Technology helps Freedom Writers connect and share their stories
NECC 2009 closed with an inspiring keynote by Erin Gruwell, president of the Freedom Writers Foundation, who described how technology (coupled with great teaching) can unleash students’ creative potential and enable powerful collaboration.
Key words: Erin Gruwell, Freedom Writers, education, technology, Teaching Hope
E-Rate Giving K-12 Schools H.264 Video Technology with HaiVision’s IP Video Distribution Technology
HaiVision Network Video’s solutions are now listed as E-Rate products by the U.S. Department of Education. With this designation and the help of federal funding of up to 90%, HaiVision solutions are now more easily accessible to eligible educational institutions seeking to deploy the latest networking technologies to bring live video and video-on-demand into the classroom.
E-Rate enables HaiVision to put great video networking technology and tools into the hands of schools, faculty members, and students that might not otherwise be able to afford them. HaiVision’s E-Rated products are perfectly suited to the challenges of K-12 institutions enabling educators to push live TV content to classrooms and to every student’s desktop, to build subject-specific content libraries, and to offer video-on-demand to their students and faculty members. With this federal funding program, schools can do this with the confidence that they are installing systems that support the latest and most efficient industry standards. HaiVision’s end-to-end solution combines the efficiencies of H.264 video compression and the image quality of full HD. School IT departments also benefit from InStream™, HaiVision’s unique desktop player, which requires no desktop preparation of any kind and works immediately across all platforms.
Elluminate and Desire2Learn Announce Seamless Integration
Elluminate’s and Desire2Learn’s new partnership will allow students to seamlessly enter an online classroom, access session recordings, call the teacher, obtain the syllabus, turn in assignments and more.
Free online course helps students plan careers
A free online learning program from Microsoft is helping middle and high school students think about careers they might like to pursue and the skills necessary to attain those careers.
SchoolPictures.com Reaches Milestone $2 Million in School Donations
SchoolPictures.com announces it has donated more than $2 million to Michigan schools that have used its unique portrait services. The milestone validates the four-year-old company’s mission to supplement funding for education and improve the academic environment for children while providing parents with high-quality, affordable pictures.
Gefen Announces Two New Solutions to Streamline Power Cords in the Rack Area
Two New Power Racks Clean the Rack Area and Prevent Power Surges
Calif. rejects district plan to make up class time
State education officials on Thursday rejected a plan by a Southern California school district to use summer classes to make up for a scheduling error that could cost the district millions of dollars, reports the Associated Press.
U.S. schools have a lesson plan for a pandemic
Planning helped but it was improvisation using cell phones and sticky notes that enabled school nurse Mary Pappas to cope when the U.S. swine flu epidemic started in her tiny office in April. St. Francis Preparatory High School was an early epicenter of what has become the first pandemic of the 21st century, the new H1N1 influenza virus, and the New York City Health Department documented at least 69 cases at the private academy.
But on that first morning in April, Pappas knew there were many more, Reuters reports.
iDesign Brings the AXIGEN Mail Server to Hong Kong
AXIGEN announces the launch of its messaging solution range in Hong Kong through its first distribution partnership in the market signed with iDesign, one of the leading players in the domestic IT&C solutions and services field.
ED OKs proctors, secure logins for online tests
Web-based college programs won’t have to buy pricey monitoring gadgets like cameras and fingerprint or eye scanners to satisfy the requirements of a section in the recently reauthorized Higher Education Act, federal officials say. Instead, they say, exam proctors and secure logins will suffice to ensure honest test taking.