SAS in School Software Collaboration
Many educational resources can be used as a source of content for the development
of databases. The SAS in School Software Collaboration is one such current
example. SAS Institute is a software company headquartered in North Carolina.
With the support of special grants, they began giving access to newly developed
software for public schools to various teacher education campuses in the
North Carolina university system. This software was developed with grades
9-12 in mind but will contain resources that are also useful for middle
level teaching. This software was designed for viewing and interaction on high-speed
broadband type networks,
not for home 56KB telephone modems.In August of 2003, Bank of America
provided a grant that made the SAS in School Software collection available for
free to all educators in the state of North Carolina for two years, through
2004-2005. North Carolina educators should consult with your institutional
curriculum director or technology director for username and password
Description of their products and plans can be reached by anyone at:
Access to specific software programs for social studies will require
access to password information that you will receive in class. As soon
as you click the link, the screen will request that password information.
Ask your course instructor for the necessary username and password.
This material is intended to be used with these viewing restrictions:
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Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
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the Windows operating system
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high-speed campus network or other broadband service such as cable modem
or DSL (high speed telephone line) connections.
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full screen display (use the F11 key to toggle back and forth between the
full-screen display needed for the best display of the SAS curriculum materials
and the Internet Explorer menu bars.
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