U. Nebraska system signs agreement with Microsoft
A software licensing agreement between the University of Nebraska system and Microsoft, recently approved by the Board of Regents, stands to save the NU system $16,000 in software costs.
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‘Blackboard’ replaces chalk with technology at Loyola U.-New Orleans
Students now can find their classrooms on their computers. Loyola unveiled an education-based program this semester that lets teachers post their courses on the Web.
FCC Decides Not to Reassign Colleges’ Broadcast Frequencies
The Federal Communications Commission has made it official. The agency announced Monday that it would not oust educational broadcasters from their radio spectrum to make way for Web-surfing cell phones and other new mobile devices.
Pearson Education and XanEdu Create New Digital Standard
XanEdu recently announced a partnership with Pearson Education to create fully integrated print and digital CoursePack solutions with Pearson’s Custom Publishing Division. Generating specialized CoursePacks to complement designated textbook curricula, the partnership will link proven texts with XanEdu’s vast digital archive of commercial and scholarly journals, periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works and academic […]
Travelers Warm Up to Videoconferencing
Mike Kolleth, a Dow Chemical (news/quote) executive in Zurich, should have been at a Web site design session in Midland, Mich. The sales representatives at Thomson Financial in Boston were supposed to be showing new products to customers in Chicago and San Francisco. Vince Engel, president of a San Francisco ad agency, was scheduled to […]
User Report: Mike Albert Instructional Technology Coordinator
Variety of Hitachi Cameras Help Maui Community College Say ‘Aloha!’ In Beautiful Detail
Xpress DV 2.0
Xpress DV 2.0 is the solution I wanted a year ago. I was on the road with my IBM ThinkPad four days a week and I often needed to edit DV footage. At the time, the obvious mobile solutions were Adobe Premiere 5.1c and Apple Final Cut Pro 1.2.5. I went with Final Cut Pro […]
XP’s Extras
Windows XP continues a longtime Microsoft tradition: Beef up the new operating system with features once available only via third-party apps. But as usual, you get what you pay for.
Native Networking Trends: Wireless Broadband Networks
According to the 1999 Economic Development Administration report, Assessment of Technology Infrastructure in Native Communities, “The poor state of existing infrastructure in most Native communities means there is less of a foundation to build on.” Future efforts to deploy new advanced telecommunications infrastructure would require either an upgrade of the existing infrastructure, or the deployment […]
Current home video editing equals million-dollar studio
Way back in January, Steve Jobs spoke about Apple leading the way to the “era of the digital lifestyle” and said the Mac is the “digital hub” that allows you to not only enjoy digital content, but also create it yourself in the comfort of your own home.