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- KS virtual schools growing fast, legislature poised to step in
- Three years ago, the Lawrence Virtual School in Kansas had 165 students. Next year, enrollment is expected to climb to over 1,000, making the district the biggest in the county, reports the Lawrence Journal World. "Theres no doubt in my mind it will be the biggest school in the...
- Tags: Education Technology, Online Education, K-12, virtual school
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- K12 woos Wyoming to provide virtual homeschool
- As virtual schools gain popularity among unaffiliated homeschoolers, public schools are offering virtual school programs as well, reports the Casper Star Tribune. Taxpayers wittingly or unwittingly are increasingly supporting virtual schools, as states sign on to for-profit virtual programs, such as K12 Inc., a popular elementary virtual school...
- Tags: K12 Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
- Virtual schools come under state scrutiny
- Virtual schools are such a new and growing phenomenon that policy makers are having a tough time regulating them. Online programs are increasingly the targets of compliance investigations, reports eSchool News. Can legislation be far behind? The Oregon Department of Education claims the Oregon Connections Academy, an online charter...
- Tags: virtual school
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Standing room only for Mo. virtual school
- Missouri's state education officials know they have a good thing in its as-yet-to-be created virtual school because parents are lining up to find out how to apply, reports the News Tribune. The K-12 virtual school in Columbia, MO is still a year away from opening its cyber doors, but plans...
- Tags: virtual school, Curt Fuchs
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Virtual school may get only virtual funds
- Plans for a virtual school in Gillette, Wyo., have been scuttled on the grounds that it wouldn't qualify for state funding as there is no precedence for such a school, reports the Star Tribune. "It's just a setback, and we're hoping we can still make it work," said Ed...
- Tags: virtual school
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
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- A Tour of Nortel's WebAlive Virtual World for Business
- Nortel's new WebAlive world combines a virtual world with fantastic audio to make a business collaboration platform. Here's a preview of that world. by David Greenfield
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Virtual World, VoIP, Virtual Reality, Conferencing, David Greenfield
- Image galleries 2008-12-04
- NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed
- Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...
- Tags: Blog, NYT, News Outlet, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over "appropriate" sites
- Last year, there was a major fight in my modest-sized north New Jersey town over whether or not there should be a cellular tower built up at the high school. Are we destined to start hearing the same sort of flack about solar panels? Over the past...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder
- The 'funnest' iPod ever has kicked it up a notch. Bam! Thanks to a microphone adapter and some free software called Truphone, the second-generation iPod touch is now capable of courting consumers as a VoIP mobile phone, in the most literal of senses (just...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPod, Call, Apple iPod Touch, Truphone, Truphone Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features
- IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- JavaFX Q&A
- To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...
- Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...
- Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Let's be smart about patching databases
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...
- Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Yahoo headlines: What's fact and what's rumor?
- If you're tired of rampant speculation about Yahoo's future, including headlines from legitimate news sources that are fueling the blogosphere with rumor and unconfirmed theories, raise your hand. Just as I suspected. I know it's been a while since I...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Source, CEO, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains
- In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...
- Tags: Extranet, PBwiki, Thomson Reuters Messaging, Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Dimdim offers synchronized co-browsing in web conferencing upgrade
- Dimdim has released an upgrade of its open source web conferencing software that features synchronized co-browsing, enhanced performance and greater scalability. The Boston-based company said the 4.5 version of its namesake software allows users to plug-in URLs and share web-based data and videos with other browser users...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web Browser, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolExcellent!Mailing this one out to those people I know that need it, and those people I know that should code like it.RE: Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolI like the idea for students reminding themselves. However, now add a parent as a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, cell phone, phone, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Novell updates PlateSpin and rebrands Orchestrator
- Richard Whitehead, one of the interesting people from Novell I speak with on an irregular basis, contacted me to tell me about an update to the PlateSpin portfolio and how Novell the PlateSpin product family and the former ZenWorks Orchestrator have been rebranded. Novell's products in the area of virtualization...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
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