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Monthly Archives November 2004

Library of Congress – Series on the Digital Future

Beginning Monday, November 15, 2004 until March 2005, C-SPAN will televise live a series of discussions hosted by the Library of Congress’ John W. Kluge Center. Approximately one presentation will be available a month and archived versions of the presentation can be viewed online (C-SPAN Digital Future). The first program, featuring David Weinberger (blogging), is [...]

Posted 30 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Ed Budget Up, Ed Tech Budget Down

eSchool News reports that the federal budget support for the “Enhancing Education Through Technology” block grant program is to be cut by 200 million despite a 1.4 billion increase for education. Earlier administration promises that technology support would be provided through block grants rather than more targeted programs (e.g., Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers To Use Technology [...]

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

British Study Finds Negative Impact of Computer Use

A British study finds negative correlation between school use of computers and scores in math and reading. While the correlations with home use were positive, the relationship between performance and school use were negative. Computer availability is associated with more affluent schools providing more positive opportunities and when this connection is accounted for statistically a [...]

Posted 28 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Creating Games

Think computer games are cool and possibly the way to teach/learn? Interested in the reality of what it takes to create games? Here is an interesting piece from the Dallas Observer describing the process of learning to be a game designer.

Posted 24 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Textbooks

Edutopia, a component of the George Lucas Education Foundation, offers an analysis of the textbook industry. The analysis mostly concerns the many factors that combine to create a bland, but marketable product. I guess I can say that I now qualify as an insider and am possibly part of the problem. Still, it is not [...]

Posted 24 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

eRate Money Flowing

The Washington Post reports that the $400 million in frozen e-rate money is now being released. The backlog reaches as far back as 2003.

Posted 24 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Google Scholar

Google has released another useful tool. Google Scholar provides a search system for professional journals, conference papers, and other scholarly works. You cannot access the full-text articles, but this service can be useful for locating references. For example, I sometimes need to check a citation and this service will identify the citation in other reference [...]

Posted 18 November 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °