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news trends Print vs. Digital Media: Which Do Schools Use More? The 2008 release of ''Ed Tech from the Trenches: Shifting Media and Materials Use in K–12 Education," authored by industry expert Sari Follansbee and published by Marketing Projects, Inc., 2008, shows a continuing diversification of educational media and materials and the increase of Internet use for teaching and learning over the next two years. The report highlights findings from two annual online surveys of more than 1,600 K-12 teachers, technology coordinators, media specialists, and administrators nationwide. The chart matches similar types of print and digital products. The first three resources are core curriculum, the second three supplemental materials, the following pair intervention, and the last three are reference High Use of Print and Digital Instructional 75% 64% 56% 44% 50% 32% 39% 62% Print Digital 89% 51% 55% Print textbooks Digital Comp textbooks courseware Print worksheets Skills practice software Online curriculum activities Print Digital intervention intervention Print reference Web resource subscript Internet reference CASH IN COUPONS FOR TECH DOLLARS If bake sales aren’t raising enough money for your school’s extra tech, consider a coupon-based fundraising program. Take the Vicksburg Middle School in Kalamazoo, MI, which raised over $10,000 to install projectors and classroom performance systems from eInstruction using the Enjoy the City (www.enjoythecity.com) coupon book fundraiser to raise the cash. Enjoy the City creates a custom coupon book for a certain city (over 130 currently), featuring coupons from a mix of local businesses and national chains. Once the coupon book is created, school groups sign up through a local Enjoy the City representative, set a fundraising goal, and start selling. The school groups don’t pay for the coupon books in advance, and all participating school groups are guaranteed between $500 and $5,000 (depending on the number of students) regardless of the number of books sold. This can add up to big bucks for school districts like Jefferson and Shelby County Schools in Alabama, which raise over $400,000 in three weeks each year. That’s a lot of brownies. Sites We Like: www.beaconstreetgirls.com The Beacon Street Girls’ Club offers a monitored social networking site for those tween girls caught between Webkinz and Facebook. Girls ages 9-13 get online “lockers” where they can chat with other BSG members. 16 | TECH & LEARNING http://www.beaconstreetgirls.com http://www.enjoythecity.com

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Tech & Learning - August 2008 Contents Editor's Desk News & Trends Q&A: Scratch That Best of NECC 2008 How to Build Better ePortfolios Focus on Digital Cameras Leader of the Year

Tech & Learning - August 2008

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