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Free resources help celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15, 2009 by ESchool News

To help educators pique their students' interest in Hispanic-American history and celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Verizon Thinkfinity.org is offering…

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CMU software streamlines computer programming

September 8, 2009 by ESchool News

Carnegie Mellon University has released an updated version of its popular animation-based software program "Alice," developed by the late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.…

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Our Courts’ teaches civics lessons via online games

December 3, 2009August 31, 2009 by ESchool News

A free computer game for teenagers created with the help of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has made its online debut. "Supreme Decision," the first of…

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YOUniversity offers video tours of more than 400 U.S. colleges

August 17, 2009 by ESchool News

Video tours of college campuses aren't a new phenomenon; many universities have provided video tours and information about their campuses to prospective students for years. But Boynton Beach,…

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SMS and on-line gaming has made China’s richest man – txtNation Launch in China.

September 29, 2009August 11, 2009 by ESchool News

SMS and on-line gaming has made China's richest man - txtNation Launch in China. txtNation today announced they are in the final stages of launching China premium SMS…

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New open-source program could help boost STEM enrollment

August 10, 2009 by ESchool News

State and local education officials have a new tool to help them predict which investments will pay dividends as they try to boost the number of college graduates…

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Free online course helps students plan careers

August 5, 2009 by ESchool News

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…

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University of Rhode Island Implements Networked IP Video Solution from Verint Systems

September 29, 2009July 30, 2009 by ESchool News

Verint® Systems Inc., a leading provider of analytics software-based solutions for workforce-enterprise optimization and security, today announced that the University of Rhode Island has implemented Nextiva® Networked IP…

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New online games aim to make science fun

July 27, 2009 by ESchool News

To help stem the tide of apathy toward science and make it more engaging and relevant for students, Tabula Digita , developer of the DimensionM series of educational…

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Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

July 21, 2009 by ESchool News

WeChooseTheMoon.org is a new web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum that aims to inspire members of the Internet Generation 40 years after the…

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Richardson TSI Enhances Learning Outcomes and School Safety for Union County, Ga. School District

September 29, 2009July 21, 2009 by ESchool News

Technology integrator, Richardson TSI, helps school system increase communication efficiency, decreasing the workload of teachers and administrators while enhancing school safety.

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Westmont College Selects Meraki for 802.11n WiFi Network to Cover 111-Acre Campus

September 29, 2009July 20, 2009 by ESchool News

Meraki, the could-based wireless networking company, has been selected by Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., for its campus-wide, indoor/outdoor 802.11n network. After careful consideration and testing, Westmont…

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Cisco Announces Workforce Retraining Initiative to Drive Innovation, Economic Growth and Job Opportunities

September 29, 2009July 15, 2009 by ESchool News

Cisco has announced a new pilot program to retrain displaced workers and help them find rewarding careers in fast-evolving and emerging markets hungry for talent including Broadband Infrastructure,…

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Oracle Launches New Continuous Delivery Model for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions

September 29, 2009July 14, 2009 by ESchool News

Oracle has launched a new Continuous Delivery Model for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions. Under this model, Oracle plans to deliver periodic application Feature Packs for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus…

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Scribd opens new market for online texts

July 13, 2009 by ESchool News

Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd has opened an internet store that will offer new sales opportunities…

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Technology helps Freedom Writers connect and share their stories

January 4, 2010July 10, 2009 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

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…

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PLEXTALK™ Pocket Offers Individuals Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired a New Portable DAISY Player that Reads Bookshare Digital Books

September 29, 2009July 9, 2009 by ESchool News

Bookshare www.bookshare.org, the world’s largest online accessible library for individuals with print disabilities today announced a partnership with Shinano Kenshi Corporation, Ltd. (Japan and North America), a global…

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National study represents the first significant research on socialization in online schools

September 29, 2009July 9, 2009 by ESchool News

June 2, 2009 – A new study concludes that the social skills of students enrolled in full-time, online public schools are superior to or not significantly different than…

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Security versus Flexibility within Education Networks

September 29, 2009July 8, 2009 by ESchool News

For many years, the focus on network security at campuses such as schools and universities was on defending against external threats like hackers. However the reality is that…

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Pronto Express with their sales office in Orange County

September 29, 2009July 8, 2009 by ESchool News

Pronto Express with their sales office in Orange County, California is a single source transportation solution provider that provides shippers with a wide range of freight and shipping…

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VocabSushi teaches vocabulary using sentences from the news

