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Now you can get OLPC's Sugar on a stick
News This includes networking infrastructure, teacher training and curriculum materials. The OLPC (one laptop per child) XO-1 interface is now available on a USB stick. Sugar Labs, responsible for building... [29 Jun 2009]
Medical Transcription Offers a Flexible Career Choice
White Paper When Jill Pippenger's son was born, she decided to leave her job as an elementary school teacher and stay home. Although happy to be with her child, she was still concerned about money. She soon learned... [16 May 2009]
OLPC: Windows vs Linux
News It was the fact that the art teacher used the PCs for research but had the students put them away and use their hands to make wax sculptures. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little... [24 Oct 2008]
Web software to save schools time and money
News Along with the finance capabilities, Integris G2 manages information relating to pupil attendance and performance as well as student and teacher timetables. G2 could also help local authorities comply with the... [11 Jan 2007]
Scots tots buy school dinners with veins
News According to head teacher Sandra Gibson, the system has gone down well with the children and older students have been teaching younger ones how to use it. The system can also help school staff to prevent allergic... [31 Oct 2006]
$100 laptop advocates fight back
News One anonymous reader, an IT manager from Letchworth, agreed that without other key elements in place - such as teacher training - the scheme could hit some major hurdles. Even Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop... [02 Aug 2006]
Leader: Bored at work? Change job - not career
Leader By some coincidence, the report - remember it's written by a teacher training organisation - says teaching is the least boring job of all. Imagine working six days per week, prepping lessons, having kids swear at you... [27 Jul 2006]
Intel announces $400 PC school boon
News For example, a teacher could click a button on his or her console that starts a presentation with video on the Eduwise laptops. The Eduwise laptop joins low-cost PC projects such as AMD's Personal Internet Communicator... [04 May 2006]
How helping hands from the IT industry are giving something back
News Janette Steel, head teacher of Chelsea Children's Hospital School, says: "She'd been in and out of hospital since she was born. We did that for a year but Janette said 'I don't want you to do it for one... [15 Dec 2005]
Photos: Art work by students at Chelsea Children's Hospital School
Photo Head teacher Janette Steel says: "We believe in helping people to know about ICT. The Royal Brompton Hospital looks after children and young adults with lung and heart problems; the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital... [15 Dec 2005]
Irish school scans fingers to beat truancy
News Rob Micallef, a form teacher at the school said: "The class are very interested and excited about their role in this project. If a child does not turn up to school, parents receive a text message. A... [01 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.04.05
Round-Up Speaking of matters musical - those British purveyors of middle-of-the-road geography teacher-pop Coldplay have announced their forthcoming single will come out as a mobile phone ringtone before more conventional formats... [15 Apr 2005]
Lib Dem manifesto hits out at ID cards
News The manifesto also claimed that because of a "teacher recruitment crisis", thousands of children are being taught key subjects by staff who are not trained specialists in that subject, and said it would guarantee that... [14 Apr 2005]
Schoolchildren to be tagged in safety trial
News Dyfrig Ellis, head teacher of the Lonlas primary school near Swansea, got the idea for the scheme after seeing a demonstration of the technology at an IT conference and is now trying to set up a meeting with the supplier... [21 Jan 2005]
Leader: How do we get more kids into tech?
Leader The campaign to get people into teaching always used to claim that everybody remembers a good teacher.it didn't add that this is possible because there are so few good ones. One silicon.com reader wrote in this week to... [27 Aug 2004]