National Association of Broadcasters: “TOP FIVE TIPS FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION BUYERS”
1. Check with your local broadcaster to see if digital television is available in your community; it probably is…
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Videophones Set To Ring in New Communication Era
Future applications for the satellite videophones will include security surveillance of domestic water supplies, analysts said.
COCHLEAR IMPLANT IS MUSIC TO TEEN’S EARS / DEVICE ALLOWS CHS STUDENT TO PLAY PIANO, HEAR TEACHERS, COMMUNICATE WITH FRIENDS
John Farley sits quietly, facing the wall and concentrating. He repeats a sentence spoken a moment ago: “It’s a bright and sunny day.” Born profoundly deaf 16 years ago, John has been able since he was 3 months old to catch scraps of sounds – a knock, his mother’s voice – with the help of […]
Virtual charter would educate online
A company based in New York is proposing a virtual charter school in North Carolina for students whose parents want them taught via computer.
Microsoft’s $1 billion class-action settlement to benefit schools
Software giant Microsoft Corp. will give more than $1 billion in cash, software, training, and computer hardware to thousands of the nation’s poorest schools during the next five years, under a tentative agreement to settle more than 100 class-action lawsuits that alleged Microsoft products were overpriced.
Home-Schooler Makes the Grade
Ask 17-year-old Matthew Smedberg what he has been reading lately. The Roman historian Livy tops the list, part of his Great Books curriculum. For fun, there have been a trilogy by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz (“very well written and exciting”), “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” (“one of the few history books to get […]
W-G purchases wireless computer lab
The wireless, portable computer lab is up and running in the elementary classrooms in Granger.
Nasa selects UA researchers to develop camera, which will be launched in 2005
NASA has selected a UA-driven project to create an ultra-high resolution camera that will be launched to Mars by August 2005.
AICC Certifies Cyberwisdom.net’s wizBank
wizBank is China’s first AICC certified e-learning platform
Wired Classrooms Aren’t Enough
We are poised to see change on the University’s Central Grounds of a sort we have not seen in more than a century. In August 2001, a U.Va. Board of Visitors committee announced it would invest in the principal buildings occupied by the College of Arts & Sciences on the South Lawn.