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Calculating the ROI on virtual schoolingJune 25, 2009 All these schools are interested in Virtual High School (VHS). They are excited about the quality of the course offerings and the caliber of the instructors of the courses. School boards love innovative programs but are More..
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Free home-school podcastsJune 24, 2009 The Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center at Edvantia has created a free podcast series for educators on increasing parent involvement in schools. More..
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Look Ma, no textbooksJune 22, 2009 Empire High School (Vail, AZ) seniors will be the first group of students to have started and completed their high school careers without the use of traditional textbooks, using personal laptops instead. When the school began its More..
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Cover Your Assets: the latest asset management software in actionJune 18, 2009 Quick, tell us How many laptops are in your middle schools? Which ones are about to come off warranty? Did your tech department finish updating all the software licensing? If you can’t answer these questions, it is probably time More..
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Spending wisely: DC school funds innovative tech programsJune 16, 2009 Rick Kelsey, STEM coordinator and technology director at McKinley Technical High School in Washington, D.C., has developed some unique ways for this citywide public high school and career academy to use stimulus funding for More..
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Virtualization saves Texas school over a million dollarsJune 10, 2009 Steve Young, chief technology officer of the Judson school district in Texas, recently performed his own energy cost analysis a year after beginning a major computer upgrade and expansion program in his school district of 21,000 More..
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25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja ColeJune 4, 2009 Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in. It is not always clear what its professional uses are, or what to post in 140 characters or less. But when you start to think of Twitter More..
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We have a winner: meet our 1000th Twitter followerMay 25, 2009 In May, we announced that we would profile our 1000th Twitter follower in the June issue. And the winner is... Easton Area School District, Easton, PA (about 9,100 K 12 students)Director of Technology Thomas DragoDistrict More..
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Recent survey says 40% of ID theft is from browser-based password softwareMay 18, 2009 Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Barbara have released a publication about the operation of a botnet known as Torpig. The team controlled the botnet for 10 days, and during More..
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Create Your Own Content with VideoconferencingMay 13, 2009 Here’s one way to cut travel costs for field trips. A dozen broadcast journalism students from Howe, Oklahoma, public schools made the forced migration of Native Americans come alive earlier this year for youngsters 1,600 miles More..
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New homework social networking siteMay 11, 2009 Dweeber.com is a the social networking site for student homework collaboration. Dweeber enables students to solve problems together, participate in virtual study sessions, and communicate with friends around schoolwork in a More..
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Saving money with virtualizationMay 6, 2009 School districts across the country always have had to do more with less. Funding only goes so far, leaving administrators and IT staff to find innovative ways to save money while maintaining a high level of academic quality. More..
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Stop sexting: new game teaches students about Internet safetyMay 4, 2009 Web Wise Kids, WILL Interactive, Verizon and the ESA Foundation have created the game “It’s Your Call” for schools, law enforcement and community organizations to teach teens about “sexting,” cyber bullying, academic cheating and More..
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The AV Club—Next GenerationApril 20, 2009 Engaging the digital natives isn’t as daunting as you think. Here’s how three classrooms do it.A Media ShowcasePete Episcopo had a vision. When he started at Brevard Public Schools in Viera, Florida, the digital media artist More..
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