One-stop shopping with learning management systems: virtual course delivery is only one of many options afforded by an LMS, which allows educators to transfer online a host of educational and administrative tasks.
ASK BERT ROSS of the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) what the district's course learning management system can do, and he'll ask you what can't it do--for students, parents, and educators. Need to take a course online due to a scheduling conflict? No problem. Want to see what...

Teaching with technology; an academic librarian's guide.
9781843341727 Teaching with technology; an academic librarian's guide. Ed. by Joe M. Williams and Susan P. Goodwin. Chandos Publishing 2007 157 pages $49.95 Paperback Z675 Williams (learning commons, North Carolina State...

Web 2.0 for librarians and information professionals.
9781555706142 Web 2.0 for librarians and information professionals. Kroski, Ellyssa. Neal-Schuman 2008 209 pages $75.00 Paperback Z674 Kroski (Columbia U.) has written this book for librarians who are curious about Web...

Lights ... camera ... PD! As the online delivery of technology training expands, weekly live web shows are being used to demonstrate to teachers how to apply the latest tools.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT face-to-face technology training for teachers is going the way of the mimeograph machine? Not so fast. The classroom environment will probably never grow obsolete, but online forms of professional development are making inroads. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] So-called "blended" forms of training--in which...

Wizzard Media Teams and Fishman Productions Ink Distribution Deal.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-20 April 2008-Wizzard Media Teams and Fishman Productions Ink Distribution Deal(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Wizzard Media, a podcasting network, announced that they have entered into a content distribution partnership with Fishman Productions to distribute film and television projects through Wizzard's digital syndication network. ...

Creating technology literate educators.
NOAH TONK'S TWELFTH-GRADE English classroom at Cienega High School in Vail, Ariz., is a prime example of what 21st-century teaching can achieve. Tonk uses ProfCast (www.profcast.com) to sync recorded lecture audio with PowerPoint or Keynote slides, turning them into QuickTime movies for podcasting, and then publishes them to the...

A Dynamic LearnSpace.
JEFF MAO, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY coordinator for the state of Maine, has made a safe, educationally collaborative online place called Studywiz Spark by Etech available to students, teachers and parents. "No longer do our teachers need to patch together 21st-century online technology solutions--they are able to incorporate RSS (Really Simple...

Morals and machines.
Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book about Technology and Ethics, by Mary Ann Bell, Bobby Ezell and James L. Van Roekel. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2007. 187 pp. US$22.95 soft cover ISBN 13:9780789029546 Cybersins and digital good deeds is a very short, popular encyclopaedia defining...

Live, from your cell phone! Web 2.0 technologies bring new power to school districts.
I RECENTLY REVIEWED AN AMAZING ONLINE TECHNOLOGY ON QIK.com (pronounced "quick") that allows users to stream live video from cell phones directly to the Internet. The site presents hundreds of experimental film clips from across the world, including multiple examples filmed by participants in the last Web 2.0 Expo...

Travel Business News - North America.
Apr 28, 2008 The Airline Reporting Corporationis (ARC) first fraud prevention workshop was held during the Sabre TRAMS, Inc. Travel Marketing University conference in Las Vegas this week. In an interview with Dottie Hogan, ARCis director of risk management, Travel Agent learned that fraud, including ticketing scams,...