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Web sites aren’t about throwing some text and pictures onto a page anymore. Colleges, catching on to the evolving online habits of their prospective students, are starting to wise up — and that often means making their online presence more appealing to Facebook-surfing high schoolers.Read the Full Article
Chances are you have at least second-hand knowledge about Second Life, a virtual-reality world created by Linden Lab, in which avatars (digital characters) lease “islands” for real-life purposes — to sell products, conduct classes, do research, hold conferences, and even recruit for admissions.Read the Full Article
A startup hopes to compete with Google Earth by building a more natural world.Read the Full Article
nternet safety expert Linda Criddle recommends schools, students, and parents do a back-to-school safety checkup of their school’s Web site to ensure that it is not making too much personal information publicly available. Criddle has created Guidelines for Safer School Web Sites to help schools cope with the new realities of our information society. News […]
With an $8,000 investment, Dartmouth’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has set up the capability to provide video podcasts for courses that enable students to watch lectures they may have missed or that warrant review. Now, said Lab Manager John Largent, the New Hampshire school is exploring how it can make lecture capture available campus-wide.Read […]
Recently graduated senior Joseph Bergen is more familiar with the architectural intricacies of Stanford’s Main Quad than the average observer. After spending about five hours trying to capture every exterior face of the structure on film for a digital 3-D modeling project—snapping nearly 400 pictures—Bergen noticed the subtle differences between the history and math corners, […]
Maurice Acker, a junior at Marquette University in Milwaukee, practices Spanish with natives from Spain every Friday morning at the school’s language lab. They talk about sports, cultural differences – the usual stuff of student conversations – but there’s a twist: Mr. Acker has never met any of his conversational partners in person.Read the Full […]
WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, in the media and across the country, support continues to grow for Low Power FM (LPFM) radio. A bill now pending in Congress would create thousands more community stations offering uniquely local news, views and music programming.Read the Full Article
Chelsea, Mass. – Jorge peers through his glasses at a story about a mouse – a story unfolding not on the pages of a book but on a computer screen. Crowned with a sophisticated headset, he isn’t distracted by his surroundings as he reads aloud into a microphone.Read the Full Article
The video-sharing site YouTube clearly engages young users, but content and participation can’t be controlled, making it difficult for K-12 to use the site for educational opportunities.Read the Full Article
