Facebook to start sharing AMBER Alerts
Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice and the Virginia State Police to make it easier to spread…
Month: January 2011
States look to Indiana as a model for online instruction
Washington state could mimic Indiana’s successful online education model if a state legislator's proposed bill that would make online college classes more available to students there becomes law.
Verizon to start selling iPhone on Feb. 10
Verizon Wireless made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday that it will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10, giving U.S. iPhone buyers a choice of…
Editorial: Too many education cooks
For the two decades that California has had a secretary of education, the position has never made much sense. Appointed by the governor, with a staff of a…
Colleges accept video essays to connect with students
As video cameras and editing equipment become more user friendly, many younger consumers are now using the technology in their college applications.
For minorities, new ‘digital divide’ seen
When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began…
Blackboard backs ed-tech standards
Common standards for online learning became more likely this week after Blackboard, Inc. announced that it would support an open database initiative that could make educational content usable…
Worst products of CES 2011
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was full of game-changing technology--think Verizon's 4G LTE network and Motorola's Atrix smartphone--but there were more than a few tech flops as well,…
Obama’s internet plan sounds an awful lot like a national internet ID
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announce to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on Friday that President Obama intended to turn over development of a national…
Red flags at a college, but tied hands
Jared L. Loughner is accused of trying to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona on Saturday, reports the New York Times.