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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2005 BellSouth Foundation Donates Money for Online Education Online Archive to Feature Poetry Recordings Adware Company Quibbles with Label BELLSOUTH FOUNDATION DONATES MONEY FOR ONLINE EDUCATION The BellSouth Foundation announced it will spend $20 million over five years to improve online education and technology access in nine states in the southern United States. The BellSouth Foundation is the charitable arm of BellSouth, which serves the southern region. The foundation is specifically charged with improving education and, according to Mary Boehm, president of the foundation, decided a year ago to focus its efforts exclusively on virtual learning. The new initiative will fund virtual learning programs and will work to bring technology and Internet access to children in poor areas of the region. A pilot site for the initiative in Atlanta is working on job-shadowing technology and an online algebra course for middle and high school students. Organizers hope to create eight similar sites, one in each of the other states of the program. Boehm said, "We wanted to be sure all kids, not just the privileged, could be part of the virtual learning movement." Associated Press, 29 November 2005 http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/13280651.htm ONLINE ARCHIVE TO FEATURE POETRY RECORDINGS Andrew Motion, poet laureate of the United Kingdom, and record producer Richard Carrington are creating an online archive of recordings of English-speaking poets. The Poetry Archive will include recordings of poets including Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, Betjeman, and Sassoon and will also feature recordings of living poets reading their own work, including Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, and Harold Pinter. Recordings of some important poets do not exist, however, including A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. In some cases, poets were recorded reading their work shortly before they died, allowing future generations to hear those poets. Motion and Carrington said the archive will prove especially valuable for students and teachers. Motion said, "The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact." BBC, 30 November 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4482824.stm ADWARE COMPANY QUIBBLES WITH LABEL A company that makes and distributes adware has filed a lawsuit against a computer security company that identifies the adware company's products as "high risk." The adware purveyor, 180solutions, contends that Zone Labs erred in saying that some of 180solutions's applications try to monitor mouse movements and keystrokes. Although some of its applications employ a technology that could be used in such a manner, those applications do not in fact work that way, according to 180solutions. Representatives from 180solutions said they tried to explain the situation to Zone Labs but were forced to file the lawsuit when Zone Labs refused to remove the applications in question from its list of high-risk tools. Eric Howes, a spyware researcher at the University of Illinois, said that despite its protestations, 180solutions remains "a perfectly legitimate target for anti-spyware companies." According to Howes, security professionals continue to "find unethical and illegal installations of 180's software." ZDNet, 1 December 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5979179.html ***************************************************** EDUPAGE INFORMATION To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 Or, you can subscribe or unsubscribe by sending e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To SUBSCRIBE, in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName To UNSUBSCRIBE, in the body of the message type: SIGNOFF Edupage If you have subscription problems, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************** OTHER EDUCAUSE RESOURCES The EDUCAUSE Resource Center is a repository for information concerning use and management of IT in higher education. To access resources including articles, books, conference sessions, contracts, effective practices, plans, policies, position descriptions, and blog content, go to http://www.educause.edu/resources ***************************************************** CONFERENCES For information on all EDUCAUSE learning and networking opportunities, see http://www.educause.edu/31 ***************************************************** COPYRIGHT Edupage copyright (c) 2005, EDUCAUSE
