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$20M to enrich history, civics

According to CPB, the three-year, multi-phase effort will help fund partnerships among broadcast and content developers, the education community, the technology sector, and others to design multimedia projects that can measurably improve the teaching and learning of American history and enhance civic activity among students.Read the Full Story

Publishers Applaud Senate Resolution On Safeguarding Intellectual Property Worldwide

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) expressed special thanks to Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, who joined in sponsoring the resolution to mark the observance of World Intellectual Property Day.Read the Full Story

Live online learning for Hampshire pupils

Place2Learn, developed by Hampshire County Council’s Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) Service, is being launched this week (25th April).Read the Full Story

First Nations SchoolNet and Cisco Systems Networking Academy Launch Distance Learning Initiative

TORONTO, April 26 /CNW/ – Cisco Systems Networking Academy and First Nations Groups across Canada have launched an innovative and unique initiative designed to bring IT educational opportunities to remote First Nations communities.Read the Full Story

Elluminate Delivers Dynamic Interaction to Tennessee Tech Distance Education; Virtual Classroom Connects University with Sister Institution In Japan

During the current semester, the university is using Elluminate Live! for 12 to 15 courses, either exclusively or in a blended environment with WebCT, the institution’s course management system.Read the Full Story

Review: iPodcast Producer

The podcast is pushed to listeners from a Web site in the same fashion blog content gets pushed to an RSS Reader.Read the Full Story

Polycom Demonstrates High Definition (HD) Video on Industry Leading VSX Video Communications Platform

PLEASANTON, Calif. – April 26, 2005 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that it is demonstrating high definition video this week at the Polycom Global Partner Conference being held in San Diego, Calif., and next week at the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas (booth #2348). […]

Microsoft to Pit ‘Metro’ Format Against Adobe PDF, PostScript?

SEATTLE—Microsoft took the wraps off a new document-workflow technology that it is readying as part of Longhorn during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here on Monday.Read the Full Story

Virtual Schooling: Legislative Update

In 2005, the odds have shifted definitively, if recent activity at state legislatures and regional and national policy shops are any indication.Read the Full Story

Distance learning via Internet more popular in nation’s high schools

But neither his teacher nor his fellow students are in Fremont. Instead Amos connects to them – in Massachusetts, Peru and elsewhere – via the Internet.Read the Full Story