Helping Parents with Home Wireless & Child Safety

Power to Learn's Wireless World , an easy-to-understand slideshow for parents, is a perfect way to help parents of children in your classroom learn about wireless in their home. The slideshow contains information on child safety and social networking, tools for blocking and protecting, and controlling access to wireless devices and to wireless networks. There are suggested rules for parents to set up that will help ensure their children's safety. Throughout the slideshow parents will find links to helpful resources.

Cisco Networking Sweepstakes: $10,000 & Other Prizes

Until July 13, 2009, you can enter Cisco's sweepstakes, Home Networking Made Easy. It's a promotion for Network Magic Pro, an inexpensive (about $39) Cisco product designed to help with home wireless connections. If you want, you can download a 7-day trial of the product. To have a chance to win the $10,000 sweepstakes prize or the instant prizes (Linksys Media Storage Unit, Flip Video MinoHD, checks for $100 and $15), you'll need to click on the play button and submit basic information.

Just How Wireless Is Your School District?

The Charles County School District in Maryland has universal wireless access with a network that can carry both data and voice. The system has a substantial amount of bandwidth—enough for transmitting voice, data, and video without slowdowns or other usage problems. Many of the textbooks used have been digitized, teachers have wireless laptops, and there are over 4000 Voice Over the Internet Protocol (VoiP) phones and approximately 650 wireless phones. To keep all this safe, district officials say that they've added Cisco security to each laptop. So what's the school district looking to do next—wide-area wireless. With that, Charles County wireless will be available between all the facilities in the district. According to an article in School CIO, the project cost about $6 million.