Spotlight
- The proliferation of Web 2.0 social networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even Flickr got some people thinking: Which scholarly disciplines need better ways of researching, collaborating, and communicating, and could a social networking model play a role?More
News & Product Updates
- ConnectYard, which builds education-related applications, has developed a widget that can be added to a course management system for delivering queries to the user via social networking sites and other means. QuickConnect Widget works with Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, and other LMS platforms, according to the company.More
- NEC Display Solutions has started shipping two new digital projectors, the NP110 and NP215, offering 7-watt speakers, built-in closed captioning and eco Mode for conserving energy.More
- Epson introduced three upgrades to the company's EX line of portable projectors. The Epson EX31, EX51, and EX71 achieve a 30 percent decrease in size and 20 percent decrease in weight, along with an increased brightness of 2,500 lumens for both color and white light output.More
- Blackboard is providing academic users with access to historical multimedia resources from NBC Learn. The two companies today announced that that they've inked a deal to make historical and current events materials from NBC News accessible within the Blackboard Learn platform. [Updated 11:02 a.m.]More
- Chief Manufacturing is shipping two models of the company's mini mounts, which are half the size of the original RPA series mounts and, said Chief, easy to install.More
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