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TxTIP Extended
The Texas Education Agency has announced extension of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot Project, which has provided laptops and training for teachers and students in 22 Texas middle schools as well as some other campuses and districts. If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video…
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Oversimplifying TxTIP year 1 results
Barbara Cargill serves on the Texas State Board of Education, representing District 8. Among other things, our SBOE is responsible for textbook adoption, standardized test (TAKS) standards, and curriculum standards (TEKS). These are extremely important and influential responsiblities. In her published article from January 19, 2006 entitled “A First Year Perspective: Serving on the Texas…
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TxTIP Year 1 Evaluation
A draft of the Evaluation of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot: First-Year Results (dated November 17, 2005) is available as a PDF file from the TEA TIP website. I have not had time (as of yet) to read it, but I will be soon since this is directly tied to my own doctoral research! If…
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TxTIP Feature Article
Apple Education eNews has published an excellent and thorough article entitled “Texas Tests Technology’s Potential.” The article showcases many of the educators and students involved in the Texas Immersion Pilot Project (TxTIP). The TxTIP project has various campuses involved, but the main “quasi-scientific design” portion involves 22 “experimental” junior high school campuses immersed with laptops…
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Don’t Blame School Officials if Your Child Chooses to Look at Porn on His Laptop
Last month, Ponca City Schools in Oklahoma faced a news headline any 1:1 laptop school could potentially confront in the local media: “Ponca City student accesses porn on school laptop.” According to the article: A Ponca City mother is outraged. She says her son has been accessing pornography….on a laptop that was issued by the…
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Professional Portfolio and Resume Ideas
This semester for my “Computers in the Classroom” undergraduate course at the University of North Texas, I’ve asked my students to create a professional portfolio using a wiki of their choice. One my students recently asked suggestions of things to add to her wiki which go beyond the basic requirements of our assignment. I posted…
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Six years of 1 to 1 learning in Floydada, Texas
Sunday’s article on MyPlainview.com, “Floydada a showcase for technology education,” highlights the hard work and vision of educators in Floydada, Texas, implementing the district’s 1:1 laptop initiative. The district is hosting a “Digital Learning Environment Open House” tomorrow starting at 9 am. Superintendent Jerry Vaughn is quoted in today’s article: In today’s environment in Floydada,…
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T3 Grant Notes (ARRA Stimulus funds for Educational Technology competitively released by the Texas Education Agency)
These are notes relating to the Texas Education Agency’s Target Tech in Texas (T3) Collaborative Grant. This information was shared over TETN (The Texas Education Telecommunications Network) in May 2009, and a PDF file of that presentation is available. MY RELATED THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. All T3 grant application documents are available…
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Tracking and translating blog conversations: Google Blog Search Mentions and Yahoo! Babel Fish
This evening reading one of Chris Pirillo’s old posts, I noticed in his sidebar links for “My Profiles” he includes a link for “Blog Mentions” which includes code for a Google Blog Search for his site: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d&partner=wordpress&q=link:http://chris.pirillo.com/ I’m not lacking digital reading material these days, thanks in large part to the wonderful educational bloggers to…