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Local maps, letters, artifacts from across Texas, lesson plans, current field trips to exotic and educationally appropriate places, video, audio, pictures–all are just some of the things that are being digitized, organized, and displayed for public use by universities, museums, Libraries, etc… all over Texas.
New resources since my previous post include:
Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) [...]
Interesting thoughts, rumors, remembered statements…:
Maybe there are 80 billion web pages.
Probably 10 % of the web pages are “harmful to students” [i.e. pornography].
The best web filters set at the most restrictive setting only block 92% of what needs to be blocked while blocking 25% of what should not be blocked.
When the filter is set at [...]
I have written about how I think a technology rollout should occur. I suggested that there are two key components to a successful technology rollout: 1) let Librarians have the technology first to demonstrate its use in such a way that all teachers see it in use; 2) give first the technology to those who [...]
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