IT Trends :: Thursday, March 29, 2007

• 03/29/07

Opinion

Sense & Clickability

By Terry Calhoun

College student-aged human beings do some pretty stupid and potentially unsafe things. There's nothing new about that observation. That's why wars are mostly fought by the young: Everyone else is smart enough to let young enthusiasts "portray" cannon fodder in places like Iraq and Vietnam....

IT News

Hands On with Photoshop CS3 Extended

Campus Technology's Dave Nagel takes a look at the newest version of Adobe's ubiquitous graphic design tool. In this pre-release report, we present benchmarks and explore the new features that will have your users clamoring for upgrades....

Adobe Debuts Creative Suite 3

Adobe this week took the wraps off its all-new lineup of creative apps with the formal debut of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Most of new versions will launch in April, with some stragglers holding out until the third quarter. What does it all mean for Campus IT folk?...

Service Links Student Data to Web College Planning Platform

ConnectEdu Inc., a Web-based college planning service, and Rediker Software Inc., a school student management system, have teamed to export student data directly into the college planning, admissions, and financial aid platform. The partners claim the result will integrate high school systems with community colleges, colleges, and universities, as well as provide entirely electronic college transcripts and application materials....

Taylor University Expands Online Event Communications

Indiana's Taylor University has selected Seattle-based Trumba Corp.'s Trumba Connect to enhance its event calendar to help students, alumni, faculty, and staff communicate....

Webinar: Expanding the Vision for Mobility

Until today, the promise of converged campuswide communications has been just that--a promise. But now, at institutions such as Dartmouth College, converged communications over secure, high-performance mobility networks has arrived....

Coming Soon: 2007 Campus Technology Innovators

You’re doing great things with technology on campus--we want to know about them. We seek exemplary colleges and universities, their visionary technology project leadership, and their innovative vendor partners who have deployed extraordinary campus technology solutions to campus challenges....

IBM, Universities Expand Accessibility Project

IBM is working with several universities to expand a repository of reusable learning materials that will make it easier for student developers to make software more accessible to people with disabilities. The repository will help change a culture in which the majority of faculty respondents do not teach accessibility in the classroom, IBM said....

Stewardship of SCORM Moving to International Arena

The Defense Department is relinquishing the stewardship of SCORM, a collection of standards for e-learning interoperability, so that the initiative can more readily fulfill its purpose as an international e-learning standard....

N.Z. College Applicants Seek Computing Drivers Licenses

Secondary schools in New Zealand are beginning to certify their students' computing ability, in part to help their graduates compete better in the college environment, the New Zealand Herald reported....