Apple at NECC Apple will present a series of engaging hands-on workshops led by our Apple Distinguished Educators at NECC. Check out the workshop schedule and take this opportunity to discover powerful ways to engage and inspire students through the latest technologies.

Engaging and Creative Learning Thirteen years after its inception, the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) had become a leading institution of primary and secondary education for expatriates living in Beijing. Seeing the challenges of communicating with their hypercreative, multitasking students from all over the world, WAB moved to a 1 to 1 learning program with Apple notebooks.

Get Organized with Bento Download a free trial of Bento, the new personal database from FileMaker that’s as easy to use as a Mac. The Bento Trial is a full-featured version of the Bento software that you can evaluate for 30 days prior to purchasing.

Buy a Mac and get a free iPod touch K-12 and Higher Education faculty and staff: Buy a qualifying Mac by September 15, 2008, and get your choice of a free iPod touch or iPod nano and save up to $299 after rebate.* The Mac runs Microsoft Office and has built-in Wi-Fi that works with any campus network. * Terms and conditions apply.

Set To Screen Costume Design Contest In the next phase of the Set To Screen series, students have until midnight Eastern time (9:00 p.m. Pacific) on June 18, 2008, to post their costume design entries to the Apple Student Gallery.

Higher Education Summit: Vision 2020 Agenda The detailed agenda for the summit to be held August 6-8 in Cincinnati is now available. Hear from over 20 colleges and universities on how they are using ubiquitous computing to transform teaching and learning in their institution.

Help for the help desk. Apple provides a full range of Mac management resources to support Mac computers on your campus. Download the “Mac Management Made Easy” guide, covering everything from network-based policy management to remote client assistance, training and certification, and more.

Xsan Keeps Medical Center's Storage Healthy Weill Cornell Medical College’s IT department supports 15,000 active computer users and maintains and preserves some 36 terabytes of user storage. To manage this mission-critical data, the IT team included a storage solution based on Xsan, Xserve servers, and Xserve RAID.

The Human Speechome Project Until now, scientists lacked the technology to implement the intense observation, data gathering, and analysis they need to properly investigate how children learn language. With help from his research team at MIT, computing tools from Apple, and his family, Dr. Deb Roy is developing that technology.

C.S. Lewis Explore the life of C.S. Lewis—scholar, theologian, professor, and the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

Phoenix Mars Mission On Mars’ northern plains, Phoenix will examine the water-ice known to exist under the top soil surface as the spacecraft searches for life.

Korea: The Unfinished War Examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.

Statemen’s Forums These forums provide an opportunity for your students to hear global political leaders present their views on critical policy issues.

Academic Intersections Academic Intersections is an online peer-reviewed journal publishing accounts of research or creative works that embrace multimedia as a fundamental aspect of higher education in the 21st century.

Learn Locally, Share Globally Students explore what makes seemingly ordinary events, people, or places in their communities extraordinary.

From Aardvarks to Zebras Based upon their research, students formulate a position on issues relating to the interaction between man and wild animals and the resulting effects.