Web/Portals
- UPMC Center for Biosecurity Adopts SiteExecutive
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3/5/2007
The Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched two websites using SystemExecutive from Systems Alliance, an IT and business consulting firm.
- Second Life To Get 3D Voice
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3/1/2007
Second Life, the virtual world that's becoming increasingly popular in education, will soon add proximity-based 3D voice capabilities, according to developer Linden Lab.
- Portal Power at Western Michigan
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2/28/2007
Imagine that everyone who enters your college or university is guided through a single main gate onto campus....
- Valentine's Day in The Pit
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2/27/2007
Broadcasting a breakup: Was it portable cruelty or powerful social networking?
- Ohio University Opens Virtual Doors
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2/26/2007
Last year, Ohio University purchased two islands and built several buildings on it....
- RPI Prof Develops Culture-Based Web Teaching Tools
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2/26/2007
An associate professor of science and technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a suite of culturally-attuned Web-based applets to help students from different cultures more easily absorb computing and math teaching.
- U. Washington Hosts Course on the World of Google
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2/26/2007
The University of Washington is hosting a course about Google. The course was designed by Google programmer Christophe Bisciglia, 26, a U. Wash alumn, during his "10 percent" time, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. Google employees are encouraged to use 10 percent of their time on the job brainstorming creative ideas.
- mtvU Lineup To Include Search for Fulbright Scholars
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2/26/2007
mtvU, MTV's college network, unveiled its campus programming lineup for Spring 2007, including a search for the first four mtvU Fulbright scholars and a series called "Best Film on Campus," to encourage collaboration among young filmmakers. mtvU said its programming is focused on offering "students new tools to effect real world change."
- A Reprieve for Net Neutrality
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1/18/2007
There was a time, less than a year ago, when a lot of us thought that the telecommunications dinosaurs were plotting against us. Net neutrality is essentially the status quo, and they wanted to change that. I don't know about you, but I pretty much wake up every morning ecstatic about the development of the Internet and the Web so far.
- Happy Google Year!
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1/3/2007
Welcome to the Year of the Google. In 2007, Google will become the most frequently visited Web site on the Internet. In November of 2006, it passed Yahoo, briefly. Microsoft, of course, with required downloads of software upgrades, is the other major player. But Google, with the help of its new purchase, YouTube, will end Yahoo’s 10-year ride on the top of the worldwide visits charts sometime in 2007.
- Social Software, Social Revolution
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12/29/2006
MOVE OVER, MYSPACE. STEP ASIDE, FACEBOOK. These two technologies may have been pioneers in the world of social software, but nowadays, colleges and universities across the country are embracing better and more targeted forms of technology, to enable their campus users to interact. Today, the world of social software includes traditional venues and formats: blogs, wikis, and podcasts.
- Next-Gen Video
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12/27/2006
WHETHER THE MANDATE is to offer a single class that trains students in studio production, to produce 25 videoconferenced classes a day for thousands of students across different continents, or to offer the very latest high-definition (HD) technology to a regional consortium of users, schools across the US are using the latest videoconference and audio/video streaming technologies creatively, to move to the next level of their very specific needs.
- Teaching Sustainable Community Development Online
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12/4/2006
What does wildlife viewing have in common with online learning? Nothing at first thought; they seem to be unrelated, almost contradictory. That was my concern when Dr. Kelly Cain, a University of Wisconsin – River Falls (UWRF) professor known for innovation, approached me in 2004.
- CT Solutions
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11/25/2006
- Global E-mail Lists and Reduction of Global Carbon Emissions
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11/15/2006
At a meeting at Arizona State University in Tempe, I nearly made a suggestion that seemed at first to be a really good one, but then like a really bad one. It’s rare that I actually manage to keep my mouth shut under such circumstances, and I am proud that I did. On the other hand, I’m going to share the idea with you here, so that you can see just how bad it was, or not, so the effort did not last.
- Speaking Their Language: UCLA Language Courses Use Online Voice Tools
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11/6/2006
It’s tough to master a new language without speaking it, of course. So it follows that language courses that incorporate speaking as much as possible can help students learn faster and better, and help professors better assess their progress.
- The Books Google Could Open
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9/25/2006
- GAFYD: What’s A Developer to Do?
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8/30/2006
Are you hooked into all the new Google beta stuff? Starting next week, organizations can offer staff, students, customers, employees, or whomever access to chat, calendar, Web page publishing, and Web-based e-mail.
- The Power of Wikipedia: A Challenge for You to Help Record History
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8/24/2006
Very recently, I was able to find a "political" use for Wikipedia that feels empowering.
- The AOL Data Release: A Tipping Point?
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8/16/2006
Whether this will affect the search behavior of many other people is unknown. It doesn’t seem to me, from casual conversations, that many of my acquaintances would have even heard of this security beach if they hadn’t learned of it from me.
- AOL Spills: The Rest of Us Feel Chills
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8/9/2006
What if we could know what you are planning to do? What if we thought we knew what you are planning to do? What if law enforcement thought it knew what you were planning to do? These became questions for the real world earlier this week.
- 2006 Campus Technology Innovators: Web Tools
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7/23/2006
- 2006 Campus Technology Innovators: The Web
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7/22/2006
- Staying Middle Class (Or Don’t Cede Any Century to a Country that Censors Google)
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7/12/2006
Thomas L. Friedman addressed the assembled 4,000+ attendees at the Campus of the Future Conference on the morning of Monday, July 10. Friedman, author of the influential book, The World Is Flat, provided a condensed and vigorous summary of the key points of his thinking in the book and shared some additional thoughts of interest to educators.
