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  Harvard and Cisco Enrich Boston and Cambridge Public School Learning Experience  
Article1 Photo   As of September 2010, students attending the 148 public schools in the Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts public schools now have exciting new ways to interact with peers, authors, scholars, and other experts anywhere in the world. The reason is a partnership among Harvard University, Cisco, and Raytheon BBN Technologies.
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Virtual Field Trips: Bring the World Into the Classroom
Article1 Photo   Field trips, that mainstay of K–12 education, are undergoing a transformation, thanks to high-definition video conferencing systems in the classroom. Like traditional field trips, video field trips enrich the curriculum—but they also improve on in-person field trips in three important ways.
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Physical Security Goes Mobile
Article3 Photo   Just a few years ago, campus physical security usually referred to a stationary video surveillance camera streaming grainy images to a stationary console in an office. Now video cameras and other sensors can easily be moved, and so can the people who view them. The concept is known as borderless networks.
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Five Years After Hurricane Katrina: Eight School Districts Transformed
  After helping with immediate relief efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September of 2005, Cisco and its employees wanted to make a longer-lasting commitment to the region. They chose schools. Five years later, the initiative has yielded tangible results for performance, graduation rates, and more.
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National Ed-Tech Plan
Dept of Education releases final version of National Ed-Tech Plan.

Cisco No. 7
Cisco No. 7 among green
Fortune 500s.

School Graduation
U.S. school graduation rate is rising.

School Videos
Ed-tech officials: Video will make schools more ‘efficient’.

 
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Technology in Schools Video Contest
Submit a brief video clip showing how your school is using technologies like wireless networks, video conferencing or web collaboration and you could win a high-definition Flip Video camera. For more info, visit www.schooltube.com.

NJASA Techspo
Atlantic City, New Jersey
January 27–28

Texas Assocation of School Administrators (TASA)
Austin, Texas
January 30–February 2

eTech Ohio Conference
Columbus, Ohio
January 30–February 2

 
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Cisco IPICS Video Dispatch Starter Kit

Cisco TANDBERG EX90

Cisco TelePresence

 
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