According to Alexa.com, a service that tracks Internet hits worldwide, the Dearborn Public School District (DPS) Web site is the fourth-most popular Web site in the Michigan Education category.... Publishing content to the district Web site is being handled via a new "wiki" format. This new format makes it easy for staff members to upload photos, documents, and videos to the school site.... The

The Jacksonville City School System is getting a software upgrade thanks to a grant from the Alabama Department of Education, The Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools and the software manufacturer, Learning Through Sports.The school system received Kid’s College for the first time during the 2002-2003 school year. At the time it was only for certain grades. This upgrade, however, gives the

Just try teaching kids in science class about plate tectonics like teacher Judy Jones does at St. Francis de Sales in Chicago. Say the words lithosphere or continental drift and watch 30 pairs of eyes glaze over, she says. But use a video projector with images off the Internet showing the actually plates slide underneath one another and suddenly you hear students say, “Whoa,” accompanied with a

Students will be able to peek inside chemical reactions and explore three-dimensional models of ear canals in virtual technology being developed at Canterbury University. The university has received $1.77 million from the Government's Encouraging and Supporting Innovation Fund for a three-year project designing virtual work environments to give students practical experience. Canterbury University

CES rollouts will run the gamut from MSI's Wind "hybrid" netbook -- with a mix of SSD and HDD drives in a single machine -- to a high-end notebook with a secondary display. And Windows 7 could be closer than anyone thinks. Now that notebooks are overtaking desktop PCs in worldwide sales and shipments, this week's CES show is featuring a slew of new models across a wide spectrum of form factors

Danbury High School teacher Sam Buck is waiting for a new overhead projector, which should arrive soon after school reopens in January. He'll hook it to a laptop, which will allow him to display Internet sites to his automotive students. It's kind of a Christmas present or a wish fulfilled.The third-year teacher requested the projector on a new Web site, DonorsChoose.org, that matches donors and

While many kids in Billings are taking a break from the classroom to enjoy time off during the holidays, one group of eager students is learning about the wide-world of technology. Over 30 kids from the Billings area are taking part in "Computers for Kids", which is a two-day camp hosted by MSU-Billings.

Marking a shift in its efforts to clamp down on illegal file sharing, the group representing the U.S. music industry says it will only bring lawsuits against college students who are the most egregious violators of music copyrights--but higher-education officials still will be expected to block students' internet access if they use campus networks illegally. The Recording Industry Association of

Schools and other organizations that tap the federal E-rate program are leaving about a quarter of all committed funds unused, according to a new report released this week by Funds For Learning, a firm that provides consulting services to E-rate applicants. The analysis showed that this amounts to "tens of millions of dollars" in unused funding annually. According to FFL, "The E-rate program

In the past, Kelly McGee wouldn't have thought twice about buying $10, faux-leather journals for her students. But her husband lost his construction job this year. They have a new baby. So McGee, a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at North Shore Elementary in St. Petersburg, turned to Plan B. Last month, she put a plea for help in a virtual bottle and set it adrift in cyberspace, on a Web site

It was a good morning for golf, perhaps a little nippy, but no rain. Maricia Granby's students got set for the first of nine holes they planned to get in that morning. Sand traps punctuated the sloping, tree-lined fairway. The hole was a distant dot. One by one the Heritage High School ninth-graders teed up, wielding their club of choice: A Texas Instruments graphing calculator linked to an

Gone are the days of card catalogues and microfiche, replaced by online databases, MP3s and even video games. They're all changes local public libraries have made to remain relevant to younger generations, who are reading less and turning to Google instead of encyclopedias for their information.... The increased technology follows a national trend, as the percent of libraries that offer

I don’t believe there has ever been a time more urgent for deployment of a fully-meshed security infrastructure to combat malware and technology vulnerabilities then there is today. At the core of this technology infrastructure must be a strong set of access and content filtering controls, fully patched systems, and an active engine at the core of the network and on all network nodes detecting

Karen Landolph has seen her profession go through a lot of changes since she began teaching elementary school in the Bedford district 33 years ago, but she still loves her job. "It's a lot more exciting and fun now than in the days of rote learning and memorization," said the second-grade teacher at Glendale Primary School. "Teachers have so much more available to them in terms of new methods

Following the MySpace suicide case, the lawmakers in Missouri changed the state’s harassment laws, by including “cyberbullying” as a criminal act. The law was updated in August 2008, but there are already several other citizens that are charged for harassment through technological means.

They're highly portable, inexpensive, very popular -- and a potential security nightmare. "This is a threat that IT managers are just beginning to recognize," says Brian Wolfe, a security analyst at Lazarus Technologies Inc., an IT consulting service in Itasca, Ill. Minimized hardware resources force ultraportables -- and their users -- to cope with weakened system software. Most models ship with

The Las Virgenes Unified School District has completed two major projects that are expected to improve access to technology for teachers, students and parents. Superintendent Donald Zimring credited the four cities that feed the school district—Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village and Hidden Hills—with providing grants that funded the design and implementation of new websites for each of

They are Longhorns making computer networks connect, and some hope to go out into the real world and make networks secure. Approximately 48 advanced Payson High School students are learning how to build and maintain personal computers through industry standard computer courses. Bud Evans teaches the A Plus and Network Plus courses.“These are hardware, not software classes,” he said. “These

After years of testing students in basics such as reading, writing and math for “The Nation’s Report Card,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress will turn its attention to the technological prowess of the nation’s students, and Oklahoma Christian University professor Philip Patterson will serve on the panel that will shape the questions. Patterson will be representing the approximately

I was not surprised when iSuppli announced that notebook sales exceeded desktop sales for the first time in the third quarter of this year in what the research company called a "watershed event." The report singled out Acer which "grew its unit shipment market share by 45 percent, and by 79 percent on a year-over-year basis." The Taiwanese company, according to the computer analysis group,