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NASA LIVEâ„¢ Encourages Teachers to Use Hands-on Activities

Research indicates that the hands-on approach for teaching is the best way for students to learn science and mathematics. Teacher and student participation in videoconferences, such as the FREE videoconferences provided by NASA LIVEâ„¢ (Learning Interactively through Videoconferencing Experiences) enhances teacher application of hands-on science and mathematics.NASA LIVEâ„¢ videoconferences demonstrate how teachers worldwide can work […]

Wireless and paperless: Technology changing campus communications

The elementary education student is a resident assistant, attends classes, works in an Onalaska day care, is involved with student government and volunteers for various causes.Read the Full Story

Firefox add-on lets surfers tweak sites, but is it safe?

The extension, dubbed Greasemonkey, lets people run what’s known as a “user script,” which alters a Web page as the page is downloaded.Read the Full Story

Raising the Video Streaming Quality Bar

“The advent of HD-quality streaming codecs provide many benefits to end users, especially the ability to compress HD content in small file sizes,” Kane upon the early March release of his Digital Video Essentials Professional (DVE Pro) , a six-DVD set sponsored and distributed by Extron, a leader in AV integration products. “Streaming technologies lack […]

Normative Specifications of Learning Objects and Learning Processes: Towards Higher Levels of Automation in Standardized e-Learning

This paper describes the rationale for normative specification techniques as a complement for existing descriptive metadata, which enables a higher degree of automation by precisely describing usage conditions and expected outcomes for learning objects and learning processes.Read the Full Story

Clicks and bricks work together in the world of corporate teaching

Their paths have been parallel from the first tentative steps, with a sprinkling of courses and institutions, to the proliferation of programmes available today.Read the Full Story

DRAFT — New FCC Form 525, Competitive Carrier Line Count Report, Available for Review

The new form allows CETCs to submit data for one or more of the High Cost components (on a disaggregated level, if applicable) and includes certification pages for the reporting carrier and/or the authorized agent of the reporting carrier. The new form will also collect UNE data necessary to determine proper support payments for both […]

TV is educational at Burr and Burton

The teenager is enrolled in the independent high school’s “Television News 1” course, which gives students an introduction to the world of high-end video production facilities.Read the Full Story

Time Warner Cable working with local schools to expand distance learning

Time Warner Cable, through its relationship with IT development firm Renovo Software and Lake Oswego, Oregon-based Tut Systems, will aim to enable geographically dispersed teachers and students to jointly participate in learning experiences. It is hoped that this will provide students of the Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) with access to a broader base […]

High-tech test for spoken English

The company’s Spoken English Test (SET) is designed to analyze speech components from native and non-native speakers of English. The system locates and evaluates relevant segments, syllables, and phrases in speech. It then uses statistical modeling techniques to score the spoken performance.Read the Full Story