July 6, 2009 by ESchool News

Trying to memorize 8,000 SAT words can be a daunting task, even for the most assiduous of students. But SAT tutor Jeff Novich has launched a new web…

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Build A Website and Get Your Feet Wet In Affiliate Marketing

September 29, 2009July 6, 2009 by ESchool News

If you want to have a business online, you need to build a website. A website helps to promote your products, as well as, identifies you on the…

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Absolute Helps Police Break Possible Identity Theft Ring

September 29, 2009July 2, 2009 by ESchool News

Washington, DC: June 30, 2009– Today at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), Absolute® Software Corporation (“Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented,…

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YouTube EDU is a gateway to free educational video content

June 22, 2009 by ESchool News

YouTube EDU contains hundreds of free video clips from each college and university's YouTube channel, including lectures by well-known professors and scholars on a variety of subjects. Site…

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Online resources help fill schools’ funding gaps

June 16, 2009 by ESchool News

With a national drop in charitable contributions making it harder for schools to raise their needed funds, thousands of PTAs, schools, and nonprofit organizations across the country are…

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WebNotes allows users to annotate and share web pages

June 10, 2009 by ESchool News

To help students with online research, the Boston-based company WebNotes has created a web-based highlighting and "sticky note" tool that allows users to compile information from multiple web…

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New online game encourages students to learn about estuaries

June 1, 2009 by ESchool News

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service has unveiled a new online educational game called "WaterLife: Where Rivers Meet the Sea." Developed through a partnership with…

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Learn about free eBooks that can supplement or replace classroom texts

May 26, 2009 by ESchool News

"E-Books Directory" is an online resource that contains links to freely downloadable eBooks, technical papers, and documents, as well as user-contributed content, articles, reviews, and comments. Launched in…

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Free webinar series for teachers tackles Shakespeare, marine science, and more

May 19, 2009 by ESchool News

Social-networking site Classroom 2.0 has teamed up with PBS Teachers and Elluminate Inc. to provide a series of free monthly webinars designed to help K-12 educators learn new…

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Smithsonian launches online cultural heritage tours

May 13, 2009 by ESchool News

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies is offering a series of free online tours that invite educators, families, and students to learn about America’s diverse cultural…

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Low-cost presentation service powered by the cloud

May 5, 2009 by ESchool News

Educators and students now can give presentations using the power of cloud computing, while possibly saving thousands of dollars compared to other online presentation services. Slidelive is an…

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Rare and ancient written works go online

April 29, 2009 by ESchool News

National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations' education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online April 21 with their…

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‘Think Green’ challenges teachers to start ‘talking trash’ in their classrooms

April 22, 2009 by ESchool News

What happens to the waste we all produce? When does it make sense to recycle? Can trash become energy? Teachers and their students can find answers to these…

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Hip new study site for millennials adds teacher page

April 13, 2009 by ESchool News

Shmoop is a new web site that "aims to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age." Designed by Ph.D and master's…

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MyWorkster turns school ties into job opportunities

April 6, 2009 by ESchool News

In a job market that is contracting by the month, professional connections can be the difference between landing an interview or continuing an arduous job search. MyWorkster is…

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Interactive web feature helps students learn about scientific inquiry

March 30, 2009 by ESchool News

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has launched ASK IT!, a moderated forum and free online resource designed to model the scientific process. Students are invited to identify…

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Free multimedia activities aim to boost middle school literacy

March 23, 2009 by ESchool News

Teachers' Domain, a library of free digital resources and fee-based professional development courses developed by Boston public television station WGBH, has added a new section called "Inspiring Middle…

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New e-Rate blog helps applicants understand the program

March 17, 2009 by ESchool News

The filing window for the 2009-10 e-Rate season might have closed in February, but that doesn't mean applicants' work is done. There are still plenty of follow-up forms…

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Microsoft offers tech training to fill 21st-century jobs

March 9, 2009 by ESchool News

During the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., last month, software giant Microsoft Corp. announced a new initiative, called Elevate America, that aims to provide up to…

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630 servers, one machine: Cloud computing on a mainframe

April 24, 2011March 4, 2009 by By Cara Erenben

An upstate New York college sees great economic advantage by running cloud computing on a mainframe. Key words: cloud computing, higher education cloud computing

To help educators pique their students' interest in Hispanic-American history and celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Verizon Thinkfinity.org is offering…

Carnegie Mellon University has released an updated version of its popular animation-based software program "Alice," developed by the late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.…

A free computer game for teenagers created with the help of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has made its online debut. "Supreme Decision," the first of…

