Learning and Teaching Technologies

p font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"FileMaker, Inc. has announced a href="http://filemaker.pr-optout.com/Url.aspx?524997x25841x158983"FileMaker Pro 11/a/font/p

font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;" M86 Security has introduced a single appliance which provides filtering, monitoring and reporting capabilities to protect students from inappropriate Web and Instant Messenger use. br //font

p font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;" Follett Software Company has introduced Cognite#8482;, a digital learning environment that integrates discovery tools, retrieval and communications. /font/p

pStudents at universities in the United States have been pegged as good targets for online criminals, the security company RSA notes in a recent report./p pThe first month of 2010 marked a new record in the total number of monthly phishing attacks for RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center, at 18,820, up from 8,497 in January 2009. The center now monitors more than 300 organizations in 140-plus countries. RSA, a division of the information firm EMC, aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/chronicle/wiredcampus/~4/VxR_OFYtSp4" height="1" width="1"/

p font style="font-size: 10pt;" Netop#8482; has released an update to Netop ProtectOn Pro#8482;, a comprehensive solution for managing networked computers. /font/p

p font style="font-size: 10pt;" Teachscape has released Teachscape Instruction | Desktop, which allows users to gather instruction data through classroom walkthroughs on a netbook, laptop or tablet PC, with or without an Internet connection. /font/p

pStudents in Emory University's bike-sharing program will soon be able to unlock the bikes they want to use by sending a text message. The university will replace its current system, which requires manually checking out a key, with the automatic one, developed by students at the nearby Georgia Institute of Technology./p pEach bike in the new "viaCycle" fleet will be equipped with a GPS and locking system. When students or employees want to use a bike, they will send a text message withimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/chronicle/wiredcampus/~4/uYqzg6caNXM" height="1" width="1"/

p The Numerical Algorithms Group will mark its 40th anniversary in 2010 by expanding its a href="http://www.nag.co.uk/about/student_awards.asp"student prize program/a./p

p The Academy of Achievement offers biographical sketches of hundreds of modern "leaders, visionaries, and pioneers" from around the world and from the fields of the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports. Learn both what makes these men/p

Regular readers will never classify me as a Microsoft shill. One of my major goals in this blog is to look at highly effective cost-saving tools for educators, whether they are open source or free/low-cost web-based resources. However, I absolutely have to give Microsoft credit in terms of the National Educational Technology Plan. [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=efb88af08b1803ac1df0694ebf2f90ddp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=efb88af08b1803ac1df0694ebf2f90ddp=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2225"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdeducation/~4/CEVrC2-lug4" height="1" width="1"/

The US Department of Education just released its National Educational Technology Plan, entitled Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology. The executive summary is a little easier read and is available here. I had a great discussion Tuesday with Microsoft’s Director of Innovation for Education, Mary Cullinane about the plan in general and [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=4cc6b5f89cd2d37f8542a76ffca2c437p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=4cc6b5f89cd2d37f8542a76ffca2c437p=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2225"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdeducation/~4/nog6K2MspjA" height="1" width="1"/

pNEW YORK mdash; The a href="http://tedxnyed.com/"TEDxNYED Conference/a that took place here on Saturday was like the Lollapalooza festival for education technologists. Almost every speaker was a headliner in his or her own right./p pThe forum was a regional spin-off of the "billionaires-and-brains edutainment summit in California," as one participant, Dan Cohen, of George Mason University, described the mothership a href="http://www.ted.com/"TED/a conferences and the hugelyimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/chronicle/wiredcampus/~4/LSCKQTb_d5I" height="1" width="1"/

Middle school students connect with history by writing stories from a slave's perspective.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EdutopiaNewContent/~4/qkE2kFC2exk" height="1" width="1"/

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p font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the a href="http://www.ccsso.org/"Council of Chief State School Officers/a today released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards/font/p

p font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;" Toyota announced today nearly $550,000 in grants will be awarded to 79 K-12 educators across the country as a part of the a href="http://nsta.org/programs/tapestry"2010 Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers Program/a. /font/p

pfont face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"The a href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_14217_15653,00.html%3E"AMD Foundation/a  has awarded a /fontfont face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"$65,000 grant/font font face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"to the a href="http://www.artandwriting.org/"Alliance for Young Artists Writers/a. /fontbr //p

pUser friendly site written in Spanish and geared toward younger Internet users. It features information about a great number of famous authors from throughout the world. For each writer, students will find a picture and short biography. courtesy of netTrekker/p

Near the end of 2008, I wrote about Soshiku, a really cool web application for students to track their assignments using either SMS on their cell phones or a simple web interface. Developed by then-17-year old Andrew Schaper, the site allows users to manage classes, assignments, and even partners. Soshiku has recently launched [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ebc79d0474d80fcfa22d7b6fe03c778bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ebc79d0474d80fcfa22d7b6fe03c778bp=1"//a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2225"/img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdeducation/~4/38tImw97o9M" height="1" width="1"/

pfont face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"The National Engineers Week Foundation’s Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology /fontfont face="Arial" style="font-size: 10pt;"begins at noon Eastern time on Wednesday, March 10 /font/p