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A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyber bullying case was convicted Nov. 26 of three minor offenses instead of the main conspiracy charge in a cruel internet hoax that allegedly drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.
Google Earth has added to its software a three-dimensional simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Circus Maximus. The program, which gives users access to maps and global satellite imagery, now hosts a new layer that allows surfers to see how Rome might have looked in A.D. 320, a bustling city of about 1 million people under Emperor Constantine. Pop-up windows provide information on the monuments, and visitors also can enter some of the most important sites, including the Senate and the Colosseum, to observe the architecture and marble decorations.
Former Prince George’s County, Md., schools Superintendent Andre J. Hornsby was sentenced Nov. 25 to six years of prison time in a federal corruption case that involved steering educational technology contracts to his district in return for personal kickbacks, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Tennessee State University has banned a popular, controversial web site from its servers, making it the first state-funded university to impose a ban on the web site, reports the Student Press Law Center.
Math can be hard — espeically when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students, which is something that happens not only frequently, but happens more often to poor and minority students, reports the Associated Press.
Some of the nation’s leading universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets, reports the New York Times.
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski believes a quick way to put millions of people to work and help bring the economy out of its nosedive would be a massive public-works project on university campuses, reports the Oregonian.
Schools and libraries can begin applying for 2009-10 e-Rate discounts on Tuesday, Dec. 2, and they’ll have until 11:59 EST on Thursday, Feb. 12, to submit all necessary Form 471 application materials, says the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Co., the agency that administers the program.
Higher education is discovering that Google isn’t the only game in town. The search-engine giant, along with competitor Yahoo, has long been the most-used search site, but other search tools have surfaced in recent years that could help college students do more in-depth research of video and audio files and web sites that have cluttered the internet.
This awards program will recognize 15 educators and their students for creatively using visual learning in their classrooms.
