The culture wars’ new front: U.S. history classes in Texas
The fight over school curriculum in Texas — recently focused on biology — has entered a new arena, reports the Wall Street Journal, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in American history classrooms.
Florida Department of Education builds plans for disaster and recovery
In preparation for a disaster, Florida’s DOE was paying an annual maintenance fee to SunGard to reserve equipment in their facilities. Duncan realized there were significant cost inefficiencies in that approach and saw an ideal opportunity to save money and still acquire the necessary DR technology and functionality.
Key words: disaster recovery, InMage, school data, school emergency preparedness
Acer initiative helps schools procure technology
Acer, a manufacturer of PCs, notebook computers, and other IT products, is letting schools test its products for free in exchange for the chance to win a new computer lab, TMCNet.com reports.
Alabama’s Mobile County adopts IBM analytics for stimulus reporting
Mobile County, Ala., Public Schools has selected IBM analytics technology to measure student performance, identify at-risk students, and adjust academic programs in real time to help it comply with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s transparency and reporting mandates, reports Information Management.
Revamp of IT Chimes a Website Design, Web Development and SEO Company, India
IT Chimes is India based global Web Solution and Offshore IT services provider. IT Chimes a web development company, develops, integrates and maintain web applications and custom applications. IT Chimes is your one stop IT solutions provider.
Eco-Friendly Datexx Hybrid Power Calculators Add Up For You — And The Environment!
Available in white, green, orange, or brown, Datexx Hybrid Power Calculators are powered 98 percent of the time by enhanced solar power and 2 percent of the time by a Mercury-free battery!
Definition of Inbound Links, Outbound Links and Their Role in SERP
Without the aid of inbound and outbound links, your website will not have favorable results on the search engine results page. It is a known fact that only 7% of all websites are even visible to the search engines. This means that 93% of the websites in existence are not optimized correctly, and are losing out on the SERP. Utilize those inbound and outbound links, and be a part of the 7%.
Software rivalry gives schools more choices
Two recent announcements have ratcheted up the rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.–and both could have significant implications for schools.
Key words: Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft education, Google Chrome OS, Google education, school netbooks, education, technology
Obama wants $12 billion for two-year colleges
President Barack Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation’s community colleges, a $12 billion effort to help the two-year institutions reach, teach, and train more people for “the jobs of the future.” Key words: President Obama, fiscal year 2010, Macomb Community College, two-year colleges, community colleges, education, technology
New PowerPoint add-in ribbon from authorSTREAM searches and inserts videos and images from the Web into your slides
authorSTREAM Desktop, a new add-on “ribbon” for PowerPoint can search and fetch videos and images from the Web, from right inside PowerPoint, and insert them in slides with a few clicks. This will make it very easy for PowerPoint authors to make presentations, rich with multimedia, very quickly.