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When young teachers go wild on the web
On Facebook and other social-networking web sites, the public profiles of 20-something teachers often reveal a sense of humor that can be overtly sarcastic, unintentionally unprofessional, or both, reports the…
Experts see impact of museums in science-ed efforts
Three or four times a day, a banana shows up at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., and complains about a pain in its side, reports the Associated…
Google develops prototype for better image searching
Google researchers say they've developed a technology intended to do for digital images on the web what the company's original PageRank software did for searches of web pages, the New…
Informal style of electronic messages is showing up in schoolwork, study finds
The New York Times reports that as eMail messages, text messages, and social network postings become nearly ubiquitous in the lives of teenagers, the informality of electronic communications is seeping…
Dealer of gun used in Va. Tech shootings visits campus
The online weapons dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech shootings visited the campus, a decision the school's spokesman called "terribly offensive," the Associated Press…
Yahoo plans makeover with elements of social network
Yahoo Inc. plans to make its web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities, reports…
OLPC sweet talks Microsoft
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) is adapting its Sugar software package to make it compatible with Microsoft's operating system, The Register reports.…
Microsoft offers hope for people who want to keep XP
Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday offered a glimmer of hope to fans of the company's XP operating system, saying customer demand may see the company reconsider a…
For children, a better beginning
The Washington Post reports that in a wide-ranging look at how children have fared in their first decade of life, a study to be released today offers a promising picture…
Technology puts more pupils in the mainstream
The children in Dana Romanczyk's classroom at the William Carter School in Boston have severe special needs. They are unable to speak and are in wheelchairs. Yet they can activate…