Designing Learning Technology

Thu, 31 Oct 2002

Radio post #128
Happy Halloween! Here are some interesting jack-o-lanterns, along with instructions for how to make your own fancy-schmancy designs.

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Radio post #127
I've started to use NetNewsWire Lite to more easily track breaking news. It's great for handling sites that support RSS syndication, but doesn't help me handle sites that don't, like Ed Week and the Chronicle. It's be nice to see NetNewsWire let me package both frequently read URLs and RSS feeds in one place.

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Radio post #126
Hey, Arts and Letters Daily is back! Kudos to the Chronicle for rescuing a great resource for thought-provoking writing.

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Tue, 22 Oct 2002

Radio post #125
LESTER (Learning Science and Technology Repository) is an online community and information space focused on innovations in learning science and technology. It's somewhat similar in intent to the CILT Knowledge Network.

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Radio post #124
Apple is offering any K-12 teacher a free copy of Mac OS X 10.2.

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Tue, 15 Oct 2002

Radio post #123
Conference announcement: Designing for User Experiences (DUX) 2003, San Francisco, 5-7 June 2003. ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, and AIGA Experience Design are pleased and excited to offer an unprecedented joint conference: DUX2003. DUX2003 will gather together designers of all kinds from our intersecting communities who deliver user-centered designs for the digital age. (Submissions due 1 Feb 2003.)

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Radio post #122
ISTE publishes Palm(TM) Handheld Computers -- A Complete Resource for Classroom Teachers.

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Tue, 08 Oct 2002

Radio post #121
Massachusetts Sued Over Graduation Tests. Education Week reports on the suit, on behalf of students who did not pass the state's high stakes graduation tests, that attacks the validity of the assessments.

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Radio post #120
New Palm handhelds break the $100 price point.. This means you can get a Palm (albeit with only 2M of RAM, and probably not upgradeable) for slightly more than the cost of a TI-82 graphing calculator, and significantly less than a TI-92.

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Radio post #119
Webcams in space! The upcoming Atlantis flight will include a live video feed.

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Tue, 01 Oct 2002

Radio post #118
NY Times: Teacher Shortages Vanish When the Price Is Right. It's pretty simple when you get right down to it.

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Radio post #117
The next round of solicitations for MSPs is up at the NSF web site. "The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program supports innovative partnership-driven projects developed to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. As overall student achievement rises, MSP projects are expected to significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. Successful MSP projects will serve as models that can be widely replicated in educational practice to improve the mathematics and science achievement of all the Nation's students."

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