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Carnegie Mellon Researchers Create New Digital Tools to Help Business Leaders Improve Performance

Many factors, from the need to expand beyond national borders to the inexorable shift to intellectual capital, are driving change, but none is more important than the rise of the Internet and digital technologies. Like the steam engine or the assembly line, the Net and digital technologies have already become an advance with revolutionary consequences, […]

Digital homeland library readied

The library will be open to students at the school, employees of the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and likely other federal agencies as well, said Lillian Gassie, head of technical services and systems at the Naval Postgraduate School Dudley Knox Library.Read the Full Article

Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web

The swiftness of the World Wide Web’s ascension from obscure experiment to cultural icon has been truly remarkable. In the space of less than a decade, the Web has extended into nearly every facet of society, from commerce to education; it is employed in a variety of uses, from scholarly research to casual browsing. Like […]

socialsecurity.gov: A New Name for a New

The website is easier to navigate, more attractive and more accessible to all visitors, including people with visual or other physical disabilities.Read the Full Article

brainpop.com

BrainPOP is the leading producer of educational animated movies for K-12. The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults.http://www.brainpop.com

The CompreHensive collaborativE Framework (CHEF) Initiative

We are working closely with and are contributing to the OKI reference architecture, and are collaborating with other groups interested in open source collaboration standards. Communities targeted for CHEF use include those involved in the scholarly activities of teaching, learning and research at the University of Michigan, and their students and colleagues involved in teaching, […]

Thomson Learning Moves into Coursepack Market

Having tested the concept in a pilot project with Thomson Custom Publishing, the new initiative will partner with Lulu.com, an online marketplace for digital content collaborative software and publishing.Read the Full Article

INDEPENDENT LENS Spotlights Native American Basketball Heroes on the Rez

ITVS and PBS present Daniel Junge and Donna Dewey’s documentary CHIEFS and the companion Web site at www.pbs.org/chiefs. For Wind River Indian High School’s basketball team and their community, winning the state championship means everything. Will basketball be their passport to a brighter future? Watch CHIEFS on INDEPENDENT LENS April 1, 2003 at 10:00 p.m. […]

Teaching about the War with Iraq and Other Related Resources

http://www.c-span.org/classroom/current/iraq_war.asp There you can: –view information about the U.S. STRATEGY & OPERATIONS –learn about American military TRAINING & WEAPONRY –watch the REACTIONS TO WAR from elected officials and the American people Other WAR WITH IRAQ resources from C-SPAN.org include: –a collection of DOCUMENTS, LINKS, AND CONTEXTUAL RESOURCES http://www.c-span.org/resources/iraq.asp –a schedule for C-SPAN’s ONGOING TELEVISION COVERAGE […]

Los Trabajadores/The Workers Web Site Launch

ITVS and PBS present the documentary Los Trabajadores/The Workers and the bilingual companion Web sites, www.pbs.org/theworkers and www.pbs.org/lostrabajadores. Focusing on the lives of Juan and Ramón, day laborers working in Austin, Texas, the film explores the myriad contradictions that haunt America’s dependence on and discrimination against immigrant labor. Los Trabajadores/The Workers by Heather Courtney airs […]