With laser scan, Mount Rushmore to get virtual tours (Rapid City Journal)

MOUNT RUSHMORE -- Mount Rushmore National Memorial is set to get a three-dimensional digital recording, park officials announced Friday.

Bill gives Scio online school a year (Albany Democrat-Herald)

SCIO — Oregon Connections Academy, the online charter school based in Scio, will remain as it is for at least the next school year.

Seven of the top stories from the 2008-09 school year (Suburban Journals)

The 2008-09 school year is one I will remember for quite awhile as I was fortunate enough to be witness to several great events.

First online high school launches (WPDE Myrtle Beach - Florence)

iQ Academy announced today the launch of a new online high school.

Next Bill Gates? Lee school offers rare training academy in Microsoft programs (Bonita Banner)

Dunbar High School’s Academy for Technology Excellence handed diplomas to its first four-year graduates this year. It marked a major milestone for the school, which started the program with money from a $3.5 million magnet grant four years ago and earned the informal title of “first Microsoft-certified high school in the country.”

Budget includes pilot program for virtual schools (Chesterton Tribune)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The new state budget includes a pilot program for virtual charter schools, which provide more than half of a child’s instruction online.

Virtual world avatars provide clues to how trends spread (New Kerala)

Washington, July 3: University of Michigan researchers in the US are analysing information regarding the virtual world Second Life avatars to study how trends or 'gestures' spread across this online community.

South Carolina Calvert Academy -- Newest, Statewide Public Virtual Charter School Opens in Columbia (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

South Carolina Calvert Academy, a Kindergarten through Eighth Grade statewide, public virtual charter school, will open its headquarters in Columbia today. South Carolina Calvert Academy offers the best of tradition and innovation in education. Built on the foundation of the world-renowned Calvert curriculum, the school will offer academic oversight by highly qualified, state-certified teachers ...

School board backs virtual education (Billings Gazette)

JACKSON - Teton County School District 1 has approved virtual education for students starting this fall.

School district to launch new virtual program (Lehigh Acres Citizen)

Lee County Public Schools will launch a full-time, K-12 Virtual Instruction program for the 2009/10 school year, according to Al Shilling, assistant director or emerging technology and virtual education. This is another option for students to complete their education in Lee County.