http://www.xplanazine.com Wed, 07 May 2008 18:19:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chicago Public Schools Taking Grades Online Beginning this summer, Chicago Public Schools will implement a Web-based gradebook system, piloting GradeSpeed.NET from Campusware at select campuses. GradeSpeed.NET is a customizable online tool that provides grade, assignment, and attendance tracking, as well as reporting capabilities and tools for students and parents to follow ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/schools-and-programs-in-the-news-april-28-may-4 Georgia Department of Education to Announce Program for Providing Free Training to Teachers on How to Use Innovative Online Education Resources From Thinkfinity.org Teachers throughout Georgia will be eligible to receive free training to use the innovative resources of Thinkfinity.org, through a grant from the Verizon Foundation that will be announced ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/awards-in-the-news-april-28-may-4 Missing Link of Electronics Discovered: "Memristor" After nearly 40 years, researchers have discovered a new type of building block for electronic circuits. Researchers believe that the memristor, or memory resistor, might become a useful tool for constructing nonvolatile computer memory, which is not lost when the power goes off, or for ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/it-news-april-28-may-4 Online books may ease students' money woes A coalition of students and professors from more than 100 campuses across the nation have concluded that textbook prices have become a barrier to affordable education. Surveys conducted by the University of California System, the California Student Public Interest Research Group and the Oregon ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/research-in-the-news-april-28-may-4 Campus Technology 2008 to Explore World of Wikis, Podcasts & MashUps Campus Technology 2008, the 15th annual higher education technology conference and expo, will open at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA on July 28. This year’s conference, which runs through July 31, focuses on “Web 2.0,” and the ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/conferences-in-the-news-april-28-may-4 Pearson in talks to acquire Chinese schools chain - report Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, is in advanced talks about acquiring a chain of private schools in Shanghai, the first time it would own an education institution anywhere in the world. LEC comprises 15 schools and the deal offers ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/05/publishers-in-the-news-april-28-may-4 Drupal is an open-source content management system.  It helps one create, manage, modify, delete information such as objects (images / documents / files).  A new guide, published by Packt Publishing, is very helpful for newbies as well as veterans of Drupal. Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6, ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/04/review-of-drupal-guide Online Degrees Increasing In Popularity According to the American Educational Guidance Center The demand for online learning opportunities is growing by leaps and bounds as thousands of degree-seeking students flock to Internet-based classrooms and lecture halls. As evidence of this growing trend, the American Educational Guidance Center, a leading provider of ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/04/online-education-in-the-news-april-21-27-2008 Quark Announces Quark Publishing System 7.4 Quark announced Quark Publishing System 7.4, the second maintenance release of its industry leading collaborative workflow system. Released in October 2007, QPS 7 is based on Java technology, true Service Oriented Architecture, and Spring Framework Java/J2EE, setting the new standard in advanced publishing systems. -- ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/04/it-news-april-21-27-2008 ESRB, PTA Launch New Education Initiative The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) have launched a nationwide initiative to educate parents about game ratings, parental control technology on consoles and online gaming. -- Next Generation NASA Offers Educational Online Gaming Opportunity to Developers NASA Learning Technologies sponsored a ... http://www.xplanazine.com/2008/04/games-in-the-news-april-21-27-2008