T.H.E. SmartClassroom :: August 30, 2007
Focus
Monitor & Control: Kentucky Teacher Keeps Students Focused with Classroom Suite
By Linda L. Briggs
Keeping track of a classroom full of students, each in front of a computer, is a teaching challenge. Jorge Romero knows that from experience, as school technology coordinator and an information technology teacher for grades 9 through 12 at Franklin County Career and Technical Center in Frankfort, KY....
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Ed Tech News
Curriculum Advantage Rolls Out Professional Development for Instructional Technology
Curriculum Advantage has expanded and revamped its professional development programs following a year of review of effective implementations, according to the company. Included in the expansion are new methods for implementation planning and 25 new or retooled training courses designed to help improve the results schools see from their technology implementations....
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DOC Cop Delivers Free Anti-Plagiarism Tools
A new service has been launched to help instructors in both higher education and K-12 institutions detect plagiarized work submitted by students. The service, DOC Cop, is an entirely Web-based tool that provides free and automated assistance in locating "source material" (ahem) used in assignments submitted to teachers....
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NBC and HotChalk Debut Education Resource
NBC News has partnered with HotChalk to provide access to NBC's educational content designed for for classroom instruction. HotChalk is a provider of learning management technologies. Through the deal, NBC will make available 60 years of historical news footage via the HotChalk LMS....
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Ed Tech Companies Launch Beginning Reading Program
The Weekly Reader Publishing group and school technology provider HareBrain have partnered to launch the Learn to Read: Beginning Reading Program, which provides students in preschool through first grade with reading kits, including HareBrain's WhisperPhone line of devices designed to help students read....
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OnCourse Expands Support for State Standards
Online education tool provider OnCourse Systems now supports education standards for all 50 states and has integrated those standards into its Lesson Planner, Grade Book, and Student Stats offerings, according to the company....
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Web Notes
Ignite! Sparks Science Education Series on YouTube Channel
Ignite! Learning, a developer of educational curricula, has put together "Tourist in Space," an education video about the history and recent developments of space travel for the company's YouTube channel. The new video is the latest release of its Current Event's Media series designed to "introduce school-age children to timely issues and scientific advancements often mentioned in the news," according to Ignite!...
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Events Calendar
- SEPT. 2-4, 2007
Sixth International Internet Education Conference and Exhibition
Cairo, Egypt -
SEPT. 9-11, 2007
EdNET 2007
Chicago, IL
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SEPT. 10-13, 2007
2007 BICSI Fall Conference
Las Vegas, NV
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Sept. 12-14, 2007
Designs on eLearning Conference 2007
London, UK
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Sept. 12-15, 2007
2007 WLA Conference
Cheyenne, WY
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Sept. 15-17, 2007
7th WSEAS International Conference on Distance Education and Web Engineering (DIWEB '07)
Beijing, China
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Sept. 18-21, 2007
26th International Conference on Computer Safety, Security and Reliability (SAFECOMP'2007)
Nuremberg, Germany
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Sept. 24-28, 2007
Open Education 2007
Logan, Utah
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Sept. 29, 2007
2nd annual Promising Curriculum and Technology Practices Conference
Modesto, CA
Find more events at THE Journal's online Conference Calendar.
THE Journal Opportunities
Share Your Best Practices
T.H.E. Journal is currently looking for the following types of articles for future issues and for our eNewsletter, T.H.E. SmartClassroom:
- School Perspectives - discuss a specific topic, trend, or concern about education technology.
- Case Studies - have you implemented technology and learned a lot from the experience? If so, share your efforts about what worked -- and what didn't.
If you have a potential article, or questions about the above topics, please e-mail [email protected]
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