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Funds For Learning this week launched a new component for its online E-rate application suite, E-rate Manager for Applicants. The new component, called the “Form 470 Wizard,” couple with the other tools in the suite, allows users to complete the entire E-rate application process online.Read the Full Article
Nearly half of public universities and public four-year colleges in the United States reported central IT budget cuts in fall 2008, according to new research released Wednesday by The Campus Computing Project. TRead the Full Article
elcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech†and “almost totally free beer.†We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers […]
“Imagine what your cell phone could know [about you],” pondered Sandro Hawke (Semantic Web Developer, W3C), at the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA this week.Read the Full Article
At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company’s future plans to open up almost everything. Read the Full Article
Semantinet, a company that hopes to give users more information about topics on web pages without them having to perform a search or leave the site they’re on, is launching a product called Headup into private beta this morning at the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.Read the Full Article
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed opening up unused portions of the television airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service.Read the Full Article
Remember when you were young and your family used to gather ’round the television eating dinner on TV trays, fixated by programs like M*A*S*H and All in the Family? Chit chat about what happened at school and work was relegated to commercial breaks. And then it was bedtime.Read the Full Article
An Oxford University economics lecture about the credit crunch is at the top of a global iTunes chart for education.Read the Full Article
As the internet replaces library databases as students’ primary research option, a new discussion is emerging in academic circles: Is the vast amount of information at students’ fingertips changing the way they gather and process information for the better–or for worse?Read the Full Article