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Students slow to embrace text alerts
The massacre at Virginia Tech last April sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they send alerts to students during crises on campus. One widely adopted solution: text messages sent…
Google gets into web site building biz
In a move that could make it easy for teachers, students, and others to create simple web sites for sharing information, without any specialized knowledge required, Google Inc.--already the world's…
Latest trend in school security: Convergence
Faced with increased security concerns, especially in light of recent school shootings across the U.S., educators are looking for new ways to improve their campus security systems--and converging physical security…
‘Innovation’ the buzzword at AASA conference
Several key speakers at the American Association of School Administrators' annual conference in Tampa Feb. 14 to 17 seemed to agree that the old ways of rote memorization, standardized testing,…
Low-cost laptop projects offer new tools
The beneficiaries of a movement to equip students in developing countries with low-cost laptops now have a new resource to help them put the technology to sound educational use, thanks…
Blackboard’s patent win shocks D2L
Blackboard Inc. has won a $3.1-million verdict in its controversial patent-infringement lawsuit against the smaller Canadian company, Desire2Learn. But the legal fight seems far from over.…
FCC mulls net-neutrality rules
In a move with significant implications for how easily researchers, educators, students, and others can transfer large files online, federal regulators on Feb. 25 said they are ready to discipline…
Gates to students: Consider IT careers
A widespread shortage of information technology graduates across North America is forcing Microsoft Corp. and other software companies to look to developing countries such as China to meet their needs,…
Free software turns one PC into two
As school leaders look for inexpensive ways to extend computing resources to every student, a Canadian company says it is giving away software that turns one computer workstation into two.…
TCEA 2008 serves up ed-tech wisdom
Educators and ed-tech specialists who attended the 2008 Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) conference in Austin got a Texas-size helping of new educational technology ideas, approaches, and solutions to take…