eSN Today: Colleges find new revenue source online

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Top News ... Colleges find new revenue source online College athletic departments are discovering the click of a mouse can sound just as sweet as the ring of a cash register: Across the country, colleges and universities are transforming their web sites into one-stop, multimedia channels with hopes of generating up to $1 million a year. Enhanced use of the web also could enable colleges to better target their customers and raise even more money.... | Full Story Around the Web ... Tablet PCs finally find a niche At Pickering College, a private school north of Toronto, when students open their laptop computers and begin taking notes from the day's lessons, there is no disruptive... | Full Story Board of Ed OKs Utah Virtual Academy The Utah Board of Education voted Friday to approve a virtual charter school for students in grades K-12. The school, Utah Virtual Academy, will serve up to 500 students by... | Full Story High technology off the lunch menu Shortly after rolling out a new lunch program that allows pupils to pay for hot meals with a scan of their fingerprint, Wilmette, IL, school officials put the system on hold after... | Full Story More from eSchool News Online ... MPC acquires Gateway's school business Just days after Taiwanese computer maker Acer Inc. announced plans to acquire Gateway Inc. for $710 million, Gateway's school customers learned they will have a new supplier for... | Full Story House draft would overhaul ed-tech funding Educational technology advocacy groups are applauding the release of another House proposal to renew the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that would direct funds toward... | Full Story Cisco, mtvU reward young tech innovators Among the new digital tools and applications that students will be using on college campuses this fall are a mysterious, mobile-phone-based game of espionage; an online communal... | Full Story Lawmakers step up NCLB renewal process College and workforce preparedness, 21st-century skills, and the use of data to inform instruction are among the new points of emphasis in a draft version of a bill to reauthorize... | Full Story Announcements from ed-tech providers ... Samsung debuts premium high-definition projector for the home theater market | Read the full announcement With NCLB accountability for science coming, Curriculum Advantage rolls out Classworks Science | Read the full announcement Now teachers face students with "do-it-yourself" visual presenter | Read the full announcement Toon Boom Studio 4 is released | Read the full announcement Keeping your child ahead in school is essential; organization is key | Read the full announcement Panasonic Security Systems enrolls AMAG Technology into the Panasonic Solution Developer Network | Read the full announcement New 16 port hub distributes Pragmatic's PADS technology to even more rooms | Read the full announcement Announcing the broadcast industry's first Ethernet-based digital KVM switching system | Read the full announcement New NAEP study shows promise of computerized K-12 assessments | Read the full announcement Apangea Learning expands staff by more then 20 percent with recent hires | Read the full announcement Dr. Janet Allen to deliver keynote at HCTE/HASL annual conference | Read the full announcement	September Online Specials You Don't Want to Miss... 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