Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Wednesday, June 27, 2001

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010625/sfm087.html

Monday June 25, 8:30 am Eastern Time
Press Release - SOURCE: Palm, Inc.

Palm Awards $2.3 Million in Technology Grants to U.S. K-12 Schools And Colleges
Educators Will Study How Handhelds Affect Teaching and Learning

CHICAGO, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In its second round of grants from the Palm Education Pioneer (PEP) program, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM - news) today announces it is awarding $2.3 million in Palm(TM) handheld units to elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities to enable innovative teaching and learning, and to gain insight into how handheld computers affect teaching and learning. This research will help determine best practices for integrating handhelds into curriculum and teacher training. Palm named the grant recipients on the opening day of the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) here at McCormick Place....

 



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