Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants for Students
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on Friday in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the inaugural year of the Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs….
What Teachers Want for Classroom Tech
PBS LearningMedia announced Monday findings from a national survey of teachers grades pre-K-12 that sheds light on the rising role of technology in America’s classrooms, as well as barriers teachers face to accessing the “right” digital resources. Ninety-one percent of…
Apple Offers Digital Textbooks to Students
Apple has announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, which offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, navigation and much more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don’t weigh down a backpack…
Play-Doll Mobile App to Create Stories
Play-Doll is designed to enable children to use their imagination to create their perfect story. To start, users can scroll through the variety of characters they may want in their story. Story creators can do complete costume changes with the…
Play Without Pain: Sickle Cell Benefit
Doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston are just another step closer to securing a cure for sickle cell disease thanks to a little help from some superstar friends. More than $1 million was raised in support of their research efforts on…
IBM Using Smart Cloud to Teach Business Students
Tech company IBM says it is helping students at York University’s Schulich School of Business develop leadership skills by learning to collaborate on course work virtually in the cloud. In the fall of 2011, 400 students enrolled in “Management 1000”…
How to Rock with Cymphonique Miller
The battle of the bands is on as Nickelodeon premieres its brand-new live-action comedy series, How to Rock on Saturday, Feb. 4 with back-to-back episodes airing at 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The series, featuring original music performed by Cymphonique…
Meet the Walt Disney World Moms Panel
Disney Parks announced Thursday the Walt Disney World Moms Panel has unveiled a new feature – the panelists can receive and answer guests’ questions in Spanish. In addition to the first-ever bilingual offerings, two new specialty areas will be added…



















