The companies said they will decide next year when to launch the computer. There will be no metal detectors at the proposed Contact Charter School in Philadelphia. No homeroom attendance sheets. In fact, no building at all. As envisioned by a small band of veteran public-school educators, the Contact Charter School would be Philadelphia's first virtual high school.
Online courses are increasingly common but usually complement traditional classroom offerings.
Students enrolled in the proposed Philly cyberschool would take all of their courses at home via the Internet, logging in to retrieve their assignments, e-mail questions to instructors, submit their homework electronically, and participate in discussions in class chat rooms. Cool links These days, the Internet is home to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Web cams - cameras hooked up to the Net to constantly display images of people, things or places. You can click on links to view past cam images by the hour, and the temperature at each juncture is displayed on the photo frame. Mousey nominees wanted Nominations are open through Dec. 15 for Star Tech's 1999 Mousey Web Site Awards. which celebrate the best personal and non-profit Web sites in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Winners will be featured in Star Tech Dec. 23.