The Year in Infotech
Technology Review picks the year’s most significant advances in information technology.Read the Full Article
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Vox Populi: A new blogging platform, Vox, lets authors focus on the content instead of fiddling with the code.
About 12 million Americans keep blogs, according to a survey released last July by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But even more people might become bloggers if blogs weren’t so, well, public. After all, who really wants to share a high-school-reunion video with stockbrokers in Istanbul or teenagers in Tokyo?Read the Full Article
Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — Thanks to an e-mail message from “trinity gurl,†an anonymous cybersnoop, Patricia A. McGuire, the president of Trinity University here, suddenly faced a digital-age dilemma.Read the Full Article
Music education moves online
Web 2.0 technologies, broadband access fuel extension of music education beyond Read the Full Article
Are College Students Techno Idiots?
Susan Metros, a professor of design technology at Ohio State University, says that reading, writing and arithmetic are simply not enough for today’s students. What is important for learners is information: how to find it, how to focus it, and how to filter out nonsense. But for many students, their main source for information is […]
Educators explore “Second Life” online
NEW YORK (CNN) — The classroom of the future isn’t on a college campus. It’s in the virtual world of “Second Life.”Read the Full Story
BLOG –MLearn: One Laptop Per Child
I’m blogging from the MLearn conference in Banff, Alberta. Things are moving very fast, so I’m grabbing what time I can to process the sessions and blog about them.Read the Full Story
What’s it worth? The perceived benefits of instructional blogging
AbstractInteractive web-access has led to the growth in blogging, a process whereby authors publicly post messages, respond to others, and are allowed to publicly offer their thinking to the public. Some college instructors have been quick to augment instruction with blogs focused on content matter and for peer review of work and commentary. There is, […]
SU [Syracuse University] considers use of Google e-mail program
For Syracuse University students, faculty and staff tired of overflowing MyMail inboxes and limited capabilities, there may soon be hope.Read the Full Story
Laptops will link global learners
The real star at an Oct. 19 lecture by Nicholas Negroponte was not the Media Lab co-founder and computer-aided design pioneer himself but what he brought to the Department of Architecture classroom at MIT–a model from his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.Read the Full Story