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Thursday, February 11th, 2010Scholars Use Social-Media Tools to Hold Online Academic Conference
More than 100 researchers interested in the emerging field of the social history of computer programming are running what may be the first academic conference held entirely using Web 2.0 tools.
There have certainly been online conferences before, but the group’s idea is to hold a limited-time online [...]
Class Produces Parody of ‘The Office’ to Highlight Challenges of Teaching With Technology
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Class Produces Parody of ‘The Office’ to Highlight Challenges of Teaching With Technology
Students at the University of Denver created a parody video essay — in the style of the popular TV show “The Office” — to show their frustrations with technology in the classroom and urge professors and students to work together to make classes [...]
New Web Site Lists Free Online Textbooks
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010New Web Site Lists Free Online Textbooks
A new Web site, Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California’s community-college faculty members, it could be a useful resource for anyone trying to find learning materials in [...]
Furloughed From San Diego State U., CIO Flies Relief Missions to Haiti
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Furloughed From San Diego State U., CIO Flies Relief Missions to Haiti
Rich Pickett is in tears.
The San Diego State University chief information officer has been flying people and supplies back and forth to Haiti since last week. Now, as he talks to a reporter by phone from Florida before stepping into “the bird” for yet [...]
University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest
Sunday, February 7th, 2010University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest
Stephen Kinsey wanted to find a more personal way to connect inventors at his university to businesses that might be interested in their creations.
So he let researchers do the talking, explaining their work in videos on a YouTube channel created at the University of Maryland at Baltimore [...]
University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest
Sunday, February 7th, 2010University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest
Stephen Kinsey wanted to find a more personal way to connect inventors at his university to businesses that might be interested in their creations.
So he let researchers do the talking, explaining their work in videos on a YouTube channel created at the University of Maryland at Baltimore [...]
Justice Department ‘Reluctantly’ Says Google Settlement Still Needs Work
Friday, February 5th, 2010Justice Department ‘Reluctantly’ Says Google Settlement Still Needs Work
The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on Google Book Search Settlement 2.0, saying that despite “substantial progress, substantial issues remain.” In a statement of interest filed on Thursday, the department said that the revamped agreement “suffers from the same core problem as the original agreement: [...]
ScrollMotion to Develop iPad E-Books for Major Publishers
Friday, February 5th, 2010ScrollMotion to Develop iPad E-Books for Major Publishers
Software developer ScrollMotion announced this week that it will make textbooks compatible with the new Apple iPad for four major publishers: McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, and Kaplan Publishing. The e-books, in addition to providing the original content of textbooks, will allow users to highlight text in multiple [...]
Reference Publisher Acquires Major Online Library
Friday, February 5th, 2010Reference Publisher Acquires Major Online Library
A large library reference publisher has acquired one of the world’s biggest online libraries of copyright-cleared books, and hopes to add to both collections.
Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, announced that it had acquired Questia Media last week, with undisclosed financial terms. Questia, a subscription-based online information service, lets users [...]
Students Will Become ‘Geohistorians’ in Kent State U. Cellphone Project
Friday, February 5th, 2010Students Will Become ‘Geohistorians’ in Kent State U. Cellphone Project
Thomas McNeal wants students to become “geohistorians.”
In the latest effort to turn cellphones into learning tools, his Geo-Historian project at Kent State University plans to put students to work creating multimedia content about historic sites.
The technology behind this idea is a program that ties the information [...]