Skip to content

Monthly Archives April 2003

ERIC’

I recently stumbled across an alert on a listserv attempting to activate readers to protest the proposed reworking of ERIC. I did not think too much more about this until I walked by the ERIC booth at AERA yesterday and the booth personnel were passing out stickers with the wording – SAVE ERIC. The plan [...]

Posted 24 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Earth Day

Earth Day is April 22nd. Stop by The Earth Day Groceries Project, and see what children around the world have been working on: Earth Day Bags. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, this is one of the largest educational projects on the Internet.

Posted 21 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

AERA 2003

INSERT INTO b2posts VALUES (114, 2, ’2003-04-20 16:47:58′, ‘\nWelcome to Chicago and the 84th AERA Convention.

Posted 20 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

National Archives

If you are a history buff or want to trace your family history, you now have access to the same resources used by the pros – The National Archives. This collection of at least 50 million digitized douments can now be searched online. The National Archives offers a variety of suggestions for educators include how [...]

Posted 19 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Apple Computers

A recent New York Times article reports on the financial performance of Apple Computers. I pay attention because I happen to like the Apple operating system and feel the product is great in educational settings. It is hard to make sense of what the “analysts” say when evaluating company and stock performance. The revenues are [...]

Posted 17 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.” -Bill Belsey Learn more about this [...]

Posted 15 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

ColorWrite

I admit to being artistically challenged. This is an on-going disadvantage in the work I do because of the need to offer web resources. Sometimes I try to convince myself that the appearance of online material is less important than the information provided. Sometimes I just admit I am better with words than with images [...]

Posted 14 April 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °