$1 million allocated for A&M-Kingsville
Money to fund distance learning projects for 13 districts throughout South Texas
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VTEL and VibrantC Connect Students With Author Lynne Reid Banks in Virtual Field Trips
VTEL Products Corporation, a leading manufacturer of videoconferencing systems, and VibrantC, a videoconferencing consulting firm, teamed-up on Jan. 24 and 25 to provide primary and secondary students a virtual field trip with author Lynne Reid Banks. Banks, whose books include “Indian in the Cupboard” and “Moses in Egypt,” connected to students in Texas, South Dakota, […]
Maine Pursues Plan to Give Computers to Students
PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 26 — Despite a budget crunch, Maine is moving forward with a plan to put a computer on the lap of every seventh and eighth grader in the state. Read the article
Distance learning classes offered
Kennard-Dale High School in the South Eastern School District will join several other schools in York and Adams counties in a distance learning program through the local Lincoln Intermediate Unit consortium.
Online classes generate success
Virtual schools — where students take high school courses entirely online — have sprouted around the area in recent months and are hailed as the wave of the future.
Online registration takes guesswork out of class scheduling
A high school in Eagan, Minn., is about to become one of the first public secondary schools in the United States to require its students to register for classes online, a practice that has seen widespread acceptance on college campuses in recent years. School officials say transferring the process to the internet will save money […]
`Virtual’ school plan criticized
A proposal for North Carolina’s first “virtual” public school – where students would stay home and participate in classes via computer – is drawing criticism from two Charlotte-Mecklenburg school leaders who call the school unproven and say it poses a financial threat to school districts across the state.
Red Clay to review ‘virtual’ charter school plan
Delaware could have its first “virtual” charter school if the Red Clay school board approves an application by a Baltimore company.
Virginia district recalls 11,000 student laptops
School officials in Henrico County, Va., are recalling all 11,800 laptop computers given to the district’s high school students in order to install upgrades and security devices aimed at curbing student abuses.
Virtual field trips expanding
Eighth-graders from Jefferson Middle School got some good ideas on how the Cincinnati Zoo operates when a worker filled them in on the different types of jobs available at such places.