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Infrastructure: Undergird your eRate plan
If there is one truth about the new universal access or “eRate”, it is that the landscape of information technology (technology and telecommunications) for schools and libraries in this country…
‘webTeacher’ can be your internet tutor
http://www.webteacher.org Created by Tech Corps along with the National Cable Television Association, webTeacher is a free, self-paced internet tutorial that offers both basic and in-depth…
Portable price breaks: You can take it with you
Remember when portable computers were only for slick-casual Silicon Valley types who couldn’t finish a Nicoise-salad-and-seltzer lunch without checking their eMail? No more. Technological advances and increased competition have combined…
You’ve got mail! And cheaper access to the internet
America Online (AOL) will offer its lowest pricing plan ever to educators through its new “AOL At School” program. Beginning some time this summer, a company spokeswoman told eSchool News,…
Tech companies host free eRate seminars
Dell Computer, Microsoft, Sprint and National Computer Systems are teaming up to offer free eRate seminars for educators. The seminars will offer help in planning a technology infrastructure…
Entice the press: Build a ‘media-friendly’ web site for your schools
Want to improve your district’s standing with the media? Here’s a startling concept: Try interviewing the reporters who cover your schools about what they value most in a web site‹and…
School yanks student internet access
A school in Cloverdale, Calif., is being criticized for its decision to shut down student access to the internet after two local teens were accused of hacking Pentagon computers. Some…
New Mexico schools receive surplus computers
Under a program created by Rep. Bill Redmond, R-N.M., school districts that can’t afford computers will receive surplus machines from the Department of Defense. Called SEEDS, for Shared Electronic…
Internet and video combat isolation for rural districts
Seven rural South Dakota school districts have announced they’ll use nearly $1 million in grant money to become the latest consortium to establish two-way audiovisual communication among their schools. Known…
eRate Update: SLC deluged with school applications … and critics
The school field in recent weeks has been receiving diametrically opposite messages about the Schools and Libraries Corporation (SLC), the agency created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to handle…