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Magazine unveils list of 'top wired colleges' PC Magazine, in consultation with the Princeton Review, has published a list of what it calls "America's top wired colleges"--and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) tops the list.
The magazine based its rankings on areas such as academics, student resources, infrastructure, and technical support. No. 1 UIUC earned its top ranking by offering courses on topics such as parallel computing and data mining; lending laptops to students; and offering 24-hour telephone tech support, among other reasons.
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America's Top Wired Colleges, 2008 Edition
Winners of eSN's 'Empowered Education Awards' will bring the good news to senators and congressmen in Washington, D.C.
By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
The results are in for eSchool News' Empowered Education Awards (EEA)--and three teams of talented students and their teachers are preparing for a trip to remember.
But before these students could consider what to pack, a panel of esteemed judges had a difficult decision to make: choosing the top three video presentations out of nine finalists. With direct participation by visitors and members of eSchool News Online, the nine had been narrowed down from nearly 60 semi-finalists.
The three- to seven-minute original videos were developed by students and were based on the theme "How Technology Helps Me Learn." Students from across the United States, and even a team from Japan, sent video presentations depicting how their schools are using technology to advance learning.
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Click the image to view Ernest Hemingway Elementary School's winning video.
Technology enthusiasts Grace Gorham and Helene Hawes
eSN Empowered Education Awards
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Browser company unveils free curriculum for web site design
The Norwegian browser company Opera has launched a sweeping education initiative aimed at supporting and enhancing web standards education and training in high schools, colleges, and universities worldwide. As part of this initiative, Opera has unveiled a Web Standards Curriculum, which aims to provide a thorough understanding of client-side web design and development.
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State of the Art: Serious potential in Google's browser
By DAVID POGUE
The minimalist Chrome browser from Google is built for a future that blurs the lines between web and desktop, writes New York Times technology columnist David Pogue. Google argues that current web browsers were designed eons ago, before so many of the developments that characterize today's web: video everywhere, scams and spyware, viruses that lurk even on legitimate sites, web-based games, and ambitious web-based programs like Google's own Docs word processor.
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