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- In this first installment of our two-part "before and after" series, we look at preparations underway for a middle school distance education session that involves videoconferencing live with the "worst weather spot" in the Northeastern United States: the observatory on Mount Washington. Technology Coordinator Roy Bailey shares the details of the project--the costs, the equipment involved, and the educational goals, among other things, as his school gears up for the event.More
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- The University of California, Davis School of Education is taking a novel approach to boosting K-12 teacher effectiveness--distributing grant money to small teams of teachers and letting them decide how they want to spend it.More
- Project Tomorrow has kicked off Speak Up 2009, the latest in the organization's series of annual surveys focused on 21st century teaching, learning, parenting, and administration. This year it's also added a new survey geared specifically toward pre-service teachers.More
- Holly Grove Elementary School of Holly Springs, NC, has won the 2009 Calypso School First Foundation's Be Heard/School Grant.More
- LifeSize announced a new series of high definition telepresence systems, the LifeSize 220 Series. More
- ClearOne announced a new high definition video conferencing bundle featuring the company's RAV 600 audio conferencing system packaged with several Sony display products.More
- Da-Lite Screen Co., which has been successful at 3D projection screen development for a few years now, announced an increase in gain on its 3D Grey Projection Screen. More
- Dukane has announced an ultra-short-throw LCD projector that can be positioned as close as 4 inches from the projection surface.More
- Tandberg announced the Telepresence T1, an immersive video conferencing system based on the Telepresence T3 but with a smaller footprint.More
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