Best Practices


  • Kyrene showcased for exemplary tech use both inside, and outside, the classroom
    Apr 16, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Tech Leadership

    Each year, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) selects three school districts as co-hosts of a Technology Site Visitation, the purpose of which is to show educators how technology can be used to implement change across an entire district. One of NSBA's 2008 site visits took place in February at the Kyrene Elementary School District, a high-performing suburban district in the Phoenix, Ariz., area that extends over 170 square miles, enrolls 18,500 students, and employs approximately 2,000 teachers, administrators, and staff.

  • Round Rock ISD ensures a safe and productive online environment with Vericept Monitor
    Mar 31, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Filters & firewalls

    Like most school districts, Round Rock Independent School District is dedicated to providing its students with the latest internet technologies to advance the education process while maintaining the safest and most productive online environment. But achieving this balance is an ongoing challenge--and one that Round Rock ISD realized it could no longer accomplish with its existing IT resources.

  • Video conferencing, web 2.0 apps help distance learners feel included
    Mar 25, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Virtual schooling / Distance Learning

    I was summoned to the office 10 minutes before the morning bell, which often signals a teacher is getting a new student. Teachers in rooms next to mine even predicted that as the reason for the summons as I headed out of my room.

  • Making a connection
    Mar 04, 2008   Primary Topic Channel: Library Services

    Stationed thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, Staff Sergeant Kevin S. Cook is online checking a list of reading materials for his daughter Alexis, a second-grader attending Rockfish Elementary School in Hope Mills, N.C.

  • Best Practices: Project-Based Online Staff Development
    Feb 07, 2008

    eSN Best Practics Summit: Atomic Learning session

  • Best Practices: Online Tools for Project-Based Learning
    Feb 07, 2008

    eSN Best Practics Summit: ePals session

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