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Teaching method that utilizes tech to expand in coming school year By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
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IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE ORLANDO SHOOTING, which left 49 people dead and many others wounded, 14-year-old Lawrence resident Baxter Spielman decided he wanted to help in some way. After selling a handful of DVDs for money to be donated, Baxter, along with his mother, Becca Burns, decided to organize donations for a two-day garage sale, which continues today from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 2213 Rhode Island St. The proceeds will be donated to the family of Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, who was killed during the shooting while with her son Isaiah Henderson, who was among the survivors.
Teen organizes yard sale after hearing of mother’s sacrifice in Orlando shooting By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ
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BAXTER SPIELMAN, left, along with his godmother, Shannon Reid, center, and his mother, Becca Burns, right, host a garage sale Saturday at 2213 Rhode Island St.
“Orlando” was scrawled in yellow chalk Saturday on a sidewalk in front of the 2213 Rhode Island St. home of 14-year-old Baxter Spielman. The Florida city’s name gave meaning to scene on the lawn of the home’s front yard. That patch of tree-shaded green was filled with tables piled with items his family and friends contributed for a yard sale.
Spielman said he was compelled to organize and have the yard sale on learning the news of the June 12 massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 people attending an Hispanic night event dead. All the money raised at the yard sale, which will continue from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today, will be donated to the family of a single victim, Brenda Lee Marquez McCool.
When students return to school in the Lawrence district next month, the majority of them will be in technology-based, blended learning classrooms. The district will add 125 blended learning classrooms next school year, which will place hundreds of new tablets, laptops and display monitors in the hands of teachers and students. Those classrooms, SCHOOLS though, come with a price tag of more than $6,000 each. Combined, the 125 blended learning classrooms will be equipped with more than $775,000 worth of equipment. “Those amounts include additional iPads, additional Macbooks and all other incidentals like the HDMI cables, the dongles, the power strips,” said Jerri Kemble, assistant superintendent of educational programs and technology. With the new additions, about 60 percent of the district’s approximately 700 classrooms will
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100-gigabit internet network up and running at KU By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
One-hundred-gigabit internet — yes, 100 times faster than the 1-gigabit internet area residents are clamoring for these
days — is now up and running on the Kansas University campus. KU completed its 100-gigabit network in recent weeks, after testing since early June, said David Day, director of IT external affairs at KU.
countries. “Typically most people, personally and even as a university, are transferring kilobytes and megabytes, and in some cases a gigabyte or two,” Day said. “Some of our researchers are transfer-
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Lim said. He said KU Medical Center, Kansas State University and Wichita State University plan to implement it later. However, peer institutions in surrounding
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ring terabytes of information to their colleagues at other institutions, and that’s a lot.” KU is the first institution in Kansas to implement a 100-gigabit internet network, KU Chief Information Officer Bob
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