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T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Paula Jacobs |
Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 1, 2010 Jennifer Grayson |
Mod Genius Innovative building manufacturers are designing new modular classrooms that offer a range of eco-friendly features, an inspiring learning environment, and, even better, the right price.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 22, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 3, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Keeping on Task in a Digital Environment It doesn't take much to disrupt an entire high school classroom and get a student off task, particularly when that student is using a desktop or laptop computer to finish a lesson.  |
PHONE+ July 20, 2009 |
Case Study: LifeSize Takes Teachers to Class With looming budget cuts, one school district turns to video communication to keep teachers connected for professional development, staff meetings, and training sessions.  |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2011 Arunava De |
How to Make Money During the LED Revolution With a ban on incandescent lighting on its way, LEDs might show the way to the future.  |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.  |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening?  |
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010 Reinhard Kargl |
Getting an Earful Classroom audio systems have become a must-include component of comprehensive technology upgrades. The point is not just to give more oomph and clarity to teachers' voices, but to have sound quality worthy of the video now commonly streaming to their computers.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 4, 2010 Bridget McCrea |
Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Matt Miller |
Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze' An ed-tech specialist explains how a versatile Web conferencing tool is helping his sprawling district remove the distance between teachers, administrators, and staff.  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation.  |
T.H.E. Journal January 7, 2010 Bridget McCrea |
Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Grayson |
The Expandable Classroom: Walls That Move! "Learning needs to be highly flexible and adaptable," says Konrad Judd, principal and lead designer for SHW Group. "With the integration of technology it's more necessary than ever."  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
Meeting the Technology Challenge Economically Many small school districts feel that they are being left behind in the race to integrate information technology into the classroom. However, as shown by the experience of the Louisa County Schools, this doesn't have to be the case...  |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud |
A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news...  |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Jacob Milner |
Warming Up To Wireless As wireless technology takes hold in school districts, the biggest challenge is getting teachers to embrace it, to take student learning to a new level.  |
This Old House Mark Loeffler |
A Green, Well-Lighted Place How to choose energy-saving lighting for an environment-friendly house.  |
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
They're Taking Requests: Student Techs Command the Help Desk Varun Kumar, the technology coordinator at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens, NY, has it good. His workforce consists of Bryant High students, members of the Mouse Squad, a student-based IT support program.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2008 |
THE Journal's 2008 Innovators :: 3 Education students get classroom experience teaching with new technologies while cooperating teachers observe how those devices could be integrated into lessons... Migrating to open source software and using the savings for training staff and teachers... Testing a math theory...  |
T.H.E. Journal February 2007 John K.Waters |
Classroom Collaborators Wireless connectivity is providing a level of flexibility for students and teachers, changing the learning environment in ways that in some cases has to be seen to be believed.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2006 Michelle Gamble-Risley |
Projectors: The Big Picture New projection systems are allowing teachers to bring the world large right into the classroom.  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Jeff Weinstock |
Logging On With... A veteran district superintendent looks to his students' future with stars in his eyes.  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2001 Ruth Watson |
The Trumbull County Community Network Project In the early 1990s, the school districts of Trumbull County, OH were similar to most schools in the amount of technology available to teachers, administrators and students. The project that changed that situation made an organized effort to infuse technology into K-12 schools...  |
T.H.E. Journal March 2007 John K. Waters |
Desk Jockeys AV control systems give teachers the reins to multiple classroom computing devices, without their having to leave the lectern.  |
This Old House Keith Pandolfi |
Thinking Outside the Bulb Compact flourescent light bulbs and LEDs prepare for their turn in the spotlight  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development.  |
T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea |
Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships This year's Charp honoree is a once low-performing New York district that reformed itself... Lutron Electronics' Greenovation energy education program has announced the start of its 2009 Bright Green Dream School Sustainability Challenge... etc.  |
InternetNews April 7, 2009 David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom.  |
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development...  |
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Christine Fox |
Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 |
District Snapshots: Schools Find Success With Data Management System Teachers Dig In With Data... Principals Designate Academic Planning Time... Data Using Teacher Leaders...  |
This Old House Megan Baker |
How to Light a Windowless Room Pro tips for brightening spaces that lack natural light.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 Alexandra Ito |
The Reality of Anytime, Anywhere Learning Santa Ana USD integrates technology into its classrooms and staff training with wireless computing  |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources.  |
Food Processing October 2012 |
MRO Q&A: LED Lights Pros and Cons I have been hearing a lot about LED lights recently. What are their pluses and the minuses? Are they the next big thing?  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski |
Taking the Plunge: Districts Leap Into Virtualization Three districts that have made the conversion to virtual computing talk about their experiences.  |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Your Luminescence Is Approaching Obsolescence The inefficient heat lamps you're replacing way too often are going away. Here's how you can profit from the change of the guard.  |
T.H.E. Journal December 2001 |
Troy School District's Integration of Media Curriculum Michigan's Troy School District recently completed the enormous task of implementing voice, video and data communications in each of its 19 school buildings and within every classroom in the district...  |
T.H.E. Journal February 26, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning's MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools.  |
Popular Mechanics January 15, 2009 Adam Hadhazy |
When CFLs Fail: How to Keep Your Compact Fluorescent Glowing CFLS are perhaps the best bulbs on the market. But these pricey bulbs aren't perfect. Here, we explore the source of CFL problems and explain how to prevent them.  |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Christine Fox |
Professional Development :: From Technophobes to Tech Believers High-quality professional development can turn the most reluctant teachers into enthusiastic users of classroom technology. It's key to any effort to reform the way students are taught and data is collected.  |