Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) High School students, seated from left, Jacob Sjostrom, Kyle Hoffman, Bryana Benson operate the new iPads the school got to aid instruction.
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Google still number 1 while bing passes yahoo for the first time ever.
For the first time, MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search overtook Yahoo! as the #2 search engine in the U.S. with a 13.9% share of search volume in August 2010, a 0.25% delta increase from the previous month. Although Google saw little change in its month-over-month search volume, it still dominates the search market, accounting for 65% of all U.S. searches.
Read more at: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/bing-overtakes-yahoo-as-the-2-search-engine/
The University of Notre Dame‘s yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang — a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is entitled Project Management, and each of the 40 students enrolled will be given an iPad to use in lieu of textbooks. The students will be encouraged to integrate their borrowed iPad into their life by syncing their iTunes library, games, and anything else they would like, and to report their findings.
Youtube video below (blocked at MHS)
For the complete story visit: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/31/notre-dame-embarks-on-a-paperless-course-starting-with-ipads/
This short video came from Alvin Trusty’s blog:
http://www.trustyetc.com
Here is my video comparison of students lining up at the door just before the bell rings vs. farm animals just before getting fed.