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eSchool News January 2010

Don’t miss these highlights in your January 2010 issue

Money Matters
Seven proven ways to save on school budgets.

Curriculum Focus
Software programs help English-language learners.

Convergent Education
How schools must adapt for today’s learners.
— Jennifer Nastu

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eCampus News

Current Issue of eCampus News

eCampus News January 2010

Using technology effectively in higher education is essential to providing high-quality education and preparing students for the challenges of the 21st century. Now, one of the best ways for you to keep up with ed-tech in higher education is to read eCampus News—the brand-new, all-digital monthly newsmagazine from the publishers of eSchool News.

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Featured Special Reports

eSN Special Report: Virtual desktops save schools money–and hassle

Why buy new computers, when you can hook up a simple device to a monitor and create the same experience through desktop virtualization--while potentially saving thousands of dollars on hardware, energy bills, and tech support?...

March 2 2010 / Read More »

eSN Special Report: Convergent Education

While some experts agree that change is happening, and happening quickly, others think the education sector does not feel the urgency it needs to force real transformation to occur. Countries such as Korea and Singapore,...

January 1 2010 / Read More »

eSN Special Report: Learning in 3-D

The automobile, moving pictures, personal computers, cell phones, and social networks--all of these technologies, once considered frivolous, have made such a huge impact on our culture that our daily lives would change dramatically without them....

November 1 2009 / Read More »

eSN Special Report: Beyond virtual schools

These days, virtual education can be more than a home-schooled child sitting alone in front of a computer. Purveyors of online-education products are creating various delivery methods to suit school districts, students, teachers, and parents...

November 1 2009 / Read More »

eSN Special Report: Teaching students with autism

As autism diagnoses continue to rise, an alarming new statistic indicates that autism is now diagnosed in one out of every 91 children, instead of one out of every 150 children as previously thought. The...

November 1 2009 / Read More »

eSN Special Report: Small-group collaboration

Educators are increasingly seeing the value of having students collaborate in small groups on classroom projects--and whether such projects involve producing a written or multimedia presentation, solving a math problem, or creating a video, technology...

November 1 2009 / Read More »

Educator Resource Centers

Successful Video Production »

Successful Video Production

Now more than ever, technology plays a crucial role in the way that students learn and prepare for careers in a global economy. Armed...

May 11 2009 / Read More »

Enterprising Instruction: Using Data to Improve Teaching »

Enterprising Instruction: Using Data to Improve Teaching

Using data to inform instruction is one of the Obama administration's keys to effective school reform, and technology is helping a growing number of...

Dec 13 2009 / Read More »

Securing Student Laptops for Safe Learning »

Securing Student Laptops for Safe Learning

Technology is an essential part of a 21st-century education for both teachers and students, and district 1-to-1 computing initiatives and laptop lending programs are...

Dec 13 2009 / Read More »

Next Generation Collaboration »

Next Generation Collaboration

The ability to work together on group projects is seen as an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century workplace, and a growing number of...

Jan 4 2010 / Read More »

Securing Your Campus from the Inside Out »

Securing Your Campus from the Inside Out

Protecting student information and sensitive data and preserving students' peace of mind in classrooms and on campus can be a daunting task. We've assembled...

Jan 18 2010 / Read More »

Igniting and Sustaining STEM Education »

Igniting and Sustaining STEM Education

As the workplace changes and becomes increasingly global, today's students must be educated with a 21st-century mindset. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills...

Dec 13 2009 / Read More »

One-to-one computing: The last piece of the puzzle »

One-to-one computing: The last piece of the puzzle

Educational technology once meant a weekly trip to a PC-filled computer lab, or using a classroom projector or PowerPoint for a presentation. But technology...

Feb 11 2010 / Read More »

Creating the 21st-century classroom »

Creating the 21st-century classroom

Sound amplification systems, digital projectors, interactive whiteboards, personal response systems, and other handheld devices are among the technologies that are rapidly becoming fundamental tools...

Jan 26 2010 / Read More »

Measuring 21st-century skills »

Measuring 21st-century skills

To remain competitive in an increasingly global, knowledge-based economy, today’s employers need graduates who are adept at so-called “21st-century skills” such as using information...

Aug 14 2009 / Read More »

Effective Programs for Dealing with Autism in Schools Today »

Effective Programs for Dealing with Autism in Schools Today

It's estimated that one out of every 150 children in the United States has some form of autism, and that number is escalating at...

Dec 13 2009 / Read More »

eCampus News

‘Augmented reality’ quickly becoming real

‘Augmented reality’ quickly becoming real

You're walking down the street, looking for a good place to eat off-campus. You hold up your cell phone and use it like the viewfinder on a camera, so the screen shows what's...

Dec 21, 2009 / More »

eClassroom News

Technology adds to students’ math comprehension

Technology adds to students’ math comprehension

Recent studies from two different continents point to the value of education technology in helping students grasp important yet abstract math concepts—and in both studies, animations that allow students to visualize these concepts...

Mar 17, 2010 / More »

eSchool News

Student aid, linked to health care, gets a trim

Student aid, linked to health care, gets a trim

Congressional Democrats on March 18 trimmed their original student loan plans, reduced spending for community colleges, and eliminated early childhood money from a broad rewrite of a college aid bill piggybacked on...

Mar 19, 2010 / More »

Magazines

Adventure Learning: Authentic online learning

Adventure Learning: Authentic online learning

Adventure learning (AL) is a recent framework used for designing and developing online learning. This AL approach engages teachers and students using a blended approach in the delivery of authentic, adventure-based narratives. The blended,...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

Featured Site(s) of the Week

TI, NASA team up on free math curriculum »

At the Texas Computer Education Association's annual conference in Austin in early February, Texas Instruments announced that it has teamed up with the National...

Mar 17 2010 / Read More »