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Don McNamee

iCal, Firstclass email/Calendar and iPhones

Hi All, Like many of you, we use FirstClass as our email system. A number of staff/students are not fond of the calendar feature(s) howe...

Started by Don McNamee

4 Oct 2
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Keith Gillette

Screen Locking Policy

At my previous school (boarding high school), we enforced automatic screen locking after a ~15 minute period of inactivity on all faculty...

Started by Keith Gillette

3 Sep 8
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Jane D. Smith

Smartboards

I am looking for justification to wish list a smartboard for my music classroom. Is it worth it, or can you do a great job with your lapt...

Started by Jane D. Smith

5 Aug 2
Reply by Vicki White
Barbara Jansen

AP Computer Science online

While reading Disrupting Class, I got to thinking about how we can offer some courses to support those few students who may want to take ...

Started by Barbara Jansen

33 Jul 31
Reply by Jeremy Woodward
Jean M Bruce

TECHNOLOGY & Distance Ed

Has any school instituted all classes to using wikis or nings as part of their curriculum as advanced planning in case of school closings...

Started by Jean M Bruce

1 Jul 31
Reply by Laurie Bartels
Laura Lorenz

headset recommendations for Audacity

I am planning to ask for funds for a classroom set of headsets. Is there a particular brand that holds up well? I'm planning to use them ...

Started by Laura Lorenz

1 Jul 3
Reply by Tami Brass
Colin Bridgewater

optimal height for installation of interactive whiteboards?

We're installing interactive whiteboards (Polyvision ENO boards) in three seventh grade classrooms this summer, and I am having a bit of ...

Started by Colin Bridgewater

1 Jun 29
Reply by Demetri Orlando
Jim Heynderickx

Transportation Databases

Hi, All Integrating the transportation department into our database systems is coming up as a serious objective. Currently, we are runni...

Started by Jim Heynderickx

0 May 8
Jim Heynderickx

What's Next? Technology and Schools in Five Years

The attached 2 meg PDF contains the slides from "What's Next? Technology and Schools in Five Years." It was the third keynote of the ECIS...

Started by Jim Heynderickx

0 Mar 10
Demetri Orlando

Technology Planning

There were several of us today who asked to see Jayme Johnson's tech plan which she graciously posted online. Certainly many of us have t...

Started by Demetri Orlando

4 Mar 9
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Have not read it, Michael, but all reviews sound like it's appropriate for 8th grade at least; maybe advanced 7th grade readers. It seems like there are a lot of layers to this book, some of which may require some frontloading discussions or activ...
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