-----Original Message----- From: thenews@thejournal.com [mailto:thenews@thejournal.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:02 PM To: psa1@ra.msstate.edu Subject: T.H.E. Newsletter for October 10 2001 The T.H.E. Newsletter is a supplement to the T.H.E. Journal magazine. It provides additional information and features to our premier monthly magazine. Your email address has not been given to any Third Parties. You have been selected to receive this e-mail because you are a subscriber to T.H.E. Journal. **************************************************************************** ******* This week's newsletter is sponsored by Aladdin: eSafe® by Aladdin keeps you in compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act and blocks inappropriate content. For more information, or to register to receive our Safe Internet Connectivity white paper, visit: http://www.thejournal.com/proc/logclick.cfm?adid=203&page=/theemailtop **************************************************************************** ******* T.H.E. Newsletter October 10, 2001 --------------------------- This Week's Features: --------------------------- Yahoo! Presents Top Wired Colleges MEC Wants Your Presentations Education Management Company Gains Canadian Foothold The FundingFactory, ERS Imaging Part Ways College Newspapers Go Online www.ikidsclub.com www.planetpals.com Conference Corner --------------------------- Noteworthy News --------------------------- Yahoo! Presents Top Wired Colleges With a "Wiredness Quotient" of 94.69, Carnegie Mellon University once again beat out 1,300 other colleges and universities in Yahoo! Internet Life's fifth annual Most Wired Colleges survey, which recently hit the newsstands and the Web. The list is available under the Y-Life in Print section of the site at http://www.yil.com. Despite being located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University ranked second with a WQ of 92.02 in this year's survey. CMU also beat out venerable MIT, which ranked fifth with a total WQ of 91.87. Georgia Institute of Technology and Dartmouth University rounded out the survey's top five. Yahoo! Internet Life and Peterson's Thomson Learning, a provider of educational content, conducted extensive research on 1,300 colleges and universities to examine how institutions of higher learning have incorporated network technologies into campus life. A school's Wiredness Quotient, an overall measure of a school's technology resources, was determined by weighing computing power, integration of the Internet into curriculum and classrooms, availability of technological support for students and other factors. ---- MEC Wants Your Presentations The 22nd Annual Microcomputers in Education Conference (MEC) to be held March 11-13, 2002, at Arizona State University has issued a call for presenters. K-12 through university level instructors and researchers may submit presentation proposals for the following program tracks: professional development, technology integration/curriculum development, infrastructure development, community partnerships, distance learning, leading into tomorrow, adaptive technologies, administrative development and showcase. Sessions will last 60 minutes and should be in one of the following formats: presentations, how-to workshops or poster sessions. The deadline to submit proposals is Nov. 15. For more information, visit the conference Web site at http://mec.asu.edu. ---- Education Management Co. Gains Canadian Foothold In its capacity as a court-appointed receiver, Education Management Co. will purchase $3.2 million worth of certain assets of Halifax, Nova Scotia-based ITI Education Corp., giving the U.S.-based provider of proprietary post-secondary education its first educational holding in Canada. ITI Education Corp. offers a post-graduate business education program. Its market-driven curriculum incorporates all aspects of business application development as well as professional development, communication and interpersonal skills. EDMC will purchase a portion of ITI that encompasses education institutions in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver. ---- The FundingFactory, ERS Imaging Part Ways The FundingFactory, education's Internet-empowered fundraising program tied to saving the environment, is leaving parent company ERS Imaging Supplies in a move designed to help both companies focus on managing their respective growth. The FundingFactory currently has annualized revenue of about $7 million and has posted 18 consecutive months of profitability, according to the company. The FundingFactory allows schools to earn points by sending in empty printer cartridges donated from businesses, families and others. Points are then redeemed for technology and recreational equipment available through the site's online catalog. ---- College Newspapers Go Online Mississippi State University and the University of Georgia have launched online editions of their respective school newspapers. News in and around the MSU campus can now be found on The Reflector's site, http://www.reflector-online.com. For news related to the UGA community, go to The Red and Black's site, http://www.redandblack.com. Both sites are part of the Digital Partners Network, which includes papers for the University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, Auburn University, University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The network enables the schools to print each other's stories. --------------------------- Web Notes --------------------------- http://www.ikidsclub.com Short for International Kids Club, this colorful and positive site seeks to teach children about different cultures, promoting tolerance, understanding, friendship, unity, acceptance, and love and peace. The site also includes a number of freebies, games and activities, clip art and will soon sell IKC merchandise. http://www.planetpals.com A partner site to ikidsclub.com, this site features Earthman and his Planetpals, cartoon characters who teach kids about earth science and environmentalism. The site also contains links to its monthly magazine Planetpals Earthzine. --------------------------- Conference Corner --------------------------- October 16-17, Chicago, IL. 2nd Annual Virtual High School Symposium, The Westin O'Hare. Contact: (303) 632-5102, or register online http://www.cite.ecollege.com/vhs.html. 26-27, Shepherdstown, WV. 17th Annual Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges Eastern Computing Conference, Shepherd College. Contact: (704) 825-6823, e-mail mailto:myers@crusader.bac.edu or visit http://www.shepherd.edu/cisweb/esccc01. November 1-3, Washington, DC. NMSA Annual Conference & Exhibit 2001. Contact: (614) 895-4730, or http://www.nmsa.org. 17-20, Minneapolis, MN. TIES 2001 Education Technology Conference, Minneapolis Hyatt. Contact: (651) 999-6523, or visit http://www.ties.k12.mn.us. For more conference listings, visit T.H.E. Journal's comprehensive conference database at http://www.theconferencecalendar.com/. ===================== T.H.E. Newsletter is a weekly bulletin comprised of recent announcements that affect the education community. Our goal is to keep our readers well informed with the most up-to-date news. We also hope that our audience will share their opinions regarding educational technology issues with us so that we may be certain that we are covering the topics that are of most interest to them. To aid in these endeavors, we will supplement T.H.E. Newsletter with T.H.E. Voice, an online forum where educators can comment on the month's featured article http://www.thejournal.com/thevoice. Please direct any comments to mailto:THEnews@thejournal.com. ------- To unsubscribe, go to http://www.thejournal.com/thenews/unsubscribe.cfm. 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