At NCREN’s Community Day, Students Showcase Technology’s Potential

Posted: Dec. 10, 2007

WRAL.com

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Don’t be surprised if some day Kelley Katzenmeyer is running a major technology company or Hollywood production outfit.

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Top Tips for Technology Teachers: The NECC Take-Away

By Diane Demee-Benoit

I'm here in sunny San Diego at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). Didn't spend much time staffing the Edutopia booth this year because a number of us Spiral Notebook bloggers have been attending sessions and meetings. Over the next few weeks you'll see our postings about what we learned, as well as our take on the highlights of the exhibit hall.

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You Are There: The Thinking Person's YouTube

By Diane Demee-Benoit

I was recently introduced to FORA.tv, a new Web site that aggregates videos of discussions and debates on interesting political, social, and cultural issues. If your schedule is anything like mine, it's difficult to find the time to travel to a bookstore to hear a famous author read or to afford the price of a ticket to see a big headliner speak. FORA.tv -- the name is the plural form of forum -- offers an alternative: Sit on your couch with your wireless laptop and listen to a variety of interesting speakers. It's a thinking person's YouTube.

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MySpace education: 'Technology' as teacher

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007

MERRIMACK'S school board is trying to answer a question relevant to all New Hampshire schools: Is there any educational value to letting students access their MySpace pages while at school? It's amazing this is even considered a serious question.

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Illinois School Looks to Tech Tools to Teach

by Larry Abramson
NPR

Joseph White, president of the University of Illinois, said the Urbana-Champaign campus held back on a big investment in online education because of concerns that the technology and his faculty were not ready. But on Jan. 1, the university will launch its ambitious new "global campus."

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Cyberbullying emerges as a new threat

By Joel Currier

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

12/02/2007

The public's frustration over the inability to punish those accused of using a phony identity to send hurtful messages to a teenager who later killed herself has pushed policy makers into action. But, some experts are already questioning whether the new laws will work in an electronic medium that is evolving daily.

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