THE Journal: Schools Crunch Big Data With Free Software

K-12 Education and the Cloud

4/4/2012

Data Management

Schools Crunch Big Data With Free Software
When a charter school with a small student body wanted to collect, analyze, and use data in a new way, it did what any feisty little up-start would do--it created its own program. Of course, a little help from a cloud computing powerhouse helped.
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Accessible Media

A Free Cloud Library for Students With Disabilities
Bookshare just celebrated its 10th anniversary as a provider of digital accessible materials to students with print disabilities. More than 190,000 people--mostly students--have access to the cloud-based library that currently has more than 135,000 titles available.
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Learning Resources

Luidia Unveils Cloud-Based Interactive Whiteboard Tool
Luidia has recently rolled out the beta version of a cloud solution that allows lectures to be viewed and manipulated remotely from tablets and other computers while providing interactive whiteboard functionality without the board.
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Outercurve Foundation Adds ChonoZoom to Research Accelerators Library
The Outercurve Foundation has accepted the ChronoZoom big history project, an open source effort designed to make historical connections easier to grasp, after the project was offered to the foundation by the University of California, Berkeley, Moscow State University, and Microsoft Research.
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SAGE Day School Adopts Cloud-Based Virtual Desktops
New Jersey-based SAGE Day Schools has adopted virtual desktops across three campus locations in an effort to move to a completely cloud-based system.
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Collaboration

VidTel, Vaddio Launch Cloud-Based Videoconferencing System
VidTel and Vaddio have partnered to provide a cloud-based videoconferencing platform and equipment that allows the user to participate from a variety of systems and devices. VidTel's MeetMe uses Vaddio's EasyUSB tools.
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Pen Pal Kids Club Offers Free Classroom Subscriptions
Pen Pal Kids Club, an international social network for students in grades K-8, has begun offering free classroom subscriptions.
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Report: Gartner Says Computing is Shifting to the Personal Cloud
A new report from Gartner suggests that by 2014 users will store more of their data in the cloud than on their personal computers.
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Professional Resources

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