Internet/Intranet
- Project Wonderland: Good Avatars Make Good Neighbors
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7/2/2008
Sun Microsystems's Project Darkstar and the Wonderland Toolkit for building 3D spaces show why virtual reality is better for education than video conferencing. And Project Wonderland has announced its first education space.
- Sun, Stanford Working To Archive History
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7/2/2008
In May in San Francisco, experts from leading universities, libraries, and research institutions around the world met as part of an ongoing effort to address a pressing issue: archiving the world's history, right up to today.
- Wimba Classroom 5.2 Expands Classroom Capture Support, Adds MP3 Downloads
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7/2/2008
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Wimba launched a new version of Wimba Classroom, the virtual classroom component of the company's Collaboration Suite. The new 5.2 release expands options for classroom capture and adds a variety of other functional and ease of use features.
- Facebook and Collegiality: A Serendipitous Social Niche
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7/2/2008
Facebook is a way to greet a colleague as if she or he is on your own campus: a wave at a distance, a hello at the corner burrito place, a honk as you both leave the campus parking lot. Informal collegiality has been extended over the miles.
- Wake Forest U Aims To Reduce Note Taking with Classroom Capture
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6/30/2008
Students taking a course in venture capital at Wake Forest University have, over the last semester, benefited from the use of Recordant audio-capture technology that allows Web-based archiving, searching, and playback of course lectures. The university said one of the goals was to get students to close their notebooks and focus on comprehension, secure that they'd be able to access the captured lectures later on.
- SharePoint Takes Center Stage at Catalyst Event
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6/30/2008
The Burton Group put the spotlight on Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 product on Thursday at its Catalyst Conference 2008 event. The analyst and consulting group allocated no less than five panels at the San Diego-based event to discuss SharePoint for the enterprise. The panels focused on the solution's strengths and weaknesses, as well as the importance of partner support in implementing SharePoint.
- Notre Dame Libraries To Add Search and Retrieval from Primo
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6/27/2008
The Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame will be implementing Primo from Ex Libris Group as a discovery system. The school, a long-time customer of Ex Libris library automation applications, will be using the search and retrieval software to provide a single interface for discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, including books, journal articles and digital objects within the libraries' collections.
- Australian Schools Boot Microsoft for Google Gmail
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6/26/2008
Google seems to have bested Microsoft in the land down under, according to various accounts of an Australian public school system e-mail contract deal. The deal, announced Tuesday, ousts an e-mail system based on Microsoft's products in favor of using Google's Gmail.
- Western Governors U Offers New Online Degree in Health Informatics
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6/20/2008
Western Governors University, an online school with 10,000 students, has begun offering a science bachelor's degree in health informatics. This online degree combines healthcare with IT, to prepare the graduate to design, develop and operate health information systems.
- Wilkes U and Discovery Education Collaborate on Online Master's in Instructional Media
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6/20/2008
This fall Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA and Discovery Education, which produces digital media-based learning, are launching a new online master's degree program in instructional media. The 30-credit instructional media program will prepare teachers to engage today's students in learning through digital media. Courses will focus on topics such as digital storytelling, using digital media in the classroom, using technology to support creativity and applying brain-based theories of how students process information to technology integration.
- Foothill-De Anza CC District Deploys Abaca for E-mail Protection
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6/19/2008
The Foothill-De Anza Community College District has chosen the Abaca Email Protection Gateway EPG 3000 and ReceiverNet Premium Service to provide e-mail security for faculty and staff at its two colleges and district offices.
- Virginia Tech Automates User State Management with Kaseya
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6/19/2008
Virginia Tech University's Outreach Information Services (OIS) has deployed the Kaseya User State Management (KUSM) module, extending its use of Kaseya IT automation software to include the setting up and deployment of user profiles. Administrators are now able to create, update, migrate and back up user settings and apply the images to workstations remotely through the Kaseya application.
- Loyola, NOBTS Use Tech To Return to Pre-Katrina Numbers
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6/18/2008
A huge increase in freshman enrollment numbers for the fall semester has Loyola University in New Orleans pleased with its efforts to rebuild its student body after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is also looking at strong enrollment numbers, three years after the hurricane and its aftermath of flooding devastated New Orleans.
- Del Mar College To Deploy Web-based Self Service
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6/16/2008
Del Mar College has selected Datatel Colleague to create a Web-based self-service capability for constituents and enhanced campus management tools for employees. The Datatel technology solution replaces a legacy administration system.
- P2P Redux: New Twists and Turns
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6/13/2008
At the same time that RIAA has been bombarding campuses with P2P filesharing notices, questions are being raised about the underlying legality of the methods being used by the RIAA.
- Embry-Riddle Switches to Mirapoint E-mail, Cuts Administrative Overhead
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6/13/2008
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has deployed the Mirapoint Message Server from Mirapoint Software, supporting 65,000 student e-mail accounts. The university chose the system to augment the Microsoft Exchange platform currently used by faculty and staff.
- Yahoo: Microsoft Talks Done, No Deal Coming
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6/12/2008
Yahoo today said its talks with Microsoft focusing on acquiring all or part of the company are officially over -- a position that Microsoft appears to be at least partially disputing.
- U Oregon Project Applies GIS to Historic Maps
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6/10/2008
An interdisciplinary team from the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences collaborated with scholars in Rome to produce a new Web site dedicated to the work of one of Rome's great vedutisti--or cityscape artists. The intention is to provide a rich historical resource for educators, scholars, students and others.
- U Missouri To Upgrade Backbone via Co-location
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6/9/2008
The University of Missouri will be moving a campus data center into 1102 Grand, a Kansas City co-location provider, as part of a project to build a high performance carrier-neutral network to support the university's intercampus network and replace the existing backbone.
- iLinc Web Conferencing Tool Updated, Adds 'Green Meter'
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6/5/2008
iLinc released a new version of its Web conferencing tool, iLinc 10, which bolsters session management and adds a "green meter." The green meter shows cost savings, carbon emissions, and total distance not traveled by using Web conferencing versus in-person meetings. Administrators can also customize several variables in the meter to match their organization's specific policies.
- iTunes U Expands International Reach
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6/4/2008
Apple Tuesday expanded the international reach of iTunes U, bringing in 10 universities from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, all of which are providing content via the iTunes education portal free of charge.
- Threats to Office Multiply with New Offerings from Adobe, IBM
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6/4/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
- Universities Join IBM Multi-National 'LA Grid'
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6/4/2008
Calling it a "perfect living laboratory for research to advance the healthcare industry," the Quantum Group, which provides consulting and applications for the healthcare industry, is joining 12 universities as part of IBM's Latin American Grid (LA Grid) initiative. LA Grid (pronounced "lah grid") is comprised of a collection of human and computing resources in North America, Latin America, and Spain, working in collaboration to perform as one massive supercomputer for advanced research.
- Who's Out Front with Technology Innovation on Campus?
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6/4/2008
The Web 2.0 wave on campus may have left academic computing units in its wake. Is anyone in charge of technology innovation?
- IBM Rational's Big-Band Jazz Release
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6/3/2008
IBM's Rational Software division yesterday unveiled 20 new commercial products based on its Jazz collaboration platform and opened up the Jazz community to all interested parties.
