Kay Cunningham's List: Technology

'A simple economic idea underlies his argument. Until relatively recently, forgetting was "easier and cheaper than remembering." Before widespread literacy, lastingly recording knowledge and experience required the painstaking labor of educated specialists, from ancient scribes to medieval monks. Well into modernity, the material costs of preserving knowledge remained high. Paper alone, Mr. Mayer-Schönberger notes, accounted for two-thirds of the price of Diderot's Encyclopédie. Forgetting comes easily when remembrance is costly.'

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costs digitization preservation on 2009-11-13

'a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression. All content Creative Commons. '

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higher_education social_media technology on 2009-11-09 and saved by 162 people

Being Fluent with Information Technology sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future. It explores three kinds of knowledge intellectual capabilities, foundational concepts, and skills that are essential for fluency with IT. The book presents detailed descriptions and examples of current skills and timeless concepts and capabilities, which will be useful to individuals who use IT and to the instructors who teach them.
(Read free online)

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IT technology information_literacy on 2009-11-08

'Nearly half of the survey’s 500 respondents — including more than two-thirds of public universities — have pared down their IT budgets in 2009. That figure represents a reversal from 2008, when about half reported budget increases. Only 21 percent put more money into information technology this year. For the first time this decade, financing information technology registered as one of the most pressing concerns among campus technologists.'

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costs higher_education IT technology on 2009-11-04

'Driven by the need to reduce costs and to provide dependable data delivery and protection, the cloud storage pay-as-you-go service model offers information technology a new way to avoid building out expensive and complex storage infrastructures. Although it is not applicable to every storage need, cloud storage offers a way to move the complexity and management burden to a center of competence -- either inside or outside an IT organization's data center. Multiple service models are available, from simple infrastructure to full-blown archiving systems.'

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ECAR cloud technology IT on 2009-10-01 and saved by 2 people

'This ECAR research bulletin describes strategies used by the IT organizations at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Dickinson University to develop a plan for improving the culture of service within those organizations. Inspired by Mark Sheehan’s 2007 ECAR study, Service on the Front Line: The IT Help Desk in Higher Education, the authors explore how the broader group of IT and library staff members understood the service culture of their organizations. The strategies for the early part of the plan included a survey of staff to establish a baseline understanding of staff perceptions as well as a literature search to find good models in higher education and in other service industries.'

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IT help_desks higher_education technology on 2009-10-01

'This ECAR research bulletin is the first in a series of bulletins devoted to cloud computing in higher education. It summarizes insights and a framework for thinking about cloud computing, and it touches on potential emergent roles for public and private clouds. The findings draw from spring 2009 interviews with industry and university information technology (IT) leaders, a review of current literature, and a synthesis of recent research from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR).'

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ECAR cloud_computing higher_education cyberinfrastructure on 2009-10-01 and saved by 3 people

"We are part think tank, analyzing and anticipating important shifts in the rapidly changing context that leaders must navigate. We work to understand emerging trends and to identify promising new approaches and innovations in practice. "

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think_tanks consultants technological_change technology on 2009-09-02

'Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.'

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technology higher_education web_2.0 social_web on 2009-09-02

daily pick of an item of "e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies"

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technology learning e-learning innovation social_media on 2009-08-30 and saved by 2 people

' you'll be able to download these and over one million public domain books from Google Books in an additional format. We're excited to now offer downloads in EPUB format, a free and open industry standard for electronic books. It's supported by a wide variety of applications, so once you download a book, you'll be able to read it on any device or through any reading application that supports the format. That means that people will be able to access public domain works that we've digitized from libraries around the world in more ways, including some that haven't even been built or imagined yet.'

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Google_books e-books readers on 2009-08-29 and saved by 11 people

'The web is replete with projects to “digitize legacy content”—patent applications, books, photographs, everything. While photographs might survive well as JPEGs or TIFFs (disregarding accessibility issues for a moment), the bulk of this legacy content requires semantic markup for computers to understand it. A sheet of paper provides complete authorial freedom, but that freedom can translate poorly to the coarse semantics of HTML. The digitization craze—that’s what it is—crashes headlong into HTML semantics. '

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digitization technology web screenwriting publishing pages on 2009-08-29 and saved by 4 people

'A lot of people — often for quite understandable reasons — feel very uncomfortable about the ramifications of moving computing to the cloud, and therefore they try and confine it within familiar boundaries where they feel more comfortable. They persuade themselves that, so long as they include some of the recognized characteristics of cloud computing, such as a virtualized infrastructure and some notion of metered usage, then they’ve still captured its essence, without having to stray beyond the confines of their existing enterprise infrastructure.'

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cloud_computing cloud technology on 2009-08-29

'a resource for Augmented Reality information. You will find an introduction to augmented reality and links to some augmented reality work on the web.'

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augmented_reality technology on 2009-08-29 and saved by 17 people

'On the spectrum between virtual reality, which creates immersible, computer-generated environments, and the real world, augmented reality is closer to the real world. Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds, haptics and smell to the natural world as it exists. You can expect video games to drive the development of augmented reality, but this technology will have countless applications.'

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technology augmented_reality on 2009-08-29 and saved by 16 people

"2020 Science, sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences. It seeks to identify the requirements for technology to accelerate a decade of scientific advances, particularly those driven by computational sciences and the new kinds of science the synthesis of computing and the sciences is creating. Already this synthesis has led to new fields and advances spanning genomics and proteomics, earth sciences and climatology, nanomaterials, chemistry and physics."

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escience science forecasts computing on 2009-08-06 and saved by 3 people

'Users really like the convenience of the cloud — far too much for them to give it up — but the trouble is, they also like the convenience of authentication using a simple username-password pair. They haven’t yet figured out that’s far too little to separate your confidential data from a nefarious interloper, especially when the Web means that authentication will work from anywhere, which dramatically increases the threat level.'

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cloud_computing security technology on 2009-07-16

"For those of us in ed tech, nothing here is really new, but there is a palpable frustration re. the absence of teachers’ use of very basic networked technologies. "

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education technology students on 2009-07-14 and saved by 2 people

"This article is an attempt to objectively define the phrase “creepy treehouse” as coined by Chris Lott, and in current usage by ed tech folks such as Scott Leslie, Marc Hugentobler, John Krutsch, and others. I plan to follow up with a post on my perspective on CTH in the field of educational technology."

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technology students web_2.0 web_apps on 2009-07-14 and saved by 47 people

"The Office Online website is an excellent resource to find high-resolution stock photographs, clip arts, GIF animations and other graphics that you can use in your PowerPoint presentations or Word Documents for free without having to worry about any licensing issues"

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Google documents images on 2009-07-05 and saved by 6 people