Short on Books, Texas School Uses Laptops

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Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops (AP)

Short on Books, Texas School Uses
Laptops (AP) 04/27/2004 10:18 AM
AP - Every fifth- and sixth-grader at Johnson Elementary will receive a $1,350 IBM ThinkPad computer loaded with digital versions of state-approved textbooks and 2,000 works of literature. If the experiment works, the program will be expanded to other grades.

Yahoo! News - Short on Books, Texas
School Uses Laptops

Yahoo! News - Short on Books, Texas
School Uses Laptops 04/28/2004 07:36 AM
DALLAS - Every fifth- and sixth-grader at Johnson Elementary will receive a $1,350 IBM ThinkPad computer loaded with digital versions of state-approved textbooks and 2,000 works of literature .. Yahoo

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"The New York Review of Books: The Wars
of the Texas Successio..."

"The New York Review of Books: The Wars
of the Texas Successio..." 02/10/2004 09:18 AM

The New York Review of Books: The Wars
of the Texas Succession

The New York Review of Books: The Wars
of the Texas Succession 02/12/2004 04:22 AM
"The Wars of the Texas Succession" by Paul Krugman .. krugman reviews suskind and phillips in the nyrb .. He even starts by adding a new story .. New York Review of Books .. have at it .. Krugman

nybooks.com/articles/16911
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School Laptops Win Hearts And Minds

School Laptops Win Hearts And Minds 02/01/2005 09:36 PM

A five-year, $1.75 million Apples-for-everyone deal met resistance but now is embraced. By Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press

School Board OKs Laptops Extension

School Board OKs Laptops Extension 06/17/2005 03:36 PM

At Monday night's meeting school board members gave their approval to a four-year lease-purchase agreement with Apple through which the district will be acquiring the laptops for the freshmen and sophomores. By Steve Smith, El Dorado Times

"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print"

"Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print" 05/10/2004 03:11 AM

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories -
Read Print 05/07/2004 07:11 PM
Read Print, a collection of public domain books, poems, and short stories .. ReadPrint

readprint.com
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Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School

Apple Laptops Could Revolutionaize High
School 07/01/2004 03:53 AM
By Scott Kleinberg, Pittsburg Tribune-Review (via MyAppleMenu)

School Systems Unsure About Funding
Laptops

School Systems Unsure About Funding
Laptops 06/26/2004 11:05 AM
While officials in some central Maine districts have indicated they are making a commitment to bring laptops to their high schools, others are hesitant to spend perhaps $300 per computer for each incoming freshman. By Keith Edwards, Morning Sentinel (via MyAppleMenu)

Students Investigate Laptops For High
School

Students Investigate Laptops For High
School 02/12/2004 11:29 AM
A group of Mt. Abram students is dedicated to improving their school through taking advantage of the benefits provided by laptop computers. By Barry Matulaitis (Irregular via MyAppleMenu)

Gov. Benson Delivers Paul School Laptops

Gov. Benson Delivers Paul School Laptops 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Seventh grade students at Paul School had an interesting morning Tuesday, one that will make the rest of their school year interesting as well. By Ann McClure (Granite State News via MyAppleMenu)

HF-Lima Rethinks Use Of Middle-School
Laptops

HF-Lima Rethinks Use Of Middle-School
Laptops 08/05/2004 06:05 PM
The Honeoye Falls-Lima school board is trying to figure out what to do about the middle school laptop computer project that was launched in February with a focus on use at school and at home. By Dolores Orman, Democrat And Chronicle (via MyAppleMenu)

Bladacci Urges Maine School Districts To
Rent Laptops

Bladacci Urges Maine School Districts To
Rent Laptops 07/01/2004 03:53 AM
By Victoria Wallack, Statehouse News Service (via MyAppleMenu)

Midway Through School Year, Laptops Get
High Marks In Survey

Midway Through School Year, Laptops Get
High Marks In Survey 03/14/2003 12:58 PM
By an overwhelming margin, seventh-graders who received laptop computers last fall say the laptops have made schoolwork more fun. Teachers also give the laptops high marks, saying the computers enhanced learning by providing students with access to more extensive, up-to-date information. (Associated Press via MyAppleMenu)

Texas school districts to get iBooks

Texas school districts to get iBooks 06/27/2004 05:42 PM
Floydada ISD is one of six school districts in Texas that will benefit from a technology immersion pilot grant that will include Apple iBooks...

