Parents seek school webcam links
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Parents are keen to monitor their children's progress in education with new technology, a survey suggests.
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Gone are the days when parents would find out how their kids were doing in school only when report cards came home or during parent-teacher conferences. A growing number of teachers and schools are making grades available nearly in real-time over the Internet. Some teachers include pending assignments, written comments, class participation and disciplinary actions as well.
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Parents raise safety concerns about an online survey of school children which asked them for their postcodes.
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Webcams Don't your video chat friends deserve more than a fixed shot of your mug from your PC's webcam?
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By Jackie Burrell, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--Fearful parents may conjure up images of trench-coated predators trolling the Web, but the virtual world their teens actually inhabit is more like the soda shop of yesteryear or the mall -- a place to hang with friends.
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By Matt Paolelli Daily Herald Correspondent  For parents of middle-school and high-school students, it's an all-too-familiar scene.
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Details of missing high risk sex offenders could be published on the internet to alert parents.
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Schools to be challenged over biometrics Parents are preparing a legal challenge to schools that have fingerprinted their children without their consent.â¦
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Some schools are now using TV cameras to monitor teachers' classroom performance.
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Parents' tend to worry about the obvious Internet dangers, such as porn, sexual predators and, to a lesser extent, misinformation. According to new studies by a non-profit group, Wired Safety, there is now another cause for alarm: cyber bullying.
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TiVo is looking to religious leaders to get the word out about a new feature that helps parents control the TV shows their children watch.
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Fairfax County school officials this fall are carrying BlackBerrys that connect to a database of student information, including parent contacts and medical warnings. Dartmouth students are using wikis, blogs, podcasts and other interactive media tools for their courses. A graduate school at Carnegie...
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Local police are promoting a new software program designed to help parents track what their children see and who they talk to over the Internet.
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By The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 15--UPDATED AT 10:10 A.M.   A computer network outage affecting several educational organizations in Whatcom County has knocked out e-mail and Internet access to several school sites.
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Also: Gadget lets parents track kids' every move. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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A Microsoft 'school of the future' has been opened in Philadelphia, where traditional materials will be replaced by wireless laptops and parents can track their child's progress on the internet.
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By Vicky Eckenrode< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - A state senator wants parents to have monitoring privileges and the ability to restrict the access of their children to social networking  Web sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com.  Sen.