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Fox, Christine; Cougan, Monica; Little, Rachel – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2017
Providing access to robust connectivity is critical to ensuring today's students are college and career ready. As such, federal, state, and district-level leaders have dedicated a significant amount of time, effort, and resources toward improving our schools' external broadband access, including both Internet access and wide area network (WAN).…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Networks, Educational Planning, Telecommunications
Dessoff, Alan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Under pressure to keep spending down but also keep pace with rapid technology changes, many districts are future-proofing their schools--trying to get the most out of tech spending by providing solutions they can use now and in the future without major, expensive infrastructure overhauls. In the Folsom Cordova (California) Unified School District,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Planning, Educational Technology, Strategic Planning
Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2010
A parent walking into a classroom in a Minnesota public school today will be presented with a different learning environment compared to that of 20 years ago. Gone are filmstrips and movie projectors and in their place are computer screens. Today's classroom is a heavy user of digital media, and much of that is accessed via the Internet. It is…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Uses in Education, School Districts, Consortia
Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Cummins, M.; Estrada, V.; Meira, A. – New Media Consortium, 2012
This report reflects a collaborative research effort to help inform Brazilian educational leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in primary and secondary education. In an effort that ran from August through October 2012, a carefully selected group of 30 experts considered hundreds…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Dessoff, Alan – District Administration, 2010
Under pressure to keep spending down but also keep pace with rapid technology changes, many districts are future-proofing their schools--trying to get the most out of their tech spending by providing solutions they will be able to use now and in the future without major, expensive infrastructure overhauls. The idea is growing in popularity across…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Technological Advancement, Adjustment (to Environment)
Hammond, Edward; Hall, John – American School & University, 1998
Examines the need for power reliability when educational facilities incorporate communications infrastructures. Telecommunications equipment placement and environmental conditions are addressed, as are the integrating of cable trays and conduit systems, developing surge-suppression, and building grounding systems. (GR)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Telecommunications
O'Donovan, Eamonn – Technology & Learning, 2000
Provides an overview of school networking options and explores what speedier broadband technologies mean for education. Topics include Ethernet; wireless options for connection to the Internet; local area networks; wide area networks; phone lines; satellite access; cable modems; digital subscriber line (DSL); and funding networks through the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet
Jackson, Michael E. – School Business Affairs, 1994
The Internet, a network of computer networks, is leading the way to the information superhighway. Explains the basic features and various ways to get hooked up to the Internet. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Retrieval
Wodarz, Nan – School Business Affairs, 2001
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently approved a high-speed wireless standard that enables devices from different manufacturers to communicate through a common backbone, making wireless local area networks more feasible in schools. Schools can now use wireless access points and network cards to provide flexible…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Area Networks, School Buildings
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1998
This document contains the enrollment application form and line-by-line instructions for subscribing to LincOn, a statewide network, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education, that allows public K-12 schools to access the Internet. An overview of LincOn and a checklist for implementing LincOn membership are also included. Appendices…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks
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Coburn, Dawn; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1995
Profiles computer usage at Tapawarea Area School, a small, rural, pre-K-12 school in New Zealand. A guided tour finds 14-year olds writing stories at individual terminals, several students participating in distance learning, older students teaching younger ones in forms 6 and 7, and a social studies class communicating with another school. (MLH)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lewis, Joan D. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
This guide to the Internet for educators and parents of gifted children covers e-mail, talk, listservs, news groups, bulletin boards, Telnet, Gopher, World Wide Web, Mosaic, Netscape, file transfer protocol, and WAIS (Wide Area Information Service). Examples of sites for educators are included throughout the article. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Discussion Groups, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
American School Board Journal, 1997
This special section contains dispatches from the school technology frontier and four feature articles. Lars Kongshem shows how a rural Virginia community connects citizens and schools. Donna Harrington-Lueker describes a North Carolina "virtual high school." Richard J. Coley summarizes a study on school technology effectiveness.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Pawloski, Bob – Educational Leadership, 1994
A Nebraska consultant/former teacher explains his role in developing Internet accounts for teachers while working on a wetlands distance-learning project and an arts-education consortium. He explains ARTnet and other Internet services, including Telnet, FTP (file transfer protocol), the Gopher retrieval system, NetNews, and Listservs. Sidebars…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Consultants, Distance Education, Electronic Mail
Coyle, Larry; Spitzer, Kathleen L. – Educational Technology, 1992
Three articles discuss (1) the numbers of microcomputers installed in elementary and secondary schools; (2) a distance education project in the Minnesota Extension Service that used a satellite delivery system and integrated it with a computer information network; and (3) the use of facsimile machines for library services. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Facsimile Transmission
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