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Amnis Systems Teams With NDI Solutions for Live Streaming Distance Learning Network for Michigan Intermediate School District

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Amnis Systems Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AMNM – news; formerly Optivision, Inc.), a leading provider of networked streaming video products, today announced that it has teamed up with NDI Solutions, Inc., to deliver a broadcast quality live streaming Distance Learning Network to the Bay-Arenac Independent School District in Michigan. The groundbreaking […]

The Future of Education

In a conversation with PressPass and leading education editors Bernard Percy and Amy Poftak, two keynote speakers from The Connected Learning Community Technology Summit — Dr. Arthur Levine and Dr. Rudy Crew — share their thoughts on the importance of technology in the classroom and how it is reshaping education.

Global Nomads Group Teams With PictureTel To Deliver Global Classroom

NEW YORK, NY — Global Nomads Group (GNG), an interactive educational broadcasting organization today announced a strategic partnership with PictureTel Corporation (NASDAQ:PCTL), the world leader in integrated collaboration. GNG will use the PictureTel 760XL system to conduct virtual field trips for K-12 students in the US and abroad. Global Nomads Group uses videoconferencing as a […]

Teachers learning how to tap into tech

Colorado recently launched a $2.8 million, two-year initiative to train educators in new ways to use technology.

WebED Contracts to Provide Online Staff Development for K-12 Educators in Southern Massachusetts

HAMPTON, N.H. — WebED, Inc. ( www.WebED.com), one of the nation’s leading providers of Internet-based professional development training for educators, today announced the recent signing of a contract to sell its courses for K-12 educators to the South Shore Educational Collaborative, an educational service agency in Southern Massachusetts. The SSEC will re-sell the WebED courses […]

Hands-On Learning

Handheld computers are beginning to catch educators’ eyes.

High Schools Enroll in Columbia University’s Online Courses

NEW YORK — Columbia Interactive Arts & Sciences today announced that select high schools across the country will offer Columbia Interactive courses to their students starting this spring. Participating high schools that have partnered with Columbia Interactive to offer the online courses include: Grandview Preparatory School, Boca Raton, Fla.; Regis High School, New York; Albany […]

School Kids Find Mars Mystery

Last week, the Planetary Society’s Red Rover Goes to Mars Student Scientists made planetary exploration history. They were the first members of the public to direct a camera aboard a spacecraft orbiting another world, the NASA Mars Global Surveyor (MGS).

Group will stop classroom Internet snooping

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major Internet filtering company will stop collecting and selling the Web habits of millions of schoolchildren who use its product after privacy groups howled and the Defense Department had second thoughts, the company disclosed.

BellSouth Supports Nine-State Teacher Development Through Grants and ThinkQuest Fellows Symposium

ATLANTA — BellSouth will honor 18 teachers chosen as ThinkQuest Fellows and nine ThinkQuest State Partners from throughout the Southeast during a four-day symposium Feb. 22-25. The symposium, to be held at the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, will recognize fellows and partners for their achievements and provide resources that may be used to train […]