T&L News(114)

Week of: January 28, 2008

  • Principals and Internet Technology
    The National Association of Secondary School Principals has issued a policy statement to help principals deal with both the opportunities and challenges posed by Internet technologies.
  • Open Source Gaining Traction
    A new report from Datamonitor shows that the use of open source software among educational institutions worldwide is on the rise.
  • Utah Shops for Teachers Online
    The Utah Department of Education has turned to an online teacher recruitment service to help it fill vacancies at a cost of about $100,000 a year.
  • NASA May Build a MOO
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is exploring developing a massively multiplayer online (MOO) game designed to "simulate real NASA engineering and science missions."
  • SciVee: YouTube for Science?
    SciVee is a new Web 2.0 tool for science content, combining user-generated video content with tagging and communities.