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The University
of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced
plans to require students working towards Maine teacher
certification to have Apple iBooks. The program dovetails with the state
of Maine’s own Learning
Technology Initiative, where all students and
teachers in seventh and eighth grades in Maine public schools also have
iBooks.

The requirement kicks in for first-year teaching students with the Fall
2005 semester. In addition to the Maine
Technology Learning Initiative,
the Teacher Education Faculty at the school cited Mac OS X’s reduced vulnerability
to viruses compared to Windows PCs as a contributing factor in their decision.

from Macworld