Tuesday, July 01, 2003

Docutek atSchool Case Study: Carl Silva, a faculty member at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA has an article, entitled “Creating a Better Learning Environment Through Communications,” in T.H.E. Journal.  The article focuses on how Mitty High has used Docutek atSchool's course management and electronic reserves software to foster communication with parents, teachers, and students. 3:28:49 PM

Thursday, February 27, 2003

Schools and the recent election: School referendums failed during the election on Tuesday.  This Sun Times article has details.  10:14:53 AM

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Blogs in Education: In its February 2003 issue, Technology & Learning has an article entitled "Writing with Web Logs" by Kristen Kennedy that gives resources for educators in using blogging in the classroom for writing assignments.  In the print issue, this article runs from page 11 to page 14. 10:35:41 AM

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Problems with e-rate: "E-Rate Fund Hit by Rampant Fraud. The $2.25 billion e-rate fund has helped connect thousands of U.S. schools and libraries to the Net. The fund is also subject to widespread fraud, abuse and 'honest' accounting mistakes. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]" This Wired article is of major interest in these dire financial times.  It leads librarians to wonder "how can we save the e-rate?" and "is e-rate worth saving in its current form?" 12:49:37 PM

White House Conference on School Libraries: "The White House Conference on School Libraries talks are available. get_comment_link(84473845) Add a comment [Catalogablog]" Published by Teacher Librarian as a special supplement. 2:20:26 PM

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

No School Librarians in Springfield? "Schools adjust to no librarians" [LISNews.com] has picked up an article from Springfield, IL on how the school district there cut school librarians as a way to deal with budget cuts.  This is most definitley affecting their public library as well, since the schools now have a very limited library service. 12:25:15 PM

EDUCAUSE: "EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Conference is netcasting som .... EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Conference is netcasting some of the presentations on Wed. and Thurs. Among the presentations are: What's Become of the Digital Library? - Clifford A. Lynch Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference - Carol A. Twigg The Development and Future of the IT World: Higher Education's Role - Douglas Van Houweling The New Computing--Revisited - Kenneth C. Green" [Catalogablog] This week, Kathryn Deiss of CLS is speaking at EDUCAUSE with Susan Jurow on organizational culture. 12:08:27 PM

Friday, September 27, 2002

A Look At Literacy in the US: ""They're in the last row, wearing a look that al .... - "They're in the last row, wearing a look that all teachers know, one that says, "I'm invisible. I have nothing to say. Don't call on me." They don't have their books. They didn't read the assignment: They forgot; they had to work; it was just too boring." "Take Paul. (Students' names have been changed.) A few weeks into his first semester at Dixon High School in Dixon, California, everyone had him pegged as a dropout. "He was totally silent, wouldn't make eye contact," says his freshman English teacher, Lisa Krebs. "If I made a seating chart that put him in the middle, he moved himself to the back. If I said, 'Pick a partner,' he would sort of not pick one and hope I didn't notice." (from Literacy in America - a 3 part article, from Book Magazine)" [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] This long article shows where the US is in the war on illiteracy and what educators are doing about it.  Thanks to Library Stuff for the link 11:01:28 AM

Thursday, September 19, 2002

Schools speak out on their filtering experiences: Schools reluctantly install Web filters [LISNews.com] LISNews links to a rather long CNN article that reflects the frustration teachers, school administrators, and students feel towards filters. 10:11:36 AM

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