Sixth-Grade Class, Faculty At Vestavia
Hills School Getting Laptops

Sixth-Grade Class, Faculty At Vestavia
Hills School Getting Laptops 07/22/2004 11:14 PM
A class of sixth-graders and faculty at Cahaba Heights Community School apparently will be the first in Alabama with laptop computers assigned to each of them. By Associated Press (via MyAppleMenu)

Tablet PCs replace books in Crescent
Girls' School

Tablet PCs replace books in Crescent
Girls' School 07/31/2004 08:40 AM
Straits Times Jul 31 2004 1:31PM GMT

Texas High School Football Coach Shot
(AP)

Texas High School Football Coach Shot
(AP) 04/07/2005 12:37 PM
AP - A father with a hit list shot the football coach at his son's school Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, state officials said.

Texas School Nixes Marijuana-Laced
Treats (AP)

Texas School Nixes Marijuana-Laced
Treats (AP) 04/30/2004 10:49 AM
AP - Sharyland school officials have taken the buzz out of sharing home-baked snacks with classmates.

Reactionary school-boards' block-buy
eliminates sex from text-books

Reactionary school-boards' block-buy
eliminates sex from text-books 03/26/2005 05:13 AM
Cory Doctorow: Southern school board buy their textbooks in a block, lead by the purchase decisions of Texas's board. "Liberal" school boards make individual purchase decisions. That means that reactionary anti-sex-ed and anti-evolution agendas dominate the editorial decisions at textbook publishers, which has led to the elimination sex-ed from every current health text in America and will shortly do in evolution as well.

There is a substantial buying bloc--namely, school boards in southern states--that follows suit with whatever the state school board of Texas does. These states buy textbooks uniformly, statewide. Most "blue states" buy district to district, so there is no unified bloc per se to counterbalance the southern states where points of politics are concerned. So this bloc of southern school boards has an unrivalled power to influence the choices of the major textbook publishers in the country--of which there are only like four, anyhow. Basically, they don't publish anything the school board of Texas doesn't buy.

You can see where this headed, but it's already shockingly total. Right now, a sex ed textbook that isn't "abstinence only" cannot be bought in the United States. Not a current one, not from any major publisher. There are inroads against evolution as well, but sex ed has basically been exterminated.

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Soldiers in Iraq see Central Texas high
school graduations via satellite,
Internet

Soldiers in Iraq see Central Texas high
school graduations via satellite,
Internet 05/29/2004 10:33 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 30 2004 2:31AM GMT

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87

The New York Times > Books > Will
Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies
at 87 01/05/2005 04:28 PM
this one by Sarah Boxer

nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html
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Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program

Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program 09/15/2004 02:00 AM
Attributes great team work and flawless execution to its 416 Percent Revenue Growth. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages

The New York Times > Books >
Books of The Times: The Pastiche of a
Presidency,Imitating a Life, in 957
Pages 06/20/2004 03:35 AM
NYT BRUTAL BOOK REVIEW FOR BUBBA .. As you can see here .. review

nytimes.com/2004/06/20/books/20CLIN.html?ei=5006&en=b1de08dbc 243a997&ex=1088308800&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print&position=
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"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." "

"A high school student in Las Vegas was
transferred to a new school because of
an online journal in which he wrote,
"Kill Alaina." " 11/12/2003 02:57 PM

Short Men with Short Dreams

Short Men with Short Dreams 03/14/2005 05:39 PM
This will just be a quickie. New iPod photos and iPod minis were released today. Cheaper, bigger, whatever. The thing...

Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books.

Hey, Your Library's Books Are in My
Google. No, Your Google Is in My Library
Books. 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

So the big< /a> news is about Google and libraries. I don't feel the need to comment on this right now, as you can find plenty of other places for that. However, here are a few angles I haven't seen discussed elsewhere in the library blogosphere.

• Librari es and the Internet
  
  "More broadly, the Internet can profoundly improve the relationship between libraries and society. For example, there are two major libraries in my town -- a college library, and a public library. My library card works in both places. I used to favor the college library, because there was open WiFi access there -- which meant, among other things, that I could use LibraryLookup from my laptop to find books in the stacks. Recently, though, the college shut down its open access point. And from an IT administrator's point of view, I can understand why. Not long after, the public library installed an open access point. So now it's my favorite spot, and lately I notice other mobile professionals congregating there too." [Jon Udell's Weblog
  (Click over to read Jon's story about getting locked in the library, too!)


• "A quick calculation using the figures above suggests an average scan rate of 3200 volumes per day (assuming 365 days/year for 6 years) at the University of Michigan site alone." [Tito Sierra on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]


• "An even quicker calculation shows that they will need to digitize 2.25 books _a_minute_, 24 hours/day, 365 days/year to digitize 7 million volumes in six years." [Roy Tennant on the WEB4 LIB mailing list]

It's times like this when I wish Karen Coyle had< /a> a blog.

Wharton School Team Wins University of
San Francisco 2004 International
Business Plan Competition - MicroMRI of
the Wharton School Takes Home Pacific
Specialty Insurance $10,000 Grand Prize.
See Complete Results of the USF
Entrepreneur Contest at
http://www.BusinessPlanCompetition.org

Wharton School Team Wins University of
San Francisco 2004 International
Business Plan Competition - MicroMRI of
the Wharton School Takes Home Pacific
Specialty Insurance $10,000 Grand Prize.
See Complete Results of the USF
Entrepreneur Contest at
http://www.BusinessPlanCompetition.org 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
The University of San Francisco 2004 International Business Plan Competition is one of the most competitive events of its kind, with over 150 graduate student entrepreneur team applications from 100 universities in 18 countries around the world. A Wharton School Team, MicroMRI, took first place, with a team from the Univ. of Georgia, ThruSkin Technologies, coming in second. Please find complete results at http://www.BusinessPlanCompetition.org. [PRWEB May 14, 2004]

Advice On A New-School Old-School BBS

Advice On A New-School Old-School BBS 06/14/2004 09:31 PM

Laptops for all

Laptops for all 07/23/2004 02:35 AM
USA Today Jul 23 2004 6:26AM GMT

ForceWare 62.01 & 61.72 for Laptops

ForceWare 62.01 & 61.72 for Laptops 07/14/2004 04:55 AM

ForceWare 61.11 for Laptops

ForceWare 61.11 for Laptops 05/05/2004 08:11 AM

Loser Laptops

Loser Laptops 08/05/2004 01:35 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Wed Aug 4, 09:23 pm GMT

The skinny on laptops

The skinny on laptops 08/08/2004 08:46 AM
Chicago Tribune Aug 8 2004 12:15PM GMT

ForceWare 62.20 for Laptops

ForceWare 62.20 for Laptops 07/25/2004 05:34 PM

ForceWare 56.77, 56.87, 61.32, 61.40 for
all Laptops

ForceWare 56.77, 56.87, 61.32, 61.40 for
all Laptops 06/13/2004 07:27 AM

ForceWare 62.11 & 61.76 for Laptops

ForceWare 62.11 & 61.76 for Laptops 07/17/2004 11:34 AM

Laptops beyond grade 8? Maybe...

Laptops beyond grade 8? Maybe... 05/05/2004 11:57 PM

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