K-12

Channel One Network And i-SAFE Partner for Online Safety Awareness

6/3/2008

Teen news and content provider Channel One has partnered with electronic safety firm i-SAFE in an effort to enhance and increase electronic safety awareness among teens. The organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding, committing to work together to provide video programming and curriculum-based tools to students through the Channel One News broadcast and the i-SAFE and Channel One Web sites. Read More

Geeks On Call Partners with Ident-A-Kid

5/30/2008

IT solutions provider Geeks On Call announced Wednesday that it has partnered with child safety provider Ident-A-Kid through the Geeks On Call Endorsed Vendor Program and Ident-A-Kid's Corporate Partner Program. Read More

Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management

5/29/2008

Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009. Read More

Windsor Lands Multi-District ERP Contracts

5/23/2008

Windsor Management, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has landed contracts with several school districts, including districts in Arizona, Illinois, and Colorado, to deploy its Infinite Visions ERP software. Read More

Unified Communications System in Tulsa Powers Virtual Classroom

5/21/2008

Tulsa Technology Center, a school district with four campuses that offers career and technology education classes in Oklahoma, will be deploying a Nortel and Microsoft unified communications platform. The district will be using Xeta Technologies, a national provider of converged voice and data communications solutions. The platform is expected to enhance student-teacher communication while reducing school expenses. Read More

Security Market: K-12 Schools Rate Themselves 'Vulnerable'

5/21/2008

A large percentage of schools consider themselves open for physical and data breaches. In a new study conducted by Quality Education Data and released this week by CDW Government (CDW-G), 39 percent of K-12 IT and security personnel rate their institutions as only "moderately safe" to "very vulnerable." Read More

GVI Rolls Out Surveillance to Sarasota County

5/20/2008

Sarasota County School District in Florida is expanding its video surveillance program, bringing the total number of installed cameras to more than 2,500, according to GVI Security Solutions, Samsung's security technology master distributor. Read More

Adobe Launches Bundles for Online Learning

5/19/2008

Adobe this week launched a new slate of bundles and resources for educators looking to use Acrobat Connect Pro in their online teaching efforts. Adobe just introduced the new version of Acrobat Connect Pro about two weeks ago. Read More

OLPCs To Sport XP Pro in Emerging Markets

5/16/2008

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets, providing an alternative to Linux, which will, of course, continue to be offered for the low-cost machines aimed toward students in economically disadvantaged regions. Read More

CDW-G Equips 231 Pennsylvania Districts

5/2/2008

Technology provider CDW Government reported this week that it's completed implementation of technology programs for some 231 school districts across Pennsylvania as part of the state's Classrooms for the Future program. As part of the initiative, nearly 82,000 laptops and more than 4,000 interactive whiteboards have been deployed in 257 schools over the last two years. Read More