SmartClassroom :: Wednesday, November 8, 2006

  • 11/06/06

News & Product Updates

Call for Entries

Good news for schools in need of high-end projection capability. Campus Technology magazine will be following the campus use of four Canon REALiS SX6 multimedia projectors – equipment that boasts new levels of razor-sharp projection for intricately detailed applications (including small text) – to see how advances in “smart classroom” technology (such as Canon’s brand-new “AISYS Enhanced” LCOS technology) are actually impacting classroom work...

Read more

NEC Launches Education Rewards Program

NEC Corporation of America is launching a new rewards program called NEC Star Student. This program helps educational institutions acquire visual displays needed to share information and move students to new levels of discovery without straining the university’s budget.

NEC Star Student is a program specifically designed for education. All public or private, accredited, not-for-profit educational institutions involved in K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and home schools with vocational and technical instruction or administration in the U.S. or Canada are eligible for NEC Star Student. It offers NEC purchase rewards, such as EDUwards, free third and fourth year warranties, and the NEC exclusive PowerUp and Lamp Protect Programs...

Read more

RateMyProfessors Adds Pictures

RateMyProfessors.com took on a whole new meaning when the service added a feature enabling students to add photos of their professors. Camera phones will now have new uses in the classroom, according to Patrick Nagle, president of RateMyProfessors.com. However, to help filter out malicious content, every photo will be manually reviewed by one of 1,500 administrators. “In addition, we provide tools like RSS Feeds and Flagging, which give professors a degree of control over content that's posted," said Nagle.

RateMyProfessors.com currently has about 6,200,000 ratings on about 800,000 professors from colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom...

Read more

Featured

  • student reading a book with a brain, a protective hand, a computer monitor showing education icons, gears, and leaves

    4 Steps to Responsible AI Implementation

    Researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning (CIDDL) have published a new framework for the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence at all levels of education.

  • glowing digital brain interacts with an open book, with stacks of books beside it

    Federal Court Rules AI Training with Copyrighted Books Fair Use

    A federal judge ruled this week that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not violate copyright law when it used copyrighted books to train its Claude chatbot without author consent, but ordered the company to face trial on allegations it used pirated versions of the books.

  • server racks, a human head with a microchip, data pipes, cloud storage, and analytical symbols

    OpenAI, Oracle Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership

    OpenAI and Oracle have announced they will develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership as part of the Stargate Project, a joint venture among OpenAI, Oracle, and Japan's SoftBank Group that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing capacity over four years.

  • laptop displaying a phishing email icon inside a browser window on the screen

    Phishing Campaign Targets ED Grant Portal

    Threat researchers at cybersecurity company BforeAI have identified a phishing campaign spoofing the U.S. Department of Education's G5 grant management portal.