Video tours of college campuses aren't a new phenomenon; many universities have provided video tours and information about their campuses to prospective students for years. But Boynton Beach,…

SMS and on-line gaming has made China's richest man - txtNation Launch in China. txtNation today announced they are in the final stages of launching China premium SMS…

State and local education officials have a new tool to help them predict which investments will pay dividends as they try to boost the number of college graduates…

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…

Verint® Systems Inc., a leading provider of analytics software-based solutions for workforce-enterprise optimization and security, today announced that the University of Rhode Island has implemented Nextiva® Networked IP…

To help stem the tide of apathy toward science and make it more engaging and relevant for students, Tabula Digita , developer of the DimensionM series of educational…

WeChooseTheMoon.org is a new web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum that aims to inspire members of the Internet Generation 40 years after the…

Technology integrator, Richardson TSI, helps school system increase communication efficiency, decreasing the workload of teachers and administrators while enhancing school safety.

Meraki, the could-based wireless networking company, has been selected by Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., for its campus-wide, indoor/outdoor 802.11n network. After careful consideration and testing, Westmont…

Cisco has announced a new pilot program to retrain displaced workers and help them find rewarding careers in fast-evolving and emerging markets hungry for talent including Broadband Infrastructure,…

Oracle has launched a new Continuous Delivery Model for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions. Under this model, Oracle plans to deliver periodic application Feature Packs for PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus…

Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd has opened an internet store that will offer new sales opportunities…

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…

Bookshare www.bookshare.org, the world’s largest online accessible library for individuals with print disabilities today announced a partnership with Shinano Kenshi Corporation, Ltd. (Japan and North America), a global…

June 2, 2009 – A new study concludes that the social skills of students enrolled in full-time, online public schools are superior to or not significantly different than…

For many years, the focus on network security at campuses such as schools and universities was on defending against external threats like hackers. However the reality is that…

Pronto Express with their sales office in Orange County, California is a single source transportation solution provider that provides shippers with a wide range of freight and shipping…

Trying to memorize 8,000 SAT words can be a daunting task, even for the most assiduous of students. But SAT tutor Jeff Novich has launched a new web…

If you want to have a business online, you need to build a website. A website helps to promote your products, as well as, identifies you on the…

Washington, DC: June 30, 2009– Today at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), Absolute® Software Corporation (“Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-based, patented,…

YouTube EDU contains hundreds of free video clips from each college and university's YouTube channel, including lectures by well-known professors and scholars on a variety of subjects. Site…

With a national drop in charitable contributions making it harder for schools to raise their needed funds, thousands of PTAs, schools, and nonprofit organizations across the country are…

To help students with online research, the Boston-based company WebNotes has created a web-based highlighting and "sticky note" tool that allows users to compile information from multiple web…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service has unveiled a new online educational game called "WaterLife: Where Rivers Meet the Sea." Developed through a partnership with…

"E-Books Directory" is an online resource that contains links to freely downloadable eBooks, technical papers, and documents, as well as user-contributed content, articles, reviews, and comments. Launched in…

Social-networking site Classroom 2.0 has teamed up with PBS Teachers and Elluminate Inc. to provide a series of free monthly webinars designed to help K-12 educators learn new…

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies is offering a series of free online tours that invite educators, families, and students to learn about America’s diverse cultural…

Educators and students now can give presentations using the power of cloud computing, while possibly saving thousands of dollars compared to other online presentation services. Slidelive is an…

National libraries from more than a dozen countries, in coordination with the United Nations' education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online April 21 with their…

What happens to the waste we all produce? When does it make sense to recycle? Can trash become energy? Teachers and their students can find answers to these…

Shmoop is a new web site that "aims to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age." Designed by Ph.D and master's…

In a job market that is contracting by the month, professional connections can be the difference between landing an interview or continuing an arduous job search. MyWorkster is…

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has launched ASK IT!, a moderated forum and free online resource designed to model the scientific process. Students are invited to identify…

Teachers' Domain, a library of free digital resources and fee-based professional development courses developed by Boston public television station WGBH, has added a new section called "Inspiring Middle…

The filing window for the 2009-10 e-Rate season might have closed in February, but that doesn't mean applicants' work is done. There are still plenty of follow-up forms…

During the National Governors Association conference in Washington, D.C., last month, software giant Microsoft Corp. announced a new initiative, called Elevate America, that aims to provide up to…

An upstate New York college sees great economic advantage by running cloud computing on a mainframe. Key words: cloud computing, higher education cloud computing

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