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NSN Around the Nation rounds up stories from news organizations and education journals with an eye to how schools and their communities are using telecommunications and an ear to the surrounding debate. Around the NSN offers up the latest information on NSN projects. And Taking Note provides pointers on events, grants, and other useful information.

NSN Monthly Newsletter
Partners report on work in progress, opportunities for educators, and current information on the NSN. We need your contributions. To submit an article, send email to: tb2news@nsn.musenet.org. Please make "Article Submission" the subject.




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Summer '98

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TAKING NOTE


3rd Intern'l Conference on Learning Sciences
EdNet Conference and Industry Awards

AROUND THE NATION

Do Computers Have to be Hard to Use?
Computers perform amazing feats. Yet, as anyone who has spent an afternoon trying to install a sound card can attest, computers can try the patience of even the most forbearing of owners. (NYT- Cybertimes)

Classroom Technology: A View from the Trenches
Technological developments continue to outstrip our capability to absorb them; it's time to assesswhether the glitziest gizmo is really in our best interest. read on.(Educom Review)

Finding the Right Internet-based Learning Project
Educators need their own classroom technology integration plan that is different from their district or school plan. (NetTeach News)

AROUND THE NSN

Realizing technology's potential
With funding from state programs, a rural community in upstate New York takes steps to implement the necessary technical infrastructure and professional development programs to improve instruction.

Innovation in a rural community
How does an entrepreneurial parent raise the funds to establish technology infrastructure in a small rural Massachusetts community?

National School Network Lessons Learned
Looking at the NSN's "Lessons Learned" for materials that substantiate the changes that have taken place in use of the Internet in schools or information on the value of the Internet.

NCREL Report
A report from NCREL details the indicators that educators and policy makers can use to measure the effectiveness of technology in learning.

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