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  • Eight-man football star bound for the big time, thanks to YouTube
    Wed, Nov 11, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Athletics
    In another striking example of the power of internet video to level the playing field for athletes from small high schools, Brigham Young University has offered a full scholarship to a student who plays eight-man football based on highlights of his play on YouTube, reports the Los Angeles Times. [ Read More ]

  • Google's holiday gift: Free airport Wi-Fi
    Wed, Nov 11, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Business news
    In a bit of good news for students and faculty traveling home for the holidays, Google on Nov. 10 said it will subsidize free wireless network access in 47 airports from now until January 15, CNET reports -- and indefinitely in the airports of Burbank, Calif., and Seattle. [ Read More ]

  • Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday
    Tue, Nov 10, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Litigation
    A judge has given Google Inc. more time to revise a legal settlement that has drawn government scrutiny because it would give the internet search leader the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books, reports the Associated Press. [ Read More ]

  • Texas textbook politics meet the digital revolution
    Tue, Nov 10, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  State Policy
    Under new Texas state legislation, school districts for the first time can spend a portion of state textbook money on computer hardware and digital content -- and the state can stockpile open electronic material, making it available free to all schools. But some stakeholders, including State Board of Education members, fear the explosion of choice will produce an erosion of high-quality content, reports the Texas Tribune. [ Read More ]

  • Rutgers computer scientists work to strengthen online security
    Mon, Nov 09, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Computer security
    If you forget your password when logging onto a secure web site, the site typically asks you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born? The trouble is, such questions are not very secure. More people than you think might know the answers, or be able to guess. Now, computer scientists at Rutgers are testing a new tactic that could be both easier and more secure, the university reports. [ Read More ]

  • Mich. bill pushes 'green' lessons for new drivers
    Mon, Nov 09, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Legislation
    Is it environmental awareness or political correctness? That's the question swirling around a bill recently introduced in the Michigan House that would require driver's education programs to propagate environmental doctrines to new drivers, reports the Detroit News. [ Read More ]

  • Treating kids on the web in a new way
    Mon, Nov 09, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Safety & security
    San Jose Mercury News columnist Larry Magid spent part of last week in Washington, D.C., attending a gathering that turned out to be a "watershed moment in the 16-year history of online safety education," he writes. [ Read More ]

  • Is cloud computing inevitable? Not so fast, one educator says
    Fri, Nov 06, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Technologies
    Is cloud computing inevitable? Maybe, Computerworld reports, but IT still has a lot of questions to ask before floating away on its promises, according to Melissa Woo, director of cyber infrastructure and network and operations services at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. [ Read More ]

  • Virtual schools chart new course in Georgia
    Fri, Nov 06, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Distance learning
    Representatives of five would-be virtual charter schools will file into the Georgia Department of Education today to pitch their brand of public education, which lets students study from home online. Some state officials, however, aren't ready to OK more cyber schools without first doing more homework on the subject, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [ Read More ]

 

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