Posted in Computers and Software on Nov 28th, 2001 No Comments »
© 2001 Scott James sjames@ssd.k12.mo.us Yesterday I walked in a long line with a group of 200 people. Each of us stopped at an attendant and took what we were given with little or no question. We were led into a series of rooms with soft lighting and guards. Each person was then lost in [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Nov 28th, 2001 3 Comments »
© 2001 Scott James sjames@ssd.k12.mo.us You are a teacher and you want to transfer information from you head to theirs. But there are a lot of distractions crying for their attention: the social scene at school, the latest video game craze, and the list goes on and on. Of course there’s the kids themselves with [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2001 No Comments »
© 2001 Heather Dunbar heatherdunbar@juno.com I have a visual processing disorder, my eyes don’t track well, sometimes I reverse letters- especially when stressed, get eye strain and lack stamina for paperwork. My handwriting is reliably inconsistent, always funky and sometimes illegible. I “faked” my way through elementary school, Jr. High and HS on my glibness, [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Nov 13th, 2001 No Comments »
© 2001 Michael G. Ahrens cjahrens@xtra.co.nz Michael G. Ahrens is a parent, teacher, researcher, writer, and program developer associated with www.mylittlesteps.com, an online parenting tool. A good friend, a first time mom, raised an interesting point. Parents, when comparing children, often see one child being able to do something that their own child (of a [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Nov 13th, 2001 2 Comments »
© 2001 Michael G. Ahrens cjahrens@xtra.co.nz Michael G. Ahrens is a parent, teacher, researcher, writer, and program developer associated with www.mylittlesteps.com an online parenting tool. The need for exposure of young children to educational experiences from birth is no longer a controversial subject. The consensus by various researchers and educators has caught up with the [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 2001 5 Comments »
© 2001 Gary Sharp Director of the North Bend Public Library North Bend, Oregon Most public libraries today offer computer access for word processing and Internet searching. This computer access usually takes the form of one or more desktop computers in a fixed place in the library. The computers can’t be taken out into the [...]