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T.H.E. Journal
October 2000 |
Director 8 K-12 Edition Macromedia's Director 8 K-12 Edition is a special version of the Web site creation tool, designed to bring powerful multimedia into the K-12 classroom...   |
Information Today
November 1, 2012 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica Launches App for Windows 8 The Encyclopaedia Britannica App, now available in the Windows Store, provides access to the entire encyclopedia with a sleek and engaging interface, rich illustrations, and special features such as Link Map. |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Britannica.com to Launch Premium Service for Encyclopaedia Britannica Access It's now a familiar story. Yet another Web content provider feels the pinch from the severe downturn in the Internet economy and reduced advertising revenue and announces it will start charging for content that had been available for free... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2001
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference Reference encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri remain some of the most valuable tools that aid in the completion of student research projects. This article presents the electronic versions of many reference industry favorites... |
Information Today
June 2, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Leveraging Britannica's Content With WebShare In late April, the company officially announced its new WebShare program, which has opened the Britannica site for free access to web publishers and permits free links to full-text entries. |
Information Today
June 16, 2011 |
New Britannica Ebook Service for Schools and Libraries Students in elementary school through college can easily access hundreds of high-quality books on the subjects they're studying through a new web-based ebooks service available to schools and libraries from Britannica Digital Learning. |
Information Today
March 25, 2002 |
News Digest Legislators Save Washington State Library... Compton's Encyclopedia Returns to Britannica... EBSCO Publishing Adds New Databases, Features |
T.H.E. Journal
August 1999
Jim Schneider |
Focus on Reference In that spirit, this month's Software Focus-On will take a look at reference software.... |
Macworld
October 31, 2005
Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Survey data shows the variety of ways teachers are using OER to benefit learning, and how that use has evolved over the past three years. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Classroom Connect, Inc. has partnered with Learning Network Classroom Connect, Inc. has partnered with Learning Network to offer programs for K-12 parents, teachers and students. Classroom Connect's online curriculum products, such as Classroom Today and the Quest adventure learning expeditions, will be featured within Learning Network... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2007
Sean Carroll |
Encyclopedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate DVD The Encyclopaedia Britannica is slowly shedding its stodgy image while still retaining its editorial excellence. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009 |
Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Andrew Taylor |
ABC-CLIO Interactive's The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Civil rights is an issue many educators neglect in favor of less controversial topics. But with the new interactive encyclopedia, The Civil Rights Movement in the United States from ABC-CLIO, teachers and students have 500 articles and a host of multimedia materials to explore... |
Macworld
December 2001
Henry Bortman |
World Book Mac OS X Edition Aquafied encyclopedia is an able research assistant... |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009 |
World Book Student by World Book World Book has updated its Online Reference Center with new features and a new name. |
PC World
November 2000
Glenn McDonald |
New Internet Tools Beef Up Encarta 2001 Microsoft's Encarta Reference Suite, the popular electronic encyclopedia, has some new capabilities that make it definitely worth a look. In particular, its Researcher tool allows you to capture Web information easily... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004 |
News Briefs - World Book Online Reference Center To make its Web content accessible to all students, World Book has announced changes to its subscription-based World Book Online Reference Center that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
SchoolFusion The Web-based school communication system designed for the K-12 environment is offering free classroom Web sites for life... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Will Consumers Be Willing to Pay for Their Formerly Free Lunch on the Internet? After offering up an all-you-can-eyeball information buffet to consumers, online publishers are now attempting to rein in the Internet free lunch... |
InternetNews
April 7, 2009
David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
D-Lib
February 2009
Marcia A. Mardis |
Classroom Information Needs: Search Analysis from a Digital Library for Educators All too often, digital library developers create collections of resources in the absence of rigorous examinations of educator and learner needs. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008 |
Ingram Digital to Distribute Encyclopaedia Britannica Ebook Reference Set Ingram Digital Group, announced an agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica to distribute the publisher's ebook reference set worldwide. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
Credo Reference to Launch SAGE Reference Publisher Collection Nearly 70 SAGE titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform. SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009 |
Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2005
Douglas Kellner |
The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum. |
Information Today
November 11, 2010 |
Continuum Titles Join Oxford University Press Digital Reference Shelf As part of a new distribution partnership Continuum is making a critical selection of its high-quality scholarly reference titles available through the Digital Reference Shelf platform, providing students and scholars with a single online source. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2003
Chris Rother |
Technology's Value in Education A teacher survey reveals the importance of student access to computers and the need for more tech training. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
Information Today
August 19, 2014 |
Google Debuts Paperless Classroom Feature Google's Classroom launched and is available to users of Google Apps for Education, a free suite of productivity tools for teachers. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2005
Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2001
Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
Information Today
April 19, 2010 |
Credo Reference Adds Princeton University Press Titles These are the first Princeton University Press titles to be made available on the reference service. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 19, 2009
David Nagel |
Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit. |
Information Today
February 14, 2011 |
Paratext's ReferenceUniverse to Add Links to Wiley Major Reference Works Launched last summer, the Wiley Online Library carries content published by Wiley-Blackwell, including Wiley-VCH. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2015
Michael Blanding |
Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries. |
BusinessWeek
August 8, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Do Your Homework, Microsoft Microsoft's back-to-school offering, Student 2006, seems like a hodgepodge. |
Information Today
April 22, 2010 |
Oxford University Press Launches New Online Resources Oxford University Press has released the online edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2007
Christine Fox |
Professional Development :: From Technophobes to Tech Believers High-quality professional development can turn the most reluctant teachers into enthusiastic users of classroom technology. It's key to any effort to reform the way students are taught and data is collected. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2001
Elizabeth Amberg |
Focus on Science Education Interactive learning and informative content are vital assets in any science classroom. Several software programs exist to help students visualize and analyze scientific information... |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Late Breaks - N2H2, Inc. N2H2, Inc. extends its offer of the Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia without charge to new and current Bess Internet Filtering customers for the 2000-01 academic year. |
Macworld
October 2000 |
High-Quality Education on the Web 50 of the Best Sites |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005
Chris Rother |
Teachers Talk Tech The Teachers Talk Tech survey exposes a growing problem: Cash-strapped schools must choose between using computers as administrative or instructional tools. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Free At Last By creating a user-generated, ever-growing library of original digital content, an Arizona school district has liberated its teachers from the restraints of a textbook-driven curriculum model. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
OverDrive Adds Simultaneous Access Ebook Suppliers to Catalog Collections from Thomas Nelson, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crabtree Publishing, and Lonely Planet will enable libraries to provide `always available' eBooks. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004
Chris Rother |
Evaluating Technology's Role in the Classroom Teachers are using computers more than ever before for everything from instruction to handling administrative chores and communicating with parents. |
