Free online mentoring program targets
TECH CORPS, a national nonprofit organization that mobilizes technology volunteers in schools, has expanded its free online mentoring program to include teachers as well as technology professionals.
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Internet Tools for Facilitating Inquiry
Viable support for inquiry teaching can come in many forms, all of which are aptly dubbed as “pathways to reform” by the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). The reforms called for in the Standards focus on the changes required to ensure excellent inquiry-based K-12 science instruction for all students. Viable pathways to such reforms […]
ITSS reorganization to support teaching, learning, research
Information Technology Systems and Services (ITSS) is turning the ship around, department director Chris Handley has announced. In the five months since Handley was promoted to executive director, the 500-employee department — one of the university’s largest — has been reorganized and realigned.
WWW. Come to our school
BLOOMINGTON — As an associate dean of admissions, Bob Murray knows even the best university Web site is not enough to convince a student to attend a particular school.
Penn State U. students troubled with lack of Internet
The bankruptcy of Excite@Home has left many Pennsylvania State University students who live off-campus without Internet service since early Saturday morning.
AT&T Broadband Internet Customers Successfully Moved to New High-Speed Network
AT&T Broadband successfully concluded the move of more than 850,000 former At Home customers to its new high speed Internet network with the successful transition yesterday of customers in Connecticut.
The 30-Year Path of E-Mail
IT wasn’t an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory.
International Symposium On Music Information Retrieval to be hosted October 15-17 at IUB
The second annual International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval — the world’s only music information retrieval (music IR) conference — will be held Oct. 15-17 at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., U.S.A.
Now on the Web: the 20th century through Soviet eyes
Cameras were rolling and clicking when the world’s first space traveler returned home, when Soviet leaders discussed anticapitalism campaigns, and when Russian troops invaded Afghanistan. But the 38,000 films and more than 1 million pictures chronicling significant events of the former Soviet Union have been guarded in vaults, accessible only to a few government-approved groups.