Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

What Would Wittgenstein Do?

A moral commuter wants to know whether it is ethical to get off and on the expressway multiple times — to save time — even if he will thus be adding to congestion in merging lanes. A physician needs guidance on how to handle a pregnant woman with asthma who may be making decisions that […]

PBS TeacherSource

PBS showcases the work of hundreds of diverse producers and local PBS stations, who in turn tap the creative minds of top thinkers from around the world to create education’s best content.Read the Full Story

KOCE-TV’s Popular “Help Me Grow” Series Goes Bilingual With Dual Spanish Broadcast Friday, Sept. 5

IRVINE, Calif.–(HISPANIC PR WIRE – BUSINESS WIRE)–August 21, 2003–Parents who missed any of the original segments of the popular weekly KOCE-TV series “Help Me Grow” will be able to catch the show again beginning Friday, Sept. 5 (12 p.m. PT), with a special dual broadcast for the first time in both English and Spanish. The […]

PSU offers new online homeland security programs

Just weeks after announcing the development of a Homeland Security in Public Health Preparedness degree, two new similar graduate certificates will soon be available, officials announced yesterday.Read the Full Story

Rapid Intake Releases New Rapid eLearning Development Tool: Flash Companion eLearning Studio 2005

Rapid Intake Inc. (rapidintake.com), publishers of the eLearning Developer Series line of books, has released Flash Companion eLearning Studio 2005, a new rapid e-learning development tool based on Flash and XML.Read the Full Story

Satellite Broadcast –Public Health Preparedness: Pandemic Influenza

Thursday, Obtober 6, 2005Read the Full Story

Northwest Educational Technology Consortium

About NETCThe Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC) has been providing services and products in the Northwest since 1995. The consortium is made up of the state education agencies from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Oregon. NETC is one of the network of 10 Regional Technology in […]

‘Intelligent’ tools lead to smarter searches

Is your search engine getting smarter? Thanks to an emerging concept known as “intelligent searching,” teachers and students soon might have at their disposal a variety of online tools designed to help them more effectively navigate the vast amount of information on the internet.Read the Full Story

“NEW” K-12 Distance Learning Resource

Digital Bridges, a project of the Northwest Educational Technology Consortium at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Oregon is a resource about “Connections for K-12 Teaching & Learning Over Distance.” The Project began in 1998 with information about Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC).The “new” site has been updated to include extensive information about online education for […]

Yahoo Works With 2 Academic Libraries and Other Archives on Project to Digitize Collections

Another search engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on a project that could potentially bring the complete texts of millions of volumes […]