Cheating 2.0 - Cheating Upgraded is Cheating Nonetheless.

Let's see, what was cheating back in the day? Scribbling notes on our wrists, or the understide of baseball caps, or the tops of shoes.

Now in the new millenia, the goal is the same but the cheating technology has been upgraded.

Cheating has gone high tech. Cell phones, PDA and online term papers all are co-conspirators.

But professors are fighting back. Here's some ways that professors and educational institutions are reducing the odds of cheating electronically:

• Turning off wireless access points during tests
• Insisting all electronic devices are stored during tests
• Running papers through turnitin.com to detect plagarism

Best of all was a sting run by professors at University of Maryland's College Park campus. Professors posted an incorrect version of the answers on a website that could be accessed via cell phone during the test. Those students who submitted those answers on the test were sussed out and flunked.

Global Warming - Who cares about it? Generation Z does.

Here's a heart-warming story about three Generation Z high school students who produced a video on global warming. Their vid won second place in a C-Span contest.

There's no ranting about global warming - just a shot of the Mount Greylock Regional High School Cross Country Ski team at practice. Look closely and you'll see they are wearing roller skis and are skiing on grass. No snow - no skis, in mid-January, in western Massachusetts.

A local ski shop owner notes that business is down from the lack of snow. The vid also includes an interview with a world-renowned global warming expert Elizabeth Kolbert and a clip of naysayer Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla).

You can tune in to C-Span on June 7th at 6:50 EST to see what Generation Z is doing to air their concern about global warming.