Not even a ride on a yellow school bus. A group of enterprising Internet educators have been waiting a year to give Georgia public school students and teachers the state’s first virtual K-12 experience – the chance to work and learn from home in their slippers full-time. Friday, they get an … [Read more...]
Pajamas uniform of choice: Virtual schools first to offer K-12 education
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GVSU approves charter for web-intensive K-12 school
May 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Students will soon have access to a new kind of school with web-heavy curriculum, thanks to a charter school recently authorized by Grand Valley State University trustees. The Virginia-based K-12 Inc. will launch a charter school this fall that will require students to do half of their … [Read more...]
Designing Digitally Develops Virtual Campus for USAF Academy
May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Designing Digitally, Inc., a full-service interactive design company and virtual world developer, was recently awarded a long-term contract with the United States Air Force Academy to completely develop, host and maintain a browser based virtual campus tour. This virtual campus allows the academy to … [Read more...]
PA Cyber Charter School looks at iPad
May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
"The iPad may prove to be a useful tool to put in the hands of cyber school students," said Dr. Nick Trombetta, CEO and founder of the 9,000-student Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. Dr. Trombetta attended the Apple Education Leadership Summit 2010 in Dallas, Texas, April 21-23. "We attended the … [Read more...]
Study: Too few schools are teaching cyber safety
March 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Students aren’t getting enough instruction in school on how to use technology and the internet in a safe and responsible manner, a new poll suggests. Released by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and supported by Microsoft Corp., the survey found fewer than one-fourth of U.S. teachers … [Read more...]
NC Virtual School Offers Statewide Access to Streaming Digital Content
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS) has announced it has signed an agreement to offer free access to Discovery Education streaming, the company's digital video-based learning system, to educators and students throughout the state. The school has also chosen the company to provide … [Read more...]
Multiple Stimulus Aid Streams Flow to Ed Tech
February 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic-stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high-quality digital content for school laptops. But much of the $650 million in … [Read more...]
Blackboard, D2L declare legal truce
December 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The three-and-a-half-year court battle between learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard Inc. and competitor Desire2Learn ended Dec. 15 when the companies agreed to license each other's patents and drop long-standing lawsuits. But some observers believe the truce comes too late to stem … [Read more...]
Elluminate’s Fire and Ice Project Recognized as First-Ever iNACOL Award Winner for Best and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice
November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Elluminate, Inc., the leader in web, audio, video and social networking solutions that support 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration, announced today that its Fire and Ice initiative was awarded iNACOL’s Best and Most Innovative Online Learning Practice award, which was announced at … [Read more...]
Virtual 3D lab aims to stimulate learning
August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Students at a Baltimore County high school this fall will explore the area surrounding Mount St. Helens in a vehicle that can morph from an aircraft to a car to a boat to learn about how the environment has changed since the volcano’s 1980 eruption. But they’ll do it all without ever leaving … [Read more...]
