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Ann Marie Cotman; F. Chris Curran; Katharine Harris-Walls – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
Choices made on data visualizations guide how users make meaning of the information presented. This research investigates design decisions made on 115 state-level dashboards reporting school safety data. Using pre-determined codes drawn from a framework of visualization rhetoric, dashboard characteristics were described and analyzed. Analysis…
Descriptors: School Safety, Data, Visual Aids, State Agencies
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Sherry, Michael B. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2014
Teacher candidates have few opportunities during their teacher preparation coursework to investigate practices associated with eliciting and responding to student writing. This article describes an attempt to address this problem with a searchable online digital archive of student writing, with and without teachers' written feedback, as well…
Descriptors: Student Writing Models, Database Design, Search Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
National Public Telecomputing Network, Cleveland, OH. – 1994
This report describes the National Public Telecomputing Network's (NPTN) development of free, public-access, community computer systems throughout the United States. It also provides information on how to initiate a "Free-Net" through the Rural Information Network. Free-Nets are multi-user systems with some of the power and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Davis, Tiffany; Yoo, Seong-Moo; Pan, Wendi – T.H.E. Journal, 2005
The Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX; www.alex.state.al.us) is a network-based education system designed and implemented to help improve education in Alabama. It accomplishes this goal by providing a single location for the state's K-12 educators to find information that will help improve their classroom effectiveness. The ALEX system includes…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Resources, Internet, Web Sites
Tu, Jho-Ju; Babione, Carolyn; Chen, Hsin-Chu – 1998
The Teachers College at Emporia State University in Kansas is now utilizing World Wide Web technology for automating the application procedure for student teaching. The general concepts and some of the key terms that are important for understanding the process involved in this project include: a client-server model, HyperText Markup Language,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Design Requirements
Schienbein, Ralph – 1999
This report examines subsections of the computer network topology that relate to end-to-end performance and capacity planning in schools. Active star topology, Category 5 wiring, Ethernet, and intelligent devices are assumed. The report describes a model that can be used to project WAN (wide area network) connection speeds based on user traffic,…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
Northwest Educational Technology Consortium, Portland, OR. – 1997
This CD-ROM provides a way to become aware of and understand the many issues involved in planning, implementing, and using networks in K-12 schools. It is designed to serve both as a basic resource and as a pointer to other resources, and is useful for school board members, superintendents, administrators, teachers, technology coordinators,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs
Aust, Ronald; Klayder, Jim – 1991
The Unified Network of Informatics in Teacher Education (UNITE) is intended to establish a cooperative environment for exchanging ideas and computing resources among school administrators, teachers, interns (student teachers), and teacher educators who are separated by physical distances. A primary objective of the initial phase was to investigate…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design
Nelson, Arvid – Technological Horizons in Education, 1989
Investigates Project CANS (Computer-Assisted Network Systems), a program to develop computer-assisted instruction, computer-managed instruction and computer-managed classroom activities in Cook County, Illinois. Discusses the operation of the program since 1984. Provides a description of the equipment available to each classroom and building. (MVL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Peripherals
McClure, Charles R.; And Others – 1991
This book provides an overview and status report on the progress made in developing the National Research and Education Network (NREN) as of early 1991. It reports on a number of investigations that provide a research and policy perspective on the NREN and computer-mediated communication (CMC), and brings together key source documents that have…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education
Odasz, Frank – 1994
This paper discusses the market for rapidly expanding information technology and the benefits of developing community computer networks. Accessible low-cost community networks allow rural communities to provide specific training and educational opportunities tailored to their needs. However, communities must assess the value of connectivity…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Programs, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
EDUCAUSE, Washington, DC. – 1999
This proceedings of the 1999 EDUCAUSE Conference contains papers presented in six tracks: Building the New Information Technology Foundation and Infrastructure; Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning; Renewing Administrative Services; Outreach, Public Service, and New Communities; Advancing the Leading Edge; and the EDUCAUSE Track. Topics of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education