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Monthly Archives August 2004

Copyright WebQuest

I came across a link to a Copyright WebQuest through a listserv I follow and decided to check it out. It seems to be very well done and worth recommending to others.

Posted 31 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Open Video Project

I think online video represents a great educational resource of the future. I do not anticipate the value will be in complete presentations (e.g., expert lectures), but in catalogued collections of bits and pieces that can be used to see and hear things that are difficult to describe. The Open Video Project may represent the [...]

Posted 31 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

SBC Survey Concludes Students Value Home Internet

A survey of more than 1000 students by SBC Communications concludes students find home “high speed access” crucial to their academic work. The study also reveals: ?? 80 percent of older students, 12- to 17-year-olds, are given Internet assignments to complete at school, and nearly 65 percent go online at home to complete Internet-related homework. [...]

Posted 29 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Copyright and Education

Many of the general technology publications are running “back to school” topics. Wired magazine has an article on copyright. The article concerns the efforts of software publishers efforts to inform students of copyright responsibilities. Remember the “Weekly Reader” from your days in elementary school? It is an outlet for some of this information.

Posted 25 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Cost of cheating …

The New York Times (you may have to register to review this article) ran an article in the Sunday Book Review section entitled (You get what you pay for). This article addresses online sites willing to sell students term papers, book reports, etc. The author describes purchasing some papers and offers a review. If you [...]

Posted 23 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Hoping …

It is my opinion that tablet PCs are the next big thing for education. Contrary to the promotion of Palm-like products by some very influential sources, the present PDAs lack an adequate display, lack a reasonable method for input, and are simply not powerful enough to provide students useful and efficient tools for education. It [...]

Posted 20 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Internet becomes internet

Most folks do not worry about things like whether or not Internet should begin with an upper-case I. The outlets for my writing do seem to care. Actually, they probably only care that I have some rule in my head that I am able to follow consistently. Until now, my rule has been to begin [...]

Posted 20 August 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °