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Manchester students raise money to buy Apple laptops - The school began using the laptop computers in January throughout the school. From first grade through fifth, students learn essential computer skills — from the basics of typing to exploring the Internet

Students receive Mac-nificent gift - Johns Elementary School fourth-grader Gabbie Franco has written a book report about alligators on her new computer. Evelyn Duque uses her Macintosh to maintain a computerized reading log, and Fatima Escoto uses hers to write letters, mostly to her mother. These students are among about 100 who've received free refurbished computers from the Arlington school district made possible by a change in Texas law

MacvsPC.Info site - In mid-2000 our local K-12 school district decided to "standardize on the Windows/PC platform." At that time 90%+ of their computers were Macs. A group of local taxpayers felt that this was very unfortunate from several perspectives and started working on reviewing the merits of this decision

Tech grant boosts learning power - Laptops for nearly 100 students are scheduled to join the standard supply of pencils, erasers and paper this fall at Oak Grove School. The school recently acquired a three-year $300,000 technology federal grant that will place a new iBook Macintosh laptop in the hands of students between third and sixth grades

Free Apple Software for Schools - With more than 20,000 Apple computers currently in use in New Zealand schools these software upgrades will greatly benefit teachers and students throughout the country," said Murray Brown, Manager Information Communications Technology, Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Ministry of Education

Windows move angers US teachers - Teachers in North Virginia are angry as the education authorities there are forcing them to switch from Macs to PCs – and a host of existing educational resources appear likely to be lost in the move

Apple, Virginia Tech teaming up again - After building one of the world's fastest supercomputers on its first try, Apple Computer said Monday it will again team with Virginia Tech to make another high - performance machine using its new 64-bit Xserve G5 computer. Xserve, a thinner, more compact machine designed for clustering with other computers, will replace the supercomputer Tech built in November using off-the-shelf G5 PowerMacs

Apple Education: Would the Last Employee to be Laid Off Please Lock the Door - Another quarter, and another round of layoffs in Apple’s Education Division. Everybody who is left must be looking around wondering how much time they have left. I got news for them; start looking for another job NOW! It is plainly obvious that Apple is going to pare the division down to the bare minimum and then roll the few survivors into the rest of the sales force. In the words and music of Jim Morrison and the Doors, “This is the end, my only friend, the end”.

Laptop expansion plan detailed Department of Education to initially fund computers for 9th-graders - The current contract costs $300 per student, per year, which covers computers, wiring, training and system support, she said. If the program is expanded to include ninth-graders, it would add 17,000 students to the system

Maine iBook program to be extended to high schools - Calling the original US$37 million laptop program a success, Baldacci proposed expanding it from all public middle schools to all Maine high schools, starting next year with high school freshmen

Kansas School To Lease 340 Laptops For One-To-One Program - The Hutchinson News online edition has posted an article announcing a lease program of 340 iBooks for the Smoky Valley High School student body. Despite the current budget cuts and the cancelling of elective course offerings, the deal will provide the laptops in a one-to-one student distribution scheme in the hope of improving drop-out rates and school reputation

Governor Benson Launches Laptop Program - In total more than 600 students and 40 teachers will be given Apple iBook computers to integrate into their daily school routine. The program’s initial phase is slated to last four years. It is modeled in part on a successful laptop program in Maine

Laptops approved for four schools  - Students can use the Apple iBook laptops at school and at home to search the Internet, complete tests and homework through class Web sites, exchange e-mail with classmates and teachers, and access interactive reading and math programs, school officials said

Canada’s One-To-One iBook Program A Success - School District 60 (Peace River North) today announced a 22% increase in its English scores as a result of its Wireless Writing Program (WWP) research study , which confirmed that its computer-based writing initiative substantially improved the academic achievement of grade six and seven students, particularly in the area of written expression. The initiative involved providing a laptop computer for each of the students involved

Apple winning over Wintel schools - The company's education business development manager Alan Bennett said: "Our sales to traditional Wintel Local Authorities are growing, largely as a result of our focus on the creative use of ICT in the classroom."

Student iTeams fix tech troubles - As Maine's pioneering laptop initiative got under way in the state's middle schools two years ago, it quickly became clear that some of today's computer-savvy students knew more about using the portable computers than their teachers did

Haverhill, Canaan Get Computers - 7th-Graders Are Among 600 N.H. Students Getting Laptops for Free - Nicole and her 70 classmates at Haverhill Cooperative Middle School -- included in some 600 seventh-graders statewide -- are receiving Apple iBooks as part of a four-year initiative that aims to integrate technology into the curriculum. Gov. Craig Benson handed a computer to each Haverhill seventh-grader during a brief presentation in the school gym yesterday afternoon. The 116 seventh-graders at Indian River School in West Canaan also got laptops from Benson yesterday

Laptop study in Henrico raises concerns Some parents say they fear reprisals if they criticize the plan; others allege conflict - SRI International, a nonprofit research organization, is using a $1.1 million National Science Foundation grant to conduct studies of computer initiatives in school systems nationwide. The three-year research project is titled "A Framework and Network for Evaluating the Impact of Ubiquitous Computing in K-12 Schools."

Trustees impressed with PowerSchool - A new PowerSchool computer program was touted as so comprehensive, Nye County School District trustee Tracie Ward exclaimed Dec. 10, "Is there anything it can't do?" Other trustees apparently came away equally impressed as they voted to spend $164,000 on the system. A $9,800 discount will be offered if they purchase it by Monday

Stillwater: Laptop foes say deal will stand - Public opposition to a plan to provide laptops to junior high students was strong enough to help put two write-in candidates on the Stillwater school board last month, but iBook naysayers on the board say they won't push to sever the deal with Apple Computer.

Ten Steps to forming a Mac User Group at your K-12 School - So you're the tech specialist or resident geek at your K-12 school, and you're also a Mac fanatic. You believe that your staff would be more likely to put your school's Mac computers to good use if only they had a better understanding of the Mac platform, but you're not sure how to go about making that happen. Hey, I've been there. When I first joined my elementary school, I was the only Mac user on campus! By the time I left five years later, not only was the staff embracing the Macs on campus and excited to put them to use...several of them had switched to the Mac at home as wel

Video shows the way Fresno State relies on hours of scouting game tapes to prepare for opponents. - Out comes the equipment. A 35-inch TV sits in the basketball office, flanked by two stacked VCRs. A cable snakes from one VCR to a Macintosh G4 computer that sits next to another monitor

School launches Web site to reach parents, teachers - The other technology innovation is for the sixth-graders. They'll be able to preserve their last year at Sacred Heart with Apple Computer's iMovie software. " It's very kid-friendly software," Sindelar said. "The sixth-graders are really enjoying it."

School unveils wireless laptop project - Thursday, School 12 launched its wireless laptop pilot project. The one to one project provides each sixth grade student and teacher with an IBook laptop computer

Students take online adventure Winslow seventh-graders use laptops to tour bottom of the ocean - Coombs said she, like most teachers, regarded the iBooks with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Although she recognized the opportunities for virtual quests of discovery, Coombs also realized that becoming comfortable with such a powerful tool would take time

Students' best gift this season may be from district Middle-schoolers in Bethlehem will each get a laptop computer - The 1,313 wireless iBooks that the Bethlehem Area School District has ordered won't arrive for a few weeks, but school officials are taking advantage of the lull between Thanksgiving and Christmas to train students on the lightweight computers that can be used anywhere

A gift of learning: Donated computer helps JDHS student - She wants to go to college, perhaps to become a music teacher, and that dream is more feasible now thanks to a $1,400 Macintosh iBook computer the Juneau Moose Lodge bought her. " I was really excited that it was a laptop," said Ashley. "It helps me in class and to do a lot of homework."

Lodi Middle School thanks Spanos for donation to technology center - Joyce then led the sisters through a presentation of some of his schoolwork on one of the school's 30 Apple eMac computers

New COS lab features Macs - "The opportunity for our students to utilize the unique Macintosh operating system in a classroom setting opens an exciting new era for us at COS," said computer arts coordinator and instructor Jim Gilmore. "These machines respond well to the demands of the software that we use in our program, and better reflect design industry standards."

Apple UK education newsletter readied - Apple UK is to begin publishing a regular newsletter for education in January next yea

Students learn how to use video technology - The students were using high-speed data wires to transfer the images into multimedia iBook laptop computers on Wednesday. They edited the images using i-Movie software on the laptops, which were on loan from the Lenawee Intermediate School District

Stillwater school board contends with iBook contract - Months after the Stillwater, Minn. school board announced plans to introduce iBooks to junior high students in that town, there's still fallout: The Stillwater Gazette reports that the school board will go ahead with the plan despite opposition, because the cost of backing out of the contract with Apple would prove too expensive

Apple Wins Bids For NH Laptop Initiative - The PowerPage had learned that Apple has won the bid for the New Hampshire laptop initiative. Seventh graders at seven schools will be getting new PowerBooks or iBooks

Macintosh Education Projects - MacInTouch

District given technology grant - $900,000 will help purchase new equipment, train teachers - Through the grant, the district already has purchased 200 new eMac computers, and teachers have begun their training

In Pleasanton, teachers and students get Apples - when the 950 students at the school get their iBooks in December, Pleasanton will be the first school in the area to go completely high-tech.

Author: Schools overuse computers in classroom - Schenck Elementary School Principal Ana Garcia-Gustafson faced a tough choice last year: Her southwest Denver school had enough money to fund three special programs, but she had four to pick from - music, art, physical education and a computer lab. " We put it to our public," Garcia-Gustafson said. Computers won hands down. Art finished last. The school got 30 Apple I-Macs. It lost an art teacher.

Virginia Tech's "X" Officially Number 3 - Virginia Tech is an official giant in the supercomputing world. Participants at the SuperComputing 2003 conference, held in Phoenix, Ariz., heard Sunday that Virginia Tech's X, is ranked number three in the world and the fastest university supercomputer.

Classroom laptops a real life trial for new program - Oak-Land has had laptop carts in the building for about five years, but the pilot program in Rau’s room, giving the students access every day, started this fall. Rau has witnessed first-hand the power of the laptops in his class. Attendance is up, discipline problems are down, and the students have a new-found excitement to learn

WA students get iBooks - THE West Australian government has delivered on its initiative to equip mid-west students with laptop computers. The $3.7 million project will equip about 730 public high-school students with their own laptop at the Highbury Street campus of Geraldton Secondary College

Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite  - Big Mac -- the first supercomputer made of Macs -- trails only Japan's Earth Simulator and Los Alamos National Laboratory's ASCI Q in the Top500 , a list of the world's 500 fastest machines

The School Daze Ahead - For a while it seemed that Apple had pretty much conceded the battle for the education market to Dell, but with renewed vigor, and with better education pricing and more focus on the needs of academia, Apple has been winning a lot of bulk educational purchases lately

Apple - EDUCAUSE 2003 - Higher education IT professionals and other key higher education faculty recently converged on Anaheim, California, to learn how their colleagues are managing technology that advances 21st century teaching, learning, and research

Apple corners Canada schools market - Apple now has almost half of Canada's education market, according to Apple's executive VP of worldwide sales and operations, Tim Cook. In the last quarter Apple Canada won 46 per cent of the Canadian education market, putting the company in first place. Dell is now in second place, with 14 per cent of that market

Pittsfield school gets laptops - Williams Elementary School recently became the city's first elementary school to purchase a mobile computer laboratory. The iBook Wireless Mobile Lab made its first appearance at Williams on Friday morning as 19 kindergarten pupils were given laptop computers from the unit to work with, Principal Linda Avalle said

Pinnelas County School District Dumping Macs Because Of Wintel "True Believers" - t's incredibly ironic to hear a Suit explain that his customers (the teachers) need to be kept in the dark because they won't like what he does. That bit comes from a quote we didn't include in our article, but deserves comment. IT people often forget that their role is not to make local computing better for IT, but to make it better for the people that are using it. Such is clearly the case in Pinellas County, where those roles are definitely confuse

Jaw-dropping Pinellas County 'Mac to Windows migration' article surfaces - This one takes the cake. Personal computers are better suited for schools than Macs? Who wrote this article? Raymond Babbitt? Pinellas County has a Superintendent who thinks, "95 percent of all business applications are Windows-based." (This is the guy who made the decision all by his lonesome according to reports - see related articles below.) Does the Super mean business applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint? Or something else listed here ? Perhaps the BayNews9.com webmaster is an expert in something. Judging by this article, though, we think not.

Implementing a Mobile Lab in a Faculty of Education - The University of Alberta in Canada has embraced this mobile computing wave with wired laptop network connections and wireless network access points available in many locations across campus. For example, in our student union building, users can sit in a relaxed area with their laptops and access the Internet

The Reality of Anytime, Anywhere Learning - The schools were able to purchase enough Apple iBooks to create three wireless mobile labs. Each lab was made up of 20 iBooks, an AirPort Extreme Base Station from Apple, a network printer and a computer cart. During the last two years that these mobile labs have been in use, it has been very obvious that wireless technology fills a need that a traditional computer lab or limited numbers of desktop computers in classrooms cannot satisfy

Intro to OS X programming class planned - Eric Tremblay of MacDev.ca is considering offering an " Introduction to Mac OS X Programming " class at the DeMaisonneuve College in Montreal in November or early December

What's the postage on 130,000 iBooks? - , the most interesting comment being that, "Our entire group came back (from an Apple-sponsored event) satisfied that Apple would be a great fit for the program, with the only dissension coming from our tech director who is opposed to trying to bring the Mac into our infrastructure."

Laptops put to the test - The five-year, $1.7 million deal finalized last week puts Oak-Land Junior High in the national spotlight as Apple Computer's fourth demonstration site on laptop use. The idea has popped up at dozens of schools across the nation. Maine issues a laptop to every junior-high student and teacher in the state. Similar programs are in place in Henrico County, Va., and at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, Calif. A few Minnesota schools also tried similar programs

District's move to drop Apples leaves sour taste - When Hinesley announced the change early in September, it came as a bolt from the blue, handed down from on high. More than the old debate about the relative merits of Macs and PCs, the decision sparked resentment and bitterness about the way top administrators manage the district. How Hinesley informed the School Board that he was making the change is another story

Class builds technical knowledge - In addition to 30 computer kits for the computer practicum class, the grant bought 30 wireless laptops, funded two wireless connecting points in the high school, and provided digital imaging equipment that includes two still cameras, a digital video camera and an Apple computer for digital imaging. Ten global-positioning systems and software were included for use by science, geography and math classes. A digital projector and a printer were also added to the school's technology inventory.

Apple @ Technology + Learning Conference - The National School Board Association's Technology + Learning Conference runs October 22-24, 2003 in Anaheim, California

University to upgrade with Mac - Apple Computer Inc. doesn't often get the better of market behemoth Microsoft Corp., but it did so recently when it won a bid to outfit the University of Tokyo with over a thousand computers

Apple Lands Another US$3.2 Million School Deal For 1,970 iBooks - According to the paper, the Green County school district has signed a US$3.2 million deal to provide all of the county's 6-12 graders an iBook. That's some 1,800 iBooks, plus another 170 that will go to teachers

The keys to success? - At Hixson Middle School in Webster Groves, seventh-graders analyze poetry, research ancient civilizations, do math problems and explain gravity with the help of personal laptop computers

Macs win 'small battles' in Vail, Ariz., schools - The Vail School District is home to 5,300 students across nine schools. It's also home to 1,100 Macs. The system has had pervasive wireless at all the schools since 2000 -- thanks to Apple, of course, Federoff said. Plus, there's an Xserve at every site (and two at the high school)

Apple - Education - Hampton School District - Dr. Allen Davis will never forget the day the iBook laptops were distributed at Lindsay Middle School. A tiny seventh-grader, upon receiving her iBook promptly threw her arms around Davis’s waist, gave him a hug, and said, “I never thought anyone would ever trust me with this type of equipment!” That moment, says Davis, superintendent of Hampton City Schools, convinced him that his move to create a citywide Virtual Learning Community (VLC) was definitely worth all of the effort

Macs thrive at Montana county school district - It's often the big school districts that make news with their use of Macs, but that doesn't mean that smaller systems aren't taking full advantage of the computing platform. One is Hamilton School District, which is located in a small community in western Montana (in the Bitterroot Valley). Approximately 1,615 students are enrolled in five elementaries, a middle school and a high school. All the schools, except the high school, use Macs in their labs, and teachers also have access to Macs. Over 300 Macs are up and running in Hamilton

School Celebrates Computer Success - Headteacher Malcolm Beresford is aiming to turn the school into an exercise book and pencil free zone. Through its own good house-keeping and shrewd financial management the school has saved over two years the money to buy a new IT suite and 40 new Apple computers

H-D students get powerful new tool to help track student progress - Comparisons to George Orwell's "1984" may be inevitable, but parents of Hampton-Dumont students now have a powerful new tool to help keep track of their student's performance. Power School is a web-based student management system from Apple.

Toyko University Awards Contract For 1,150 Computers To Apple Japan - Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun which states that Apple Japan has won a contract to provide 1,150 iMacs to the prominent Tokyo University, making it the first order of more than 1,000 units that Apple Japan has received, according to the article. The iMacs will become the most common computer on campus, replacing many Windows-and Linux-based PCs

School Board OKs laptop loaning plan - Although a district official outlined a plan to fund about $850,000 of the project’s total cost — which does not include funding for increased computer support staff — he did not elaborate on where the district would find the additional $2 million it will need

Greene students will soon take laptops home - The county’s iTech program, which will allow every student in middle and high school to have access to an Apple iBook computer, is ahead of schedule. Superintendent Steve Mazingo originally expected students to take computers home after Christmas, but most students should have their laptops by November

iBook-intensive Henrico schools win another tech award - The Governor's Gold Technology Award honors organizations that use technology innovatively to enhance the provision of services. Henrico schools received the honor for being the first public school system in the nation to provide laptop computers to all middle school and high school students, and to all staff, through the Teaching and Learning Initiative

Supercomputer goes online - The 1,100-computer cluster containing 4.4 terabytes of memory will hit its target of starting operations by Oct. 1, allowing it to be ranked for the next contest of the world’s top supercomputers

Boffins prepare to turn 'Mac Deep Thought' on - The experts behind the Power Mac G5-based supercomputer cluster being assembled by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University aim to switch the machine on by October 1.
If they meet the deadline, the cluster will make the next ranking of the Top 500 Supercomputer list

iBooks delivered to Quebec school - Eastern Township School of Quebec, Canada is taking delivery of its first iBooks for elementary and secondary students, as part of a 3-year program that provides 5,000 iBooks to students

STILLWATER: Board gives go-ahead for junior high laptops - Monday night's 4-2 vote allows the school district to continue negotiations with Apple Computer on the five-year, $2.85 million proposal. The laptops would go to about 2,270 students and 135 staff members at Oak-Land and Stillwater junior high schools by next fall

Idiots In Charge Of School Systems: Lemmings, Part II - School superintendent Howard Hinesley decided the whole system needs to switch to PCs despite the fact that 69% of the existing computers are Macs, and most staff members being against it. Oops, did I forget to mention that he never asked the staff (the people who actually use the computers) what they thought?

STILLWATER: All in junior high might receive laptops - The plan would provide computers to the approximately 2,200 students at Oak-Land and Stillwater junior highs. The district has not disclosed how it plans to pay for the plan, what the cost will be or when it will start, but officials will present details at today's special meeting

Does Going Windows Save Schools Money? - Yes, more businesses use Windows than use Macs. The same is true of home users; Windows is the dominant OS. That doesn't mean that it's better than the Mac OS, only that more people choose it. Yet many believe that market dominance is sufficient reason to choose Windows over the Mac OS.
I wonder if they think McDonald's is the best place to take a date, since millions more choose it than the gourmet restaurant down the road....

Students and teachers to get laptops - Every seventh grade student and teacher at Carroll Middle School will have a laptop computer as early as the end of the month. On Monday, Carroll School Board members approved a four-year lease agreement with Apple Computer Inc. to provide laptop computers to students and teachers at the school

Columbia High School parents now have access to records - Columbia Junior-Senior High School parents will be able to check on their students with a simple click of the mouse. The school district has been using Apple's PowerSchool program since August of last year. The Power School parent access system will allow parents to check their students' grades and attendance and to view the daily school bulletin

UW-Oshkosh campus technology gets upgrade - The presentation lab has added $11,281 of new equipment including two PCs and two Macintosh computers, as well as two new digital cameras, which can be checked out free of charge

Henrico County’s teachers have seen their students come to regard their iBook laptops as the one item they absolutely can’t be without - In just a short period of time, the changes we’ve seen in teaching methodology since we began our iBook laptop initiative have been just phenomenal. We’ve moved from the traditional lecture model, where students take notes and regurgitate information, to a real constructivist type of learning model, where the kids collaborate; they problem-solve; they do research; and they actually construct knowledge

Virginia Tech PowerMac G5 Cluster Photos - These photos are from the Virginia Tech Supercomputer Cluster composed of 1100 PowerMac G5's

School board to honor teachers - Apple Computer selected Kathy White, an instructional technology specialist, as the Apple Distinguished Educator. White works with elementary students and their teachers, helping them use technology with curriculum

'School Night at the Apple Store' resumes - "School Night at the Apple Store ," the program that gives K-12 schools an opportunity to showcase the work their students and teachers create using Macs, is ready for the new school year

NECC 2004 to be held next June in New Orleans - NECC 2004 is presented by ISTE in cooperation with the Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators. More than 16,000 teachers, teacher educators, technology coordinators, library media specialists, administrators, policy makers, industry representatives and exhibitors from around the globe are expected to attend

PowerSchool PowerPack - Current PowerSchool customers: Get the most out of your PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) with PowerPack. Receive valuable tools for teachers, administrators, and parents

Computer switch in schools is hard to understand - As the librarian at my school, I deal intimately with technology. I am an adept user of both computer platforms and have both a Windows desktop and an Apple laptop as part of my home computer network. I have been following, and sometimes participating in, the recent discussion about Pinellas school superintendent Howard Hinesley's decision to eliminate the Apple platform from our school district. I am having a very difficult time understanding the reasoning behind this decision. Here are some things I do understan

Carroll, Iowa students, teachers to get iBooks - All teachers and seventh graders in Carroll, Iowa, will receive an Apple laptop before the end of October if all goes according to plans. On Monday, the Carroll School Board approved a four-year lease agreement with Apple to provide iBooks

Apple PowerSchool debuts PowerPack promo - PowerPack, which will be offered through September 26, 2003, includes PowerSchool tutorials, self-paced, hands-on training modules, and FAQs for teachers and administrators, including reports, letters, and templates; complete user guides; and QuickTime movies product overviews of PowerSchool and PowerGrade

One Alaska School District Goes All-PowerBook, Another Alaska District Experiments - When Fred Anderson spoke to the Citigroup Technology Conference '03 last week, he had good things to say about Apple's education sales. Market share was up, though sales were flat, and portables were very strong. When mentioning the large sales to Henrico County, Virginia and the entire state of Maine, Mr. Anderson specifically said that there were another 100 or so similar sales that had either taken place or were in the works, and that Apple would not be publicizing them.

Apple - Seminars Online - Digital Photography on Mac OS X

Chicago suburb school district to provide 5,200 iBooks to elementary students - "The scene inside Tammi Benson's sixth-grade classroom in Schaumburg last week looked more like Christmas than the second week of school," Chris Fusco reports for The Chicago Sun-Times. "'I thought iBooks were just regular books, but then Mrs. Benson showed us--it's a laptop,' said 11-year-old Craig Hartwig, his face glowing as brightly as the sleek Apple computer in front of him. 'Hopefully, I'll be able to do my homework on it.'"

A Mac-Style Supercomputer - Virginia Tech is tying 1,100 G5s together to achieve top-dollar performance for a relative bargain, a ringing endorsement for Apple's latest machine

Apple - Seminars Online - Break through the barriers to digital photography success

An Apple a student for Denali Borough School District - When school begins Sept. 15, the Denali Borough School District will become the first in Alaska to provide a laptop computer for every student in grades 9 through 12. A total of 129 laptop computers are being prepared to hand over to high schoolers at Tri-Valley, Anderson and Cantwell schools.

Apple Gears Up For Fall - The announcements come just as the fall buying season is warming up. Students are going back to school and need new computers. But college students are headed back to campus with a big cloud hanging over a popular campus pastime: illegal downloading of music files over Internet connections. College campuses, with their free high-speed connections, have been a consistent irritant to the Recording Industry Association of America--and a partial motivation behind the 261 lawsuits it filed in federal court Monday. Many who lived on Kazaa or Grokster may now be looking for a legal alternative

Chicago-area schools offer iBooks to students - Apple has landed yet another "one-on-one" educational computing initiative with the Chicago-area Schaumburg schools buying thousands of iBooks for its students

Apple - Education - Henrico County Public Schools - With our iBook laptop program, instead of having one hour a week in a computer lab, our students now have the opportunity for continuous learning, 24/7. They’re using their iBook computers on the school steps, on the playground, at home ... everywhere they go. The wireless world, along with the portability of the laptops, and the dynamic nature of the digital content are creating a synergy that will have a huge impact on schools and classrooms.

University of Illinois still patching all Windows machines; Macintosh unaffected - The University [of Illinois] continues to battle the recent worldwide computer viruses, which hit at an unfortunate time for University students returning to campus and needing to set up their computers

Apple Education Watch - Iowa School District May Go Mac - Newton, Iowa school superintendent Steve McDermott has stated publicly he is in ongoing discussions with Apple Computer concerning a one-to-one deployment of Macs for students in the district's schools

Apple Offers Back To School Gift Guide For Education Customers - Apple has posted a Back To School Gift Guide for the Apple Store for Education. The company is tying in the Gift Guide with a promotion for the 5%-15% discount education customers can get on Apple products

Apple UK education offer - UK teachers and students can buy any PowerBook or qualifying iBook together with an iPod and/or an HP printer. Buy both the iPod and printer for a total saving of £180 on the already discounted educational price

MIT Everyware - Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style

Apple shoots for Iowa school system; offers plan for one laptop per student - Apple Computers [sic] has approached the district about its 'one-to-one' program that involves one computer for every student with laptops and Internet access at home

How can Apple appeal to schools and businesses alike? - My first advice for Apple would be to scale down its systems for education. The eMac includes a lot of things it shouldn’t, which of course means a higher initial cost. If there was a lab full of eMacs in my school, here are some features I would find completely unnecessary

Students head back to school with laptops - Laptops are the hottest-selling products in the PC market, and analysts expect that trend to continue. Once considered expensive gadgets used mainly by executives and engineers, today's laptops from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Apple and other major manufacturers are cheaper, more powerful, lightweight and sleek in design

Students sharing computer knowledge with classmates - Fourth-grade teacher Gail Hart's classroom will include 22 new Apple eMac computers this year. After seeing the impact a computer-based curriculum had on colleague Dee Grande's students last year, Hart said she expects her students to benefit from having their own computers in the classroom

A tale of two school systems: Windows schools crippled while Mac schools unaffected - Warren County schools weren’t affected, according to Technology Coordinator Pat Stewart. Jordan said the county lucked out because it has mostly Apple computers, which have been immune thus far to the viruses

Back-to-school bonanza PC-makers look forward to brisk sales to students - Laptops are the hottest-selling products in the PC market, and analysts expect that trend to continue. Once considered expensive gadgets used mainly by executives and engineers, today's laptops from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Apple and other major manufacturers are cheaper, more powerful, lightweight and sleek in design

Separating students' needs from their wants - The personal computer -- whether it's a desktop model that a high school student shares with family members at home or a laptop that a college student carries between the dorm room, classroom and library -- is a must-have. But does a high school junior really need a Palm or Pocket PC handheld? How about a college student?

Laptop push divides educators - The state's initiative to put laptop computers in the hands of every sixth-grade student has left many Oakland County schools with unanswered questions about the program and unsure of whether to accept the state's offer due to budget constraints

Cleveland-area school equips every teacher and student with 280 Apple iBooks - No more pencils, no more books' could become more than a summertime anthem in Beachwood Middle School, which will be among the first in the nation to equip every student and teacher with a laptop computer

BusinessWeek's Haddad: "Apple's School Days Are Numbered" - What parents and school administrators don't seem to understand is that computers in schools and classrooms should be there not to teach kids specifically how to use the latest version of Microsoft Windows XP, but to teach them general computer skills that will be applicable to any system they may use in the real world

Is it Goodbye Mr. Chips for Apple in Education? - Moms, Dads. School district inspectors. A vast conspiracy of the Dark Side - or just the plain ignorant - are steadily removing the Mac from education. That's the sad truth, Charles Haddad at BusinessWeek writes. It's behavior, not pricing, which is keeping Macs out of schools, Haddad argues. Although some may dispute his statement that "PCs have little price advantage over Macs", we would certainly support it, and there's much data that validates this point

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