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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) — Google Inc. is making its word processing and spreadsheet programs available for free to all comers on its Web site, marking the Internet search leader’s latest effort to provide an alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s dominant software applications.Read the Full Story
Students to use Google applications for e-mail, calendar and instant messagingRead the Full Story
Educators from 13 Commonwealth small states met in Mauritius from 7 to 25 August 2006 under the auspices of the new Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Participants in the workshop, organised by COL, developed online skills to enable them to continue to work together after the workshop through the use of […]
This has not exactly been a season of peace, love and harmony on the higher education technology landscape. A patent fight has broken out among major developers of course management systems. Academic publishers and university officials are warring over open access to federally sponsored research. And textbook makers are taking a pounding for — among […]
A consortium led by Unisys will build and manage an online repository of open-source software for the European Union, making it easier for EU administrators to find and share applications.Read the Full Story
Two leading telecommunications industry organizations, the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), announced results of a new study showing FTTH deployments pass over six million North American homes, an increase of more than two million homes – over 50 percent – since last MarchRead the Full Story
The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.Read the Full Story
NEW YORK (AP) — The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions.Read the Full Story
AbstractOn average, girls and women are less involved with video games than are boys and men, and when they do play, they often prefer different games. This article reports two studies that investigated the dislikes of German females with regard to video games. Study 1 applied conjoint analysis to female respondents’ (N=317) ratings of fictional […]
Journals can be defined as the permanent records of thoughts and ideas that an individual has processed and clarified through the act of writing or otherwise recording their experiences (Killion, 1999). While journaling has existed almost as long as man has been writing, the use of journaling as a pedagogical strategy is a relatively recent […]