Established in 1994, the Hong Kong Institute of Education HKIEd is a leading provider of teacher education in Hong Kong. HKIEd is diversifying its mix of courses to allow students to acquire nonteacher training credentials, such as an International Executive Master of Arts in Education Leadership and Change. They are...
Regular readers will know that I'm a pretty big tree hugger. I'm not quite as militant as my wife, but anywhere I can use technology to eliminate the use of paper, conserve resources, or otherwise migrate educational "stuff" whatever that might be online, I'm there. Thus,...
With over 120,000 members, University and College Union UCU is the UK's largest trade union for staff working in further and higher education. UCU was formed in 2006 by the merging of the Association of University Teachers AUT with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education NATFHE....
Ask passionate Maple users why they are so passionate, and you will hear a variety of reasons. Mathematicians will say they depend on the strength of Maple algorithms for their research. Teachers will say they love the math graphics and Maple�¯�¿�½s built-in functions for education. But one reason seems to...
New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
For what I spend on toner every year, I could buy quite a few Eees. I could, in fact, think of countless ways to spend that money. I could buy textbooks, athletic supplies, art supplies, RAM upgrades, ergonomic furniture, you name it. What's actually more disturbing is...
Payroll problems on the Los Angeles Unified School District's LAUSD SAP implementation have been ongoing since February and continue to the present. This troubled project vividly illustrates how implementation failures can affect real people, in this case teachers who've suffered for months with incorrect paychecks. The obvious...
Severe payroll problems arising directly from the Los Angeles Unifed School District's LAUSD SAP implementation continue unabated. Back in June, payroll problems had reached a boiling point, with the school union threatening boycotts and a lawsuit. According to eWeek, the situation has not improved: The situation...
Over 300 highly interactive topics, use with any existing textbook, insert your own values and explore their effects, shows calculations, plots graphs, full colour graphics redrawn to scale for every change, explanatory text, step through topics, even makes revision enjoyable. Plus full colour printing showing your own chosen values, copy...
The Intel Education Initiative seeks to form a trusted partnership with ministries of education in countries across the world to support educational reform by integrating technology into project-based learning environments. As part of the partnership, Intel also offers a portfolio of teacher professional development programs. The Intel Education Initiative has...
This is an application designed for primary and secondary school classroom teachers who like to go beyond book content. It enables the creation of class notes for overhead projection, flashcards for distribution, and paper tests for printing without the hassle of continuous formatting. Tests can be composed of matching, multiple...
Music Teacher's Secretary helps music teachers to organize and run their businesses. All student details, progress reports, attendance, lesson and payment details are stored in a database. Income can be calculated between any two dates making tax time a breeze. Overdue accounts are revealed at the press of a...
Music Teachers use this program to manage all aspects of running a music teaching business. Features include invoicing, printing invoices, scheduling, student details, reports, and income calculation. Music Teacher's Secretary stores all student details, progress reports, attendance history, lesson and payment details in a database. The program actually consists of...
FormIDEA Teacher's Special Edition TSE is specially designed for teachers and educators to process test forms (multiple-choice answer sheets) using Excel. It combines the intelligent imaging technology with the power of Excel to deliver automatic and cost-effective test scoring and analyzing solutions to your desktop. Unlike traditional technology of using...
Perfect Score is a simple yet powerful teacher grade book program for Mac OS X. Perfect Score provides all the essentials of a gradebook, including a seating chart with student image support to help the occassional substitute teacher, a color coded attendance chart, and a score table. In addition, Perfect...
A 36% decrease is considered slightly?[i]On Average, the stores were selling 8.3 Macs per hour, down from 13 on Black Friday last year according to similar checks we performed.[/i]I'd consider that significant not slight.Wait for a real report.Wow! Ambiguous reporting based on some guys going to am Apple Store and...
Obama and Ed TechNice one Chris...Handing out an Acer Aspire One connected to Wi-Fi broadband to every child is not going to solve education problems. What about inept teachers? What about poorly designed curriculums? The problem with you Chris is that you think your current fad is the ubiqutious solution...
The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
Are Macs more blue than red?I hear Rush Limbaugh is a Mac-head.Which supports the theory PCers have that Mac users are arrogant and obnoxious.RE: Are Macs more blue than red?Yes, but not because of politics. The states where the finest universities in the world are are blue states.The level...
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