The teacher still wrote on the blackboard, rather than on a computer screen, and students raised their hands to ask questions. Not exactly a shining use of technology, and yet we can't even do this much today. Funded by the Hudson Public Schools, the Concord Consortium provides the technology for the project that makes NetCourses available to students in participating schools, providing subjects not offered locally. Written for a Lotus Notes Domino server system using the LearningSpace product, scrolling text screens predominate at the Virtual High School. A demonstration course looks like four years back in time, not four years forward.
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Byron Geddes admits to being surprised at the attention he's getting for his new class on information technology at the Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. I didn't think anything here was noteworthy. We're just doing a class on computer technology without using paper. Earlier attempts to rely on e-mail with attachments didn't work well. NetDocuments, my choice, was already discussing a partnership with Owen.