Maine Orders 64,000 Apple Laptops For Schools -- Apple -- InformationWeek
"An additional 7,000 MacBooks will be ordered in the coming weeks. Maine is the only state to provide laptops to every public school student.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
June 30, 2009 04:33 PM
Maine on Tuesday said it has ordered 64,000 Apple laptops, marking a big win for the Mac maker and a major expansion of the state's technology initiative for middle and high school students.
The massive order stems from the state Department of Education's decision to expand the Maine Learning Technology Initiative into all public high schools. Maine has been providing Apple MacBooks to middle school students and faculty under the MLTI since 2002. Apple had to compete with other computer makers for the first and the latest contracts, the state said."
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218102131
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Wired Campus: Students at U. of Southern California Develop Summer-Education Site - Chronicle.com
Wired Campus: Students at U. of Southern California Develop Summer-Education Site - Chronicle.com
"When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced at the end of May that it planned to cancel summer school, the latest result of California’s multibillion-dollar cuts to education, it estimated 225,000 students would be without the courses they need to stay at grade level or get ahead.
Now some of those students are taking advantage of an alternative to summer school on the Web — SOS Classroom, a collection of free educational Web sites, videos, and games. Educators and others submit material to be considered for the collection using Web 2.0 tools, and the materials are compiled by students in an advanced writing course at the University of Southern California."
"When the Los Angeles Unified School District announced at the end of May that it planned to cancel summer school, the latest result of California’s multibillion-dollar cuts to education, it estimated 225,000 students would be without the courses they need to stay at grade level or get ahead.
Now some of those students are taking advantage of an alternative to summer school on the Web — SOS Classroom, a collection of free educational Web sites, videos, and games. Educators and others submit material to be considered for the collection using Web 2.0 tools, and the materials are compiled by students in an advanced writing course at the University of Southern California."
Monday, July 6, 2009
Wired Campus: A California Dream: Saving State Universities With an Online Campus - Chronicle.com
Wired Campus: A California Dream: Saving State Universities With an Online Campus - Chronicle.com
"Of the four universities linked originally by the proto-Internet in 1969, two of them were part of the University of California system: the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses. Now, as the system grapples with a staggering budget crisis that might close institutions and forever alter what’s considered one of the crown jewels of public education, a proposal comes suggesting that salvation lies in going online."
"Of the four universities linked originally by the proto-Internet in 1969, two of them were part of the University of California system: the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses. Now, as the system grapples with a staggering budget crisis that might close institutions and forever alter what’s considered one of the crown jewels of public education, a proposal comes suggesting that salvation lies in going online."
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