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The cover story of the January/February 2007 issue of EdTech magazine describes the cost-saving and efficiency benefits to be gained from reorganizing your school or district’s IT department and its procedures. Other articles discuss the pros and cons of MIT’s One Laptop Per Child initiative, the U.K.’s efforts to individualize education with technology, things to look out for when adopting a wireless environment, and physical security options for your school. Also highlighted are Doctors Charter School’s leading-edge infrastructure and the success New Jersey’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Complex has had using technology to increase literacy and foster goodwill. |
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| IT Offers a Second Chance
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| More Schools Reach Out to Web for Digital Content
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| Technology Means Survival
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A Change of Climate
Students uncover causes and solutions for global warming.
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Navigating With Explorers
Students Use Movie Maker and PowerPoint to retrace explorer's journeys.
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The Art of Notebook Maintenance
Ten things you may not know about protecting your notebook.
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Tech Reality Check
Tech reviews can help schools see the big integration picture.
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Starting from Scratch
Doctors Charter School in Florida enhances communications through its built-in leading-edge infrastructure.
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Reading, Writing & Social Responsibility
At New Jersey’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Complex, technology helps increase literacy and foster goodwill.
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Safe Zone
Choose security options that are right for your school.
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| Learn tricks for going wireless from schools that have made the jump to Wi-Fi.
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| Best Practices that can make your systems shop a picture of health.
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| Organizations develop inexpensive portables with the aim of giving them to children in developing countries and possibly in the United States.
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| One year after the U.K. government backed individualized instruction, its plan is paying off.
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| Is your IT organizational chart as old as your first PC? If you’re investing in technology, it’s time to rethink how IT is organized.
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Making the Most of IT Volunteers
By divvying technology implementations into small pilots, schools can get a clear idea of costs and benefits.
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