Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Technology News for Today's K-20 Educator


From eSchool News:
History
eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. First published in March of 1998, eSchool News is a monthly print and digital newspaper providing the news and information necessary to help K-20 decision-makers successfully use technology and the internet to transform North America’s schools and colleges and achieve their educational goals. The newspaper is read by more than 300,000 school leaders, and a companion web site—eSchool News Online (http://www.eschoolnews.com ) is visited by more than 500,000 unique visitors each month, including over 250,000 registered members.

Zotero: Great Research Tool

From CNET:
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself.
Features include: automatic capture of citation information from Web pages; storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole Web pages; flexible notetaking with autosave, fast, as-you-type search through your materials; and playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags.


Give it a try.  Go to http://www.zotero.org/