Archive for the ‘Open Learning’ Category

The Web Can Be Tangled for Parents With Questions

Zyg Furmaniuk, a software consultant from Belmont, Mass., who has two school-age daughters, recalled the difficulty he had a few years ago finding reliable information to help one of them, Bacall, now 11, who was having trouble reading. Read the Full Article

New Study Shows PBS Programming Ranked #1 By The Nation’s Educators

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 29, 2003 — Recent research commissioned by PBS has confirmed that television / video programming remains one of the most often-used types of educational media, and is viewed by educators as a highly valuable teaching tool.Read the Full Article

Home Schooling in Cyberspace

She gets her assignments online through the Ohio Virtual Academy, which she attends along with her sister Therese, 7, and brother Gabriel, 5, from the dining room table at home.Read the Full Article

Home-schooled student wins geographic bee

Williams, from Washington state, captured the title by knowing that Goa in India was formerly a colony of Portugal.Read the Full Article

PBS Scores Most Children’s Show Wins At Daytime Emmy Creative Craft Awards

Alexandria, VA, May 11, 2003 — PBS bested all other broadcast or cable networks in children’s shows wins, tallying eight nods at Saturday’s Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards, in simultaneous ceremonies held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City and the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. Read the Full Article

Senior citizens are learning to use computers and other technology

As a matter of fact, he lives in an apartment at Green Hills in Ames, and his herd is in southwest Kansas. Read the Full Article

Cornyn Announces $6.8 Distance Learning Grant

Dallas-based Internet Broad-cast Corp. has been awarded the government loan and will work with schools and colleges to provide distance learning content with Supernet and NETnet, Cornyn’s announcement said.Read the Full Article

Help is at hand for home schooling families

Wendy Burr wants to help home schooling parents and their children achieve educational success.Read the Full Article

New Online Genre Supplies Lessons on the War in Iraq

Lisa Greeves, until recently a teacher in Fairfax County, says the story of the looting of thousands of artifacts from Iraq’s National Museum has great potential for generating classroom discussion. Lara Maupin, another former teacher, is also enthusiastic. Read the Full Article

Virtual village helps teach hearing-impaired

Teachers there have been working with computer engineers from Veridian Inc. to build a high-tech village for teaching severely hearing impaired children. Read the Full Article