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Updates on: mobile virtual classroom in Arkansas, graduate program in educational technology offered through Michigan State University

“Aspirnaut Initiative,” a partnership project between Vanderbilt University, the Sheridan district and the Grapevine Historical Society, turns a schoolbus in Arkansas into a mobile virtual classrom, using wireless router and antenna. Students in the bus use their laptops to connect to a satellite classroom where a teacher helps them with after-school work. They can also take courses while traveling, independent from the classes during the school day. — Education Week

A graduate-certificate program in educational technology is being offered in Kalamazoo County this winter through Michigan State University. The program targets teachers for grades kindergarten through 12 who need to earn graduate credits toward licensure renewal or who seek to learn new ways to use technology in educational settings. — Kalamazoo Gazette