Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Ball State creates Android app for students to access university information

Ball State University has created one of the first student-focused mobile applications in the country with the launch of bConnected for Android mobile and Google TV. The app provides convenient access to valuable student resources, such as grades, class schedules and information related to campus life, student organizations and financial aid awards. SOURCE:Ball State UniversityRead […]

Polycom Provides Broadest Range of UC Solutions Interoperable with Microsoft® Lync™, including Polycom® HD Video and Voice™ Solutions

From Polycom® CX7000 – the first room video collaboration solution custom-built for full integration with Microsoft Lync – to multi-purpose phones, expanded integration and interoperability with Lync helps create seamless UC experiences for employees, partners, and customersSOURCE: PolycomRead the Press Release

Princeton’s new computing research center builds research capacity

After several years of planning and more than a year of construction, Princeton University’s High-Performance Computing Research Center opened its doors this week. The facility gives researchers on campus new capacity to tackle some of the world’s most complex scientific challenges.SOURCE: Princeton UniversityRead the Press Release

With online testing on the horizon, infrastructure could be a challenge

School leaders unsure who will pay for computers as states prepare to give online examsSOURCE: eSchool NeesRead the Full Article

Remarks Of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski As Prepared For Delivery GSMA Mobile Asia Congress

Thank you, Anne Bouverot and GSMA, for inviting me to speak. It’s a pleasure to be at GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress. As this conference makes clear, the world is going mobile. There are roughly four billion mobile subscribers worldwide with about six billion subscriptions. China alone added thirty million subscriptions in just the last quarter, […]

4 Ways to Prepare Teachers for Technology Integration

On the East Coast, budget cuts force many school districts to eliminate technology facilitators that teachers rely on.SOURCE: Converge MagazineRead the Full Article

Internet2 and IPV6 provide new opportunities for music

University of Waikato musicians in Hamilton used high-speed Internet2 and IPv6 format to link digital video and audio and open this year’s Asian Telemusic Concert at the Musicacoustica festival live in Beijing.SOURCE: Internet2

10 ways to change the minds of tech-reluctant staff

Start small, make training personally relevant, pair staff with knowledgeable co-workers—and keep it fun, readers recommendSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article

Instructors using virtual campus to complement distance learning [Second Life]

Professor Simon Hosken’s online Arkansas history class is the most recent of ASU courses to begin using the virtual program called Second Life.SOURCE: The Harald, Arkansas State UniversityRead the Full Article

Slow Train to the Future

Tablets are in, computer labs are out, and the cloud is the new hard drive — these are the interwoven threads upon which college students are hoisting themselves into the future of campus computing. So say technology futurists, those whisperers who strive to interpret for the rest of us the inscrutable “digital natives” who now […]