Teacher Resources Professional Development
Lynne Wolters

Jamestown-Journey of Democracy

Monday, 11 December 2006 12:41 P GMT-08
The TAPPED IN Social Studies forum wraps up 2006 with a special session featuring "Jamestown-Journey of Democracy", set for Wednesday, December 13, at a special time, 7 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Pacific).  TAPPED IN is located at http://www
Category: Teacher Resources Social Studies Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Report: Automated alerts cut Scottish students' truancy

Saturday, 9 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
Sending text or voice messages to parents' mobile and land-line phones when students have unexplained absences has helped some schools in Scotland pare their truancy rates by as much as 27%, a report notes. Scottish Education Minister Hugh Henry
Category: Tech Tools Culture of Education
Lynne Wolters

Students team up globally to help the environment

Friday, 8 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
Google and the Global SchoolNet Foundation recently co-sponsored a project that allowed students from more than 80 schools in 20 countries to brainstorm ways to curb global warming. Participants used Web-based spreadsheets to list their ideas, from w
Category: Science Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Stealing Fair Use, Selling It Back to You

Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:00 A GMT-08
"Apparently, Hollywood believes that you should have to re- purchase all your DVD movies a second time if you want to watch them on your iPod." That's what we said last week, commenting on the Paramount v. Load-N-Go lawsuit, in which Ho
Category: Teachers & Tech
Lynne Wolters