Faced with both budget cutbacks and growing threats to students' online safety and computer system security, schools throughout the country are opting for free, reliable services for Web content filtering and digital security.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 06/22/10
RM Education has launched a new digital media delivery system called RM eVision, a system that's designed for both broadcast and video on demand. The company also debuted a classroom audio system called RM SecureAudio.
Microsoft has noted that a Windows help function flaw is now being exploited by hackers.
Three school districts are grappling with the loss of private information on a broad scale, each through a unique set of circumstances.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/15/10
iParadigms has started licensing its Turnitin originality checking tool to the Ministry of Education of Ontario, Canada for use throughout the Ontario secondary school system.
- By Evan Tassistro
- 06/10/10
A persistent virus is what drove George Thornton to look for a different solution. No, not the type of virus that sends school administrators running to their emergency alert systems to warn parents about an H1N1 outbreak, but the other kind--the ones that show up on computers and drag down network operations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/08/10
A high school in Wisconsin has issued panic button pendants to its teachers that enable them to summon emergency help with the push of a button.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/08/10
A New York school district will be implementing a school transportation surveillance system for nearly 700 school buses.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/08/10
The school district enmeshed in a lawsuit for using school laptops to capture images of students without their knowledge has just signed a $25,000 contract with SunGard Services to help with IT auditing and policy development. The school board for Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania approved the emergency expenditure in May 2010 after reviewing a report from a national legal firm that investigated the district's use of a "theft tracking" Webcam feature.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/07/10
Brunswick County Schools (NC) is no enclave for technophobes. Students in all grades have full freedom to visit instructional websites, construct web pages, experiment with digital media, and participate in online educational activities.
- By Rama Ramaswami
- 06/01/10