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- Tennessee State bans JuicyCampus from its campus servers
Tennessee State University has banned a popular, controversial web site from its servers, making it the first state-funded university to impose a ban on the web site, reports the Student Press Law Center. - Experts: Alternative search tools can help students
Higher education is discovering that Google isn't the only game in town. The search-engine giant, along with competitor Yahoo, has long been the most-used search site, but other search tools have surfaced in recent years that could help college students do more in-depth research of video and audio files and web sites that have cluttered the internet.
- Conn. district explores ubiquitous computing
In the not-so-distant future, the Milford, Conn., schools will have full wireless access, and students will bring their own laptops to school, reports the Connecticut Post. - Promise them an iPod and they will come?
School leaders have a new idea about how to attract students to North Rowan High School in North Carolina, reports the Salisbury Post: Promise them a high-tech gadget. - Technology helps shatter limits of disability
A web site with information on learning disabilities, a national research center for studying advanced technologies, and a web site for those who are dealing with traumatic brain injuries: These were some of the new initiatives highlighted at the National Center for Technology Innovation's 2008 Technology Innovators Conference, which explored ways that assistive technology (AT) can help persons with disabilities not only learn and function, but also achieve their dreams. - The online search party: A way to share the load
The New York Times reports that new tools being developed by Microsoft and other companies now enable people at different computers to search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations in a shared web space on the browser display as they plan a family vacation, for instance, or research a medical problem. - Broadband makes tiny town an English-teaching hub
Ten Sleep, Wyo., population 350, is home to a new company that is outsourcing jobs not from the United States to the Far East, but in the opposite direction, reports the Associated Press: Eleutian Technology hires people in towns across northern Wyoming to teach English to Koreans of all ages using Skype, the free online calling and person-to-person video service. - Google empowers users to edit search results
If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again: That's now possible under a new system that Google Inc. unveiled Nov. 20, reports the Associated Press. - Questions abound as emergency alert flops
The failure of Virginia Tech's text-messaging alert system has raised questions about the effectiveness of such systems to warn faculty and students of an emergency -- an important consideration as schools nationwide continue to invest in these technologies. - On the web, social sites can sometimes bite
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are great ways to reconnect with old acquaintances and meet new ones, but posts can create problems, as recent events show, reports the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C.
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