On top of that, the site allows educators to create original lessons for any YouTube video, rendering the video on a new link where teachers can monitor student progress.

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Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.

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It would make it easier to monitor each student's progress, he says.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A London-based student has designed a shoe insole that can monitor and control how much television a child watches, based on how much exercise they do in a day.

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The teacher was joined by the campus supervisor -- a campus monitor on the school's staff -- and both of them persuaded the student to drop the shotgun, the sheriff said.

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