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When it comes to Internet safety, parents and teachers are advocating for more restrictions at home and in school, while students complain that the filters and firewalls are limiting their technology use and negatively impacting their ability to learn. This webinar explores the latest findings from Speak Up surveys given to K-12 students, teachers, parents and administrators regarding their views on Internet safety and the obstacles that students face in using technology for learning.

Chances are your enterprise IT organization has a significant carbon footprint. In an era of unpredictable energy costs, reducing energy usage throughout your data centers and IT infrastructure represents a powerful cost-cutting opportunity. Now, a top green IT expert shows business and IT leaders how to drive powerful business value by improving IT’s environmental performance.

In this one-hour webinar, based on the book by the same name, the Greening of IT, and drawing on leading-edge experience, John Lamb will discuss and assess the business case for green IT, set priorities, and overcome the internal and external challenges to making it work.

 

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In the current economic climate it may be hard to justify the purchase of expensive software for everyday use at home. Nathan Hall will present and discuss some specific free programs for the home computer.  Many people are probably familiar with OpenOffice already, and this presentation will touch on that, but also examine choices for image editing and other common necessities.

With the growth of broadband, most people now have access to high connection speeds, both on desktop PCs and mobile devices. This anytime, anywhere connectivity enables eLearning over a broad array of devices, but to be effective the learning must also be engaging.

Join Training Industry, Inc. and Adobe for this special webinar, held on the Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro platform, as we look at the growing use of mobile applications and virtual 3D environments, such as Second Life, Open Sim, Olive and more, as vehicles for delivering training.

A quirky gaggle of Western hairstylists armed with blow dryers and designer scissors improbably open a school to teach eager Afghan women the high art of fixing hair. The women of Kabul embrace the beauty lessons with unbridled hope.

 This film takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women who have spent their lives starving themselves - often to the verge of death. The film chronicles the pervasiveness of disordered eating behaviors, as well as the failure of our current health-insurance industry to address its clients' needs.

A look at the subject of abortion where there can be no absolutes, no 'right' or 'wrong.' Equal time is given to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is 'right' or 'wrong.'