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Teachers to Create Awesome Educational Content with iBooks Author

Confirming rumors that January 19 would see the unveiling of a textbook creation platform, Apple yesterday introduced iBooks Author, a free tool for Mac users looking to create e-Books for iPad and iPhone consumption.The tool is primarily aimed at teachers, who can create textbooks not just for their own students, bu...

20 January 2012
04:49 GMT

iTunes U Hopes to Reinvent Education via iPad

An all-new iTunes U application is now available for teachers and students, to teach and take entire courses on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iTunes U allows teachers to create and manage courses, including lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses, and offer them not just to their students, but to ...

20 January 2012
04:07 GMT

High Kindergarten Standards Pay Off in the Future

A new Harvard study implies that children who learn a lot in kindergarten and have an experienced teacher are more likely to become richer that their peers and even to be married before age 30. the six economists, authors of the study, followed almost 12,000 adults who had their kindergarten scores measured back in t...

30 July 2010
08:45 GMT

Shocking Teacher Video Scam Returns on Facebook

Security researchers from Sophos warn that scammers are reusing an older lure a teacher hitting a student to trick Facebook users into spamming their friends and completing surveys. The most intriguing part of this attack is that people are falling for it, despite this being old news and an identical scam running alm...

28 July 2010
10:58 GMT

Hysterical Mothers Responsible for Lack of Male Teachers

The decreasing number of male teachers is no longer an issue we are not familiar with, especially since, all along the years, different publications have taken it upon themselves to sound the alarm on this topic. Schools worldwide have now reached a point where they can’t but complain about the “endangere...

22 January 2009
06:26 GMT

Teacher Wins Emmy Thanks to One to One Training at the Apple Store

Burbank, CA elementary school teacher Larry Newman won an Emmy Award for his first attempt at filmmaking. Newman hadn't done any professional filming prior to shooting "Children's Music Workshop: 2007 All Schools Honor Orchestra." He did get some help, though, from Apple.TUAW is reporting that Larry Newman,...

23 September 2008
09:19 GMT

Teachers Advised to Stay Away from Social Networks

Scottish school teachers who access the Internet from home are advised to avoid interacting with pupils online through instant messaging applications or social networks, BBC reports today. Because of the growing popularity of social networks and other online communities, teachers are asked not to disclose too much pr...

27 May 2008
09:06 GMT

Teachers, Creating Electronic Tests Is Easy!

Probably you all remember the numerous tests you have taken in school - multiple choice, yes/no answers, cause/effect, fill in the gaps, and many more types of exercises have been used to evaluate your knowledge. And I don't know about you, but I've always wondered when teachers found the time to come up w...

6 May 2008
07:50 GMT

Would You Let Her Teach Your Kid About Frap?

There's no way to sugar-coat such a question, so I'll just come straight out and ask you: if you had a kid, would you let him/her hang around Britney Spears? I for one wouldn't be too thrilled with the thought that a woman who was strapped to a gurney and taken to hospital after taking one of her toddl...

6 March 2008
06:59 GMT

Google Decisive in Child Porn Bust

Hello.com, owned and operated by Google, turned up a big catch in the war against child pornography and, to some extent, averted scarring experiences that were to come if high school teacher Timothy Lynn Brumit were to continue with his 'hobby' and decide to mix business with pleasure. The pedagogue sent ov...

18 February 2008
15:06 GMT

Electronic Field Trips Waiting for Your Click

It's a well-known fact that young people and kids in general prefer to stay at home and surf the web instead of going out so most of their hobbies are now related to the computer. That's why most things addressed to the children must adapt and became accessible via Internet and today's piece of news is...

16 November 2007
16:31 GMT

Google Earth: The Perfect Replacement for Traditional School!

Google Earth is the downloadable mapping tool which serves as the main application for an incredible number of purposes except the one presented by the super giant Google: view and analyze the satellite photos from every corner of the world. The latest one discovered by me today was actually mentioned by Google in an...

2 October 2007
15:41 GMT

Hot Blond Naughty Teacher Boosts YouTube Audience

Her name is Marina and she's probably the hottest YouTube attraction these days. In case you haven't seen any of her videos, the user named hotforwords seems to be YouTube's naughty teacher who likes to explain words in an unique way. Her YouTube channel has no less than 397,329 views at this time with...

1 October 2007
16:51 GMT

Yahoo's Latest Concern: Exam Cheating!

If you're asking yourself what's up with the title, let me explain it to you. First of all, the Sunnyvale company prepares the release of Yahoo Teachers, a new technology that will strive to help the teachers from all around the world to prepare class material and share the information with other professors...

29 August 2007
03:43 GMT

YouTube Clip Fires a Boston Teacher

The Virginia shootings made a lot of victims in the US but, using other online media techniques, they caused several problems for people from all over the world. Take for example a Boston teacher fired by the school's officials after he talked about the massacre in a unique way. According to several sources, Nic...

23 April 2007
16:16 GMT

YouTube Must Stop The Online Harassment Of Teachers

I told you that YouTube tends to become a real phenomenon. Now, you must believe me because the video service imposes new laws in the UK after numerous clips were published on the Google product. According to CNET, the UK voted new laws to give more power to the teachers and allow them to confiscate the mobile phones...

12 April 2007
07:03 GMT


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