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The same technology used in Nintendo’s popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you’re Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.Read the Full Article
Predicting the future cannot be done by anyone with any certainty. Most of us would be hard-pressed to predict with any accuracy what we will be eating for dinner a week from now. Predicting what twists and turns technology will take is far more difficult than ascertaining our future menus, but it is a task […]
The Internet is about to drown in digital video. Hui Zhang thinks peer-to-peer networks could come to the rescue.Read the Full Article
From a scalability perspective, anytime that a system does need to grow, the balance of all three of these dimensions must be considered.Read the Full Article
Qwest, Nebraska Sign $15 Million Contract to Help Rural StudentsRead the Full Article
This week Desire2Learn introduced a new course management/learning management system targeted toward smaller institutions: those with fewer than 5,000 users. We have an exclusive first look at the new system.Read the Full Article
In a joint appearance in front of executives and educational technology advocates at a statewide summit in Texas Feb. 16, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Dell CEO Michael Dell shared their views on the role of educational technology in preparing students for the challenges of the 21st century. Jobs, who says schools should operate more […]
Emerging forms of publication, massively multiplayer educational gaming among trends on the horizon expected to have a huge impact on schools A recent report from the New Media Consortium and the nonprofit group EDUCAUSE identifies six emerging technology trends that could have a significant impact on education in the next one to five years. Read […]
Yahoo Pipes lets people make highly customized feeds that combine information from multiple sources and weed out the junk.Read the Full Article
Mobile technologies are everywhere today — more than 1.5 billion of them, according to a recent report by Strategy Analytics with 10 percent year-over-year adoption expected through 2008. Cell phones, PDAs, iPods and handheld game consoles are just a few examples of the devices that have become common, everyday accessories.Read the Full Article