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22 Nov 09

U.S. students use Australian lab equipment - UPI.com

  • "The remote labs are not just about building skills.
15 Nov 09

News: Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture' - Inside Higher Ed

  • Making lectures available for review is a sound pedagogical practice
  • Making lectures available for review is a terribly unsound pedagogical practice. So is any form of recording. When students think they can always get back to the recording, they don't feel the urgency to listen carefully and to take good note
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Microsoft to schools: Share a PC | Beyond Binary - CNET News

  • Microsoft is working on a new product, due out next year, that will let multiple students work independently and simultaneously off a single PC.
  • ne by a single PC running a new version of Microsoft's Windows Server operating system.
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The WCET Story | WCET

  • Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications.
  • 15 Western states to integrate distance learning and educational technology into their academic services.

Students discovering online collaboration | New Jersey Real-Time News - - NJ.com

  • I'll take a pass on the online stuff until the schools develop their own in-house systems where the children can operate out of sight of the wider public.
  • What happened to text books, paper and pencil? Why must we have kids on the internet? I think this invites problems.
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27 Sep 09

Join the Invite-Only Office Live Web Apps Preview Today - Microsoft Office Web Apps - Lifehacker

  • As you can see in the video above, all you've got to do is log into Microsoft's SkyDrive using a Live.com account (if you don't already have one, registering is free) and then uploading any Microsoft Word doc. When the upload completes, SkyDrive will ask you if you want to join the Office Web Apps preview program (see the screenshot below).
28 Jun 09

Review: Bump, the One Billionth iPhone App - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

  • Here's the idea behind Bump: you launch it, "bump" your device together with another, and they offer to trade contact information. That's what it appears to do, but not what it's actually doing.



    When you launch Bump, the app takes a few seconds to connect to the Internet. You choose the contact to send on Bump's settings screen, along with the fields you want to send: phone, email, address, photo, or the entire contact card.

Microsoft extends XP downgrade availability to 2011. When will it end?

  • will be available for 18 months after the release of Windows 7, "or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner."
20 Jun 09

AppleInsider | Apple warns iPhone 3G S activations may take up to 2 days

  • "Your activation requires additional time to complete. Due to the current activation volumes, it may take up to 48 hours to resolve your issue," reads a message spit out by iTunes when attempting to activate a new iPhone 3G S after the hours of noon Eastern time on Friday. "We will send a confirmation to [your email address] once your activation is complete."

Dear Wanna-bes, Your Twitter Stardom is Coming to an End

  • Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then break those connections with anyone who doesn't reciprocate, is a method used by some number of Twitter users to create an appearance of legitimacy for subsequent new connections.
07 Jun 09

When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... - NYTimes.com

  • That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
  • 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but “it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.”

'Dumbest Generation'? Professor blames technology - USATODAY.com

  • They also do not seem to have very much common sense. They don't seem to have a good grasp on real life at all. The internet and celebrity culture are more "real" to them than school, family, etc. Critical thinking is also completely beyond them. They are also extremely unmotivated and apathetic and far more immature than past generations.
  • Kids are far better off using the internet than sitting in front of the television watching endless reruns of tom and jerry.
31 May 09

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected | Webware - CNET

  • Bing isn't available to the public yet, but you won't have to wait long. Starting on June 1, some users will get Bing search results from Live Search. On June 3, we're told, Bing will be Microsoft's new default search. We got early access to the service. Here's how it looks.

Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers - NYTimes.com

  • Teachers are often oblivious. “It’s a huge issue, and it’s rampant,” said Deborah Yager, a high school chemistry teacher in Castro Valley, Calif. Ms. Yager recently gave an anonymous survey to 50 of her students; most said they texted during class.

    “I can’t tell when it’s happening, and there’s nothing we can do about it,” she said. “And I’m not going to take the time every day to try to police it.”

24 May 09

Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price - NYTimes.com

  • In the new Scribd store, authors or publishers will be able to set their own price for their work and keep 80 percent of the revenue. T
29 Jun 08

Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online

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08 Jun 08

Camera not working properly in video message

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